I listen to CBC radio in the mornings while I'm getting ready for work, so that I can get a bit of an update on current events and politics and all that stuff. Sometimes there are interesting interviews. Sometimes there's annoying fluff, although less than your typical commercial radio morning show.

Lately, there's been a lot of very annoying ( Read more... )

Dear car drivers,

Bikes have the right of way.

Yes, even if you're turning right.

Yes, even if you're in a hurry.

Yes, even if you saw a bike courrier riding really fast the wrong way on a sidewalk once.

Sincerely,
Kirilaw

P.s. Seriously, even if you're turning right. That's what the shoulder check's for. 

So the other day, I was puttering around on Ravelry, reading through Remnants (the "general discussion" forum), and I started reading a thread in which a person was asking for weight loss advice. She'd put on about twenty pounds recently, and was having trouble losing it again. Now, normally, I would avoid these kinds of topics -- they always make ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a Bad Day.

There was some job-related stuff early in the day that I'm not going to go into in a public post. Suffice to say, I'm looking at a fight, and not looking forward to it one little bit.

So I was already brooding and grumpy, and I just wanted to go to the gym and burn off some of that bad-mood energy.

At the gym, I learn that ( Read more... )

Well, thank heavens. They've caught the
dastardly peers. Our national monuments are safe again ( Read more... )