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Meanwhile
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Meanwhile, up early in the morning. Before the sun, a few stars from the deck, a slight crescent moon rising, the sound of the waves lapping on the beach. And as the day proceeds, shades of grey that slowly lighten and clouds that hang low and ragged over the farther shore, most days never rising above the first ranges, some days never rising at all, the waves disappear into a fog over the lake, colors in the foreground, the brightly painted deck chairs, slowly emerge, muted, then fade and vanish. By 4:00 again the day is dark.
This place, it's great, it's not mine, the few scant possessions I have with me aren't enough to take away the air-bnb ness of it, but that as well is good, one can be distracted by said possessions, there's a minimal of distractions here. Sit at the window with the craptastic laptop, the walloping 32 GB of memory filled with a walloping 31 GB of operating system (why did I not think of that?), limit your trips to town - money is tight, after all, and CERB might keep you fed, but that's it, not food and gas and everything else, there's the trimming and reining in of vices, the small pleasure of being able to cook your own meals, of a warm bed and a spectacularly atmospheric view.
A week and there's a lot to do - I mean a lot, creative-crazy-lot, and so much of what I have been meaning to get done has been forgotten but there's time to recall now, time to get started, I've been on the down low for the past week, overdrawn, unwilling to give up the warm place for even a brisk walk and the lack of exercise is taking it's toll, restless nights, how to cure this? More exercise, although the boots slip on the ice, the ground is too frozen to dig, the scenery - winter, without the snow, I need work, society, of some sort, merely trying to find something that I don't completely despise, people that I might enjoy, find a healthy balance and rhythm to it all.
Anyways, so that's where I am.
On Body and Soul
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Netflix, free with the property and I'm going to be making the best of it. Hungarian film, atmospheric, curious characters, very worthwhile. 4 Stars.
Vertigo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Alfred Hitchcock. Whom I'd had some prejudices (ill founded, it seems) against.
Meh the flaws - they're a matter of convention and taste. What impressed me was how the ending swerved - and outright ran over my expectations. "He wouldn't dare!". Yeah, he just did. So, worthwhile, and dated in the best of all possible ways.
Rocks: Grand Forks & Rossland
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A couple of finds - the first (on the right) - a quartz crystal, colored by (?) and filled in like a pseudomorph. Found it in a pawn shop in Grand Forks, part of a collection of rocks - the color and the rest of the collection make me suspect it was found locally by a collector. And, on the left, a large green quartz crystal - found in a thrift shop in Rossland for a $1.00 - again, the color, the condition, suggest to me it was picked up locally and probably by someone who didn't think to dig any deeper...
Anyways, both reminders of the treasures I should be keeping my eyes peeled for come spring...
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