Every day I wake I tell myself a little harmless lie:
The whole wide world is mine

Well its done. The last difficult conversation has been had, so I can share our news with you all. This likely won’t come as a surprise — to those who don’t already know. But its big for us, and its been important to approach it as the massive challenge that it is…
We’re moving back to [...]

Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert

Think of Nicole and I like the canaries that miners used to bring into mines. When the canaries started to have problems, the miners knew something was wrong.
We feel the hurt of the US economy’s problems first through our exchange on the dollar, but that doesn’t mean everyone else won’t be feeling it soon after.
According [...]

I love the smell of ignorance in the morning

I woke up this morning to find a rather interesting comment on yesterday’s post about Christmas. My first instinct was to delete it, with all the other spam I get. But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to approve it. Finally it struck me that the author had put so much [...]

Fenway Park

A stumbling economy. Thousands dead in a war with no end started for questionable motives. And a government eroding its own constitution…
But then a moment like this happens at a baseball game, and reminds you that this is still an incredible country, and that most of its citizens are actually pretty wonderful people:

It was Disability [...]

On Healthcare in America

To our American friends: please, please watch SiCKO. I know its by Michael Moore, and if you can’t put up with the anti-Republican rhetoric, you can skip the section from 33:00 minutes in until 42:00 minutes in, and still get the point of the movie.
Someone recently suggested that the fact that Canadian health care was [...]

The US dollar is now worth 93 cents Canadian, lowest since the Civil War

Canadian Dollar sets new record above $1.07 US as unemployment rate drops to 5.8 per cent…
Man it sucks being a Canadian in the States right now!

A stranger with the door key, explaining that I’m just visiting…

I complain a lot about the US$. I thought today I’d explain why.
When we first considered moving to the States — easily 4 years ago, the prospects were great. Not only do US employers pay significantly better, but they pay in US dollars, which meant we could make even more on our money!!
This was the [...]

US Dollar hits fresh 15-year low

Well this is awesome…