December 2011
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If there was research to say that handwriting is genetic then I would be perfect proof. I just looked at my thank you cards and realised I do half my letter like my Mum and half like my Dad. I noticed also that Ross writes like Dad but not like Mum. Linzi writes like neither so I assume she is adopted from midgets since his writing is so miniscule.
I don’t know if this is considered racist but I dont meant it to be. The area I live in in Vancouver has a lot of Sikhs and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of the males smile. The men always look grumpy. The women joke with each other and gossip but the men seem incapable of this, even when their friends get on the bus.
Merry Christmas everyone!
What a quiet Christmas I had this year. I finished up work on Friday and then went home to Skype with Tim and his folks to watch him open his presents. He got to open his presents TWO days early because he wasn’t sure what they would do at the border. He got lots of board games and a couple books.
After signing off with Tim I did some cleaning and then sat down to watch Desperate...
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It’s amazing the conversations that open up when you say “I’m Scottish”.
Is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere the longest day in the southern?
Last Sunday before Christmas is a bad time to go shopping and be in an impatient mood about it.
The Apple weather app tells me there’s a 100% chance of snow at 1am tonight. If it doesn’t, I’m suing for false information.
Had a great weekend with Tim! It started with him surprising me on Friday after saying he wouldn’t arrive til Saturday morning. Last time he came up he said he’d been thinking of coming up on Friday to surprise me but the traffic was bad so all this week I’d been thinking he was going to. However come Friday I was beginning to think he wouldn’t and I was getting my hopes up...
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When you turn off your light to go to sleep at night do you: lie down quietly and get instantly comfortable, or do you shuffle about incessantly until you get into your position?
Matthew Panzarino Reviews the Nokia Lumia 800 →
I’m glad Nokia are finally releasing decent phones again. My favourite phone ever was a Nokia: the 5510. The first music phone and predecessor to the ill-fated N-Gage.
The most powerful photos of 2011 →
It’s amazing how much bad stuff happened in the world in 2011. I think of these 45 photos, about 10% are of positive things.
