8r4d A morning #walk as the last few days of #summer wane. [read more...]

8r4d It really is all about expression, isn’t it? I mean, that’s the reason I post all this stuff. Online blogs. On apps. Anywhere. The internet has given us this tinderbox of personal expression where anyone can say anything, make money from advice or creativity or entertainment or humour or hate. [read more...]

8r4d #orchestra is back in session, same notes different tunes [read more...]

pixelazy #insect #bee #macro [read more...]

pixelazy Colourful scenes from the dog park on a Monday morning #walk and photo expedition.

pixelazy #blackandwhite trails on a local #walk

adventuredog Creepy trails in the park are scary #walk adventures, huh?

8r4d #terryfoxrun 2025 in #reddeer was day sixteen of my #running streak, and maybe the last day of my streak too. No better way to finish off a fitness foundation building effort than on the trail of an #ohcanada #cancer hero. [read more...]

adventuredog Ready to run the #terryfoxrun huh? #ohcanada

8r4d saturday evening at a comedy show, watching Rick Mercer Stand Up For #ohcanada tour. #datenight

8r4dsfeets eager sneakers. #parkrun starts. #running readying.

8r4d My 10th #parkrun was also day fifteen of my #running streak. Also, such a crazy big crowd today. I get faster but my place gets higher because more people are here! [read more...]

8r4dsfeets weather holding. autumn signals. waning seasons. [read more...]

8r4d #running everyday for exactly two weeks is exhausting. It’s not so much the distance, but the lack of proper rest and recovery between runs means that some days it feels like you haven’t stopped for much more than a nap, and to your body not leaving enough time between runs is as good as not resting at all. So it kinda starts to be like running one really long run broken into segments, rather than multiple runs.

Good news tho, my new #headphones arrived in the mail yesterday and I got to try them out on run number fourteen of my streak. They are bone conduction headphones so they don’t block the ole ear holes and are supposed to be safer for situational awareness like traffic and heavy machinery.

8r4d The sun was setting and I ran into an old coworker sitting on the ground talking pics of the sunset and her dog. If you squint and zoom…

8r4d Lucky #running streak day thirteen and we logged nearly seven klicks in the lingering heat of the trails thru Mill Creek.

8r4d Day twelve of #running streaks took me down into the river valley. I cheated a bit and parked near the trail head so I could spend more time in the trails and less on the hot asphalt road in between. [read more...]

8r4d Wandering around the #university campus at night is something I haven’t done in a couple decades. [read more...]

8r4d The Kid was doing something dramatic at the #university this evening so I found myself reprising the role of dad’s taxi service, but then finding a cozy place to sit and write at the Rutherford Library, and hey, legit, I worked in this library as a part time job when I went to school here. [read more...]

8r4d day eleven of my #running streak was another morning lap of the neighbourhood shortly before lunch, and almost soon enough to beat the returning heat and lingering #firesmoke

8r4d #running streak day ten and I got my 6k run around the hood done even as the day was getting a lot smokier out. It’s supposed to be a warm week, which I had hoped to avoid by doing this into September, but I guess #summer isn’t quite done with us yet. #firesmoke

8r4d I’m logged in at the nearby Starbucks with a keyboard and a #coffee and thinking it’s probably one of those morning when I need to write a short post here to bookmark the efforts I made in the code for this very site over the weekend. [read more...]