Office Farming
February 7, 2019. The pepper crop is coming along. Pepper plants need a lot of water, and while they enjoy the radiator, they're suffering from being dried out by it. Worked more on Docker today. https://flic.kr/p/QUzYsK
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Split Level
February 6, 2019. This is the view from the Caisse Populaire parking lot. It's payday, and also, the provincial green vehicle cheque finally came in (it was owed since last July). https://flic.kr/p/2dhc2yD -
Slippers
February 5, 2019. A busy day today. These are my slippers. I bought them locally during the Christmas festival. https://flic.kr/p/QUhyNK -
Garage
February 4, 2019. I never had a proper garage before moving here to Ottawa, so even though it looks a bit messy, I'm actually quite happy with it. And it gives me another aspirational task to do: organizing the garage. https://flic.kr/p/2eA2C7C -
Defiance
February 3, 2018. This geranium in the kitchen stands out against the dreary winter backdrop. I spent the day relaxing, watching videos on YouTube, and playing No Man's Sky. https://flic.kr/p/2evA3pb -
Fig
February 2, 2019. This is the fig tree in my home office, with the blue frozen winter landscape out the window in the background. I spent the day in this office working away on node and Mongo and Heroku. https://flic.kr/p/23YHpYX -
Red Polished Jug
February 1, 2019. I was at the University of Ottawa today conducting interviews for the summer co-op position. On the same floor was a tiny classical antiquities museum. This jug with incised linear designs dates from 2100 to 1900 BCE. https://flic.kr/... -
Meeting Room
January 31, 2019. This is where we have our team meetings - a few of us here, and by videoconference to people in three other cities. You can see my coffee cup, phone and computer on the table. After the meeting I did time sheets, I sat in on a Bryan A... -
Roof Work
January 28, 2019. I was pretty sympathetic with the people working on the roof on this freezing cold day. As it turns out, the noise of the work right above my office caused me to leave early so I didn't have drilling sounds in the background for my on... -
Office Trinkets
January 27, 2019. A Sunday spent playing in my office. I build a chat engine today - more accurately, I followed instructions on the Feathers documentation website to use the Node.js framework to build a chat application. Loads of fun. https://flic.kr/... -
Croissants
January 26, 2019. Andrea's croissants. I had the one on the upper right for lunch. My day, meanwhile, was spent playing with Node.js and Mongo, first with a really bad article on Google Cloud, then on a great article using MongoDB Atlas and Heroku. I b... -
Mer Bleu Trail
January 25, 2019. Easily the best day I've had since returning to work in January. I had to detour up Anderson Road because of traffic, but made the most of it by stopping to take this photo. Throat was feeling better. Computer was working. My office-p... -
Butter
January 24, 2019. The weather was pretty ugly on the drive in but today was overall a slightly improved day. Team meeting in the morning, and screened coop student applications in the afternoon. On the way home I picked up some butter at the Metro for ... -
Ricola
January 23, 2019. Working from the home office today allowed me to miss the snowstorm, pamper my sore throat, and actually get some stuff done - I got a contribution for a book written, and watched Tim Bouma's presentation on identity. https://flic.kr/... -
Shirts
January 22, 2019. I went into the office today and while I got some work done my throat bothered me quite a bit - the offices are very dry this time of year. These are Andrea's shirts in our closet. https://flic.kr/p/QCArHT -
Cold
January 21, 2019. I burned my throat on hot soup last night and took a sick day today. It was the right call. Not only because of the accident on the highway that would have detoured me on the way to work, but because even a few short breaths of the -2... -
Frozen Rose
January 20, 2019. This is a frozen rose bush as seen from the bathroom window. The snow continued through the day along with brutally cold temperatures. I amused myself by building a GitHub-based website in Node (which was really an exercise in Node ro... -
Storm
January 19, 2019. The storm hit this evening. I stayed indoors all day and did basically nothing (though I did take a nap). https://flic.kr/p/2emV1Qz -
CSIS
January 18, 2019. I've been framing this photo in my mind for some time, and today the light was just right. Unfortunately the camera wasn't really up to the task, and my hands nearly froze while I was taking it. So I'll probably try it again. It's the... -
Blood Oranges
January 17, 2019. In my mind, oranges should be orange, so this is a concept that is just wrong. Andrea nonetheless needs their skin (aka the 'zest') for baking. So, we get blood oranges. https://flic.kr/p/2emUGn2 -
Parked
January 16, 2018. Today was spent catching up on some tasks and laying out the groundwork for some blockchain projects coming up this year. At lunch time we went to St. Albert to visit the cheese factory. These two ATVs were parked neatly in the parkin... -
The Gate
January 15, 2019. This is what it looks like when I get home from the office. This is the gated railway crossing, a block over from our house. Just another day in the office wrapping up my post on learning Electron. https://flic.kr/p/2ebKKmY -
The Second Floor
January 14, 2019. This is the second floor of M-55 (the old CISTI Building) at the NRC in Ottawa, where I spent the afternoon in a committee meeting on enabling open science at the institution. In the morning I worked on Part 2 of my blog post describi... -
Riverside
January 13, 2018. I finished my Udemy course on Electron today (and even got the certificate). Then I wrote Part 1 of my summary of my course experience learning Electron. A day well spent. https://flic.kr/p/2cQsm2X -
Kitchenware
January 12, 2018. We went to CA Paradis/The Chef's Paradise in Ottawa to get some stuff to support Andrea's baking hobby. This store has pretty much everything you would need for cooking and baking (and is mostly likely our new go-to for kitchen suppli... -
Canadiana
January 11, 2019. This is a display inside the local grocery store here in Casselman. It reflects the weather outside quite well - cold and snowy. I got a few things done in the office, but overall, the week wasn't a very productive one. Maybe it will ... -
Dentist Office
January 9, 2018. Worked from home today and thus was 100% more productive. I also took time over the lunch hour to visit the local dentist for a cleaning and light conversation. Best day of the week by far. https://flic.kr/p/2d3MFim -
Alex on the Floor
January 10, 2019. Back in the office today. Computer troubles persist but I brought the laptop in and managed to be a bit more productive, exploring the finer details of node.js (in an effort to learn how to diagnose harvester problems in Electron). Th... -
Fire Engine
January 8, 2019. As you can see, driving conditions weren't great. In the office, it was the same, as I encountered one computer issue after another and effectively wasted a second day in a row. My frustration boiled over at times. https://flic.kr/p/2e... -
Wilted
Janyary 7, 2019. This is what happened to my pepper plants after two weeks in the office. Pepper plants really need their water. It's also a pretty good metaphor for the day, which was a complete waste of time as my desktop computer decided to crash ev...
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