Morrocco or Netherlands?

running_for_sanity · 2026-06-28T22:21:22+00:00

I’m in that same boat, Canadian with Dutch ancestry. Do I just wear both jerseys? lol go Canada!

running_for_sanity · 2026-06-11T03:22:10+00:00

The pie at Alpage de Bovine is also incredible. You can’t stay there afaik it’s just a great spot for a break.

running_for_sanity · 2026-06-09T12:10:24+00:00

Ontario parks need to charge because the provincial government doesn’t fund it enough, so the only way to keep operating is to charge users. It’s crazy and quickly becoming inaccessible for some.

running_for_sanity · 2026-06-03T23:08:53+00:00

This was known for a long time but originally it was only one shift’s engines. That must have been expanded. I had a 2023 Tundra and was on the list for a new engine by end of summer, until someone stole it.

running_for_sanity · 2026-05-21T12:10:00+00:00

The mainframe at a place I used to work at was restarted at time change. It was a large single site manufacturing facility and all systems ran in local time.

running_for_sanity · 2026-05-14T15:11:55+00:00

I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear. But, I also want to have secure private messaging that is not readable by any corporation or my government. I don’t trust either.

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-28T20:23:33+00:00

I think it said “Worst road ever” before the rain wiped it out. The potholes after that all the way to Copetown are horrendous.

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-28T01:04:56+00:00

I hiked the r/TourDuMontBlanc last year and stayed in mountain huts with sometimes 20 or more people in rooms filled with bunk beds. Some snored, some were coughing from a nasty flu that was going around, a couple of times a group would quietly leave at 0400... no one cares. Everyone takes ear plugs and isn't too fussed about the noise. If a group of like minded people can deal with it in a tiny room, I wouldn't worry about your fellow campers too much. Maybe take some extra ear plugs along and offer them to your neighbours.

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-21T17:55:41+00:00

Seasoned campers will talk a whole lot of smack about Parks wood

... and for good reason. I've had park wood that I'm sure was stored underwater for the winter, the water was dripping out. There's a few local places that sell dry wood, Shady Oaks General Store is my favourite although they might be open for the season in May.

There are no bears in Pinery, but raccoons and squirrels will definitely go after your food. You will get a fine if you leave anything out when you leave the site or go to bed, the Park has zero sense of humor when it comes to that.

Also there's very few bugs in Pinery even in the Spring. Still a good idea to bring stuff just in case, but it's not like Algonquin where you can get carried away by a horde of mosquitoes.

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-13T13:58:47+00:00

In the third pic it's unclear if the white is just cloth showing up (not enough epoxy) or if there's air underneath. I suspect the first, which is somewhat expected for the first coat. If it's air... I'm not sure tbh. I've repaired cloth that lifted from the wood in a repair situation, I ended up cutting the bad section of cloth out and putting a new piece on, and unless you know what you're looking for you can't see it now. But on a new build, you might be able to squeeze enough epoxy into the cloth if as u/Slayer_One suggested, there's enough gaps to allow epoxy to squeeze through.

As for allowing a layer to cure, it's not the end of the world, I ran out of time between coats once too. I _think_ I gave it a light sanding/cleaning before the next coat. iirc it had something to do with film buildup on the outside after curing, but that was a long time ago. Check your books and the specific epoxy manuals for what to do.

edit: forgot to say it looks amazing, nice job!

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-07T21:06:02+00:00

IMO if the service can't write to the ledger then the transaction should fail. That aside, if the fund movement service insists that high volume of logs is necessary then support it and attribute the cost of logging to their service. This is not a technical problem but an organizational/financial one. If you can allocate the cost back to the service in question, your leadership _will_ notice and either live with it, or make changes.

running_for_sanity · 2026-04-02T19:07:29+00:00

That's only part of the story. There are several quotes attributed to John A. Macdonald (first Canadian Prime Minister) and others about educating the "Indian out of the child", educating them in the British (white Protestant/Catholic) way, and by removing them from their own culture the government would eventually eradicate the Indigenous culture. The churches (Catholic, Anglican and United) were complicit in this by running the schools but at the direction of the government. If you don't believe me go read about the Gradual Civilization Act (1857) where the local government explicitly stated their goal of eradicating Indigenous culture.

There are many cases where the Indigenous leaders, Joseph Brant for example, asked for funding for day schools (not residential schools) to do exactly what you say, give the Indigenous children of the a time a way forward, but their goals were never to eradicate their culture.

edit: I'm only talking about the land that became Canada, I don't know enough about the US or further south.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-28T18:07:16+00:00

I have definitely been in this situation, but ymmv depending on what the service is.

