Happy Treaty 7 Day, everybody! Today is the anniversary of the signing of the treaty between the Blackfoot Confederacy (Kainai, Siksika, Piikani, and Amskapi Pikuni nations) and the Canadian Crown in 1877, which later became known as southern Alberta.
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blood day again
Blood plasma day again. I’m taking the day off from work today.
a crushing view of education … or ‘you built it wrong’
I found an article when opening up a new Firefox browser tab. It’s entitled, “The Crushing Reality of Zoom School“.
Are students and parents doing this badly?
morning calm
Sitting outside on the multi-coloured bench with a cup of coffee and a tablet reading the news, I find a calm and peaceful serenity that replaces the morning fog before the caffeine hits. I watched the moon and the sun trade places and fawns hop around like they’ve just eaten a pile of oats. A cacophonous raucous of birds broke the silence of the morning with their ritual meeting-in-the-trees. I watered my flowerbed and a bit of the grass and picked up some trash that blew in on the last chinook. I watched at 7:41am the water pressure dip a bit, signifying that the folks are up (toilet flushing). Eventually hunger will set in, and I’ll go inside for a bagel with peanut butter. But, for now, I’m enjoying the calm.
in defence (not defiance) of Zoom
This morning I saw online several people with Zoom fatigue. In response, I wanted to share my thoughts.
how to get a five star rating (or, not)
Someone asked me why I gave five stars to a recent chat with a company. Were they really worth five stars? This is how I give out my stars.
One for responding within the time frame I required of them.
One for understanding the issue and not confusing it with another.
One for being knowledgeable.
One for finding a solution.
One for explaining, teaching, showing well in a meaningful, polite, non-robotic way.
If you’ve done all this, then you get five stars out of me. If not, then not.
tiny ideas
I’ve written before about the tiny home idea previously – how it might work, what impacts it would have on a town or city, how if might help various people, etc. Something occurred to me while going to a student’s house in a mobile home park.
federal vote 2019
One last-ditch attempt to understand what our political parties and their leaders have to say. I’m reading, among others,
Federal election 2019: The definitive guide to the issues and party platforms
Do you know how you’ll vote today? More importantly, for what reasons?
Earl Grey tea
I shocked the world today. I walked into Good Earth Coffee House and ordered … “Earl Grey tea, please.” The server, stunned, just looked at me with wide eyes for 3 or 4 seconds. I wish I had a body cam. She turned to her coworker and said, slowly, “Earl Grey tea.” The coworker widened her eyes. “Okaayyy.”
I’ve been coming here for several years, on and off, and have always had coffee. But, once in a while, you have to shock the world.