8r4d A #homeowner afternoon as my sleuthing on our creeping decrease in water pressure over the last few months revealed that there was all sorts of plastic particulate in the aerators of our faucets… which quickly googled up as a hot water heater issue. So, I guess we’re due for a new hot water heater, huh?

8r4d The new #yeg #footbridge over whitemud is coming along nicely, maybe even in time for some new summer #running routes..???

8r4d Daylight savings time hits harder when it coincides with an early #running day. We clocked 8k in the cool damp of the icy streets.

8r4d I don’t think I’ve ever walked down this trail with the lights lit before.

They just finished building it in the fall and I can’t say that the dog and I ventured down this new trail as much in the winter as we did in the summer, and what with the coyotes roaming around this part of the world it’s not particularly safe after dark.

I spent the better part of the sunlit hours in front of a Zoom call doing the third day of my fourth class of my business certification work. A walk was in order, but you’d think I’d have a bunch of pent up energy to stroll forever. In reality, I was drained and we just strolled, lit by this nifty lamps which should make it safer—but then coyotes don’t care about a bit of light do they?

adventuredog Just a wagging tail and a wagging tongue, too.

adventuredog #reflections of an evening #walk in the park

8r4d I am a bit of a sucker for convenience in location, so the fact that nearly half my #coffee adventures end up at one of the four starbucks within spitting distance of my house is a sad little surprise. I try to support local, but I spend almost as much on gas as I do on coffee, then, and oil money to me seems dirtier than coffee coin.

That’s my little political rant for the day.

Aside from that, I had accumulated enough points-stars or whatever and cashed it in today for a branded ceramic mug. So, at least if I’m not being consumer conscious, there is a chance I’m queuing up for the environment, huh?

8r4d The weather is still holding around freezing for some late #winter #running adventurers, but the forecast is not looking so lovely for next week. I’ll take ice and puddles over minus twenty and more snow!

8r4d #running has shifted to #hilltraining in the cold #winter blur that makes me yearn for something worth training for now.

pixelazy Atop the infamous #hilltraining hill at dusk is a precious view of the crazy wild world.

pixelazy The buggies are emerging from the long winter hibernation as the weather improves. Nature is a beautiful thing. #buggyland

castironguy Those day old #doughnuts are better than nothing, huh?

bradsalomons I’ve been spending a lot of time #writing and drinking #coffee but progress on the novel has been a little slow this year so far. I had a great big push late in 2024 to get though the second half and then hit a bit of a block.

Many writing folks will tell you to push through the block and put in the effort and just write, and I did that, getting in my daily word count on other side projects. And that was fine to a point, but none of it was dislodging the plot block in the novel.

Last week I decided to brute force the damn thing and so I’ve set my daily word goal a bit lower and have been writing a bare minimum of words into the novel regardless of other factors.

Specifically, where I was usually tasking myself with sitting down and writing a scene, usually amounting to between 1000-1500 words, now I’m setting the daily goal of 250 words. Yeah, that’s a lot less, but after a week of generously meeting my goal each day I’m nearly 2000 words ahead of where i was last Monday, and that accounts for (sadly) more than half of the words I’ve written in 2025 on this project.

Happily, progress is progress is progress, and the “just write” advice is definitely locked in and valid.

adventuredog Just a bit of #sidewalkart on a #winter #walk

adventuredog #march has come in like a big wet lamb melting all the snow and leaving a lot of #puddles and moments of #reflection in its wake

8r4dsfeets #running in slush is not for those with cold feets

8r4d The weather has been holding above freezing for some good pre-spring #running tho the trails are generously wet and slushy, so… adventure!

8r4d Great photo grad photo? I had to sit in the waiting area…

8r4d It’s grad photo day at the kid’s school. Her choice of prop? The dog of course.

8r4d #datenight and #shakespeare at the #theatre

pixelazy Our #running adventure this morning took us up to the top of Rabbit Hill for a view of #downtown

8r4d Tho #winter is nearly over the #running paths are #icy and a mess, but we prevailed.

8r4d The annual dinner and #dance show

8r4d You can’t see the cold on this chilly #winter drive but maybe you can see the windchill.