As with my lists of favourite books I read year to year, I’ve also recently been doing an annual list of favourite songs I added to various playlists. Rather than do a separate top ten for every playlist I added to — top ten drumming songs, top ten songs for quick-paced walks, top ten songs…
The end of the year? Already? I’m curious if that’s a parent thing or an adult thing or just a subjective thing that has nothing in the least to do with aging. I just remember as a kid how long anything took that I was looking forward to, be it my birthday or the weekend…
Shortly before the pandemic, I started tracking what songs I added to my various streaming service playlists every year. For anyone who’s interested in the chronological order of what I split and duplicated among playlists (including songs I listen to in the shower; drum to; write, walk, commute, drive and do yard work to, and…
It’s been a successful month, both in terms of walking the extra 60 km I committed to walk for part of the fundraiser, as well as moustache growth went: It’s been an interesting experience. On the one hand, the moustache came in far slower than expected — I need to shave every couple of days…
I’ve been mentioning over the last couple of months how inspired I’ve been while reading Telling Lies for Fun & Profit by Lawrence Block. I’ve read more books about writing than I could hope to remember, and while many have been solid and given me advice I’ll always carry with me, Telling Lies is proving…
Short and sweet: November proved to be a flurry of activity — not the least of which was my getting Covid — which once again put a damper on getting to read as much as I wanted to. I know… you’d think that getting Covid and having to isolate for days would lend itself to…
I joined the social media site Mastodon three years ago this month, having heard about it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which I’d been growing leery of by that point. You can just look here for a breakdown of what Mastodon is, but in brief: A couple of years back I took a…
I’m not one to get too stoked about apps — or at least not generally enough to hype them — but I gotta give credit where it’s due. Swipewipe had recently been getting a strange amount of (unpaid) promotion from completely unrelated newsletters I get, and it sounded like it had some promise, so I…
It’s been a solid week of progress and fundraising. My burgeoning moustache is definitely growing in (if slowly), and I’ve been way ahead of the curve to meet and well surpass my commitment of walking 60 km for the month. You can see my webpage and keep up with my progress here. (The mobile version…
I’ve noticed a couple of things in my walks through some local parkland over the last few days. First, the squirrels are getting chubby. Squirrels are ubiquitous in Toronto. Common enough that visiting for a while, and certainly when you’ve grown up here, you don’t think twice about them. Common enough that with seeing them…