I remember now, there was a team of keeners and a team of slackers for the 2016 24hrs Of Adrenaline in Canmore, AB. Where it had been raining for at least 3 days. And Darren Markland had to lend me a proper mountain bike. #yegbike

It's unfortunately officially official. https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/darren-markland-1093111486?fbclid=IwY2xjawNCnb9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiGBD3TTBPcPZSfmQWJh69pScst_Rhkp467fcDIzZoHs1CVO-6VHtwHK1L4o_aem_HGWSi-zEJvvC7g_608uXGg RIP @drdagly.bsky.social #yegbike

#yegbike commute: cool at a just above frost +3°C with light southwest wind. Traffic quite light, street life quite quiet - most huddled up in blankets. Paths quite empty, didn’t even see the other regular bike commuters. It was like the city was in mourning - I know I am. Trying to be very […]

Do I like an obit column for one of my friends in the news scroll at Canadian Cycling Magazine? No, I do not.

#yegbike commute: cool & crisp at +8°C with light but gusty northwest wind. Traffic medium weekday level, but puzzling drivist behaviours on display. Street life fairly quiet in the inner city. Paths surprisingly busy with walkers, joggers, and dog walkers. Pretty good fall ride, the extra fall […]

i wonder why so many of my Dr. Darren Markland stories are about him convincing us timid slow-bikers to do silly mountain-bike type things? And then patching us up after? #yegbike

I always thought that if I got hit on the #yegbike commute, I would hopefully end up in the Royal Alex Emergency Room so that Darren could fix me up: And every time I go up Grierson Hill I expect to see him once again towing his canoe up the MUP from his bike/canoe commute route. Or catch him on […]

#yegbike commute: cool at +10°C with slight southwest breeze. Traffic weekday light but annoying. Street life quite busy in the inner city with ambulances, police cars, and tents all over with people milling about all over. Personally my mind is a mess with the news from the #yegbike community […]

#yegbike commute: crisp and cool at +7°C with light southwest breeze. Traffic weekday light, mostly well behaved. Street life mostly quiet, paths largely empty. A few regular other bikes. Quite a fantastic ride on this last day of summer. Don’t know how long this wonderful weather can last, but […]

As far as I can determine, tomorrow 19 minutes after noon is the Autumn Equinox. For those of is in Mountain Daylight Time. https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?n=80

#yegbike commute: again a pleasant temperature of +13°C with a southeast breeze giving me a generous tailwind boost. Traffic medium weekday levels, but drivers were quite well behaved this morning. Street life active but well behaved, paths mostly empty. A few other regular bike commuters. Many […]

#yegbike commute: perfectly fine temperature of +13°C with light southeastern breeze. Traffic light but weird. Street life quiet in the inner city, but peacefully present everywhere else. Paths weirdly busy. So a good ride climate wise, but weird with people and vehicles. #earworm ‘Hotel […]

#yegbike commute: warm at +15°C with slight southwest breeze. Traffic mostly good on a medium busy weekday level, street life present but quiet. Not many people on the paths or other bikes. Which is too bad as the conditions are excellent in this extended summer. #earworm ‘Queen Bitch’, David Bowie

#yegbike commute, way north of town. We didn’t get very far today, circumstances provided a rest day. This slogging through loose sandy gravel has my legs sore in an entirely different way. On the other hand (leg), the knee and joint pain I’ve been having is gone. From the community hall last […]

Here at the community hall, we are the end of Lily Lake Road and township road 590. Lily Lake Road is a straight north/south shot down to Bon Accord. That would have been much more cycle friendly. But we were trying to trace the Athabasca Trail - but if it’s just section roads approximating […]

#yegbike commute, north of Gibbons. The Trans-Canada Trail is an imaginary, arbitrary line on a virtual map. It is connected occasionally to local trails - but such is not the case for the Athabasca Trail, that is until the trail head begins somewhere north of Highway 18. We are not there yet […]

#yegbike commute: actually got on the road today. North on 82nd street until it ends at the former Namao base, right on Valour Ave until 50th Street, where you turn left, which is North. That part was great, although on empty section roads after 82nd street ends. At HWY 37, turned right again […]

