It's been a bitterly cold day here in Ottawa, the weather having been mostly overcast today with a few flurries of snow and a touch of freezing rain. The temperature hit -3oC as the high today, but felt more like -8oC with the wind chill. My body aches and pains persist, the broken tooth still has no resolution in sight, and my left rear end and ( Read more... )

Just a reminder to folks.

Today is International Human Rights Day.

This seems like a good day for a donation to your favourite or preferred organisations waging these advocacy battles around the globe. Oh, and if you've got some suggestions for organisations worthy of support, please leave a note in the Comments section about this.

It's another cold day in the Ottawa valley with seasonal temperatures, a bit of a breeze outside and somewhat sunny skies with occasional periods of overcast skies. There was a snow storm last night that dropped some 19 centimetres of snow on Ottawa last night, that ended around 7 o'clock this morning. The temperature is going up to a high of -2< ( Read more... )

A sad day in history.

Remember the 14Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student ( Read more... )

The start of a new month. Thus, as is my standard usage of my blog space at or near the beginning of the month, I present the listing of my November, 2024 reads.

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Books Read in November, 2024

Doctor Who and the Crusaders by David Whitaker

Inversions by Iain M. Banks

April, 2024 Reader's Digest

Doctor Who and The Time Witch (Comic)

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Another cold, typical December day here in the Ottawa valley. But my day was brightened up with a delivery from FedEx that arrived early this afternoon.


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It's December 1st. A new month ( Read more... )

It's the last day of November. The weather today here in Ottawa has been seasonal for the time of year. It was a somewhat mixed day, with cloudy periods mixed with a few sunny moments, and a bit of rainfall. The temperature hit around 1oC today, with a wind chill that made it feel like -2oC. While my body pain issue continued today, augmented ( Read more... )

I haven't posted a selfie of myself here on the blog for a bit, so figured I'd remedy this.

This is the current me, suffering from the fall down the stairs two days ago, and feeling tired, out of sorts, and drugged with pain killers and anti-inflammatory meds.


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Well, it had to happen at some point given everything...but still ( Read more... )