Spring Break
With the daughter, Edmonton, Drumheller to fossick, the weather opposes us, grey, cold, it was forecast to be warmer. The prospecting trip will be delayed, she hasn't the patience for it yet.
Then a couple of days around the apartment, collecting stuff from the locker, big items, she helps, picks a few of my books, takes Eddington's "The Expanding Universe" and an anthology of classic horror stories, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, relieves me of a spintharascope and set of nesting Chinese boxes, she's a trooper, this emptying the locker, it's taken it's toll, but I'm almost done...
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A boot filled with buttons
The only casualty in the moving stuff from the locker, a drawer filled with buttons dumped onto the road, buttons, glass, everywhere. So the daughter and I cleaned up as best we could, we had nothing to put them in and so filled a rubber boot I had in the back of the car, a few evenings spent sorting and rinsing, picking out the broken shards of glass, broken buttons, a surprising number survived.
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Ads That Annoy Me
YouTube - they're trying to force me to upgrade to premium, I'm being inundated with ads, listening to longer playlists, they've set every one to auto-interrupt, I'm building a list of products I'll never, ever buy.
Christina Applegate in that dumb M&M's ad, I get in French and English. I'm never buying M&M's again.
Grammarly? NEVER NEVER NEVER. FUCK OFF! ... And it's such a long, painful ad that I have to stop whatever I was doing and run to the computer to turn it off.
Internet Entrepreneurs showing me their flashy cars and telling me I could have one too....I don't want one. The UCP party - LOL, I'm NEVER THAT DRUNK.
The list goes on, and every new ad wires my brain to avoid that product at ALL costs...which, I think, rather defeats the purpose of their advertising as much as it defeats the purpose of my listening to uninterrupted music. I haven't burned my CD's yet, I might just have to go back to them...
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And I have this fear...
...that all this downsizing is just a step in another direction, the wrong direction, you know the one, but life is metaphor and this is just a new beginning I reassure myself ...
No. I planned for 85, I'll get to 85, there's a lot of terror left to inflict, grandchildren yet unborn, and a thousand other projects to wrap up first ...
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