Le monde du vieux bandit

Je lis trois livres en ce moment. Peut-être même cinq. Depuis le premier janvier, j’ai lu ou suis en train de lire… 22 livres. (Et quand je dis lire, c’est du début à la fin sans sauter une ligne.) Maniaque, je vous dis. Si je ne me connaissais pas si bien (ahem), je dirais même […]

I cannot count how many contracts I have gotten and how many relations with my customers have started well simply because… I was there. I tend to answer email messages very quickly, out of principle. It turns out, quite logically, that this brings me work. Logically: translation is very often the last step of a […]

Herb guessed correctly. I asked him, based on what he knows in general, what electronic piece of equipment I saw most often offered on the Montreal freecycle group. And the brand name. An additional hint: the items offered are nearly always non-functional. Can you guess what it is? He knew the answer because we happened […]

After the Kid got mugged last week, Herb and I were talking. He said it was quite something for him, thinking back to the time when he was small enough to be a potential victim. Eventually, he had become the potential agressor, and as a teen he’d see women cross the street when he walked […]

I was taking a break to have lunch and Herb was watching HGTV. I saw on there the most ridiculous invention ever. They justified it by saying that “light switches can be boring and hard”. Boring and hard. They didn’t mention the countless injuries suffered every year by careless light switchers, the nail breakage epidemic […]

I grind my teeth. My father used to and it was the most disgusting sound I had ever heard. Perhaps ten years ago, I started grinding my teeth in my sleep. I had long hair then and for some reason when I ground my teeth I would plow my fingers through my hair, and when […]

My Herb has finally updated his On The Grass. Check it out.

Quand tu es dans la douche et que tu échappes ta montre et que ta gomme tombe de ta bouche en même temps et que ta montre tombe dans ta gomme et que tu piles dessus parce que tu as de l’eau dans le visage et que ta montre est pleine de gomme après, t’sé?
Euh… […]

Honestly, I thought I had another 40 years to go before I installed some secure handlebars in the bathroom for Herb. Our bathroom being what it is, however (tiny with no sink but with a tub on feet), and Herb being what he is (a poor guy who is not allowed to put any pressure […]

Je ne surprendrai personne en disant qu’ici, il ne se passe pas grand-chose en cette période post-opératoire, prise deux. Ça va. Mais si! Herb ressent de moins en moins de douleur, il est un peu plus mobile qu’au départ, et de bonne humeur. Je n’en demande pas beaucoup plus. Mieux encore, je me suis reposée […]

TNG, season 7 (last one), episode 16. Thine Own Self. At the beginning of the episode, Bev has the bridge (women only have the bridge at night on TNG, how nice). Troy sits down next to her. In the foreground is Bev’s right breast (I could see very little else) and the light/fabric/bra combo is […]

I got up to pause the TNG episode and as I touched the mouse (connected to the laptop, itself connected to the TV and to a kickas set of speakers and subwoofer), I got a shock (it’s been getting colder and the electric heat makes it dry in here). As a result, instead of pausing, […]

You probably haven’t noticed, but I’ve been reading like a maniac in 2007. I don’t even have words for how good that makes me feel. Balanced. Smarter. I’d even say “holier”, but then I’d have to collapse, laughing until all my tears were yanked out of my tear ducts. Once again my Christmas loot (of […]

So. On Wednesday, Herb hadn’t drank, smoked or eaten since about 11 the night before. At around 10 AM, we got the call that he would be operated on that day. We grabbed his overnight bag, his crutches, and called a cab. At the hospital, we were received by a small army of security persons […]