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Beth and I exchanged gifts tonight, because I don't know what my schedule will be like in the next few days (nor hers) leading up to Christmas. I got an Arrogant Worms CD (Russell's Shorts) and The Essential Weird Al Yankovic! I'm so very spoiled! 🙂 In other news, tonight was a wonderful Kiwanis social… Continue reading Getting spoiled!

… heck it's the holidays. And I'm having one damn good time. In other news, yesterday I volunteered the CKI Bissell Centre Gift Wrap from 10:30am-9pm. It was good, but could have been much much better. Regardless I met some great fellow volunteers and had some great company. I'm not getting much sleep lately, but… Continue reading Maybe I should be more academically productive, but…

I sit here struggling against utter exhaustion, awaiting the next board meeting I need to attend. So, knowing that I haven't posted since last week, I thought I'd type a little bit about one of the more busy weeks and weekends I've had a chance to enjoy. Last weekend was the Kiwanis Club of Edmonton… Continue reading Really tired… but it's been a darn great weekend.

After handing in my paper, I headed to Edmonton City Centre and chatted with Telus, Bell and Rogers (in that order) before returning to Bell to make my purchase. I asked a lot of questions and got (the expected) funny looks when people heard that I was getting a smart phone after NEVER having owned… Continue reading Yes, it's true, I got a smart phone!

So Friday morning, I headed to campus in the blizzardy weather and attended the Butterdome Craft Sale. It was awesome as usual — I picked up a few gifts, tried some good samples, saw lots of neat things, and purchased a few things for myself. I'm pretty darn pleased with my personal purchases, though they… Continue reading Snow, Snow and more Snow (and also fun!)

… realistically involves a number of things. And yes, this is the annual Christmas list. No, I'm not at home to consult my handy dandy list of items I've written down over the years that I actually might want/need. Instead I'll go from memory and update it if I feel it needs it when I… Continue reading All I want for Christmas…

For the first time in all the years that I've been posting to this blog, I'm experimenting a little by changing the template. It's just that little bit more informative/customizeable, so that's definitely a plus. Christmas posts to follow, as I've been inevitably too busy to concern myself with the trappings of this holiday, that… Continue reading Change of template 🙂

So, last night I went to the much anticipated The Fugitives concert (featuring Kinnie Starr) at the Artery. I had won tickets earlier this week from Artery Noiselab on Facebook (I was quite honestly shocked that no one had beat me to it, afterall, I've been such a huge fan based on what little I… Continue reading The Fugitives were awesome! and other recaps…

Normally I don't blog about some of the better Kiwanis meetings I attend. Of course normally they're not as engaging or relevant as Peter's talk was in September. And tonight's talk was certainly relevant. In fact not only did it relate to what I learned at GIS Day on the 17th, but it related to… Continue reading Kiwanis Meeting Speaker talks about Data mining

Long ago… over 15 years ago in fact, I coined the term 'productive procrastination' to refer to my particular approach to work-avoidance. In fact, I don't avoid work, what I do avoid is whatever I ostensibly need to be doing at any given moment by being productive in other areas. What saves me here is… Continue reading Procrastination, a student's best friend?