Writer, Dabbler In Things
So it’s a wrap. Looking back on the last 30 days, and in no particular order, here are my thoughts on my first crack at Blaugust: I can manage to write every dayThis is a big one. I managed to pull off a few years of doing something creative every day, before I totally dropped … Read more
I’m pretty happy with the number of books I managed to get in this month, what with focusing on Blaugust as much as I did (typically taking an hour+ out of each day to post something, which could otherwise have been used for other things including reading), and with our pretty slammed schedule road-tripping out … Read more
It’s been too long since I’ve posted any photos here on my site. I keep taking them — I take them all the time, whenever a moment pops up and I have the chance to capture it — but I often need to do a bit of tweaking before I’m happy with how the final … Read more
My wife is a teacher and my teen is of course a student, which means that come the end of every school year, they’re suddenly around home a lot more and we do a lot more together. And that’s sincerely great. But… It also makes for a couple of months of busyness above and beyond … Read more
I have a bit of a weird thing with playing video games, in that when I’m playing them, I often feel like I can — nay, should — be doing something more productive with my time. That may not seem unusual on the surface of it, Ok, so you’re someone who likes getting stuff done … Read more
When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those were the VCR brands (he says, dating himself) and eventually the Walkman and Discman and other CD players. Pioneer was high on that list … Read more
I went to my first Fan Expo yesterday and managed to get in one seminar led by experienced panellists. The second seminar was a bust because, whether by some miscommunication from the staff or some other reason — we were told by a staff member that the location of the seminar had changed at some … Read more
*Reporting Live From Fan Expo Canada 2025* After years of considering going to Fan Expo, we finally decided the time was right to do it. It’s one of the largest travelling conventions in the world for fandom of (sometimes overlapping) TV shows, movies of every stripe, comics, books, video games, table top games, and more. … Read more
The province-owned liquor store I work in has planned playlists that they swap out every “period”, the segments of the year when featured products and sales change. Most playlists are pretty hit and miss, to my tastes. But this one? Oh, man, is it ever hitting. The current playlist is almost entirely classic rock and … Read more
I’m honestly not sure why naps aren’t more popular. They shake off the tiredness and recharge the batteries if you maybe had a bad night, or if you worked particularly hard, or if you’ve been kept very busy lately, or maybe all of the above (he says, perhaps being somewhat self-referential)… It seems like it’s … Read more