I started writing this post on Labour day, September 2nd, 2013. I'm finishing it on the 7th, not because I got writers' block, or anything of the like, just because getting settled in took longer and more effort than I had thought it would. Having ruminated on this for a while, I've realized that, far more than New Year's day, Labour day has traditionally meant the beginning of a "new year" for me. When I was young, it meant a return to school, to see my fri...

I did the following things, in no particular order, except the order that I did them, so I suppose I was sort of going for an idiomatic sentence there and failed since I immediately countermanded the idiom and I should stop talking about it and list stuff: Visited with Bill, Megan and Jack (Lovely house, great family, convenient pool, inconvenient dog) Visited Central Park (Very large, very green, really relaxing place) Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

The final dip into the states for this trip was to cut across North Dakota, Minneapolis, Wisconsin and Michigan in order to spare myself the boredom of Northern Ontario, and get to see some more interesting sights, and pick up some final gifts for friends and relatives. The day started fairly early, as I drove Jon to the Winnipeg airport for his flight back home. I had slept on a recliner the night previously and slept fairly well for having done so, (Seth has ...

Hey, all. This update is going up on the Monday, instead of Friday, because circumstances dictated that I be without Wi-Fi for two of those nights, and in a situation where my computer was without juice the other night. Fortunately, the main information I would have imparted in said blogs is "Today I drove" but I'll attempt to at least give a little colour, since I've taken so long to update. So on Friday morning, I woke up, said my hurried thank yous and goo...

So if I'm being honest, this was a day I had expected would be completely interesting incident and interesting photography-free. It was seven hours of supposely boring scenery, driven in a straight line, followed by a movie, which I couldn't take pictures of, and then nothing. What actually came to pass, however, was another beast altogether. In the morning in Okotoks, I woke up obscenely early simply by virtue of having gone to bed obscenely early, and depart...