When alleged convenience is less convenient
I’m in a lottery pool with a couple of family members. Nothing much, just an arrangement where we each spend $5 a week on some flavour of lottery and we s...
Author: Reay
And the winner is…
ProtonMail! After running a few tests with some family and friends in my search for some digital privacy, ProtonMail edged out the only real competition it had ...
Isolation Day 13 Games: Seven Dragons, Go Fish
Seven Dragons has been a staple among our games for several years now. It’s easy to learn and with it being just a deck of cards and being pretty quick to...
Isolation Day 12 Game: Tsuro
We love board games in our household, and never have time to play them as much as we’d like to. Or rather, we hadn’t had time until a certain pandem...
I make things that amuse me
I can’t tell you how often I come up with an idea for a visual gag and either take the time to cobble it together on the fly on my phone, or takes a littl...
What I’m reading
**HERE THERE BE WEE SPOILERS*** I’ve was finally getting around to reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, and was really enjoying it but then a couple of thin...
An empty Good Stuff Jar is a sad thing
I’ve written about our Good Stuff Jar previously, wherein you write down good things that happen through the year and then jumble them up and read them ou...
Beauty is everywhere if you want to find it
The top of our front door has a window of combined frosted glass and triangular-cut glass pieces, the latter of which which make for unexpectedly nice prisms. W...
Canadian graffiti
We saw this example of “tagging”, as the kids call it, on the way to the park. It’s deeply disturbing that my daughter has to see stuff like t...
Sleepy squirrel?
This little guy has been about six feet away from my daughter’s window for over half an hour now. He seems to be all right–breathing and moving arou...