2026 Canadian screen awards start soon. Wait music is Augine de Poitrine.

Windy out there!

What are you doing over there, Mr Duck?

Wind damage just down the street.

The Giveaway Weekend has finally returned to Ottawa. Happy hunting! https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/a-citywide-treasure-hunt-is-on-as-ottawa-brings-back-giveaway-weekend/

Some kind of vehicle fire nearby. Huge amounts of black smoke.

Windy windy

Hey, #getfedihired! It looks like we're hiring a second new person onto my team at Scribd. A non-senior (4+ years) backend engineer for Content Foundations. #python #ruby or #go, plus experience with document formats like #pdf #epub and #markdown and OCR. Ideally located on the east coast USA […]

I really want swimming to be taught in school. It's a survival skill and would save lives.

I saw this cute bunny on a run earlier in the week. Staying still so I couldn't see them.

I enjoy this apartment building which just said "you win" to pedestrian paths

I went earlier today to renew my ID and health card and while it was busy there, I was impressed that a person at the counter gave priority to people in wheelchairs and walkers. Probably knocked 45-60 minutes off their wait times. I had been helping out a woman in walker because she was hard of […]

In a miracle of medical efficiency, last week I booked a pap for yesterday at 9:10 and was walking out of the doctor's office by 9:20.

Rainbow! Actually a double rainbow but the second one doesn't show up very well

This is terrible. Why do anti-vaxxers want this? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2d5d7wn5o

Yay! Saint Pierre got renewed for a third season

I did too much stuff first thing this morning and have now missed the window for a run before it's too hot. Sigh.

The lily of the valleys have opened up. I could smell them. #bloomscrolling

Some big military (I think) aircraft just took off.

The petals are falling from the tree

Today we are going to try to have my youngest bus to the dentist by himself after school and I just meet him there. Not having to bus over to his school to pick him up saves me at least an hour. Hopefully it all works out. This was the kid's plan, not mine, as he's confident he can do it in time […]

Hmm. Quote posts show up fine on @pachli and I can successfully quote in other apps, but for some reason Pachli doesn't offer me the option to quote post. I'm confused.

@androidfaithful I thought you would appreciate how Google disco globed my CBC News icon. AI still can't spell.

Can anyone in the Durham region help. I'm depressed, I'm not OK and I just need someone kind to listen.

I had to get up stupidly early for a kid event. Sigh. Previously the kid event was supposed to start at 11. Before dinner yesterday we were just going over the plans for today, when the kid says he forgot to tell us the event changed its hours and now starts at 8. Lol. Getting to Kanata by 8 is […]

With a little over a month before my eldest goes to uni we finally got a buying list of supplies. So much stuff. So few weekends left 😭

I was quite pleased with myself that I was running 2 months ahead of my running training program compared to last year (this year I will complete it before winter lol!) and then I checked after yesterday's run and realised I must've skipped most of July and August due to the heat/air quality lol […]

My cat worked hard to help raise my babies and, while he's in retirement now, every time he hears a baby cry (TV, outside) he goes on alert and looks in the direction of the crying to assess whether we need to do something. Toddler across the street was just having a meltdown and he was quite […]

Trying to finish an ebook before it's due back. It was so slow to get into. Picked up at like the halfway mark. Now I need to speed read it. I bet I'll get to the last chapter and then it'll expire lol

Ugh. I guess we have to cover the seedlings planted on the weekend 😞

At the doctor's and it's busy. Oh my. I guess after the long weekend everyone has complaints. Someone in the waiting room is holding up their phone to their ear but still has it on speaker phone, confirming my belief that people have forgotten how to use phones.

Plants I planted this weekend are going to be pretty happy. Plants still waiting are probably less happy.

A bunch of micro greens from farm boy and elsewhere have been recalled https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/microgreens-sold-in-ontario-quebec-recalled-due-to-possible-e-coli-contamination-9.7202446

I got my bread settlement money

Sad looking bananas have been turned into carob chip banana bread. Nice start to the long weekend, hopefully. New bread pan, so hopefully it worked out ok. Looks good.

Hamilton PWHL announcement starting soon! #pwhl

Are people still going to shop at sobey's now that they're getting rid of the maple leaves? There isn't one near me, so I almost never go there anyway. Although I do wonder what the new grocery store going up at Westgate is going to be. I haven't seen an announcement about it […]

Post mother's day I now have 15 new plants to take outside everyday until it gets warm enough outside for me to plant them lol. Hopefully later this week. Rosemary plants will be joining the group later.

I guess I need to start taking my rosemary plants outside to get them used to it again. This is the first time I've managed to keep them alive over the winter!

This sounds like an interesting exhibit https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venice-biennale-canada-entry-9.7192983

Hmm. I had assumed the children were making whatever in the kitchen together. I'm now concerned the youngest is doing it unsupervised.

Now I wait quietly in bed while I'm asked approximately 20 cooking questions lol. "Are baking soda and baking powder the same thing?" "Do we have baking powder?" Etc

Alert system test worked ✅

PWHL announcement starting soon on YouTube and wow they have great live stream starting soon animations. #pwhl

Census done!

On today's run I saw a merlin! Actually two. One flew by me and I didn't think much of it until it started calling and I stopped running, wondering what it was because it sounded like a bird of prey, not a songbird. Fortunately, it stopped on a utility pole […] [Original post on ottawa.place]

I bought new running shoes at decathlon yesterday! On clearance for half price! The last pair of those shoes and they just happened to be in my size! Unfortunately, the little sign about them had few details and they'd already disappeared off the website, so hopefully they'll work for my runs […]

Not exactly looking good for its age

Finally street cleaners!

At the doctor's again because something's up with my blood work. I got the tests done Friday and they called Monday and wanted me in today. This doctor really works fast.