The tech site that briefly out-achieved this site, still gets a lot of random search engine play, and contained information not well aligned with my current professional life, is now gone. Technical mumbo jumbo not related to my job can now be found at www.jonandnic.com/tech Another, more official blog has been created for the rest.
Nic and her dad built an amazing, multi-level garden on the hill in our backyard last summer, and this summer she had reasonable success in making meals out of what she grew. The corn didn’t work out, and the potatoes, although good, were comically small. But beans, peas, lettuce, and sunflowers were an astounding success…
God often blesses us for serving obediently. Sometimes He blesses us while we’re serving. Dad got a trip to Bali out of his gig. We got a beautiful weekend in Muskoka Woods at literally the nicest cottage in the area. There were boats and tubing and seadooing and cliff jumping, camp fires and smores, and [...]
Despite being 4 years since I last rode, when I got notice this spring that my license was about to expire, I made it a goal to graduate to my full license by the fall. I booked my road test early enough that if I failed, I’d have time to try again. Fortunately that won’t [...]
It may be 8 years old, it may have a giant crack in the windshield, it may intermittently refuse to signal turns, it may squeak and groan when you turn corners, the driver’s side speaker may randomly stop working, and the combined cost of fixing all its little issues may exceed the trade-in value of [...]
I think us Wises have a common problem: we quickly develop a clear idea in our heads of what’s right in a given situation, and have little tolerance or patience for people who arrive at that idea more slowly than we do, or who arrive at a different idea than our own. Sometimes this lends [...]
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My grandpa’s funeral was yesterday. In my almost 30 years, this was the first funeral I’ve ever been to, so I have no frame of reference, but I think it was good. Grandpa ran a good race, lived his life faithfully, and was welcomed into the arms of his Saviour and Lord last Thursday morning. [...]
Monday was Victoria Day in Canada, giving us a long weekend that, as usual, we hadn’t planned anything for. We decided to go on a picnic, get some ice cream, and then hunt for some fireworks. We didn’t find fireworks, but we ran into our traveling buddy, saw hot air balloons take off in the [...]
I rarely fly Air Canada. Not necessarily because its more expensive than other airlines, but because I dislike their seats. They’re hard on my back. The one thing they do have going for them is the best free in-flight entertainment system of any domestic airline. Each seat-back has a screen full of current TV shows [...]
I promise there will be a gratuitously cute post about fair-haired toddlers, full of lots of pictures, sometime soon. For those of you who only come here for such things, please click the “Recent Photos” link on the sidebar for more pictures from Abi’s 2nd birthday. However, I have something else to blog about today: [...]
