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Ontario road trip license plate scorecard: final score after trip back home from London, ON to Charlottetown, PE:

BC ✅
AB ✅
SK
MB ✅
ON ✅
QC ✅
NB ✅
PE ✔️
NS ✔️
NF ✅
Bonus! NT ✔️ (cc @ink_slinger)

Literally didn't see another PEI plate other than my own until I was driving back on the only road to the only bridge to the island.

Ontario road trip license plate scorecard after a week driving around southwestern Ontario:

BC ✔️
AB ✅
SK
MB ✅
ON ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
QC ✅
NB ✅
PE
NS
NF ✅

Starting the drive home today, maybe I'll spot the other three, considering I'm driving to one of them and within a few miles of another.

If you haven't troubleshot (troubleshooted? troubleshat?) a possibly dead 220VAC outlet via encrypted SMS from 1,600km away, you haven't lived my friend

Ontario road trip license plate scorecard, after leg 2: London to Toronto

BC
AB ✅
SK
MB ✔️
ON ✅
QC ✅
NB ✅
PE
NS
NF ✅

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Interesting that I have not seen another PEI plate since crossing the bridge. Maybe New Brunswick should be thinking about how that $50 toll affects their own tourism.

Guitarists of Mastodon! I'm thinking about adding to my small pedal collection. I have a couple of distortion/overdrive pedals and a chorus. What should be my next addition? I'm thinking a delay of some sort but I've had bad luck with them.

Ontario road trip license plate scorecard: Canadian plates seen outside their province of origin, not counting my own.

After leg 1: Chaottetown, PE to London, ON

BC
AB ✔️
SK
MB
ON ✔️
QC ✔️
NB ✔️
PE
NS
NF ✔️

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Remember when Animaniacs redid West Side Story but with pigeons? That's what my back yard looks like right now

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FYI:

“In case anyone is wondering, you would have to move towards the access point at roughly 621.5 kilometers per second in order to doppler-shift Wi-Fi channel 1 into channel 2.”

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Office washroom faucet makes a noise that sounds like the fire alarm

Good way to condition employees to wash their hands

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Hey everyone remember to use content warnings for royal wedding stuff today for people like me who PVRd the ceremony NO SPOILERS PLEASE don't give away the ending kplzthx

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If I could convince Mastodon at large of only one thing, it would be this:

if you see someone complaining, DO NOT give them advice.

If someone ASKS for advice, offer it.

But 90% of the time, someone complaining is just venting. They're not telling you the whole story, and they're not receptive to being given advice, because in that mental state, your "good-natured advice" is their "HERE'S HOW YOU'RE DOING THIS WRONG".

Do not respond with advice unless it's asked for.