Bits and Bytes

There is this bird that flies into the bottom corner of my window-wall at Bush-Field. The one wall in my office is a sliding glass door and what isn’t a door, is a window. Against one wall in the office, there is a sofa bed (perpendicular to the window-wall). The sofa bed has two end …

I was in the break room the other day at the vending machine. I wanted a sweet treat in the middle of the afternoon–and I had one dollar–that is–one, one-dollar bill. That’s all. No extra change. No nothing. I just wanted a sweet treat. I fed the dollar bill to the machine–AND IT STUCK THERE! …

We went to the little place five minutes from work for lunch today. It was the FIRST sunny and relatively warm day in quite a while so we were going to sit outside. We reserved our place with a hat and some papers and continued to walk into the shop to order lunch. As we …

My sister sent me this little piece of realization in my email the other day. I finally had time to look at it today. This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That will never happen again. She’s right. It will never …

Happy Valentine’s Day

Today’s story is about bats. I think bats are just mice with wings. I was talking to my life-long friend Lorraine last night. She mentioned that she thinks she might have sucked up a dried up bat with her shop vac. Yuck–at least it was dried up. I first met Lorraine in Grade 2. It …

Well. I’m settling into my new accommodations. I can’t believe that I am here and everything seems to be working out fine. I guess I’ll have to see how things go. They have gone quite smoothly so far–so I can’t complain. Well. One thing. Apparently, the vineyard management company sprayed sulphur on the vineyard last …

My parents like ABBA…the group ABBA, from Sweden. This is one amazing fact I found out about them on their trip to visit me this Christmas. WOW. I was so amazed. I even called my sisters to tell them. And, yes Nat, I was drunk when I called you. Sorry. But we were having fun! …

I hate that-when I wear the wrong tights. I should just give them away so I don’t keep wearing them. There’s actually nothing wrong with the tights, they are just too big for me–too long. They were brown tights. I wore a brown top, brown tights, brown shoes with a pink skirt and jacket (my …

Happy Brand-New Year! I know I’m a bit late, but my parents were here. We were doing stuff and having fun. So. I’m saying it now. Happy brand-spanking New Year! This is going to be a year of new things for me. New identities. New locations. New experiences. New people. I saw the In Style …

I have been thinking about nicknames lately. Nicknames, pet names–any term of endearment. I usually give nicknames to people I know and talk to alot. My nicknames are never malicious. Never. Nicknames usually just appear for people. They are very personal and specific and arrive out of a series of circumstances or events. I use …

In third year university, I rented the basement of a family home. The woman had her Masters degree in Early Childhood Education. She also had a three-year-old son and a new born. During the day, she took care of other children in the neighbourhood. As I went upstairs one day to use the bathroom, I …

Last week on the way to work I hit a bird on the middle of the 101 highway going from Cotati to Petaluma. Posting one story about road kill brought a slew of other stories. So, on the road kill theme, here is another story about road kill. This story is compliments of Stephen because …

I was walking to the Steel Bear Deli last Monday to get my milk for my coffee at work and I saw Chucky on this truck. I thought, I have to take a picture of him. My sister worked on the movie The Bride of Chucky in 1998. She would get a laugh from knowing …

This week’s theme of road kill reminded me of another accident I had. Not only was I hit by a Ford Tempo, I have also been hit by my own car. How many people do you know have been hit by their own car when there wasn’t anybody driving it? Steve and I lived in …

Everybody, it seems, has a story about road kill. Here is a story my sister told me when she read my blog entry Katie Bird. The following entry is guest-starring my sister as the author: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was a few years ago when I was an Assistant Production Coordinator on a TV movie called “ICE”. …

Katie told me her road kill story. She was driving in heavy rain and her windshield wipers were going full speed. All of a sudden–Whack!– on her windscreen. It turns out a bird had flown into the windscreen and got stuck in the wipers. She is sitting behind the steering wheel watching the bird go …

This morning on the way to work, I hit a bird with my car. I am positively horrified. I felt it hit my front passenger tire and pummel through the wheel well. When I looked in my rear view mirror, all I saw was a cloud of feathers. What on earth was a bird doing …

I just received the best compliment! I’m so flattered. I phoned over to the Steel Bear Deli for my favourite breakfast sandwich (egg, ham, English muffin, salt and pepper on an English muffin). The Steele Bear Deli is a wee deli/grocery shop just off the 101 (Pengrove exit in Petaluma) and within walking distance from …