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The first day of spring, 2025 edition

It’s the first day of spring!

The weather is a bit cool, with clouds and a little sun occasionally poking through. It will probably shower at some point. Such is March. (Edit: It started raining before I finished making this post.)

But I went for a walk and touched trees. Here are a few photos.

Greenery starting to get green on the river.
The world’s smallest beach booby trap (with my foot for scale).
Fresh wood chips at Hume Park
River with bonus guy fishing. Or maybe just standing there.

The last day of winter, 2025 edition

It’s around 10°C, which is seasonal, and we’re getting intermittent light showers, which is also pretty normal for mid-March.

Winter 24/25 was a bit odd, weather-wise. We got very little genuinely cold weather and the only snow, which spanned a few days, didn’t happen until early February. Late fall and early winter were more notable for a repeated number of storms blowing through, then not much after for the rest of the season.

It was like winter could never commit to itself.

I’m okay with that, because winter ranks last in my pick of seasons. Ice belongs in the freezer, not on the sidewalk, where it can meet with my butt when I slip on it. We are now one day away from my second favourite season of the year, spring!

Unlike winter, where it’s cooler and wetter throughout, spring gets a little weird, but more on that later–maybe tomorrow!

Here’s the Brunette River yesterday, nearly the end of winter:

The slow return of greenery. It’s like going from Quake to, uh, a game with colour.

“Creep” has 1,143,126,864 views and 202,075 comments

At the time of writing this post, of course. Presumably, both numbers will continue to go up.

I saw a mention of the song on the interweb, so checked out the video again. The video is fine–I like the colour and lighting, and Thom Yorke looks appropriately weird. The song is one of those quiet-LOUD-quiet numbers that is predictable, but extremely well-executed. I can see why it has so many views.

But 202,075 comments. An average novel is around 80,000-100,000 words. Even if every comment was a single word, that’s more than double the word count of an average novel. That is a lot of words.

It makes me wonder how long it would take to read every comment. It makes me wonder if anyone has tried. And what they felt when they were done, assuming they were still conscious.

Also, here is the video in question:

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Somehow this tooltip for…something…got stuck on my desktop. I actually restarted Windows Explorer hoping it would clear it and it did not. It now taunts me.

I’m hoping that by sharing it will somehow go away. Or I could just reboot and use Linux Mint for a while, where this probably won’t happen.

Anyway, that’s my Monday, although technically it’s Tuesday.

On Daylight Saving Time (2025 edition)

All I’ll say is the one-hour switch is not a huge thing for me to deal with. It’s only 60 minutes!

But, it would be nice if the BC government simply made it permanent instead of waiting for the now erratic, unreliable, ignorant, racist and untenable US government to take action first.

Things I didn’t really plan on in 2025

  • Visiting and bookmarking this website: https://madeinca.ca/
  • Discovering Steve Boots, a funny, amiable socialist and teacher who does Canadian political analysis on YouTube.
  • Entertaining the possibility that we might actually dodge electing a Conservative government in this year’s federal election

This has been an unplanned somewhat political post, thanks to tariffs and other actions and comments from some increasingly senile old white guy who wears a lot of orange makeup because he is a clown, and we are all part of the circus now.

To compensate, I give you this acrobatic cat:

The nice thing about trees

Trees don’t make you feel anxious or full of existential dread.

I mean, unless it’s stormy and one looks like it’s going to fall on you, which has admittedly happened to me.

But in general, trees don’t do that and I like that about them.

THIS POST IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO CURRENT WORLD EVENTS1Haha, naw. It’s totally related to it. But I am actually doing fine, here with my trees and nature and such..