I spotted a poppy pin lying on the ground today. Serendipitous! Poppies are a Canadian tradition — nobody wears them here — and the pin was probably accidentally dropped by a Canadian shopper taking advantage of the exchange rate. I’m excited to be able to celebrate Remembrance Day properly.
In the US it’s Veteran’s Day; in [...]
I’m a decent procrastinator. In fact, I’m procrastinating right now by writing this blog entry.
I’m trying to develop a different mindset about some of the things I procrastinate about. For most of those things, there’s a lot of pleasure to be had after (but not necessarily during) the activity. For example: I went for [...]
An article in today’s paper discussed your carbon footprint. They talk about some cars, and how each one gets an EPA “greenhouse gas score” out of 10 (higher is better). A GMC Yukon gets a 3 out of 10; a Prius gets 10 out of 10.
A perfect score? For a car which [...]
Today our first deployment of cotton diapers arrived. We’ve signed up with a diaper service that will drop off fresh diapers twice each week and take away the soiled ones, never to be seen again. Or so I like to think.
I’ve actually been fairly happy with disposal diapers, but being the conscientious earth lovers that we [...]