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Not a comforting warning from the ATM at an actual bank!

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I’ve never had such an elevated latte before… Taipei 101:

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Amenities in an Amsterdam hotel: shampoo, conditioner and hand lotion in “mood therapy”. Moods are: “calm”, “happy” and “alive”. I must confess, I had not really considered the state of being not dead was especially a mood, before!

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I laid the washed swatch out to dry in the sunspot. It was mere seconds until the cat was there to “help”.

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Someone else quite happy with where she is right now…

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Well, yesterday, it was that time again –  time for a different view on my way to work. (Luckstone Quarry lookout, W&OD bike trail) A momentary aberration in my daily commute — Bike to Work Day! (Or, as I like to think of it — “Guilt-free eating day” ;-) ).   Yesterday’s ride was 19mi [...]

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Routing courtesy Icelandic volcano ash cloud…

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Leesburg VA reports 27.5″ of snow from the storm. I’m still miles away on a different continent, but, here are the reports I’ve gotten from home — digging out. 08h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010 – the sun does come up, post-snowpocalypse 16h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010 – dug out, to the road, anyway

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Here’s how the current winter storm  is playing out in the Washington DC area: Reporting from the LA Times (!). “As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record, compiled during the blizzard [...]

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… and don’t you ever forget it! We were driving by Castalia Marsh at high tide, the other day, and were astonished to see that it was completely flooded.  It’s winter, high tides tend to be at their highest, and we did just have a wicked storm system come through, that did significant damage in [...]

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Many buildings in Amsterdam are old.  And they have a “native population”, that survives transfer of ownership.  To help deal with this, it is not unusual for restaurants to employ “peace keepers” of the four-legged sort. I recently met Mavis: Mavis was not above supplementing her rodent-chasing diet with handouts from the restaurant’s kitchen: While [...]

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When looking at grey November vistas, stunning in their simple beauty… there’s only one question:  guess who’s coming… … to dinner? And a fine dinner they were, too. Didn’t stop me from playing with the “Ducka la Something or Other” recipe — browning the cabbage and onionbefore adding it to the duck in the slow [...]

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Here’s a fine example of something that should be seen, and not heard: These pheasants make a noise that sounds something like a car starter being turned after the car is already running. This guy & his missus have taken over our property, strutting about in full ownership mode. They might be even better tasted [...]

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988 miles, blue carrier, pink blankie… Window! No, really — quite happy:

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When is a (meeting) table not a table? When it is a Rube Goldberg implementation of a table: Yes, those are vise grips and hinges you see under there. And it all looked so innocent with the table clothes!

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We share an office here, so the rule is that someone who has a teleconference has to wander off to some other part of the house to have it.  It’s not all bad — the views are pleasant, and watching the waves (“~~~~~”) is fun: Sometimes, there are added distractions — the teleconferencee is not [...]

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Best wishes, from Grand Manan. (Stanley Beach; -12C (-23C with windchill)).

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… but, thankfully, no fire in the sky. This is -10C air over salt water.

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Let me explain something.  This: is a cheese plate. And this: is a wanna-brie . Opening up the familiar wood box, I was astonished to find a sealed plastic tub inside.  Think of the “hankie” scene from the opening of “The Commitments”. Look more closely at the labelling — from the country that has to [...]

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We had a pretty good blow last night/this morning, on Grand Manan.  Winds were sustained at 50km/h, with gusts up to 70km/h.  A night to appreciate a well-insulated house! It was windy enough that the ferry didn’t run last evening or this morning, until the 11:30am departure from Grand Manan.   A good day to plan [...]

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