I took Natasha out for her birthday dinner last night to a place she’d been hearing about, Ottawa’s “New Restaurant of the Year”. Zen Kitchen on Somerset was pretty amazing. It was hands down the best vegan food I’ve ever had (which is not to say they had a lot of competition, but it was [...]

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The May Long Weekend was the official start to our planting season. Natasha and I spent Saturday and Sunday rehabilitating our front flower bed after it was dismantled earlier in the spring by the backhoes digging up our sewer pipe. A few dozen Portulaca Grandiosas (Moss Roses), a stack of pink Petunias and a couple [...]

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Today was my team’s first Dragonboat racing practice! We did pretty well for our first go! I’m super psyched to be participating in such a neat event. The next couple of weeks I’m going to be working to improve my flexibility and rowing muscles so we can power past all the other teams on race [...]

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So a bunch of people remarked that the G.I. Joe movie didn’t seem like the kind of thing I’d normally watch, and it they were probably right. I don’t want to give everyone the wrong impression though! While I object to the glorification of violence, I think it can be applied in really powerful ways [...]

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It would only make sense for my very favourite vegetable, Turnip (or Rutabega, if you’re from a non-British family), to also be among the most hated vegetables to prepare. With rock-hard flesh and a dangerously slippy wax coating on the skin, most people break a sweat sawing through it, if they don’t break anything else [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit of geometric thinking today since witnessing a terrible lawncutting job a city worker was doing to a soccer field as I passed by on the bus. He shouldn’t have been cutting the grass when the ground was soft anyhow, but there he was with the grass tractor driving a strange [...]

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The Over-The-Air HD TV signal reception in the basement of our new place is pretty weak, but Natasha likes watching “The Amazing Race” on Sundays. I thought I’d surprise her with a proper antenna, the $39 “ANT1400 Flat Antenna” from RCA. It looks cool, can be hung on a wall or laid flat on a [...]

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