metawidget: Chicks in the grass by a clapboard wall (Chickens)
2021-05-01 10:27 am
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Friday Five

Sure, a prompt for some reminiscing from [community profile] thefridayfive...

1) What's the furthest place you've traveled to in the last 12 months?
Likely picking up chickens from Perth-ish, 75 minutes' drive away.
2) What's the most interesting small town within driving distance?
Wakefield is pretty cool, although it's fallen on hard times since the steam train shut down due to a washout of some of the track. There's Lester B. Pearson's grave, good walking, a train turntable, and lots of good hippie food.
3) What's the coolest tourist attraction in your city?
Being in the capital region there is a lot, but in Hull proper it's probably the Canadian Museum of History, which contains the Children's Museum and an IMAX theatre, built when people thought 70mm movies were a neat idea. It's an impressive building and grounds, and has a huge variety of interesting exhibits including a lot of Indigenous content and parts of buildings brought into the space. It used to be called the Museum of Civilization but the Harper Régime found that too outward-looking or didn't like civilization or something.
4) What was your favorite road trip you took as a kid?
All the New England camping trips kind of blend together, but there was one where we were camping in a lean-to and got on well with our camping neighbours and ate jalapeño chips which left an impression.
5) How often do you feel like you've got to get away?
On some small level, I try to do that daily with a walk, run or bike ride. But I do feel due for a date, a trip, a break out of the routine...
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metawidget: Person sitting cross-legged from the rear, in black and white with noise and scratches (body)
2020-12-14 04:31 pm
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Fear is a teacher

Rands muses on something I've felt has been rattling around my memescape over the past couple of years… being from the memescape, it's not groundbreaking but it's what tweaked me to post.

It's been a bit of an autumn… a little over a week ago we lost a radical elderly Druid (never a Druid elder, she insisted that was a kind of tree). Her passing was a surprise to everyone and I can still hear her voice in my head when I think of her. Elizabeth made a list of little tributes to her including picking up trash, gardening over more lawn, being kind to animals and looking for meaning, and the one thing I can think of to add is chipping in a little extra to the food bank and to people facing oppression (most recently the Mi'kmaw fishers being terrorized in Nova Scotia).

We're also trying to wrap our heads around holiday plans, avoiding as much marginal risk increase as possible and still make it happen — gathering with who we can, distanced present drops and walks with others, Zoom and Canada Post with further flung people and cooking up a storm. We're going to make it happen. And whenever things are sufficiently normal we'll gather again with people we haven't gathered with in a while. Not being able to visit makes me miss people more.

Work is also pretty intense lately; there are urgent projects and personalities to wrangle; I'm feeling like I'm more in manager than statistician mode right now. My supervisor says I'm doing fine but I'm not always so sure.

I've been running regularly and keeping track on Strava (find me there under my real name if you're interested). Quantifying it motivates me — in these first few months I've gone from being able to sustain a run for under a kilometer to being able to do 10+ km at a moderate run or a mixed stagger for over 20km when I'm feeling really ambitious. My shirts fit better too, and it makes the neighborhood feel closer together feeling that more of it is reachable on foot.
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metawidget: A platypus looking pensive. (Default)
2011-02-12 01:03 pm
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Outaouais-ness confirmed for the year

Yesterday Elizabeth, Oscar and I skated (and rode in a stroller, as appropriate) down to Pig Island and back along the Rideau Canal, and had tasty hot food from the Stone Soup truck and ritual beaver tails. No deportation back to Montreal this year :)
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2005-08-27 08:14 pm
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  • Current Music: Joni Mitchell. "Rainy Night House". from Ladies Of The Canyon (Remastered).
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hey everyone!

[livejournal.com profile] rottenfruit is playing at Casa del popolo with Christina Frances (of One Candle Power) in about 45 minutes. Get up, get some fresh air, and be there!
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