My father died last night, at 9:45. After many months of fighting hard, and despite excellent medical care, he finally succumbed to complications arising from pancreatitis. His health took a turn for the worse last week, and he lost consciousness, which he never fully regained. Another downturn prompted my brothers to call me on Wednesday [...]

I’ve read that pigs are actually pretty clean animals, and prefer water to mud if given the choice, but whatever. Emylene and I did both mud and water baths yesterday, and it was all good. Umm, let me backtrack a bit. After a fairly frantic workday on Friday (tried to be done early, got done [...]

Yow. Swamped, as usual. TONS of stuff hitting my plate (rains implies pours) at work, albeit (mostly) in a good way, and then we’re going out of town this weekend… I’m now able to use my Nextel (that’s Telus to you Canadian folk) mobile phone as a modem (how cool is that?) for my laptop, [...]