Oh, hello again LJ! You startled me ( Read more... )

Wow, what an exciting lunch week I have had. Instead of the usual mixture of Swedish style rye bread and a choice of black forest ham or bologna, I instead this week decided to diversify my sandwich portfolio. So, this week I bought Munich style rye bread, and a choice of tuscan ham or veal bologna! Wow. I'm really living on the edge! What a time ( Read more... )

The cherry blossom
Tumbles from the highest tree.
One needs more petrol.

Mwarg! It's hard finding a doctor here in KW. Thankfully in the year-and-a-bit I've been here I haven't needed one...but I think that having a family doctor is one of those things that it's better to have when not needed than to wait until you need one to try and find. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario has a doctor search site, but it ( Read more... )

( Why you shouldn't trust Insignia. )

Jeez, you can you believe it?! The Tory in my riding won over the Liberal incumbent by 70 votes. 70 votes! That's as many as seven tens! Unbe-freaking-lievable. I kind of want to go punch all of my friends who said "nah, I don't need to vote" in the face. With a mule.

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander detects snow falling on Mars.
Somehow, this makes me happy.

What up LJ? It's been awhile. We should sit down for tea sometime to catch up. Have your people call my people ( Read more... )

I think this upcoming election will be the toughest governmental choice I'll have made. Normally, I'm a fairly typical student-voter (graduate-voter now though! Wooooo!) meaning I'd vote NDP. Who doesn't like New Democracies, the colour Orange, and Smilin' Jack? He remains the only party leader I've ever met while taking the subway :) Although The ( Read more... )

Hey, remember how my computer's a total jerk-face? Yeah...turns out, it's still a total jerk-face. After three days spent away, I came back last week to find it won't even boot up now. So in one last vain attempt to postpone buying a new desktop, I will list what appears to be the symptoms of my compy's problems and hope someone, anyone, has a ( Read more... )