With summer coming to an end I thought I would recap all the things we managed to get done in our first Ontario summer. The general theme for the summer was HOT!  Right from the start we had one heat wave after another.  Particularly memorable was that while I was in Mexico, it was hotter […]

For a long time now I have been having a lot of strain in my upper back.  This is perhaps due to so much computer work. I have attempted to fix the issue by switching to a standing desk in my home office which I use most of the day.  Unfortunately this isn’t enough to […]

Since finishing my Sailing lessons I have been getting even more enamoured with the idea of doing a longer sailing trip and perhaps eventually getting my own sailing boat.  The more I read and learn about it the more intrigued I am with what might be possible. There’s actually a large community of livaboard sailors […]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been spending some evening and weekends working on building some e-commerce websites. Right at the time that the iPhone 2 came out I was really into buying domain names and picked up iphone7case.com. I’ve held onto that domain for nearly 10 years and finally (fingers crossed) the […]

For the last couple of weeks I have been working through some financial plans, and dreams. Ever since taking the sailing class, the bug has gotten stronger to get a sailboat.  I’ve watched hours of youtube content from people sailing, bought more books, and started looking through the classified ads.  I’m still a long ways […]

It was some much needed time away from work, and I managed to not touch the computer the entire week that I was travelling.  We met with relatives and friends, had some good drinks and great conversations. It was hot and sometimes unbearable in our car with broken AC. I had forgotten just how connected […]

Over the last couple of weeks I have found myself going deeper and deeper with research on Lunar missions. After some inspiration from reading Seveneves I started looking for some actual scientific and planning information about various lunar options.  I’ve been diving into the details and learning a lot about not only what’s possible, but also […]

Something my boss is fond of reminding us is that building the most glorious cathedral of all time consisted of a slog of day to day work of “putting sticky stuff on bricks”. While there was a vision for what would be built the actual work of building something great involves incremental steps toward the […]

This was a great book and provided a fantastic perspective on the whole history of the human race. My only qualms with the book was the author’s luddite belief that somehow life was better before we invented agriculture, and that happiness was the only measurement worth making on the quality of life. It seems obvious […]

This past weekend we went for a one night camping trip to Murphy’s Point just 1 hour from home.  Ada had been excited about going camping for weeks. The camping sites were really nice – probably the nicest ones I’ve been to. Everything is under a canopy of tall trees and on some short rolling […]