When I got up this morning I found several panicked IMs on my screen and a half-dozen missed phone calls on my cell phone. All this happened after midnight while I was in bed. The messages said things like “CHRIS SEND ME AN EMAIL ASAP!”
I stared at my computer, puzzled at my sudden, urgent popularity. [...]
Last Sunday I got a phone call from a worried friend who had read in the paper that a 33-year-old man had been killed in Guelph when he crashed his black BMW while driving too fast.
This is the second time this has happened.
Apparently none of my friends would be surprised if I died in a [...]
I was reading through one of the Seattle weekly alternative papers, The Stranger, today and came across the “The Stranger Suggests” column where they recommend different things to do on upcoming days. For today (Sunday, July 22) they recommended the “Cardboard Tube Fighting League” with the sub-title “Ridiculous Sport”.
I checked out the CTFL website and it piqued [...]
I was wandering around a Kmart buying various items I need for my new house when I found myself in the seasonal section where they had Halloween costumes on display.
The costumes were small enough that they’d fit on my dog, Claire. I amused myself imagining Claire tromping around in a kid’s silly Halloween costume until [...]
