The onset of the Olympics reminds me that the world is a big place. That fourteen-hour offset in coverage times, for example. Meanwhile, my own world has shrunk; I now spend almost all of my days and nights in the front half of a two acre estate.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Reuse our refuse | 254 words
Want to get my dog excited? Be a fox, and walk by his house during daylight hours. While he accepts, barely, that there are wild things in the night, daytime is a whole other issue. Not only does he smell the visitor, he can see it (and this is not a sharp-eyed dog, by any means). Eventually, we’re going to have “close encounter” and I haven’t a clue about how things will go.
posted in pets, Wx | Comments Off on Bemused is not amused | 254 words
Based on a news story from CBC, this evening, I believe I have been “not profiled”. The minds at CSIS have determined that someone who cleans up around their house, pays down their debts and adapts a more healthy physical regime might actually be a sleeper terrorist. For the record (other than sleepy), I fit none of the above characteristics.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Novel approach to parking a car | 257 words
The sump pump has seen a lot of use today. At an estimate, I’m getting a well-empty every two hours. That’s good. Now if the freezing temperatures can kick in after the water stops running, I’ll mark it up as a win. Otherwise, I’m going to have to move to Plan B, which involves me and a yellow bucket. The snow is gone, pretty much. However, there’s more on the way, because this is Canada.
posted in history | Comments Off on Local buildings, no longer there | 264 words
Watching free TV, without a TV, is not as simple as I had thought. Although I pay for satellite service, I wondered if the “big game” was available in my browser. And it is, if you jump through enough hoops. That pesky user name and password for my provider leaves me at a loss, every time.
posted in media, sports | Comments Off on Unable to see the free (feed) | 272 words
Busy day. Two meetings. With my luck, I’ll be awake half the night, simply rehashing all the things from my day of community service.
posted in education | Comments Off on Waiting for the rains | 257 words
It doesn’t matter if the groundhog saw its shadow, or didn’t. Or if it bit the CBC camera operator, while going over the fence (the groundhog, not the operator). We live in Canada. Winter will last for as long as it lasts.
posted in politics, Wx | Comments Off on Plunging temperature | 264 words
Some confusing news, in the world of online payments. The merchant to the world, aka eBay, has decided to disassociate from PayPal, the money end of the system. I know, they’d already gone through a friendly divorce some time ago, but for people like me there was nothing visible. With fifteen years of experience in letting the two empty my pockets, I had no complaints.
posted in economy | Comments Off on But who will take my money? | 262 words
