July 23, 2008
General items:
For a trip where you’ll have the wherewithal to cook your own dinner:
If you’re a golfer,
We brought most of this, but neglected to bring the crackers and the pot. We were able to borrow the crab/lobster pot and use bamboo skewers to pull the crab meat from the snow crab legs (mmmmmmmm). We bought an oyster knife, adding to our collection of these. But, the excellent oysters from Aspy Bay were definitely worth the purchase of yet another oyster knife. Not yet sure if we’ll donate it to the house we’re renting.
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July 22, 2008
My in-laws are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.
True to form, they wanted to celebrate together with us: their daughter and their son and daughter-in-law. After a little bit of discussion, they decided on the location for the celebration - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It’s a fitting destination, the family camped here together often. Prior to [...]
July 21, 2008
I first heard about The Happiness Hypothesis from twitter, from @zappos tweet on having finished it, to be exact. I was especially interested inthe premise of this book–a look at ancient wisdom and modern psychological research. Jonathan Haidt carefully reviews 10 ideas that have been threads in ancient wisdom and have been addressed in psychological [...]
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