Metcalfe again this time with rain and a flat tire – 97km
Three hours and fifteen minutes of my three and a half hour ride today were doused with rain. I would prefer to not bike in the rain, but this morning…
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Conservatives legislate an end to yet another strike
I wonder if they reckon that just out and out banning strikes would be too controversial. Or maybe its just that they might want to let a strike go on…
Media layoffs: I fear this is going to get worse
Postmedia announced layoffs and reorganization today, as the corporation looks for ways to consolidate its print production processes to stay profitable.
Casseroles – poignant video of the nightly pot-banging events in Montréal
I love this video. Brings me to tears every time.
Serving mobile members
Today’s workshop was serving mobile members. I gave the same workshop last year but I’ve updated the deck with new numbers, a bit about QR codes.
Content strategy workshop notes
I wasn’t as prepared as I would have liked to have been alas. Today I gave the content strategy workshop, one of two I’m doing at the CALM conference. Here’s…
Tomorrow to Hamilton
The Hammer. For the Canadian Association of Labour Media conference. Featuring hours and hours of cutting edge workshops on communications new and old for union communicators. Including yours truly talking…
Dad’s back at large
Out of hospital, back at home. With a couple more bottles of pills, two, possibly three appointments to line up and a whack of new gadgets – oxygen dispensing –…
Saw one of the deer tonight
The bigger one, the one without the white fur. Other fascinating observances:
Mallory’s first tent out and I’m missing it
Irene just called to tell me that Mallory and her friend C are tenting out in her backyard, after a delicious urban safari involving a bike ride and a trip…
Brampton is not the sleepy Bill Davis, greenhouse town of my youthful remembrance
It’s huge. Massive sprawl. Lots and lots of subdivisions, wide roads and shopping malls. On our way up to the farm we’d drive right up main street and someone in…
Hospitals and the psychology of waiting: a participant observer study
Don’t take this the wrong way, dear readers, but I think the William Osler Health System could use a little Disneyfication. No I did not dip into the Oxy cupboard…
Eighteen degrees
That’s how cold the water was in the pool this evening. And still, Mallory and her friend C went for a brief swim, dunking their heads and all. Of course…
Pakenham, 137km, five hours, six minutes
Dear Garmin BaseCamp, when I say ‘avoid dirt roads’ I mean it. Also: no illegal left turns, please. BaseCamp, Garmin’s mapping software, send me down about 7km of dirt roads…
One thing no one seems to be considering about JP Morgan’s $2 billion oopsie
That investment is supposed to actually do something.
March for Life? Bring a snack – that’s one long march
Do you ever get to stop? No? Maybe an extra pair of socks then. When I was in university the campus anti-choice group was called ‘McGill Students for Life’. We…
I forgot to shave today
There. I admitted it. Of course I don’t actually have the sort of facial hair to allow me to grow a beard but I do in fact shave every day…
So what did I do today?
Sometimes days are just blurs. And I can’t remember what on earth I did. But then, I remember we have computers and they have ways of keeping track of everything.
Almonte: 122km, 4:42 hours
Great day for a ride. Sunny, 16 degrees, winds mostly polite if not obliging. And I made a new ‘neat road’ discovery.
One of the best things I get to do
Has to be putting Mallory to bed. Reading the stories. Cuddling. Telling her how much I love her. Listening to her fall asleep. I love it.