Let's Make Some Art, Dammit

September 15, 2024. We walked the Stonebridge Trail today along the Jock River, north of Manotick. Beautiful warm day. https://flic.kr/p/2qgDKhV

September 14, 2024. Long bike ride today; this was right near the end, in evening. Visited both Dunvegan and Maxville. So warm! https://flic.kr/p/2qgCjQo

September 13, 2024. Friday. Beautiful warm day, so after a productive day coding I went for a bike ride. Must keep descriptions short or IFTTT fails. https://flic.kr/p/2qgErwj

September 11, 2024. The moss-covered apple tree trunk outside my office building in the city. It was the first of three office days this week, a result of the uninformed and arbitrary decision made to reduce work-from-home. Traffic was awful and wasteful, especially considering that my only interaction was by email and Zoom. People who do the sort of work I do should be able to work from anywhere in the country, not just in a designated office. https://flic.kr/p/2qgkkuh

September 10, 2024. Here's a serving of my curry with green onions and, buried under the spicy goodness, a portion of Atlantic Canada salmon. So delicious! A second day of working on a Mastodon client from the home office. https://flic.kr/p/2qga7BY

September 9, 2024. Each week we get a new batch of vegetables and that prompts me to cook them up as a spicy curry. Here's this weeks' sweet potato and carrot curry. Worked from home today, building a simple Mastodon client. https://flic.kr/p/2qga4BK

September 9, 2024. It was fungus day on our weekly forest walk. We went out to Rogers Pond in Marlborough Forest in rural south-west Ottawa. Very few animals or birds. The light was low and I wasn't really set up for dark fungus pics. Evening was spent on a No Man's Sky expedition. Here's the full album https://flic.kr/p/2qfj1Xk

September 7, 2024. The RedBlacks played the Argos this afternoon. A rare day game, it could have been fantastic, but is was cold and poured rain for pretty much the entire game. Nice to see a convincing win, though. Got home, went to sleep right away. Back-to-back events aren't as easy on me as they used to be. https://flic.kr/p/2qfizRd

September 6, 2024. I wanted to share a photo from the Jimmy Carr and Jim Jeffries show tonight, but all I'm allowed to show is this. The show was great but it would have been nice to have something more to remember it by. The evening followed a great day working at home where I got tons done on my CList app. https://flic.kr/p/2qfg3vh

September 4, 2024. This rose is found in the parking lot by the Costco where I went for lunch. Office day, which I spent heads-down all day writing 'Why Free Learning Needs Free Artificial Intelligence'. https://flic.kr/p/2qeQt9e

September 3, 2024. Another nightstand photo. That's what we get when I have a busy day. Today I wrote a script that allows me to post from OLDaily into BlueSky. Pretty happy about that - in the past, it would have taken me a week. https://flic.kr/p/2qecZE4

September 2, 2024. Went out for a nice 63 km ride today that included a jaunt through this, the Larose Forest (which is in my mind always referred to as the Emerald Forest). Cool with a strong northwest breeze. Watching football this evening. https://flic.kr/p/2qdNfiM

September 1, 2024. We went for our weekly hike to South March highlands in Ottawa's west end today. It was a bit cool and a bit breezy, but nice after the earlier rains. Here's the full album https://flic.kr/p/2qdFdgZ

August 31, 2024. The light on my bedstand, the last light I turn off every day. Rainy day today, but I finished something I've been working evenings and weekends on for most of the summer, a set of five articles to join a sixth I wrote in the spring. So nice to have that done. https://flic.kr/p/2qdFrHc

August 30, 2024. The selection of Centrum vitamins for women at the Gloucester Costco . I was searching for Centrum Caltrate, not realizing that these are two separate products. A work-in-office day today, and therefore not that productive, though I did fill out a couple of forms. https://flic.kr/p/2qdAStJ