We did something new and different today. Without spending months to research the question, we purchased a TV acquisition card for one of the computers, installed same and joined the world of those who have a PVR.
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posted in environment | Comments Off on The Five R’s | 233 words
I’m starting to appreciate our new refrigerator, for a very simple reason. For the first time in years, foods are stored at an appropriate temperature.
posted in environment, technology | Comments Off on Comfort foods | 239 words
Here we go (again). Give some people a little power and they think they know better than everyone around them. We elected a compromise to Ottawa last time around, in the guise of government. A minority. Now, they have decided to do just that, compromise (in the worst sense of the word).
posted in politics | Comments Off on When the spenders just don’t get it | 277 words
Once upon a time, people went out the the woods and cut down trees to heat their homes. Not enough trees cut down, you had cold feet. Seems like a balanced way of doing things.
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The calendar is a dangerous adversary, although our mayor is unaware. We’re heading towards that fateful day when she’ll have to cut the ceremonial ribbon to begin the festivities for the 400th. Yet, she has once again notified the French that a proposed gift is, well, not good enough.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Positioning for a Phyrric victory | 253 words
I don’t have many food memories from when I was young. We ate wel enough, but there are no recipes that I can point to my children and say, there, that’s what I had when I was your age, or something equally frivolous.
posted in history | Comments Off on Sufficient for the supper | 303 words
I suppose that there are places where the climate is so uniform, so predictable that nobody cares what tomorrow will bring. Not here. Not in Canada.
posted in technology, Wx | Comments Off on It’s weather or not | 367 words
A friend of son #1 stayed overnight, which drove the poor dog into a frenzy but didn’t change too much else in our routine. Came time for him to head east, we gave him directions to the city transit stop. Of course he wasn’t there on time, so when we headed out to forage for supper, we picked him up. Of course, he didn’t even have the bus fare to get into the city core, because he’d stopped to buy a pop (hence missing the bus, but circular logic is everything).
As a preface, the price of gasoline just slid below the 90 cents per litre mark for the first time in about fifteen months. Small miracles are almost as good for us as the larger ones.
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