And the mornings are ferociously cold some of them, they abbreviate the first cigarette; back inside to make coffee and wait for it to thaw a bit before getting out and about. There's snow already on the low mountains surrounding town.
Found a good new series - so far (1 episode in); "Dark" - on Netflix, which I won't bother to describe here, only has a bit of that "Stranger Things" vibe. And reading (re?) Haruku Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", which is excellent and after my taste at the moment; only while it all seems new I'm suspicious I've read it a long time ago; must have been because I find no reference to it on my blog...but the bit where he goes down the well (and I'm not there yet, so we'll see) - I remember that.
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The liquor strike drags on and I'm spending far too much on oversized bottles of premium liquor. And today there are no buses; rumour has it that Balfour & Taghum still have a reasonable selection but I might be forced to skip my medication, which is not inspiring.
The chilis indoors might still be growing, they're certainly turning red, and raining resin and pollen and leaves and flowers all over the floor. I'll need to sweep and mop after all this is done, I want them off the windowsill, but I'm not giving up just yet.
The Laundry Machine - the one that charges your card, some "Sparkle Solutions" outfit out of Ontario, it's not been working all week. A part is on order. My card has nothing on it, and I'm overdue a fresh pair of shorts. But I can't do laundry...
SO I check their website, that promises an option to charge the card with a credit card online, only there's no link. Call customer service. They can't find the link either, and can offer no options, only to have somebody reach out to me on a business day.
This is inept.
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Facebook, nothing on, but I saw a great little ad for a magic trick that I want and so I clicked on it to see how much it is...
$100. Nope. A hundred bucks for what amounts to a $1 made-in-china "Gimmick" and 100 pages of instructions is a little steep...
But it is a cool trick...I'll see if I can figure it out elsewhere...
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And; perusing Reddit I came across this little gem:
Which I have to laugh at, I'm sure (well, not SURE) that it's not the same one I have my own horror story about a certain stalker who wouldn't take no for an answer and made my life a living hell for 7 long years. And to this day when I hear the name, no matter how cute the person wearing it, I still cringe...
The kids laughed. When my leave of abstinence is over I'm going to be a fury getting back in the saddle, but no more of this...