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Quarantine Monday March 30th.

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Today was a day to celebrate the small miracles. Before that, though, let’s take a look outside of our Fortress of Solitude. Parking is now FREE at hospitals. I won’t say it should have been done sooner, but it’s done … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Sunday 2

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Joe Cummings

How’s everyone doing? We’re fine here. Slow day. For a change, I wanted to talk about what some of my friends and family are doing during this crisis. But first, what’s new in the world. Outside our house, our government … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Saturday 2

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Today we were learnding stuff. Outside the house, a referral-only drive-thru testing site was set up in Burnaby. (It’s not a Timmies). Boris Johnson announced he had tested positive for the virus, which goes to show you that anyone with … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Friday 2

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Joe Cummings

What do you do with freedom in a time where you can’t really do much? Well, we needed to get The-Prettiest-Girl-in-the-World’s car fixed (it needed a new battery). I mean, hey, if we didn’t have a car, we’d be in … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Thursday 2

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Freedom! Today, wasn’t as good a day as yesterday. It started off well enough, though, but ended with some bad news. At 8:30am, we talked to our doctor. We’d taken our temperatures for 2 weeks, isolated and self-observed 24/7, all … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Wednesday 2

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Today was perhaps the best day we’ve had in quarantine. Outside the house, the US congress FINALLY approved their aid package, and the markets stopped plunging for the moment, but too many people in the US are just not getting … Continue reading →

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Quarantine Tuesday 2

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Today, our little quarantine drama had one meltdown, one sloth-like drive to organize things, and a challenging day for The-Prettiest-Girl-in-the-World Outside the house, London Drugs dedicates an hour of shopping to health care workers. That’s very cool. Distilleries all across … Continue reading →

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Hockey Timekeeping pt2

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Yesterday, we left off with our hero, (yes me), acting less heroically, desperately trying to figure out how to work the hockey rink’s time machine. So far, the game was about to start and all I’d managed to do was … Continue reading →

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Hockey Timekeeping

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Joe Cummings

Are you afraid of anything that’s kind of irrational? Me, I want to deal with one of my phobias. Like all good phobias, it’s not logical, (except arachnophobia, which is completely understandable because it’s a fear of freaking spiders with … Continue reading →

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Day 8 The Last Hours of the Last Day

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Joe Cummings

We’d not seen everything there was to see at the Kennedy Space Center and (The-Youngest would like to point out), we didn’t do the only ride there (a shuttle launch simulation.) But we had to get on the road. We … Continue reading →

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