What do road repair people do? Is there only 10 of them in the entire city? How much work do they actually do in a day? I’m starting to really wonder what the answers to those questions are. Around 7-8 weeks ago, the street connected to ours underwent some surgery. The road repair crews dug […]
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Road Maintenance Time Warp?
Posted: 17th June 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Ottawa, SoapboxTags: Construction, Orleans, Ottawa, road repair
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Little Visitor
Posted: 15th June 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in OttawaTags: House, Orleans, Ottawa, Rabbit, Wildlife
When we first moved into our house, we’d often see a mother rabbit and two of her baby bunnies in our backyard. After that fall, we would only see one of the bunnies come back for a visit on almost a daily basis. Once our fence went up, the bunny would still come back from […]
Restaurateur: You’re Diabetic? No Desert For You!
Posted: 9th June 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Life, Restaurant, SoapboxTags: Cooking, dessert, diabetes, Restaurant, Special Diets, Splenda, sugar substitute, Sweetener
Why is it that most restaurants, from greasy diners to high scale french restaurants and everything in between, don’t offer diabetic friendly desserts? With diabetes on the rise, you would think that this is something that restaurateurs and chefs would start including in their menu. By omitting such a growing portion of their customer base, […]
Building Shelves
Posted: 2nd May 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in LifeTags: basement shelves, building, House, Renovations, shelves, storage shelves
I finally decided to bring some order to our storage room in the basement by building some shelves. First came the shelves to hold the multitude of comic books that I own. Did the long one with the help of my dad, and mostly did the small ones by myself, which is a great accomplishment. […]
Bad Parking!
Posted: 25th February 2010 by Luc "Sandman" G. in Funny & Weird, OttawaTags: Bad parking, idiot, Ottawa, parking, Place d'Orleans, shopping mall, transportation
My wife and I spotted this car while we were looking for parking at the mall today. Its not unusual to see a car that’s badly parked and taking up 2 spots. But a car so very badly parked that they take FOUR spots? Yup, its been done. I’m not blurring out the license plate […]
