It’s been a dry summer here in Ottawa on Tundra, with sweltering heat. Even the leaves on the trees in the backyard began to curl early, falling on the lawn in their thirst. Autumn is usually a time of brisk mornings and warm afternoons, but this week we have seen
Author: Mark
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Hyperosmia Sometimes Stinks!
Do you have a heightened sense of smell? I do, and sometimes it can be a royal pain in the keester! Now I should say at the outset that, yes foul habit that it is, I am a smoker. Now you would think that smoking would just about kill your
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Gotta Have Music!
I am one of those people, you know the ones, that gets the odd looks in public (trust me nothing new to me) because we are constantly humming or singing to ourselves. Honest folks I am not totally crackers, though I have heard it helps in my business! I spend
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Chyrp Chyrp
There is nothing like busting it all week at work just to catch a ‘bug’ on your days off – ugh! So this weekend I toughed it out through bowling, dinner out (see ‘Haddicked’ in ‘Words That Should Be In The Dictionary‘), then boxing this morning only to spend most
Poetry
I’m Terrible With Names
I’m terriblewith namescuz they are labelsfrom someone elsewhile facesare homegrownwith youas you travel. Names define usin other peoples termsbefore we were wevenerating Uncle ‘Bud’or maybe a movie starmama watched on TVwhile she ironedor cooked dinner. Faces are storiestold in linesand smilesperhaps with mascaraor a smudge of mustardfrom a hot dogat
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1st Looks – Linux OS For Older Laptops
From time to time I like to try out new distros of Linux on my old laptops, just to see if I can get them to run. I still keep my primary machine on Linux Mint (22.2), mostly from habit and cuz it is the closest metaphor to Winblows I