Keeping in touch across the miles

O.K. Daniel did not come in the end, he went straight home from his friend’s house. I was very grateful to Sandra and apologised profusely, Sandra was nice about it but I still feel mean. hope they can come another time. I cleaned and missed Dave, he was in Brampton, Canada visiting Christina (read their…

Thousands are dead in France because of the heat wave. That’s worrisome and sad… how can you not be concerned about global warming when things like that are happening? Mom, Dad – get an air conditioner!

The Great Northeast American Blackout of 2003 I should get my thoughts about this power outage that affected the whole Northeastern seaboard of the Americas, before I roam around the internet and get influenced by everyone else’s entries. I was at work when it happened. Thankfully, I’d saved my work about 20 seconds prior to…

Dad’s visiting – he came in on Sun. at 2 AM. Yeesh! I was wondering what was going on, thinking he should have just had me pick him up. When he finally got home, he didn’t have a car! The rental place was closed when he arrived – what a crappy welcome. He had to…

It feels cooler again today, consequently, I am embarking on some cleaning. Have just discovered that I am supposed to host my nephew, Daniel, this weekend!!! Quick thinking and reorganising is on the cards, looks like I will be returning on Sunday with young David. Sandra (Dave’s sister) and Daniel will also arrive then and…

Today I woke up at 8am to find it was a little cooler and overcast, “hurray!”. I thought, it will be cool, I can get something done. Well, the sun has come out now, 11am, but it is cooler than it has been. Still feels like living in Montreal, 20 years ago!!!! Roll on, winter!…

OK. Right now I hate it here, it is far too HOT. Yesterday my garden was 98°F in the shade! You don’t want to know what the house was like. It has been like this for a week now and the forecast is for more of the same. It is like living in Canada, only…

Whew! I finally got the new site design up. The photo albums don’t work just yet, but I’ll be fixing those soon (maybe). At least the main site is now a little easier to use for the people on older computers and small resolutions (I realized just how many people have those specifications, when I…

Mum stayed with me for a few days on our return to England, it took us a while to get back into line time wise. On the Fri eve we went to see an outdoor production of “The Merchant of Venice” performed by Illium (I think) players at one of the local schools. It was…

Today I got back from the 2003 World Electronic Music Festival. Mike, his friend Ryan, and I had a great time partying there. It was in a place called Tweed, Ontario (near Belleville) at Trudeau’s Park. The venue was really crappy, and all the DJs played inside in this little cabin with no air conditioning,…