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    After the Storm

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    March 3, 2020
    February 28, 2020. The streets were cleared today, mostly, but there was a thick blanket of snow covering everything. Even so, I went into the office today. I had other plans but I started reading Martin Weller's book and as a result started writing a ...
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    Snowstorm

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    March 3, 2020
    February 27, 2020. I was supposed to be in Toronto for the Big Data Challenge today, but with the train cancelled and this snowstorm on the horizon, I spent the day working on the big old ethics paper from home. Mostly what I did was write a script to ...
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    Vaccination Day

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    March 3, 2020
    February 29, 2020. It's like the Chicago song: Saturday at the Vet. We took the three kitties in for their vaccinations. They responded really well to the combination of antibiotics, deworming, eye drops (for Charlemagne) and ear cleaning (for mites). ...
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    Easter Bunnies

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2020
    February 26, 2020. It's way too early for easter bunnies, but there they were in the Metro (I resisted; I was only there for milk). I was supposed to travel to Toronto today, but my train was cancelled, then a winter storm hit, so I stayed home and wor...
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    Feather

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2020
    February 25, 2020. I spotted this feather in the snow on my way to my car in the parking lot. It was interesting the way it actually melted into the snow. Meeting in the morning, newsletter and ethics paper in the afternoon. Also did part of a proposal...
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    Holstein Cat

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2020
    February 24, 2020. This is one of the neighbours' cats. We call it 'Holstein Cat', for obvious reasons. It has a regular route through our back yard, right under the bird feeder (tbh the route was there before we installed the feeder). Had a productive...
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    Chickadee

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 23, 2020
    February 23, 2020. This is another one of our bird friends, a tiny chickadee making the most of the feeder. Watched the ball game today, worked on sorting photos, and write a quick 1-page opinion piece. https://flic.kr/p/2iwVhHV
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    Baseball’s Back

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 22, 2020
    February 22, 2020. It's the first game of spring training. Yay! It's a bit weird this year, because the televised games are on SportsNet, not MLB.tv. Still haven't figured out what to do for audio, which is how I follow most of the games (can't watch T...
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    Colour!

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 22, 2020
    February 21, 2020. Came into the office this morning and saw that the paiters had been at work overnight adding colour! to our hallway. I'm so happy they didn't choose grey. Anyhow, I now live behind a yellow door frame. Did zero productive work today,...
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    Garlic

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 21, 2020
    February 20, 2020. Today was shopping day, first at Costco, then at Metro, where I photographed these giant cloves of garlic. No, I did not buy any. Good progress on ethics today as I dug into some historical documents on biomedical ethics. Good stuff....
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    Kitties in a Bucket

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2020
    February 19, 2020. OK, not really a bucket. But they're all doing better after a (scheduled) visit to the vet for a check-up and (as it turns out) more antibiotic, anti-worm (precautionary), eye medicine (for Charlemagne, who had an eye ulcer), and an ...
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    Fish

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2020
    February 20, 2020. It was snowy and sleety outside, not a good day to drive on the highway, so I worked out of the home office and made quite a bit of progress reviewing and summarizing codes of ethics. This fish is a pad I put under my computer to mak...
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    Winter Woods

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 17, 2020
    February 17, 2020. I took a day off work today (and ended up working on my newsletter and ethics book). I took a quick run to the store, stopping to take a photo of some local woods (and to take a break from cat photos). https://flic.kr/p/2iuwHzi
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    Emma

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 16, 2020
    February 16, 2020. This is Emma, who like to climb the sides of the kennel. She's the smallest of the three, but far from being the runt, she is the most energetic of the bunch. Julia is doing better today and all three kittens had strong appetites. ht...
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    Andrea Holding Julia At the Vet

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 16, 2020
    Febrary 16, 2020. Our quiet Saturday was interrupted when Julia began showing signs of distress. We drove into the emergency vet in the city, and while there, got her eating and drinking some. She also got five hours of hugging. She tested negative for...
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    Julia and Charlemagne

