Fishbooks

We are now the proud owners of a new car! It is very exciting. It drives FAST. Ok, well we didn’t drive it that fast from the dealership home, but damn it is fun to drive. The shifting is like, well, it’s almost as smooth as our old car, which had so much wear and [...]

Negotiating is a funny business. Last night we went to make/accept an offer for our NEW car. My dad came along for several reasons. Ian and I sort of sat back and let him negotiate with the slick car dealer guy. And you could tell this man was intimidated by my father. He’s not a [...]

There are many things that you come to accept in life. I have come to accept Ian’s love for music that I just cannot appreciate. Take, for example, RUSH. Yes, they are Canadian. But that’s really about as much credit as I’ll give them. Love Led Zep, can’t stand RUSH. That is just the way [...]

I have a penchant for starting my blogs with “so” but I am trying to break myself of the habit. I bought three books yesterday (bad fishy) but I feel as though I deserve them since I have been slogging through a very descriptive look at the Bush Administration’s path to Iraq by Bob Woodward [...]

Slate has this column called “explainer” that I always find fascinating, similar to my interest in watching MythBusters on Discovery. In any event, today they have an article about how to become a weatherman. Or weatherperson.
I wonder if this field (if one can call it a field, as apparently you do not need any qualifications [...]

We had dim sum on the weekend. Chinese food in the morning is not really something that seems to be easily accepted by Westerners, as witnessed by the number of asian versus non-asian people at the restaurant. But it is obviously very popular in Montreal. We got there at 10 am, and by the time [...]

We don’t watch a lot of television in our household. Well, we watch our share, but we are generally too busy with ultimate in the summer, and too busy with work and catching up on all our book and magazine reading in the winter. But, over the past few years, we were faithful fans of [...]

So I finished Roddy Doyle’s latest book two nights ago. I don’t know why it took so long. I feel like I’ve been reading it for months. I think it is because it’s in that non-portable not a paperback size (but it’s a paperback) and not hardcover size. In any event, I get a strong [...]

this is a cool site. I wish montreal were this cool.
this is pretty cool too. More funny than cool, maybe.

How long has it been? Too long. Long enough, apparently, that I had to create a new blog because my old one was taken down. Or, I just can’t remember the password/site name. Yeah, that’s probably it. In any event, it took me 4 months to update the Storm site. So one could [...]