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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
It's the Olympic Games. I do watch some sports, and I am definitely happy when Canada wins medals. But I can't help but wonder why.
Why are people proud when a perfect stranger who was simply born and/or raised and/or trained in their country wins a medal? How does that reflect ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
I'm a little late in the news, but I found about this late and then I forgot to write about it...
Do you remember that bus crash? It was back in March. I heard about it on the radio, but they didn't mention the name of the victim and besides, that ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Well, that was a few weeks ago, but I forgot to post it...
Monday: Hi Sophie, client A asked if we could deliver project B earlier than planned. We've already said yes. I know it shows in the task manager that this change will have you do 20 hours of overtime ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
When I opened the door to our apartment yesterday morning, there was a pair of pink little girls' panties on our doorstep...
It freaked me out a little bit. I mean, it's not like someone could have just dropped them there on their way to the laundry room: my door step ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Vancouver is under an unusual (and frankly, quite unbearable) heat wave. The air is so still that the sky is getting hazy from the pollution. We are beating all sorts of records. It's not often, here, that you get temperatures in the 30s for one or two weeks in a ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
We had a great time last week with Zak's family and our little chatterbox. Our son gets more and more funny every day. Just a few examples:
He started using the word maybe. For instance, I told him not to blow on the cat's face because the cat doesn't like it. ...
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
I watched this movie a while ago but keep forgetting to talk about it. It's worth watching, though. This documentary, produced by Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me), follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a tour of the United States. It is a brilliant criticism of ...
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