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All Hallows’ Eve
Happy Halloween! With near certainty, within a week or so I’ll be shovelling the sidewalk clear of fresh snow and contemplating pulling my cross country skis from storage. But … as of right now it is still October, the air is crisp but not quite freezing, and as the sun starts to set over to
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Holy Molar! (Part Two)
Life happens. It being Sunday, I went for a run this morning. A Sunday run is not that unusual, you say … well, except for the fact that I’ve been barely conscious for the better part of a week and a half. The nine klick run through the near-freezing suburban trail system was a mix
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Daylight Savings Vote
A few of my friends and I met up earlier this evening, er, late in the afternoon for an after work run around the neighbourhood. As the winter approaches, daylight runs are going to get increasingly rare, and I’ll need to fish my running headlamps from storage and make sure they are charged up. Of
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spayed
This morning I made a heart-aching drive to the veterinarian clinic to drop off a one-year-old puppy who, over the past almost-a-year has filled that same heart with joy … and for whom I’m returning the favour by having her reproductive organs surgically removed. As per our agreement with the breeder, and in consultation with
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Short: Dusting
The inevitable happened. We woke up this morning to the first snow of the season. True, it wasn’t much more than a light dusting, bits of white clustered onto the outdoor furniture and holding stubbornly onto the shady places in the still-green grass. But it was snow. Just a little bit. Though enough to signal
Category: life & stuff
Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.