This Hallowe’en we put together a “haunted maze”, or really a short, winding tour through my sister’s back yard. I’ve always wanted to put together a haunted house, and as a kid I loved visiting...
The weekend before Hallowe’en I brought all the props over to Jenn’s and I spray painted them with various grays and a rock texture. We had a few hay bails, which will be used to plant garlic, that...
We finished carving, sticking, hanging, lighting, and positioning everything just in time for our first little cowboy trick-or-treater. I rushed on some makeup with a vague idea of a grim reaper,...
The whole thing was very well received, by kids and parents alike. We had a line all the way out to the street at some points. Kids would come back a second time, not even to get candy, but to...
In July 2023 I did an outline of a razor blade on Kurtis’ ankle. As you can see, it's pretty rough, with some double lines, and some less-than-full lines. Kurtis was well warned what he was...
L’s been on vacation for the past two weeks, so we took advantage and did some camping and touring. We went to Bon Echo Provincial Park, a place I’d only been with my family as a child, and was...
All photos above by Laura.We also took a day trip to Prince Edward County, a small-town peninsula known for it’s many, many wineries and its peculiar, incredibly popular beach Sandbanks. L had...
All photos above by Laura, except the ones of her, which were taken by me.We went for an easy hike around Pink Lake (which is actually a gorgeous emerald colour). I’m pretty sure I’ve done the hike...
I finally downloaded Nomad Sculpt on my iPad Pro this weekend and played around with it. The first thing I did was sculpt the same weird demon face I always seem to sculpt when I’m trying out a 3D...
L and I spent yesterday out casually cycling and trail-walking in the shallows of Gatineau Park, then lounging in the dappled shade under a tree in one of L’s favourite local parks. L painted the...
On Saturday we biked to our favourite doughnut spot, SuzyQ, and ate our bounty lounging on a picnic blanket in a park around the corner. We also finally made it to La Fiesta Latina, a fantastic...
There are a plethora of new companies working on mood awareness in technology, especially in the music software world. Apps like Songza take various inputs into account, like time of day or...
Over the past two days, for a total of about 10 hours, I helped Carolina convert her all-HTML site to an HTML 5 compliant, .txt file based, auto-populating site. I'm pretty happy with how...
L and I celebrated our eighth anniversary today.I feel like L and I's anniversary is a more personally relevant measure of a new year. September 2nd is my new years day.We attempted to hunt...
I meant to post an entry just under a month ago about all the things that had happened in the very busy week and a half prior. It got long, and I took a break, and never got back to it. I'll...
So much has gone on since I've last written, but nothing so drastic as the past week and a half, during which I have been to Canada's top four most populated metropolitan areas (Toronto,...
I contacted Kim about making a comic and proposed some ideas. We're both very excited about the project. We chose an idea and started developing it. So far we have the prologue written. I need...
I got a call at work the other day, from a lady in Ottawa. She was angry and distraught, and very much in need of the help of some kind strangers to make sure our fair country is safe from danger....
Laura got a job at Starbucks last week. She's had one shift so far, and her second is tomorrow. She's not getting many hours now, but people are leaving and going back to school, so she...
So today was my cousin's wedding. Lots of drinking, lots of sitting and standing and clapping, lots of talking to people I rarely ever speak to or spoke to for the first time.The reception had...
So I got on the train today and sat down beside some girl. After about 10 minutes of the wifi not working, and the guy across the aisle having the same problem, and one of the Via staff restarting...
Last Saturday Rhys had a movie monster themed party, starring himself, Alex, Evan, Heather, Jacob, Carolina, Jessie, Rachel, Stefan, Laura, and myself. They built a cardboard city and we destroyed...
Yesterday after work, 11pm, I hurried over to Brutopia where Laura, Carolina, and Jessie were, with a bruburger with my name on it. The kitchen closed at 11, but they got there earlier and ordered...
My first efforts at animating in After Effects, and only my second time using it at all. After I was done I went and flopped onto the bed beside Laura, to slowly fall asleep in the 9am sun.The...
It is disgustingly warm. I'm wide awake after a shift at Bell. The heat at once lulls me a bit yet keeps me from wanting to touch anything at all.I've been staying up till 4 or 5 in the...
Laura and I are becoming quickly and surprisingly proficient in ASL, which is fantastic. Pat Dumoulin, it turns out, can fingerspell incredibly quickly. Once I saw him do it on Friday, I realized I...
Today was my second day back at Bell, my first day actually working. Yesterday during the refresher training day I sketched up a logo for the Is A sites, as well as some motifs for Slutniks. When I...
Tomorrow I start once again at Bell. Half the summer is gone. Ironically, I can often get more work done on other projects while I at work at Bell. I made a list on my phone of all the projects...
Watched Live Free or Die Hard and Mad Max tonight. Mad Max was an overly simple plot wrapped in convoluted cinematography and poor audio level equalization. I can definitely see it being a great...