I just realized that from Oscar's perspective, you've never needed to lick postage stamps. They wanted to know about the history of stickers this morning and I was thinking old lick-and-stick technology was old… I'd forgotten it is also kind of obsolete.

I've got my one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech in me and am currently contributing a bit of plasma to ( Read more... )

Christmas 2020… waiting for the remote family Zoom call to begin. We made sure there was a plain old telephone option for Dad (we call him) and I've put the chairs in places where all five of us can be in the frame.

This is the first Christmas in a while that we haven't been driving. It slows the day down nicely, really, although I miss being at ( Read more... )

We're fairly Christmas-y here: tree up, elf maurauding, gifts mostly found, some still in the hands of the good workers of the postal service… It's been a bit of a marathon getting things together and also moving work forward. I'm looking forward to a little break between the holidays! I know I need it, my body lets me know by popping my shoulder ( Read more... )

Rands muses on something I've felt has been rattling around my memescape over the past couple of years… being from the memescape, it's not groundbreaking but it's what tweaked me to post.

It's been a bit of an autumn… a little over a week ago we lost a radical elderly Druid (never a Druid elder, she insisted that was a kind of tree). Her passing was ( Read more... )

It's cold out there and I'm holding the fort having made cookies. Elizabeth will be bringing back the kids, JP, Leah and Esme from skating on the creek soon.

I'm not out skating partly because it's currently colder than Winnipeg out there,( maybe TMI… followed by holiday stuff and the start to the year )

We have a fridge and potable water again! Yay, back to 21st century privileged life ( Read more... )

Today I saw a bear just off the side of the bike trail through Gatineau Park (near the intersection of the trail parallel to the parkway and the trail parallel to Allumettières). I was wondering why the oncoming cyclist was way over to the left and then I saw a black bear cub that she was clearly giving a little space. I didn't stop to take a ( Read more... )

This week has been hard on toothpaste stores as Ada seems to like dumping toothpaste in the toilet - especially my high-end remineralizing stuff.

It was also a week where a bunch of us Positive Space volunteers and senior managers handed out Rockets (rainbow-coloured, everyone can eat them, inexpensive) and flyers on how to contact us for ( Read more... )

The allergist's waiting room may be good for my writing, now that I've finished the Persepolis graphic novels (in the original French - my European-style swearing will be greatly improved) - thanks, spacefem for the impetus! Persepolis got more personal and relatable as I got further along; the voice was funny and poignant and the drawing was always ( Read more... )

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