10th
November
2020
Getting the outdoor temperature up into summertime range is such a nice thing to have happen. From my walk to the garage to retrieve a car, to the time spent reinstalling the roof racks, to the checking nooks and crannies for things that really should stay here with us… all good. All was done in short sleeves. I could have opted for cargo shorts, if I had so wanted. Yes, I realize that we aren’t going to avoid cold weather forever (I have no plans to spend the next few months in a tropical location). This is just a final hurrah to the great weather of the summer.
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posted in technology |
9th
November
2020
Do the math. If you double the number of automobiles under your care, you double the number of snow tires that have to be installed before the beginning of winter. We’re still in double-digit temperatures, so the local garages aren’t under siege; you call and you come over. Easy. In fact, one of the cars, here, is so new that the tires and wheels came directly from the dealer. It’s still a dance, though.
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posted in travel |
8th
November
2020
I had almost forgotten about that! In photos of the new and shiny car (not actually new, but definitely gleaming), there was an unidentified object. Turns out, we own one of those gadgets required while camping: an inverter, to charge things in the car). I mean, I knew we had one, but after not camping for several seasons it had disappeared from view.
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posted in computing |
7th
November
2020
It has been a good day, here in our world. Now we have to fasten our seatbelts; the ride on the rollercoaster goes on, for another seventy-five days. After years of waiting for what should have been the inevitable, our suspension of disbelief is still under test. Yes, the results of the 2020 American election (one of them), has been announced, barring derailment of our train, and when they say “people are dancing in the streets”, there’s no exaggeration.
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posted in music, politics |
6th
November
2020
Forty-five years ago, this week, the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen made its radio debut. That’s all. Now back to feeling really old.
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posted in technology |
5th
November
2020
Today, the little car moved one step closer to its new vocation. After a quick piling of personal effects into a handy food bag (the big, reusable kind) and leaving behind a pair of booster cables in the trunk, we headed down the road to a garage that knows how to properly clean a car. I could have tried to do the job at home, but my skills are shallow. Plus, we’re now into a cold and windy spell, and after fifteen minutes I threw in the (virtual) towel.
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posted in education |
4th
November
2020
Please, don’t interrupt; the world is busily counting. Straws, ballots, stars in the sky. Right now, all we want is a chance to have those precious markers tallied. Else, all is for naught. The election, although technically over, isn’t. Yes, one person wants the whole thing to stop, before the rest of us have any assurance. With a tiny measure of justice, the dance will continue.
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posted in education |
3rd
November
2020
Years ago, I read that comedy depended on timing. This evening, I watched a special with Sarah Cooper, and I want to raise a complaint. We aren’t ready, yet, to treat 2020 as satire. Perhaps in a few weeks (like when January forces a change of calendar), but right now we’re all sitting on the edge of our seats, waiting for election returns from south of us. I speak on behalf of the nation. Nay, the world. Her humour was on target, but we’ve run out of laugh pills.
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posted in humour, politics |
2nd
November
2020
Years of experience; that’s what I have to offer the community.
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posted in photography |
1st
November
2020
An interesting story from last evening: long after we thought that Hallowe’en, with its masked entities had ended, a message came in from son #3. This would have been after midnight, and he sent a link to an active webcam.
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