I am two nights into my three night return to tentland. This is primarily due to weekend accommodation being particularly expensive and hard-to-find this weekend, as the summer holiday rush heats up. There was definitely something to be said for the heat dome and forest fires keeping wealthy city dwellers out of the countryside last year.


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After the heat wave ended, the fires came.


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I have watched several documentaries and documentary-adjacent things over the past month or so ( Read more... )

I have recovered somewhat from my mental breakdown of a few days ago. I know it's probably not the most entertaining blog to read when someone is flapping about in paranoia and despair, but i do appreciate all y'all's comments ( Read more... )

After my last entry i reluctantly spent two days at home to try recover from my sniffles ( Read more... )

Today, unsurprisingly, i woke to clouds of smoke all around. The air quality index is off the charts. It's been increasing the past few days, so yesterday i picked up a bag of food so i can stay inside ( Read more... )

I'll open this entry by saying i have recovered somewhat from whatever it was that caused my blackout the other day. I spent a few days inside, not drinking, not smoking, just resting. Then i slowly restarted that stuff, and some exercise too, and yesterday i did about a 50km ride along the river so i think i'm back to normal, plus a few scrapes ( Read more... )

Thanks, everyone, for commenting on my last post. It has helped to give a bit of perspective. I am surprised how interested everyone is in My Canadian Life, which so far has just been sitting in quarantine going batty ( Read more... )

Something i have been trying to write about for a while but never found the space is this issue of net worth and class ( Read more... )

There is an excellent meme that some of my LJ friends have been doing, which is the 366 meme. It has one question for each day of the year. I am not a regular enough poster to commit to that, but one of the recent questions really spoke to me.

April 16. What three features would be non-negotiable in your dream house?This cuts right to so many ( Read more... )