Why do computer programs suck so badly? Why is my black text copy from Word changing into white text on a black background when pasted in PPT? I have never seen this before.

Just yuck. I need some trees, please.

The train whistles through the night have got to stop. Twice in an hour? I need to sleep.

How is it we are in 2026 and people still are using Reply All as their default email setting? There are big issues to worry about, so don't make me angrier as I waste precious brain power & time to delete your email which has NOTHING to do with me.

So now we're in the annoying foggy part of winter. I liked the forecast better when it was full of happy suns. It can't ever last, can it?

WHY THE EFF has there been constant train whistles for the past 20 minutes? It is Saturday and for once I get to sleep past 5am. Except today, apparently. And yes, I am wearing ear plugs!

Sunny Friday. Snuck in some tree time after work since we were without students & all my stuff was done by the regular end of day! Found a geocache and these fungi close to each other.

A new mineral has been named Anningite-(Ce) in honor of Victorian fossilist Mary Anning's paleontological work on coprolites 💩💎 www.facebook.com/groups/29313...

This person is not enjoying the density of the neighbourhood we live in. Windows barely 20m apart result in this. I guess he'd better invest in some good blackout blinds.

I live in a concrete building. What the eff is the upstairs neighbour dropping on the floor? This Sunday sucks so far when it is meant to be peaceful with no construction work allowed next door.

And after waiting to move my stuff over to a shared dryer (5 washers, 6 dryers) ALL OF THE DRYERS ARE IN USE. How? I have things in two of the machines. I have other things to do than run up and down to check on machines!

Have I mentioned that I am in mortgage hell but still have to share gross laundry machines like I live in a university dorm? I hate doing laundry as a result and put it off for as long as possible.

People in the new building under 20m from my bedroom window have started to leave notes taped to our front door about lights from living rooms shining into their suites. Buildings can be TOO close together and TOO dense.

For whatever reason, at 9.15pm on a Sunday, some goobers are whooping it up on this patio barely 20m from my bedroom window. Density is great though, right? Sigh.

Did Safeway just jack the price on the Compliments frozen veggies? I swear they were not $5.29 last time I bought them. Kicking myself for decluttering December's receipts last week.

I am going to miss getting enough sleep and having enough energy to do a day's activities with a little to spare once I head back to work tomorrow.

So jealous of my parents' condo. In suite laundry & a machine that spins out nearly all of the water from the clothes. Unlike my awful Coinamatic machines leaving me soggy stuff needing 18 hours to hang dry in winter.

I know condos are small and families are stuck, but how do strata people feel about kids playing soccer in building lobbies / hallways?

January 2, 1833, re-establishment of British rule over the Falkland Islands. The HMS Beagle will visit later that year and Charles Darwin is the 1st naturalist to geologize there. He collects some Devonian brachiopods and crinoids, at the time some of the oldest animals known from the fossil record.

Went walking at Trout Lake today. Saw a bunch of American Wigeons, and some mushrooms growing on trees. Found a geocache as well.

This might be all I can hope for as well.

I am so pleased (obviously not) that the construction site is blowing concrete & hammering & making my day miserable. Wonder when they'll stop today? (I discovered that the cement trucks queue up to wait their turn near S&O just off Stewardson.)

No filter. Moody morning at the quay.

The dollar store already has the Valentine crap out. Can we just chill already?

What's that I hear? Oh, just a SEVENTH Christmas vacation from work ruined by construction site noise. Today it is drills. Lucky, lucky me.

Winter is frustrating as the sunniest blue sky days always seem to fall on a day where I cannot be outside to enjoy them for as long as I want. Tomorrow I have all day free and the forecast is cloudy & rainy...

Remnants of Christmas past. Festive baubles found washed up on Cornish beaches.

booke booke reade a booke then anothir booke aftir that anothir booke bookes are freakinge awesome

Phew. Good thing I'm a morning person. Ferries after mine all cancelled!

Are people ok? Someone just tried to bring a lap dog on the Hullo ferry unleashed and tucked into their jacket. No crate in sight either.

Why do I hate transit tonight? Some kid vaping on the SkyTrain.

Is it just me, or does it not at all feel like Christmas time? (I hope it is just me.)

The word pivot and the way it is currently (over)used makes me cringe.

Never have I heard rain this heavy here. Wild!

Construction in Douglas College closed the sidewalk again today. Except with no sign and no person, just some guy yelling halfway down the street that I told you to stop, but hadn't. The signs in the road were for drivers. No signs about sidewalks.

Who are the people who can leave the volume on and scroll through an Instagram feed? Masochists. Just did it accidentally and the cacophony was excruciating.

Change T*sla to using an LLM to do all of your writing & thinking & analysing and the result will be similar.

Explain to me how I take nearly 3 weeks off running due to cough and runny nose, and my Garmin says my VO2 max has *increased*.

Those new eensy weeny teeny tiny electronic price tags at Safeway are making me dread grocery shopping. That's one way to save money, I guess

It is the grocery store's fault that I have Christmas carols stuck in my head constantly these days.

Ugly view.

Fraggle rocke, Fraggle papir, Fraggle scissores

I have lost a More rewards card for a second time. This is another in a long list of stuff lost or misplaced recently. I freaking give up.

Maybe I spoke too soon. All of a sudden today I feel a cold again - super stuffy nose and cough ramping up again. FFS.

Sidewalk closed again due to change construction. But the sign is put where you wouldn't know until you have to backtrack up the hill and around another 250m detour. So, so tired of this. I hate where I live.

As I am doing some marking this afternoon I have YouTube on for company. There was just a BOXING WEEK AD. It is 3 $%*& weeks until Boxing Day!

@cuddlefishj.bsky.social & @moebiusstripper.bsky.social is there any empirical way to determine whether it is a better option for students to a) drop a low test score, or b) rewrite one test for (hopefully) a higher % score?

Exactly why I stopped dating. It was only ever about the hook up, it seemed.

No reason to ever look out my windows again.

Sidewalk closed AGAIN on my way home by construction. Asked the traffic guy where pedestrians were supposed to detour & he had no idea. I AM DONE WITH THIS BS.