Broken Area

We finish up the easy stuff

Music ‘Light Blue Room’ by Battery Life

A long time ago people studied memory. They still do too.

Music ‘Master Deadender’ by Bubble

For the first time ever, I’ve come up with a title before we record. We all just got up, and I started to do my regular routine of checking stuff, including the weather. It’s -24 C our. That, for those of you scoring at home, has a technical name. Fucking Cold.

Isabelle’s project with Jon’s high school starts next week, exciting stuff.

Backpack studio crashed, but, I had a backup recorder because I’m me. So half is on a Zoom H2.

People were standing around in the grocery store in the way, it was really annoying.

We made a bunch of stops today for your listening pleasure.

We’ve done 250 of these (and 118 of the hold show). Thanks to everyone for listening!

Here we go

Music ‘Hundred Times Over’ by Private Joker

Here we go

Music ‘Stretch’ by Dice

Pretty grey out today. Not too cold.

In fact, even though I wore a short sleeved shirt in the store (under my coat) I was still all sweaty from the roller boogie. The store is warm.

Isabelle is buying lots of supplies for her upcoming art project with the kids at Jon’s high school.

Backpack studio is working well.

The liquor store was empty, eerily so.

Jon saw someone get arrested yesterday, kinda freaked him out.

Jon got new fish today too, which is good.

So Christmas has come and gone. It was pretty great. Now, on to New Year’s Eve! NYE is the worst holiday ever, as I’ve mentioned on this podcast and others.

Looks like Backpack studio worked today.

The roads are horrible. It was very warm and slushy, then it was -17. This causes bumpiness.

Isabelle got me a new coat and boots so I have a new winter look.

The cashier at the grocery store agrees that New Year’s Eve sucks.

The LCBO and the grocery store weren’t that busy, oddly.

We talked about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, because we are awesome.

OK, so I was looking through that facebook ‘On This Day’ deal and found a picture from 2012. It turns out that 2012 had the same December we currently have, meaning December 22 was on a Saturday. Well, let’s see how that looked. You can see in the photo that it was a nightmare. OK, my hope, as I type this, is that it is not that bad, but I fear it may be worse. At least the renovations are done at the grocery store.

I’m sure the liquor store will be fine.

Hey, Maddie is in town!

We are beta testing a new podcasting app, Backpack Studio, the successor to Bossjock. Well, it crashed and we lost our first segment. So, I guess I’ll file a bug report….

We’re going to make art this afternoon. Me, Isabelle, Jon, Maddie and Ross. It will be inspired by Ross’s Mom Tammy who died a little over a year ago.

The grocery store was a nightmare, and holy crap is it hot in there.

The LCBO was not as bad.

Isabelle might be having a show soon!

Christmas Eve is our own tradition. Each of us makes a dish or two. This year it’s tapas.

Merry Christmas to all of you from the Michaud-Brodbeck family.

It’s one week until th evil shopping. I bet it’ll be a nightmare today.

ISABELLE GOT ANOTHER GRANT!!! It’s for doing art with special needs kids. Pretty great.

She was also on Radio Canada the other day and you can hear her interview on today’s podcast.

We had the work Christmas party yesterday and it was a lot of fun.

Isabelle doesn’t know who that person was who went to Algeria.

I don’t have a lot of friends here. I’m not upset by it or anything, it’s just a thing.

Isabelle and Alicia (a friend of hers) will go tobogganing and then draw.

It was super foggy today, though the picture here does not really do that justice. That is, however, where Isa will toboggan.

This is the fourth time we’ve gone to get a tree. Well, I mean, it isn’t the fourth time we’ve got a tree, but the fourth time we’ve done that and recorded it.

A couple of years ago we figured out that it was pretty easy to put the tree in the bak of the car. So we’ll do that again.

We culled our old ornaments yesterday. We had some old ones…

I can’t drink egg nog while decorating the tree today, because I have to be on another podcast later today.