As we over-prepare for what will be a doubtless ridiculously simple and cozy close bike packing trip, we're at the stage of going through my entire wardrobe. I don't know how someone who has lived their whole life just above the poverty level at a working class job can amass so many high-quality […]

OK, we sti haven’t left yet. A relaxing pack up rather than a frantically stressed one. Anyway, these are the provisions we have sourced from various local ethnic grocery stores. The picture was taken in response to a conversation I’m having with my old friends who […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Okay, this interesting (if only to me) For riding up the Trans-Canada Trail past Athabasca, and ever TO Athabasca, we need to get the Northern Alberta edition of the Backroads MapBook. MEC doesn't have it in stock! Nor London Drugs. So rather than taking a chance in a truckstop mega service […]

There is a tour announcement going around on Facebook. it involves the remaining Beatles and remaining Led Zeppelin playing big shows next year. So obviously fake - who would play bass? (there's more impossible tour groupings under the same title, all with obviously AI generated band pics. I […]

Every day at work, I put up on the activity of the day whiteboard what special day it is ( national Cheesecake Day or Firefighter Day or whatever it is). Today is National Welsh Rarebit Day, and I’ve got to give my Ted talk on the dish 3 times now. And made sure everyone had their Cheese Whiz […]

#yegbike commute: pleasant at +14°C, with detectable light southwest breeze. Enough to keep the mosquitoes away. Traffic weekday light, and not too annoying this morning. Street life present, but subdued. Paths a little busy with dog walkers and joggers. A few other bikes. Air seems clearer, not […]

#yegbike commute: cool at +10°C with negligible northeast breeze. Traffic medium weekday busy but super annoying. Street life present but subdued. Paths mostly empty, a few other bikes. Atmosphere seems less Smokey, but still contains mosquitoes. Birds about, hope they eat a lot of the bugs. Not […]

#yegbike commute: cool at +14°C with light southeastern breeze. Traffic blessedly holiday light, street life fairly subdued. Paths mostly empty, few other bikes. Would be an ideal fall ride but for the atmosphere being a little less than full apocalyptic. Smoke reduced the mosquitoes, and […]

#yegbike commute: still warm at *16° with ever present light southwest breeze. Traffic medium light, not so annoying this morning. Street life half busy. Paths medium busy with walkers and dogs, plenty of other bikes. So pretty much the same as all week, including mosquitoes and rabbits […]

#yegfringe holdover edition: '52 Stories' A one-person show in which a fellow memorizes the order of a deck of cards. But each card represents a person in his life, the action they enact, with an object. This gives him the system to 'chunk' together the order of the deck of audience-shuffled […]

#yegbike commute: still warm at at least +17°C, with very slight southwest breeze. Traffic still light, although plenty of sirens and annoying drivers. Street life medium active, paths largely clear. Plenty of other bikes. Mosquitoes and rabbits out and about. #earworm ‘Out On The Weekend’, Neil […]

#yegbike commute: quite warm at +17°C with light southwest wind. Traffic blessedly light, street life quite active. Paths mostly empty, fair amount of other bikes. Not a bad ride. #earworm ‘One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong’, Leonard Cohen. The room filled up with mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/GC7lDw-FKi0

#yegbike commute: weather pretty much the same as yesterday. Traffic still light, but annoying. Street life once again largely absent, paths mostly empty. But lots of bikes this morning, and rabbits. #earworm ‘I Ran’, Flock Of Seagulls. Still in awe of the Fringe Play, ‘New Wave Your Behaviour’

#yegbike commute: pleasantly cool at +13°C with light southwest breeze. Traffic blessedly light, street life quite absent or sleeping under tarps and tents. A few other bikes, a few walkers but mostly empty paths. Not a bad ride at all, but mosquitoes are out and about. Still on the New Wave […]

We finally had a wake for my aunt who passed away in January. There were family, Unitarian Church people, and Wagner Bog Natural Area group people there. It was nice - and with that kind of crowd there, we weren't the only crazy #yegbike cyclists! It was in Laurier […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

#yegbike hivemind database: are the trails through Hawrelak park open, or is it sill just the perimeter path?

