Weekend Updates — WITHOUT Dennis Miller

Below, you will find a hastily-sketched recap of our ho-hum weekend. It starts approximately 3:15 pm Friday afternoon.
I left early to go get condo docs. Drove home to change out of shorts that got ripped during lunch-time soccer. Drove downtown (eventually) to get to Kingsway Asset Management Ltd. Parked stupidly, thinking 102 was 104. Walked [...]

Keyless entry? Sure..

Running behind for our appointment, I called to Kim, “Got the keys?” like I always do.
“Yup,” came the reply from the sidewalk.
I locked up, and we went for the appointment.
Close to an hour later, we return, to the shocking realization that the house key was not on the ring.
We decided to try a set [...]

Wizard of Earthsea

According to Amazon.ca, Wizard of Earthsea was published in 1968. The fact that it’s still on the table in fantasy discussion, I think, is pretty impressive.
The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker actually kind of reminds me of this book. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was playing Zelda while I [...]

Updates, updates, updates

At the risk of offending Dylan with a mundane writing style reminiscent of Schrodinger’s Catsup, this is what’s up with me—
Life has finally settled down with the marketing release of Quicken Home Inventory [premiermanagerwhatever]. The name they finally settled on was Quicken Home Inventory Manager but it was kicked around and around for a [...]

Intuit Spotlight Award

I found out, on Friday, that I am the recipient of Intuit’s prestigious (although not that prestigious, since the person I talked to about it this morning had never heard of it) Spotlight Award. It’s nice to know that I’ve chosen the right field and that they think so too.
Another blog post will be up [...]