While I threw up the recap post very quickly (was preparing it through the week), I had not originally intended on posting about the food we had. But NPY asked about it and I’m all to happy to throw this together while getting caught up on television shows from the week. I want to honour the week of cooking and dining and sharing in the way I know how–blogging about it.
Home-cooking Chinese meal
I really wanted to share the very homestyle-tasting bamboo shoots and mushrooms dish I learned to make recently. …

March was a bonkers month. At work, I was on standby for the crushing rush that came in full force in the last week. With my birthday weekend early in the month and the deluge of presents, I barely noticed that the March Glossy Box, my first Glossy Box, had not yet arrived. On March 20, Glossy Box issued an email apologizing for the delay in delivering the month’s Glossy Box and awarded all the subscribers 250 Glossy Dots (equivalent to 1/4 free Glossy Boxes, or 2.5 blog reviews). That …

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It is with the heaviest heart ever that I have the time to blog and write this post because it means that NPY’s weeklong trip to Toronto is wrapped and he is back in Vancouver. After last October’s trip that was nothing short of disaster on all fronts, I needed to make sure this trip did not permanently scar him about the city that will, in some way, always be a part of me, my home-away-from-hometown. So these are the things that I did to make sure …

It seems that ten years ago, I created a publicly accessible HTML page on my Dalhousie computer science server space with the following text. The URL was “borg.cs.dal.ca/~lock” which, not so sadly, is now a dead link. Sigh, them good ole days.
Then two days later, I made an update. Then another one a day after that. I was… weblogging! I changed the font colour every day and put a horizontal bar (<hr>) to divide the days. Here are the first three days, reversed from the reverse chronological order how it appeared …