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Vincent Grovestine

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Chihuahua wrangler. // Higher-ed IT systems generalist. // Weather enthusiast. #NSwx // Grumbling into the ether. Cranky about the state of...well...*everything*. // vincent.grovestine.com

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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 13/10/2026
Dear universe: If we could fast-track an inexpensive Star Trek "hypospray" gadget for at-home medical use, I'd appreciate it! --signed, a needlephobe
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 11/10/2026
Mr Wood Frog cheating death by lawnmower. #BackyardWildlife
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 10/10/2026
Started “playing” Stray (#PS5). Was not prepared for the emotional heaviness of an orange tabby lost in a post-apocalyptic underworld. annapurnainteractive.com/games/stray
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Stray - Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive works with game creators from around the world, helping them create and release personal experiences for everyone.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 09/10/2026
Disability PSA featuring Phoebe, a CH kitty: Cerebellar hypoplasia, aka wobby cat syndrome ~ c/o Reddit r/NervySquervies www.reddit.com/r/nervysquer...
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From the nervysquervies community on Reddit: Phoebe changed the way I view disabilities 💛
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/10/2026
More heat pumps, great. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Do balcony solar systems next, please! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony...
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Ottawa to provide $2B in rebates for homeowners who install heat pumps | CBC News
The federal government is launching a $2-billion rebate program that it says will help homeowners in Canada lower their annual heating costs while reducing emissions when they install heat pumps in th...
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/10/2026
Reddit: Answering life's most important questions since 2005.
Screenshot from Reddit r/AskReddit: How do grandmas get that "grandma smell"?
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
❌ AI generated slop menus with pictures that make your food look like worms ✅ scribbles on a piece of paper saying how much the soup cost
4 panel comic:
Panel 1:
A chef with a wooden spoon talks to a brown dog (bruno). He says “I have a new business!” Bruno answers “cool!”
Panel 2: he shows his menu. He says “this is my menu”. We can’t quite read what it says yet
Panel 3: a zoom in on the menu. It has just a few lines written on it. Soup: 1. Bread: 1. Soup + Bread: 2. He kept it very simple!
Panel 4: He shows Bruno a small pencil. He says “I designed it with this”. Bruno approves and goes “nice!”
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/10/2026
Officemate and lap-warmer... A remarkable amount of snoring for such a little dog too. 🧑‍💻🐾💤 #WFH #chihuahua
Small brindle chihuahua stretched out asleep on a desk-worker's lap. The dog is wearing a grey and white striped chenille sweater, laying face-down on a brown fleece blanket.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Paw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruit
Chihuahua Comando is being trained for search-and-rescue work, and helping bring a warm connection with the public
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/10/2026
Sunny day, bit breezy... Sure, let's liven things up with a couple power dips. Thanks NSP, you never fail to impress. 🙄
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 05/10/2026
If you can subscribe online, you should be able to cancel online: Nearly twenty minutes on the phone... Upsells, discounts, promos... Augh! F*** retentions; just terminate the g-d account already. 😤
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 05/10/2026
Fleece blanket, heated magic bag, and a chihuahua on my lap...yet still cold. October has hardly started and I'm already fed up with dreary, damp fall weather.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 27/09/2026
45 minutes into the first baseboard heater swap: Electrical, no problem. Whoever did the initial rough-work, however, appears to have used "precision tools." Perhaps a hammer and a screwdriver instead of a drywall saw. And measurements in hand spans and finger widths instead of using a ruler. 🏠🔨🪛🤏⚡🤦
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 27/09/2026
This is why I play games alone... #MarioKartWorld #Switch2: What a bunch of dirty online players! 🎮🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🍄🐢💥🏁🙎
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 26/09/2026
Having a bad day? Here are some meerkats on deck chairs... www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Meerkats get their own Deckchairs
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 23/09/2026
Brief moment of "ummm... I don't think that's going to fit in the car!", so I have all but one replacement heater. The basement will have to wait until I can arrange delivery.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 23/09/2026
Today’s mystery of home ownership: What is the life expectancy of an electric baseboard heater? Searching for answers turns up anything from 15 to 30 years or, scientifically speaking, whenever it breaks. To which I ask, how does something with no moving parts “break”? 🥶🥵🏠🤷
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 22/09/2026
Folks who write documentation for a living, how the heck do you do it? My brain is wired for logic problems, not wordsmithing. I need a monkey thought translator or something. 🐵 + 💭 + 🤖 = ...Steve!
