Tuesday, January 19, 2010
In the local supermarket this morning, I saw Lagavulin 16yr for HALF the price the LCBO charges. It’s nice not having an ocean between me and Scotland.  🙂  However, said ocean does not explain why top-shelf Cuban cigars are also half the price as Toronto.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Switzerland does not have barbecue chips. In their place on the chip aisle are paprika chips, which are the same yet somehow slightly better. After a few days of walking around, Martha and I never once saw a grill on anyone’s balcony. We took this to perhaps mean that people here don’t barbecue at all. […]
Here are the first batch of pics from our new home in Switzerland. In the interests of keeping our pictures ours, I am serving them from my host rather than putting them somewhere like Facebook (though they will be pulled to my Facebook vis RSS). If you are seeing this on Facebook, please go here […]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
After nearly 36 hours in this place, I have made note of the following things: I have yet to meet anyone without at least barebones English and the willingness to use it for the benefit of North American barbarians. There are lots of birds here; many more than I am used to seeing in January. […]
Friday, November 13, 2009
The long-delayed announcement can finally be made… My family and I are relocating to Switzerland in the new year! My wife has secured employment with a large multinational corporation (who shall remain nameless on this forum) that is moving us across the Atlantic posthaste. We’ve been holding off on explicitly discussing this online until all […]
It’s been about a month, and the baby’s currently asleep, so time for another placeholder post. Since my last ping, the little guy has been wrestling with various ailments. He had a moderately bad cold during the end of October. Just as he was recovering from that (and we got back to him sleeping through […]
On the (questionable) principle that something is better than nothing, here is a quick post. I was working on a longish post (which would amount to a shortish tract) on hypocrisy and envy as democratic vices, but my work-to-date is trapped on the hard drive of my now-dead laptop. This has renewed my interest in […]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hello to anyone that still pays attention to this outlet, and to those who pay attention to this outlet automatically via RSS! After three chaotic months, I am in a position to begin devoting some attention to this project again. Here’s a very terse summary of what’s happened since my last post, in rough chronological […]
From today’s Toronto Star: Â “Tory leader chides city unions — Toronto strike galls taxpayers, Tim Hudak says in his first day on the job” Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If you liked living in Toronto with the political climate of the mid-1990’s, you’ll love what’s coming in a couple of years. […]
I will happily take working outside on the farm over sitting in front of a computer any day of the week, rain or shine.