20th
June
2018
After almost a century of interdiction, the federal government has finally announced the date for the start of what will be known (I imagine) as the Grass Act. I’m not affected by it, but I look forward to a reduction in the number of folks headed off to detention because of personal choices. One question remains: what makes October 17th the target date. Were high government officials throwing darts at an office calendar, while trying to mask their giggles?
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19th
June
2018
Once each month, more or less, my carefully gathered bags of recycling get taken away. I don’t always remember that the “third Monday of the month” actually falls on a predicable date, so I stockpile for another thirty days. And when the truck passes, and my driveway returns to the free of bags state, I heave a sigh of relief.
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posted in environment |
18th
June
2018
Tonight, live on our stage! Actually, so many people. We had tickets to a local concert, picked up a couple of weeks back and held by a strong magnet to the fridge door (one way to lessen house loss). This evening, in spite of some wet and windy weather, we headed out to the community of Goose River.
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posted in music |
17th
June
2018
One of the better acts of satire, in cinema, came out about four decades ago. Airplane. Good enough that the majority of the jokes have not gone rancid (they were already stale, but that’s a conversation about taste best left for another moment). I’m not going to quote here.
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posted in media |
16th
June
2018
My kind of fun: fixing a broken project. Even if I’m the one that broke it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not stumbling from disaster to disaster. When the chance comes to “perform an upgrade” on something, my mind is hard wired to apply things, willy nilly. After all, I can usually revert to the last working revision.
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posted in computing |
15th
June
2018
In high school, we had regular servings of warmed-over Shakespeare. Different plays, happily, but one recurring element was the cast. I didn’t know these people, and so I spent more time than expected trying to check on character descriptions in the front of the books. The teacher must have thought I was assiduous (look it up if need be).
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posted in politics |
14th
June
2018
In a world where batteries are not included, you work around the problem. Careful shopping at the local dollar store and you’re good for the next few hours of activity with your gadget. Perhaps not flashlights… very few batteries on the cheap side of the aisle are up to spotting raccoons or foxes in the dark. For that, I have a big old Maglite. Anyhow.
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13th
June
2018
The humble potato. For all its monotony, we do enjoy the taste and texture. I don’t eat (them) as often as I should, but right now I’m more fascinated by the process required to actually get them into the ground and started.
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posted in environment |
12th
June
2018
Now that I sit on the other side of the table, I realize that getting a job is as much jumping through hoops as anything else. I was lucky; rarely had to sit for interviews during my thirty-plus years of proving my employability. This new “role”, where I’m helping with the staffing of local tourist sites, means giving a quick read of a stranger. Does this person have the “right stuff”? I really should reread the novel with the same title.
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posted in computing |
11th
June
2018
If only there was a cure. Forget the major plagues of the world; the medical people have their eye on those. I’m more worried about something that sits closer to home. My sister, for example. And here, I’m peering over my glasses at the evidence that she has the gullibility gene.
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