Archive for the ‘Life @ Home’ Category
Birthday Blog
Happy Birthday to me! That’s right, it’s my birthday, and I’m finally adding a new blog post to the famous Gribblog. So far, I’m having a splendid time. We slept in a bit, and then Jess did a little Skype teaching session for her dad’s class. In the meantime, I did a little cleaning. I [...]
Oh Canada!
After crossing the border into Canada (see the previous post), we headed north past several small towns. Interestingly, many are much cleaner and more affluent in appearance then their counterparts just south of the border. I wonder if the Canadians think of this part of Canada as the “Deep South”? At any rate, we continued [...]
NaNoWriMo
November is the National Novel Writing Month, and I thought I’d give it a try this year. In truth, I’d never heard of it prior to this year, but with our busy schedule, it seems unlikely I’ll be able to pull off the feat. The goal is a 50,000 word novel of any (though likely [...]
Music Composition
I thought I’d do something a little different this time, and post a bit of music I’ve been working on. It’s still pretty rough around the edges and only about half done, but you can get an idea of what it currently sounds like from this mp3 file. The working title is Beowulf and Grendel, [...]
What’s for you in Banff, eh?
Yup, that’s what the customs officer asked us as we crossed the border from Montana into Alberta early on Thursday afternoon. I was thinking, are you serious?, but I answered politely. I guess they’re probably more paranoid at the small back-country border-crossing deeply in unabomber territory than in other places.
So far, we’ve been having an [...]