Broken Area

Well I hope everyone had a nice Christmas or whatever you do or don’t celebrate. As an aside, we got a nice e card from Rachel, thanks!

So Christmas itself was excellent. Christmas Eve dinner was great. Jon really loved the stuff he got from everyone, but especially the stuff that Doug Slater sent him. Really out, you made his day. The letter was really nice too.

Then Maddie got sick, which sorta sucks.

Isabelle’s sister has a toy store, so this is her busy time.

We’re both sorta out of it, it’s that time of year.

I got Isabelle a scroll saw for Christmas because I’m awesome.

The title refers to a thing Isabelle said that we lost sadly, so today’s is about 25 minutes shorter than usual.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Well, in that the calendar is approaching the 25th anyway. Nasty weather just above freezing, roads are awful.

We went to the work Christmas party yesterday. Free Wings!

We hung out with a couple of women we really like, Laurie and Jenn. Isabelle also met some new people, which was cool.

I thought I’d lost my earbuds, but they were in the car.

Some traditions are dumb.

Others, like us recording our annual search for a Christmas tree, actually make the world a safer place and bring together people from across the globe.

Also we talked about lots of stuff, because, well, because where we thought we could get a tree had no trees. However, I went on to facebook, and, lo and behold, it had a use. Someone suggested a place and we went there.

I’m in bed typing this on my phone before getting up. I love the future!!

It’s actually the seventh anniversary of us rebooting Broca’s Area.

We’re both almost done the term.

Maddie is on her way back from Japan, where she was awesome as expected. Also she had great food.

Jon had friends over yesterday so that’s why we’re on a Saturday. Next week there’s a work party on Friday, so, we’ll again be on Saturday.

We talked about that banana art thing, it’s dumb.

Our yearly Christmas Tree Special is coming up soon!

That’s it!

Music ‘Re: Your Brains’ by Jonathan Coulton

Hey, it’s Canadian National Day of Podcasting! or #CNDOP.

In that spirit, even though we already recorded this week, we thought we’d do a bonus episode for CNDOP.

Maddie is on her way to the Japans, so there is some texting with her during the episode.

We mostly talked about why we do the podcast. about how podcasting and technology have changed over the time we’ve been doing these things, and about the many friends that we have met over the years.

We hope you like the episode!

Happy #CNDOP!

Hey, almost 300.

I’m writing this before we go, on Friday.

I guess this is our CNDOP episode. If you think we should have waited to release this until Sunday, bite me. Wait, Isabelle informs me that we are recording something special for CNDOP, and that will be episode 300 which is sorta neat.

We had a snow storm this week, the first big one. No school buses etc.

Lots of people in the store today, dunno why.

Our Christmas special is coming up.

That just about does it!

Music ‘Still Alive’ by GLaDOS

Friday again

School is getting down to crunch time. We are both marking and listening to presentations.

The IRS is hot on my tail.

our friend Tom is coming to dinner.

isabelle bought a bird book.

Lets get new chairs.

im typing this on my phone while waiting for take out Syrian food.

Oh yeah, my brother was nominated for a Grammy.