burn baby burn

I walked by this a few days ago and wished I had a camera.

wow

dundas peak

a year in photo

So we've been here over a year now. Time flies. We'll be here at least one more year, and I hope beyond that. I haven't posted many pictures in that time because my camera died a year ago, but here are some from Kira's camera.

The fresh-faced fellow catching the ball has an awesome beard by the last picture. The bald headed guy who threw it to him has flowing locks by the last picture.




Bubble Tea in Toronto:



Cleverly imitating a sign at Niagara Falls:



These dudes jumped over me as part of a street performance:



These dudes raised me, as part of reproductive investment:



Hattori keeps me company while I engage in scholarly pursuits:



Katsu does nothing to help my scholarly pursuits:




Horus ventures out from the safety of the chair for a quick picture:



From right to left, that's a trumpet, a glass of beer, an African drum, and Blake:



A party for our friend Leo before he went home to Brazil:



Mustache Release Party:





Appendicitis rocks!



A birthday/thesis defense party featuring the previously mentioned beard and hair:

how we roll, continued

Mustached Chicks Smoking Carrots




Dotted-Line 'Stache




Free Mustache Rides

end beard. begin mustache.

As promised:

before





after



(Yes, in the first picture there is a woman with a mustache grading papers behind me. That's just how we roll up here.)

2008 year in review pictures.

hiber nation

Last few days have been high temperatures in the 20s or lower (F, although most people use C up here), and lots of snow. Forecasts call for more of the same. I've been drinking beer and sleeping a lot. Such is Canada, eh?

Here's the view out our back window:

Pictures I like.

This picture was taken at The Phoenix, the graduate student pub on campus at McMaster.



It includes the following noteworthy storylines:

• David (2nd from left), a friend from Ohio, and Bailey (middle), my sister, came up to visit for...
  
• It was taken November 27, 2008, which was American Thanksgiving, and 2 days before my 28th birthday.
• It includes Dan's asymmetrical beard (far left), one of the more amusing results of a decision among the men in my class not to shave for a few months.
• It includes Kira's recent short haircut (2nd from right).
• It was taken by Leo, a visiting grad student from Brazil, who I really ought to have some pictures with.
• It is the only picture I've seen from a very fun night that featured a much larger crowd, including my supervisors, who I really ought to have some pictures with.

Here are other pictures I like.


Hanging with the bride (Kate... on the left), the night before her wedding. Canton, Ohio. October, 2007.


Last day over there: (left to right) Paolo, Ate Lady, Jakob, Ram, JJ, and Jam. Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. November, 2006.


Kira and I, in top shape clearly. Annapolis, MD. Christmas, 2006.


Left to right: Sarah, Dave, Phil's ass, Phil, Phil's hair, Zsaz, Kira. Ada, Ohio. May, 2008.



Left to right: Katsu, Hattori, Horus. Ada, Ohio. March, 2008.

Horus these days

Horus is doing pretty well these days, at least compared to where he started.

He spends a lot of time sleeping up on the perch near the windows.

From Cats Nov 2008

From Cats Nov 2008

When he's not as sleepy he'll dart over to hide under the kitchen table.

From Cats Nov 2008

And when he's feeling frisky and adventurous he might even play with me a little bit.

From Cats Nov 2008

But that gets tiring...

From Cats Nov 2008

He still freaks out if he sees me try to touch him, but if he's distracted I can scratch his back and he likes it until he realizes what is happening. As soon as he sees me touching him he recoils or swipes at me, but I'm convinced that some of the time he deliberately looks away so that he doesn't have to freak out. He'll still act like he's trying to investigate the source of this strange pleasurable sensation, but he'll look in a ridiculous direction, like straight up and from side to side, but not backwards.

Here are the other boys.

Hattori.

From Cats Nov 2008

Katsu.

From Cats Nov 2008

Declaring Independence: A See For Yourself Announcement

Well I don't imagine that when I started this stupid blog 3.5 ago that I'd still be doing it, and I certainly wouldn't have imagined I'd be saying some of the crazy ass shit I'm saying these days. I wouldn't have imagined I'd actually make a little bit of money off of it (thanks to online poker companies with more money than they know what to do with), and I wouldn't have imagined that I'd get over 50,000 hits.

Actually fuck all of that, who cares what I imagined. I didn't imagine anything. I was just writing shit cause it I had shit to say, and I didn't imagine too much of anything in regards to the medium itself. And I've said some shit and it has been fun. But everything has to come to an end, and for me that time is now. I'm declaring independence on July 4, 2008.

After a lot of reflection, I've decided that I'm going to stop calling Barrack Obama by his name (Barrack Obama) effective immediately. He will henceforth be referred to here as BO, for reasons of the implication that he is like body odor. Which he is. Why else would he have those initials? I'm free of using his full name, hooray!

Here is a picture of me celebrating the new stinky nomenclature while my mother-in-law looks trepidatious/sassy:



Sorry for the false setup. I had you all worried, didn't I? I actually have thought about ending this blog from time to time. I'd just start a new one though, so what would be the point?

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