31st
March
2020
My bad. I should have compared bulb lengths before opening the package. Let me back up a little, to add context. We have a small light over the kitchen range. Totally useless, but I guess that some light is better than no light. Given the hot/cold cycling of the environment, this bulb burns out from time to time; usually just before cooking time. This evening, I set out to replace said bulb, with one I had set aside as a spare.
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posted in technology |
30th
March
2020
Here’s today’s “little known fact”, for those of you that wondered: if the sun is supposed to rise at a given time, it will. Your decision to travel for ten minutes when you only have five available means that you will not make it on time. Next.
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posted in environment, health |
29th
March
2020
This afternoon saw me preparing a mathematics lesson for son #3. Specifically: how to calculate the ratios involved in preparing a disinfectant for home use. He’s starting to worry about these things, for the first time (ever). I’m impressed that he wants to learn, and worried that he has to. Six months ago, this wasn’t on our radar.
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posted in education |
28th
March
2020
One of my early teaching jobs involved introducing a rowdy group of teens to the world of geography. More specifically, their geography. I was new to the area, and trying to explain the various regions of their province was arbitrary (to both the students and their teacher). I muddled through.
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posted in travel |
27th
March
2020
posted in computing, media |
26th
March
2020
It’s now Day… who am I trying to kid? I have lost count, and now am resolved to knowing that this is Year 2020. Or maybe Year One. We don’t know how this is going to play out, as the sands shift beneath us. I no longer have a need to wander beyond the edge of the property. Someone else goes foraging for supplies, and if we get mail, that’s an added bonus at the end of the afternoon.
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posted in environment, health |
25th
March
2020
Please pause things for a moment: I want to mention, specifically, my federal parliament and their new adult actions. It looked dicey for a day or two (Scheer luck), but the infighting and name calling was set aside long enough to pass some decent legislation.
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posted in economy, food |
24th
March
2020
The local newspaper is important, even if I don’t read mine every day. At least not in paper format. Seems, to me, that I’ve been involved with physical journalism, in a minor manner, for a very long time. One of our (still available) weeklies was where I learned to proof read, measure column inches and occasionally scribble. Another let me fill in with 6X6 camera, in the real world. I’ve read my paper physically, virtually, historically; even delivered one for an early employment stint.
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posted in media |
23rd
March
2020
Staying home and enjoying life; a fresh loaf of bread has powers that go far beyond the minimal ingredient list in the recipe. Seriously. Between fresh bread and a good steak, I’m unsure which would win. Hey, why not both? Since the BBQ is still on hiatus (and I have no steak in the fridge), today is a bread day.
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posted in food, humour |
22nd
March
2020
The updates were so appealing: eBay, trying to convince me that I needed to up my bid, because I had fallen behind. I get it. eBay is an auction site, dressed as a bazaar. If I had been willing, I could have purchased another microphone, that I didn’t really need. After all, real radio uses a Morse key. And so I withstood the urge, and saved my wallet along the way. Good on me.
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