I upgraded my Movable Type installation from version 3.2 to version 3.31 yesterday. For some reasons, the upgrade killed Markdown and Smartypants. I’m anal about typography so that was unacceptable. So I downgraded back to version 3.2 and I got my curly quotes/comma and dashing dashes back. Yay! Happiness! 🙂

We’re already halfway past summertime but it’s no reason not to put up a summer music mix. I made a mixed CD worth of around 6 hours of music (if not more) for our cottage weekend two weeks ago. I compiled the songs by going to the Hype Machine and checking out some songs I’d…… Continue reading Summer Earworms

A couple of weeks ago, our 6 years old computer started to freeze randomly. It was still bearable at first but then it happened more and more frequently to the point of being annoying. (Gotta love me for still blogging during that painful period!) Well, it annoyed Troy more than it did me, to be…… Continue reading New Machine

My mother passed away exactly three years ago today. There is no day passed that I didn’t think about her. There is so few things left to do for people you love who have passed, if any. It’s kind of frustrating. All I can do every year on the anniversary of her passing is do…… Continue reading Three Years Without

Ontario storm leaves 150,000 without power. Just thought I’d post this as a follow-up to yesterday’s post. No power outage in our area, thankfully. Though the storm last night was quite spectacular, especially in the lightning department. Today’s temperatures have been pretty friendly. Hasn’t exceeded 21°C all day, and it’s been raining most of the…… Continue reading Storm in Ontario

Tornado, thunderstorm warnings in effect in a number of places including Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Erin, and southern Wellington county. A tornado has been spotted 3 kilometres southeast of the highway 6 and 401 intersection. This had better end the frickin’ heatwave, and without too much damage.

I thought Clerks (1994) (i.e. Clerks I) would be a really great movie since I only heard good things about it, but it wasn’t really. I kept hoping it would get better as we got further into the movie, but it didn’t. It was so bad, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. I…… Continue reading Three Movie Reviews

Troy and I had an encounter with a pitiful human being yesterday, in a thrift store’s register line, no less. Troy got so angry, he had to sit still for awhile once we got back to the car because his hands were shaking with rage. He said he was surprised that I wasn’t as angry…… Continue reading I Pity The Fool

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading lately. The last book I picked up, I finished in merely two days. Granted it’s a YA (young adult) book but hey, it’s a 30-chapter young adult book! I’m so proud of myself. Mind you, it usually takes me months to finish reading one book. I guess…… Continue reading I Read Books