Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I was just commenting on the rain this morning, then this afternoon (shamefully looking for dirt on Brittany Spears) I came across this Toronto Star Article on the unusual drearyness of the last 2 months. That said, we do have a brief blip of sunniness occuring in Guelph at this moment... and the butterfly pic - taken last July on another dreary day.

Rain falling each day
Unrelenting deluge makes
Grass green, souls weary

Cya,

Jenn 

Dutchman's Breeches

At least these aren't as blurry as the violets in the post below. I really need to get out with my camera - I'm doing some serious digging to find stuff I haven't already posted. As for the violets I posted them direct as a edit post in blogger and picked them off from a thumbnail where they hardly looked blurry at all... anywho... I must run run run to the far ends of the earth...

Jenntih 

Keep your eye on the ball

Here is me loosing at pool... or should I refraise that as Gabe sharking it up at the 20/20 club.

I once played with 3 members of his clan all at once, and found myself sadly, sadly outclassed.

JP 

Can't beat a good view or bad spelling

Well, I've been working on transferring the rest of m y photographs from my old computer to this one - just for those times when I've run out of recent pictures and have to go digging through my stock. I may have even posted this one before - but its a place that I've am looking forward to visiting so yeah for a nice view - hopefully I'll end up with a full card of nice pictures to post here. If it would ever stop raining here I might get some from close by... but alas.. it keeps a raining.

As for the bad spelling, I have to admit that I often check my site stats to see where my readers are coming from... most of the time it is a direct hit, and I can't tell anything, sometimes its from a search engine - which is usually fun to try and figure out what search words end up at my site and in a few rare cases I can guess if so and so who is linked to my blog has come to visit me from theirs. Today, I followed the link to a search engine source, only to find that someone had ended up on my blog because neither of use could spell "priminister" correctly... my apologies for my spelling, but how embarassing is that. Hopefully, they found what they wanted. All I had was a picture of statue of a prime minister, seagull on head, and seagull excrement from head to mid chest. Probably not exactly what they were hoping to find.

Cheers,

Jennith

More Cool People

Saint Andrew's, New Brunswick with the smell of fish and no porcupine in the tree today.

My biggest regret on this day is that the Salmon Centre was closed, because I was kind of looking forward to checking it out. 

Up to Parr?

So here are a few unrelated thoughts and I settle in for a long sleepless night.

The photo is of two of the coolest bosses I've ever had. One, Mike, is in Africa working on some development/engineering project - I believe with Engineers without borders, but I could be wrong. Cool world view - thanks for many fascinating conversations on the way up to the "gouche".

Pete, note the crazy bush beard, is still in New Brunswick, but has about a million of the best and craziest stories about Vermont, New York, Seattle and some jobs that made my employment record look mundane. The two of them, after a previous stint doing research with yet another grad. student in Thunder Bay and my boyfriend's own tendencies, compspired to turn me into a CBC listener.

Here they are, after a rather long and intense week of work, stretching poor tormented backs at the end of the day. As for the Parr... well those are the little 1-2 year old salmon we were researching. Coolest fish ever!!

In a completely unrelated thread - note the link above - The court's thankfully tossed out a lawsuit blaming the Provincial Government for the death of a family member owing to West Nile Virus. Not that I don't feel sympathy for the family, however, the government isn't not responsible for preventing every unforseeable disaster from coming to our lives. Besides, in the case of West Nile - utter prevention would likely have required drastic measures with unpalatable environmental and human health effects. Perhaps the blame should fall on travellers who brought the disease here (lots of people are relatively irresponsible about preventing transmission of disease home from abroad. )....... The Sueing bug (with its permenent source in the States) is ruining our society - taking individual responsibility away along with the freedom to take risks. The cost - we can't do anything, costs of operating spiral out of control and often the benifits don't warrent the cost incurred merely to prevent being sued when someone decides to take a risk - often going against posted rules - hurts themselves and sues anyone they can get their hands on. Growl!! Okay.. to rephrase that - decisions are frequently made based on litigation prevention rather than for practical reasons... not a good way to think or plan or spend money. Nor is it healthy for individuals who believe that everyone but themselves are to blame when their decisions cause them personal injury.

Safety and due diligence are important, but individuals should be held responsible for their choices and their consequences.

Jenn

Amazing Random Blogs

Well, I meandered into a fantastically written blog - which although the title suggests that its a femminist blog - aside from an interesting blog on 2-tiered breast feeding opportunities, it seems to cover the gammut of ethical topics in an informed, balanced and interesting way. This was the quality of stuff I had hoped to have on my blog before I had to give in to the reality that I simply don't have time to write and research essays of any caliber - so I've mostly settled for short, babbling postings on the rather mundane doings of my life and a few interesting links and as many quasi-decent photos I can find. I haven't had 2 many complaints - so I won't dwell on it.

I specifically would like to draw your attention to the following article, on the costs/benifits and problems posed by the cost/creation of novel and expensive new pharmacueticals. However, I recommend that you continue to the site and peruse the offerings of this team of talented and interesting writers. Well, the breast feeding one and the fat tax ones were intersting... I guess if you look a bit closer you'll see that there is a fairly feminist theme... but I haven't read them all.

Anywho... back to work again...

Jenn 

Nostalgia

Hah... here is me missing Fredericton - This place has the best and most generous nachos I've ever run across and it's definately a place with "PUB Character".

Cheers!!!

