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It’s kind of hard to believe that it’s been 21 years since I started going to the downtown YMCA in Victoria. Part of why I had been going there for so long is that there isn’t really a good alternative in the area, but also that it offered quite a lot without really boasting about …

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I’ve been hosting my original music (as AFK) on SoundCloud for well over a decade, almost two in fact. For years, people have been trying to buy this page off of me, trying to have my password changed, and more recently, they’ve been successful in fooling SoundCloud’s support team to change the email address associated …

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Well well well. This thing still works! Very quickly then before I head out for NYE: See you next year!

snow has returned to the capital .. this photo was taken outside of my fav local coffee shop – Picnic II (the sequel). There are some elements of this that remind me of the Blizzard of 96, but (so far) it’s not as brutal. City is similarly shut down and after a short break, the …

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the atmospheric rivers have passed, and the temperatures have dropped a full 10 degrees as they departed. Amazing what a difference air flow can make.

I woke up to the sounds of the wind this morning, well before my alarm. In another way, it was my alarm. the above is this morning’s breakfast, along with a coffee and ambient music from KEXP’s weekly show Pacific Notions. We used to have this simple breakfast growing up. We even ate from these …

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