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 know you did something wrong along the way when getting your leg broken is actually the rational thing to do.”
– vieux bandit

C’est comme Days of Our Lives, les chats ici! Tsé (avec) la bitch qui pitche son verre d’eau…

I’ve long been calling helpers “monkeys”. When Herb came to help me at work (way back when) during the weekend to do some mega-filing, he was my monkey. When I was told I could hire a receptionist and helper, I was thrilled: I could get my own monkey! It happened to Herb too, once. Of […]

1. Clowns
2. Mascots
3. Wood ladders
4. Stairs with an open rise between steps
5. Plumbers and what they cost
6. Credit-related phone calls
7. Lack of toilet paper
8. Unidentified solid bits in milk
9. Black ice
10. Kids saying “REDRUM”
11. The most foul cruel and bad-tempered thing you ever set eyes on.
12. Zombies
13. Maniacs
14. Pizza slices hidden within your cubicle wall
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I just installed additional RAM. Just like that, by myself, like a big girl. I’m happy. Never mind that (shame) I had never opened my own tower (well, not this one anyway) to fiddle around and that it took me fifteen minutes to understand how. Never mind that I was sweating buckets, reminding myself of […]

*List recycled from a previous version of this site. Yeah, you wanted more. Admit it.
In the Closet, a book by a marijuana plant
The candle is twitching tonight, a book by vieux bandit
As appealing as that thought was a few years ago, now it is just wrong, a book by vieux bandit
After […]

Somebody who is very smart and perceptive gave me Cooking with Booze. Tomorrow night we will attempt the “Lemon-Papper Souvlaki” seasoned with Limoncello (how nice it is to provide the barbecue and the space and to have someone else prepare the marinade and the chicken and supply the alcohol!). On the opposite page, you will […]

Je travaille ces jours-ci. Oh, j’espère pouvoir prendre une deuxième fin de semaine de quatre jours, mais que voulez-vous, j’aime mon travail, j’ai besoin de ce revenu, et j’aide d’autres qui sont débordés. Appelez-ça ma dernière B.A. de 2006. Entre tous les textes que je vois défiler, je rêve de lecture et je lis. Je […]

En passant comme ça, sur Ste-Cat, une dame qui se parlait toute seule.
- J’ai pas d’salaire…
Puis en y repensant, je suis demandé si elle n’avais pas plutôt dit qu’elle n’avait pas de salade. Chacun ses problèmes (ben quoi, moi non plus j’ai pas de salaire!).

As I’ve already mentioned, Herb and I share many delusions of grandeur. One of our favourite fantasies – ooh lala – is the fourth floor. The fourth floor appeared when we lived in a bungalow (I’ve just now noticed that I stopped saying bingalow, which is, I must say, a much funnier word). We started […]

*recycled from a previous version of this site. Now I’m my own boss (which is not the same as being one’s own grandpa) and I don’t have to handle such behaviour. This made me laugh: it brought back memories of a time long, long past. I’m not naming names, but that boss is elwhere now.
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