A whole lotta shaking going on
I’m thoroughly enjoying my 3 free days in San Francisco between conferences (if you can consider a day where I spend 2 hours on conference calls and another 2 hours on a client report to still be a free day): the weather is perfect and I’m staying at a lovely hotel in a great location. [...]
The Air Canada exercise plan
Here’s how it goes: Book a Toronto-San Francisco flight on Air Canada’s website, allowing them to route you through Calgary. Check in the night before the flight and notice with some trepidation that you only have 50 minutes between flights. Reassure yourself that they probably don’t have US customs in Calgary (like they do in [...]
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon
For those of you who know what a non-athletic person I am, don’t get too excited: I’m not running a marathon, I’m not even running. However, I am walking 5km to raise money for the Fort York Food Bank on September 30th, a charity to which I’ve donated in the past due to the diligent efforts [...]
Me and W.R.
What’s more flattering than being adored by a chicken?
A perfect summer’s eve
A friend was in town yesterday from California, and we went to dinner at my favourite downtown Ethiopian restaurant, the Ethiopian House on Irwin (just north of Wellesley). It was 9pm by the time that we got there, and we sat outside in the warm, humid night, eating a platter of assorted dishes scooped up [...]
A social media convert
Damir, my other half, is a much more traditional engineer than I: he likes to ponder over new technology for a while, while I’m leaping about in it, shouting “c’mon in, the water’s great!” and trying not to get eaten by the sharks. When he does jump in, however, it’s with both feet. In the [...]
