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• 2011
  It's the end of 2011, and I'm writing this from my parents' home in Nanaimo, where I'm visiting over the year-end holidays. If you ask me how this past year has gone, I'd
• What (not) to say to someone who is alone
  A friend's Twitter stream pointed me at this item on what to say to someone who is sick (with cancer, in the authour's case) and it touched me. It also reminded me very mu
• The parable of the tricycle
  Imagine a young man nearing his 16th birthday, the day when he'll be eligible to get a driver's license. And let's imagine this is before graduated licensing was a big thi
• Updates
  Here are a few notes on the current state of my life. As I'd hoped, my work productivity has improved a lot now that I'm out of the back-and-forth between Waterloo and Tor
• Dream: a box of cards
  Dream transcript from the morning of May 2, 2009. I posted it in my Dreamwidth journal at the time, and I'm pretty sure I know what it meant because it tied into events in
• Tsukurimashou close to release, other notes
  Last time I checked the windchill, it was -44. That's the level where if you go outdoors, you come back encased in a three-centimetre layer of ice, like in that scene from
• Notes on Winnipeg
  The firewall box does seem to be dead. It's quite possible that some parts of it are salvageable, but it appears that I can also reconfigure the MTS DSL box to do most of
• Three cheers
  Lest it be thought that all I do is complain, let's hear it for: The City of Toronto Solid Waste Management Department, who answered their email promptly and informatively
• Move update
  Starting to feel panicky about my move. The movers are coming for my stuff on the 21st. I have about half of it fully packed and sealed, and really, that does leave enough
• Animated romance day
  This is a re-posting of an item that originally appeared on Livejournal. I think it was "dagbrown" who told me that in Japan, December 25 is like February 14 in North Amer
• On problems and talking about them
  I don't ever want to care so strongly about my problems that I would - even for a moment - hesitate to accept a solution to them for fear of losing that investment. I also

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