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Schnarr<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 5, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> – For our original “Aerendel” blog hosted on wordpress dot com —><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes, the harried young mother gave birth to that word. Schnarr. You will hear it a lot around here.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t remember exactly what happened to trigger her response, but she gasped and snorted and said, \u201cOh Sh\u2014\u201d and noticed the eight year old\u2019s bright eyes waiting for the rest of her word\u2026\u201dSchnarr!\u201d she snorted, with feeling.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The eight year old never doubted for a moment that schnarr had always been a word.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Little did she know, that in that one near slip of her tongue, she\u2019d given birth to a word, a euphemism, a way of thinking and expressing herself (and ourselves)\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s enough of this schnarr- now it\u2019s time to get on with Blogging\u2026 here we go.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Coyote.<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 5, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | { “Aerendel” Blog }<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We saw a coyote this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

On our way to doggie school.<\/em><\/p>\n

The coyote was slinking through a slight ravine near the side of the Highway (the \u201c417\u201d, limited access high speed through-way).<\/em><\/p>\n

First coyote I ever saw outside a zoo.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Next time I\u2019ll tell you about the drum that thumps itself in the eastern corner of our living room.)<\/em><\/p>\n

But for now, the coyote is today\u2019s adventure.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hello world!<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 5, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> |<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Welcome to WordPress.com<\/a>. (This is our first post?)<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmmm- This post seems to stay at the top of the list of posts. I\u2019ve got to figure out how that happens.<\/em><\/p>\n

But so far, Yum!<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re here and we\u2019re doing something.<\/em><\/p>\n

yeah. cool, yum<\/em><\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s get on with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s 2019 & The Planet Hasn\u2019t Blown Up Yet {{ Or is this our delusional AfterLife?\u00a0}}<\/a><\/h2>\n

July 25, 2019 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> |<\/p>\n

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Thursday, July 25th, 2019 \u2013 +25\u02daC \/ +76\u02daF \u2014> With quite a few interesting clouds in the otherwise blue sky @ 3:40 pm in Atlantic Canada \u2014<\/p>\n

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\u2013 Looking at our Smoke Tree in its glory from the South West \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2014Well, this is schnarr \u2013 I spent \u2013 I don\u2019t know \u2013 several hours the other day trying to find the old password to this her blog { \u201cFree blog\u201d \u2013 hosted at \u2013wordpress.com\u2013 } and it just told me that if I try to upload more than 1 more MB of photos I will have to start paying WordPress for an upgrade. The also don\u2019t want me to be able to be able to add or do anything else with the plugins. grrrrr-<\/p>\n

\u2014 But anyway \u2013 It\u2019s a Mercury Retch { aka \u2018Retrograde\u2019 } and \u2018Mon Amour Fou\u2019 is on the West Coast \u2013 performing emergency surgery on operations her colleagues who get paid more than she does were too ignorant to be able to fix themselves \u2013 This is what happens when an \u2018old boys network\u2019 hires and promotes their buddies who are not qualified to fill complicated positions whose legal requirements take six years to learn and when confronted with, \u201cThey don\u2019t have any idea what they\u2019re doing-\u201d reply, \u201cThey\u2019ll learn\u201d \u2013 Remember the old commercials where somebody asks, \u201cIs this any way to run an airline?\u201d { dot dot dot. } \u2013 Well those idjits haven\u2019t learned.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sigh<\/p>\n

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-Our Smoke Tree This afternoon @ 12:30 pm \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arnprior Needs Crossing\u00a0Guards<\/a><\/h2>\n

January 17, 2013 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday, January 17, 2013.<\/p>\n

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AT the corner of Bell and Madawaska Streets, 12 year Veteran Crossing Guard, Tim, is reportedly retiring soon. Somebody wanted to save money by eliminating this position. But several Town Councillors raised their voices at last Monday\u2019s Town Council meeting. Ted Strike said his daughter was hit by a car at that crossing one day when a crossing guard was sick and nobody replaced him. Lyn Grinstead said her children use that crossing because there is a crossing guard there. Dan Lynch said something to the effect that -kids will always be kids and no matter how many adults warn them that it would be safer to walk one block east and cross at the John Street Light, they\u2019re still going to take the short cut.- Dan Lynch also wondered if grade 12 students who might want to go into law enforcement might volunteer to learn and serve as backup crossing guards as part of their volunteer hours requirement for graduation.<\/p>\n

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I went to talk to Tim during lunch time on a bitter cold day in January. Yesterday it was +3\u02daC \/+38\u02daF Today it\u2019s -19\u02daC with a wind chill more like -27\u02daC. In the five minutes I stood and talked with him, at least a dozen high schoolers, out on their lunch break, used the crossing. Tim said, \u201cYou should see it on a nicer day-\u201d<\/p>\n

