Broken Area

So, we went shopping a day early as Isabelle's birthday is tomorrow, and, well, she hates shopping. So it seemed to make sense to not have her do something she dislikes on her birthday. Today is also the 12th anniversary of our arrival back here in Sault Ste. Marie from Corner Brook.

Isabelle has been visiting our friend Pat a lot. You've probably heard her talk about that.

Good looking people do better in life, it's a thing. Indeed, people probably base some of their vote on looks. I don't think they do it on purpose but they do. I talked a bit about honest signalling and looks and bird plumage and symmetry and beauty and man I felt like I was teaching.

I've been working on my upcoming courses and Isabelle will be soon too.

Everyone wish Isabelle a happy birthday.

So, off we went today, along with Jonathan, to do some shopping.

I just got back from MMPR, and I had a great time. I saw a few people, many of them listeners, and recorded a bit. There ended up being a running theme throughout, though it was not planned that way. It is probably the case that that happens each year.

We got some new tables, I put them together yesterday, this was the opposite of fun, though I think I kept my cool pretty well.

While I was gone Isabelle and Jon had some good Mom and son time, so that is a good thing.

THEY HAVE PERNOD AGAIN. I repeat, THEY HAVE PERNOD AGAIN.

sabelle is back from her trip to Quebec City and Montreal to visit family and I'll soon be off to #MMPR2016.

We brought Jon along this time to the scene of a Jonathan Files restaurant review, Stackburger. While this never made it to the recording I want to mention that someone in my fb feed the other day called their food 'salty'. It's not, and if you don't put salt on the outside of a burger you don't get that nice crust, I'm just saying.

While Isabelle was away we tore down, or cut down, a tree that was growing at a ridiculous rate. It is a poplar I think. Five years ago it didn't exist. Today, it was 40-50 feet high. It had to go.

We were going to go camping, but the weather looks shitty, so no to that. Staying in the trailer is one thing, staying in it all day is quite another.

I'll have some post MMPR thoughts next week.

The post nuclear hellscape continues on this episode.

Jon joined us again on this one, he didn't say much, but he did claim that the city was full of Russian and Chinese tourists. I don't think that's true...

Isabelle has been working at the Arts Council of Sault Ste. Marie for the past few weeks and that is pretty great.

I fixed the DC pump in the trailer, by tightening a valve, so really, that isn't much to be proud of, but I did it myself damnit!

Isa is off on a trip to visit family tomorrow, then we're off camping, then I'm off to MMPR 2016.

I jokingly refer to this week in June as 'Dave Week' because it starts with Father's Day and then morphs into my birthday, which is today. I'm old.

We're off camping soon, so we did our groceries and all of that early this week. You never know this might become more common as after our camping trip Isabelle is off to Quebec City, and then we're going camping again, and then I'm off to MMPR. Oh we also may do some recording while camping, those camp casts are always a crowd pleaser.

Isabelle finished her course and did very well, as expected.

I never in my life had any success with women, so we talked a bit about that. I think it had something to do with me having absolutely no self confidence. (I think chicks pick up on that.....)

Oh, today was also the last day of the school year for Jon, which is pretty great. He had a great year.

Yeah, a day late, but there's a good reason. Isabelle just got back from London where she visited a bit and picked up Madeleine. Maddie is home until Thursday which is great! Hey, last night Maddie and I drank Scotch by a backyard bonfire.

So, does it bug you when people make grammatical errors and spelling mistakes on the internet? Do you tell people when they have made mistakes? I do, well, depending, I mean if it is a typo, no, but if someone spells definitely as 'definately' (man that even hurts to type) I tell them.

THE LCBO IS OUT OF PERNOD, how can I go on?

Isabelle saw some cool art in London, ON. I noted the art gallery there, Museum London, used to be called the London Regional Art Gallery, which led to the unfortunate acronym 'LRAG'. It was controversial when it was built because people are idiots.

Hey, here we go again. By here we go again I mean I am typing this before we record.

It's convocation day, so that will probably come up, as will other things, plus, I thin we're going to return empties today!

Isabelle went for a run during my shopping trip, turns out a gym she belongs to is actually across the street from the grocery store. Oh you know it is much easier to exercise if you integrate it into your daily routine.

Isabelle is getting closer to finishing her art degree, that's awesome.

Just because you are an expert in one thing it does not mean you are an expert in everything.

Apparently Isabelle's work is winning the bidding war at the art show. This is how I view art, it is possible to win or lose.

Jon came shopping with us and we had a bit of a conversation about visiting our friend Ken and having a nice time over at his place. Jon held a baby, lots.

The title has literally nothing to do with the podcast, but, Jon came up with it....

We talked a bit about Bruno Bettelheim, a 'psychologist' (he probably didn't have a PhD in psych, indeed, he probably only ever took three intro courses) and his views on autism. Isabelle is reading his stuff for an art project/grant she is putting together.

We're back, and I'm back typing this stuff before we go out for today's errands.

Isabelle went to Sudbury yesterday for some art dealio, so I imagine that will come up. Aha, told you, indeed it did.

Weirdly there is a teeny screw up at the beginning, I've no idea what happened there, but it isn't your player, it's my phone. (Apparently we had a title there, but I can't remember it, and that is where the recording messed up for about like 30 seconds).

Isabelle may be going camping with some friends soon, with our trailer, so i will have to give her a trailer setup course. It is easy.

Why do people get so upset about spoilers? I mean I understand really big things, but man, people seem to thing everything is a spoiler. Even that we won WW2.

What will today bring? I don't know, I'm writing this post before we go shopping. I got back from Toronto where I had a whirlwind tour, ok, where I went to a COU meeting. It was pretty good, plus i got some laughs. Later that night I met up with Brent Morris, and we had a couple of beers.

Today we dropped off empties, so there's an extra song!

We've spoken about graffiti before, and shall speak of it again. There has been a rash of graffiti in town by a kid (allegedly) who paints the word 'Bored' everywhere. Well, the police think they have the guy, which is good. This led us into a discussion about art, vandalism, and other stuff.

We spoke about part time faculty, and what challenges they face.

Oh, and Isabelle bought a baby gate, which sounds like a controversy.