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Canadian Thanksgiving Edition

Congested highways to Barrie and Orillia on Thanksgiving weekend
Solution: Helicopter

Pumpkin rustling
It exists! A farmer in Southern Ontario had $70,000 worth of pumpkins trucked away in the night.
Solution: GPS pumpkin tracking technology

Straightforward yet mysteriously intractable computer problem that’s kept ( Read more... )

Went up to Barrie last weekend to attend 60th wedding anniversary celebrations for Valerie’s mom and dad. Their actual anniversary was earlier in the month. By a coincidence of scheduling the party fell on our own 17th anniversary. Valerie’s family is enormous (numerically, not per capita weight) and they managed to fill a smallish church hall for ( Read more... )

Went up to Valerie’s hometown last Sunday for a meet the baby party for one of her cousins. (NB: Family political considerations prevented it from being labeled as a baby shower. Definitely not a baby shower ( Read more... )