Traffic in Arnprior used to be a joke. Ten years ago a friend told somebody, \u201cRush hour in Arnprior, you might see half a dozen cars in twenty minutes\u2026\u201d Now you might spend twenty minutes trying to get a break to turn across traffic out of a parking lot.<\/p>\n

Another thing Tim told me, several years ago one of the crossing guards was hit by a car. They were happy to see him when he began working at this job because he\u2019s tall and easy to spot when he\u2019s wearing his Orange jacket or the vest with the reflective orange X.<\/p>\n

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Four more guys cross the street, moving so quickly that they blocked out the crossing guard in the time it took me to aim and shoot this photo.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Smart Chips Give Ya\u00a0Cancer<\/a><\/h2>\n

April 25, 2012 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9:15 pm \u2014 25 April, 2012 ((42\u02daF \/ 6\u02daC and dark in Arnprior))<\/p>\n

** Katherine Albrecht** @ http:\/\/www.antichips.com<\/a> and http:\/\/www.spychips.com<\/a> has been telling us this for years: The \u201cSmart\u201d R.F.ID chips being injected under the skin of our pets, which are mandatory in many places, and politically brow beaten on caring pet owners in many more places (\u201cDon\u2019t you love your pet?\u201d) are causing Cancer and lots of people know this.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a score card on \u201cSmart\u201d stuff:<\/p>\n

Smart meters broadcast your private information to utility companies who can identify the make and model of everything you have plugged in on the circuit the smart meter is monitoring. They can then turn down or turn off many appliances from wherever they are. I heard that several senior citizens were killed in Texas during a heat wave when their local electric company turned down their electricity to the point where it shut off their air conditioning and basically cooked the home bound in their own homes. The Utility\u2019s defense? \u201cIt\u2019s the middle of the day, what are they doing home?\u201d \u2014 I haven\u2019t had time to check this out.<\/p>\n

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Eh-<\/a><\/h2>\n

April 19, 2011 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019m feeling tired and old. Feels like life sped by and passed me when I stopped to take a pee on the roadside of life or something.<\/p>\n

-eh, a little sleep and a new morning might make all the difference.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Moon Flakes<\/a><\/h2>\n

March 20, 2011 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Interesting video effect, looks like moon flakes or moon petals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sunday, 20 March, 2011. Last night\u2019s full moon was the closest it\u2019s been in 18 years. I tried to capture it on a small video camera. The effects were neat. What I saw in the electronic viewfinder was a thick wide halo. What came out here looks like moon flakes or petals flaking off. In all fairness, I realized I was shooting through a bush whose branches haven\u2019t sprouted yet (heck, we\u2019re way up north, somewhere around 45\u02daN, right around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).<\/p>\n

-The \u2018still\u2019 shot\/clip from the video looks a little more purple than the actual video did. So the photo changes\/looks different every time I do something else with it. (& I haven\u2019t gone near photoshop yet.)<\/p>\n

-We reached 50\u02daF\/10\u02daC \u2013 last week and then dipped back into \u2018brrrr\u2019 territory. And an ex-military \u2018psychic spy\u2019 says that we do not live in one of the safer areas of Canada, but right now it\u2019s about +2\u02daC\/+36\u02daF & I can\u2019t see any snow lingering outside the window. We\u2019re supposed to get 5-10 cm (uh-between 1 & 4 inches?) of snow tomorrow. But today there\u2019s the teasing possibility of Spring in the air.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brrrrrrrr- ?<\/a><\/h2>\n

January 19, 2011 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wednesday, 19 January, 2011. 12\u02daF\/-11\u02daC @ the Ottawa airport @ 9 am\/ -19\u02daC w\/-27\u02daC wind chill in Petawawa according to the weather network. Arnprior\u2019s in the middle there somewhere, and walking around with about 5 layers of winter clothing on, turn the wrong corner and it feels like you\u2019re naked against a constant wind. And when the naked feeling leaves, you\u2019re sure the damned layers are holding the cold in instead of keeping it out.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that\u2019s about right. Maybe I\u2019ll add some kind of photo later.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Foggy New Year,\u00a02011<\/a><\/h2>\n

January 2, 2011 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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January 1st, 2011 in Arnprior<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The year 2011 bloomed foggy and damp in Arnprior. Connecticut is buried under a blizzard\u2019s wrath, but way up north (here) it is uncharacteristically warm. And rainy.<\/p>\n

A flash of intuition (or possibly delusion?) came to me\u2026. This will be the weirdest winter on record. Places that usually get clobbered with snow will seem to miss most of it, but then Mother Nature will decide to be \u2018fair\u2019 and no one will escape at least one nearly crippling storm?<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Early Morning\u2026 Time to\u00a0Edit?<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 9, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I went looking for Comic Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m still confused.<\/em><\/p>\n

Writing stories in my head. (that\u2019s less confusing)<\/em><\/p>\n

And feeling like I\u2019m getting somewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

