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The Week in Summary: * With Taylor recovering after the festival season and the poor air quality, we generally stayed at home for much of the week and kept it fairly relaxed. For Monday and Tuesday, we spend the day having quality time together. We went for breakfast Galaxie Diner, enjoyed
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The Week in Summary: * For myself, with Taylor working long days, my routine was challenged and I felt a bit more restless than usual. With the disruptions to sleep and a minor episode of health anxiety (the first in several months actually), I kept out of my head the best
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The Week in Summary: * The week was busy with Taylor working long hours as their team closes in on festival season (the flag was raised on Saturday!). This left me holding down the condo most of the week. On Monday, I stayed home most of the day reading and listening
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Whenever I played in our backyard's sandbox as a young child, I loved a particular engineering task. I would dig a massive hole, fill that hole with water from a hose, and then build a system of channels to move that water to another section of the sandbox.
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The Week in Summary: * Monday was Taylor's birthday and they found themselves working for the entirety of the day. For myself, since I do not work on Mondays throughout the summer, I meandered around doing effectively nothing except finishing my reality TV book. But relative to other weeks,
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The Week in Summary: * On the Civil Holiday, Alida and I went to 68th Ave Wetlands to look at all the wonderful birds at this glorious m0squito-infested slough. Seeing the herons, cormorants, waterfowl, and small shorebirds made the smell of the nearby garbage dump more manageable. In the afternoon,
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The Week in Summary: * Taylor and I had the absolute pleasure of spending our staycation with my sister, Teegan, and her lovely partner, Cadence. Both flew in from Abbotsford to spend the week with us. Taylor and I are so grateful for our time together and we are excited to
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The Week in Summary: * Throughout the work week, I continued working at my summer desk job and it worked out well enough (thank goodness I have a standing desk at home). As for the weekday evenings, I have been working on reading a few books (I should finish a couple
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The Week in Summary: * With another week attempting to work from the dreaded desk, I am beginning to develop a few strategies for dealing with this sedentary arrangement. First, regardless of whether I am working from home or the office itself, I need to get a couple bike rides (and
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The Week in Summary: * Onward work continued, with a couple days in the office and a couple days at home. Relative to last summer, remote work is easier, but still presents challenges for my restlessness (a morning bike ride is essential). Outside of work, I went for a breakfast with
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The Week in Summary: * I had Monday and Tuesday off this week. On Monday, Taylor and I went on a 30 kilometer bike ride along the Bow River Pathway up to Northwest Calgary. We checked out Bowmont Park's gorgeous vista, the Botanical Gardens of Silver Springs, and Dale
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The Week in Summary: * With no scheduled workshops for school groups, much of the work week was dedicated to cleaning up the classrooms and doing inventory of our school programs. This was very understimulating. Additionally, our education team went to D6 on Thursday to celebrate the school year. There was