Not just a great song/album by Marvin Gaye (brother, brother, brother…), but a partial explanation of why it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been busy. (No, really. Sometimes I say that, but this time I actually mean it.) You see, even though the bay is still frozen, my life has been once […]
More ›I don’t like to say that I ‘hate’ things. It’s too harsh, and usually not true. I personally think it’s impossible for someone to truly believe that something can have utterly no redeeming quality or benefit at all, no matter how narrow the circumstance – or perhaps furthermore that something is so universally vile that the world would only […]
More ›Last week I finished up an eight-week weather course through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron. It laid down the basics of ‘why weather happens’ and then delved into the specifics of pressure systems, the reading and interpretation of surface analysis charts, and – most importantly to sailors – how to interpret and then forecast weather […]
More ›We really struggled with the choice between homeschooling Piers or not. For me, it mosly came down to acknowledging my abject disorganization and chronic irresponsibility. There’s just too much at stake and it would be far too easy for me to screw it all up, irreparably. So I was comfortable to let the the ‘pros’ […]
More ›Edmund Hillary died today. I didn’t know him of course, just a little about him – just a regular guy who did amazing things, he would say. I wouldn’t say I’m a ‘fan’, but I certainly do admire what he has done (not just Everest) as what I guess you could call ‘the last Anglo-Saxon hero.’ […]
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