chances

Happy anniversary to Ruth and Kaarel! They've been married 11 years.

Jeff and I are both participating in the CIBC Run For the Cure today. THANK YOU so much to Robin Scanlon, JeffB, Rand, Parki, Ruth and Kaarel, Andy and Christine, my Jeff, Luisa and Reid, and Allison for sponsoring me. With your help, I raised $335 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.





Last night, Jeff and I went out with his dad and a man who had served with the Israeli Army Intelligence for several years. He told us about growing up in Israel, where children were routinely taught not to pick up pens off the ground or drive their bikes across pieces of cardboard on the street in case they contained bombs.

And as I listened, I became aware of how often I take the relative comfort, safety and freedom in my little corner of the world for granted, and how lucky I have been in my life.





Good news re: our recording project. Both Julia Ecklar and Susan Cooper have given their permission to include "The Dark Is Rising" on our CD, yay! Looks like we're going to have 13 tracks, and Beckett Gladney is doing the cover. Our release date is still set for Worldcon 2003 (Labour Day weekend).

Links/News:

Today's the last day of Allison's and Jodi's Virtual Birthday Party!

Three years ago, I was planning to move into the new Inkspot office.

Five years ago, someone used our credit card number to buy $15,000 worth of pizza (ten separate charges of $1500 each). I still think this was unbelieveably stupid of the thieves. Didn't they think the people at Visa would notice this unusual activity?! Before they told us what had happened, Visa called Jeff and asked, among other questions, if we had bought any pizza lately. He said no. They ended up catching and prosecuting the thieves.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Gaming dice. I took this photo on Friday night when Jeff and I were at Vartan's and Hrach's place. Jeff gamed, and I updated my online comic strips and Cafe Press store.
	A pretty disturbing mannequin display in The Bay department store downtown. Yes, this mannequin is missing the top half of its body.
	I was looking out my office window early yesterday morning and saw this scene, figured it was some kind of memorial to a policeman who had been killed. When Jeff woke up, I told him about it. He peered out the window (the memorial had been going on for a couple hours) and he commented that the police cars weren't Toronto police. Duh! Someone was shooting a movie. :-)