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There are 47 Surveillance Cameras in my Neighbourhood
Today Olivia and I combined a Truckin’ Roll ice cream sandwich run with a survey of the surveillance cameras in our neighbourhood.We counted 47.(That includes our Ring doorbell camera: glass houses.)We...
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Pano
The “pano” mode on the iPhone camera is an under-appreciated tool. Especially if you avoid shooting 360° scenes.iPhonePanoVictoria RowPhotoEvening
View ArticleApple Music → Spotify
If you’re playing the home game, you will recall that we switched from Spotify to Apple Music as our household streaming music provider back in July.Today we switched back.Two reasons:First, Apple...
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Waiting for Olivia
Late last night Olivia got concerned that she wouldn’t be able to vote as Olivia in the federal election. In a drive to help clarify, I pored through the Elections Canada FAQ on identification, and was...
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The Pen and Pencil Club of Prince Edward Island
After last month’s first take on a hybrid Pen Night, we did better last night, with two members from away joining us on Zoom, one from Ottawa and one from Belgium.We switched from using my MacBook Air...
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The Days of Epic Cleaning
It’s been 584 days since Catherine died, 569 days since the last family from away left our house, and 154 days since anyone other than Olivia and I set foot in here. Which is to say: the place needs a...
View ArticleWaffles for supper!?
The first record of my Sunday waffle-making practice is from a very snowy day in 2015, but it’s a ritual that got started many years before then. In the beginning, Catherine made the tactical error of...
View ArticleTautologous Mount Snowdon
From today’s Corrections and clarifications in The Guardian:It is tautologous to refer to “Mount Snowdon” as we did in panel text (Snowdon strike, 30 July, page 18). The English name Snowdon is derived...
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Espresso Macchiato at The Shed
I’ve been making my way around the menu at The Shed, and I’ve settled on their espresso macchiato as the best experience of their coffee and their talents.The ShedEspresso Macchiato
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Comet
With apologies for the spelling of javellisant, for which my only excuse is a career made on the back of typing javascript.Tip of the hat to Krista-Lee.SketchPackagingComet
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The Last FaceTime
Since my mother stepped on a plane to go home in January 2020 we’ve FaceTimed every day or two; I owe her a great debt for helping me keep my head above water through grief and COVID. Tomorrow my...
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An Orgy of Roundabouts
I believe the collective noun for roundabouts is orgy.And there certain is an orgy of roundabouts on St. Peters Road: in East Royalty from Riverside Drive to the Route 25 there are now four of them. I...
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Not Art. In the Open.
It’s Art in the Open tomorrow, the one day of the year where all is truly right with the world. And Olivia and I are cooking up a skunkworks not-art-in-the-open project for the hours leading up to the...
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Cycle Cycle
A print from a newly-arrived letterpress cut from Wood Type Customs in Romania. Look carefully and you’ll see its real-world counterpart in reflection. Vestibule Gallery100 Prince...
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Scenes from 2021 Art in the Open
While the audio from Dragonflies Through Binoculars (Skydrop Studios) plays, a look up into the Victoria Row tree canopy:Inside Sugar Shack (Louis-Charles Dionne):Detail from Raising Rooms (Leah...
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Why You Should Vote Green in Charlottetown
This federal general election I’m proudly and enthusiastically voting Green, for Darcie Lanthier in Charlottetown.I think you should vote Green too.Here’s why.Darcie Lanthier is the kind of person you...
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My Daughter and Her Outlandish Ideas
Sometimes Olivia has ideas. Outlandish ideas. Like “I’d like to have a jazz combo play my birthday gig” or “we need to only watch movies that family members watched while living in Ontario,” or “we...
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