1. Coffee in the morning. I just love coffee and the process of making it.
2. Quickly realizing that the hose hooked up to the sump pump was inside the house when I turned on the pump. After some heavy rain and approaching storms I wanted to make sure that the basement was dry so I was pumping out the sump pump hole. The hose isn’t permanently hooked up, so when we run it I have to open the door and put the hose outside and turn the pump on. Unfortunately I opened the door and turned on the pump, but didn’t put the hose outside. A lot of water comes out of that hose pretty quickly! But I mopped up the floor and then headed off to work.
3. A day at work where I had no classes, so I could wrap things up from a busy week and figure out details for next week.
4. Going for a walk at lunchtime with a colleague.
5. Seeing Hamlet 2 on the way home. Overall the film was a bit uneven, but it got funnier and funnier as it went on and it was very funny with the musical numbers.
1. Waking up tired, but not too tired.
2. Not having a class to teach in the morning.
3. Taking a walk outside at lunchtime.
4. Taping a segment for the video podcast commandN .
5. A fun class that I team teach in the afternoon. We talked a lot about the Atlantic Film Festival and the schedule (which starts next week).
1. Avoiding traffic on the way to work.
2. A good class in the morning where I had a chance to get to know the incoming learners a bit more.
3. An afternoon class where I was able to get things started for that course.
4. Geting things planned out for my class on Thursday.
5. Seeing the Republican speeches last night. They were disturbing and filled with hate and fear and I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t watched it myself. While it wasn’t inspiring, it did open my eyes.
1. Waking up early and feeling rested.
2. A nice drive in to work avoiding traffic.
3. The excitement of the first day of college.
4. A great morning meeting the incoming Screen Arts students and having four graduates come in and talk to them.
5. Arriving home after a long, but good day and resting.
1. Sleeping in on Labour Day.
2. Watching the rain fall outside as I sipped coffee inside.
3. Going over the schedule of films for the Atlantic Film Festival to figure out things to see.
4. Seeing my son install a version on Linux on his computer.
5. Going to bed a bit earlier before the first day of college.
1. Sleeping in a little bit.
2. Making coffee and chatting with my parents in the morning.
3. My Dad installing the closers on the screen door that he installed yesterday.
4. Watching the French heist film Rififi on DVD.
5. My parents arriving home in New Brunswick safely.
1. Sleeping in for the first time in a week.
2. Walking downtown to meet Carolyn and my Mom and Dad for lunch.
3. Getting some tools and parts for repairs around the house.
4. My Dad installing the new screen door I bought. It actually fit inside the Yaris and I was able to close the rear door. It was a tough job, but we finished it (except for the door closers) last night.
5. Watching Millions with my Mom and Dad.
1. Going in to work a little bit later and timing it just right so I missed the morning rush hour.
2. A small, but important meeting in the morning that smoothed away a bit of tension at the beginning of the term.
3. Working out the details of the course that I team teach with an awesome colleague. We’re screening documentary films all term and we make sure that the selection of films were good.
4. Going out to lunch with colleagues.
5. Sitting down with the kids and my parents and watching Sunshine and they liked it too.
1. Waking up in time to make coffee and get ready for work.
2. Getting in to work a bit early and going over what I’ll be covering during the term.
3. Figuring out the broad outlines of the films that we’ll be asking learners to see during the Atlantic Film Festival in a couple of weeks.
4. Arriving home to see that my Mom and Dad put our new curtains up for us. They’re so nice.
5. Staying up late even though I was tired to watch Barack Obama’s speech last night. It’s a remarkable time for America.
1. Hitting the snooze button a couple of times to get a bit more sleep in the morning.
2. Not a bad morning with a meeting that was productive.
3. Slipping out of work a bit early to pick up my daughter to bring her home for the night.
4. My parents arriving for a visit of a few days.
5. Taking everyone out to dinner.
1. Early morning coffee. It’s a great way to start the day.
2. A good drive in to work on a morning that was warmer than I thought it would be.
3. A good staff meeting where a couple of my course outlines were shown as examples.
4. Coffee and muffins at the staff meeting.
5. Going for a walk with a colleague in the afternoon.
1. Waking up very early to start to get back to my work routine.
2. Hot coffee in my thermos and travel mug.
3. Seeing my colleagues after summer vacation.
4. Deciding to pick up a pizza on the way home.
5. Staying up late to see Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama speak.
1. Taking my time in the morning as I awoke at my parents house.
2. Coffee, eggs and toast as I sat around and talked with Mom and Dad.
3. A nice drive home with the sun shining brightly and not much traffic at all.
4. A nice dinner and birthday cake for my mother-in-law.
5. Sleeping in my own bed.
1. Sleeping in and spending some time with my Mom and Dad in the morning.
2. Going in to the NB Filmmakers’ Co-op and helping to get things ready for a screening.
3. Being able to get all of the files off an old hard drive (except for the four files I really wanted to use), but having DVD versions of the films that I could play.
4. A brief visit with my late friend Errol’s Mom, brother and sister.
5. A memorial screening of short films made by Errol Williams. I helped with many of the films and it was a great night with lots of friends who came to watch the films and share memories. It was a great day as we remembered our friend who we lost just over a year ago.
1. Making coffee in the morning for Carolyn, my daughter and myself. It’s nice to share coffee.
2. Getting everything together to go up to Fredericton for a memorial screening of films by my friend Errol.
3. Giving my daughter a drive to her apartment in the city.
4. Buying a case of ginger beer to give to Errol’s mom and brother. They love ginger beer.
5. Going to the NB Filmmakers Coop with a new hard drive and DVDs to get things ready for the screening and spending time with friends remembering Errol.
1. A Montreal bagel and coffee for breakfast.
2. Downloading Opera Mini for my cell phone and being able to upload pictures to Flickr.
3. Three Diesel Sweeties t-shirts arriving in the mail. There was a sale and I took a chance at three randomly chosen ones that I really like.
4. Being patient as I tried to recover files from a hard drive that was acting up. It has the video files for a screening on Saturday, but I can’t get the files. The backup is to show the films from a DVD that I have.
5. Watching a few episodes of Upright Citizen’s Brigade and ending my day by staying up too late to watch Mauvais Sang .
1. Waking up to a cool morning and making a hot pot of coffee and watching the steam rise from my mug.
2. A quiet morning reading.
3. Replacing the cartridge in the faucet for the shower. It was straightforward with directions from the Moen website.
4. Buying an external hard drive so Carolyn could use Time Machine on her iMac to back up all of her files.
5. Booking the installation to switch my internet connection from the phone company to the cable company, which costs about the same, but it will be about 3 times faster.
1. Morning coffee.
2. Getting my son ready for a camping trip with his grandparents.
3. Taking the car in for the first oil change and getting it for free.
4. Buying the film Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten and loving it.
5. Researching and finding the part I need to fix the dripping shower and Carolyn going to the store and getting it for free.
1. Waking up early and staying up instead of going back to bed.
2. Enjoying my morning coffee.
3. Going for a nice walk with John and the dog.
4. Continuing to upload pictures and write stuff in various places.
5. Planting a few plants in the front yard.
1. Sleeping in a bit, but not too much.
2. Getting lots of laundry done.
3. 
Having some hearty buckwheat pancakes made with flour ground at the grist mill at Kings Landing .
4. Updating some of my 43 Things goals as well as some All Consuming reviews.
5. Finally blogging about Sappyfest Year 3 .