We have had no rain in the Castlegar region since early in July: almost a month of totally dry weather. This was made worse when a high pressure zone moved in to the area two weeks ago, trapping the forest fire smoke from half the province in our valleys. Rain has finally arrived, and I am relieved.
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I stumbled upon a post by Ghastlymirror over on their blog about the challenges they faced acquiring physical books that meet their standards for reading material. This triggered some different yet related thoughts of my own, notably pertaining to my recent return to regular book reading.
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The smoke has settled across our valleys here in Castlegar. Exactly where the air pollution originates is a hard question to answer: there are wildfires in nearly every direction within a few hundred kilometres. But the outcome is obvious.
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Irene and I went to see Bill Cosby back in 2007. We enjoyed him, and I had a number of complimentary things to say about his performance. A link to this popped up at the bottom of one of my posts as a ‘related item’.
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Trump got a delivery of fast food last week and it has been talked about in the news. The short story: it was a PR stunt to promote Trump’s reduction for taxes on tips.
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In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven’t written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley– one day that too will manifest. But I got a custom license plate for it, and felt talking about that plate was a bit more suited to this, my main blog.
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I read an article today in Wired about the creation of the “Inside the Manosphere” documentary on Netflix. I may have to watch the actual documentary now as the article intrigued me.
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We are entering the spring season here in the Kootenays, a time when the weather is supposed to be somewhat unpredictable. But this year our whole winter has been kind of strange- and our spring is setting up to be equally odd.
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My truck produced a lovely indicator a few weeks ago showing a picture of what could be interpreted as an engine. In this context, this indicator is know as the ‘Check Engine Light’ or CEL.
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