We took a trip out to the Museum of Nature this morning with Greg and his girls, and I got to take my first look around since the renovations started. There’s really only a very small portion of the museum open. It’s a little disappointing, but what they have set up is gorgeous. I was [...]

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I scored some pretty sweet IIHF World Junior Championship tickets to the Russia vs Finland game, just to the right of the net behind Finland, which was a particularly good spot to watch Russia drill shot after shot on goal. Russia pretty much took the offensive stance early on in the game and won it [...]

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To get out of the house the other night we went for a stroll through Westboro, which is a great little neighbourhood. The snow was coming down heavily and it was a bit nippy outside, so we ducked into a few little shops and galleries along the way, including a tiny and well-hidden art shop [...]

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Natasha and I put on our outdoor gear and got out for a nice long tromp through the snow on the weekend. The side streets hadn’t been touched by the plows yet, so we were stomping along through knee-deep snow in spots. It’s always fun to leave trails of footprints through the unbroken snow, my [...]

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Apologies again for not posting much - it seems like we’ve been super busy, but haven’t generated a lot of bloggable content lately. We hosted some friends earlier in the month, followed soon afterwards by Natasha’s parents, then concentrated on our Christmas shopping and my mom’s Birthday, two work parties and some outdoor adventures in [...]

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I discovered (thanks to the “Green Team” at work) that the Ottawa Public Library system lends out “Kill-a-watt” power meters, something I’ve always wanted to try. So I excitedly booked one out last week and went about measuring everything in the house.
Even though I had a pretty accurate sense of what to expect for most [...]

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We’ve elected not to bother with cable service just yet in the apartment - neither of us are avid television watchers and most things we’d like to see are coming out on DVD eventually, so why pay to get tv shows you have to rush home to watch, only to have to sit through commercials [...]

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Woke up to some more rolling fog, this time hugging the ground just enough that it picked up a little colour, and every so often a building over on Richmond would peek through. Really neat!

I think I’m going to set up my camera to do some time-lapse sequences overnight and see if I can catch [...]

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Somebody forgot to pay the scenery bill this month, and when we woke up, we were cut off.  I brushed my teeth this morning while admiring the pea-soup fog, with nothing visible out our windows but our balcony rail. I wondered to myself if I’d died over the course of the evening, but I reasoned [...]

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Natasha and I decided to take a break from setting up house (yes, a month later we’re still unpacking stuff) to go enjoy the gorgeous day on Sunday with a trip up to the Gatineau Hills for a hike around Pink Lake. It was good timing - there was really great colour on the trees, [...]

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