16th
November
2014
Quiet day here. Had to change a light bulb in the dining room.
Some days don’t offer much “material”. I do watch the news; even there, the pickings meagre. Did you know that the local rail bridges all need to be painted? Do you care? How about a broken water main? To be fair, unless my tap suddenly developed drought, I wouldn’t either. Hard to sell newspapers with material like this. I have a subscription, but even that may lapse in a month or two.
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30th
October
2014
I find a certain satisfaction in the meme “You had one job to do…”, because most of us have had a defining moment or two in the workplace. We try to do our best, to do right, and circumstances twist the plastic hose and…
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6th
October
2014
Note to myself: wear shoes while cleaning in the basement. I didn’t look before stepping around a box, and managed to install a volume control in/on/under my heel. A tiny, designed for the electronic hobbyist, which means really sharp little metal prongs, variable resistor. It didn’t reduce my personal volume level.
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6th
September
2014
A special thanks to the NatGeo web channel, for offering me hours and hours of stupidity mixed with science. Seriously. The program is called Science Of Stupid, and while we wince he explains the concepts in a manner befitting a Grade Eight classroom dude (with a killer sense of humour). I can’t get into details, but my partner asked if it was legal to show people killing themselves…
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24th
August
2014
Despite my best efforts, I’ve run out of time. Tomorrow, back to my life as a cubicle creature. Telephone. Network. All the things that define my role in the “working world”. Bus schedule. Limited coffee. Please, as you continue your life of leisure, think of me.
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23rd
August
2014
“We have a runner”. Around this house, not a preferred quote. My fault; while unloading stuff from the car, I was distracted. Opened the front door and almost got a lock on a tail before the dog headed off to points unknown.
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14th
August
2014
In life we are trained to “ask the experts”. What to do when the experts adopt opposing camps of opinion? My problem, succinctly. Big money decision with fuzzy information.
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29th
July
2014
As a camper, I know the drill. When in doubt, do laundry. The ratio of campers to machines is high; if you meet the necessary conditions, just do it.
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24th
May
2014
Ever feel that things are harder than they should be? That time is taking its toll, an hour at a time? For a quick cure, watch that classic movie, The Longest Day. Puts things back in perspective. And as I said, around the three hour mark: “Based on current projections, the Allies may win the war“.
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14th
April
2014
While watching an older movie (that means the colour palette goes from black to white), I learned that cars in the period before my birth were, well, larger. How else can I account for a vehicle with three people in the back seat, and three more in the front? And no seat belts, ever. Make my SUV look shrunken.
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