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I'm a father of two, husband, an IT professional, old-school hacker, reformed photojournalist, autodidact, beer brewer, beekeeper and a general pain-in-the-ass. I prefer the more general term of "weirdo".

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Off to the Island today. If anything really noteworthy or interesting comes up, I can post it via my phone. Otherwise, let the vegetating begin! Back on Wednesday or Thursday.

Frank Bartles said it very well in 1985:

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As I said, this has been a dreary, damp, crappy winter. One thing I can be very glad of, though: I don’t live in the Arctic.

I like the cold. Love it, in fact. But, the darkness would really drive me squirrelly.

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I had to take the bee-mobile in to the garage this morning: the muffler is gone and driving a small wagon with the sound of a tractor-trailer isn’t any fun. The muffler developed a hole last summer while we were at the cottage, but I managed to silence it with a liberal application of putty and a couple of bandages.

The patch started to let go on Friday as Bridget I were making our way to Kate & Jim’s. It completely let go shortly after leaving their place to come home. Let me tell you: driving for 6 hours in a car with a failed muffler is nobody’s idea of enjoyable.

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I’m not a fan of the Olympics. I’m not sure that that really needs to be said here, but I’ll throw that out there anyway.

Be that as it may, I parked my behind on the couch last night to watch the opening ceremonies. It’s always a good show and I was curious to see how they’d present Canada to the world.

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Poor Beaker. He gets no respect:

The forecast was just for flurries, but it’s been snowing like crazy since I got to work this morning.

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