Yesterday we made our annual pilgrimage to The Ex! and had a great time. Trevor and Dana were our travel partners on this day that started with a couple of hours sitting in the sun and enjoying the sites and sounds of the Canadian International Air Show. The hunger bug bit us before the show [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Band Travels On Bicycles And Uses Bikes To Generate Electricity For All Performances!
Published by August 29th, 2008 in 2008, Chris, Climate Change and cycling. 0 CommentsOops. Bloomberg publishes Steve Job’s Obituary… even though he’s not dead!
Published by August 28th, 2008 in Chris and Leah. 0 CommentsGREATLY EXAGGERATED REPORTS
Steve Jobs’s Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg
The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO’s obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear. Jobs’s battle with [...]
Who Knew That Window Coverings Could Make Me So Happy?
Published by August 26th, 2008 in 2008, Chris and Leah and Town Home. 0 CommentsIt was a long three weeks living in our new home without window coverings but on Sunday Gus Giancos from Oasis Custom Window Coverings arrived to provide us some much needed privacy, and darkness for sleeping.
He installed 5% weave roller blinds throughout our house and the change is incredible. They really complete the look of [...]
Other highlights from France (no warts here – they’ve already been covered):
1. Watching endless sunflower fields pass by the window
2. Spending the final day of the Tour in Pizza Pino trying to remember our French with the “belle soeurs”
3. Smelling the incredible mountain air
4. Poking around the cobblestone streets (very steep streets I might add) [...]
Now that we’ve had a chance to settle in to our new home, I figured it’s about time to post a review of our trip – from start to finish, warts and all!
Our trip was the Alps To Paris Quality Package from Graham Baxter’s Sports Tours International.
The tour did not get off to a very [...]
To say that I’ve wanted a KitchenAid stand mixer for a while is an understatment. I’ve pined away (silently and vocally) for years, just waiting for the day when my kitchen could accomodate the ultimate baking tool. But no more pining for this girl – my darlin’ clementine KitchenAid mixer took a place [...]
Drink Outside the Box
Published by August 18th, 2008 in 2008, Big Idea, Chris, Climate Change, Complaints and Food & Wine. 1 CommentA great idea that needs to be acted on. Now.
From The New York Times
By TYLER COLMAN
Published: August 17, 2008
ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. That’s right, Italian wine is going green, and for some connoisseurs, the sky might as [...]
Home Depot vs. Canadian Tire
Published by August 13th, 2008 in 2008, Chris and Complaints. 1 CommentTake care of your customers.
I own a small business and if I don’t take care of my customers, they don’t stay customers… which is why I’m amazed that customers/consumers continue to accept crap service and products. With our recent move into a new home I’ve become much more familiar with the layout of Home Depot [...]
In February Leah and I purchased a new home. At our purchase date the foundation of the house was all that existed, which provided an opportunity for us to add some custom features at a lower cost than adding them after the house was complete. Chief among these features was the wiring of speakers to [...]
