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    That Paw

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 15, 2022
    February 14, 2022. Nothing like a late evening photo of a cat to make your photo-a-day quota. This is Charlemagne with the giant polydactyl claw. Today was a grueling day as I wrote two long pieces back to back. The first was a pleasure but the second ...
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    Snowshoeing Warwick Forest

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 15, 2022
    February 13, 2022. This is a view of Warwick forest on a bitterly cold day as we snowshoes along a temporary trail made by people celebrating the forest's 75th anniversary the day before. We weren't out that long, and went three kilometers or so, which...
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    Heavenly Julia

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 15, 2022
    February 12, 2022. This is Julia on the dryer in the downstairs bathroom making sure everything is as it should be. Today I actually took a break, doing a little work but mostly playing No Man's Sky. Yes, I'm building a new base again. https://flic.kr/...
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    Hidden Woodpecker

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 15, 2022
    February 11, 2022. There was a big old woodpecker up in those dead trees in the middle, but it was on the other side and would not emerge as I took this photo. It was taken in the woods just near the NRC building in Ottawa - I took my car in for servic...
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    Microwave and Cat

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2022
    February 10, 2022. So today we got a new microwave but as soon as we put the box on the kitchen floor Emma claimed it as her own, rolling around and actually chasing her tail. Tough slogging today, requiring a lot of focus, but I managed to finish a fu...
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    Senators Snowflake

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2022
    February 9, 2022. We went to a Senators game just before Christmas and they were giving these out. We had tickets for a second game but it was cancelled (and since we had 2-for-one tickets, we weren't compensated at all). I felt under the weather today...
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    Weeds and Standpipe

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 8, 2022
    February 8, 2022. These are some weeds and a standpipe on a vacant lot I saw while walking around the neighbourhood late this afternoon. Long blue shadows and a yellow setting sun. I wrote a shell script this morning to automatically build virtual host...
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    Morning

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 8, 2022
    February 7, 2022. Up bright and early today, hit the trainer, then went to work. This is the sunrise in the back yard. I brought mooc.ca back to life, did some formatting, worked on rel2014, and began work on gRSShopper multisite. Also participated in ...
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    Forest

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 6, 2022
    February 6, 2022. We went snowshoeing in Larose Forest and I took this shot without looking through the viewfinder - I just pointed it at something nice and let the picture define itself. Also played some No Man's Sky and generally had a relaxing day. ...
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    In Town

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 6, 2022
    February 5, 2022. Walked to the Caisse Populaire and back today. This is the view of Casselman on the way back. It's not a pretty picture-postcard town, it's a working town. It suits me. Meanwhile, I recorded a couple of videos and set up some of my Fa...
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    Pineberries

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 5, 2022
    February 4, 2022. These are called pineberries. Andrea got them at Costco. To me they're just tart strawberries. And I would like to add: they're new food, and the world does not need new food. It especially does not need white strawberries. I like foo...
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    Casselman Storage Facility

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 3, 2022
    February 3, 2022. I see this most days on my walk. It's just a storage facility for roads crews. It's generally neat and tidy, so I like it. More issues with the updater, but I managed to get some help videos done. Painful slow progress. Febuary is the...
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    Snack

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 3, 2022
    February 2, 2022. Not quite a palindrome day, but close. This is a snack photographed just outside the Tim Horton's near Costco, where we went for groceries. Mish-mash of a day, got some work done on the VR paper, but struggled quite a bit with the gRS...
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    Kitchen Table Buddha

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 3, 2022
    February 1, 2022. This Buddha keeps me company when I'm at the kitchen table being more sociable and often eating supper. I bought it in Ottawa down by the market 10 or 15 years ago. It makes me feel happy. I finished off the last of the work involved ...
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    Behind the Banister

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 1, 2022
    January 31, 2022. Charlemagne likes to sit behind the banister upstairs overlooking the downstairs to survey his kingdom. Finished my favicon function today; it works perfectly and it gave me a lot of joy to create it. Now, back to real work, not just ...
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    Larose Forest

