September 26, 2020. I spent the day riding from Winchester to Spencerville and back, 113 km total ride through some beautiful eastern Ontario farm and forest country. This is near Cass Bridge on the Nation River late in the afternoon. It was a beautiful day for cycling, a bit of…

September 24, 2020. Today wasn’t especially productive as I messed around with configuring my browser extensions and wrote some posts and did some background reading. Lunchtime we went in to the Costco; this is a photo of Ottawa’s greenbelt on Anderson Road where we were waiting for a construction delay.…

September 22, 2020. I have no idea what makes it organic, but it’s lo-cal, and I have two a day. I should probably cut back to one. Today was a meeting day, and in between meetings I caught of on email and my newsletter. https://flic.kr/p/2jKtEL8…

September 21, 2020. This is a piece of frozen yellowfin tuna. I have one piece each day – or sometimes haddock or cod, but usually tuna. In the past I’ve also eaten frozen salmon and scallops, but there were issues of these thawing and being refrozen at Costco. Today was…

September 20, 2020. This is a roma tomato. I try to have two of these each day (sometimes I run out, and sometimes Costco is out of stock). Today was a quiet day – I wrote a section on a paper, watched the ball game, that’s about it. https://flic.kr/p/2jJUTPL…

September 16, 2020. Any time I go to the basement or to the garage Emma scoots over to say goodbye to me through the stair railing. Her choice of railing isn’t always smart; there’s a 12 foot drop under this bit of railing (the cats have torn down the cardboard…

September 17, 2020. I spent a good ten hours writing my post ‘Boxing gRSShopper’ but it was crucial to have a record of the steps involved. I took a break in the middle, though, to go to the store; this is me sitting in the car waiting for Andrea in…

September 18, 2020. I’ve been enjoying a number of British comedy shows on YouTube recently, including ‘8 out of 10 cats does Countdown’ and ‘Taskmaster’ (they’re delayed by about three years, so the current events shows are useless). Today, as I stated in a Twitter post, I spent the day…

September 19, 2020. It was pretty cool today when I set out from the Laggan School parking lot for a ride to Voyageur Provincial Park and back, but it was never really unpleasant and I managed an enjoyable 101 km on a beautiful brisk fall day. https://flic.kr/p/2jJdwWd…

September 13, 2020. Exactly six months ago we started social distancing for the pandemic. Through late January and early February I had been stocking our makeshift pantry with essentials, just in case. It wasn’t a huge stockpile, but the idea was to have a month’s worth of emergency food –…

September 14, 2020. Yesterday (Sunday) was a work day, making videos, and so was today, gRSShopper coding. I’m also taking pictures all through the house for our insurance company, which can’t send assessors around any more because Covid. This is one of our interior angles, the stairs and walkway up…

September 15, 2020. I was taking more photos for the insurance company and noticed our geraniums struggling in pond water after the recent rains. I know the geraniums don’t like it, but I couldn’t resist a photo of the water, which has formed into an ecosystem of its own. More…

September 11, 2020. This is a ratty old rose at the Shoppers in Ottawa, where we went in the afternoon for groceries and such (the Costco is right across the street from it now). https://flic.kr/p/2jGZoBt…

September 12, 2020. I drove down to Cornwall and then rode my bicycle up to Lancaster and back along the St. Lawrence, for a 68 km ride on a cool but beautiful early fall afternoon. For listening entertainment I had ‘Treasure Island’, which I had never actually read. Quite a…

September 10, 2020. The Day of Five Meetings started at 8:00 in the fog and carried on all day. But it was a productive day and I survived, and even had time to complete my newsletter. https://flic.kr/p/2jFmBWi…

September 9, 2020. This is a scene from a lunch-hour bike ride I was able to take to St-Albert and back (29 km because of a detour). Today I worked on gRSShopper some, the newsletter (as always) and preparing for tomorrow’s meetings. https://flic.kr/p/2jFmzfG…

September 8, 2020. Julia doesn’t like being photographed, but she posed for this one. More rain today, but it wouldn’t have mattered, as today was a Day of Three Meetings (hah! wait ’til Thursday!) and some project work in between. https://flic.kr/p/2jEUsA6…

September 7, 2020. Andrea sometimes is allowed to sit on the front edge of the chair as Charlemagne likes to make himself at home in it. Today was a holiday but because of the rain it was a work day; I spent half of it finishing my Perl on Docker…

September 5, 2020. Health, bike and weather finally cooperated today, allowing me to get out for a 65 km ride in a slightly cool but beautiful fall day. This forest in Warina caught my eye, the forest floor being covered as it is with white flowers. https://flic.kr/p/2jDD45G…

September 4, 2020. More foliage from our back yard. Today was more productive; I did work on a VR project, rebuilt the base Perl Docker image, and of course did a number of newsletter posts (more than usual). I had plans to go out for a late afternoon ride but…

September 2, 2020. After taking the sunset photo I turned around and saw a horizon to horizon rainbow, faint in the red light of the sunset, but unmistakable, and when I moved a few steps to the left, it framed our house perfectly. Since the pandemic in thousands of windows…

September 1, 2020. The blue jay has been back the last few days. I slept very poorly, then was up before six, and actually got in a full day of work by three – evaluating funding proposals – but instead of being able to take advantage of the afternoon had…

September 2, 2020 part 1. Today I spent the morning working on a long piece of correspondence, the noon hour going into Costco, and the rest of the day doing background reading and the newsletter, finishing late enough to go out and capture this picture of the sunset that followed…

August 31, 2020. Monday. First full week back in the office (well, home office). Began by doing time sheets and catching up on email. Evening, with the light streaming in through the front window, I captured Charlemagne and Emma on the pillow in the box grooming each other. https://flic.kr/p/2jCKTxc…

August 29, 2020. This photo is actually from a few days later, but I’m missing a photo for today, and this one is two nice not to share as a daily photo. https://flic.kr/p/2jCQ9ec…

June 9, 2020. Good productive day even though there were meetings. I have content organized, I just need to convert it into text, and I have my paper. After work I took a nice brisk bike ride (25km @ 23.2 kph) to St. Albert and back. https://flic.kr/p/2jaqPQv…

June 8, 2020. I worked all day on the ethics paper, finally realizing it wasn’t going to be done on time. I have so much stuff, and so little time. So I checked my mail just in time to be pulled into a meeting. That kind of day. Still no…

June 7, 2020. I spent the morning working on ethics codes (paper is due tomorrow) and the afternoon cycling to the village of Finch (where I ate my first hamburger in three months) and back. This is a pond just outside Chrysler, on the way to Finch. 58km at 20.5…