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June 10, 2026
Thoughts

I am curious

This will probably be a long post, if you are a TLDR; type person you can skip over to one of the Recipes (I highly recommend the Baked Curried Chicken). This is a post about my thoughts as I get closer to the end of decade 6 than the beginning.

Poetry

An Ocean of Silence

What if the ocean ran silent,no lapping waves slappingagainst encrusted logs,no humpback songechoing deep downbeyond the sunightin a place we have only seenon National Geographic? What if the skies were emptyno wheeling gullsscreaming at their neighbours,no cheeky crowstormenting my dogas she tries to pee in silencebefore her morning cookiesand snuggles?

Words Worth

Mono No Aware

The Japanese have a way of making a few words into a deep philosophy of simplicity, expressing the thoughts and feelings we have inside that have no words in English. Sure we have words like sadness and melancholy but they are generalized, almost cliche that lose the essence of their

Geekstuff

Geek Meets Chef

So I decided to convert my old Teeswater.ca sqldump into something(s) I could use on this blog. Now Teeswater.ca was my long defunct online newspaper back when I was living deep in the heart of Bruce County. When I shut down the site I grabbed the sqldump and it has