Monthly Archives: February 2012

Leap Day

Leap day will always be special to me for one very important reason. On this day in 2008, I proposed to Andrea. Best. Question. Ever.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Sometimes, when I sit down and stare at a white blank page, my heart races. I fear the mistakes I’m about to make, at the same time I’m in awe of the creation about to spring forth the tip of my pen. I’ve done it before. I’ll do it again. I am not a fast [...]

You can take the grey out of his beard, but Unix stays in a man’s blood.

I sat down this morning, meaning to write a blog post about focus and patience, with OCD tendencies. It would have been my first substantial post since the beginning of the month, but when I logged in to WordPress I found my site unresponsive. Temperamental, even. Other sites I host on the same server, but [...]

Februhuh? The winter that wasn’t.

It’s now my second February living in southwest Ontario, with 50F weather and scattered rain showers. The snow, which didn’t fall until mid-January, is a memory and it will be at least a week before we have any chance of seeing more. What the hell, Canada? When people learned I was moving to Canada, I [...]