Jennith 

Toronto from above

Here is a quick snap I took from a tall building in Toronot a few weeks ago. Like most of the last month it was over cast and threatening to rain, snow or both all day.

Today on the other hand was mostly lovely and I was stuck on the other side of this screen all day - typing and excelling.

Highlights on leaf piles
Fluttering from near bear limbs -
Soft golden carpet

Frosted grass blades green
Iced with winter's chill, crisp breath
Steam rises from poo 

Still Amazed at my Luck

In a world that fills newspapers with stories of the horrible things people do to each other, it still often amazes me how lucky I am to have a guy like Gabe in my life. (Thank you to Gabe's mom!!) Aside from being cool and having a zillion wild and crazy skills and a healthy outlook on life (if anyone can save me from working myself to death it might be him), he's the nicest person I've ever met.

:D --- Anywho, where I was really going with this is that the best thing about Gabe is that he gives great hugs - and I don't know how I survived without anyone to hug for so long. It must have been lonely having no one to hug when I was feeling sad, frustrated or overwhelmed. So, find someone to hug or give a hug to a friend who needs one. I think more hugs would make the world a better place.

Okay.. that is my procrastination for a bit... well, after the next post which will include a haiku.

Jennith 

Credit River Outfall

Well I assume it is a stormwater outfall... I'll have to ask what the shape of it means in Watershed Systems Design.

Here is today's Haiku...

Ground-hardening frost
Sets chill tone under slate sky
Hue-leeched view forwarns

I wish I had a view from my window to post - the window is a bit hazy itself, but the view is heavy and grim indeed inspite of the red siding building in view.

Hopefully there will be a bit more sunlight - I guess those Thunder Bay folks are lucky (being in the Sunshine Capital of Ontario) and the folks in Burke's Falls are even grimmer than us - living in the rain capital of Ontario.

The municipal election is coming up, and I still haven't found much on any of the candidates. Its a shame - in terms of your day to day life, municipal politicians probably have more effect on you than federal in some ways and yet they aren't exciting to elect. I'm sure there is a web page somewhere I can find all this information on... wait let me link it. Here is an official list of candidates and voting instructions. And here are some write ups on local candidates.

Alright... back to writing reports for me.

Jennith 

Fractal Website with neat pics

Stumbled accross this site... and it had cool looking pictures... so here is the link.
 

Coverpage evolution continues

I installed ArcSoft Photo Studio - which has been quite useful so far, and took a bit of a break to spiff up a cover page graphic for my project. We got an extension - which is good for my hours of sleep tonight, but it just means that the weekend is a complete write off and its a good thing I'm not driving on Monday because I'm going to be a zombie.

I'm enrolled in a workshop Monday morning and have a presentation in another course in the afternoon (YIKES) - so I might have to look at withdrawing from the workshop - depending on how things go.

And hey... it is actually nice out.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Digital Elevation Model

I'm trying to come up with some neat graphics and figure out what this program can do. So far, nothing simple.

JP 

Landuse

Precipitation

Ah my… has it been a day or what. I’ve been compiling climate data 1 year at a time for 61 years (well, actually it took me about 2 hours – to get all 61 years together, and cleaned up and sorted out). So much for my plans of success and draft completion – ha… so much for my night of sleep.

I did take about 2 hours off to visit my sister n laws for halloweening – she did some pretty cool pumpkins – see Air In’s and/or Geoffs links on the side. It was weird. I remember leaving and covering as much subdivision as was physically possible before people blew out there pumpkins. No stunning costumes – I mostly saw young teens in black clothes by the time I drove home. I really like Halloween, hopefully next year I can do something exciting, rather than feel guilty about homework… and on that note…

Here I go back to work.

Jenn

I don't know what is going on

just in case I pressed discard 

Missing Pics

Here is the missing pictures and a few more for the road in a Picasa photogrid.

Blogger seems to be happy again - You'll note the link to isaac and blewett under musicians.

I'm working on my watershed design report, but I was so excited to hear blogger was briefly working again, I thought I should rush and post.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Twas the night before Halloween

Greetings,

This is still really me testing to see if blogger has got its act together. This picture is a repost from yesterday.

Today is a reading like crazy day. I'm not sure I'm actually doing anything for Halloween - except homework. I have a huge project due Thursday.

Its actually a beautiful day out... sunny and clear. Although I'm still feeling groggy from last night sleeping in BaseOp. I'm a bit spoiled at home to have a decent bed, although it might be the rookie is my radio going off jitters too. I remember back at LU I slept my first night with my jacket, radio, keys, glasses and shoes on. Truth is that I continued sleeping with shoes and keels on for the first few years...and then I broke down and took off my shoes (and they were hiking boots in fact) because they made my feet fall asleep which woke me up. Guelph is a big and confusing campus compared to LU. Not living here doesn't help either. I'd probably know residence better if I lived here and would spend more time just wandering around.

Anywho... must read... hopefully blogger will recover soon and I'll ahve time to write something usefull and interesting - like the mini essays I planned originally.

Cheers,

Jennith

Bloggity blog blog blog

Spurgitz.

Still no blog entries on scene. Sometimes coming from the direct source also helps. I'm almost done another chunk of the project. although I'm huddled in my office with a hat and fleece on... I should try and figure out the heating system one day.

alright.. last try

Jenn

Snow on the last green
Tamarack turn brilliant gold
Windy Strange weather

Taking the back roads
Past fields and neat homes, tucked in woods -
Scenic route worth time

Winding roads teach much -
Lessons of true distance that
Travelled, increases view
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