There always seems to be a day off before these school breaks. The day before that is a day that nothing gets done, the ones before that focus on what you are going to do when school is closed. I will work - by comparison of significant degree - and work I will. Not with a shovel but with a keyboard. I used to like working with a shovel but dreamed of the day I could work with a keyboard.

• I want one.
• Starlings realize that they are starlings and do the right thing.
• Not good enough for even the Jays, why is Millar a story?
• I could click through these photos of 1960s Nova Scotia for hours. And I have. Ben's bread. Boxy mid-sized business buildings. Neato.
• "...ruining people is considered sport..."
• The new Federal Civil Service intranet: "...have directly forbidden their employees to share information or work on the platform..." Fear Me. Fear. Me.
• "Two plants for a civil servant’s office cost nearly $2,000" - get your own damn plants.
• Failing to fall on one's sword sometimes not so good.

The bell tolls. Labours must begin. Off to tall buildings again.