Gratitude Journal August 2018

< 1 minute readThis is just going to be short… I suppose that means I’m not thinking very much about what I’m grateful for… here, I’ll do it as a “listicle” (list-article, a new word I learned). Celeste was mostly successfully toilet trained last weekend. It was actually a pretty good experience for us. I just stayed home […]

The Digital Dark Age & Your Blog

5 minute readWe are living in the digital dark age. Wikipedia says: the digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays. Another way to say that: did you think […]

Protected: Potty Training Celeste

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Cresswell Drive Home Memory Dump

13 minute readMy dad is selling the house he, and his kids, lived in for about 25 years. It’s the house he moved into a little after my parents divorced, where most of my siblings spent the rest of their teenage years, and where Phil and I came on weekly. I have a lot of memories from […]

Which Way Do Your Slashes Face in PHP?

4 minute readWhen writing out filepaths and URLs, should you use forward slashes / or backslashes \? Windows expects one, whereas Unix-style operating systems (Linux and Mac OSs, primarily) expect another. PHP has two built-in solutions, but both have problems, especially if you’re working with WordPress. Backstory At work, I’ve recently had some trouble getting my linux […]

Gratitude Journal July 2018

4 minute readGoing on vacation next week when my monthly reminder to do this will probably go off, so I figured I’d do this now. What am I grateful for now… let’s see… Good Experience Today in Sunday School with My Class of 5 Year Olds I’m co-teaching the 5 year olds at church for an hour […]

Protected: Father’s Day 2018

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Gratitude Journal June 2018

< 1 minute readStuff I’m grateful for that comes to mind in June. Danielle Danielle is five but is really quite mature. She tries her very best to be helpful and patient. When she was three we did the “marshmellow test” on her (placed a marshmellow in front of her, told her she could eat it, or wait […]

Gratitude Journal, May 2018

4 minute readThings I’m grateful for. Amanda (again) I find being a father very fulfilling and satisfying, and so I need to repeat that I’m grateful for my wife Amanda. Before going through the roller coaster of parenthood (which I realize is still starting), I thought the sacrifice of mothers mostly focused on labour and giving birth. […]

I'm 1000th part Mi'kmaq!

< 1 minute readI stumbled on an interesting relation this last week: I’m about 1000th part Mi’kmaq! (Assuming the information in familysearch.org‘s family tree is correct). My 10th-great-grandfather, on Mom’s side, is Chief Henri Louis Membertou Kagigoniac, whose picture is attached. Here’s the wikipedia article about his dad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Membertou. They both lived around Acadia, present day Nova Scotia. […]