Off to work in the dark, as the clock change negates several months of solar progress. Oddly enough, the only province that has a purely agricultural vocation (SK) doesn’t bother with such patent foolishness. The older I get, the less I am accepting of legislative tomfoolery. My pardon to anyone named Tom.
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Time zone changed again, through the night, in another attempt to prove how powerless we are. Right now, I’m assuming that jet lag feels something like this. After all, my body doesn’t realize how close to bedtime I should be. The clocks have been adjusted (I hope), and tomorrow will be another ordinary day.
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A little bit of nothing to do, a trace of too many pages read in too short a period of time. I decided to spend the evening under the spell of a legend. After all, this is the time of year when seals come ashore.
My family is evolving (as it should). This week marks another birthday, and with personal schedules that are asynchronous, we ended up going out to a restaurant at the closest thing to a common moment possible. Except that the group members aren’t the same as before.
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Some evenings around here, the idea is faster than the brain. Or, in layman’s terms, slow down and think about it. While upgrading a couple of wikis that I keep around as an organization tool, I managed to throw out the necessary with the trivial.
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Strange times for those in the middle class of this country. The recognition that pay scales don’t equate with effort is starting to unravel the edges of the blanket. Or in simple terms, who took the money and left for parts unknown?
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An out of the ordinary evening for me; I went to school. Not in the traditional sense, though. Instead, I returned to a classroom for one of those dreaded “information for parents” sessions, where you pick up five minutes worth of information in fifty-five minutes. On second thought, not that different from the way I remember school when I had a legal requirement to show up five days a week.
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The self-directed learner doesn’t require much in the way of stimulus. Throw out a question, leave some reference materials within range and step back. Too bad we couldn’t bottle it and provide the school system with a reliable source.
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Why can’t every day be ECMA Day? I mean, other than the need to go to work without a set of headphone tying me to a webcast that lasted just short of four point five hours. Count them: 270 minutes, thanks to Bell Aliant. The times are changing.
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Patty just asked me to send money. Or was it her identical cousin Cathy? To be fair, I hadn’t seen her in years, and I wouldn’t have recognized her except for that distinctive voice. Yes, it’s fund raising time again at my local PBS station, and there’s always a reason to become a member.
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