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Man. Woke up, turned in the news, and saw House Representatives and AG Bondi in a live screaming match on Capitol Hill. Things are getting weird. The government is no longer interested in answering questions.

I'll take your news over mine, if you don't mind. 9 dead and 27 injured in a school shooting in BC. The dead includes the shooter and two family members she killed before heading to the school. School dead are 5 students and a teacher.

Probably not. The whole generation ship thing seems like a recipe for boredom, really.

WYE accept a starring role in a movie, play, TV show, etc. if offered?

Bottle though, to be fair, I hear there's now some decent ones in the boxes.

Make a careful, reasoned decision or flip a coin?

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I’m trying to understand curling at the Olympics, but don’t. Can’t figure it out, but looks interesting.

I come from a family of curlers. Grandad and Dad both curled. Other family members have taken it up at various times. My cousin and his wife have both worked in curling rinks. He's an ice maker and she's an office manager/administrator. Heck, his father was pastry chef for a hoidy-toidy curling club in Toronto in his working life.

But me? Only just barely understand the sport, mostly because of it being on TV every Saturday afternoon in the winter when I was growing up (CBC used to have a lot more curling coverage than just the big tournaments). I can sort of follow a match but the details and intricacies escape me still.

I am getting into figure skating right now. Kind of bypassed the team event but I watched the ice dance rhythm dance last night. Tonight is men's short program. Problem is that I have not really paid much attention since Beijing 2022 so I'm woefully ignorant of a lot of these athletes, esp. the up and comers.

I can't see doing a total reboot. Too many good things would be lost. Tweak some things here and there? Sure.

WYE accept a new job offered by a company "headhunting" if you were not otherwise looking for a new job?

At one time, buy it. Nowadays, I am inclined to wait for the library. Though I'm not usually in line for bestsellers anyhow. My tastes run a bit too fantastical for that generally.

Paper book or e-book?

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Busy not preparing for the Super Bowl here. We're going to a play instead.

Sounds like a good idea, though seeing Green Day diss Trump on national television has a certain appeal to it. He's an "American Idiot" if there ever was one.

Cold day here and my furnace cocked up overnight. Got it restarted but made for a chilly start to the day.

Hm. Just to get it moving again, I use ice melter since I have a concrete driveway now and straight salt can be hard on concrete.

See you favourite artist/band at a big festival/arena show or a more intimate setting like a club or concert hall?

Hot (in more ways than one) Mexican sister act The Warning dropped a new single and video this morning, this time collaborating with another Mexican artist, Carin Leon. Fantastic performances by all and the bar setting works nicely for this song. Rock on, folks.

It's snowing again (sung to the tune of "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp). Just light snow but we must got more overnight because the roads in my neighbourhood suck and I had to have my wife to a medical appointment before eight.

Fresh Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is on for those in need of it. For teas, we have Yorkshire Red and Earl Grey. Iced and lemonade pitchers are washed and refilled. Hot chocolate is available along with mini-marshmallows. And what the heck, here's a pie to add to the goodie supply.

Don't know that my joints would hand that anymore but maybe in segments. Walking and hiking are kind of my principle forms of exercise nowadays, at least outdoors.

WYE eat terrestrial arthropods like insects or spiders (vs. aquatic ones like shrimp and lobster)?

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Hi i am from Kerala, India

Hello and welcome. I have never been to your country but I have a co-worker from India and my son's in-laws are from Pakistan so certainly have connections to that part of the world.

Ape trudged through the snow, wearier than ever of shoveling.

Good afternoon. Been busy with life so have not had much progress on any writing projects. Perhaps on the weekend.

Refreshed coffee and tea.

THe video that goes with that gif. Sadly, one of the last to feature the late Freddie Mercury before AIDS took him from us.

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Still no laptop. I am going slowly mad without one.

If you get that one, you are officially old.

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Good afternoon.

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We got a woodpecker and some blue jays on the bird cam yesterday.

I keep thinking I need a cam in my backyard. There's definitely things going on out there when we are asleep. Many years ago, I woke up one morning to find half a rabbit in my yard. Presumably, something ate the other half but I have no idea what. And there's weird s**t, literally, that shows up sometimes just laying there in the grass or the basement window wells.

Probably some Olympic stuff soon (sports start Wednesday, opening ceremony is Friday). CBC, our national public broadcaster has the Canadian rights and will have 24x7 coverage on Gem, their streaming service.

