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A creation’s life - after the creator goes off the rails: kaa.bz

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Sudo is a music player by New Matter. Retro-tech of the highest order and I’m honestly all here for it. Both the silver and black versions are chef’s kiss.

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October haul. 3 in means I need to depart with 3 books. Trying to build that sweet spot of a library.

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My favourite time of the year.

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🛌 One of the few pleasures in life, that feeling you get when you land on fresh sheets and pillow.

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🇨🇦 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
\nIt’s a strange weather day here in Toronto. Balmy 21°C, in the middle of October. Braised beef ribs in the oven. Horizon Hazy IPA in the glass. Been pottering around the house, getting closer to where we should be - the back of the basement is still a total mess, but it is a l...

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@JohnPhilpin this is definitely on my list.

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Made the pizza dough for tomorrow. Such a simple thing to make the night before but sets you up for success the next day. Long weekend ahead, hopefully we’ll be able to polish our home a little bit and set the family for the locking season.

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Been getting into retro gaming, my childhood, these last few weeks. The game that I have been coming back to is Super Mario Land 2. I never played this game back in the day, but all the DNA is there and it is glorious.

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🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso Season 4. This was exactly what I wanted from a follow-up season to the last arc. It had to be different but similar and that’s exactly what we got. I love the writing on this show and plan to use ‘Yes, and…’ a lot more in my life.

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Blue Planet III. I have incredible core memories of watching this series in my house in Lebanon as a single man, before I began my transition into a husband and then father. Being able to sit here and watch this with both my sons hopefully will become another core memory for me. Also the song for this...

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@ayjay Nah. They’re going to throw the book at them. And seeing as the book doesn’t exist for this level of industrial doping…this is Armstrong levels of trying to gain an advantage. They gave 20points to Everton for what was it 20M over?

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We had a good run above 20°C till the middle of October. From Monday things start settling into winter again and the cycle continues.

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@lmika Nice!

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The Patience of Moving: kaa.bz

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Woke up at 5:30am. I have no idea what time my body think it is, with my general circadian rhythms being thrown up all over the place.

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There are a few things that I definitely want to do differently in the coming months. I’ve had enough time to decompress and let my whole world relax a little following a...

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Finally landed back in Toronto. The only way I got through it was by watching season 1 of Succession. Just piled through the entire first season.

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Beautiful.

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And the brutality of flying back begins. An incredible 4 days. Filled with family, friendships, memories, food, stories and laughter. Super emotional but in all the right ways.

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Cyprus vibes.

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Honestly weirdly I feel like I am a lot more at home here mainly because of all the people I still know and all the memories. My only complaint is the fact that Heathrow is not a quiet airport. The speaker won’t shut up.

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✈️ Of I go to Cyprus for my brother’s wedding. Had a burger, beer and cheesecake at Caplansky’s which was seriously excellent all around (not going to lie wasn’t expecting much).

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Ray Gunn trailer. Brad Bird. Retro-futurism. Sam Rockwell. Christmas movie I can get excited about.

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Took a while but today was the first day of wearing a jumper. The temperature is going down slowly, but there is that general lift before it drops and stays low for the next 6 months.

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The absolute chaos of the move is now over, I can slowly start seeing opportunities of how to make the house better, to feel like an actual home. It will take a few weeks.

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Absolutely smashed. Yesterdays move was the absolute in brutality. Then today I had to finish off closing out the previous house. The cherry on top? Definitely the cold that Ryan has dragged into the house and gifted everyone in the family. Sooo annoying.

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🍿 Finished watching: MOURINHO S1E1, Episode 1. Great watch, although I wish that they dove into things a little bit more. I feel like 3 episodes is tight to cover everything well.

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Trying nasal strips for the first time. I have a deviated septum and so breathing through my nose has always been a challenge. Went for simple strips and see if it’s worth getting these regularly into my nighttime rotation.

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@manton Pretty sure I first heard it from you…not sure if you posted about this last year? Either way, great book. So much enjoyment from this book.

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@hjalm thanks, it’s coming down but that initial time period was nuts

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@patrickrhone huh, that’s (in a strange way) reassuring that it’s not just him, but honestly these North American wasps are vicious!

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@numericcitizen I have yes. My favourite city in Canada - Toronto is a nice place to live, but Montreal is definitely the better city.

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@moldyringwald It ruined my morning no doubt, but just now bought the kids the last ice cream of summer and while standing at the light, I saw an old lady doing the exact same thing as me and guess what, not a peep or rage from anyone around!

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@numericcitizen Nice! I love that!

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@numericcitizen these look amazing. Curious, are you using a particular platform to log these trails?

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@cabtastic I spent 5 years in that mode on my newsletter Stet, I quickly realised was that I was doing it wrong and never reached the audience that I thought the newsletter deserved. After reading The Art and Business of Online Writing, I realised the errors of my way. Go where the audience is and use their platform to build your own and then keep building from there. Otherwise, you might end up like me, 5 years with a set of articles and site I am incredibly proud of, but with no traction. I found so much more traction on LinkedIn for my stuff.

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@danielpunkass Totally the right person for the moment. Inbetween all the craziness its good to have a story like his.

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@eurobubba Ha! Agreed totally!

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@JohnPhilpin it’s hyper novel writing specific, which I do like. There are a couple of things I don’t like about it so might add them as requests/comments, but for something that is formatted to look like a book as you write, it’s pretty good :)

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@patrickrhone oh man my kingdom for summers that are consistently sweltering. I can’t complain about the temp, it’s wonderful and like you want but the rain and cloud cover just sucks.

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@patrickrhone No. No. No. Summer is only here for a few more weeks. Enjoy it fully and completely!

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@mroutley Thanks, it will definitely change things in my professional life here in Canada

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@manton really looking forward to this. This has been a little bit of a barrier and voices app isn’t great for this type of thing.

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@velocykel

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  3. Doug Miller books on Bloor
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@mroutley you know, 99% of the time no, but when it is needed, it’s really great to have. We have one that has an indicator of air quality and when the forest fires were raging is was bright red when we first turned it on. So it can’t hurt.

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@mroutley I hear that. We ordered another air purifier. It’s certainly not going to go to waste - likely to be used next year as well.

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@mroutley so so rough out there

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@hjalm thanks for the encouragement. I know we’ll find something, but it is really getting too close :)

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@maique agreed! Great game with great attitude

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@ayjay game of the tournament. If you’re going to go out, go out like that.

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