Caffeine

Work - work and more work. Yep keeping myself as busy as a one legged man at a butt kicking contest. Hopping from one place to another, spreading joy wherever I am.

Okay now that you're busy laughing, I'll continue on.

Reading the papers, it seems our (ahem) beloved leaders have decided they can't do much about the world economies but they can control the weather! Alrighty then, lets have a couple of more degrees heat around here and a lot more sunshine please. Does this mean countries can have their very own individual thermostats?

Speaking of weather, it seems today is the one day of summer this area is going to get. Yes folks, Ottawa has packed summer into a 24 hour period and today is it. Average temperatures so far have been way below normal, rain fall is up and the lack of sunlight has led to an increase in the use of tanning salons.

Tanning beds have one city councillor here up in arms. Alex Cullen thankfully not my councillor wants to put a ban on under 18 year olds using these tanning devices. He's also responsible for wanting to put hand sanitizers on the buses, attempting to ban trade shows at city owned facilities, increases to bus fares after a 51 day strike by drivers; the list could go on but you get the idea.

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

It would take a lot more than that to explain some of the photos over at Awkward Family Photos. We've all got them stuffed away in shoe boxes hidden under beds or buried in closets, why not show them off!

Got an hour to kill? Then head on over and enjoy the photos! Seeing other people looking silly might make you feel better about the photos you've got hidden from from sight.

Who the F#%K dresses up as a bear?




Speaking of family life

I found this really interesting site Why Not, Right? The site is devoted to the joys of parenting by obviously pretty bad parents.

Around here, you need a license to have a dog but it seems anyone can have kids. Looking at some of the photos I've got to wonder if this is the norm these days.

God help us all.


It's Friday I'm out of here - Bluesfest is up and running.

Man its been HOT!

Over this past week, we've been up and over 30C and lovin' it.

With the heat though my walking around has been a little on the stick to the shady side of the street, but the sun couldn't be avoided yesterday.

Walking along Sparks St. I couldn't help but gain weight even though I ate nothing. The BBQ Rib Cook off is going on and the smells alone will make your mouth water with desire.

With all the heat though, I haven't felt much like eating so I can't tell you who's ribs are the best. To me they all smelled fantastic!

Canada Day is coming up quickly and on Parliament Hill the stage is being built. Check out the web cam image above and you can see the construction happening.

Checking the weather forecast for next week I see the temperature will be dropping to 25 with showers. My garden will love the water and I'll enjoy the cooler temps.