Archive for January 9th, 2007

09 Jan 2007 One of the Funnier Ways To Be Found
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Someone in Quebec Googled “I was dropped on my head” and my site came up as number three (of course, this varies all the time). I would be remiss if I didn’t have some of my own questions in response:

  1. Was this person looking for… a cure?
  2. Was this person in a daze and decided to ask the internets what to do?
  3. Was this person looking for commiseration? Oh, you were dropped on your head, too?
  4. Is there… a CLUB for people who were dropped on their heads?

I suppose I wasn’t very much help. After all, I wrote it as a question.

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09 Jan 2007 Kermit Wants His Beach Back
 |  Category: Cuba, Working Life  | 2 Comments

Happy New Year!

December 31, 2006
Varadero Beach

I returned from Cuba several shades darker and with a bit of a sunburn, and Kermit still has sand tucked in his seams. But I also returned without the Nokia 6682 (that story comes later), and the Canon A80′s left selection button sensor died on Day 6. Nearly two years ago the RIGHT button sensor stopped working when David and I were in Philadelphia, which cost more than $100 to fix, so this might be curtains for the Canon A80 :(

I’m posting this beach picture to conjure up some warmth because the temperature suddenly dropped slightly below freezing today in Toronto — brrrrrr — and I had this thought in the elevator leaving work:

You know it’s winter when you curse the elevator stopping at every floor because you’re bundled up against the outside cold but trapped in a small steel enclosure with other bulky, heat-emitting bodies similarly bundled up, consuming precious oxygen and personal space, leaving you stifled and gasping in a corner and beginning to break a sweat under the scarf and wool hood and gloves, hoping for NO MORE PEOPLE IN THE ELEVATOR because you suddenly cannot WAIT to get outside into that cold air you’ve been bracing yourself for!

Oh, the irony.

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09 Jan 2007 Heading East
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I’ve recently begun following the writing of one of my favourite Flickr contacts, TheMexican, whose photos have been beguiling me since… since I don’t know when, but possibly before he had The Kid, whose photos are simply irresistible. But check out his travel sets — I have to stop looking at them, myself, because they tempt me to buy another plane ticket.

Raul’s online writing has me hooked, especially with this post, The Longest Hour. He also has a Journal Project that caught my eye a while back. There’s also a quirky experiments page. The bottom videoclip is adorable.

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