12th
December
2018
Another hour off my life. I blame what my met tech instructor used to refer to as “visby verbal”, or in this area, whiteout conditions while traveling on a main highway. You see, when up, down and sideways are all white, gravity is all you have left in nominal guidance. We went to town, on a bright day and came home in something that required 50% more time and 75% more mental stamina.
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11th
December
2018
Happened to catch the suppertime news from a neighbouring province. You know, didn’t get to the channel changer quickly enough. Anyhow, one of the news stories dealt with the reconsideration of certain amateur sporting games. Somehow, the original budget estimate of $17 million has grown,to an amazing $130 million. I don’t know how a planning group could get so far off track; usually we need the government to be involved in the actual implementation of a given project to do such a balloon trick.
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6th
December
2018
All those years spent “studying” mathematics; unlike the bug beneath a looking glass, I had to try and understand the wonder before me. Oh, and wonder. Now, I apply my ability to practical situations.
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4th
December
2018
In one of my favourite sports movies, Kevin Costner goes to great lengths to construct a decent ball field, based on the imagined words “Build it and he will come”. In the movie, it worked. Perhaps it has to do with baseball, though.
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30th
November
2018
As someone with big dreams on a limited budget, I “get” my kicks with the help of the ‘Net. Simply put, I shop online, trying to find the best match for quality and price. I can easily pass a quiet evening surfing and looking at what the shops would sell me, if only they could. So, imagine the excitement, when I learned that son #2 was in the market for a new TV.
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22nd
November
2018
Someone posted an article recently, that seemed to be satire: “How to diagnose your home appliance errors by the sounds they make”. Sure, we’ve hear the fridge do some weird things under cover of darkness, but satire, surely.
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19th
November
2018
In very few situations is there a clearer difference: public service vs business. I’m referring to the current labour conflict within our postal system.
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14th
November
2018
There is a special moment in our local calendar, when the rising water table and the dropping temperatures cross. I can tell, because the sump pump starts. And doesn’t stop. There is a drain hose that freezes into a lump of uselessness, and the system just churns. I do have a work-around, involving me, a ten litre pail and patience. Just completed my workout; we should be good until either a thaw comes, or spring arrives.
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9th
November
2018
Not much going on. Seriously. I checked the various news sites, and other than the usual war, famine, burned the main food store down just before winter stories, nothing inspirational. Wait, hold on… the destruction of the main supermarket in town is newsworthy, particularly when you live a thousand clicks from nowhere.
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3rd
November
2018
“Part of me really wants to believe”. I just read through a posting that invited me to take part in a class action suit. Not my first time; the others have worked according to the rules. You send in your name, you wait, you get a cheque in the post for a token amount and life goes on. This time around, a slight twist.
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