Wife & daughter went to a cat cafe 🐈🫖 but my allergies prevented me so I opted for the Witch Cafe 🧙☕️ across the road. Drinking a sage latte, checking out the wands and spell components. You can get a tarot reading! Blessed 💫✨😊 www.instagram.com/moonbrewm…

Entrance to a red brick shop with a sandwich board featuring a pentagramInterior of a shop. Small tarot booth on the far wallAssorted witchy things you can buy (I cannot explain but there are lots of pentagrams and silver)Mason jar full of latte, ice, and hopefully magic!

Had a full day in Montréal: met with a friend, a lot of walking around, visited the Notre Dame Basilica, ate lobster poutine, and saw Just for Laughs on stage! #travel #photography

Chad selfie outside Notre Dame Basilica Inside Notre Dame Basilica with its ceiling of stars Big plate of poutine with lobster meat on top A comedian on a stage with big screens showing closeups of him delivering his routine

Walking around Montreal this morning I stumbled upon the Just for Laughs Festival! Other than smoked meat sandwiches this is probably the thing most Westerners like me know about Montreal. I grew up watching the Anglo comics on stage. Cool to see it in person!

Chad selfie in front of giant novelty windup teethNot sure how to describe this… a bunch of giant colourful “HA”s attached to a big green spring like a jack-in-the-box. I assume it bounces around when pushed to give you that HA HA HA feeling A Just For Laughs street sign and map

Finally touched down in Montréal. That’s a LOT of travel just to end up in the same country. 😅

Woke up at 5am, ready to head to the airport for our family trip to Quebec. 🥱

Check email ✉️

Flight cancelled 🙅

Early morning panic 😵‍💫

Check in to rescheduled flight 👨‍✈️

Go back to sleep for an hour 😴

Finished Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚

Whoever thought Napoleon crushing Europe could be described as “light” and “fun”? 🙃 Well, there are dragons and this isn’t Malazan.

Anyways, I am 22/20 for my 2025 Reading Goal. Was shooting for more papers but can’t quite help myself. #books #reading

Started listening to Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚 in the car on my drive to Kelowna and back. Got 71% the way in over the weekend. Fun to be with these characters again, and a nice light break from Malazan.

Back through the mountains 🏔️ to the coast 🌊

Curving road below a large rocky Mountain

It’s that time of year where I visit my pal Nathan and check out his new keyboard with custom printed angled keycaps. #keebs

Last year’s edition: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…

Chad testing out a very small low profile bluetooth split keyboardclose up of the keyboardChad holds the keyboard to demonstrate how thin it is

Driving up into the mountains for the weekend

Photo from a highway with lots of traffic heading towards a tall snowy mountain in the distance

The new GAIIN (The Global AI Initiatives Navigator) released by the OECD is a pretty amazing resource for tracking #AI policy and investment country by country. Here is the profile for #Canada: oecd.ai/en/dashbo…

Got my latest enjoylunacoffee.com order ☕️

Looking forward to some lovely Ethiopian beans

Two bags of coffee on a desk, with a hand grinder and a Luna pamphlet

Catching up on this year’s Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. Looks so hot! 🥵

Bloedel Conservatory

The domed roof of the Bloedel ConservatoryAn African Grey Parrot named RudyA cockatoo with extended head feathersChad selfie inside the dome surrounded by greenery

Date night in Olympic Village. Lovely view of Science World.

Science World lit up brightly. In the foreground is the silhouette of a couple looking at the round building

We are setting up our #meshtastic devices together @z-space.ca and just added a ton of new nodes in Vancouver! I can see nodes all the way to Seattle!

Two meshtastic devices beside a MacBook Air with a map of the Pacific Northwest displayed showing many overlapping nodes in Vancouver and one in Seattle

Started Empire of AI by Karen Hao today 📚

Already 20% in. Very readable!

Did I just have the perfect evening? 😻 #ra-men #archery #ra-rchery

A hot bowl of ramen with handmade noodlesArchery target with three tightly grouped arrows in the gold

TTRPG hole

Unboxing my new Starter Set of The One Ring. (Now some very personal blogging that will only interest a few of you) Last week I wrote about the fantasy hole I have been in. Contributing to this is the fact that we are also in a Table Top Role Playing Game hole as well. I have been playing TTRPGs with the same group since 2013. We started together after a big Board Game Night where we organized two simultaneous sessions of The Red Box to introduce people to tabletop gaming.

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I love taking people into our nearby forest and walking around the bend and saying “Hey look over there 👉 “

In a dense copse of vibrant trees and ferns is an old tree stump. Carved in the side is a gentle face.