First rain…
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.
(more…)Quarterly health checks
My wife Irene has cancer. It is stage 4 breast cancer, so we have a lot of things to worry about despite the excellent care and good results she has seen thus far. Paramount amongst these worrisome things is the quarterly testing regimen she is on.
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Watching Star Trek the original series again
My wife Irene and I watched Star Trek: Enterprise recently- the whole series, beginning to end in order. I acquired access to the Paramount Plus streaming service to facilitate this and it worked pretty well on Apple TV. Well enough that when we finished and Irene asked “what comes next?” I felt confident in saying “The original series (TOS)”. Strange to say the “next” thing after watching a show from 2003 is to watch a show from 1966, but that is the way the Star Trek series chronology works.
(more…)Tools for bullying
In my personal experience children can be horrible creatures. I moved a lot as a kid and this indirectly contributed to me being the ‘odd man out’ at nearly every school I went to from grade 2 through grade 9. I faced nearly daily torment and, because of my own emotional dysregulation, I suffered greatly. To a great extent I stopped going to school by arranging to be sick for weeks at a time.
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My header creation process
I read a post by Bhagpuss in my Blaugust feed regarding the steps he went through to create an image of a book representing Krikket‘s invaluable primer. Bhagpuss’ words are an interesting read delving as they do into the pros and cons of AI versus manual image creation. It got me thinking…
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Introducing myself
This week in Blaugust has the theme of Introducing yourself. I haven’t really done that this year, so here goes.
Who is Kelly Adams?
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Throwback: Big Beaver Homecoming- 2003
I came across this post from the 2003 Big Beaver homecoming event back in 2003 after chatting with my brothers Ron and Colin and sister Connie on the topic. I had vague recollections of the homecoming, but thankfully I had taken enough pictures to give me a few good memories.
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Getting back into book reading: changing perspective
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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