Tag Archives: Saint John

Holy, Months

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Arthur

Holy moly, I’ve not updated since last year? Preposterous! Might just as well give it ago: The worst part of 2013’s last days was the rainstorm annex ice storm that hit parts of Ontario and NB: In our region, I … Continue reading →

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SF and other unrelated news

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Arthur

After having not used Sourceforge for over 10 years, I’ve decided to move some of my sources back to Sourceforge. The main reason for that is that SF still allows devs to distribute binaries as part of their projects. Google … Continue reading →

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A beach runs here

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Arthur

Summer’s been over now 10 or so days and looking outside, it feels like Fall (or Autumn) snapped in here before we could even think of typical Fall things, like seeing the leafs colour and/or raking them up. I believe … Continue reading →

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Summer respite and yards

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Arthur

We seem to be slightly going back to normal temperatures here in SJ: that is, cooler temperatures particularly in the morning. You might say that this Summer was one of the warmest: Even Accuweather seems to be suggesting the very … Continue reading →

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Kitty and/or Peanut

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Arthur

When Imoved to Canada and married my wife almost 12 years ago, I automatically begot two pets, Katy the wonderdog and Peanut (nee Kitty). We lost Katy 2 years or so ago (previously). Last Wednesday we put down Peanut: for … Continue reading →

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Murdering the classics

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve mentioned Yo La Tengo before on xsamplex (right here); as part of my ‘Past The Bridge’ series, I (slightly) proclaimed my likeness for the NJ based band. If you’ve been on the Internet, you are probably aware of the … Continue reading →

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Hibuscus and other tales

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Arthur

We bought a hibiscus (Wikipedia) the other day at the local Sobeys. They had them in assorted colours, but we opted to go for red. Again. We used to have one before when we were living in Nova Scotia and … Continue reading →

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Flora and fauna

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Arthur

If I eliminated statistical weather data, I would say that this year’s weather is going to beat all records. First we had too much snow. When March came, we slowly went to wet weather. Which is about the same weather … Continue reading →

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Predictions

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Arthur

Now that we know the Rapture has been delayed to September (previously at xsamplex), we nw have a couple of months to make sure that things are running as smooth as they used to be. Like make US Politics the … Continue reading →

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March. Break.

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Arthur

Today, we finally hit +7 degrees Celsius temperatures and, with that, obviously, rain. I happened to look outside a couple of times and I noticed that the ground is finally getting bare, that is at spots were we shoveled. This … Continue reading →

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Old. Very old.

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, we were staying right in town for a couple of months: For our groceries we drove to the Sobey’s at McAllister’s. We always took our dog with us, which meant that one of us went … Continue reading →

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It’s a plane…

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Arthur

It’s a plane, it’s a bird, no, it’s a new Canadian citizen. So on October 20th of 2010 (20-10-2010, which is a highly remarkable set of numbers if I might say so), I became a Canadian citizen after having been … Continue reading →

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A silver lining

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Arthur

This Saturday, we ended up in Uptown SJ to look at the cruiseship, Silver Whisper (Silversea Cruises). Compared to ships that normally sail in, the Silver Whisper is a small ship and appears to be a fairly luxury cruise-liner. From … Continue reading →

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