Month: April 2018

You know, it seems like it would be a lot of fun driving through Tuscany in a tiny red car.

There is a political ad in the game Far Cry 5 where a candidate is running for a state senator position in Montana. For some reason, the ad is focused on Canada.

If you ever wanted to know how to catch a rat in the wild using just sticks, trees, bait, and a bit of string, the above video is for you.

I have Monday and Tuesday off! Thus, I am only half way through my weekend. I hope everyone has a pleasant Monday morning. I shall be sleeping.

On the night that the Sedins played their final home game of their careers, I only have one Sedins anecdote to tell. I saw the Sedins live and in-person before most Vancouverites did. I actually was in the FleetCenter arena in Boston when the Sedins were drafted by Brian Burke. I was there to see another draft pick, the brother of a friend of mine. Anyways, I had no idea who these guys were, all I knew was that the Canucks had taken two players at once. Nearly two decades later, Henrik and Daniel are at the end of an illustrious pro-hockey career. I feel lucky to have seen all of that in between.

Rarely do I find a YouTube channel that causes me to want to watch all the videos they’ve uploaded but Shawn Woods has amassed a fascinating library. His videos almost exclusively feature mouse traps, their construction and use. Some of the designs he builds from can be hundreds of years old. Conversely, he also uses 3D-printed parts as well in some of his traps. His videos are both informative and entertaining.

Mr. Woods lives on a farm of some sort, so he has access to all sorts of rodents and pests. I also enjoy the fact that he’s humane when it comes to the animals he catches. For live traps, he’ll always let the pest go. For kill traps, he always ensures the method of extermination is done as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I’m off to see how a 400 hundred year-old mouse trap works.

I found a booger in my hair this evening and it was mine. I’m gonna go to bed early tonight.

Easter Monday is not a holiday. Every Easter Monday, I proclaim I’m gonna take a vacation day on that day, just like the dozens of people on my team that do the same. Yet every year, I fail to take the vacation day and I wind up having to go to work on Monday like a chump. I gotta wake up early tomorrow, so off to bed I go.