Heading to Toronto. Priority is mapping the distance between tonight’s accommodation and the closest Congee Queen! Surgery tomorrow…whatever…CONGEE!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Joined January 30, 2026
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A world weary and grey around the muzzle black lab looking off in the distance just behind the shoulder of a hooded figure against a background of fall leaves
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Close up of white painted iron bridge work against bare wintry trees and the Ottawa skyline
At some point in the not too distant future, I will need to replace the 30 year old dental crowns that replaced my front upper teeth that were destroyed in an accident of sorts.
I’d hoped that when the time came, I’d be able to afford to do matching veneers for the rest of my teeth. Definitely a luxury, not a need but the novelty of having matching teeth for the first time in 35 years does hold a certain appeal to me.
Last night, in my dream, I was in a dentists office choosing the shade of porcelain I wanted them to use for my restorations and I brought my favourite lipstick with me to pick the perfect one.
My crowns are too cold a hue for my favourite red and my natural teeth are too yellow.
And this is what I get for being raised by a colour obsessed artist
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange but how would he know. There are so many bot users, all the real people could leave and there would still be a lot of activity.
Though it would be hilarious when they finally realized that all the activity was just bots trolling bots
There’s nothing like a crisis to focus the mind. If I could achieve a fifth of this level of focus under normal operating conditions, my life would be so different than it is.
Sitting down and crossing everything, hoping that the #OttawaCharge beat the #BostonFleet tonight.
#puckDrop #pwhl #walterCup #pwhlPlayoffs
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So far, I am astounded by these results!
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@ansate a second vote for Nimble Needles tutorials in general. I could listen to Norman talk about knitting all day.
I usually avoid laddering by using the thinnest most flexible cable I can for the needles or project I’m using. I eventually transitioned from the Addi interchangeables to Chiagoo’s because they have adapters that let me attach a cable for a finer needle than the one I’m using. The more flexible the cable the less tension it applies at the loop point.
If a finer cable isn’t possible than use a cable that’s longer than suggested! The extra length will do a figure 8 thing at the loop points and take all the tension off the stitches and ladders across the transition.
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@mayintoronto @Cassandra the dream is vision correction! I’m farsighted with heavy astigmatism. I’ve reached the age that for most people is reading glasses but for someone already farsighted who has had the ability to accommodate most of their life…as that accommodation deteriorates, the hyperopia it hid spirals fast.
Right now my prescription is changing twice a year. I know it’s time for a new one because I keep thinking “I need to put my glasses on, I can’t see properly” but I’m already wearing them.
I get being worried about breaking your glasses. I’ve been ordering the cheapest ones possible so i can get a backup pair but cheap online glasses are a pretty recent development.
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@Cassandra are you farsighted or nearsighted…I think that has a big influence on one’s ability to do that. Probably easier for the mildly farsighted.
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@Daojoan Thanks! I needed to hear that today.
In my pre-teen and early teen years, I would read so much that sometimes, I would be caught unaware by the morning light just to realize that I had read all night and now had to go to school.
MANY concussions later, I can't read a book. I can't connect the events on one page to the events on another, and sometimes not even to events earlier on the page.
It's as though my contemporary brain narrates books rather than reading them.
When I miss that feeling of reading, I usually open one of those books that I read when I was reading all night. Stories so ingrained in my brain that I can read them without feeling completely lost.
The first period of the third game of the #WalterCup semi-final series between #MontrealVictoire and #MinnesotaFrost was ugly. Hopefully the second is cleaner but my felling is that it will kick-off instead.
I just took #DoodleBoy out for a walk on his own, to get his training back on track. I ALWAYS forget how quickly concepts are absorbed without the distraction of the park or our other dog. It makes complete sense, I just conveniently forget it whenever I’m feeling too run down to walk them separately.
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@TheresaReason I love that your sleep is solid! I remember my grandmother’s sleep being all over the place…two hours here, two hours there…I have a feeling it comes for us all eventually. My mum is 80 and is starting to remind me of my grandmother
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@deborahh @mayintoronto @Cassandra
So I was ordering progressive for the first couple of years, but my prescription is changing so quickly right now that I don’t bother. I just order single vision lenses at the reading strength from the progressive prescription and get the longest use of them that way. Wear the old pair for distance and the new pair for close.
When I did order progressives, I asked a kind friend who also happens to be an optician for my measurement details. He kindly obliged and indicated that a presbyotic, astigmatic hyperope is every optician and optometrist’s nightmare 🤪
Though my mother has been in progressives for 45 years and now orders them from Zenni with only measuring her own pupillary distance roughly herself and hasn’t had any issues with her lenses. She went from paying about $1200 for lenses to $200. Progressives for high hyperopia and high astigmatism weren’t cheap.
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@rasterweb great point. And a common one it seems. I’ll have to explore if nearsightedness is more prevalent than farsightedness!
@lapis phew! It usually takes me a few to think of anything!
@LJ what a cool small-world meeting! And your jumper is beautiful!
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@Cassandra then I think it might suck, be dangerous, or both to pace about without glasses 🤓
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@molly0xfff well shit! I can't even imagine the frustration. And in black (or black adjacent) yarn too!
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@auxonic@ottawa.place I’m sure plenty of people will miss the point and upsize their vehicles next time they’re shopping for on…because they’ll feel safer.
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@sarahv I do. My prescription is changing twice a year right now, conservatively. With a replacement schedule that intense, they don’t have time to break.
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@bucknam@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange just one more thing contributing to the sand crisis 🤪
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@sarahv I’m pretty sure I don’t have Alzheimer’s or early onset dementia. I’ve been doing it for a decade. I think I just really really hate opening my eyes to wildly fluctuating vision