Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “personal”
40th Anniversary
No not mine. Gateway Centre for Learning in Midland has been ‘putting the unity in community’ for an amazing 40 years.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on May 25, 2022
Not Missing; Just Busy, Tired, and Recovering
In case you have been wondering why I have posted so little of late, “I Have Been Up To Tech”, volunteering, catching a cold (but not Covid), sleeping a lot, and hopefully recovering. I have learned that it is a good thing I didn’t jump into full time work (or even inflexible or on-call part-time work) as I would have washed out pretty quickly. That is despite how much I have achieved in this time.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 19, 2022
Job Search Hesitancy
With the relaxation of Covid-related restrictions there are many people asking the question “I want to work, but do I want a job?”. This is generally not in the sense of wanting to become self-employed but hesitancy about returning to what has been a largely unhealthy workplace culture. In many ways going to work has felt like we’ve gotten spam instead of the ham we were promised.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 9, 2022
Surviving Death Warmed Over
No offence meant to the bean dish in the cover photo, but it reminds me of the results of an awful bout of food-borne illness I recently experienced.
By on December 12, 2021
The Lost cshore@thecshore.com
The email address cshore@thecshore.com no longer exists, but I’m still here. If you want to contact me, use the form.
By on October 28, 2021
Single is Great Except Biology Hates Me
I’ve been single most of my life except for a brief disastrous marriage and am currently single and happy except that biology hates me.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on September 25, 2021
And We All Get Together
Of course, I’m talking about collaborating virtually on the design of a website theme, not a gathering of the vaccinated (nor the foolish tantrum rallies of Covid-deniers).
By Daniel F. Dickinson on August 10, 2021
A Design Less Funky
If you’ve been here before, you have probably noticed that I’ve switched to a less off-the-wall design.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on July 27, 2021
Counting Myself In
Now that I am feeling better, I have taken steps to ‘count myself in’ at the Midland Public Library MakerPlace rather than being stuck on the idea that I have included myself out. I have volunteered to do a couple of (short) presentations in August on topics that are more ’techie’ (including one that will make use of an A.I. project I did many years ago, while in university, along with other notes I am digging out from various A.I. courses of that era). I am also hopeful that once the physical space is open to the public again, that this will help the new MakerPlace Coordinator have more opportunities for tech talk.
By on July 19, 2021
A Small Fix in Silence
At the reminder of a friend I added the date of the posts to the post listing, and some personal notes.
By on June 11, 2021
It's Back
The C Shore website has risen again!
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 22, 2021
The Site Is Dead, Long Live The Site
I’ve begun the process of killing off all my WordPress sites and replacing them with sites built using Hugo.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 21, 2021
A Little Aqua
I think the ‘silly little’ style I created for more pleasant testing of a debug theme for Hugo turned out being a not bad aqua/blue theme.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on April 2, 2021
Through a Glass, Brightly
So, a little amateur photography of the icebreaker ‘Griffon’ through the window in my room
By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 9, 2021
Not Down for the Count
Well it seems I was down but not out. I’m getting back up and getting ready to continue the round. I’m stubborn that way…
By Daniel F. Dickinson on March 7, 2021
Poor Man's Pancakes
Many, even in my own country of Canada might think that homemade pancakes every morning would be a dream come true…
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 28, 2021
Person Imperfect
A poem and comments on being imperfect and managing feelings about that.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 21, 2021
My Bowels, Like Water
A poem and discussion of the problem of lactose intolerance and lack of ingredients lists with online grocery shopping.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on February 3, 2021
Computer Art
Hah! I bet you were expecting me to have to be posting about computer-generated art, not art I’ve created with a computer as the subject!
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 15, 2021
Covid Cut - Day 1
The day I cut my own hair out of ‘covid desperation’
By Daniel F. Dickinson on December 23, 2020
Covid Cut - Day 14
The fourteenth day since I cut my own hair due to Covid restrictions and the hair being way too long.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 6, 2021
Personal(ity) Minority
More interesting to me is that only 3-5 percent match the INTP personality, explaining why I feel like ’the odd one out’ in local gatherings.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on January 22, 2021
Why This Blog Doesn't Cover Family
I don’t generally like discussing personal details of other people’s lives in a public forum.
By Daniel F. Dickinson on December 22, 2020