You know your recycling bin is full when it takes you 2 tries to put a bottle cap in.

Ski 2 Sea Has anyone heard of the Ski-to-Sea relay race? It’s a relay from the top of Mount Baker to Bellingham Bay, done in seven different legs: cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, running, road bike, canoe, cyclocross/gravel bike, and sea kayak. I heard about it (or at least, a now defunct…

It's got to be a little soul-crushing to find yourself the villain in a kids' cartoon/story...

Live Laugh LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT 🎶*horn loop*🎶

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: (Tough one, but here's a sample list from today) Finishing a task that was daunting Watching your kid capably tackle homework Seeing a dreary day turn sunny Sauna Steak

Cultus Lake Triathlon 2025: Third Time’s the Charm – Hat Trick – Triathlon Trifecta I had hoped to do the Vancouver Triathlon this year, but by the time I got around to bringing up the registration page, it was sold out (I learned later, that transfers are actually allowed, which wasn't the case…

I'd encourage local governments to try it here on #BlueSky, and add that @fedica.com is a Canadian developed tool that could be used to manage posts on this and other platforms. cc @fraservalleytoday.bsky.social @cityofabbotsford.bsky.social Also, I just signed up to be an early user of Gander.

Open Water Training in 2025 This post contains Amazon Associate (Affiliate) Links. Should you order from those links I would receive a small commission. Beggars can't be choosers, I always say. Between wanting to train up for the 2025 Cultus Lake Triathlon (the Vancouver Triathlon was sold out…

Connecting All of Abbotsford’s Discovery Trails Abbotsford has several multi-use trails they label 'Discovery Trail', but since there are several, shouldn't they comprise one network? The answer was never obvious from the trail entrances, but there is a website and a map: Still, I had struggled to…

Canada: "Elbows Up! Support our national economy." Everyone: *buys Canadian, avoids travel to the US, reinforces Canadian Tourism* "But affordability and inflation are still problems." Air Canada Flight Attendants Union: "especially for us!"

Return To Japan We loved our previous trip to Japan so much, we decided to go back for more (and yet also something different) again in 2025. Arrival - Kyoto We hadn't had a lot of time to pre-plan our entire agenda, so we chose the Kyoto Granbell Hotel again as for our first night. We had taken…

I'm swimming 10km in August to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society fundraisemyway.cancer.ca/participants...

The Quest To Ride To Downtown Abbotsford I'd been wanting to combine an excursion to downtown Abbotsford with a road cycling training ride for a while. Before I committed to executing the ride, I made sure to scout out the route beforehand to look for obstacles, challenges, problems, etc. Marshall…

If you're flying out of Vancouver (YVR), the cool security scanner (whete you don't have to take out your laptop) can apparently eat your keys, even if you've stowed them in a zippered jacket pocket.

How to Teach Kids to "Break the Rules" Intelligently | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

*sees replies/quote posts* Hold my beer... *braces for impact* Phonyism & hypocrisy are ingrained in Canadian culture.

One of my desert island albums.

This is me.

New Lightning Kid Video: My Grandmother's Piano youtu.be/8XMTMRnK648 #seetheability

A #LightningKid Video with footage from Toronto Kids Fashion Week - Vancouver My son Kian was a model at the Vancouver event of Toronto Kids Fashion Week - the first male model with #DownSyndrome in this show. He represented the designer Rain On Me. youtu.be/bLRbbNdiIFc...#LightningKid

A microblogging site, you say? Tomorrow is Father's Day. I'm thinking about memory, I'm thinking about music. I remember how an uttered phrase could trigger my father into bursting into song if the phrase resembled a lyric closely enough. #fathersday #music #parenting

My son Kian will be the 1st male model with Down syndrome to walk the runway! youtu.be/wCmT0vO5wW0?...

Things to do around Metro Vancouver this weekend including: Today: - Hats Off Day street festival in Burnaby - Car Free Day Surrey - Indigenous Market at New West Craft Sunday: - Italian Day on Commercial Drive All Weekend: - Doors Open Richmond - Beach BioBlitz for #WorldOceansDay and more:

I'm entering this giveaway from @Miss604.com and you can too! miss604.com/2025/06/door...

Race Recap: Run For Water 5km (2025) – Featuring the Lightning Kid I chose to co-write this blog with my son, the Lightning Kid, whose exploits you can see on his YouTube Channel. On Sunday, May 25th, 2025, my mother, father and I went to the Run For Water. My dad and I ran the 5km. Before the…

CripShip: A revolt against #AI, where #Disability saves society from big tech: art.josephwilk.net/projects/cri... A tabletop roleplaying game where play teaches breaking LLMs in the real world. Inspired by disabled people destroying systems of power & building new worlds from disabled imagination.

Me: Maybe I should take my analog/stationery obsession to the next level and get into letter writing. The Universe: How about a postal strike?

Inside every Leaf fan are two wolves. One believes that this is the year they go all the way. The other believes they will choke like so many times before. Which is stronger? The second one, dummy.

I've been on BlueSky for a few months, I think. I remember waiting for my invitation to go live, but by the time I could post, I didn't even feel like starting up on a new social media platform.

Using the Kobo Libra Colour As A Swim Log I had a Kobo eReader, but I bought the Libra Colour for 3 reasons: 1.) You can use it to take notes, and the onboard OCR (opticalcharacter recognition) will digitize the note for upload, copy/paste and search. 2.) The colour screen would let me read comic…

Race Recap: Canaqua Mudskipper Ice Cracker Challenge Well, the first weekend of May was a busy one. We stayed in downtown Vancouver while my eldest went to a gymnastics competition on the Saturday, then a training camp on the Sunday. The Lightning Kid had an ultrasound at BC Children's hospital,…

Best. Ride. Ever: Chilliwack to Abbotsford I think I had the best bike ride (or at least best solo bike ride) of my life this weekend. I had the idea of riding home from church in Chilliwack - Google said there were good bike routes, so I saved one to my phone, but more on that later. In…

Once heard him say this line while a friend and I were having a handstand contest.

I knew he would post that. -Yestradamus