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Why I'm walking
I'm walking in The Weekend to End Women's Cancers (2010) -- a two-day, 60-kilometre walk through the neighbourhoods of Toronto this September.
Proceeds benefit The Campbell Family Institute at The Princess Margaret, funding important research into breast cancer and other cancers impacting women, and funding education, services and care.
Why am I ( Read more... ) -
Food Colouring Question
Poll Food Colouring question -
Thursday walkies
1 hour and 20 minutes, mostly at a fairly brisk-feeling pace, though I lagged on the last long hill ( Read more... ) -
Question of the moment
A sometimes inquiring mind wants to know...
What works would someone have to read before you could consider them *ridiculously* well read?
What works does someone have to have read before you would consider them well read? -
Season's Greetings
Wishing a very happy St. Nicholas' Day for those who celebrate it! -
The near-obligatory comment on last night's results
I never really expected to see anyone but a white male elected President of the United States of America in my lifetime ( Read more... ) -
Grumpifying news
This disgruntles me
However, I can say one thing related to it. Should you have a chance to hear Katherine Barber speak, take it. I heard her talk on the different types of dictionaries (and why we need them) at the OLA conference a couple of years ago - IMO it was the most informative and interesting talk there. -
Thursday night walkies report
an 8-mile night. From work up to Yonge and Eglinton, over to Leslie, and up to Lawrence. I didn't time the whole thing, but from Yonge and College to Leslie and Lawrence took about 2 hours and 5 minutes (I forgot to check until I'd stood in line and paid for a Gatorade). That's a bit over 7 miles, for 3.38 mph and 5.40 kph ( Read more... ) -
Walk report
15.9349 miles, according to GMaps pedometer ( Read more... )