Next weekend my friend Martin and I are off to Killarney Park. Our third annual fall canoe trip. I’m very excited. I was trolling the gear shops in the west end for bits and pieces of gear, including foam blocks to put the canoe on the roof of the rental.
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cmkl: Garage sale: a few pounds lighter
Today was the Old Ottawa South Porch Sale. We’re a few pounds lighter. I got rid of a bunch of old computer gadgets, some home made picture frames, three chairs that needed new seats but were never going to get them from me, an old phone, a Nellie McCl…
Continue readingcmkl: Neighbourhood garage sale tomorrow – Old Ottawa South
Come by our place on Aylmer Ave tomorrow during the Old Ottawa South Garage Sale. No, it’s not the Glebe, but there’s lots of people giving away lots of stuff.
Continue readingcmkl: Western Digital sent me a new hard drive today
All’s well that ends well. I have this network attached storage thing in my basement that had a six week old hard disk die on me. That made me sad. So I phoned the store that sold it to me and they said “you’re better off dealing with it through the ma…
Continue readingcmkl: Quiet the mind
I was back at yoga lesson this evening after summer-long hiatus. As my most excellent instructor says, “Yoga works the body to quiet the mind, because the mind is the most difficult part of you to quiet.” Which is helpful for me because after today my …
Continue readingcmkl: Uneventful trip home
Now I am a nervous driver. Who’da thunk it. I’m not. Haven’t ever been. But when I got behind the wheel of the car to leave my dad’s place I became suddenly aware I was reciting a mantra in my head: “you’ll be okay, it’ll be fine.” Never done that befo…
Continue readingcmkl: Homesick
Or something. I’m not sure what, but since I dropped my sister and her son off at the airport this morning just before seven I’ve been feeling tremendously sad and anxious.
Continue readingcmkl: Holding my arms up is challenging
Woof. Sheila and I spent a good chunk of today removing brush and undergrowth from dad’s laneway. With weed whackers. Or whipper snippers. Or weed eaters. Or strimmers. That last one is for UK readers. Should there be any. And now I can’t r…
Continue readingcmkl: Trimming, digital TV over the air and a coyote
A hot humid day – more like July than Labour Day weekend – spent mostly doing chores and chit chatting. Sheila and I spent the morning wielding various gas-powered sharp-edged gadgets and doing other chores. We wrestled with the new era of …
Continue readingcmkl: Golfy is at the car doctor and she’ll be fine
So will I. I rear-ended someone on Highway 410 on my way to my dad’s place. There were no injuries but I’m pretty shaken up about it. And because I hit the woman’s car, I get the ticket, the premium hikes and everything.
Continue readingcmkl: Bad timing for a sick child
So the fam was meant to be going to my dad’s place tomorrow to hook up with my sister and her son who are over from England for a week or so. And Mallory is ill.
Continue readingcmkl: Considering all the other stuff I need to be doing
I should really put the scanner away. And maybe it’s my sadness about the current political climate that’s making it harder to face up to all that is before me – work, life family etc – but unearthing and scanning old images is fun. And I’m supposed to…
Continue readingcmkl: And now, straight to the blackmail material
So yes, old family photos do make for some pretty tame posts. I do like them and of course, the extended family does too. But the real payback for taking photos all these years comes now when I get to post pictures of me and my running buddies from 20 …
Continue readingcmkl: Negatives doing better than slides
So I went through a bunch more slides and started into the negatives in a bid to empty some basement shelves. They’re really only there for ballast and this summer’s snap windstorm notwithstanding, we don’t need too much of that.
Continue readingcmkl: Lac Philippe: walk-in car camping weekend
So we got back from our weekend at Lac Philippe, one of Gatineau Park’s car camping hot spots. We were actually scheduled to stay tonight too, but the hurricane-inspired weather – cold, overcast, nasty wind – made us sorta think that maybe we could…
Continue readingcmkl: Drupal why do you do this to me
So I’ve had to put off the launch of one of these regional websites I’m doing at work because I cannot figure out Views 2.0 in Drupal 6. It is a very powerful web application but it is horribly designed and the user interface is punishing to the point …
Continue readingcmkl: I just unlinked LinkedIn: I don’t like the ‘pay for a peek’ bit
So I got this bulk email from LinkedIn today explaining how for a little bit of money I could see exactly who was viewing my profile and everything everyone posted about themselves on this Career/Business networking site. And it bugged me. A lot. And I…
Continue readingcmkl: Jack Layton: grief, mourning and then action
I won’t dwell on how awful I feel over Jack Layton’s passing this morning. I do. But everyone does. Y’all don’t need to read about my grief. I’m not all that close to party politics and I only ever shook Jack’s hand once or twice despite following his …
Continue readingcmkl: A mixed day
On the one hand, the rainy cold weather, combined with a birthday party for her Nibs, gave me some daylight time to work on a long-neglected volunteer project. And clean toilets. And do laundry.
Continue readingcmkl: Junior entrepreneurs
Mallory and her friend Claire spent most of this morning selling lemonade and muffins in front of our house. They were adorable.
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