On the Line

Lobster Tales…

megantim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:42:47 +0000

We decided last weekend that we would have an adventure and cook our own live lobster! It was a lot of fun, kind of crazy, and very tasty!

We bought 2 lobsters, one for each of us, which turned out to be more than enough, especially considering we only had a pot big enough to fit one in at a time. Also during out cooking escapades, we made some tasty appetizers, but while cooking those in the oven and using 2 burners we blew a fuse on the stove! SO, we ended up only eating one right away, and later took the other into Ayr, where my parents lent us a stove and also helped us eat the second one

It was pretty fun, all in all a definite adventure! I have to say, lobsters are heavier than they look! They are also a lot prettier once cooked Although it does feel a little cruel watching them move around in the pot until they die…but we did try rubbing their heads to hypnotize them before hand, which apparantly helps to calm them down!

Delicious and fun!

We Convocated (finally!)

megantim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:18:36 +0000

So we finally graduated from UW!! They do such a late convocation for the summer students that it was a bit anticlimatic, but it was still fun, and now we have 2 beautifual diplomas hanging on the wall.

It was a full day with 2 ceremonies to go through, but we got some nice pictures, and we had a great time sharing it with both sets of parents!

Garden update!

megantim — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:08:16 +0000

My plants are doing great (for the most part)! Today I harvested some of my spinach Here are some photos so you can see their progress:

Planting adventures!

megantim — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:19:33 +0000

My goal for the summer is to make something grow. Even if I can only get one measly tomato I’ll have succeeded.

Today we went out and got the rest of the soil, containers, and plants that we needed at Belgian Nurseries, one of the neatest places to buy plants, it’s so beautiful there!

I am trying to grow

Patio Tomatoes (which I think are like cherry tomatoes)
Spinach
Everbearing Strawberries
Mint
Zinnias
Cosmos

I’m not sure how everything will turn out, I’m not usually the greenest of thumb, but hopefully our sunny balcony will do the trick. I think for a week or so I’ll have to bring them in at night to avoid frost, so I think it might be pretty messy business for a while. Here are a few pictures from my planting adventures:

A few favs…

megantim — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:46 +0000

At Christmas-time we acquired a Chuck Norris daily calendar, which has provided us which much amusement throughout the past months. Just thought we’d share the laughter. After all, who doesn’t love a good Chuck Norris joke?

Here are my top 10 favourites so far:

January 20th: Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

January 22nd: When Chuck Norris does a push-up he isn’t lifting himself up; he’s pushing the earth down.

February 5th: Who let the dogs out? Chuck Norris let the dogs out.

February 17th: When Chuck Norris was born, the only person who cried was the doctor. Never slap Chuck Norris.

March 26th: When Chuck Norris falls in the water, he doesn’t get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris.

April 2nd: Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

April 9th: Not everyone that Chuck Norris is mad at gets killed. Some get away. They are called astronauts.

April 22nd: Chuck Norris doesn’t throw up if he drinks too much. Chuck Norris throws down!

April 24th: Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.

April 27th: Dinosaurs went extinct because of the Chuck Norrisaurus.

Here fishy fishy fishy…

megantim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:10:31 +0000

We have some new roommates! That’s right, we got fish

The newest dwellers of our apartment are Macgruber and Bowser. So far they seem to like it okay here, although Macgruber is refusing to eat…but we have a 30 day warranty, so if bring back the receipt and the body, we can get a new Macgruber Just kidding, I hope he survives the transition!

Our new couch!

megantim — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:56:01 +0000

We bought a lovely couch from Leon’s during Boxing Week, and due to popular demand (or 1 request), here it is!

Oh, and a picture of Tim about to flush the sock out of the vaccum tube, good times

Random thoughts and updates

megantim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:54:24 +0000

It’s been quite a while since I contributed to this blog, but my brain is feeling mushy tonight, so it’ll have to be a mash of random thoughts and updates-Enjoy

-The “Round-a-bout Dance” commercial is not only annoying, but unrealistic. I can’t imagine any pedestrian actually crossing the round-a-bout with their index finger stretched out in front of them

-Group work at school is frustrating. I’m in a group of 10 people, that seems a little excessive to me

-This weekend I discovered Mr. Clean Magic Erasers, and I’m in love! They really do work, and for a day I was obsessed with scouring any spot I could find on our apartment walls

-I’m starting the Families & Schools Together Program again in a few weeks, which will be SO much fun, and I’m actually in charge of something this time too

-We might actually end up reading (or at least doing assignments) this year for reading week, which is slightly depressing

-I do have plans however to make it to IKEA to buy a mirror and shelf for our apartment

-I was saddened when we bought salt water taffy this week and it turned out to be disgusting. The rest of the candy we bought was tasty though, mmm mmm good

-I accidently sucked up a sock with our vaccum hose and didn’t even realize at first. Once we discovered why it was no longer sucking properly we had to use our shower to flush the sock out because it was so far up the tube

-I’m doing yoga at a place I worked last summer, and it is SO relaxing. I think I fall asleep most weeks during the ‘relaxation’ section at the end

-I am now addicted to playing Mahjong Titans on the computer. Whenever I start, I can’t stop until I win, a dangerous thing…

-We are going to get a fish, and his name will be MacGruber

-Tim is at ball hockey tonight, which is why I’m here procrastinating

Command of the Day

megantim — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:34:27 +0000

The command of the day is: chsh (change shell).
I picked this command because, hypothetically, if you were as unenlightened as I was, and a system you had access to gave a default shell you didn’t like, you might add something like /bin/bash to your ~/.cshrc file. Not that there is anything wrong with that… It does work, after all. The problem, of course, is when you scp something over to said system, scp looks like it’s just hung (well, it is), because it’s waiting for your shell to return from the command you gave it, only the command didn’t get passed to the new shell, so it’s not going to do anything. So, just use chsh, or you’ll have to submit assignments via wget and your blog, which is just silly.

Intentional Misuse of terms

megantim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:28:02 +0000

So, my wife (and others) have requested that I update my blog, but I don’t have alot to write about, except maybe my ball hockey game, so I’m writing about my wife’s intentional misuse of terminology. Her favourite, and the one that bothers me most, is when she says that her favourite number is ‘mod 7′. No amount of explaining how it works, or that it isn’t a number will stop her.

XKCD has it all figured out