inCommunicado - eric eggertson

This black/grey/white striped male cat showed up on Regina Avenue on Friday, and has been hanging around our block.
He looks to be less than a year old, is very friendly, and is not afraid of people. He has no collar.
If this is your cat, or you think you know who he belongs to, call […]

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Now that I’ve moved the blog from Mutually Inclusive PR on Typepad, it’s time to do some regular posts here.
Thanks for your patience!
Technorati Tags: personal, eggertson, blogging

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My 30 year reunion is coming up this fall, and I’ve said I’d pull together a website. Any suggestions for a good combination of web tools to help people post information, sign up for events, share photos, and generally stay informed about plans?
I’m looking at various wikis as possible platforms for most of the information. […]

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Kelley Jo Burke’s Charming and Rose: True Love is playing Monday and Tuesday night (April 30, May 1) at the University of Regina’s ShuBox Theatre.
Since I’m married to the playwright, I’ll avoid bias and just say this is a superb play that tackles the myth of the perfect woman as defined by controlling men.
Rose is […]

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Twenty minutes ago I was stumbling around in the snow, ice crystals coating my glasses, my fingers getting colder and colder inside my leather gloves. 
The car battery was dead, and I was trying to convince our mini-van to move another four feet, so I could stretch the jumper cables through the hedge from the […]

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Dave Traynor wants to know what the technology present is, mentioned in my last three posts.  For Christmas this year, I got a Nokia E61 smart phone, but as I alluded in the last three blog posts, the phone is somewhere between Toronto and here.  ETA is today, the first business day since the package […]

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Chapter 3:
Eric Explores an Alternate Universe, Where You Move Away from Something in Order to Get Closer to it
I’m still hung up on the item being shipped from Bloomington Illinois that is struggling to find me.  I had no idea where this particular Bloomington was, so I consulted Google Maps.
Here’s how Google thinks my package […]

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The bad news - the present that was supposed to be here for Christmas was shipped to the greater Toronto area, where it’s been languishing for two days.

The good news - it’s very close to my great-grandmother’s birthplace of Stouffville, Ontario.
Minnie March grew up in the Whitchurch-Stouffville area, and ended up moving to Saskatchewan with […]

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Every year there’s something in transit for Christmas.
 
This year it’s a big ticket electronics item, ordered from a "Canadian" website.
 

The package shipped December 19, and thanks to online tracking,
I’m able to watch it wend its way east.  Should I mention to UPS that I
live in Western Canada?
 
The package originated in Illinois, which is not […]

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A feature article about Saskatchewan bloggers gave a peek at some of the province’s blogs Monday morning.

Being one of the only Regina bloggers interviewed, I was fodder for a photo and a couple of quotes.  That’s me poking up at the top of the front page of the Regina Leader-Post.  I was going for the […]

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This piece in the New York Times caught my eye.  It’s about kids who identify strongly with the other gender.  Some parents are letting their kids cross-dress, but it’s not an easy decision.
In the past, that sort of behaviour was treated as a psychological problem.  Now therapists aren’t so sure.  They wonder if the depression […]

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