Recently I’ve had to spend much more time at the computer than I’m accustomed to and I’ve noticed that my recreational usage of the computer for things like Facebook has started to blend more seamlessly with my legitimate tasks than I would like. I also noticed that my posture at the computer was starting to…
Amnesia
Sometimes I forget what July looks like at this time of year. It helps to wander through old photographs (although NOT last year’s) as a mnemonic device. Last year was an atrocious summer that I think everyone on the east coast of Newfoundland would just as soon gloss over. It would be lovely if this…
A wander past Quidi Vidi Lake
I took a stroll past Quidi Vidi Lake on my way out of town today. It’s a measure of how crazy winter is driving me that I stopped to take pictures of seagulls. The lake has just frozen over on the western end (the eastern end has been frozen for some time) and the ice,…
Every time…
… I prick my finger (which happens pretty often in this land of skewers, needles, scissors and blades in which I live), right after that “Ow! Damn! Did I get blood on anything that matters?” reaction, my first thought is always of this image. Like just now. Odd.
Roads go ever on and on…
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. – J.R.R. Tolkien* One of my favourite sorts…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 