dunesifter

Not that I’m going to tell her, of course. I realised she was right when the pool instructor became slightly antsy with me, which is the normal course of events with my instructors. I remember when I was taking evening classes on software engineering, and we had this ‘full of herself’ teacher for... Sign in to see full entry.

There has been nothing unusual at all happening in johnmcnab’s life, except a visit to the Senators Hockey Team in their newly named ‘Scotiabank Place.’ The arena, where we watched the spellbinding first game of the Playoffs, used to be called ‘The Corel Centre’ but as that company decided not to... Sign in to see full entry.

Mother Nature sometimes moves at a snails pace or faster than a speeding bullet. Twelve days ago, outside an auction hall, I stood with my nether regions freezing off in a temperature of minus 12 centigrade, riveted to the spot as I watched the blackened sky. I heard the geese calling as they flew... Sign in to see full entry.

I begged Ell to fix the computer and she told me what she intended to do to repair it. First of all she asked me how long it had been since I backed up my files and folders to the external hard drive. “Six Days ago,” I told her. “I’m going to back everything up onto the external drive and then... Sign in to see full entry.

Did I stop blogging for 14 days because my blog was becoming too popular? After all, it had reached the first page in ‘Everything Else.’ Did I go walkabout because I had nothing left to write about? Fat chance of that happening, I hear you say. Or did I stop blogging because I no choice? Give... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday March 9th a.m. Minus 10 degrees centigrade. The radio weather forecast warns of impending freezing rain. The temperature soars to – 2C and it begins to rain. Soon everything is coated in ice and we re-affirm a decision we’d already made, not to leave the safety of home. p.m. It rains... Sign in to see full entry.

.....or filing cabinets. First of all Ell started nagging – I don’t suppose the word ‘nagging’ is politically correct in the modern world, so I’ll change it to ‘annoying the hell out of me,’– about the state of my side of the desk. As an aside, it is not politically correct in Canada to call natives... Sign in to see full entry.

I found out more things at church yesterday than I expected to. Actually all I expected to do was doze during the minister’s sermon, but he kept me awake, especially when he twice mentioned that God had a sense of humour – that really perked me up. I wonder if he reads Blogit? The sermons for the... Sign in to see full entry.

Considering that Ell is the one who puts the bird feed out, I can’t understand her dislike of pigeons – they are birds aren’t they? She has nothing against sparrows, woodpeckers, finches, crows, cow birds, or squirrels, so why pigeons? Me? I dislike Starlings, and I hope that Eugene Schieffelin, the... Sign in to see full entry.

Allow me to give you an example from the invitation to my friend’s book signing. ‘….it will be a private party for close friends and family………’ I’ve been to my friend’s parties before, and they usually consist of about a dozen couples, whose only connection with each other is our friend, the... Sign in to see full entry.