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Contextless Thoughts

I am not a big fan of players holding out when they have signed a contract but Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson is doing the right thing.  Careers for backs like him are very short, he is an elite player, and he is making far below what even other mediocre backs in the NFL [...]

Contextless Thoughts

Some friends are adopting out of Haiti right now.  Their kids survived but unlike almost every other western government, the Canadian government is not allowing adopted kids to come home to their adopted parents.  Of course the orphanage where the kids are is overwhelmed by new cases, running low on supplies, and the resources that [...]

Contextless Football Thoughts

Well the Denver Broncos are 5-0 after beating the New England Patriots in OT on Sunday.  You have no idea how much this messes with me.  Emotionally I was prepared for a 5-11 record and now they are 5-0.  I am not sure how to handle this.  Do I start to believe that Denver could [...]

Contextless Football Thoughts

I was up at the lake this weekend and the little bit of football news I got was through Twitter.  It’s always nerve wracking to come home and wonder if your team or teams won. Okay, let’s just admit that Notre Dame will probably be 10-2 heading into a BCS bowl game and we still [...]

Contextless Football Thoughts

Well the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat our illiterate arch rivals from the University of Regina Rams in a close game at Griffiths Stadium.  Congratulations to the University of Regina for making it close.  Someone just needs to help them understand the score.  While the U of S is 2-0 this year, they don’t look [...]

Contextless Thoughts

I am working the night shift tonight after a couple of staff called in.  I worked all Wednesday during the day and of course couldn’t get any sleep between five o’clock and midnight.  Now I work from midnight to eight a.m. and then I can walk home, get showered and walk back to work where [...]

Contextless Thoughts

Well I am in the middle of working 24 of 30 hours at the Centre.  If all works well I will be out of here around 2:00 p.m. tomorrow and off for some sleep.   I did manage to get 30 minutes of sleep today.  I am usually okay as long as I can get [...]

Back from the dead

This morning my boss one-upped my story about Maggi.  A relative’s dog ran out onto a highway in Newfoundland and was hit by both a car and a dog and was killed by the double blow.  He picked his dog up and put him in the back of the truck to be buried later.  His [...]

Contextless Thoughts

The good news is that I no longer have Type II Diabetes.  The bad news… it’s now Type I.   The hope is that is that this is a temporary thing and it is connected to me burning the candle at both ends.  Now where did I put that syringe… My recent blog post on underage [...]

Contextless Thoughts

I was listening to John Madden say that someone was “super, super, super” at something during the Super Bowl.  That’s why he is such a big star.  I would have just said that he was “super” or maybe “Super duper”.  When will I learn? The Super Bowl was exciting but I was shocked at the [...]

Twitter

The results are in.  Both Wendy and Daniel Miller hate my Twitter updates on the website.  I’ll move them to a sidebar.

2008 Christmas Buying Guide for Men

One of the secrets of the house is that I do all of the Christmas shopping.  Wendy sees it as a task to endure, I see it as a work of art.  We know who gets the better Christmas gifts around here.  At the same time I keep hearing for people that they don’t know [...]

The season we call Christmas

I have been in Christmas mode for a while.  At work we tend to start it on the day that the Christmas Kettles go out as we start accepting Christmas Hamper applications around the same day.  Wendy was in decorating the Residential Unit at the Centre (we decorate a couple of days later than everyone [...]

Saturday night thoughts

Some of you have noticed that I am using del.icio.us to collect and automatically post the contextless links around here.  There have been those that don’t like it and those that enjoy the extra tagging options that it gives you as a reader to discover other cool stuff.  You can let me know what you [...]

Contextless Thoughts

I wanted to go to the cabin this weekend but considering the high was still going to be below freezing, I decided to stay at home and make some plans for 2009.  Here is my 2009 to-do list for the cabin.  The big debate Wendy and I are having is whether to go with wallboard [...]