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Yeah, I know, its not a boat, its a ship. But when you say "big ship" it sometimes sounds like something else.

No caption today, just a pretty boat

I took this only a week ago, and there are still fresh flowers on the dining room table.

BTW, if you are interested in checking out Mastodon let me know in the comments and I will give you some tips.

It is way too warm out there for the end of October. It was 19C at 1pm today and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Something that I typically put away for the year during the first weekend of October. I really want to start wearing flannel, but then …

I was swamped early in October so I didn't get out at the height of the colourful leaves. This is my favourite time of the year and I plan to spend a lot more time on the trails in November and December.

Link rot (archived-link) is a very real thing, and something that I'm noticing even more now. In 2020 I was optimistic with so many friends and people that I followed on different social media platforms starting blogs, but only a couple years later they are offline, the sites, the people …

Somethimes I don't use WSL on my main machine for long periods of time and I forget the user password, so I've done this more than once.

Step 1:

Open a command prompt as administrator.

Get the Name of the WSL installation

wsl --list --verbose

I had to get on the phone today with RBC support to dispute a charge on my card. The vendor decided to not cancel my account like I asked in the winter, they then switched platforms, locked me out of my account, and then told me that its been more …

I still haven't figured out how to add the image in the meta field to the post "nicely" so I have moved it to the bottom of the theme and will manually put them in the microblog. It may make some of the featured images look funny being at the …

I think that I have experienced the obvious sign that I'm getting old. My favourite shoes for the last 5yrs are worn through and I can't find them on the companies Canadian page. This is a sign because I EXPECTED TO FIND IT.

In the age of new iphones every …