Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Hollywood North – sort of
There was a movie being film across the street from Sonia’s office today, right by the downtown library. It looked like it was staring TV stars Dean Cain (Superman from Lois & Clark) and Peri Gilpin (Roz from Frasier). The movie is apparently called “Road to Redemptionâ€. They watched them all afternoon, filming the same [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Enter the Zune.
Okay. I was checking our Microsoft’s new portable audio player: the Zune. What kind of name is that? The Prune, the boon, the goon. It’s hard to take a device seriously with a name like that. If that isn’t enough, Microsoft is releasing it in a kick ass new colour: Shit Brown!!! Whoa! They give [...]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Shiver Me Timbers!!!
Yar! I be sendin ye to Davy Jones locker for trying to gets me treasures, ye scurvy dog! For those of you not in the know, September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. It’s a day when people are encouraged to. . .well, talk like pirates. What more could one ask for in [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
How small can they possible get.
As anyone who has spoken to me in the last few months probably knows that I’ve been seriously coveting iPods. I think it would be so cool to listen to some tune while mowing the lawn or walking the dogs. Now I see that Apple has released the new iPod Nano and Shuffle. The Nanos [...]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Our Back Yard
A couple of weeks ago, the construction company finally moved their gear and garbage bins our of our back yard. A full year and a half after they said they would. Oh well. I guess it’s better late than never. We go so used to having constant noise in our back yard, and getting up [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Animal Nicknames
Just like Sonia and I have our aliases (Chad & Sophie), our dogs have now picked up aliases as well. There is a guy in the neighbourhood who constantly gets our dogs names wrong. Instead of Oscar & Annie we have . . .Roscoe & Angie. When he first met Annie we were speculating what [...]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Stingrays – Terror of the Seas
There has been a lot of talk about stingrays in the news recently with the tragic death of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. It’s certainly given me some pause. On Sonia and my honeymoon we stopped on Grand Cayman Island. One of our booked
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Annie Update
People have been asking how Annie has been doing since she came to live with us on the island. The first week was a little rough. She really didn’t know how to deal with the cats. It was a new house, new people, and new animals. You could tell she missed Memere. But she has [...]
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
Welcome to the new Land of Shad & Sonia
Hello. Welcome to the new and hopefully improved Land of Shad and Sonia. People have been riding me for not keeping the page up to date. So I decided to implement a blog format. This should make it a lot easier to add new content and keep it fresh, as well as introduce a little [...]
