Broken Area

Our holidays are over. Well almost over. I mean it is the weekend so I guess technically, man, I dunno.

Mom was on the podcast last week to much acclaim, her visit was fun too.

We had a lot of talk in this one about how and why we podcast. You know it seems that people want to turn everything into a 'seven steps to increase your podcastness' or something. We, on the other hand, just do it because it is fun. We've met a lot of great people this way.

Oh right, we got gas today, so an extra stop, at no extra cost to you, the listener.

Isabelle and Mom watched a bunch of Bob Ross when Mom visited. So that got us talking a bit about Bob Ross and his particular style.

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Hey, Isabelle has a kids' book out about the Cow and the Zebra she's talked about many times. I don't know if we are going to talk about hit, but, here is a link for you to buy it. Look you don't have to, but if you want to get a copy before it becomes a major motion picture and all, feel free.

Four stops today, as it is empty day. We haven't brought empties back in about a month, and Christmas and New Years' were in there, so , umm, yeah there are lots of empties. Plus, we had left some out back since late November.

You know what? Isabelle has been asked to sign her book, indeed she's even doing a reading this coming week, cool.

There were a couple of audio glitches in this one, including the final song being cut off, damn you Bossjock....

The ABCs of EDA

Music 'Turncoat' by Anti Flag

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Music ‘Hundred Times Over’ by Private Joker

Hey, my Mom is here! So, she joined us in the grocery cast which is pretty great.

On the way to the store we talked about Christmas lights. What the hell is the deal with people overdoing Christmas lights? Mom said that there is a guy in London who has a pretty ridiculous setup. It turns out that there are even competitions about Christmas lights.

Isabelle got a special edition of Life magazine about Bob Dylan.

What's the deal on Jews for Jesus? Rachel? Anyone?

We didn't do a grocery cast last week as things were hectic, but in a good way.

But, today we needed a new windshield wiper! So, why not record. Isabelle installed it and she is now officially I think a mechanic, so for your automotive questions ask Isabelle.....

We recounted our experience with our 1970s Christmas Eve dinner, which included pineapple glazed ham, aspic, Buffalo wings and chocolate fondue. (Each year on Christmas Eve we make a meal where each of us cooks something). The aspic was more a prop really.

Canned vegetables? Who buys them? Why do they buy them?

Oh then we heard a guy yell like me.

So we had a snow day. Holy crap did we have a snow day. Really it was a snow couple of days, though only one day involved the city shutting down. Snow is common here but not snow days. To put it in some perspective we have lived here, on and off for 14 years. We've had one snow day.

If you'd like to see a video of the storm, here's one.

So we got 55 cm of snow over a couple of days, and that wasn't really the issue as much as the wind which caused severe drifting.

Isabelle spent the week in Jon's classes, shadowing him. It was exhausting.

Remember those grants Isabelle wrote back in the summer? Well, one of them came through.

Have you ever noticed that nobody is named 'Jesus' in English? It is common in Spanish. I wonder why not in English, or French for that matter.

It is that time of year.

The time when we go get a Christmas tree during a blizzard and strap it to our car. But, not this time! No, this time we put it in the back, I mean we have an SUV, why in Christ haven't we thought of this before? It's a Christmas miracle!

We talked a little about a couple of other things during the episode too.

Amazon video is in Canada.

Isabelle is doing cool projects with Jon's class.

Plus, we can fit a Christmas tree in our car!

Today we have FOUR stops, as we're returning empties! We also got gas.

It is the end of term, this pleases both of us.

Isabelle will be devoting her time to her art, and another thing we can't yet talk about. She also is looking in to making her series on the cow and the zebra into a kids book. Very exciting that. The thing is that the story came from the painting rather than the pictures coming from the story.

It's getting cold in norther Ontario, -9 today.

We hope you like this one.

Oh, and, one more thing......

So, I had a work trip to Toronto for the Council of Ontario Universities, and, there was a show at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Plus, Porter had a deal on cheap flights, so why not all of us go to Toronto? So, well, so we did.

It was Jon's first flight since he was a baby, and it went well.

I worked, and then instead of coming back to a hotel room that was empty, I came back to see Isabelle and Jon! This pleased me.

We also met up with old friends we hadn't seen in 18 years, which was great.

We went to the show at the AGO, there was some good stuff. Also, there was stuff by hacks...

We went through the drive through on the way home, in honour of Jason Reese.