Monday, January 03, 2011

2011 - Time for a blog post...

Well, I've been meaning to make a blog post for a while, but life gets busy, and time passes quickly.

We've been back in the icy clutches of Canada for 7 months now. As you can tell I am no fan of the cold. I do have a job now (for those who were wondering) doing market research consulting. It's mostly designing surveys and analyzing/reporting the results. I enjoy it and it's just challenging enough.

For some reason I have stopped watching television. This wasn't a conscious or planned thing, I just realized one day that I no longer watched TV at all. Chrissy and I had been watching a few TV shows on DVD or on the computer. We finished '24' and 'Battlestar Gallactica' both in the last few months, and since then have not started anything new. It's amazing how much less-annoyed I am with the moronic level of most TV shows when I am unaware of them!

What I have been doing a lot is reading. Every day I have to take the bus downtown, which is about an hour each way, so I have a lot of time to read. Some of the books I have read or have been reading lately are: Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and so forth etc.

Christmas time always reminds me that there is lots of food that I do not like. (And some that I do like).

Speaking of that, here is a picture of a mouse's nest that we found under the fireplace:







For those that are not aware, we a planning on having a baby this month or next. We think that it will be a boy. It's been more than 5 years since we've ventured into baby land, so I'm sure that there will be all sorts of hi-jinks as we readjust to that life.

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