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    Liam and the Cheese Factory

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    April 17, 2017
    April 16, 2017. Bill and Shirley met us at the cheese factory in St. Albert where we had some ice cream and then watched them make cheese for a while. This is their youngoust son Liam trying hard not to pose whle posing. We later went to Brians for sup...
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    Signals

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    April 17, 2017
    April 17, 2017. Another day of rest. I meant to do things like work or whatever but instead watched videos and puttered all day. Just as well; it wasn't a good day for OLDaily posts as one item after another struck me as just wrong.
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    Liam and the Cheese Factory

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    April 17, 2017
    April 16, 2017. Bill and Shirley met us at the cheese factory in St. Albert where we had some ice cream and then watched them make cheese for a while. This is their youngoust son Liam trying hard not to pose whle posing. We later went to Brians for sup...
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    Camera

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    April 14, 2017
    April 14, 2017. Online meeting first thing this morning, then went for a nice 25 km ride to St. Albert and back thiss afternoon. So I was ready for pizza when we visited with family in Embrun this evening. This is Lorelei taking my picture with her, um...
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    Waiting for Summer

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    April 13, 2017
    April 13, 2017. Put on the summer tires today and while I was waiting, took this picture of a deck across the road. The flag, if you're wondering, is the Franco-Ontario flag, and greets visitrs to Casselman. Spent all morning getting my office Windows ...
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    Weir

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    April 13, 2017
    April 12, 2017. I worked through the day on an LRS, setting up the ADL reference implementation and running tests on it. I also fixed a problem with OLDaily email. Then I thought I'd go for a bke ride but the 7 degree temperature and rain cut it short....
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    The 6:35 to Ottawa

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    April 11, 2017
    April 11, 2017. This is the track just near our house, and as I was taking some photos the 6:35 came by. One of those days today - spent the day installing software, setting up AWS, etc. Finally turned off a zombie database that was costing me $2 a day.
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    Bridge

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    April 11, 2017
    April 10, 2017. It was the first nice day of the year so I was able to get out for a short bike ride. This is the St. Isadore Road Bridge over the Nation River just a few kilometers out of town.
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    Evening

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    April 9, 2017
    April 9, 2017. Sunday evening at home on the first day it feels like itt might be spring. This is a weed in the back yard and the barfk of a tree.
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    Tomatoes

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    April 8, 2017
    April 8, 2017. No, not from my garden or anything like that, but I liked the way they looked on the vine. Good day of writing today (it takes a long time to write a long paper when you're doing iti weekends, but my employers pay me for other things the...
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    Cardinals

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    April 8, 2017
    April 7, 2017. OK, this isn't the best photo in the world - they were taken with the Sony outside the window. Both of these cardinals - a male and a female - were in our crabapple tree. So I guess we have a pair of nexting cardinals around here. Awesome.
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    Anderson Road

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    April 7, 2017
    Aril 6, 2017. This is from Anderson Road, at the corner of Innes, on the way into the office today. It was raining hard all day and I took the back roads to avoid the traffic on the highway.
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    Feeding

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    April 7, 2017
    April 5, 2017. Watching the snow melt outside my office window, and watching the starings feeding on the newly exposed grass.
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    Table Buddha

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    April 4, 2017
    April 4, 2017. I reset the Sony point-and-shoot and began shooting in RAW; it's a four year old camera but it still produces great images. This is a study of the Buddha that sits on the kitchen table. Taking it was the most productive thing I did all d...
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    The Shelves Return

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    April 4, 2017
    April 2, 2017. This morning a large truck pulled up and delivered my bookshelves from Moncton. I had left them in the Moncton house hoping it would help sell it, but in the end decided I wanted them more than I wanted to be paid for them. So now they'r...
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    Opening Day

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    April 4, 2017
    April 3, 2017. This is me in my office celebrating the start of a new Blue Jays season 156 days after the last day last year. It felt like spring all over - I saw a bright red cardinal in a tree this morning, a huge hawk (or eagle) on the way in, and w...
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    Mold

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    April 2, 2017
    March 29, 2017. I hadn't let my coffee standing very long but when I saw it today there was this layer of mold about an inch from the bottom. I feared I faced a layer of crud, but in fact there was just this thin crist - everything else had dried away....
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    Dumpster

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    April 2, 2017
    March 31, 2017. I've been admiring this dumpster for some time. It's out behing M-55 at NRC, and instead of old rusty metal it's made out of some superstrong plastic (now *this* is how we should be using the world's supply of oil, not burning it). Anyh...
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    Fading Daylight

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    April 2, 2017
    April 1, 2017. I spent the day working on my Contact North paper in the home office, emerging in time to see the fading daying against the trees in the back yard.
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    Costco Again

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    April 2, 2017
    March 30, 2017. I sometimes joke that I live in Costco. I certainly spend enough time there. The store (and modern grocery stores in general) never fails to amaze me.
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    7:02 to Montreal

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    March 28, 2017
    March 28, 2017. The office computer died today - looks like a memory error, in which case it's easily fixed by swapping memory cards. But it's Shared Services Canada that has to do that, so it could be any time between now and December. Fortunately I s...
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    M-55

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    March 28, 2017
    March 27, 2017. Quiet day in the office today, one short meeting and some useful coding time. Blue jays game in the evening, but we won't talk about that. I've been watching The Wire over the last week, and it turns out to be quite good. But I guess pr...
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    7:02 to Montreal

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    March 28, 2017
    March 28, 2017. The office computer died today - looks like a memory error, in which case it's easily fixed by swapping memory cards. But it's Shared Services Canada that has to do that, so it could be any time between now and December. Fortunately I s...
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    M-55

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    March 28, 2017
    March 27, 2017. Quiet day in the office today, one short meeting and some useful coding time. Blue jays game in the evening, but we won't talk about that. I've been watching The Wire over the last week, and it turns out to be quite good. But I guess pr...
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    Playing With Lexi

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    March 26, 2017
    March 26, 2017. I spent a nice Sunday working on my Contact North paper, listening to the ball game, and at suppor time played with Lexi (who has now decided she needs to play with the shoelace every day).
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    Driftwood

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    March 26, 2017
    March 24, 2017. We went to the Home and Garden show at the EY Centre today, picked up a good supply of Thai Chili sauce, and looked at backyard gardens, including one with a driftwood wall - this one.
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    View from the Highway

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    March 26, 2017
    March 24, 2017. I was up in gatineau today doing one last presentation for our CSPS project. It went well and I got back home before dark - an accomplishment given how bad driving conditions were. This is the view of Casselman from the highway (the of,...
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    No Longer Needed

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    March 26, 2017
    March 23, 2017. I wonder how long this filing cabinet sat in some office with its message of inspiration telling its owner each day to live life to its fullest. I wonder what the story is that leaves it in the basement of the CISTI building, surplus, n...
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