Last day of my first Blaugust
So it’s a wrap. Looking back on the last 30 days, and in no particular order, here are my thoughts on my first crack at Blaugust: I can manage to write every da...
Author: Reay
What I read this month
I’m pretty happy with the number of books I managed to get in this month, what with focusing on Blaugust as much as I did (typically taking an hour+ out o...
Photographs
It’s been too long since I’ve posted any photos here on my site. I keep taking them — I take them all the time, whenever a moment pops up and ...
September: The month of refocusing
My wife is a teacher and my teen is of course a student, which means that come the end of every school year, they’re suddenly around home a lot more and w...
Trying to be okay to play
I have a bit of a weird thing with playing video games, in that when I’m playing them, I often feel like I can — nay, should — be doing something more productiv...
Hunt for quality, not just name brands
When I was young, my parents held the Sony brand up as one of the best technology manufacturers in the world. Those were the TVs we got when we could, those wer...
This isn’t giving up, this is letting go
I went to my first Fan Expo yesterday and managed to get in one seminar led by experienced panellists. The second seminar was a bust because, whether by some mi...
When good music is SO good
The province-owned liquor store I work in has planned playlists that they swap out every “period”, the segments of the year when featured products a...
Naps are highly underrated
I’m honestly not sure why naps aren’t more popular. They shake off the tiredness and recharge the batteries if you maybe had a bad night, or if you worked parti...