When packing a portable coffeemaker for a trip, it is a good idea to check first that there is no coffee in it before putting it in your luggage 🙄 oops What a morning already

They're up to something What is it this time?

My cat watching Kraftwerk, "Autobahn" on Youtube

The cake made it home just fine

But ringette!

Good morning, Ottawa. Bonjour, Ottawa.

Good morning, Ottawa. Bonjour, Ottawa.

Of course, this satire could not possibly resonate with Canadian city dwellers. Too over the top!

In this satirical work by a 19th-c. Russian writer, a shiny new town mayor shows up. Nobody knows why, but everyone likes a new mayor. Yet one day he's found in his office with his head separate from his body, and his head has no brain! Shocking, but the mayor keeps talking, remains mayor. Absurd!

17 hours after posting, ZERO likes. What a mayor!

Are there any cities in Canada where the mayor and suburbs don't blockade the city and wreck it?

In the past, a mayor would have found that debate on Lansdowne absolutely humiliating. I listened to that debate for a few hours, and I thought the pro-Lansdowne people were utterly unprepared and clueless about basic economic and policy concepts. But they don't seem to notice.

I have many family memories of trying to drive my kids to ballet and swimming and being cut off left and right by people driving to RedBlacks games, running red lights and stop signs, and making chaotic U-Turns.

Once again, the Mayor shows his unfamiliarity with basic statistical concepts, despite a fondness for spinning numbers. You cannot have a "sample size" of two years. A sample size is a number of people surveyed or of items being researched. Two years is rather a short duration, not a sample.

Oh, ffs. How dare you presume to know what creates "cherished memories" for Ottawa residents? How dare you? What cherished memories will NOT have an opportunity to be formed if this goes forward? What makes these people so determined to earn the contempt and scorn for the taxpayer?

Wow, some of you City Councillors think the public is very stupid. Do you know that members of the public are here in the room?

I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate

If "The Fountainhead" was re-written for the 21st century, Howard Roark would be saying "Gimme some government handouts so I can do The Soaring Architecture while maintaining my penthouse lifestyle, you Commies!"

What I'm saying is the idea that we need Lansdowne for the economy is an idea that gazes at, and benefits, privileged men. Let's have better public transport so that more retired ladies (and gents) can buy more tickets to more events, buy more books, when they have to give up driving.

Let's talk about WHO keeps the Ottawa economy going. Since I retired, I've realized there is a large community of engaged, active retired people, many of them women. They go to festivals, book launches, craft workshops. They run 10k's and do dragon boat. They buy theatre, concert tickets, eat out.

I just bought this at a used bookstore so that somebody else couldn't. I'm petty that way. I read it at age 18. I enjoyed the "love" story, prob because I'd watched too much General Hospital due to a long convalescence from a virus, and as a result I had very low standards for romance novels.

Wrote to the mayor's office with concerns, and received a very condescending and rather off-topic reply from somebody. Newly retired professor here. I'm really pretty good at spotting when someone has used AI to write an email. Not exactly the A-team when it comes to communications, is it?

Leaf, meet loaf

I just really annoyed my son by insisting that it was Seth Rogen singing O Canada just now at the last game of the World Series My work is done here. Let me know who wins, I'll be up at 5 a.m. with the cats

I pull into a legal parking space Driver of illegally parked truck asks me to move, says I've boxed him in Me: That doesn't look like a parking space Him: I'm just loading up for a minute Me: I'm just getting coffee for a minute. You can wait HA! to all you fools who block a bike lane "for a minute"

I know it's raining, but I have swim practice in the morning. I have ghosts

Please come over and take my candy. I have cats with bandanas.

New Polling Results on Lansdowne 2.0 from Nik Nanos. The more people know about the plan, the more they don’t like it. Most believe it won’t stay on budget, would prefer repairs to existing, oppose the loss of greenspace and arena capacity and extra debt.

How my retirement is going so far

I got up to some very silly shenanigans at the fabric store

What's it like inside your head?

Reposting for absolutely no reason (OK, it's about Lansdowne)

Wow He knew, almost 90 years ago, where things were going. He was assigned for a course I took in graduate school, but we never discussed it; prob the professor never got around to reading it. Read it

Just walking along the river with my cat

And no sidewalk on this chunk of Barrington, even though there is a little sign indicating to bear right to get to Africville. Trucks go roaring by. This is DOWNTOWN Halifax (note non-moving traffic on MacKay Bridge). It's almost like someone wants to discourage people from going to Africville?

Africville, park with rebuilt church. . It's not easy to get here on foot, but it is possible.

Africville Lookoff, Halifax. To my right and below, there was once a Black community. How many people enter Halifax through the MacKay bridge and think that there was always a tangle of shitty ramps, ugly warehouses and confusing exits here?

Great news! No more tolls to cross Halifax's MacKay Bridge! Btw, people used to live here. How about we collect tolls to pay reparations?

These ugly-ass buildings in Halifax replaced something uglier: the city's old Rockhead Prison, the subject of a new book by Katie Ingram. I searched in vain for a plaque to honour the history of those unjustly incarcerated here for being poor in public. Maybe there's one here somewhere, dunno

This little guy is just sitting there, on the sidewalk. He's alive. He seems peaceful.

What's your sign?

Prince Edward Island

Unexpected things found in my late Grandad's room in rural eastern Canada. Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales, in German, 1884. Was denkst du, @plerner.bsky.social ?

Prince Edward Island. Wish you were here, if you don't speed or litter

Amherst, Nova Scotia

I prefer stopping in small towns for lunch on the road instead of Big-Ass gas stations Look at this seafood chowder

Either I'm hallucinating, or somebody just whipped out a big-ass bassoon and started playing the theme from "The Love Boat" on Citadel Hill just now during the Halifax rush hour. Mad respect if it's the latter. If it's the former, pretty good hallucination.

Sad to see the impact of the drought on Halifax. So I tried to spruce it up a bit