Consolation Champs

For the curious, I’ve put together this short summary of facts and events in my life.

I was born in 1965 in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Canada with my parents in 1967. I’ve always lived in Toronto. I am an only child. Significant events in my life so far…In 1982 I became an evangelical Christian, although I’m more comfortable with just Christian now. In 1987, my mother died of cancer at the age of 43. I never learned to swim, and I don’t have a driver’s licence. I have visited 23 countries. I have been known to write poetry and take photographs, though I don’t do either much anymore. I am a font of useless information and could be rich if I could only get on Jeopardy. I am a spelling whiz (hope you don’t find any typos on these pages!). I hate summer and never wear shorts. (UPDATE: Since the spring of 2003, this has no longer been true. I took up running and now don’t care at all who sees my white knobby legs!). I like popsicles and ice cream. I don’t like peas or tomatoes. I spend all my money going to movies, buying books or buying CDs and DVDs.

I knew Brooke for a few years before we started going out. We used to meet once a year at a mutual friend’s annual pool party. In 1997, I decided to ask her out. She said yes, because she’s very polite. In December of 2000, she said yes again and we were engaged! We were married on October 5, 2002, and spent our honeymoon in San Francisco and Sonoma County. I’m still not sure if she’s just being polite, though…

I run two other weblogs which you might be interested in checking out:

• Runner-Up — stories about “non-winners” from the world of sports and sometimes other places, too
• Toronto Screen Shots — film reviews from festivals in Toronto as well as from DVD and theatrical releases

You can see recent entry titles from these blogs in the column on the left, and click if you’re curious.