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    Ready to Ride

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 19, 2022
    March 17, 2022. The bike is back from the shop and I took it for the first ride of the year, a 10 km jaunt through the new housing development. Otherwise 100% focused on data literacy. Learning a lot. Using gRSShopper to manage my learning, which is an...
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    Up At Dawn

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 19, 2022
    March 16, 2022. Up at dawn to get on the exercise bike. It's only dawn because we changed to Daylight time. Add me to the list of people opposed to changing the clock twice a year. Spent the full day on my data literacy project. Making good progress. h...
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    On Step Closer

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    | 2022365, garmin, inreach, Syndicated
    March 16, 2022
    March 15, 2022. My new Garmin InReach Mini 2 arrived today, representing an expensive but necessary piece of insurance for my upcoming adventure. On Anticosti Island I will be hundreds of miles from the nearest cell tower. Or even from the nearest pers...
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    Chicken on the Wall

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 16, 2022
    March 14, 2022. This is a picture of a chicken we bought at the Victoria Craft Fair back when we first moved into our house in Moncton. It has hung in our kitchen ever since, first there, and now here, and to me it signifies a sense of permanence and p...
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    I, Climbing Wall

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 14, 2022
    March 12, 2022. Sitting in my office with a cat climbing my shoulder. Spent the day playing No Man's Sky, finishing Expedition 5. I recorded the whole expedition on live video (and even had an audience for some of it). https://flic.kr/p/2n8vZHq
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    Julia in her Cave

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 14, 2022
    March 11, 2022. Friday. Stayed in all day, and Julia stayed in her cave right by my chair. The red is an Ottawa Redblacks backpack given out at a game a few years ago. Finished off the Latex cold and wrapped up the day a bit early and played video game...
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    First Robin

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 14, 2022
    March 10, 2022. We saw the first robin of the year today, in our crabapple tree. Poor robin, arriving before winter has ended. Feeling better today but still missed a bunch of meetings I was supposed to attend. Instead, I wrote a script to have gRSShop...
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    Negative

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 11, 2022
    March 9, 2022. I felt pretty under the weather today and messed up my meds, so I decided to take a covid rapid test. Here you see the result: negative. So I'm still covid-free and attribute my state to stress (I guess). I took a sick day today and didn...
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    Reflection

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 11, 2022
    March 8, 2022. This is the Buddha that sits by my computer in the kitchen and which reminds me to relax and reflect (so very unlike the Buddha in my office that looks stern and says "work!"). Today was meeting day, and later in the afternoon I was host...
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    Wear

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 10, 2022
    March 7, 2022. Wear. That's how I'm feeling right now. This is the wear on my table in the kitchen caused by the amount of sitting and working I've been doing. I had to give up and admit defeat today, asking for a one-month extension on my Data Literac...
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    Common Redpoll and Two Goldfinch

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 9, 2022
    March 6, 2022. The redpoll is attracted by the finch seed. It has a distinctive red cap. You can see the icicles from the freezing rain. They didn't last long as it got quite warm (and windy) today. Spent about half the day working on my Data Literacy ...
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    Pine Cone

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 9, 2022
    March 5, 2022. This pine cone landed in the fork of this small tree and is just hanging there in midair. We went for a snowshoe walk on a Saturday this week because Sunday weather looked questionable. Same route as last week, though just a little bit l...
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    RanknVile

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    | 2022365, alexandria, comedy, ranknvile, Syndicated
    March 7, 2022
    March 5, 2022. This is Kenny Robinson from the rankbvile stand-up comedy show at the Atlantic in Alexandria. The 'Tic is a fun place with decent food, though it was really short-staffed. The comedy was offensive, as it should be, but I've seen far wors...
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    Pine Cone

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2022
    March 5, 2022. This pine cone landed in the fork of this small tree and is just hanging there in midair. We went for a snowshoe walk on a Saturday this week because Sunday weather looked questionable. Same route as last week, though just a little bit l...
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    Hedge

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2022
    March 3, 2022. This is the hedge to the side of the house, as viewed from my exercise bike. It feels odd to be exercising while watching coverage of the war in Ukraine. Like I should be doing something even though there's nothing I can do except urge t...
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    Cardinal in the Snow

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2022
    March 1, 2022. More snow today and the bird feeders remain a popular attraction. Here we have a cardinal braving the snow for a quick snack. Worked on gRSShopper today, trying to get multisite to run properly, and also on my data literacy project. Also...
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    Fencepost

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2022
    March 2, 2022. This fence post is about two blocks from us, and I've looked at it often waiting for the right light and background to take a photo. Meeting day today, mostly, and more work done on my Data Literacy project. https://flic.kr/p/2n7bzK1
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    Lexi at the Tap

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 1, 2022
    February 28, 2022. Our old forever-kitten Lexi drinks out of the tap. She's about 16 years old now, but is thin and athletic, kept on her toes by the kittens (who have not yet mastered sink-drinking (and if Andrea has her way, never will)). Back to wor...
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    Where the Birds Are

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2022
    February 26, 2022. These are the birds playing in the snow as they eat the seeds that have fallen from the feeders above. We went into Rideau centre today to show our support for the downtown businesses that have been locked out for no good reason for ...
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    All the Birds in the Bcak Yard

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2022
    February 25, 2022. Our bird feeds have been especially active recently with all the snow, and we're getting a good variety, including various finches, sparrows, junkos, chickadees, cardinals, bluejays, and doves. It's hard to tear myself away from the ...
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    Where the Birds Were

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 24, 2022
    February 23, 2022. This shows the aftermath of the freezing rain on the weeds in our back yard. It was supposed to be a picture of the birds as well, but they scattered when I went to take this shot and never returned. More long meetings today, so prog...
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    Freezing Rain

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 24, 2022
    February 22, 2022. Happy Twosday. Today featured a dose of freezing rain, the one sort of weather that poses a real danger here in eastern Ontario. So I was indoors all day attending meetings and working on my MailGun adaptation. Today marked the first...
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    Monday

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 24, 2022
    February 21, 2022. Still on the stationary bicycle every morning, and this is the view outside the window of the basement. The riding plus the walking are helping most of all with my endurance and agility (weight loss has been minimal). Today I finishe...
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    Fresh Snow

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2022
    February 20, 2022. This is a scene of fresh snow in Warwick forest today. We went for a 4.8 km snowshoe walk through the forest (a new distance record for us snowshoeing). I reworked my home page a bit and played some No Man's Sky. Pretty nice day over...
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    Snow Squall

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2022
    February 19, 2022. It was nice and clear and then suddenly turned into this: a classic snow squall. From nice to zero visibility in an instant. Today I spent part of the day watching them remove the occupiers from downtown Ottawa streets (basically a z...
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    Lentement

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 18, 2022
    February 18, 2022. Sometimes Casselman is pretty drab and other days it's as pretty as a picture. This is one of those days, though the blue skies mean it was quite cold. This is the view from behind the train station. I spent the full day today workin...
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    Glaring at Speeders

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 18, 2022
    February 17, 2022. My daily walk takes me along Rue Principale and this is a road where people do *not* respect the speed limit. I stood by the side for a while taking pictures and glaring at drivers doing 70+ in a 50. You would think the extra attenti...
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