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Going, going, gone

Posted by zoom! on March 31, 2009, at 9:01 am |

I spent yesterday – my first official day of unemployment – at the office. I collected all my personal stuff on the weekend, but I didn’t like the idea of just walking away from my job without tidying up my files and leaving some basic information behind like the password for the server and the […]

Monkey Love

Posted by zoom! on March 29, 2009, at 9:44 am |

They say you can tell a lot about a person by how they spend the first day after they’ve been laid off. Some people stay in bed and cry, others walk around in a daze, and a few even roll up their sleeves and start job-hunting.

Me, I went to a Sock Monkey workshop.

I wasn’t […]

The end of the line

Posted by zoom! on March 27, 2009, at 1:33 pm |

For the past 18 years I’ve worked at a non-profit organization.

In January, our new President reluctantly issued layoff notices to the entire staff, effective March 28, but said some or all of the layoff notices might be rescinded if she could find alternative sources of funding. We were asked not to tell anyone in the […]

Back on the turnip wagon

Posted by zoom! on March 24, 2009, at 10:02 am |

I’m off to Toronto for a work thingy and will be out of the blogosphere til Thursday. In the meantime, if you’re so inclined, you can read about my last trip to Toronto on the proverbial turnip wagon.

I’m back and I missed you
Embarrassing Moments from my Trip to Toronto

Cheerio.

Green stuff

Posted by zoom! on March 23, 2009, at 11:53 am |

I had about five things I wanted to blog about, and suddenly I can’t remember any of them.

I’ll just take a peek inside my camera and see if it reminds me.

Hmmm. From the “Things I Do So You Won’t Have To” file, here’s a short clip of St. Paddy’s Day at the Carleton Tavern.

Speaking […]

Infiltrating the youth crowd

Posted by zoom! on March 22, 2009, at 10:32 am |

On Friday, GC and I went to the Raw Sugar Cafe for Board Game Night. We were meeting Woodsy and the Fourth Dwarf. It was only when we got there that we learned the event had been organized by the Young and Active Adults of Ottawa. According to the Young and Active Adults, a young […]

Punch Buggy Update

Posted by zoom! on March 19, 2009, at 10:09 pm |

Remember the sophisticated and elaborate version of Punch Buggy I told you about in December? You know, with the VW Bugs (Punch Buggies), Smart Cars (Smartiepants), faux-wood-panel cars (Woodies) and yellow cars (Bananaramas)? A grand slam is when you get all four of them in an uninterrupted streak – ie, before the other person […]

Speed bumps

Posted by zoom! on March 18, 2009, at 12:08 pm |

I just found out that some readers using Internet Explorer haven’t been able to visit my blog lately. They’re getting the following error message: “You are banned due to suspicion of spamming the site and/or by choice of the blog administrator. If you believe this ban to be in error, email the blog administrator.”

Of […]

The Tofu Challenge hits a snag

Posted by zoom! on March 15, 2009, at 9:01 am |

Hella Stella, Loving Tofu

The Tofu Challenge took place in Chinatown on Friday night, at that restaurant whose name I can never remember (but it has an X in it – I always remember that part – and it sells avocado milkshakes).

A bit of background. One day I made the mistake of saying to Hella […]

I lost a friend

Posted by zoom! on March 13, 2009, at 4:34 pm |

My Facebook friend count dropped from 140 to 139 the other day and I can’t figure out who I lost. It was really bugging me too. Eventually I conceded that it’s too late: there is no way of determining which friend dumped me. But I’ve since jotted down all the names of my current […]

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