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Bravo, Nick. Sincerely.

I phrased that poorly. We knew she had a spot on her liver, have done since the diagnosis, we just didn't know it was cancerous because, and this is the weird bit, it NEVER showed up on either of her TEP scans. Y'know, the scans that are BUILT to spot cancerous cells and are very good at it. It...

Hi Trudy! Welcome!

Just got out of the doc's office for Maryse's cancer follow-up: Everything's good, headed in the right direction, bones are healing very well! Blood tests are within normal range, too. Turns out that she had a small lesion on her liver, though, that we never knew about. But it's also shrunk...

Starting my third week back at BJJ after my mother-in-law's funeral. Trying to undo at least SOME of the damage I did to my body over the previous month and a half, where we were basically living off of Timmies and McDs. It goes away SO quickly, but I feel it coming back.

Move to Canada, my dude, ours still do!

Oh man, Bubs, buddy, I'm so sorry.

She (Maryse, that is) is doing SO great, it's baffling. The good kind of baffling. But yeah, enjoy life while you can, it's fragile. These last few years have certainly switched my piorities around.

Should probably give some news here, huh? Been a minute... Strap in, it's a wild ride. So on 5 April, Maryse's (my wife) mum was hospitalized to try and rebound from an influenza that she'd gotten around the Holidays and that, combined with the mouth ulcers caused by her immune therapy...

Feel this in my soul, Bubs. My sympathies.

Last few weeks, we had bright sunshine and temperature in the 10-15 degrees Celsius range. Perfectly normal Smarch weather. Yesterday, in the evening, it started raining. Then snowing. We actually lost power around 5 PM yesterday, got it back around 8 PM. Today, well, this is what I woke up to:

Proud of you my dude! Way to go!

Started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) again roughly a year ago, after three years on the couch due to the pandemic (if you're unfamiliar with BJJ, it's impossible to train with any kind of social distancing). Here's a pic of me just before the Holidays, when I'd just gotten my second stripe...

For whatever this may be worth: You are allowed, nay, encouraged, to be happy for whatever reason makes you happy. If your mind, FOR NOW, needs some kind of outside authority to get on board with that, consider this my personal seal of approval, backed by whatever authority I may have (it's...

This. You were there for her when she needed you the most and you loved her enough to show her the ultimate mercy. She can run and frolic forever now thanks to you. No more pain. No more fear. I'm so, so sorry for your loss, my dude.

Will keep an eye open for sure. Thanks!

When I was born, I was sleeping a full eight hours, but during the day rather than the night. Then, some months later, myself (had very limited options at the time, you understand), my mom and my dad, who had been accepted at London's Royal College of Music before my arrival, left Quebec for...

Massive congrats, my dude!

And on top of that, one of my favourite bands, Blind Guardian, is coming to Montreal on 10 May touring behind their latest album, The God Machine, which topped my 2022 album of the year list and is the best thing they've done in at least 20 years (IMHO, of course). And I got a ticket! So hyped!

Yeah, be careful out there Cog, keep us informed if you can/want. You're in all our thoughts.