2007 February

My Grandmother liked to make puppets. She would work with kids in her small town (in Ontario) and put on whole puppet shows. They built the stage, sets, costumes, wrote plays and of course they made masses of puppets. There were different kinds, not just sock puppets. Some you put your hand inside and the […]

I collect postcards. Not as much as I did when I wrote to a thousand or so penpals around the world when I was a teen, but I still pick up the odd one here and there. I don’t get to travel much so it’s far more challenging to collect postcards when you are in […]

I’ve had email from two insane people in a row today. One was through an online dating site and the other was a guy who invited feedback about his blog.
The first guy I met through a dating site and I had replied to him once and he sent a reply back. His reply had nothing […]

I was reading about someone who has posted to a freelance job finding site, trying to get someone to list their site in the Dmoz directory. This person wants to pay someone to get the site listed immediately. There were five people who replied. One claimed to have done this before, for payment. The problem […]

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The above was on top of my Gmail this morning. An ad supported by Google. An ad that abuses and preys on a commonly known problem for women. An ad that calls women ugly. An ad that […]

What? She’s writing about dating again… Yes, she (I mean) I am. Not for any good or useful purpose. I’m not going to change the world though I humour myself and keep right on trying.
Today let’s talk about online dating etiquette. For one thing, spelling does count and punctuation does matter. I know a lot […]

Valentines Day is approaching. Your lover does not want a new coffee machine, even if he or she really does need one. Some people (mainly men it seems) get into a flap about February 14th, saying it’s too much pressure. Other people (mainly women) get sad around this time of the year. They say they […]