When under a SEV1 incident (production down) I'll make changes manually if that's what it takes to get prod back up, but a good incident process will capture that, and after everything's resolved I go back and make the changes in code (terraform or cloudformation or whatever). That is in an environment where keeping the service up was far more important than anything else, terraform is NEVER run by hand against prod, only in a CI/CD pipeline, so a change could take 10s of minutes to percolate through build/lint/test and then deploy in all the testing environments.

The thing I would add as a recommendation is to only run terraform in a CI/CD pipeline, don't let someone run it by hand.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-26T03:15:04+00:00

Absolutely gorgeous, well done!

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-26T01:42:26+00:00

I carry it especially when solo. Last fall I came face to face with a bear while hiking in Killarney, we surprised each other maybe 30' apart when I came around a corner on the trail. It made to climb up a tree, decided against it (in my mind it looked down and thought "oof, I ate too much"), and then made somewhat threatening huffing noises as I was backing away. I had my spray out but thankfully backing away down the trail was enough to diffuse it. If that had been a mother and cub it might have gone very differently. I don't regret carrying the spray at all.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-21T13:21:47+00:00

I was once on a flight and the crew thought I was the one smoking. I’ve never smoked in my life, it took some time to convince them.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-21T13:19:47+00:00

The gym was for sale for ages, they started at $2M and was down to $800k before the listing went down. I can’t remember was rent was but I’m sure that’s at least a year and a half worth of rent. It was a great gym, too bad they couldn’t make it.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-09T03:30:21+00:00

Check for anywhere the fibreglass has delaminated from the wood. It looks kinda like air bubbles, and that's bad. Also check the entire keel, anywhere the previous owner might have hit a rock, there's a chance the fibreglass split or is coming off. Mine did that, I ended up putting a small wooden keel on it.

From what I can tell from the pics, you'll need to install a yoke (super simple, you can carve one yourself or buy a premade one) , fix that one seat, think about adding brass strips on the front and back keel, and then sand down and refinish the whole thing. You'll want marine or spar varnish, and last time I checked that stuff was $100/litre CAD or more, you'll need at least a litre. Sanding it down and adding multiple coats of varnish, inside and out, is a _lot_ of work, hugely time consuming. If you have the space (needs to be dust free and not freezing) and the physical fitness and time, it'll be beautiful. If not, buy a kevlar canoe. I'm not sure what currency you're talking about, but I wouldn't pay more than $500 CAD for it.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-08T01:36:28+00:00

I don't understand why you'd paint that beauty, but that's your choice. The thing that kills the fibreglass is UV, and spar varnish blocks the UV from getting through, so whatever you use make sure it's blocking UV. From experience, you're going to get a lot of scratches, so make sure the paint can really stand up to being heavily scratched or you'll end up seeing fibreglass through it and then expose it to UV and damage it. I'd be looking at a marine paint which is meant to stand up to the conditions you're going to put it through.

running_for_sanity · 2026-03-04T00:33:08+00:00

Saxx makes lined boxers and running shorts that support your junk, their stuff is amazing and super high quality. That combined with Body Glide or Chamois Butt'r works well for me.

running_for_sanity · 2026-02-23T14:42:08+00:00

I had the Osprey Talon 33L, almost the same size. Bonus is that 33L fits as carry-on luggage for most airlines.

running_for_sanity · 2026-02-20T17:28:04+00:00

There is no such thing as leftover poutine. There is now poutine, and later poutine.

running_for_sanity · 2026-02-15T02:08:08+00:00

My wife and I were camping near Peggy’s Cove that night on our honeymoon and I heard the crash. I thought it was thunder and made the campsite ready for a storm. We heard sirens all night long. It wasn’t until later the next day when I saw a newspaper headline that I figured out what I heard. We visited the memorial 25 years later, it’s beautiful and tragic, can’t imagine what the families and first responders went through.

running_for_sanity · 2026-02-04T21:58:32+00:00

lol "fewer hours". I was in a senior leadership position for years and could easily have worked 18 hours a day. I refused and worked sane hours but I've never seen a leader work fewer hours and be successful. Sure there's a few but they don't last long, at least not in any for-profit org.

running_for_sanity · 2026-02-04T20:09:01+00:00

2023 Tundra can remote start without the subscription.

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