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Appropos of nothing much in particular ...

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:22:54 GMT

It's 05:09 as I type this. I've been home from about 1 hour and 40 minutes after a 12 hour shift. 12 hour shifts are long. And become 14 hour shifts if you take travel times into account.

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Mon pays, c'est l'hiver!

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 04:56:53 GMT

Have I mentioned that I love soccer? And also, cycling? And even, winter?

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The cold equations

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:21:41 GMT

Tuesday 22 January 2013:

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Future indistinct, but present coming into focus

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:36:04 GMT

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Absolute Zero

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:32:58 GMT

he buttoned up his vest.

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Young Geoffrey now pushing 50

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:39:57 GMT

Thanks to those of you who wished me a happy anniversary of birth — it was.

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Report from the Great White North

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:07:34 GMT

Well, that was a first for me: my bicycle chain froze.

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Reflections of a working-stiff

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:23:24 GMT

You know, by and large, I'm liking my job. The pay's not to far north of minimum wage, but a day's hours (usually) are south of a full eight. Door-to-door is probably about seven hours, which I don't mind at all. Also, I like driving and my passengers range from distant to friendly; thus far, only one whom I would qualify as an actual prick (though most of them could use some lessons about tipping).

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Maybe there is such a thing as wind-chill after all

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:11:33 GMT

To say I now understand how Scott and company felt while on the return leg of their Antarctic holiday would be both crass (as crass as calling that fatal voyage a holiday) and untrue.

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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:28:01 GMT

Ottawa got a sad bit of news this past Sunday: skating on the Rideau Canal is done for the season.

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It's my journal and I'll brag if I want to, brag if I want to ... (sing it!)

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:10:52 GMT

The CBC's weather page says it's -26 C out there (-35 with the wind-chill, but only small children and naked old people count that). I am recently home from a soirée, which I bicycled to and from which I cycled back home again. I've been reminded that the air in one's tires contract quite a bit at these kinds of temperatures, so it was slow and difficult slogging, but otherwise quite exhilarating. Why yes, I am kinda hard-core. Why do you ask?

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