Broken Area

Well, here we go again, with me writing this thing before we go. This text is the Jimmy Buffet of Lorem Ipsums.

Isabelle is doing a course where she gets asked really deep complicated questions about painting. I have a class where I ask the students to write me a paper entitled 'What is Psychology?'

Isabelle is painting a series about a zebra and a cow. Where would the two hang out? I think there are cold weather zebras, so maybe import a few....

Hey it was a great PC Points week!

There be dragons here!

Music 'Married a Magician' by the Dust Poets

I'm back baby, I'm back.

Powerpoint slides

Music First Semester Freedom Fighter by Hell or Highwater

OK, it's real, my sabbatical, while officially over since July 1, is really over. I taught two classes this week. OK, well I handed out course outlines. Isabelle is back to teaching a class and is taking two as well.

Being back at it led to a discussion of getting a list of student names along with their pictures. It would help all of us remember their names. Indeed, the original face books, not Facebook, did just that.

Isabelle talked a bit about her 'That's Not Art' podcast and a bit about wanting to put her videos on youtube. Best to turn off comments we think.

I've been biking to work, which is great, good exercise and I'm not stuck on depending on the bus.

We went a day early, as Isabelle has a grant writing working breakfast thing tomorrow. I'm back to using Bossjock as my phone suddenly has a lot of free space due to an update.

Isabelle is still doing stuff with the Arts Council which is great. There seem to be two different types of art people, some that are making art for its own sake, and others who are trying to sell stuff. I realize that's pretty simplistic, but, I'm a simpleton.

The term is coming, run for your lives!

We talked some about doing our personal podcasts and how it is difficult to talk about something for an extended period of time....

More groceries and liquor, more podcasting.

Jon came with us again today. He even chose two of the songs for today, you can probably guess which two.

Jon's musical tastes are varied as you can tell from his choices. Mine are two, I like all of the U2 albums. Isabelle likes something called 'world music' which I think is some sort of plot to stop America Being Great™ but I think if we put up a wall we'll be fine.

Isabelle went swimming this morning, and her friend got what might have been spider bites, that doesn't sound good.

Generally, stay away from stagnant water really.

We talked about the best stuff Isabelle had to eat in Morocco and Algeria. She was not a fan of the curdled milk.

We're back on the Saturday schedule, but, we have special bonus coverage of our trip to the Bruce Peninsula, London, Gundy Lake etc. We took the Chi Cheemaun ferry in there, and those of you who want more ferry coverage should check out the most recent episode of the Jonathan Files.

We picked up Maddie in London, she's home for a visit.

We camped a bit, and of course as noted visited London. In London Isabelle bought Maddie and Ross a table. Listen to the tale of the table and my ability to do arithmetic in my head!

Isabelle has a friend who would like to start a repertory theatre. I hope it works out, good luck to him.

There was a funny guy in the LCBO, I don't think he meant to be....

Overall the Saturdays I think are better than the Tuesdays.

Many stops this week, so many bonus tracks! (One of which was elected by Jonathan, even though he wasn't with us).

Isabelle and a friend are playing tonight, and we talked a bit about that. Her brother came over as well, and he asked why we didn't do video. I don't think video would add much to this podcast, plus, well, plus I think it smacks of work.

Isabelle has been watching a show from the UK, 'Dancing on the Edge'. John Goodman is in it, so that makes it by definition great.

I've been riding my bike a lot, which scares Isabelle. It doesn't scare me, so I think it all washes out.

Hey I'm on holidays! Yes, I know, I was on sabbatical, but I still had work, just not teaching work. OK, in the summer I wouldn't teach either and then there'd be emails I would ignore. So maybe my month of holidays is not that different.

We had a power outage last night. Our UPS works!

It was Civic Holiday weekend, the most generic of the holidays.

I'm great at everything.

I got alcoholic root beer!

Our friend Pat died just the other day, we dedicate this podcast to her and her family. She meant a great deal to us, and was very close with Isabelle.

Isabelle has been grant writing and such, so we went shopping a little later than we normally do.

I really shouldn't be saying 'went' because i am typing this before we go.

I've been cycling a lot. I'm also thinking of slowly restoring my old (30 year old) bike. Yesterday Jon and I went on a 10 km ride (there and back) to the pet store and to Subway. We had an interesting thing happen to us.

It's crazy season in US politics, so perhaps that will come up. Like I said, I really have no idea, we haven't recorded yet......

OK, so now we have recorded and I made a few good guesses there.

Hey, Isabelle won second prize in an art show, for a cool thing she did on her phone! You can see it in this post.

We're gonna eat fajitas and drink blender drinks tonight, as it is 33 degrees out, but, we still want to see Bill Clinton tonight.

Oh we got stopped for a bit by a train, which Jon said he would 'take down'.