It’s quarter after midnight, and I’m posting this from the floor of my half-asleep daughter’s bedroom, while she enjoys a late night bottle. A few days ago, at my wife’s suggestion, I started waking my daughter up between eleven and twelve to give her a feed. She’d gotten into a routine of waking up at […]

Holy moly, you guys! After years of honing his craft in the Canadian comedy trenches, my brother is now in the middle of a two-week contract writing for This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Tonight’s show will feature a sketch he’s written, which will be his first for a national TV broadcast. Sure, this isn’t the […]

For quite some time, I’ve been meaning to give this website a total overhaul. It’s nice to have a crummy little blog, but there’s a whole lot more that I could, and should, be doing with a site like this. Unfortunately, because I let myself get paralyzed by the possibilities, it took me too long […]

My wife has decided to take a break from Twitter. Spare time is a precious commodity these days, and Twitter doesn’t strike her as a very good use of it. She’s had enough of the bickering and negativity, and she’s decided not to spend her time “watching smart people have pointless fights with idiots.” I […]

“Let’s make sure we never go to Buffalo,” I said to my wife last night. “Judging by the sheer volume of William Mattar ads on TV, the only thing anyone ever does these days in Buffalo is get in a car accident.” “Well, it makes sense,” my wife said. “The roads are probably full of […]

The second Saturday of the month has arrived, and I’m at home with my wife and daughter. The holiday season was a busy one, and it’s going to take a little more time to hand Everyone’s a DJ off to a new team of people. Much as I always hate to do it, we’ve taken […]

So I said to the Lord, ”You promised me that if I followed you, you would surf with me always. But I’ve noticed that during my most trying periods online, there was only one set of digital footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, weren’t you there for me?” The Lord replied, ”Those weren’t the times when you needed […]

If you’re like me, you can’t say no to an interesting new blog, no matter how bloated and clogged your Google Reader account has gotten. Why, just this afternoon, I subscribed to a couple of new ones, and I think you’ll want to do the same. The first is a brand new blog by my […]

I’m going to go ahead and blame the widespread service outage on the part of Rogers, the company that provides both my Internet and mobile phone service, for my general lack of productivity this evening. I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to do tonight, but I couldn’t get around to doing any […]

You know what I hate? I hate having to diagnose and fix a computer problem without knowing how to describe it. It happens more than I’d like to admit, and it never works out. This morning, for example, my laptop screen started acting up. It’s got a weird yellow tint, or sometimes a blue one, […]