Still from the movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" where Clint (wearing a white lab coat) introduces his monkey thought translator as worn by Steve (the monkey).
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17/09/2026
AI will take over the boring work! What could go wrong?
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Mickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and Broom
Alt: Mickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and Broom
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 10/09/2026
Dunno of it's local atmospheric conditions or they've packed extra oomps in the training munitions, but Camp Aldershot goes *BOOM* this morning! My dogs are jittery wrecks. Noise being heard (and felt) from Kentville to Canning per Facebook chatter.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 09/09/2026
Neighbours have lit their wood stove. It's too soon!
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 08/09/2026
Your periodic reminder that this is the greatest mashup of all time: Lobsterdust - Stayin' Hot (Nelly vs Bee Gees) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd2T... #ListeningTo (belated) #MusicMonday
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Nelly vs. Bee Gees - Stayin' Hot (lobsterdust mashup)
YouTube video by lobsterdust
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/09/2026
When worlds collide: Sarek is Charles Ingalls’ brother. 🖖👨‍🌾 #StarTrek vs #LittleHouseOnThePrairie (s3e6)
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 07/09/2026
About 6 dozen oatmeal cookies on deck courtesy of the last of the garden zucchini. (...thank dog!) I swear, I'm not planting zucchini next year--I'm sick of the stuff. 🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒😵‍💫🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🤢
Stainless steel mixing bowl halfway full of a wet cookie dough: zucchini + oatmeal.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 06/09/2026
Having a bad day? Here's a clip of a squirrel trying to bury a nut **in** a Bernese Mountain Dog. www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Squirrel trying to hide his nut in the dog
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 04/09/2026
Dialect Map quiz making its rounds this morning, so what the heck... Unsurprisingly, northeast is where I landed. mydialect.us/quiz-standar... ~~ Now, if we could just convince the devs to extend it from US to Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, etc. for a comprehensive global comparison. 🤔
Screenshot of my results from the 60-question Dialect Map quiz with northeast and northwest/central-west states matching most closely, and southeast most dissimilar: "You talk most like someone from Vermont — about 50% of your answers match a typical resident."
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 03/09/2026
You want a piece of me? Huh, hoomin??? Squirrel of the Day for September 3, 2026 #sqrlpix
gray squirrel in defiant pose in front of trash can
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 01/09/2026
Someone got stung by a yellowjacket and now has to wear the cone of shame. He is not pleased. 🐝🐶😣
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 01/09/2026
Want to make millions? Someone please invent a device that I can point at stuff around the house to stop the g-d incessant cacophony of beeps, jingles, chimes, buzzes and other such notifications squabbling for my attention! Bonus if it quiets neurotic neighborhood dogs and vehicle exhausts too. 🙉🤬
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026
Pulled out the spent zucchini and cucumber plants. Waiting on tomatoes to ripen. Sunflowers were late, but they're blooming. My poor mini-melons though... They're still green and the vine is drying out. 🧑‍🌾🍈😿 Anyone got a recipe for underripe cantaloupe?
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026
Case of the Mondays? Here's a bit of Canadiana randomness: Tom Green and Steven Page covering "Maybe Tomorrow (Theme to the Littlest Hobo)" 🇨🇦📺🐕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p13...
