I delivered soup to a neighbour while another neighbour invited me over to use their internet for a Zoom call while another neighbour came by for some rapid tests while another neighbour dropped off an extra pawpaw tree for me to plant. This is community. I am living my dream. ❤️

In the 19th century, we built sewers and delivered clean drinking water. From the 1970’s, we dramatically reduced air pollution by regulating industrial and vehicle emissions with big benefits to health. Now it’s time to clean up indoor air to improve health and cognition. 1/2

Day 4 of no internet while TekSavvy Assistance and Rogers leave us hanging. Ironically, husband texted to ask if I'd switched to Bell because a Bell technician showed up at our door this morning. He was just on the wrong street, but maybe we should have let him hook us up.

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It's a glorious morning for the first day of fall forest school. Who needs internet when you can learn with your friends in the wilderness?! #BackToSchool #SafeSeptember #PandemicHomeschool #wildhood

Now TekSavvy Assistance is sending me info about FREE BRAVO CHANNEL PREVIEW. Um, how am I supposed to watch that, huh? Until you fix our internet, we have no internet, no TV, no gaming, no music streaming. This is bananas. Stop trolling me. I'm busy being miserable.

Please don’t drink and drive. Thinking today of Daniel, Harry and Milly Neville-Lake, their grandfather Gary, and their dad Ed. Say their names. #notonemore youtu.be/v42J-mz0hPo

First day of online financial literacy class, and we are zooming in from a neighbour's front porch so we can use their wifi 🫠 Day 5 without home internet. Hoping TekSavvy Assistance can get us reconnected sooner rather than later.

For those in the area, it's our wonderful neighbourhood garage sale day tomorrow!! Come buy some cool stuff from lovely people in Paris ON!

Thank you, TekSavvy Assistance, for shipping ANOTHER modem to us overnight, so we didn't have to wait until Tuesday after all. After 5 days, we finally have internet back and can look forward to catching up on work over the weekend 😐

And.... it's out again 😭 I had better internet connectivity 25 years ago, in Nairobi 😭

New modem arrived. Got it sorted & set up. Internet restored. For like five minutes. Now I'm chatting with tech support. They vastly overestimate my skill level in this area 😅 I have spent the week plugging & unplugging power cord & coaxial cable. This is above my pay grade. 🤣

Culture Days in Brant! Today, we caught a performance by the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band and had the opportunity to learn all about how they tune and play the pipes and drums. They sounded great; we sounded terrible! 😆 ParisPortDoverPB Culture Days Ontario Culture Days County of Brant

Anecdotally, there’s a lot of chatter about absenteeism and staff shortages already this school year. Even with the ongoing pandemic, there’s no need for children and education workers to be sick all the time. We can make our classrooms safer. Spoiler alert: The data is clear,

Day 6 without internet at home. Kiddo has been demoted to a lower league on Duolingo after working so hard all year — because he can't work on his French without internet access. Meanwhile, TekSavvy Assistance and RogersHelps continue to tell me it's the other's job to solve it. 😡