Tag: holiday

  • phew!

    • 4½ days driving
    • 5000 km
    • 300l of petrol
    • 4 provinces (ON, QC, NB, PE)
    • 6 states (ME, NE, MA, CT, NY, PA, OH)

    In other words, we’re back from our holidays.

  • home again

    The 4000km holiday roadtrip is over. We’re back home now. It was good to be away, but it’s also good to be back.

  • Frosty’s Drano (or the snowmen’s suicide pact)

    Catherine pointed out that the current Tim Hortons “Happy Holidays” campaign depicts an ill-advised, possibly fatal, beverage choice for snowmen:

    tim hortons suicidal snowmen

    To me, it’s clearly a suicide pact. They don’t want to see another summer. They’re going to a better place where it’s always ten below.

  • spiked!

    Took advantage of the holiday to scoot down to The 12th Fret to have my banjo looked at. I’d managed to do a bad thing to the tailpiece (which I’d rather not talk about, thank you), and had Grant fit capo spikes at 7, 9 & 10.

    While working on the fretboard, Grant confirmed that these really were model railway track spikes — or more correctly, model railway enthusiasts use capo spikes to hold their rails down!

  • National Convenience Store Day

    So, did you US folks celebrate National Convenience Store Day today by grabbing a slurpee and a preserved meat treat? (We celebrate it on 7 November here.)

    Sadly, and rather worryingly, I’m not the only person to think of this.

  • in Quebec (just) for my birthday

    Nice of them to have their holiday especially for me. It’s appreciated.

  • 1/9/XX, and the smell of new pencils

    Although school in late August for us I always derived the tiniest bit of pleasure from writing the date today, and seeing that it was the same as the year. This shows I was educated in the last century.

    As it was the start of the schools year, I was writing with new pencils, and summer holidays were long enough for me to forget their wooden smell. So I remember writing the date, and simultaneously, the smell of new pencils.