After I’d left the Aviation Museum and had started heading back to my car, I caught a look through an open door at an engine being rebuilt in the workshop and wandered in to ask if I could get a couple of pictures of the work in progress. Sensing I was a bit of an [...]

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Before we left Manitoba, I had a chance to finally visit the Western Canada Aviation Museum, a huge hangar full of really fantastic and well-cared-for Canadian aviation equipment, from bushplanes to fighter jets. I took a memory card full of pictures of aircraft bits – all of those open jet engines are gold for a [...]

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My aunt and her boyfriend drove through Winnipeg today (!!!) and after taking me out for lunch, they dropped off a vacuum cleaner that my parents had sent with them.
So now I can make -lots- of noise and have clean carpets. Which is really good, because the dust in my apartment was starting [...]

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and I’m humming this sad Leonard Cohen song that got stuck in my head like a year ago from Shrek (Hallelujah), and stop to tie my shoe beside a Christmas tree.
I give the giant nutcracker dude a little high-five as I walk past, and wonder how anyone can like those horrible icicle string lights, when [...]

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Looking out from my 22nd story balcony, this is what I see. I’ve annotated the image to highlight a number of points of interest.

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