“Ok. Get up at 6:00 and have a cup of coffee, but don’t eat anything. Then stand by for a phone call.” Instructions both for ...

The good news is that nothing’s changed in Catherine’s bones: there’s no sign of any additional cancer in any additional bones, and the spots on the femur where cancer is thought to be present haven’t ...

Most likely this will involve a radial head replacement with titanium. It’s a simple surgery, done under anaesthetic, that takes about 30 minutes. It’s got good outcomes. All of this is contingent on ...

As I neared the go-no-go point outside of Truro, Nova Scotia, where I needed to decide “ferry or bridge,” I placed a call to the ferry booking line to check on load status of the 1:30 p.m. from ...

I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations ...

L. and I headed to the Annapolis Valley today to drop her at a week-long overnight camp (Lisa is in Montreal, on assignment). Every time I go to the Valley I am reminded how very far away it is. You ...

I’ve been trying to cultivate a different attitude about summer of late, more “be present, and enjoy the summer” than “ACT QUICKLY!” Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Lisa marks her birthday ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this ...

Ten years ago I installed an Ikea Digniet wire in our dining room to provide a place to “hang my collection of ephemera.” When we got the dining room painted a few years ago, it got taken down, the ...

Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to ...

In 2014, I stopped maintaining my own physical server—an actual computer that I actually owned, and could go and visit upstairs. At the time I wrote: At the same time as I made this switch, for the ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...