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 14, 2020
    February 14, 2020. No surprise: it's kittens. This is Julia in the forefront (the quietest and calmest of them) and Charlemagne in back. Today was a bad-internet day at the office, which slowed me down, but I got a couple of sections done on the ethics...
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    The Kitties Have Landed

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    | 2020365, cats, Syndicated
    February 13, 2020
    February 13, 2020. Please meet our clowder of kitties, born exactly two months ago, and new to our home today. This is Julia (left), Charlemagne (middle) and Emma (right). Julia and Charlemagne are polydactyl. https://flic.kr/p/2isWgJj
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    Lunch Time

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2020
    February 12, 2020. There has been a lot of activity around the bird feeder recently; this is pretty typical. Today I worked on the ethics paper and caught up on some reading. https://flic.kr/p/2isCkE5
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    Waiting for the Train

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2020
    January 10, 2020. These are the tracks and crossing just in front of my house. It has been quiet recently as the blockades have shut down train traffic. I am more or less in sympathy with the blockade, not so much out of solidarity with indigenous peop...
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    Blue Jay

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2020
    February 11, 2020. It's just coincidence that I was able to capture this beautiful photo just as the Blue Jays spring training camp is starting, but there it is. I spent the entire day today writing a post on educational research. https://flic.kr/p/2is...
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    My Friend the Sparrow

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2020
    February 8, 2020. We decided to stay in today because the weather was pretty ugly. The sparrow in our back yard didn't have a choice. But I had a nice day just puttering with computer projects, mostly cleaning up my old photo files. https://flic.kr/p/2...
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    The Kitty Kennel

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2020
    February 9, 2020. It's pretty quiet in the house with only one cat, but we're planning ahead as we contemplate finding some rescue kittens that need a forever home. Quiet day inside again; I wrote an article, I explored Svelte, and I wrote some posts t...
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    Snowfall

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2020
    February 7, 2020. The highways were a mess today because of the hevy snowfall, so I worked from the home office, pushing forward again on the ethics paper. https://flic.kr/p/2irzPuf
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    Birdhouse Magic

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2020
    February 6, 2020. With more snowfall, the bird feeder has become increasingly popular in the neighbourhood. For me, it was back to the ethics paper today, including migrating completed bits to Pressbooks (yes, I've conceded that it's a book). https://f...
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    Marmalade

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 5, 2020
    February 5, 2020. I got to taste Andrea's marmalade today, which she put in jars yesterday. The first note you taste is maple, but then the Seville orange flavour comes to the fore. Finished revisions to my OER paper, did a survey, and caught up on som...
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    Before

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 5, 2020
    February 4, 2020. They've taken down all the posters and other wall art (such as it was) at our office in preparation for painting. This is what it looks like before that painting. Meeting in the morning, and completed a bunch of 'Big Data Day' reviews...
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    4807

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 5, 2020
    February 3, 2020. Either I was a bit early or the 4807 was a bit late, but either way, I had to stop for it on the way in. Today I worked on my OER paper, and with an extra push. I got it sent off by the end of the day. https://flic.kr/p/2ipzxyj
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    Return of the Shelves

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    February 2, 2020
    January 2, 2020. These are the shelves I built in Moncton; they've been in storage (and the books in boxes) but I reassembled them today. We need to get the place a bit more ship-shape if we want kittens; the house needs to be safe for them. This was t...
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    Winterlude

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    | 2020365, Syndicated, winterlude
    February 1, 2020
    February 1, 2020. We went into the city and walked around downtown to enjoy Winterlude, Ottawa's mid-winter festival mostly known for its ice carvings. It was good to get outside, take some photos, and put everything else to the side for a day. https:/...
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    Queen of the Castle

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    January 31, 2020
    January 31, 2020. We now have only one cat in the house. This is Lexi, who is slowly realizing that she is Queen of the Castle (here she enjoys relaxing in Alex's traditional roosting spot). Productive day, all things considered - almost emptied my wor...
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