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  Almost 50 mm of rain so far in #Ottawa today. IIRC, we were only expecting a couple mm. Maybe this is the next 100 year storm. #onstorm

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  Driving annoyances 2. #driving You are car 6 waiting at a light controlling a single lane of traffic. We all know that the second car has the responsibility to notify the first car that the light has changed if it seems they did not notice. If they fail, the notifications falls to car 3, and so on. What is more annoying?

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  I won't miss Renaldo whining at every bit of contact. He's a great player but his career has been tarnished by his whining in my opinion. I won't be taking questions. #WorldCup

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  The hail has arrived #onstorm

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  I looked at my grocery receipt as I was throwing it out and there was only one taxable thing - plain tortilla chips made from 100% corn and oil absorbed during cooking. I wondered why they are taxable when most other crackers are not. It turns out that CRA has some pretty crazy rules. The thing that mostly seems to make them taxable is that they are made from corn. Corn and potato foods are taxed because they are snacks. Make your cracker from wheat or other flours and it is tax free - e...

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  I've made significant progress in my #solar power project. I drilled a one inch hole through my house (through 5.5 inches of wood) and now have two of my panels (350 Watts and still temporarily installed) feeding my #ecoflow battery system. The batteries are currently only running my hot water because that was really easy to unplug and plug into the inverter. Next step is to get some panels permanently mounted on the roof. That won't be fun.

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  Here are some great pictures of what #Ottawa looked like before austerity destroyed it. https://www.bygonely.com/ottawa-late-19th-century/

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  @stux The content we need right now

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  @Canadian_Eh Care counts Depending on the care they receive and the type of operation expected of them, says Mr. Beveridge, the Wasp is without doubt the oldest dependable aircraft engine ever put to work. He pointed out a recent round trip to Chicago by a Beech 18 with nearly 1,000 hours on its engines. "He only used two quarts of oil for the whole distance. Try that in an automobile!" Another example of service is an engine currently under overhaul at Laurentian. The studs on one...

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  @Canadian_Eh Dominates scene It has been estimated that there are ten times the number of Wasp Juniors at work and the Wasp family dominates the aviation scene when you consider the Twin Wasp, Double Wasp and the Wasp Majors, which come in 18 and 28-cylinder versions. The standard Wasp, found in the Otter and its bushland predecessor, the Norseman, deliver 550 horsepower. The Junior, in the Beaver, Beech 18 and Goose, gives 450 horse-power. The point that makes the Wasp an interesting item to...

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  Having to be a certain age to use a certain app or website is stupid. if the app / website is so awful that kids can't see / use them, then they are almost certainly bad things and the government should work to make those responsible for them responsible for them. Hold the corporation responsible accountable for what they are doing to us. None of us will mind. #age #age_verification

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  I have one small pile of snow (from shoveling the driveway) left to melt. I expect it will be gone tomorrow. It's a little weird in that it is in the middle of the front yard and not in the shade or anything. It must have been a lot of ice or dune other weird Science.

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  We are up to 45 mm of rain in this rainy phase (starting on Sunday).

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  This is the kind of story we need right now. Ghosts and bagpipes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-bagpiping-trophy-found-bc-barn-9.7163361

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  Just ordered some more #solar panels.

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  Here comes my free car wash.

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  Is it wrong to love the fact that #Iran bombed Amazon data centres?

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  It looks like the experimental farm drainage project has started back up. There's an excavator on the road and i was sure they had fixed most of the field they dug up but it doesn't look like that now. @Hansonthebike