The Incredible Lightness Of Non-Blogging

WeAreAllZimbabweansNow
CanuckistanmikitaVille(nomore?)

....The following is a response to all those who have left kind comments and sent even kinder E-mails while I've been absent from the Bloggodome for the past few weeks....

Thanks all!

And a thousand apologies for the incredible lightness of writing lately.

I've just been swamped with real life work is all....It's a heavy teaching time and, what's even worse/scarier, we have another lab run by a giant in our field that is suddenly pushing us on a project we've been working on for quite awhile now. Regarding the latter, you have to realize that there is no wild-card victory for ultimately finishing 2nd in the science business, even if you have been the front-runner since Opening Day..... Anyway, those are the two main reasons for my recent silence. Well, that and the fact that I know that if I was to rush headlong into the feverish swamp that Mr. Harper's obfuscatory Zimbabweized nation has become, I might never get out.....

So.

I am now (temporarily) pulling the plug once again and heading back to my bunker to pound the real-work keyboard while listening to more from my newest favourite 'Drive-By-Truckers'....especially the tune called 'Carl Perkins' Cadillac'...

OK?





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GWest.....it is truly bizarre that the thing that took me less than 15 seconds to write, especially compared to all that I did on the Vancouver Municipal Election, actually caught the The Hook's not-so-fishy eye....
This year's Christmastime stuff coming soon Bev (working on some audio, and maybe even a little video this time around).....but here are a couple of tidbits to tide you over....little e. got her advent calendar a little late this year (ie. yesterday, Dec 5th) so she got to eat five chocolates all at once, which made her very, very happy indeed....Bigger E will be singing with the Bach Choir at Orpheum tomorrow - can't wait!...
Meanwhile, things are heating up over at Mr. T's and our good friend Mary's (whose site seems to have been under mysterious 'attack' recently.....hmmmmm....) regarding the rumoured return of Railgate's Revenge.
And as for the biggest blogging contest of them all......I'd vote for at least three-of-'em, but I'm really pulling for Bob.
Re: The Zimbabwification of Canada....Montreal Simon, who is someone who really understands both the Central Canadian and the Quebecois perpectives (as well as many others), is all over it...... As for Lotusland and what we would gain (ie. not 'lose' as the VSun would have us believe) if the will of parliament was to, ultimately, prevail? Well, our favorite Green blogger and baseball fanatic Bob Broughton has that story. And just in case you thought the world wasn't watching, there's this.
Re: The Trucker's revisited: This one's for Beer. Here's hoping it helps him (and Sonja) get through another holiday season without our Miss Anne.
And for those who may be wondering, I have used the image at the top of this post before.....it's Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito and Chiko Maki at 'Henri Henri' Chapeaux shop, circa 1965, deep in the land of Mr. Harper's sovereign separtists.


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