Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Are You Sure You’re Canadian?
The below article has been copied and pasted from the comments on a CBC news site. Check it out and see if you think you really are Canadian.
“16 days ago I received a letter from CIC advising me that I was not a Canadian citizen. I had been waiting for a whole year to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General Observations by Daryl
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
This Is My Sad Face
After waiting a long while for a trip to Ikea, after the exhilarating rush of finding everything I needed to fit a very unique room, after going through the torment that is detailed out in pictorial format for every language on the instruction manual, and after finally getting it all set up…
It doesn’t work.
All my [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General Observations by Daryl
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Power Blogging
I’ve known about RSS feeds for a while now but have never really went anywhere with that knowledge. Now, however, I have discovered Google Reader. See that orange-ish colored icon at the end of the address bar? Click on it and it will allow you to subscribe to several different methods of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General Observations, Internet/Computers by Daryl
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Ah the Memories
I was just reading over the blog of a cool priest that I met down in MA and saw that he linked to some pics of the Sunday of Orthodoxy which was held at the church that Stella and I went to when we were there, St. George’s. What a great church! And [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General Observations, Orthodoxy by Daryl
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Lost in Transition
Neither Stella nor I like living in transition. You know, where most of your stuff is still in boxes and the walls are bare. We do not like it one bit. Part of the problem, the reason we are still living out of boxes, is because we have no furniture; there’s no [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General Observations by Daryl
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Writing Fancy
So, I must recommend a writing game, Worlde Arcane. This is a game of writing and imagination. There is no chance involved aside from the chance of how people react to what you do. You create a character and then you control everything that happens to your character. Everything. If [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Writing by Daryl
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Playing the Bus Game
I just had a thought:
My travel time by bus averages out to about 30 minutes per day, including Saturday, but not Sunday. (This is after I have factored in our new vehicle.) Most of my trips are around 15 minutes in length and I usually spend at least (this is the minimum that [...]