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 1, 2022
    January 30, 2022. It was quite cold today but it didn't feel that bad as we went for a 4 km snowshoe through Larose Forest. I was anxious about the cold and forgot my camera and snowshoe poles, but we carried on regardless. Also added to my favicon fun...
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    The Bubba

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    February 1, 2022
    January 29, 2022. That's the name of my travel mug, pictured here. It's all dirty and scraped because it travels with me everywhere - on my bicycle, in the car, on trips, wherever. Saturday today and so I relaxed and had fun writing a new function to a...
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    Lunch

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 31, 2022
    january 28, 2022. Pretty typical lunch for me. Some squash, a tin of sardines, bread, dried mushrooms, some cheese and an egg. And of course I like to watch Stephen Colbert while I eat. Finished my upgrade to gRSShopper so I can now run it as fully SSL...
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    My Poor Geranium

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 27, 2022
    January 27, 2022. I went into the office today and this is what my beautiful geranium looks like after almost two years of neglect. Otherwise, the office was exactly as I left it. I went in to access the corporate intranet, as I need to take a test for...
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    Shelf Stuff

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 27, 2022
    January 26, 2022. This is an assortment of stuff on my office shelf, gathered from various places over the years. Tried to record my gRSShopper video after a long and tiring day and for some reason it failed on the second-last step. Disappointing. http...
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    In Close

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 26, 2022
    January 25, 2022. This is a close up view of what my world looks like most days. It's where I spent the entire day today, which a full-on push to get the code exactly right to support installing and configuring gRSShopper on a cloud network with proper...
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    The Waiting Room

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 26, 2022
    January 24, 2022. This is the waiting room at the dentist's office. Yes, it was back in to have a small problem fixed quickly. Easy-peasy in and out. More work on the gRSShopper system today, setting up server_test so it can set up a database on the fl...
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    Snow Angel

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    | 2022365, casselman, Syndicated
    January 24, 2022
    January 23, 2021. This is an angel at the cathedral in the centre of town. I went for a short walk today instead of the usual hike, because of the cold weather. Otherwise, I spent the entire day working on gRSShopper and watching football (it turned ou...
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    Chickadee

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 24, 2022
    January 21, 2022. This is a chickadee at the feeder in the back yard. With the recent extremely cold weather, the birds have been flocking to our feeders. Today I spent a full day indoors working on gRSShopper, getting it set up for my next MOOC - my f...
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    Julia and String Time

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 23, 2022
    January 21, 2022. This is Julia waiting to play with the string. Today was no-meeting Friday, which allowed me to get a ton of work done preparing for upcoming work on data literacy. Very productive day. https://flic.kr/p/2mYTVGN
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    Looking into the X-Ray

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 23, 2022
    January 20, 2022. Today was a dentist day. This is the x-ray that looks inside my jaw. One minor cavity this time, so I'll have to come back. Today was also Costco day. And I even got some work done, with a newsletter and some background reading on dat...
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    Brush

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 20, 2022
    January 19, 2022. View of the brush near my home in late afternoon. I was on my regular walk after a workday that included a number of long meetings. I also produced a decent issue of the newsletter and made some progress fixing the gRSShopper containe...
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    No Construction Traffic

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 18, 2022
    January 18, 2022. I don't think there will be any traffic across this field. It's literally piles of dirt covered by the foot of snow we got yesterday. Maybe it was meant to be put on the other side, where there's actually a road leading into a residen...
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    The Snow Storm

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 17, 2022
    January 17, 2022. I was up bright and early today and this is what greeted me: nothing but snow. This is the view from the front basement window, my view as I do my daily work on the exercise bike. Today was a day for administrative stuff - I got my NR...
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    Before the Storm

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    January 17, 2022
    January 16, 2022. It has been freezing cold all day with a clear blue sky - here's the scene looking outside my home office window. We're expecting the storm to hit overnight, but we have all our provisions stored and are ready for it. Today I played s...
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