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Well, nothing like a single horrific event to change how the day looks. The disaster in New York and Washington shocked us all, and I had number of personal connections to it which brought it close to home. Thankfully, it seems that all of my friends and family are safe and were not in the […]

2001 09 12 tom Comments (0)

Boy, nothing like a few days back at work to sap the energy. I could have used an extra couple of hours’ sleep this morning. Still, I think we’re on the brink of making some serious progress on the project; we’ve finally worked our way through Royal Bank’s byzantine strategic sourcing processes and should be […]

2001 09 07 tom Comments (0)

I had a wonderful trip up to Algonquin Park last weekend, organized by Patrick. We spent 8 days trekking around the park, heading in from Magnetewan Lake on the west side to Lake La Muir in the middle and back. We moved camp every day, and had portages as long as 2.6km (carrying canoe & […]

2001 09 04 tom Comments (0)

After an unbelievably busy week at work last week I had a nice relaxing weekend. Saturday I played tennis with Dave and then gingerly went back to the weight room (last time I was in pain for a week) to try and get a routine started. Saturday evening Molly cooked for the Usual Suspects — […]

2001 08 20 tom Comments (0)

I had a wonderful weekend up at the cottage of Rob and Anna Kennedy, two choir members at St. Thomas’s Church. I drove up with Heather Fitzgerald and her husband Jeremy, who is a graphic artist. (I plan on following up with him to see if I can buy a print or two — he […]

2001 08 14 tom Comments (0)

Visions of Max Payne are pirouetting through my head. Max is the hero of a wonderful new videogame I bought on Sunday (and promptly lost the rest of the weekend to). Other than taking a couple of hours off to play Dave some more tennis, I stayed indoors and sent Max after the bad guys […]

2001 08 09 tom Comments (0)

Two weekends have passed since the last blog and that means I’m shirking my duties. And they’ve been busy, busy weeks, with lots of eventful happenings, too! The 22nd of July saw the end of an era when Robyn Laurel Kalda married David Marshall Lasby. It was a wonderful ceremony, all of about half an […]

2001 07 31 tom Comments (0)

IPO day. The webcast live from New York has transmission and bandwidth difficulties and didn’t come up when promised at 9:15 this morning. Result: we switched over to CNBC and watched the ringing of the bell at 9:30 accompanied by some mystified commentators trying to figure out what the work ‘Accenture’ means. The stock priced […]

2001 07 19 tom Comments (0)

Confusion reigns. Found out yesterday that HR is loath to promise that I’ll be able to start a FlexLeave in September, as the economy may have started picking up by then and their main concern is getting costs off the books right now. So they’d prefer that I started FlexLeave right away, or in mid-August […]

2001 07 18 tom Comments (0)

Well, I made the mistake of being gracious at work. I offered that as I didn’t have any concrete plans for my FlexLeave I would stay until September, if that was determined to be good for the project. Silly me. They took me up on it, so now my FlexLeave won’t start until the end […]

2001 07 16 tom Comments (0)