Mixed blessings

The good news is that I'm feeling well enough to hit the office nice and early. The bad news is that I'm missing these.

Claimed

My daughter finally got a new desk/shelf combo.

The cats have claimed it.

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A Mystery

This morning, I found this on our van.

It wasn't there yesterday - at least not when I parked my van, after getting it washed, in the late afternoon.

The scrape is a fair bit deeper on the bumper, but this is the part that perplexes me...

Yes, the scrape continues right at the top, too.  This confuses me, because the corner of the van is not a straight line.  Where it's scraped here is part of an inward curve.  That means whatever hit us had to have somehow... tilted?  Bent? Had sides that curved outwards at the top? 

So whatever hit our van had to have been at least as tall as the van itself, and white.  It also had to have happened either yesterday evening, or last night.

Most likely scenario; a box truck tried to turn around in our neighbour's parking spot.  We are the very first parking spot, and both our spot and our neighbour's are awkward to get into because of how we are oriented with the building.  Plus, we have a longer vehicle and stick out a fair bit, unable to go farther forward because of unusually high curbs. 

Will have to pay a visit to our office and see what the security cameras picked up.

*sigh*

Sweet

Suddenly, two athletic young men were on our balcony, removing the snow piles from our roof being cleared.  They had to clamber up a ladder and over the rail, then struggle with the frozen lock on our fire escape ( there's a trick to it), before doing an awesome job of clearing the balcony. 

I wonder if they have to do some of the third floor balconies.  Ours is clear, but I don't think they all are.

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Nope

Not going to be able to shovel the balcony this time. That door swings out.

Unfortunately, the balcony can't be accessed through the fire escape, either.  Someone's going to have to use a ladder and climb over the rail.

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I don't think...

...I will be going in that direction.

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Santa was good to me

So I've been going through a few "difficulties" with my back of late. While things are relatively manageable right now, it's been a source of concern for a while now. A chance conversation with my daughter months and months ago ended with a surprise present this Christmas. This picture is from my Z10, and while not bad it truly doesn't do the pieces justice. I'll see about possibly adding some individual shots at a higher resolution later on.  This is, however, an almost perfect representation of my current back health. Especially the relative positions of the canvases :)  What you can't really see in this grand shot is the tiny details throughout... the robots arguing over construction scaffolding in one, the spiders in the other, the hidden objects (including submarine) here and there.

I love my daughter!!