While I’m on the subject of grumpy news… we’re finding the Junebug grubs especially frustrating this year – our neighbourhood seems to have a scourge of them devouring our lawns in wide patches.
Natasha and I are wary about using insecticide – but we tried to dig up some of the grubs along the munching wavefront [...]

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I’m in a bad mood already and everything is pushing my buttons today! I went on Amazon to order a used book. Check out the pricing details.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? $60.10 to ship a $6 book to Canada?GIVE ME A BREAK!
I’ll bet the affiliate store is shifting all the costs to the item’s shipping to [...]

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I was running a bit behind this morning (after getting up a bit early – still not sure how that happens) and couldn’t find anything. So frustrating. I probably carry too much stuff around with me, but I did a bit of a spring cleaning when I switched to my bike bags this week, and [...]

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Something’s going on in the magazine racks that I haven’t puzzled out yet. It seems like any magazine I like is priced way out of whack from it’s neighbors. At first I thought maybe I like magazines serving a niche market, but I saw a copy of “Urban Farm: Chickens” on the rack for $4.99 [...]

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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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