I went downtown tonight with some flowers to drop off at the Danielle Nacu memorial on Queen and O’Connor. Someone thoughtfully put up a “Ghost Bike” and I wasn’t the first to get there.

This one struck close to home when I read about it. Danielle died Tuesday morning when she got “doored” by an illegally [...]

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Natasha and I camped out in front of the TV last night to eat dinner in the relative coolness of  the basement, and we caught a few minutes of Entertainment Tonight. (Until I couldn’t take it anymore.)

Here are some of the fascinating things I learned from this highly informative show:
1) Anna Paquin loves Cadbury creme [...]

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I was hoping to have an exciting positive post for you today, but I’m annoyed since discovering what looks like an arm of a staple in my Gourmet Olé Chicken Burrito. I seem to have a history bad luck with contaminated food – I once had a chunk of a broken dish in a dim-sum [...]

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Today I decided to catch an early bus so I’d be prepared for a morning meeting. The early bus was running even a few minutes earlier than I was, and I saw it pulling away as I rounded the corner.
I recently discovered in a pinch that I can jog across the Westgate parking lot and [...]

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Gardening isn’t going exactly as planned. We had a fantastic enthusiastic labour-intensive kickoff with lots of healthy seedlings going into well-prepared dirt. For the first few weeks things were growing well, our beans were about to fruit and our squash were flowering. And then suddenly with all the rain the pest population exploded and now [...]

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I had to unpack my laptop for the first time in 3 weeks so I could work from home this morning, and I got to sit and watch for a half hour as all of my software updaters wrestled for control of my internet connection, hard drive, and processor. In just 21 days there have [...]

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The new management in our apartment building has decided that the new low-flow toilets we had installed last year by our previous management company had to go – not low-flow enough! So they ordered in a truckload of new toilets and installed them in a hurry – not stopping to realize that the countertop shelf [...]

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I’ve got the “Power-Cord Aint Properly Supplyin Juice To The Internet Router Bluuuues”. Or more specifically, “The Reds”. Two nights ago the power light on our 2Wire router went red, which according to the manual means the power adapter is shot.
It seems like just a plain vanilla 6 volt DC power adapter – which begs [...]

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There were some electrical system upgrades going on in our building a few weeks ago, and although we unplugged all the sensitive electronics, the microwave was left attached to the wall, and became possessed by evil spirits.
Every so often while we’d be drinking tea in the living room or reading in the office, the control [...]

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On a bit of a stats kick, I decided to go browse over the tables at Statistics Canada, and ran into a surprising amount of data that you have to pay for. The data is not particularly expensive ($3 for the tables I was looking at) and I’m sure it’s full of juicy numbers… but [...]

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