#yegfringe 'Dressing Room Requiem' One of the must-see productions we get to every year is the Opera in the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in the main chapel. We've seen some HEAVY minor Puccini super-Catholic dreariness, and some so-so Gilbert & Sullivan - an aquired taste that I grew up with […]

#yegfringe 'Lost Sock Rescue Society' An amusing look at slightly peculiar charitable societies. Fun, enthusiastically acted, loving satire. 4/5 Up in the top floor of the Roots Building that has Blush Lane Organic Grocery on the ground floor. Amusing because so many business on the the top two […]

The Alberta Hospital For The Insane was an interesting #yegfringe choice for the one resident from my workplace (Veterans Home in the LongTermCare field) to come down for. The one resident at my work who is comfortable using public transit, and interested and experienced in the weirder aspects […]

#yegfringe 'The Alberta Hospital For The Insane' A challenging work, offered in the form of a puppet show (mostly). Set in 1930's Ponoka, this piece examines family violence, gender, trans issues, and the power of the institution. I'm not sure how coherently. I'm not sure the young age of the […]

#yegfringe 'A Little Something For The Ducks/ Something's Wrong' 2 2-person plays about aging. Well acted, 2 solid plays, 1 locally written about cognitive decline, 1 early 80's NY play about being that age. A decent hour of dealing with pressing life issues at the end of one's independent life […]

Promo clip from the 'New Wave Your Behaviour' show at the Sugar Swing Ballroom - a location off the main Fringe site slightly more convenient - but alas up a set of stairs so not as accessible. https://youtu.be/VMIVG-ki98s #yegfringe

Loved the location of the New Wave Your Behaviour also. I'd not been in the Sugar Swing Ballroom building before, seems like quite a nice facility. And the stage on the second floor is a great little stage - with a good selection of drinks at the bar, as well as a bathroom beside the stage! […]

#yegfringe 'New Wave Your Behaviour' What an extraordinary bit of theatre. A one-man show with a few chairs and a very basic synth kit. From that springs a show concerning a mental health journey with the help of therapy and an obsessive analysis of New Wave Music. With musical examples, vocal […]

#yegbike commute: cool at +10°C with light but gusty northwest winds. Traffic blessedly light, street life also. Only a few walkers and other bikes. A good day for riding a bicycle. #earworm ‘Police And Theives’, Junior Mervin. This one started out as the Clash version, then switched to the […]

#yegfringe 'Evie & Alfie' A sweet look at one British couple. Minimalist set, just 2 people mostly in their living room. I do like when the characters in their past talk to the audience as if they're telling an anecdote. I do think this utterly winning and charming play is as good as stage and […]

#yegbike commute: a little hot and muggy at +15°C, with a brisk northerly wind. Traffic blessedly light, street life quite absent. Paths medium full of walkers, a few other bikes. Great ride, although the ever later dawn melancholy is only slightly increased with the start of the falling leaves […]

#yegfringe 'Edmontask': A version of the show Taskmaster - if you know the show, you know and will love this. A very good job of translating the show - albeit with very little budget. That's a lot of work! The 'Alex' part was excellent, and the host even more clueless and uninvolved than Greg […]

#yegfringe @edmontask - were you advised to have the wax seal yellow?

#yegfringe '!SNAFU's Sexy Puppet Show' Not much to add to what everyone else had said. 6/5 I can't imagine this performer will be at the local theatre level for long. See her while you can. She can make a puppet out of anything! And do a music video using a reflective binder divider!

Just in case anyone was worried, the #forevercanadian canvassers are doing a good job of working the lineups at #yegfringe

For the kidlet's recent celebration, I was also taken with providing the sound system. A very heavy aging tube amp and microphone array were carted by bicycle to and from the event in the community hall. Luckily a more or less level route is possible. Special […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

For the kidlet's recent celebration, I was given the task of bartending. Her neighbour donated a Jockey Box with Keg of Italian Pilsner from Odd Company brewing. Such fun to assembled, much more fun to draw pitchers and pints!