Today is my Dad and stepmom’s 25th wedding anniversary. Hurray! That’s a long time. From what I’ve been told they had their wedding on New Year’s Eve for tax purposes, which seems to me like a silly reason to get married but some people will do anything to avoid paying taxes. Actually, I remember earlier [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
How to make a plane bomb
It seems all you need is a multimeter and two long tubes of chocolates. Pack the multimeter on top of the chocolates so that they look like one cohesive unit of pipes, electronics and wires in the airport’s security xray machine. Then enjoy as the security people take away your boarding pass and rummage through [...]
Christmas Message from the Gill
A few weeks ago I’d decided not to come up to Kitimat for Christmas, given the expense (nearly $1K for the flight, no, really, I know it’s ridiculous, but what can you do?) and then because I was going to be working on two job contracts this week and would be too busy. Despite these [...]
White Christmas
I’ve been wondering this, every Christmas, for several years now: how come they never show the movie White Christmas on TV anymore? It is my favourite Christmas movie by far, and I don’t get to see it. I can see Bad Santa at various times of the day, but never White Christmas. I get several [...]
-32C
That’s the wind chill factor at the Terrace/Kitimat Airport, or was a couple hours ago when we landed. Wind was over 50 kph. (That’s -25F and 31 mph for those south of the border). Power was out at the airport, too, which was mildly entertaining, but only because it was still warm inside the building. [...]
It’s my birthday!
Everybody cheer! Because I’ve got a cold and have to work and am otherwise not celebrating, so please do it for me. Collectively, if you could down 31 beers in my name, that’d do it, thanks. The biggest excitement for me so far this week was getting shoved and threatened at the local 7-11 Sunday [...]
Beware of the Send button
I’m having some rather silly luck with emails these days. Two events this week have made me reconsider whether or not I should be allowed to have an email address at all, or even an internet connection. Or even be allowed to associate with society. The first event was simple enough: I was on my [...]
