I'm just now watching the election results. We officially have a conservative government in Canada. I mean sure, it's a minority government and their every single action can be shot down by the Liberals and the Bloc should they decide to do so, but it's still very very frightening. This can't last.

I have a tendency, I guess, to sign up for blogging services and then promptly forget about them. I found this out today when I tried to sign up for a blog under my usual name and found that it had been taken. Turns out it had been taken by me. I'm pretty happy to get to read my little note from the summer, even if I was at the end of my rope.

Over the next few weeks or so I'm going to try to put a bit of time into this place to try to get it ready for when we go out on tour again. When the unicorns toured I used to write a sort of a newsletter to all my friends (in the form of a mass e-mail, blogs were beyond me at that point) and I would like to get back into that habit with Islands. I found it was a good way to process the experiences I was having, as well as a good way to share my thoughts with my friends and family.

But it's 2006 now, and as usual I want to be no more than 2 years or so behind the times, so here we go. the blog.