It has been a bitter, somewhat brutal, cold week here in Ottawa with temperatures in the mid negative teens for much of the week, with numbingly cold wind chills. Today reached a high here of -11oC with a wind chill that made it feel like -17oC. Brrrr!!! indeed. More frigid temperatures through the weekend, and then back to more seasonable ( ( Read more... )

It has been a somewhat atypical week here in Ottawa for the winter, with a mix of relatively warm weather and rain coupled with what is now colder weather and snow, and about to become...very cold. The temperature hit the -8oC mark today, and is going down to around -17oC or so tonight with frigid temperatures in the forecast for the rest of the ( Read more... )

It's the last day of 2024 ( Read more... )

Home from the appointment with the dentist ( Read more... )

Wednesday morning ( Read more... )

It's Monday morning, and the start of a new work week. Also pretty much the last week of February, as Monday will be the first 29th of February in some four years (or whatever it is for Leap Years ( Read more... )

Got home from the dentist a little before 2:00 pm ( Read more... )

Sitting in the office, busy as a beaver at work this morning. It's not too bad a morning outside, the temperature being in the negative single digits Celsius for a change, so relatively "warm" as January winters go ( Read more... )

The appointment with the dentist yesterday went somewhat as expected ( Read more... )

It's Friday. Thank Goddess.

After the week that I've had, I could really use the time off this weekend. While I've got the two gaming sessions of the Chill 3rd Edition game this evening (Friday) and on Sunday, I really need to chill out (no pun intended) for the weekend ( Read more... )