Today wins the award for worst biking day this year – I always forget why I usually put away the bike in November, but I’m reminded every year by October’s cold, wet and mucky weather. I got rained on, cut off by a van who didn’t know how to signal, and worse: I didn’t lock [...]

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I just realized this morning that tomorrow’s going to be the last day I’ll be biking into work this season. I’m not confident (or equipped) enough to do a lot of biking in the dark and with the days getting shorter I’m starting to push my luck getting home before sunset. I’ll be switching over [...]

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I’ve been having really crazily vivid dreams lately. There’s a bunch of elaborate storylines every night, but they all seem to share an aspect of tremendous physical effort. I’m either running flat-out to catch a train, or trying to lift construction equipment, or leaping through windows in desperation. I wake up feeling exhausted. Which is [...]

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We hopped on our bikes a couple of times this weekend to go explore the paths that criss-cross the city. I know every inch of the routes in Aylmer and Hull but the Ottawa paths were still a mystery to me, so I did a bit of a refresher in Google Maps and Saturday we [...]

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I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately and tend to dissappear off my blog for a bit when that happens, so I thought I should at least do a big bullet list of updates:

Saw Terminator 4 – really cool action, so-so storyline. The “Terminator Mythos” was really cleverly intertwined in the previous movies, but this one [...]

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