Enough of today has passed that I can make a stab at a recap. There was a leisurely trip to the supermarket, where I found the base ingredients for a good feed of ribs. Then, a leisurely session of “low and slow” cooking, while I watched another easy win by the local university football team. Later, a leisurely meal of my own effort.
posted in humour | Comments Off on Lights and walls | 267 words
As near as I can tell, there’s only one chance (in a lifetime) for today’s question and paired response. Here we go.
posted in food | Comments Off on Leave the lights alone, please | 267 words
True story. Two guys are in queue at a local burger joint. Make it all the way to the counter, when their register closes, leaving one other open. The one with a newly formed queue of a school bus load of hungry farm workers.
posted in environment, politics | Comments Off on Referendum anticipation | 253 words
After checking on Twitter, I went into this afternoon prepared to download and upgrade (in that order). The appointed hour approached, and a full six minutes early I hit the site. Ready, set, start. Initial estimate “five minutes”. As the clock hand traversed the zenith, the estimate readjusted…
posted in education | Comments Off on Simulated schooling | 255 words
Finally made first line on the agenda for a staff meeting. Not that I ever lusted after that post position; it actually took me by surprise. Seems that I won’t have to work, after this week. No lottery win, though. Rather, a future, uncertain.
posted in computing, pets | Comments Off on Changing times | 268 words
There are memories and there are items that count as “memorabilia”. Our homes tend to fill up with the latter, in support of the former. And then there’s society. They keep the memorable stuff in museums. This city believes in the concept. And, sadly, one of the good museums caught fire today. The firefighters are still stirring the stew, so it remains too early to say/know how much damage occurred. As the newscaster understated, “buildings can be restored”.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Zone plan is OK | 258 words
A long time ago, (over two dog lifetimes), I needed a solid point of attachment around the place. A long steel T-bar, cut in two and driven deep into the ground with an X profile, served through the best efforts of those two dogs.
posted in travel | Comments Off on A sense of geography | 256 words
Made sense to go and get groceries before the football telecast started. Would have made more sense to go to a store that wasn’t celebrating… I never did find out what. More free food than ever before, an inflatable play park and a live radio station in the parking lot next to the oversize hot dog stand. A rock band playing in what normally serves as seating for the food court (the one rendered unnecessary by all the free food in the departments). And the usual cart pilots without any sense of direction. Spinning in the aisles, blocking progress. I remained polite.
posted in food, photography | Comments Off on The program in progress is unavailable | 269 words
Tough night. No sleep possible. Due to the “nose balloon”, a full congestion triggered a minor panic attack: insufficient air intake in any other position than full vertical. And so I walked the floor for the whole night. For a new baby, one makes such a compromise. For a bloody nose, not so much.
posted in health | Comments Off on The leak restudied | 263 words
Some days don’t go as scheduled. Detours. Roads less travelled. When I climbed out of bed this morning, I could not have forecast the way my evening would go. Even when there was a warning sign.
posted in health | Comments Off on Uncontrolled drip | 258 words
