Whatever your personal feelings about the moderators, try and keep it civil. 
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Hey, itâs her balcony, not the White House Correspondentâs Dinner. 
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The last six months at work has been pretty unpleasant. Today was gross- it started poorly and got worse as it went.
And then.
And then a friend offered and made me an egg cream. And that made my afternoon a bit better. Thanks, friend.
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What sort of job do you have?
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I do Instructional design in higher education.
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Sounds like it could be interesting.
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It could be.
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Live hummers! Maybe not all the time . . . .
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/50/West_Texas_Hummingbirds/
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Excellent. I love the Cornell Lab bird ID App.
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Had an âexecutive briefingâ down in the city today.
It started off good in that I made the right call taking Metra in as the co-worker who lives ânear-ishâ me drove in and was 45 minutes late.
The destination was maybe a mile walk from Union Station, so that was a comfortable stroll that got me there maybe 15 minutes ahead of the meet and greet.
The briefing was actually useful and has me thinking about a whole new solution set for some things.
The walk back along the river walk was divine
And now
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Itâs Pimmâs oâclock
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You are living the Dr. Bob Hartley dream.
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You may not have won the internets today, but you have definitely won deep admiration from me. Well done, sir!
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Now that I have cleaned it up a bit more (read: scrubbed/swept away the chickadee guano), I have been spending more time on my balcony.
It seems the more I am out here, the less the chickadees are liable to use it as a restroom. Apparently the hydro wires in front of my building are a major cruising area for chickadees looking to get some action.
I saw one pair do it right on the hydro line this morning. Then a few minutes ago this male rejected the female who answered his chirps â guess she wasnât his type.
Even though itâs raining, the balcony is sheltered enough I can sit and enjoy the fresh air. And the chickadee antics. So long as they donât poop on my stuff.
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What is a âhydro wire?â
Power lines for hydroelectric energy?
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Thatâs about right. I donât actually know if the electricity is created hydroelectrically, but so much of it is 'round these ways itâs virtually synonymous. The utility provider is called Toronto Hydro, for instance.
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That is something about Canada that always brought me a lot of joy (I have spent a lot of time there). Itâs a small thing really, but it exemplifies an emblematically optimistic world view - of course all our power comes from hydroelectricity (if not the wind turbine at the CNE) - itâs the 21st century!
(back in Buffalo, of course the power is the same hydroelectric Toronto gets, from Niagara Falls, but nobody calls it hydro)
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Two great things:
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Like âThe Onionâ articles, I derive too much pleasure from the titles of Chuck Tingle novels to risk being let down by reading the novels themselves.
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