Installer Mike
I oversaw the installation of new Bell FibreOp to Lisa‘s office on Queen Street yesterday. It’s a tricky old building, and she’s on the third floor, in an enclave reached through the building next...
View ArticleCharlottetown Library Hacks
A collection of hacks for patrons of the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre that I will add to over time.Using the ComputersIf you have a library card, you can self-serve login to any of the public...
View Article"Try as I might, I could not get the door open..."
I’m dating a blogger. She got trapped in her bathroom the other day:I got trapped in my own bathroom the other day. The old glass knobs, as charming as they are, don’t work well. Try as I might, I...
View ArticleOn Notebooks
James A. Reeves writes about notebooks:For years I believed the right notebook would solve all my problems. I explored blank pages, dots, and grids. I fooled with modular systems. I invested in...
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Boutique
A return to sketching this morning, from the porch of the library. I haven’t picked up my sketchbook much this summer; it feels good to use these eyes again. SketchQueen Street
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I Rented An Electric Scooter
This afternoon, while on a walk around the Dizzy Block with Olivia, I rented a curbside electric scooter from Epic Electric Scooters. It’s been years since electric scooters started to...
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You really should come and try improv!
Improv classes at the Haviland Club start back up for the fall next Monday, September 12, 2022:Is it time to be creative and gain confidence from learning about improv? HA Club Charlottetown Monday...
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Cool Runnings
The Centennial group of car dealers sponsored a night at the drive-in, and Nissan Rogue-driving Lisa was invited. Which Is how both L’s, Mike, Karen, and I ended up watching Cool Runnings under moonlit...
View ArticleAt high tide these runways are under the sea…
The airport at Barra, Scotland uses runways in the beach:The beach is set out with three runways in a triangle, marked by permanent wooden poles at their ends, in directions 07/25, 11/29, 15/33. This...
View ArticleDave and Dorothy Get Married
Eleven years ago I brought my car to Dave’s Service Centre for the first time.The garage was on St. Peters Road back then, in a building long-since-demolished.A year or two after that first visit—Dave...
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More Charlottetown Library Hacks
I spent the better part of the afternoon at the Charlottetown Library. Some new things I learned:The Shed, the in-house coffee shop, serves something called a “Saigon Dirty,” which is: two shots of...
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How to add your PEI Library Card to Apple Wallet
While Apple Wallet doesn’t offer a native way to add a PEI library card—nor, indeed, anything other that credit, debit, and transit cards—the brilliant little free Pass4Wallet app can do it.Just add a...
View ArticleCyanometer
From Holo:The Cyanometer by Martin Bricelj Baraga is a monument to the blueness of the sky. It is inspired by the original cyanometer invented by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1789. The Cyanometer is...
View Article"I explain that the main thing is my lack of fear"
Patrick Rhone, on being handy:When it comes to technology, my knowledge largely comes from my lack of fear over trying new things and pressing buttons just to see what they do. My consulting clients...
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They moved the stairs!
After generations of market-goers squeezing down the stairs from the loading dock, risking banging heads into the open window to the men’s washroom, they’ve moved the stairs to the other side!Over the...
View ArticleHeather Mullen for School Board
My old friend and former Home and School colleague Heather Mullen is running for school trustee in Charlottetown:Today I went outside my comfort zone to become a candidate for a public election. I did...
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Automatically creating date due reminders for library books checked out out...
The Public Library Service here in Prince Edward Island has self-checkout machines in some branches: touch screens with barcode scanners that allow patrons to check books out themselves, similar to...
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The Sectional
That old couch.Bought, along with its sibling the big-red-chair, at the tail end of the 1990s at a Sears Whole Home store in Burlington (and shipped to the house on the Kingston Road for $35 in some...
View ArticleRemembering Dennis Friesen
Over the years that I worked on the Prince Edward Island government’s website I met hundreds of public servants. Of those, few stood out more than Dennis Friesen, who died this week. His obituary...
View ArticleBrighton, Brighton, come in Brighton
With Hurricane Fiona bearing down on us, we picked two of the last three sets of walkie-talkies on the shelf at Canadian Tire yesterday, as a backup Brighton-Downtown-Stratford communications system,...
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