Another Opinion Among Many

That’s what I woke up to this morning.  It was faint, but piercing.  The smoke alarm had gone off in the apartment beside us.  Its vacant right now, as the landlord’s renovating it.  So, I went over with a flashlight and, like a peeping tom or a burgler, I peered in every window for signs of smoke.  No signs, so I called the landlord to come over and shut it off.

This, I consider to be proof that a smoke alarm will wake you if there is a fire.  I was next door and the sound could be heard through two walls, as well as out in the yard.

If you don’t have a smoke alarm already, get one! If you haven’t recently, change the battery in yours.  It may save your life!

So, I’ve not written anything all week.  As a regular reader, you’re going to just shirk this off as me being me, right? I try not to write drivel for the sake of doing so.  You’ll get my thoughts if I care to share.  I will not insult you by spewing out a canned article just for the sake of a site update.

If it goes a long time between one post and the next, you can email me.  If you are really concerned, you can visit me to see if I’m ok.  If you’re savvy enough, you can find out where I live and do so.  After saying that, I doubt that anyone would be THAT concerned. 

I do have a few ideas brewing in my head, so you might have some really interesting reading this weekend.  Perhaps I will get that NIC card for the lappy and install an operating system.  Who knows.

What are you doing this weekend?

If a picture is worth 1000 words, then here are 2000.  Finally, it looks like the Canada that the rest of the world sees us as:

This was yesterday.

That’s out my window this morning.  We got another 10cm or so.

More, but not worthy of another post:

This would be what Macbros had referred to on his site.

Behind our Building

Another of the Trees

…is cool.  Devin’s mom mentioned the lunar eclipse, so we both went outside to see it.  I tried to capture it on camera, but my digital is limited in its capabilities.  I didn’t get a good picture.  We’ll see if the film camera did the job when I develop the film.

I was reviewing a few of the spam comments that Akismet caught but insisted that I read before discarding.  Here are three:

“David”, from IP address sixty-six dot seventy-nine dot one sixty-three dot one eighty-seven wrote -

 I like your stuff, even though i came here by accident!

“Eric”, from IP address seventy-two dot two fourty-nine dot thirt-two dot one eighty-four wrote -

 To all the uninitiated out there - read this and take heed. This is good stuff. Thanks….

“Jessica” from IP address sixty-six dot seventy-nine dot one sixty-three dot one seventy-nine (David’s next door neighbor?) wrote -

 I came here by accident, but like it

Its so nice to know that you’re appreciated! Thanks, random robots! I feel much better knowing that my writing is feeding your souls.  Its been fun, but scram, now.

I have to agree with Eric, though.

[photopress:cutecalebinbed.JPG,thumb,pp_image]So, the weather network is decrying bad things, like a 30cm snow/ice-fall warning. What wacky weather we’ve had this month. Its bee -30°C and +10°C. Today was -26°C and tomorrow is supposed to be around 0C. But, tonight, its supposed to start snowing and not stop.

Will schools be canceled? I’m taking bets (not for money). I’m saying no for now. I’ll update at 5-6am

Actually, its http://www.whereswilly.com.  From the site: “Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out.”

I got a $20 bill out of the ATM (to pay a bill with - boo!) that had this URL on it, so I checked it out.  There’s a companion site, http://wheresgeorge.com, which may have been created first.  Its a neat concept.  I’ve registered so that I can get updates as to where this bill has gone to after it  parts ways with me.  We’ll see if it sits in a vault, like it apparently has before I got it.  Who knows which internet savvy person will notice the message on the bill next!