Yes, I’m Canadian

When using the Firefox extension to post a link to the del.icio.us social bookmarking service, I’ve often typed long, informative descriptions into the “Notes” field, only to see that text cut short when I submit the link.

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This year’s 10-week season of Theatresports™ starts this Sunday. Come along and watch me compete if you’re in town! Full details at the Impro Melbourne web site.

This Sunday is the final night of Impro Melbourne’s The Impro Cave this year, and in celebration of the great success that was our original show Tangents in July, we’re bringing it back for one last hurrah!

Tangents Encore Performance
Sunday, August 27 at 6PM
Don’t Tell Tom bar & café
420 Sydney Rd. Brunswick
$5 at the door

Contrary to the impression that you might have from the deafening silence here over the past week, Jess and I have made it home in one piece, though not without another series of dramas at the one airport to rule them all, LAX.

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After a week in Montreal shopping, touring, catching up with friends, and standing in line at La Ronde, Jess and I hop on the first of four planes that will take us to Lake Tahoe tomorrow morning, where we’ll spend the last week of our overseas holiday vacationing with my mom’s side of the family.

I’m slowly posting photos of our travels on Flickr, but at this stage they’re about two weeks behind us. Stay tuned.

Continue reading ‘Leaving Canada’

We just found the dead bird my dad was keeping in the cottage freezer… after two days… without electricity.

This entry comes to you from the failing battery of my laptop in a cottage that has been without electricity for over two days—

Correction, the electricity just came back on! (So much for my ultimate demonstration of geekery.)

Far from the cushy summer retreat by a lake that my friends from Montreal expected, we have had no light, no running water, no refrigeration, and to top things off, the propane on the barbeque ran out in the middle of cooking our first meal.

Today, after steeling our resolve and making a run to town for bottled water, propane and ice, we relaxed into the unwashed experience and made our first group trip out to the island for the year… only to be chased from the island by hordes of feasting blackflies.

But now the electricity is back, and Marty has already made popcorn. Things are looking up.

Jess is blogging our trip! 100% more detail and Kev-bashing than this blog.

The difference between Australia and the United States can be concisely stated by citing the espresso menu at The Coffee People, Portland Airport, Oregon:

Espresso Drinks:

• Mindsweeper™
• Black Tiger Mocha
• Slammahamma™