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Another Fridaycast, as is becoming our custom. Isabelle ahs a student intern working with her, which is pretty great. Both parties are getting something out of it, which is how such things shoudl work. I am marking. I am literally marking right now, just waiting for a file to load. We got a new tentative agreement, let’s see if it is accepted. (Probably wil be). Did I mention that I am marking? There’s like no snow. but everything is fine….

Now that’s a title. Friday again. It’s weirdly warm, but no, it’s fine… We stopped off at Isabelle’s studio, you’ll hear some of that. Something good happened at work, can’t tell you what it is yet. Term is getting more easy to deal with. The city is trying to do some good things for Francophones, which is good.

Friday shopping? Again?! Well let’s see if I get this posted before Saturday. Work has been, interesting, let’s go with that. Isabelle has, as usual, a metric tonne of art stuff going on. Today will be super busy. There is a car parked in a field. By itself. Without any tire tracks. It’s -20.

I’m extremely proud of this title. Isabelle has sent her artwork to Sudbury to be shown, and it made it. Isabelle makes plastic. Seriously. Hopefully next week will be less hectic at work. I ran into my friend Brandon. There was nobody at the grocery store, we were supposed to have a big storm, hasn’t happened. I’ve added more stuff to my Plex servicer.

Back to Saturday. We had a freezing drizzle warning over night, so there was a lot of ice to scrape off of the car. The term starts Monday, I’m pretty much ready. Isabelle as usual has a lot of cool stuff on the go. Jon is also ready for the term. The Fringe is a big world wide thing.

Another Friday one, back to the regular schedule next week. Not super busy. It’s sunny and below freezing. It has been warm. We have no snow. We’ve been watching Twin Peaks. It holds up.

Hey it’s our last one before Christmas! It was, as you can see in the accompanying pic, not great. It wasn’t that bad either though. It’s unseasonably warm, and it is supposed to rain on Christmas. We’ve had the odd brown Christmas before. From us to you, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

Weird week, heavy snow, then melting. It’s getting closer to Christmas! I bought the Meli Melo stuff. Isabelle is watching NYPD Blue. Lots of stuff changes throughout the show. She’s also making ink. I have a few things to do before taking a break. Cashed in my PC points this week.

So that was a fun week. On Saturday I found out I had COVID. Well, I’m all up to date on my vaccines etc so I was ok, though a couple of the days were very unpleasant. That said, I’m good now,, but boy did shopping tire me out. Isabelle always has stuff on the go. I got our turkey. Nice day today. Isabelle is looking for new traditions.

It’s Canadian National Day of Podcasting. An ‘even’t dreamed up by some people or something. Anyway, it is a time when you can hear, on Dec 1, a bunch of great indie podcasts. And this one… Oh we’re a day early, hopefully this will. not mess up Rob Lee’s schedule… I’ll be involved in six shows today, which is. one. shy of my record. Isabelle is making cool ornaments, you can hear about them in the episode, and, see one in the accompanying picture. THE TERM IS NEARLY OVER! As. such, it would be nice if the. printers at work, you know, worked. As usual, there’s a lot. of. art stuff coming from Isa.

This episode has nothing to do with puppets, but it’s a good title. We’re off to a thing tonight, so we needed wine, hence the LCBO stop. Isabelle is building a thing out of giant Mecano. The term is almost over. The. Alouettes won the Grey Cup. There is less of a connection with sports heroes than there used to be.

Se today it is a short one. Isabelle had a thing in the morning, so I took the bus to the store and Isabelle picked me up. The thing was an open house at her studio and others. I’ve got a lot coming up this week, tests and essays to mark. I thought I was going to miss my bus, but then I didn’t. Oh this was recorded Saturday, but released on Sunday.

It’s November. It’s not super nasty out, so any decent day is a win. Isabelle has been super busy arting. I’m in that sort of calm before the storm part of the term. Isabelle managed to buy clothes at the store in the time between me getting to the checkout and paying. It was impressive. We might be buying a fake Christmas tree, which will end our Christmas tree episodes….

We had a big trip this week. Not to bury the lede, but there are now two Dr.s Brodbeck in the family. Our drive was eventful. On the way home we ate Chinese food in a gas station parking lot. We’re very proud of Maddie. We’re very proud of Jon too, he was great at home giving out candy and all of that. As usual Isabelle has art stuff coming up and I have teaching stuff.

Is that the title of a Star Trek Episode? I know there’s a Tomorrow is Yesterday and All our Yesterdays. The title refers to the fact that we recorded this on Friday, but I’m putting it out on Saturday. I’m writing this on Saturday, but we recoded this yesterday, so I can’t remember everything we talked about. I know we talked about a couple of tragedies that have happened recently. We also talked about Maddie’s upcoming PhD defence. Friday shopping, might be ok. Oh you might hear a little Jon in the background

Let’s start off by saying that Isabelle got a big award this week! You can hear her acceptance speech in this episode. It was nice that people from the U, including the president, were there. It’s hard being a one person anything. A little cool today.

Nice day today, 8C, clear, though windy. Isabelle’s hair makes punctuation. Isabelle got some arm warmers which, I didn’t know were a thing. Not too busy today, I guess everyone was burnt out from thanksgiving or something.. We had friends over! Oh and some really bad stuff happened to our neighbours. We’re thinking of them.

Maybe this should have been last week’s title. Also, this is likely the earliest in an episode where we have come up with a title. OK, the heat wave is over, it is 9 degrees out. Also it is grey. I think I may take my bike in. Isabelle didn’t get a grant, ahh well, can’t win ‘em all, but it’s nice if you can. It’s the break week!

Relatively quiet week. It’s still sorta warm, it’s weird. Rainy though a bit. There’s a test in one of my classes next week. Jon is still doing great in my class. We went to a dinner, it was fun, until the line dancing started. Event planning is not a one person job.

Not too nice today. Damn the weather has been odd. It’s getting to the end of the term, and it cannot come quickly enough. Isabelle did a thing with the OAC recently. An important thing. The store was pretty busy, even though we went early because tomorrow is Easter. Yesterday was Good Friday, today is fair to middling Saturday.