While out for groceries this evening, I noticed two innovations (involving bacon). This staple of the breakfast menu is now available in resealable plastic boxes or in packaging with tear-off subportions. There, the emergency has been resolved. Back to regular frustrations.
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They came, they waited, they watched and cheered. Today, the Saint Patrick’s parade returned to the streets of Quebec City, for the first time since 1926. Or, in clearer terms, for the first time in their lives, for the great majority of those standing on the sidewalk.
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It’s new, it’s shiny, it has taken the world I live in by storm. Everywhere, people are slipping and sliding their fingertips back and forth, following the magic squares that will lead them to nirvana. Yes, indeed, the iTouch does keep one bedazzled.
posted in computing | Comments Off on What seems simple is not always so | 278 words
My youngest was discussing plans for the summer; specifically, employment plans. The first toe in that stream that goes on around the bend. Writing up a CV (because you can’t go to see a potential employer without documents, right?) is particularly difficult for the beginner. I mean, presenting a blank sheet of paper may show that you are lacking in guile, but that’s not what they teach kids in school.
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According to one reference on citations, the phrase “A penny spar’d is twice got” was recorded back in 1640. Ben Franklin paraphrased well: “A penny saved is a penny earned“. Somewhere along the way, I learned that if “I see a penny and pick it up, then all that day I’ll have good luck“. Combine the three, and my growing collection of maple leaf coinage makes good sense; common sense, if you’ll excuse the pun.
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I wish I had lived in an old house when I was little. A house with a lot of history. I wish I could have lived in the same house long enough to “make” it mine. Instead, I moved often; never far, one house to the next, but each one meant that the previous was just the place where we used to live.
posted in history | Comments Off on A house deserves a history | 252 words
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.
posted in Wx | Comments Off on Randomly unplugging my network | 261 words
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.
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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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