Lifestyle: west coast winter?
Self-tutoring about winter living on the west coast: the tutor reflects… When I arrived in Victoria in December ’86, we didn’t have winter – just rain. I think in ’89 we had a cold snap, but in general, down in …
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Self-tutoring about winter living on the west coast: the tutor reflects… When I arrived in Victoria in December ’86, we didn’t have winter – just rain. I think in ’89 we had a cold snap, but in general, down in …
Self-tutoring about children’s books: the tutor mentions one he recently read. I’ve been working on my French lately, so have read a couple of pre-teen level French books over the break. I just finished À la Semaine Prochaine!, by Jacqueline …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions snowmobile boots. When I lived on the base in PEI, grades one to four, the kids there often had the same stuff. It makes sense, of course, that people …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor makes a couple of mouse observations. I notice that the mouse I use doesn’t seem to work on glossy surfaces, so have wondered why not. The first thing I’ve learned is that, if …
Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a connection between it and English. Shoveling the driveway one of numerous times recently, I came to wonder what “driveway” is in French. Curiously, I can’t remember it from the French I learned through …
Self-tutoring about cooking: the tutor reflects on baking sheets. We have numerous different baking sheets. Some have special coatings, some have specific designs, etc. Two are stainless steel, from the 70s or 80s, that have nothing fancy about them: they’re …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor shares a Christmas Eve story. There was a time before I had kids when life was unstructured. When I wasn’t working or working on an assignment, the day was open. …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions a change in an environment he noticed. Years ago I knew someone who seemed like a smoker. However, when you got to know him, you realized he definitely wasn’t. …
Self-tutoring about engineering: the tutor mentions the idea of sacrificial material. When you know there will be wear at a junction, replacement is inevitable. The wisdom proceeds that you can purposely make one side of the junction more prone to …
Self-tutoring about health and dieting: the tutor explores short-term fasting. My impression is that, for a healthy adult (finished growing) who tends to gain fat, it’s best to minimize, per day, the hours the body spends under the influence of …