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A little note that I’m enjoying my Christmas/New Years vacation away at my folks.. and probably won’t be doing any posting on a regular basis until Jan 3 or 4 (unless something comes along that really grabs my attention). If you need me however, you know how to get a hold of me. I check my email account(s) on a regular basis.  A short blogpost tonight on Christmas Eve – short and sweet and to the point : To all my readers, I would just like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, and all the best for the holiday season. I will always wear and donate money to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day – both in honour of all who served Canada in WW I/II etc, as well as specifically in honour of both of my (still alive) grandfathers, who both served in WW II. That said.. I wish the makers of the poppies would do what is apparently done in Britain. They do not have a single needle in the back of the poppy that you try to stick into your shirt/coat etc as best as you can and hope it stays there (and it often doesn’t). They have apparently put a safety pin in the back [...] Well, I FINALLY have my internet account set up at my new place.. so I’ll be back to regular posting again. Sometime over this weekend (possibly starting tomorrow) I’m going to be “off the grid” for a few days – except for email and if you happen to have Blackberry messenger (and happen to know my username). I’m moving to a new place, and internet isn’t going to get hooked up until mid-week – possibly Wednesday. So, please don’t panic if you don’t see anything new on here for that time frame (I may have some guest bloggers on here – we’ll see). When I get back online though, my posts should return to a more normal routine of being posted on a daily basis for the most part, as [...] Hello folks. You may have noted lately that I’m now posting mostly at nights. The explanation: my current work schedule means I’m leaving very early for work in the morning, and I’m not home until early evening. I’m getting adjusted to that, that will mean posting at nights (or it may mean I’m not posting at all on some nights., when I’m pooped), and day posts may be restricted to the weekends. I’ll do my best to keep up on current affairs, if it hasn’t been beaten to death already by other good bloggers at Liblogs, Progressive Bloggers, and elsewhere. I haven’t been able to get a picture of this visitor that’s shown up the past 2 days, as it’s a bit too far away, so you’ll have to do with a stock photo from a bird site (for now; hopefully it comes with camera range): It’s a pleasure as a bird watching enthusiast to see this bird (the last time I saw this bird was about 15-20 years ago) because it is listed as a species of special concern in Ontario, and threatened nationally. On a much lighter Olympic note, the Norwegian Curling team’s pants are a hit. What pants, you say? If you haven’t been watching curling, it’s these ones: The Norwegian Olympic Curling Team's Pants Someone decided to create a fan page for their pants at Facebook, and they’re now over 313 thousand members. Not bad at all. They’re also getting widespread media coverage of their choice of decor, and that’s not bad publicity for the sport of curling either. Most importantly, they’re backing up their fancy look with good play. They are one of Canada’s main threats right now for a gold [...] On the Olympic Morning show on CTV, they always switch over at the top of the hour to their news announcer to do the “Top News Stories” of the day. When I was watching this morning, the “Top News Stories” today included: – Tiger Woods impending (at the time) pseudo -press conference – Canadians being rescued from sinking ship in Brazil – A zebra that got loose running on a highway in downtown Atlanta Georgia. Maybe this changed later in the day, but I’m a bit miffed that the passing of John Babcock, Canada’s last WWI veteran, wasn’t considered “Top News” by CTV. The last living link to the [...] The Atlantic Coast gets hit by record snowfall, and immediately the climate change skeptics come out of the woodwork. “This proves climate change and global warming is a hoax!” they scream. Presently at the Olympics, Vancouver’s interior inland is expected to hit 16 Celsius today – temperatures they don’t normally get to June. Snow or lack thereof has been a problem at Cypress Mountain for a month and a half prior to the Games even starting. I’ve also read it’s the warmest February in the Vancouver/Lower mainland area in almost 100 years. I’m not seeing those same sceptics turning around and saying, “hmm, maybe global warming IS real!”, because [...] |
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