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Fun with screens

January 24, 2021by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

While normally we find it exhausting to look at screens, yesterday they were the underpinnings of a pretty good day. Somehow yesterday I became aware that Bar Volo, and its […]

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Daily life, Food / drink, Friends
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Comparing my discretionary spending pre- and post-COVID

January 16, 2021by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

[Cross-posted from LinkedIn, with some revisions] Prompted by my colleague Kat’s post “How COVID-19 changed my spending habits“, I decided to piggyback on her idea. Here’s what I found. [But first, the […]

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Daily life, Me
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Our thriving boy

January 9, 2021by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Some visual examples of how well Kramer is doing in the house. .:. Cover photo by r d h, used under creative commons license

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Pets
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2020 Annual Report: Containment

December 31, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

After the pummeling that was 2019, I was really looking forward to a return to normalcy in 2020. Lindsay, it should be noted, was always skeptical: at a New Year’s […]

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Annual report
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The best of everything from 2020

December 30, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

To the great surprise of no one on planet earth, this is a weird year in which to do a list like this. Or, anything else. When I started prepping […]

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Annual report

The switch to repose

December 26, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Now, a week after I posted about starting vacation, it feels like we’re probably able to relax. On Sunday of this week we drove out to Oshawa to pick up […]

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Daily life, Family, Food / drink

Let the final phase of this bullshit year begin

December 20, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

I’m on vacation now, more or less. While I might work a bit more between now and 2021, I’m pretty much shut down. We obviously couldn’t go home to NS […]

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Daily life, Movies, TV
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There’s just too much

December 12, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

The absolute dead zone of movie watching continues, but the tear through TV shows (to say nothing of the old shows we watch over and over and over and over […]

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TV
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Still in the house

December 6, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

We’ve been in the new house for five weeks now, and it’s already hard to remember the loft. Space. Floors. Walls. We can have non-disruptive work meetings and/or private conversations […]

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House

Blind birthday beers

November 29, 2020by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Last night, for a friend’s birthday, we took part in a fun thing: a blind beer tasting (on Zoom, naturally) between people over five households. Each person bought five beers, […]

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  • Dan D. is drinking a Péché Mortel by Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! at Untappd at Home January 24, 2021
  • Dan D. is drinking an Oude Gueuze Tilquin à l'Ancienne by Gueuzerie Tilquin at Untappd at Home January 24, 2021
  • Dan D. is drinking a Stout Rullquin by Gueuzerie Tilquin at Untappd at Home January 24, 2021
  • Dan D. is drinking an Oude Myrtille Sauvage Tilquin à l'Ancienne (2018-2019) by Gueuzerie Tilquin at Untappd at Home January 24, 2021
  • Dan D. is drinking a Brevis Pineapple by Avling Brewery at Untappd at Home December 20, 2020
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