10th
November
2021
I am not particularly superstitious. No problem with breaking mirrors (small, cheap ones). Willing to let that black cat meander across my path (or dash, it it works better). But, let the record show that I lack faith in the manufacturers of my home appliances. I am apprehensive, with a capital A. Because I’m too cheap to want to buy new ones, when the need hasn’t been presented.
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posted in politics, technology |
9th
November
2021
History is meant to be shared. Especially family history. What could be sadder than a rooomful of documents, hidden from the eoeys of everyone else? Including, I imagine, those concerned by reason of consanguinity.
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posted in genealogy |
8th
November
2021
Even though I have moved along, from the scene of the story, I still follow the politics of places I used to live. I mean, politics is akin to the flavour of your drinking water. Often the cause.
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posted in environment, food, politics |
7th
November
2021
I just read about a house in the GTO (greater Toronto) area that sold, over the asking price, for close to a million. No news here, you say. To which I have to respond “but it was filled with garbage, and the windows and doors were boarded up”. OK, a case for the local fire marshal.
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posted in environment |
6th
November
2021
At around midnight, in the various time zones worldwide, a new record album was released. CD, streaming, whatever your mode. By breakfast, the various songs were already charting at #1 (is the Top Forth still a “thing”?) And as the fan base came wake, my children weren’t even invited to the hysteria. You see, after forty years, ABBA is back!
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posted in music |
5th
November
2021
Imagine it as an act of faith. We commit the majority of our data to mechanical contraptions that we refer to as hard drives, with only a small number of us actually understanding the mechanics involved.
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posted in computing, media |
4th
November
2021
Look, a new rig! In the field, this evening, the biggest tricycle I’ve ever see. Special machine, tasked with spreading lime before the winter begins. And the job was over and done before we understood the implications. There’s going to be another crop, of something, next year. Else, why spend money on extras. Now we wait for the new growth, to discover what will be our “farm view” in ’22. Just the anticipation of watching something novel (and amazing) spring forth already takes the edge off a winter that hasn’t started.
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posted in education, environment |
3rd
November
2021
As we move through the latest “red letter”question season, there are some odd glitches in the matrix. While the tiny fish in the system get knocked out of their jobs, or at a least face suspension until they can prove that they’ve been jabbed, some real differences appear, as we climb the salary ladder.
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posted in health |
2nd
November
2021
Some parts of the TV metaverse have changed from back when I was a young buck. Right now, in the background, a new series called “The Morning Show” (or by it’s alternate title “Holy F-Bomb Batman!”) I had not imagined that the sweet young thing from “Friends”, Rachel, had such a potty mouth. My money would have been on Feebs.
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posted in media |
1st
November
2021
Based on the local news page, nothing involving me happened recently.
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posted in environment |
