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the_siobhan12 – World Hamster Day: Did you know there are 24 different species of hamsters? Have you ever had a hamster as a pet?
13 – Scrabble Day: when was the last time you played scrabble? Was it on a board or an online version?
14 – Look Up At The Sky Day: go and have a look out the window at the sky and tell us what you see (if anything!)
12. I have had hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and rats as pets. Also lizards and snakes. 13. Years ago. I quite liked it but I don't really hang out with people who play board games all that often. 14. Rain.
15 – World Art Day: what is your favourite piece of art? Have you ever seen it or only admired it in pictures?
I don't know that I can say I have a favourite piece of art but art galleries are one of my favourite things to visit whenever I travel.
I'm often impressed by how different art can look when I actually see it in person. In particular I recall one Van Gogh that I always thought was ugly because of the colours, but in person it was striking - the prints could just never capture what it really looked like.
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We haven't had a return of the flooding incident in spite of the fact that it hasn't stopped raining, so I'm taking that to mean it is from the shower. I have been doing the water conservation thing where I turn off the water while I soap up, so that has probably helped. Hopefully on the weekend I have will have time to start disassembling things.
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I went on a two-hour hike around High Park last night. It was pissing down rain the whole time, which meant a lot fewer people, which meant the beavers were hanging out. Also cormorants. I didn't even know cormorants live in Ontario. And I got to see the cherry blossoms without dodging 100,000+ people to do it.
Full wildlife count: beaver, cormorants, egrets, Canada geese (of course, those things are like cockroaches up here), mallards, wood ducks, swans, red-wing blackbirds, and a bunch of other birds I couldn't ID. (Maybe lake gulls? There were some that looked like seagulls but smaller and brown.)
Two hours was a perfect length for a first-time hike, I can feel the places in my feet that were starting to blister but didn't actually get any full-on blisters. I'm toying with the idea of buying proper hiking shoes if I'm going to do this on the regular - I normally wear bludstones and they are super comfortable, but I slid around a bit on the wet grass & mud. When you have shitty balance, good traction is your best friend.
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My work just created a new training module called "active assailant training". So what to do if somebody shows up with a gun and starts shooting.
The very first thing they said in the training is that the new office tower is designed in such a way - all glass offices and desks with no backs underneath - that it makes hiding from an active shooter very difficult.
Well.
13 – Scrabble Day: when was the last time you played scrabble? Was it on a board or an online version?
14 – Look Up At The Sky Day: go and have a look out the window at the sky and tell us what you see (if anything!)
12. I have had hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and rats as pets. Also lizards and snakes. 13. Years ago. I quite liked it but I don't really hang out with people who play board games all that often. 14. Rain.
15 – World Art Day: what is your favourite piece of art? Have you ever seen it or only admired it in pictures?
I don't know that I can say I have a favourite piece of art but art galleries are one of my favourite things to visit whenever I travel.
I'm often impressed by how different art can look when I actually see it in person. In particular I recall one Van Gogh that I always thought was ugly because of the colours, but in person it was striking - the prints could just never capture what it really looked like.
***
We haven't had a return of the flooding incident in spite of the fact that it hasn't stopped raining, so I'm taking that to mean it is from the shower. I have been doing the water conservation thing where I turn off the water while I soap up, so that has probably helped. Hopefully on the weekend I have will have time to start disassembling things.
***
I went on a two-hour hike around High Park last night. It was pissing down rain the whole time, which meant a lot fewer people, which meant the beavers were hanging out. Also cormorants. I didn't even know cormorants live in Ontario. And I got to see the cherry blossoms without dodging 100,000+ people to do it.
Full wildlife count: beaver, cormorants, egrets, Canada geese (of course, those things are like cockroaches up here), mallards, wood ducks, swans, red-wing blackbirds, and a bunch of other birds I couldn't ID. (Maybe lake gulls? There were some that looked like seagulls but smaller and brown.)
Two hours was a perfect length for a first-time hike, I can feel the places in my feet that were starting to blister but didn't actually get any full-on blisters. I'm toying with the idea of buying proper hiking shoes if I'm going to do this on the regular - I normally wear bludstones and they are super comfortable, but I slid around a bit on the wet grass & mud. When you have shitty balance, good traction is your best friend.
***
My work just created a new training module called "active assailant training". So what to do if somebody shows up with a gun and starts shooting.
The very first thing they said in the training is that the new office tower is designed in such a way - all glass offices and desks with no backs underneath - that it makes hiding from an active shooter very difficult.
Well.
OK then.