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BMW X1 aka “white lightning”
Read more: BMW X1 aka “white lightning”Let’s do a blog post in the format of ‘the 5 W’s’: WHO / WHAT / WHEN / WHERE / WHY, for my latest car purchase, almost an annual event now. I’ll go through the W’s in a different order: WHO: I’m 46 this July, I live in Laval (close to Montreal), Canada. I’m an…
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Let’s rack & roll with a Dell R640 to ‘serve the home’
Read more: Let’s rack & roll with a Dell R640 to ‘serve the home’The title of this blog was an obvious lift from the mighty Patrick Kennedy blog ServeTheHome Server Storage and Networking ReviewsCheck out the site or watch his related YT channel INTRO First, let’s start with some numbers 46 years old is my age as of Oct 2025 20 is the number of years I’ve been…
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Let’s sell the house and rent for a bit
Read more: Let’s sell the house and rent for a bitIntro At the age of 43, I bought my first home here in Montreal. It’s a modest home, a lovely ground floor that was completely renovated , with two smaller bedrooms upstairs. I moved from Winnipeg to Montreal in 2015, and from 2015 to 2022, lived in 4 different rentals, 3 out of 4 were…
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Let’s make the house a jungle
Read more: Let’s make the house a jungleYou wouldn’t know it to see my house now, but I lived most of my life as a certified PLANT KILLER. Big or small, none would survive under my watch! That all changed in 2022 with the purchase of my first home. As I’ve got a long-term interest in following the ‘snow-bird’ life like my…
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THE Mind-body connection: My path to a pain free life
Read more: THE Mind-body connection: My path to a pain free lifeAll aboard the pain bus As IT folks, we aren’t known for our good posture. Sitting at our desks all day, using ‘ergo’ equipment just offsets constant wrist and elbow abuse from a classic keyboard and mouse setup In 2008, while doing an IBM server install in small town Canada, the server slipped while I…
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Let’s make a pergola
Read more: Let’s make a pergolaIntro Outdoor terraces are pretty common around Montreal , Quebec, Canada where I’ve lived since 2019. On a few outings last year, I took pix of the pergola structures with the purpose of attempting to build my own. As with any of my projects, I took my time to research what materials , tools &…
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Let’s paint the porch black aka #ProjectBlackJack
Read more: Let’s paint the porch black aka #ProjectBlackJackFrom the time I bought my house in May 2022, I’ve never really liked the look of the faded gray concrete porch, front walk way or first step At the time , I was a bit intimidated by the amount of work involved based on the various YouTube videos I reviewed related to painting concrete.…
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Let’s buy an SUV
Read more: Let’s buy an SUVI spent a TON of time researching the purchase of my past 2 cars. Completing 29 test drives in 2021, I then hit ⏸️and resumed again in May 2022 when I bought my house, eventually ending on a Subaru WRX 2011. The WRX was a lemon 🍋, and manual transmission was no longer the right…
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Let’s plant a tree
Read more: Let’s plant a treeHello and welcome to summer in Montreal, Canada! As the ground is no longer frozen, it’s time to re-start my outdoor yard tasks This post will cover the work I completed to install a small (ish) Berry White Hydrangea tree in the north-west corner of my yard. This particular corner was in rough shape, having…
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My method for better decision making life (™️)
Read more: My method for better decision making life (™️)Intro First of all, today’s topic is based on accepting that there is such thing as “free will” Sorry Robert Sapolsky, I’m not seduced by your proposition that “free will doesn’t exist” , yet 😉 If you’re not familiar with Robert’s work, his take on “free will” is that we are “running on rails” ;…
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