Foam blocks? Check. Spatula? Check
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…
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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…
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.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Junior entrepreneurs
Mallory and her friend Claire spent most of this morning selling lemonade and muffins in front of our house. They were adorable.