Forget about scary monsters and other standard nightmare fare.  The worst nightmare I ever had was one where I was buying an infant coffin. Maybe that needs a bit of background. I have an almost-two-year-old son, who has never been particularly healthy.  During the first couple months of his life, we spent more nights in [...]

I’m sitting here with my son, and we’re watching Treehouse TV.  One of my absolute favorite shows is on.  (Insert sarcasm tags here). The issue I have with it isn’t with the contents of the show.  Teach the kids to exercise, teach them to share, teach them to learn from the world around them.  Not [...]

You may have noticed that my NaNoWriMo counts have stopped increasing.  This is due to a few reasons, all of which happened at roughly the same time. I write on the computers at work and at home.  I transfer back and forth using email.  I spent a day writing to a file that I had [...]

I have digital cable at home, which requires the use of a cable box.  One of the joys of the cable box, as provided by Shaw, is the lack of local control. Yup, that’s right.  If we lose the remote, there’s no way to change the channel. On Wednesday, I will have a one-year-old son.  [...]

Finally got my ICBC write-off check.  Still left me holding a bit of debt (carried over from a previous trade-in), but all-in-all good. Now, it’s just time to go car shopping…

I’m still waiting to hear back from ICBC about my accident.  Apparently “we’ll call you after we look at it in the next day or two” doesn’t mean “we’ll call you in the next day or two”.  I called them, and got the daytime number for my estimator.  Yay. Tomorrow’s a fun day of a [...]

Something that most parents learn at some point:  When the baby is being quiet, he probably isn’t behaving. Full jar of diaper cream.  Daddy wasn’t paying attention.

ICBC finally called my wife today while I was at work.  Apparently, there are 25 cars ahead of us in the queue for adjustment, so we get to wait our turn.  It doesn’t help that the other person hasn’t made a claim yet. I went in to dispute the ticket that I got out of [...]

So I got a letter from ICBC, telling me that it’s time to renew my car insurance.  They note that, with my 15 years of safe driving, I get a 47% discount on next year’s insurance. I celebrated this fact by getting into an almost-head-on collision.  I was making a left turn, the other car [...]

Since the day he was born, my son has spent alot of time in the hospital emergency room, usually with something to do with his breathing.  Every time, we were told some variation of “his lungs are still developing” or “it’s a viral infection, we can’t do anything, go home and wait it out”. At [...]