Veteran's Day, Nov 11th '26...

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So what do you do for a living?
Drink coffee and try my best... :coffee:

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G'Day...

3°/6°C, 92% RH, fog, drizzle, soggy... 🌫️

grabbing another hot cup... ☕
while ze GF is heading for the office...

commuters at their best again:

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(that new phone features some AI auto-crop when attempting to grab a screenshot... 🤔)

Have to attend another "webinar" held by the (un)employment service later on...
Where can I get those 90 minutes of my life back? OTOH you don't know if they monitor who logs on...
And, despite me informing that I've been rejected there previously, I've been instructed to re-apply to a
vacancy advertised by a recruiting agency... only to be turned down again of course... ;)
So... print email... as *.pdf... upload... there, told you so... you want paperwork?!... you can have paperwork... 😁

But enough of that...

... lets honor the gravity of the day ...
 
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Thanks for the start and absolutely agree I guess the first Canadian Regiment went to Britain in 1939 will check out a link to a veterans site see what going on today hopefully they get good weather here
had a good one yesterday; at the bank
sir ill need a piece of valid ID something with your picture on it (why do they always say valid?) ok, here's my drivers...
sorry, that won't do... it's expired 🤔 ... huh?
wish everyone a good one and a safe ride if you're able in a free country where we can do just about whatever we want
 
Thx Martin, hang in there!

8˚c/46f for the high, 15mph breeze from north, showers, it feels cold.
There’s a warning for snow, but I think they mean further inland…

Yesterday was the last day with little wind for a while, so I went fishing.
Caught enough for dinner.

Today is putting on the winter tires, and clean and lube the brakes while I’m at it.

Have a nice one!
Stu

From yesterday
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Good morning everyone

Thanks for the Remembrance Day start, Martin.

On my side of the pond it's a broader holiday called Veteran's Day, and honors not only the fallen but all who have served. My personal tradition on this day is to re-post this, the best speech I've ever read:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

and this, which invariably brings a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes.


It's 41°F and clear in Rockville, going to 68 under sunny skies. Hard to credit that it's the middle third of November.

A friend may come by for a few hours to play a board game this afternoon; before that I've a grocery run to make and some yardwork to see to. After my friend leaves I'll go down the street for a couple hours of time with my scotch-drinking neighbors.

Stay safe and well everyone and tell your dear ones you love them. Do it today, NOW, for tomorrow may be too late.
 
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All gave some. Some, gave all.

Good morning everyone.

4C and cloudy, headed to 6C. Dark and somber, which seems somewhat fitting.

Obo.

Canada's most famous war poem​

In Flanders Fields is one of the most famous poems from the First World War. Canadian doctor and soldier John McCrae wrote this poem on 3 May 1915. Within months, its powerful words came to symbolize the sacrifices of all those who were fighting. It also established the poppy as an international symbol of remembrance. Over 110 years later, the poem continues to be a part of Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada and around the world.


In Flanders Fields​

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

John McCrae
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Good morning, and thanks for the coffee start, Martin.

It's clear and 34f/1.1c and it'll be sunny and becoming cloudy as the temperature rises to 56f/13c

Yesterdays gym session was welcome, and I hope to do another today.
We visited the children's room at the public library, first, where Oliver had some fun, and I checked out a Sesame St. music DVD.
Brenda went off to bowling, after we called out for pizza, and we were left to our own devices.
All went well, and he made it into bed with a minimum of fuss.

Today, we may get out to an indoor entertainment place that Brenda found while searching for things to do with Oliver.
It looks like someone repurposed a store in the local mall for a children's park of sorts.
We were considering the Worcester Ecotarium, and kids his age are free, but I think that it's a little too advanced for a 1.5yo.
I'll see if I can make it to the gym, and I need to move some equipment in the shed around.
I usually stage the snowblower behind the house and deck, and with some predicted s-s-snow this weekend, this may be the day.
Before that, I'll need to move the garden tractor out of the way and then into it's winter resting place.

Enjoy the day,
Steve
 
Thank you Martin. It's admirable, and appreciated, that you still get up, when you don't yet have a job to go to, to make coffee for yourself and for everybody.
Morning all. Lots of folk up and about, for whatever reason.
Overnights in the 40s, meaning soon they will be in the 30s, meaning I may have a short window of opportunity to have my name on the Paul CB Coldest Ride thread.
Not that I wish to ride in the cold, but I wish even less, to ride in the car.
I'll try to remember to start it occasionally, however, so I won't have to replace the battery overly soon.
Only a handful of opportunities left this year, to shadow a RiderCoach for a checkout ride in a BRC class. That must be done once before I can be put in the schedule to coach next year, and the program shuts down mid- December until February.
I felt out of place Monday, and for that matter, yesterday, at work.
Nine straight days of total immersion in the MSF coaching materials, left very little mind space to think about anything else. And very little time for other matters, too.
But I'll pour another Black Rifle, to help me prioritize today's tasks, then another.
I'll be moderately functional as a human being, at that point.
We're almost halfway through this week, perhaps I'll be better adjusted next week.
Perhaps...
 
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