Archive for April, 2007

Apr

21

Southeast Baltimore rowhouse fire injures three. This happened very near to where I live. We'd lived in the same neighbourhood for almost thirteen years. The house is now condemned and the family's relatives are calling for an investigation into the cause of the fire. Especially now. Somehow I managed to sleep through the ...

Apr

19

Ice traps Canadian seal hunters Canadian coastguards are trying to rescue the occupants of about 100 boats carrying seal hunters trapped by pack ice off the country's eastern coast. Several of the boats are threatened with damage or sinking, and at least one crew had to abandon ship. Source

Apr

19

The other day while Kitti and I were waiting for a bus we saw a mom who had her little daughter (maybe four-ish years old) on a toddler leash. They're a good idea, I think. Especially downtown, where a kid can get lost or take off after a ...

Apr

18

I came home from work intending to write an update about how pathetically uninteresting our mail's been lately. Most of it has only been junk mail or things for Steeb-The-Roommate. Yesterday the only thing we got was a sales flier. I picked up the mail and there was a white ...

Apr

14

After almost two years, the complete first draft of the book is done. 12.31, Eastern Daylight Time, 14 April, 2007 Man, do I need more coffee.

Apr

13

I've been on vacation this week. This doesn't really mean much since my idea of vacation is staying home, sleeping during the day and staying up at night. Which means even less when my idea of sleeping is about four hours. Anyhow, I was going to write this week. ...