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Daddy Daze: Sick and Cuddly

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[21 May 02013 | 42 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

She was really sick. Crashingly sick. Tossing, resting, not eating, and tossing some more. Not fun, no matter how you look at it.

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This Sunday Street Carnival… or Something

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[9 Sep 02012 | 339 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

Long-story-short: a whole stack of new show homes in the neighborhood recently built waaaaaaaaaay South of us was apparently cause enough to throw a humble-but-impressive street carnival.

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Reloaded: Canada Day Edition

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[1 Jul 02012 | 302 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

My country is one hundred and forty-five years young today. This means (a) long weekend, and (b) hanging out with the family at a few fun events.

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To See: A New Nephew

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[24 Jun 02012 | 521 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

Claire has a new cousin. We’ve got a new nephew. My folks have a new grandson. And my brother is a dad once again.

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Reloaded: Pi Day Edition

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[14 Mar 02012 | 456 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. …

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Not Free Parking

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[12 Jan 02012 | 655 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

I lied. In my most recent New Years Post I asked myself the question (roughly) “What did you most want and not get this year?” and in my holiday-addled haste to get the post published I wrote that I was pining for …

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SuperFast

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[10 Jan 02012 | 394 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

On the short flight from Edmonton to Grand Prairie, other than the delay, the trip was fairly typical and mundane, at least as far as forty-five minute regional puddle-jumps go.
On the reverse flight home we apparently had something interesting happen.
I’ve done these …

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November.23.02011 Live(ish) Blog

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[23 Nov 02011 | 462 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

2202 Some TV before bed. That’s all. g’Night.
2051 So, the fisheye takes some great pics. I uploaded a small set (admittedly a little on the noisy side because of the low light and high ISO I was working with) to …

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Linen and Bronze

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[16 Aug 02011 | 637 views | less than a minute of your time ]

Eight years OR two-thousand nine-hundred and twenty-two days OR seventy-thousand one hundred and twenty-eight hours OR four million, two-hundred and seven thousand six hundred and eighty minutes OR two-hundred and fifty-two million four hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred seconds. (But who’s …

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