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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Natasha and I participated in this year’s HOPE beach volleyball challenge through my work team. It was convenient that our OSSC team had a volleyball game just a few days previous, so we were warmed up and ready to bump, set and spike.

The weather put a quick end to the day, though. After just 3 [...]

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Okay, you smug Winnipegers, I got your teasing e-mails, and I’ll cry uncle. Here’s the tropical climate I moved to, the morning of October 29th. Cold, driving snow that stuck for two days. Curse you, weather gods! On the plus side, it was good and wet snowman material!

Tomorrow we’re supposed to get 12°C, [...]

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I have two phone company reviewing biases – I worked at MTS in Customer Care (who are excellent!) for four years, and I worked at Sympatico waaaay way back in college, so when I say that Bell sucks, I really need to stress that I gave them way more than their share of chances and [...]

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It suddenly occured to me that because I both forgot to have my film scanned
at the photo place (which gave me a cookbook, a bunch of free developing
coupons and a handful of photo sleeves for having 9 rolls of film processed
at the same time) and because I’m a complete nitwit it may be a while [...]

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