(That\u2019s uplifting\u2026. yup.)<\/em><\/p>\n

~~~~~Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hello, It\u2019s a Thursday, I\u00a0think\u2026.<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 8, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hey- I did call to wish Joe his Happy Birthday, only two days late.<\/em><\/p>\n

Um, started the day in a panic to make sure a check that had bounced once was covered. (aleady cost $70.00 in extortion fees, I mean bank fees, No- I really\u00a0 mean extortion fees\u2026. schnarrrrrr-)<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh what else?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sent Lori a link that might lead one or more of them to the Jernilindex page ((( http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/Jernilindex.html<\/a> ))) where a bunch of thinks like live jernil and archived (spammed to death) blogs etc have been loaded into iframes\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Um, then I printed off 250 business cards for a friend (250 good ones, three pages of ten each got jammed in the printer and I thought we were dead in the water, but nope- I pulled the fragments out and found unused card stock and crossed my fingers and everything worked. (yay!) )
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Um, I collapsed for about an hour and got the boy from his daily torture (school), stopped a couple places with boy dying of boredom in the jeep while I learned about Saturday\u2019s ceremony honouring World War II war in the Atlantic Vets, & we\u2019ll be there, setting up at about 9:30 AM it looks like.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m off to see if I can learn stuff about Comic Press\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2014\u2013Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Happy Birthday, Joe<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 7, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ooops, Cousin-in-law Joe\u2019s Birthday was yesterday\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

(& I was super busy with problems with bulletin board at work and stuff\u2026.)<\/em><\/p>\n

But anyway\u2026 Happy Birthday,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is no Gas\u00a0Shortage.<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 6, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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-I have a book upstairs, it was written by a religious missionary type Chaplain who went up north to Alaska, feeling that the men who would be away from their wives and families for long stretches, working on the Alaskan Oil Pipe Line, would be in very real need of moral and spiritual support.<\/em>
\n-The oil company he worked along with up there was so happy to have somebody like him there, encouraging its employees to avoid drinking on the job and stuff like that there, that they made him a sort of officer in their ranks.
\n-& Knowing this, a supervisor\/manager type person invited him to come to a meeting at which a super big shot hot shot supervisor\/manager type would be giving a speech.
\n-That speech began with, \u201cThere is no Gas Shortage, there never was a gas shortage, and with what we know now, there never will be any gas shortage.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013The Chaplain was so shocked when he heard that with his own ears, that he looked into it, came up with actual supportive facts, and wrote the book.
\n-When senior officials in this well known oil company \u2018caught wind\u2019 of the book, steam and smoke billowed out from their ears and they exploded with something like, \u201cBring me the head of the moron who invited that Chaplain to that meeting!\u201d
\n-The man who had never been told not to invite the Chaplain, never knew there was any reason why he shouldn\u2019t invite the Chaplain to a high powered meeting of company executives\u2026. got fired.
\n-He was so thrilled about this that he went out and read the book and called the Chaplain up, & said, \u201cHey, you got it pretty much right, but there are a few details that you don\u2019t quite have correctly there- and they will try to use that to discredit you, so let me fix that and help you with a bit a re-write.
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\n -There is no gas shortage, There Never Was a Gas Shortage, and there never will be a gas shortage. There is enough oil under Gull Island in Alaska to drive the price of gas down to $1.00 U$ a gallon, or a little more than twenty five cents a litre.
\n-I don\u2019t want to be anywhere near any oil company executives when an unhappy mob recognizes them as the evil schnarr ice holes that they really are.
\n\u2014Whatever they got for their souls when they accepted their \u2018positions\u2019, it wasn\u2019t enough, and it will not save them.
\n\u2013 Amen- (climbs down from soap box looking very unsatisfied with the state of the world today\u2026)
\n\u2014\u2013Jim<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Better Font- Better\u00a0Look?<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 6, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I did like the look of the photo in the header of this blog\u2019s previous incarnation, but-<\/p>\n

And Now I have a slightly altered photo of Moe in this header. (Yum!)<\/p>\n

Pretty soon I can sit back and smile and think I actually got something done here\u2026.<\/p>\n

Yay! Now how do I tell it to keep this colour for the font?<\/p>\n

Shrug\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ZZZZZzZZzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzz<\/a><\/h2>\n

May 5, 2008 by Jim le Cartoon<\/a> | Edit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sigh,<\/p>\n

yabutta yabutta\u2026.<\/p>\n

yawn<\/p>\n

how do you cut Zees in Canada? Cutting Zeds sounds like way too much work\u2026.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Tommy\u2019s Birthday, and Julia\u2019s too.! woa, May is becoming as loaded as March used to be for birfdays\u2026.<\/p>\n

But, um, how do I tell this thing that I detest this font????\u00a0 {{ *** uh, we fixed that problem by changing to a different template that has a font I like\u2026 You don\u2019t see the font I didn\u2019t like\u2026 yay\u2026 jrw }}<\/p>\n

Schnarrrrrrr\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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