Benjamin Badger peeked from his hole, excited for new adventures.

My wife and I have talked about it and I know someone who sort of did it (bought a fifth wheel and truck to pull it, lived in a trailer park out West in winter, traveled in summer). Not sure we actually will, though. Interest seems to have waned

WYE take an around the world cruise, basically living on a cruise ship for months or even a year or more?

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Good morning. New week. Winter continues but in milder form. Welcome, S7williams!! Nice to meet you!!

We've got some Kicking Horse 454 Horsepower in the coffee pot. Teas are Assam Tarajulie and Yorkshire Gold. Pitchers are washed up and refilled with lemonade and unsweet iced tea. Sodas are stocked up. Hot chocolate and minimarshmallows are on standby for those what need 'em. And there's food, including some pancakes mixed and flipped by your resident ape chef.

Probably not. They don't do much for me even as a viewer.

WYE run for political office (even locally counts)?

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The "a" on my keyboard is behaving badly. I have to hit it extra hard to get it to work. Everytime I write a sentence I have to go back and add in all the "a's" I missed.

Oh Lord. On one of my old keyboards, I had issues with, IIRC, the "G" sticking. Unfortunately, I had a "G" in my password. Do the math.

Somewhere, some anthropologist is misunderstanding the conversation and thinking that they've uncovered a new language. 😀

Good morning. Another work week draws to a close. Still cold and snowy, though we've now gone a couple days without significant new accumulation. I cleaned up from the last one, hoping that's it for a while. Forecast certainly looks promising in that regard.

Throwing on some Fire-Roasted St. Drogo coffee. Teas are Kenyan Kambaa and Cream of Earl Grey. Hot chocolate is available, with or without minimarshmallows. Pitchers are washed and refilled with lemonade and unsweet iced tea. Soda stock looks good.

su sekat gnitirw erehw egnartS 😊

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Slowly digging out from the weekend's snowstorm. We didn't get as much snow as predicted, but the sleet and freezing rain that fell all day on top of the 6 inches of snow created a mess. Everything was covered in ice, and it won't get above freezing until next week. Breaking up the ice on top and then shoveling the ice and snow was back-breaking and exhausting.

We just caught the edge of it but parts of Ontario to the east of us like Toronto got smacked hard. Right now, we are in a cold snap but it's supposed to "warm up" for certain values of "warm up" next week. Meaning -4 to -5 instead of -10 to -15 (all Celsius). Nice to see you. At least you go something productive done amidst it all. Our place is probably coming due. We last painted after our son moved to Ottawa for university but that will be a decade next year.

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Dinosaurs fighting in the back yard is a great image with which to begin the day.

It's amazing how much scientists accepting the hypothesis that birds originated as theropod dinos has increased my enjoyment of them. 😊

I am kind of toying with lots of stuff but am often too worn down in the evening to write much so I am only writing on weekends right now. Got a couple ideas started plus my ongoing project. I have removed a bunch of backstory exposition and replaced it with "chapters" that fill in those blanks in the back story (basically explaining why the protagonist fled her homeland and filling in some details of how she ended up where she is) but not sure if those should be earlier chapters, turning the story into something bigger than I had thought it would be, or just flashbacks in the story as currently written. I don't actually have chapter breaks inserted yet so I am not sure how I will fit them in if I do flashbacks but I think they work better that way.

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We had a junco attack a finch on the bird cam yesterday. Dive bombed her! Marking territory I guess.

Birds can be incredibly aggressive. I've seen jays go after squirrels and I've been dive bombed by a redwing blackbird whose nest was close to my deck and BBQ. Just remember that they are distant cousins of theropods like tyrannosaurus rex and it makes perfect sense. 😊

A duet between two wonderful female metal singers. Fabienne Erni sings in Swiss folk metal act Eluveitie and another band called Illumishade, Lena Scissorhands (stage name, obviously) is the vocalist and writer for Moldovan metal band Infected Rain. Song is terrific, highlighting both of their voices, including Lena's formidable growls. It will appear on Erni's upcoming solo debut.

Oh, and we had snow yesterday so I had to shovel this morning.

"Cold enough fer ya?" is the question of the day, I'm finding. -15C or so here with wind chill down to -27. And I'm hearing about wind chills in the -40s out West.

Bit of a lively week at work so mostly just resting in my off hours. Might work on a story this weekend, just not sure which one. Need to find something shorter to work on so I can actually get something new on here. I haven't posted since the last comp, basically.