Hey #ottawa and #ottbike tomorrow at 10;30 AM there’s a cargo bike show and tell behind the Hopewell Avenue Public School off of Bank Street close by the Mayfair theater. If your cargo bike curious, wanna get rid of one of your cars or cars all together, it’s a prime chance to test ride a bike. There are zero shops in #ottawa like Curbside or London Bike Cafe that have a range of models for you to test before you buy #biketooter
@Mr_GHARice Historically, that's what I've been able to do at Fosters for years (just never at beginning of season, as that's not fair to them). Easily 3/4 of the time, they’d do the work right on the spot. Kinda sucks that I have to find a new place. I don't like new things very much.
@WTL
Here you have to wait at least 2 weeks in the season up to 2 Months. With 3 kids using their bike riding to school I meanwhile do everything myself and equipped like bike shop. 😉
I’m really proud of my restraint commenting on #ottawa Reddit but my fucking god these “I’m a cyclist and all you other cyclists are breaking the law and therefore all the mad drivers are justified in wanting to kill us” posts are going to be the end of me. Goddamn these in particular make me so ragey. Yes, fine, be kind to people also not driving but I do not care what you do to make yourself safer. Period. Fuck the rules made for people driving #onpoli#ottbike#biketooter
Reminder that the city of #ottawa likes to unilaterally decide when summer starts and ends. Has Britannia Beach been packed for weeks already? Did a 9-yr old just die? Yes. Will this change the city’s approach to funding how the city operates in an era where it’s much warmer for longer? No probably not. The speakers mentioning no lifeguards are on duty are like speed signs. Meh, that’s enough #ontario#onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/britannia-beach-dead-child-june-2024-1.7222570
Biked by Britannia Beach today with 2 fire trucks, 5 cop cars and 3 paramedic vehicles all lights and sirens blaring. Apparently a neighbourhood kid is in critical condition after presumably being found unresponsive in the water. Fuck I hate this. It’s so common and yet so easy to avoid and I’ll stake my claim that the beach is one area where phones should just be banned. It takes no time for shit like this to happen with aspirated water in the lungs #ottawa#drowning#kids
This isn’t a shit on other parents / holier than thou from me. I’ve sat at the beach. I’ve watched others for a long time at the beach. And I’ve used my phone while sitting at the beach, though our kid doesn’t swim there. 30 secs isn’t that long. What’s 45 seconds right? It’s like driving and using a cellphone. I’ve done it and now I don’t. Ever. Driving or at a beach with the kid. Shit happens so fast #ottawa#kids#drowning
Nothing radicalized me more than living without a car. I firmly believe it’s a literal and metaphorical vehicle for the future. It opens you up to your community. It can make you feel joy when there are many days right now where it’s conflicting to feel joy.
I think more people should become radicalized. Life is a lot different, a lot better, change is scary and every fucking minute of it is worth it #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#worldbikeday
My fav new weekend activity is getting the 1 1/2 hr bus ride to CHEO on a Sunday only to have to wait for hours and hours, esp on nice outside Sundays. It’s great, totally fine, love this so much #ottawa#kids
PSA: (and a question). #ottawa and #ontario pulled two ticks off the kid after a hike in Gatineau park. And you NEED to check all of the little ones, especially parts of genitalia you can’t just visibly check. Both of these dots are ticks but unsure what kind. Does anyone know if there is a drop off location to get these tested? Lymes disease is shit and the risk increases a LOT after 24-36 hrs attached #kids#ticks
Long pants and long sleeve shirts are de rigueur for any hike in ‘wild-ish’ areas of eastern Ontario and western Quebec now because of ticks and Lyme disease.
Recommendation is to tuck one’s pant leg into socks. That is a level of dorkiness I am not ready to descend to.
BTW, the prophylactic antibiotic for Lyme is available without prescription in Quebec pharmacies. It’s a bit nasty.
Oh, and there is a vaccine for Lyme. It is not manufactured because of anti-vaxxers!
@Hansonthebike That's a very busy crossing some times. I don't actually know what the solution for improved flow there would be that would be heritage-approvable. 🤔
@johnefrancis Bee keeping is great! MrsD and I used to do it in Yorkshire. Unfortunately MrsD is now highly allergic to bee stings. Don't let the girls get you, just in case!
Hey #ottawa OC Transpo announced this morning that you can now pay for #publictransit with an Interac Debit Card. This is in addition to being able to pay with a credit card or mobile pay on any bus or LRT station #ontario#onpoli
#Ottawa folks, if you are getting paving done, avoid Black Tar.
Paving is not rocket science, and I'm sure it works out for a lot of customers. But if you have the misfortune to get one of their incompetent crews, you will get:
• 1/4” of asphalt instead of the contracted 2.5”
• A driveway that starts falling apart (see previous point) in less than a year
• The company suggesting it’s your fault for driving on the surface too early (we didn’t), or spilling oil/gasoline (from my electric car?)
• The company management offering superficial treatment (cheap for them) instead of the needed replacement or refund (not cheap, so they ignore the suggestion completely)
• Endless bromides regarding their (non-existent) high ideals regarding customer service
Please don't reply with suggestions for further action. Assume we've pursued them.
Just don't give these jerks your money.
Just so I’m very clear - The “not rocket science” remark was meant as a sarcastic comment towards Black Tar trying to gaslight us into thinking there was something complicated involved with the installation, as opposed to incompetent and shoddy work. I appreciate the trades in general, and there actually is some interesting science involved in asphalt.
I wasn’t unduly pressured to post this disclaimer 😄
@human3500 In our conversations with other pavers as we tried to get a handle on what action to take, we heard a lot of disparaging remarks about how BT runs their business. Some of these folks are former employees/contractors.
My rain gauge, a PALE (Plastic Accumulator of Liquid Evidence) shows we've had about 40 mm of rain so far today in #Ottawa. One storm is yet to arrive but should shortly.
It’s the kids birthday this week, it’s almost June and we’re all sick again. The kid’s had the “cough at night that doesn’t go away” for weeks and my throat and lungs hurt as they haven’t in a long time. Tests are negative for days and fuck I hate kindergarten sometimes. We haven’t changed a lot of our behaviors but the amount of kids hacking away at his school the past few weeks is sad frankly #ottawa#kids#covid
