We went out Saturday evening to check out Andrew Haydon Park and had a very nice walk. The park is much nicer in the spring than the dead of winter. A big highlight was stumbling on a bunch of clutches of baby goslings by the pond – they were super tame, to the point where [...]

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Natasha and I had a blast playing soccer with our recreational “All Sorts of Sports” team through the Ottawa Sport and Social Club – next week we play Ultimate, and a week later we’re scheduled to play Football. This week our ragtag band of misfits were up against a team that knew eachother and had [...]

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My iPod shuffle accidentally took a trip through the washing machine and dryer in the pocket of my hoodie, and didn’t look very happy about it afterwards. I left it to dry overnight, and miraculously, although the headphones gordian knotted themselves and are joining the big stereo in the sky, the shuffle itself is still [...]

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The “Charity of the Month” at work is Canines with a Cause, a group that train and match assistance dogs with people who have limited mobility. Today, Miriam, Tom, Doris, and a guest puppy raiser from CWAC stopped by with some of their dogs in training to do a demonstration and talk about the work [...]

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Saw a crazy accident last night while driving Natasha and her friend home from Ikea. While I was yielding to turn right from Pinecrest to Richmond, a car that was being followed by a police car charged the red heading west on Richmond and PLOWED through the back of a grey SUV that was crossing [...]

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Out by the river last night Natasha saw a bird with a red spot on it’s wing and asked me what it was. Being an expert ornithologist, I had no idea, so I stalled and told her it was a Cardinal. Except it was clearly not a Cardinal, it was a Red-Winged Blackbird. So she punched [...]

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We got in on Saturday night late, sometime around 3:00AM after dancing up a storm for Matthew’s going away party, and as I slogged around the apartment turning off lights I caught this out the corner of my eye. The moon is sitting right down on the horizon (it slipped beneath a moment later) and [...]

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I bought my first new sketchpad in over a year, and christened it before my next lifedrawing workshop with a big 12 by 12 inch Ninja Turtle. I doodled it in because it was fun to draw, I wanted to mess around with linework and practice my shading, and I needed to get something onto [...]

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