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The election, everything I'd hoped for/expected. No bad news regarding the local candidate, the entitled child of affluence and entitlement, the incumbent conservative candidate yet again by a clear majority against both the NDP and Liberals combined. Not good news, but better news than the Liberal Candidate.
I've talked with a few of the ex-customers of the old restaurant, the old "Cock-'n'-Suck", and they agree, although some of them voted the party and not the man, and I'm quick to chastise them, "YOU KNEW THE 'man'!!!'".
It was a tough choice. But Carney in and that's what we all wanted.
Except for Alberta, that foaming, rabid mass of conservatism...
I'll come back to that.
I got rid of the dinosaur bones (the "more" dinosaur bones the son found in my locker and thought I needed...), a listing on Facebook, "Free", gone in 2 hours with disappointed latecomers. I hoped they went to a schoolteacher, it looked like it, but who knows? I kept the best pieces to sully my shelves...
And time for the building to replace my heat-pump/heater/AC, which pooched a couple of months ago (when my place was clean), and only now can they replace it...
Inane they need to replace a whole unit when it was clearly only the fuse that went.
The building manager is in attendance, I assure her it's not as bad as it looks. It is. It's worse, really, but damn, there's only 400 square feet and the boy dropped off the worst of possible things...
Anyways, I'm on the deck, cleaning up the community planters (1 of which failed on me badly last year), sweeping up the mess, rewiring, making them sketch-stable, filling them again with dirt, getting ready to get the "community" garden started. A beautiful day. When everything is repaired and filled I head down and buy some starters to fill them - Lemon Balm, basil oregano strawberries, thyme, other herbs, anything edible.
I've been waiting for my Caroline Reapers to sprout in their window pots, impatient, like a kindergarten child and his sunflower or corn seed, checking on them every few minutes, nada, it’s been 8, 9, 10 days now…
Probably it's not sunny enough or hot enough outside but I'll give it a couple more weeks and see.
Using Google Lens to look up value of items, the WW1 gunsight, one sold at auction in the UK, better condition, original wood box, etc, 35 Quid. Damn. I paid 300 Quid 35 years ago. Not looking good. But I find another listing, also sold, also better condition, but $600 USD. And so back to writing creative copy for my inane garbage, I need a major downsize before inspection, I also need cash for the Jeep 2025.
The WW2 Compass, the same, either break even or hope for some sucker "needs it now" and will pay above spot.
So it goes, google lensing every thing I own only to discover I've been the biggest sucker on earth, bought way to in to the value of material things, my children have learned (thank god!!) that this is not where it's at, but I'm still stuck stomaching the loss.
I run into S****, and we talk, she’s run me down, pretty, but not like her mother, beautiful but different, she’s had a run of ill-fortune, Mother (Dag) died, then her step-father, her real father, neighbour, another, Covid and the world has changed and then all this within the past year, her world grown suddenly smaller and I know, I know…
So we’re talking and I give her the Kootenay hug, and…
Missed kiss?? Her backwards glance, hesitation, smile, it's been so long, I don’t know, it'd be nice to connect with someone on anything less than a superficial level but I’m not looking for any trouble...
News, drivel from the National Post - https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-newman-on-election-night-cbc-shamelessly-cheered-on-mark-carney - a little like a man voting not to have his head chopped off, one of the only National News Sources that is Canadian Owned opining (MY GOD!!) for it's own survival, the National Post is increasingly shameless with it's pro-Trump rhetoric, burn it down, shoot the staff, we need to be done with all this. If not today then tomorrow.
Links of interest the past week:
Flowers of the Sky - A Public Domain Review collection of images (drawn, etc) 500 years worth - of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars. Interesting in that it displays how we depict things we don't/can't understand.
Spooked - A podcast devoted to true-life supernatural stories told first hand. While I don't necessarily "believe" in these ghost tales they speak to something deeper in the human condition, and therein lies their value. Their universality. That we all will experience something beyond ourselves, and how we make sense of it will define us...
NSTMF LAB - a web simulation of Gravity. Interesting in that it offers an interactive simulation of how gravity works. I haven't tried the other two yet. I will.
𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁
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The Master and Margarita (2024)
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Now, the one good thing about facebook - and - not a good thing particularly, it just means I'm too much there. But there was a clip with an AI narration, interesting, and I recognized the plot points as being from "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
A favourite book of mine.
SO, a fair bit of digging and I found a place to download the movie - the 2024 edition, in Russian/German and searched a dozen other sites and tried a variety of subtitles before I found one that was any good and synced with the movie.
And watched it, of course. I've not had a lot of luck with movies lately, tried some early 2000's horror, was pretty lame, bailed on it, another horror - "Late Night with the Devil" - which begins with an annoying narrator introducing the plot, the star, and continuing for 10 minutes, 12 minutes, and I'm still not into the movie and he's still narrating the back-story and I just give up, it's nonsense...
So this was a treat. Adapting that novel for the screen - well, not an easy chore, but well done. A bit heavy on the CGI (not a fan of the CGI landscapes), but otherwise, acting, theme, atmosphere - all relatively close to the source and true to the author.
And since I had to go to great lengths to find a copy and working subtitles I've saved you the effort by uploading them to "WeShare"; a file hosting site, the links are good for about 27 days from today.
Link (Movie): https://we.tl/t-pLUNvolmVY
Link (Synced and working subs): https://we.tl/t-xKdG9NRzR9
Note, Woland is speaking in German to the Master, hence the annoying Russian Voiceover. And - Bulgakov wrote in the Russia of the 30's, but in regards to the political motifs the same is happening here...
Some pricey lingerie, and a fine first edition...
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The morning in the thrift shop, as I suspected many people are clearing their curbs of the trash left over from the weekend's "TRASH TO TREASURE". So no end to unpacking rubbish and discouragement, that and it being month end, half-used tubes of toothpaste, bars of soap, bottles of scope, rusty razors, empty shampoo, I should be on the door turning these people away...
But - I find this:
Too good to leave behind, and nobody wants to price it for me...In the end, fifty cents.
The item appears new. Now - zoom into the new-price-tag in the bottom right corner. That's right, $1, 240.00.
Now to find the person I can best offend with this...there's not enough action in my world to require it, but somebody has to want it...given the number of Burlesque Dancers in town it shouldn't be a problem.
One other find, a fine copy of "The ascent of Everest" by John Hunt, 1954, First Edition and signed by the author. By donation. Doing a little research online I find another copy in similar condition, priced near enough to $900.00. Treasure, for sure, but the first treasure of the day made for a better picture...
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