I took a rare day off for the big day in 2024, the total solar eclipse. Amy had the day off as normal, and thankfully didn’t get called in last minute. Based on all the hyped up “states of emergency” some communities were declaring, we thought it would be a madhouse on the roads, but […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It’s been warmer lately – not summer warm, but vaguely normal winter wet warm – though definitely not the white Christmas we have been having for the past few years. Today we finished most of our Christmas shopping for the year. It was too rainy and gross out to want to do any InstaCart, which […]
Christmas Baking with Mom Dafoe
Today we were off to Belleville to bake a billion or so cookies with Mom, it was quite an adventure. We baked sugar cookies, pudding cookies, apple cinnamon cookies and all sorts of others that I’ve already forgotten about. I broke a seemingly unbreakable bowl, and we had an interesting pomegranate and other fanciness salad […]
A long weekend off
I had a full long weekend off for the first time in ages – no Instacart or other work. Amy unfortunately had to work on Saturday and Sunday, but it was still a good, cozy weekend full of mini adventures and mini incidents. Yesterday during breakfast, Cameron and Clara had some sort of quick spat […]
In Memory of Jennifer Lowe – March 26, 1992 – July 15, 2023
Last Saturday, my little cousin Jennifer was killed in a car accident on the 401 near Mallorytown, the family is obviously devastated and her mother is understandably broken. I will be attending the funeral this coming Tuesday. I often think about how I lost my dad, and how I wish I could talk to him […]
Visit with the Dafoes
We visited the Dafoe household to spend time with Mom and Dad on Father’s Day. We obviously got a super fun balloon and lots of pictures were taken and card games played. It all started as a random drive to Belleville and was intended to be a quick visit that ended up being hours long. […]
Back doing Instacart
We took a hiatus from Instacart due to awful experiences back in 2021 – we’re back at it in very limited fashion, where I’m the Instacarter and Amy does her grocery nerdery and driving, both of which she’s excellent at. I love spending time with her and we work well together despite the obvious stresses […]
Amy’s New Computer
Amy just today finished building her new computer! I helped buy a couple of parts with my budget, but she purchased most of it through her portion of her personal budget. It’s a great big colourful machine with a Ryzen 5 5600G in it – it may even be a little faster than mine in […]
New Car
So our poor grey triangle was written off recently, and it turns out the settlement put us back in the black – unlike when the Mazda broke which we ended up paying way more for. We were approved for a brand new Kia Soul 2022 “Neptune Blue” model, and picked it up today and immediately […]
Christmas Slips, Slides and Crashes
So today started out as many recent Christmases have, with an early morning trek down Highway 7 towards Ottawa to visit my sister. What we totally ignored was the warnings of a pending rain/ice storm. In Peterborough it was basically fine, slightly above zero, rainy and dark, not particularly slippery and it seemed pretty consistent. […]