Just heard this morning that a second major #hospital in #ottawa#hospitalis significantly cutting #nursing staff. This is in a city where we already regularly see 10 plus hour waits in ER (not to mention a ridiculous shortage of family doctors). All due to budget cuts by the Conservative provincial […]

Ah well. All the teams I traditionally support (plus Canada, which, obviously. . . .) are now out. I'll have to just watch with unbiased appreciation for the rest of this. #WorldCup

I must reluctantly admit that #Morocco is really quite good. The coordination alone, and the passing. If they weren't beating #canada#morocco I'd really enjoy this. #WorldCup #fedifc

I have always loved and been fascinated by personal names, and the #WorldCup is a feast.

It's so interesting to watch teams like #canada, where most of those playing are young and on the up, as opposed to watching older teams or players like #Belgium, #Croatia#belgium The older teams are often more disciplined, which I find really impressive and enjoy watching. But the younger teams just […]

Apparently any goal that's made properly, as opposed to on a penalty, is now off side. #WorldCup #fedifc

Great game so far - #Portugal's had most of the possession, but both sides are playing well, and there have been tense moments for viewers on both sides. Also, a lot less of the shirt-grabbing and actual body-grabbing that we've seen in some of these matches. #WorldCup #fedifc

Have a feeling this is the last time we'll see Modric in a World Cup. :-( #WorldCup #fedifc

Well, at least #germany made it out of the group stage - if I remember correctly (though I might not), they didn't manage that in Qatar. #WorldCup

One of the games my husband plays is a sort of fantasy #AmericanFootball game, but it comes from a UK company, and I really doubt they even know what American football is. They call the field 'the pitch', which is at least understandable, but they also talk about deciding the game in #penalty […]

This is why I love #football - you can start out with a clear idea of which team is far more likely to win . . . but you never know what will actually happen. #WorldCup #fedifc

I saw no valid reason for that goal to be disallowed. Nobody touched the goalie, he just dived over. Like the announcer said, he was play-acting for the ref, and he got away with it. Incredibly annoying. #WorldCup #fedifc

Finally! #WOrldCup #fedifc #canada

Headline today: "House Democrats brace for headaches with growing left wing". Um . . . Apparently the fact that the ruling Republicans are now openly white nationalists, who use taxpayers' money to line the pockets of Trump and his friends and kill innocent people with no pretense of due process […]

#ecuador really deserves to win this game. #WorldCup #fedifc

Right in the middle of the match, I get a phone call from the #NDP, of which I am a member. (They might be a pale imitation of a worker's party, but they're the closest we've got.) She wanted my thoughts on some of what they're doing. I said at the moment I'm more interested in the #WorldCup#ndp[…]

How do you find evidence of someone's birth in Canada when there seem to be no records *at all* of the family in this country? US censuses all insist he was born in Canada, but the client doesn't really know where in Ontario the guy was born (a late record in the US gives a location, but that's […]

A week ago I slammed the tip of my finger in a window I was closing. Hurt like made, but I iced it and it doesn't hurt; the nail only shows a slight bruise. Oddly, though, the middle knuckle is hurting (achy, like arthritis), and the finger is still slightly swollen. Could slamming just the tip […]

Woman just walked by with a #GoldenRetriever Golden Retrievers are lovely.

Good. I'm a lifelong Germany fan, but I enjoy it more when the other team at least gets to play. Well done, #ecuador. #WorldCup #fedifc

I should have just accepted that #Scotland and #brazil#scotlandwill do what they always do and watched #MARHAI instead. Sounds like it's been a fabulous game. #WorldCup #fedifc

Oh, dear. #WorldCup #fedifc #scotland

Well, at least they've advanced. Better than they did last time. #WorldCup #fedifc

Finally! #WorldCup #fedifc

@eARCwelder And you saw this? How old are you, anyway . . . ?

This Panama Croatia game is going to kill me and I don't even really care who wins. Whew! #worldcup ⚽🌎🏆

If Panama equalizes and the game ends in a draw, who goes home? #WorldCup

It's funny how much the layout of your house affects the way you live your life. The way we lived in a one-level ranch for 21 years has been disrupted by our new living space, which is multilevel and has the bedrooms (incl. the one I use for my office) separate from general living space. We see […]

My lovely husband just brought me a plate of food because I was afraid if I went to the kitchen I'd miss something. #WorldCup #EngvCro #fedifc

TSN seems to be having sound issues.

Seeing people wrapped in football scarves in Florida just makes me uncomfortable. #WorldCup #ENGvCRO #fedifc

Excellent reflexes from #Croatia's goalie. #WorldCup

I have more power than I thought! I just said, "If Croatia could equalize before the half time it would be fab." And so they did. :-) #WorldCup #engvcro

Yes! #ENGCRO #world#engcroCup

Croatia in blue. What's with uniforms this time? #fedifc #WorldCup#fedifc#engcro

I keep getting emails telling me I have a very good chance of being approved for a #PayPal credit card. I want to send one back saying I have an even better chance of refusing to give my money to #peterthiel#PayPaland his ilk.

"The beauty of the [World Cup] is that, when it’s at its best, those like Infantino are still powerless to ruin it." -- Football Daily

Okay, I want Scotland to win all the rest of its games, but I'd like this one to be a draw. (I told you I was torn. . . .) #fedifc #HAIvSCO #WorldCup

@TrueNorthSpice I probably have all kinds of bots following me. I usually accept follows and only follow back if they look interesting. I should probably take a look at that now I've been here for years.

A little bit torn on this one. I always back Scotland - I lived there for years and it still feels like home. But I've spent time in Haiti, too, and they've had such a hard time of it for the past, like 200 years. . . . #HAIvSCO #MastodnFC #WorldCup

Why is TSN showing the Canada game after everyone else has apparently seen it? What's the point of subscribing to watch things live when apparently it's not live? How disappointing.

R didn't bother with a garden this year. Without the dog, there just isn't much motivation to spend time in the back yard.

Happy first day of the #WorldCup to those who celebrate.

If all the #mamdani news seems too good to be true, it’s because politicians haven’t worked for the average person for decades and we’ve gotten so use to it a politician doing their job correctly seems completely foreign.

Just read yet another article listing words and punctuation supposedly indicative of someone having used #AI to write. So far, all of the words and punctuation that no real person apparently uses are words and punctuation I've used for decades, mostly because they're perfectly good English and […]

Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22 https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416 Simply: 1) Withdraw the bill 2) Don’t collect & retain metadata 3) Don’t weaken or break encryption, now or […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Finished up a client case today, which is such a good feeling. Sometimes when I've got 14 cases going, it seems like the earlier ones (usually waiting for documents, or trying to write around the lack of same) will never end.