The Word on Wednesday for April 26th, 2006 is “brimborion” (brim-BORE-ee-on). MEANING: trash, nonsense; a thing without value or use. USAGE: Some people may call my writing brimborion but others find it funny, useful and a little interesting.
I came across this word in the title of a blog while I was surfing a couple of [...]

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After the long travel day yesterday I got some good sleep Saturday night. We left Sunday morning at 8:00am so that we could get downtown early and catch the first trolley on our sightseeing tour. We took the L’il Red Trolley tour we had booked online and finally [...]

My latest travels have me in Philadelphia for a week. I am off on another SAP course this time with a co-worker this time. We decided that we would leave on Friday afternoon for Edmonton/Calgary and then take the appropriate red-eye flight from those two places to Toronto. We would meet in Toronto and catch [...]

The Word on Wednesday for April 19th, 2006 is “locupletative” (lock-you-PLEA-ta-tiv). MEANING: having the tendency to enrich by increasing some desirable quality or attribute. USAGE: I hope that you enjoy my locupletative Wednesday posts entitled “Words on Wednesday”.
I came across this word in a news article I read a little while ago. The article was [...]

I have been home a week now since my latest trip to San Francisco and I leave again in 5 days to travel to Philadelphia for more training. I like all the travel and the chance to visit all these new places but it is starting to get a little tiring . At least I [...]

The Edmonton Oilers are officially in the playoffs. Their win over the Ducks along with the Canucks loss to the Sharks on Thursday officially put the Oilers in and the Canucks out. Sucks to be a Nucks fan. Colorado’s point last night also ensured that the Oilers will finish 8th in the conference and face [...]

I have had a good time traveling over the last 3 months. It is interesting to get away and see other places. Trips to Ottawa and San Francisco twice have given me the opportunity to see some other places that you hear about on the news. I will be traveling to Philadelphia next weekend for [...]

The Word on Wednesday for April 12th, 2006 is “bathycolpian” (bath ih COAL pee an). MEANING: “deep-bosomed,” as in, having a lot of cleavage. USAGE: The ancient Roman and Greek sculptors liked to use models with bathycolpian features.
This word is one that I came across last year when I was doing a World Civilization History [...]

I was at the Starbucks over at the Bridgepointe Shopping Centre in San Mateo yesterday and I got a Grande Caffè Mocha. Yes, it was good. I noticed that the sleeve that they gave me had a word on it. It was done as a “Word of the Day” type of thing and I thought [...]

I have been driving on the freeways here for 11 days now in the last month and I have decided that freeway is a misnomer. When it is raining (which has been most of the time) the freeway is more like a parkway. It has taken me as long as 35 minutes to drive the [...]