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In which this becomes a travel blog
Like all great vacations, it started with a cold. I woke up the day before leaving and knew I had caught something, but luckily seemed to have avoided it being something serious. Just keep in mind that throughout the timeline of this post my throat is as raw as your favourite diss track mixtape. Most… Continue reading In which this becomes a travel blog
Bad Lads FC: Revenge of the Sith
Oof. That’s really all I can say after last week’s match. Oof. I don’t even feel like it’s worthwhile to talk about tactics or preparation or any of that because it ended up not mattering at all. Let me set the scene.
Bad Lads FC: Attack of the Clones
Hello and welcome to Episode 2 of Bad Lads FC. Last weekend, we played Cancho FC in our second match of the Spring Season. [If you don’t know what any of those words mean, you’ll probably want to go back and read my previous post in which I explain the league, and what this post… Continue reading Bad Lads FC: Attack of the Clones
Bad Lads FC: A New Hope
I’ve been neglecting this blog since last September. It’s fitting, in a way, that while I am no longer in last September, my site is. You’ll get that reference once Mike and I finally get around to releasing our EP. Or maybe you won’t, who knows? One of the #ThingsIDo is manage and play on… Continue reading Bad Lads FC: A New Hope
Pomodoro Productivity
A week and a half ago I read series of blog posts by Mac Deutsch in his Month2Master series about how he mastered the New York Times Saturday crossword in just 23 days. I solve (or try to solve) the NYT crossword every day, and while I’ve seen some really marked improvement in my solving… Continue reading Pomodoro Productivity
A Portland Treasure Hunt
I recently wrote a treasure hunt/bar crawl for a friend’s birthday, and I thought it’d be fun to share the full text of the clues. He was handed the first note after dinner; long dashes indicate a change of location, a short dash indicates he completed that location’s challenge. See if you can figure out… Continue reading A Portland Treasure Hunt
Sugar Pill
If you’ve heard me talk about music in the last couple weeks or so, you’ve probably heard me rave about bizarre British singer-songwriter Amber Bain, AKA The Japanese House. As with any new musical discovery, I had early favourites (Still, Swim Against The Tide, 3/3 (when it released)), and predictably pointed most of my attention at… Continue reading Sugar Pill
What’s Next? or, “Change in the House of Leaves”
Just in case you didn’t get the joke in the title. My Netflixing over the past few months has been a watch-through of Aaron Sorkin’s classic political drama, The West Wing. Those familiar with the show will know one of President Jed Bartlet’s catch-phrases is ‘What’s Next?’ It’s established early on that when he says… Continue reading What’s Next? or, “Change in the House of Leaves”
Death of a Weekend
Sometimes I start writing in my head, and then later on will try to find what I started only to realize I never actually wrote it. Which makes it, I suppose, just thinking. This weekend was essentially a study in how many things you can fit into a single weekend. I mean, my weekends are… Continue reading Death of a Weekend