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Tom Green & Steven Page | Maybe Tomorrow (The Littlest Hobo Theme) | Official Music Video
YouTube video by Tom Green
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 31/08/2026
Folk discussing their Halloween movie lists... Bah! I've cracked into //Scrooge-a-Thon 2026// already: 1951 (Alastair Sim) and 1935 (Seymour Hicks), watched and watched. 🎃🙅🎄👍
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 29/08/2026
Wait... What? Ewww! -- Courtesy of a local farm market, behold their weekend special: A melted butter sundae. 🧈🧂🍨🤢
Screenshot from Facebook. Posted by Stirling Farm Market.

Text reads: "Say hello to this weekend's featured sundae: melted butter & sea salt. [M]elted butter drizzled over vanilla soft serve to create a shell, and topped with flaky sea salt."

Photo shows a twisted mound of vanilla soft-serve in a clear plastic dish. Covering the ice cream is an off-yellow substance that pools at the bottom.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 26/08/2026
Question for those rural-living, middle-age folk who have lost weight with purpose, but not become protein-pounders and gym rats, what are your secrets? Need to drop some pounds and improve my baseline cardio, but I want to do so like a normal person, not a born-again health nut. Advice welcome. 🤷
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 25/08/2026
**RAIN** and reduced visibility -- Get the ark out of the garage, we're under a pink blob on RadarScope. Nary a rumble of thunder though, which is quite surprising. #NSwx near #Kentville
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 25/08/2026
Holy jumbo raindrops! Noisy enough that I had to close my office window because I couldn't concentrate. Also have one heck of a nervous pup now. 🌧️ #NSwx near #Kentville
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mood, Grandma. Mood.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026
The audible outburst of shock and excitement when my wife discovered that "Lucha Underground" has been added to Prime Video... 👹🤼🙀
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026
Backyard garden is just beginning to wind down. Peas and beans are long done, zucchini are slowing down (thank dog!), Halloween pumpkin is well on its way (10" and growing), and then there's these little guys -- snack size cantaloupe; just a smidge bigger than a baseball.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 21/08/2026
Today's lesson learned the hard way: Don't trust Internet baking recipe measurements for fresh produce. I don't know what sort of shrivelled up zucchini the author gets from the grocery store, but my backyard zuc ain't the same. Rolled cookie dough shouldn't be the consistency of stodgy cake batter!
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 20/08/2026
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 20/08/2026
I have absolutely no focus this morning...none. 🎷🐴 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYz...
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Father Ted My Lovely Horse Sax Solo
ALT: Father Ted My Lovely Horse Sax Solo
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 20/08/2026
In case anyone else ever needs to do the math: a 40' spruce tree yields approx 1 cubic yard of wood chips (incl branches and 10-12" trunk). The arborist wasn't kidding when he told me not to expect that much "free" mulch in the end. 🌲🪚🍟🤏
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 19/08/2026
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 18/08/2026
At 23C, 80% RH, and calm wind with cloudy, mosquito-laden, skies; I think it might be more oppressive outside for yardwork than it was when it was 30C+ recently! #NSwx near #Kentville
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 18/08/2026
The pups' archnemesis was following behind us, so we hopped off the road and finished our walk on the neighbourhood trail. Lucky that we did... Discovered scads of wild blackberry bushes within easy reach (ergo, minimal tick risk). Guess it'll be me and a bucket in the woods after work today!
Trail-side wild blackberry bush laden with fruit in various stages of ripeness.
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 17/08/2026
Mostly against “Oscar”, but no matter…
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 17/08/2026
#MondayMood
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Frustrated Monkey at Laptop
ALT: Frustrated Monkey at Laptop
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 16/08/2026
Does anyone have a favorite (and foolproof) zucchini bread/muffin recipe to share? Mine always come out too dense or stodgy -- but I'm drowning in veg, so I've gotta use them for something!
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Vincent Grovestine @vincent.grovestine.com · 14/08/2026
Another angry day in the skies: Can see thunderheads building over the Parrsboro area from my vantage on the eastern Annapolis Valley floor. Currently 22.3C, 58% RH, winds 4G12 kph, 1008mb, mainly sunny. #NSwx near #Kentville
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