all was bright and shiny and innocent and unsullied by the manipulations and mindfuckery of our goods-shilling craplords

Sometimes it’s the really simple things that can really fix up your day.  This morning Abotz left for 10 days for some business travel, and I’ve been in a bad mood about it all morning. Then I discovered that the little deli downstairs at work has goulash.
I love goulash. It totally made my day.

This is the beginning of an actual email from the private highschool that I attended briefly before getting kicked firmly out at the beginning of grade 11.“Dear Dirt Merchant:Please click on the link below to receive your formal invitation to the portrait unveilings of:Mrs. Kathleen Bruce, Headmistress 1962-1968 Mrs. Audrey Southam, Headmistress 1968-1971…”etcetera.

Botz and I drove down to Seattle this weekend to indulge in a bit of Mastodon action at the Fenix, where they were playing with Cursive and Against Me.  The high points of the weekend were
 stiff drinks and, well, Mastodon.  The low points?  Running full tilt down a hotel hallway naked from the waist down, [...]

Zonks, it’s been yonks. A lot’s been going down - 3months of settling into a new job, learning to snowboard, totally loving the perpetual raininess of the coastal fringe,
supporting Ariella’s eternal job search (which has now terminated with her securing a veritable dream-job which she starts in a few weeks), and generally coming to [...]

Sharkey Mark is coming in June. I fear for my life. Seriously. I’m totally stoked.

So I managed to recover some of my previous ramblings from livejournal, since I was using a crossposter to duplicate content from wordpress to livejournal. Took me a few hours, and was approximately as fun as reassembling a shattered mug with crazy glue, but in the end it worked, not counting the comments, which [...]

Ok. Finally, after migrating from my previous host to my new host (mrhost.ca), and subsequently losing my old database dump, thereby annihilating all of my previous blog entries, I’ve managed to re-build rubberpress, and should be setting to maintaining it with some degree of frequency henceforth, given how much it rains here, and the [...]

Yep. Far overdue for a submission, but this one’s a bit of a doozy - if not in length, then at least in content. This is rumor control, and here are the facts:
At the beginning of may Ariella and I bought a cheap old Volvo that we instantly fell in love with, drove it up [...]

So I’ve got this cramp… more like a pinched nerve… some kind of sciatic weirdness that’s arisen over the last 24 or so hours that’s making me more than a little crazy, and I’m hoping like hell that it resolves in the next few days before the planting season starts. Between now and then [...]