(this is not a post about football, so stick with me) As some of you know, last Saturday the New England Patriots won their 16th and final game of the regular season, making them the first team to go undefeated in the regular season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins. The ’72 Dolphins were the first …
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Québec, Québec
We lived in Québec for about 3 years without visiting Québec City (or the wonderfully redundant Québec, Québec) but with plenty of good intentions. This summer, we finally managed to make the 3-hour drive for a much needed weeekend away shortly before our move. We stayed at the Auberge St. Antoine, which I mention only …
Outta Saskatoon
In May we visited Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association. As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the CCA moves from province to province each year, meaning that if you attend long enough, you eventually get to see a lot of Canada. That has a lot …
On the lighter side…
I’m on vacation until school starts. My parents were here for 5 days, which was nice although it was a bit treacherous going out with them. I think they may come in warmer weather in future years. They left on Christmas, and since then it’s been a bit of socializing and self-care, which means finishing …
2 hours 30 minutes on the phone with Bell customer service in the last 48
I feel like Kevin Dillon’s character on Entourage even writing this stuff down (he’s the one who flies into a rage when they screw up his order at Starbucks), but really, between the insipid hold music, the endless proliferation of account numbers and dollar totals and the inability to get a straight answer other than …
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The Visual Culture of Frontenac at Rachel
There was much left unsaid in the blog in the past year, but I also left out some good pictures. So, in the spirit of the real estate series that told you what happened after it happened, there will be some pics coming your way in the next few days. If I have sometime intelligent …
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Real Estate Afterword: Things We Learned
1. Stuff is really expensive here, but cheap for a city of this size and quality. We just have to deal with it. 1A. Apparently, economists are right about markets. People (i.e., Carrie and I) can be convinced that anything is worth anything. It just takes awhile and slowly one starts to think in terms …