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Weather change

Gord — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:13:45 +0000

Summer came to a screeching halt around here late last week. Over the course of two days, the daytime highs dove from 27C+ (80F) down to 16C (60F). Saturday brought some howling wind into the mix as well. not a lot of rain, though. If the water hadn’t been heart-attack inducing cold, it might have [...]

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Ship ahoy!

Gord — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:57:01 +0000

Ever summer, the Canadian Navy sends a vessel on a tour of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. Wherever it stops, it’s open for visitors and makes for a great PR/recruiting exercise. The HMCS Fredericton was in Kingston yesterday: Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Fredericton was commissioned on September 10, 1994 and is one [...]

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Assessing risk

Gord — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:50:03 +0000

“The world’s a dangerous place” When was the last time you heard that? Would you be surprised to hear that it’s not really that dangerous? Yep. B and I refuse to traumatize the boys, so they’re used to a degree of freedom that many of their friends aren’t: Phil’s been going to the park by [...]

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Tearsheets & protestors

Gord — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:28:39 +0000

In the 80′s and 90′s, I had visions of making a living in the journalism world. I wasn’t really interested in leaving Kingston, so that never happened, but I still go everywhere with my camera and take pictures everywhere. I’ve had a few photos published and it’s nice to know that I still have a [...]

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The fire! It burns!

Gord — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:10:07 +0000

No, nothing really dangerous. Honest. Jim’s post today reminded me of a couple of stories about fire and I had to come back to post. Bridget no longer lights the gas grill at our house. She hasn’t since before Phil was born in 1997. I do most of the cooking, so she was being helpful [...]

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I’m thinking about retiring

Gord — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:44:53 +0000

From blogging, not from work. If I could stop working for someone else, there’d be no thought involved. I’d be gone. I’m just not sure that I have much more to say. Not in an extended format, anyway. This is post #1478 since May 2005. More than five years. I’ve become quite fond of Twitter [...]

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