Jumping In

There’s two moments from today that I feel like I want to reflect on.  The first one I want to relate is the one that happened later in the day.  The kids finish swimming lessons around noon so we sometimes will get pizza afterwards.  It made sense today because my wife was sleeping off a […]

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Lent – Day 7

I had an interesting exchange on the way home from work yesterday.  I meant to post about it last night but wasn’t able to make the time. I was biking along College Street heading west and the car traffic was pretty backed up beside me.  The bike lanes on College Street run beside the car […]

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Lent – Day 4

If you’re not familiar with Lent, the Sundays of Lent are kind of like off-days.  The forty days of Lent are measured from Monday to Saturday, so as I think I mentioned in my first post, there are actually 46 days in Lent. Now, I’ve already broken my plan to post every day during Lent […]

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Patience

There are drivers in Toronto who are in a rush and I fear that they will make a bad decision and someone else will pay for it.  There are bikers who are in the same category, but you can’t do as much harm with a bicycle going at 30 km/h as you can with a […]

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Knowing when to Finish

I was thinking back over some of the posts I’d written in the fall and I remembered that I had mentioned my plan to make one thousand origami cranes over the course of the year.  Well, I haven’t made five origami cranes in one day since last year.  It all stopped.  It all just ground […]

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Table Saw

I have been searching for a table saw for almost two months now, and I finally got one this weekend.  I’m very happy.  It now sits in the bowels of my house, in the midst of the clutter and I dearly hope that it will be less than two months before I get it running. […]

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Reversal of Forecast

It rained all day on Saturday here.  It’s January 11th today and it really ought to be the kind of weather for skating and tobogganing but instead it was raining and about six degrees above freezing. I was excited.  The rain was taking care of all the ice and snow that was left on the […]

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