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Happy New Year? Hah!

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:45:51 GMT

Er, hi there ... I know, it's been a while, but some of you might remember me, I guess. I'm afraid I almost certainly won't be providing a major update on what's been going on since last I wrote, on account of I suspect that would simply mean another year of not posting anything at all. So, in hopes that this entry will really mean that I'm back, let's get to it ...

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This morning I had, the strangest dream*

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 03:02:35 GMT

The strangest dream? Maybe not, but strange enough that I actually remember it now (as I start typing this entry at 19:53), nearly 12 hours later.

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Back from the dead? Maybe not, but it seems that way ...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:25:08 GMT

My how she's changed! An infant no more, Baobao takes a step into the future on January 1, 2021.

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The Devil sent me a message

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:05:45 GMT

Note: Forgive me — and please tell me! — if this is a second posting of the same entry. I can't see the original when I check my own account, yet I am still able to edit it. Do you folks see one version of this post, or two?
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The Devil sent me a message

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:52:23 GMT

Pardon me, sir, but that's a beautiful baby you have; can I interest you in exploiting her for $$$money$$$?"
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The no plague diary and the tale of a tiny baby

Mon, 25 May 2020 18:27:40 GMT

I feel as if I ought to be pulling a Dr. Johnson, reporting on my experience of the Great Plague of 2020 (and 2021? Time will tell), but my own, personal life has thus far been so little affected, I really feel I have almost nothing to say about it at all.

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Born this way?

Fri, 15 May 2020 13:53:06 GMT

If there's one thing that must be characteristic of all child-carers (if not necessarily all parents; some have nannies), it must be exhaustion.

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I've been remiss; a publisher's confession

Tue, 05 May 2020 22:18:55 GMT

I've been remiss. Badly remiss.

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Meme from londonkds

Tue, 05 May 2020 16:32:19 GMT

Papa's young philogospher

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Inconsolable: The agony of the teeth

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:49:19 GMT

The following is the latest entry in my fatherhood blog, The Adventures of Papa Zesser, posted earlier today, in which I reflected upon pain following a miserable night, even as my Baobao played happily behind me as he wrote; a far cry from the agonized howls that rang through the air 12 hours before!
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Meme: Pronoun check

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:33:40 GMT

[Yoinked from sabotabby]

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So far, so lucky: Plague Journal #001

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 03:15:51 GMT

1. Are you an Essential Worker? Sort of. My day job is in the transportation industry, driving flight crews between the airport and their various hotels. However, there hardly are any flights right now, so I have been officially laid off due to "shortage of work". The company is maintaining a skeleton crew for the duration.

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So far, so lucky: Plague Journal #001

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:19:32 GMT

Young Edifice says goodbye to his baby as he prepares to venture out into the plague-emptied streets of Ottawa, afternoon of March 25, 2020.

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Laurie Penny gets me

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:31:27 GMT

This explains so well why I am still — after a fucking eternity of Steven Moffat — am still watching Doctor Who. (Though I must say, the new regime gives me hope for the future and I am even able to enjoy the present to some extent. Jody Whittaker is just fine; I'm still not sold that Chibnall knows what he's doing.)

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Why I post here so seldom - answered?

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 07:41:00 GMT

December 21, 2019 - me, spending time with my fantastic daughter, a couple of days past her fourth month on Earth.

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Letter to my daughter, on her one hundredth day anniversary of your birth

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:18:32 GMT

Wednesday, November 28th, 2019

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Catching Up on Death, Death, and Life, Part III

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:45:04 GMT

My infant daughter and my adopted son, Carl the Second, play Mao meeting Kissinger. Just because.

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Catching Up on Death, Death, and Life, Part II

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:32:37 GMT

Photo of Steven Smith with his wife and daughter. My guess is it was taken circa 2014 or 2015. Provenance unknown, snagged from Facebook.

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Catching Up on Death, Death, and Life, Part I

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 22:59:54 GMT

Marcel Chojnacki being interviewed by Young Geoffrey, January 2019.

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Ode to Pain or, Back to Agony

Sat, 11 May 2019 23:43:04 GMT

My mother's right hand, photographed in April 2019.

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The Other Side of Privilege

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 02:36:58 GMT

I picked up a Naloxone kit today. You can too, if you live in Ontario, for the price of about 15 minutes of training. People are literally dying on the streets. I think it's worth doing.

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The Trouble With (an) Old Space Opera

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:05:08 GMT

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Hanging my head in shame

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:44:37 GMT

I scoffed at the Russiagate allegations from the moment the Clintonites began to claim they'd lost the election due to Trump colluding with Putin, if not before. The entire liberal/progressive wing of the mainstream American body politic had, I thought, lost its collective mind to a paranoid delusion.

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Are we unfeeling monsters, or merely rational actors?

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:45:39 GMT

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That moment when ...

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:31:15 GMT

Father and son relax after a long drive to Québec

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