This Northern Life

I have to leave you to your own devices for a few days. I will return soon. After all, it’s only a week until Election Day, so I am sure I’ll have something to say before then. Don’t miss me too much.

Weekends are precious now that I’m working every day. The days no longer run together. I know precisely what day it is and how many days, hours, and minutes are left until I can leave the office, walk to my car and drive away from prison for TWO ENTIRE DAYS. There is no better feeling [...]

I have to say that I’m a little surprised to find out that all this time I was living in a big city, I was a fake American. I move out to the boondocks and whamo! I’m a Real American? Sarah Palin, my dear, in “real America” we don’t have Saks or Neiman Marcus. We [...]

I think my body’s pissed off at me. I’m sick. That’s right, I got over one illness that tortured me from the waist down and now wish someone would just slice the top half of my body off to save me the trouble. I fully expected to get this, with all of the other people [...]

I made this weekend an official No Election Coverage Day. I don’t think I can hear another word about this election or consider the possibility that after all this is said and done America will vote for McCain based solely on their fears that people like Barack Obama are not only good for this country [...]

My great grandmother died this morning at 5:30AM. She had been living in a Florida nursing home for the past few years and was just about to go into hospice care, but never got there. She was 96 years old. Of all the great-grandchildren, I probably knew the most of her. I was very young [...]

We watched a Nixon documentary on PBS last night. Nixon was before my time and I must admit I didn’t know a whole lot about him other than Watergate. But what was frightening was the similarities between his presidential campaigns and the current campaign. And it turns out Republicans have been doing this fear mongering [...]

I guess I’m in recovery mode. The physical aspect of recovery seems to be moving along nicely. Still battling a slightly sore right hamstring, but I’m feeling much better. I even skated an entire hockey rental last night, the only real problem being that I am out of shape. It’s nice to know I can [...]

Favorite line: “I believe marriage should be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers.” Sorry, having trouble embedding video. Enjoy.

Dating someone with an ex with children can be interesting. Granted, we’re not going out for tea and cookies, but since there are children involved, our paths do cross from time to time. It’s not that we’re not perfectly polite to each other, and to be honest, I can’t think of a single thing that [...]

While the distance stays the same, which for you reading at home, is 26.2 miles, no race is identical. There are so many variables: the weather, how much you’ve trained, your state of mind, that burrito you ate the night before. In the four years or so that I’ve been doing this marathon thing, I’ve [...]

I’m sick as a person with a stomach bug of some sort who ran a marathon. I’ll update tomorrow, when I can sit upright without feeling like someone’s roller skating through my intestinal tract.

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As of last night my parents’ one dog household became a two dog household. And it’s all because of this little guy. “Peetie,” as he is currently being called (though that will hopefully change, fingers crossed), is a Maltese Shih-Tzu mix, a Mal-shi, as I hear they are called, though I think Shit-ese is a [...]

We’ve got a massive proposal due tonight by COB. Massive? By golly, I did use the word to describe it. Also massive will be my headache by the end of the day, after sifting through the massive amount of documents on my desk that are not agreeing with each other. What will not be massive [...]