Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Slowest, Pokiest: 2024 in the Rear-view Mirror

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Happy 2025! A new year, a new beginning ... I wish everyone the very best for the year ahead. May all your efforts come t...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

A poem for solstice

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Good morning. The sun will rise today at 8:49 a.m. and set at 4:16 p.m. and then the days will begin to lengthen and the light will return. ...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

It's the thought that counts

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 Wheeeee, how the last few months have zoomed by! Now it's November — roughly seven weeks from the solstice and the winter holidays. Hol...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Halftime

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Happy Canada Day to those who celebrate! It's the second long weekend of the Canadian summer, and I'm hopeful for the time between n...
Monday, April 01, 2024

Quartered

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Well. So that was the first three months of the year. Wheeeeeee! Time sure flies. The last three months have been up and down — delightful l...
Monday, January 01, 2024

2023: It's over

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Hello! It's 2024 — how did that happen? Seems like just a few days ago I was posting about all the hits of 2022. Well ... something some...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

For my erstwhile commonplace book

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Since I barely have the concentration to read lately, much of what I do read is fairly accessible — mysteries, bestselling fiction, middle-g...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Play, play, play

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 G'day, and welcome to December! It's not exactly a brown month anymore, thanks to some snowfall last week, but we now inhabit a lan...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Meanwhile, there's the accounting to do

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 Hello! So, it's November. In the last two months I have travelled to Kentucky and Regina, and in a couple of days I'll be in Vancou...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

omg it's August

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  I had such plans for this summer. And now it's almost over! Anyway. In case you're wondering, as of today, I have exactly 26,600 t...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

The more fool I

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Last week was April 1, and I owed you, or at least myself, some stats. But I didn't make time to post them, although I wrote them down o...
Saturday, February 04, 2023

Knew you were waiting

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 Howdy howdy! Welcome to February! January certainly sped by — unless you're one of those people who felt January crawled by. Your milea...
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Sunday, January 01, 2023

Let's look back at it all, shall we

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Hello, 2023! Welcome. So glad you're here. Let's get to the stats, stat.     Top 30 Plays in 2022 LP, ...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Two images of 2022

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 This is all I'm prepared to say until tomorrow: 1. Afternoon of September 3 and 2. Morning of December 22 Make of this what you will.
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Hallowed figures

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 Welcome to November! We had beautiful Hallowe'en weather — and fittingly, as we turned the lights out at ten o'clock, snow began to...
Monday, July 25, 2022

A year in a life

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 Remembered.   Dec/81   Jan/82 Dec/82
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Happy to see the backend of last year

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  Happy new year! Welcome to 2022. As writer Steven Brust observed, hoping this year will be better than 2021 is a low ba...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Six-month perspective

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Howdy. With time being so strange now, it seems like summer was years ago. But for the sake of perspective, I would like to remind us that t...
Monday, November 01, 2021

The aftermath

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 Hello. Last night's Hallowe'en was tremendous fun. And more importantly, we had 209 kids at the door! I believe that is a record, ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

No Earth-shattering kaboom

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     That is all.  
Friday, July 02, 2021

On reflection

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 Hello, and welcome to the second half of the year.  Yesterday was July 1, and for us it was a quiet day. For sundry reasons, we stayed clos...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Happy to see you again

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 Hello all, After a very difficult week, I had the chance to go for a long bike ride this morning and took this photo of the QE2 planetarium...
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Saturday, May 01, 2021

Mayday

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My paper is not finished. Hoping that other academics are also a little "delayed" by the challenge that is the ongoing pandemic an...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Is What Follows Mostly True?

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  Three years ago today, B and I went to the Timms Centre at the University of Alberta to hear Michael Crummey present the CLC Kreisel Lectu...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Quarter time

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  Earlier this week we arrived at the end of the first quarter of the year. Time, now so meaningless, seems to be at once accelerated and el...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Antonia Sophia

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  Argh. Some humans are very very bad at peopling. In a holding pattern right now. In the meantime, here are some images. The first was take...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Seeing the pandemic from LIW's eyes

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 Good day, My title is obviously fanciful: Laura Ingalls Wilder did not write about a pandemic. But because I am re-reading various books in...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Obligatory anniversary post

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Since posts like this are everywhere this week, here's mine.  One year today, everything changed utterly. March 12, 2020 is the last day...
Monday, March 01, 2021

Poor resolution

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  Hey there, So much for that resolution to write more. In my defence — not that anyone's asking — I've been writing in other areas ...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

But who's counting

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 Hello again. So much for resolutions, eh? I did, however, want to record — for myself, if no one else — my music stats for this odd, odd ye...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

In review: 2020 in pictures

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 Hello again! One of my many resolutions is to blog more regularly. Let's see how quickly this one goes sideways. Until then, here are s...
Friday, January 01, 2021

Back at ya, 2020

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Well, so that was that . Even after more than nine months of working from home and living this muted life, every so often...
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