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The Daughter's Driving Lessons
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3 Lessons so far, she's doing good. Lesson one, a parking lot, circles, reverse, learn to steer. Lesson 2, driving down the backstreets. Lesson 3, driving around the backroads from Airdrie to Beisiker, oncoming traffic, higher speeds.
She's learning, quick, getting the hang of it, a few weeks more and she'll be ready for the Deerfoot...
Bittersweet
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And today, the owner has bad news. He's talked to the new owners, they'll be closing the restaurant, March 1st, Feb 28th is the last day.
They strung him along, telling him they'd keep the staff, the name, run the business...
They were lying.
I don't care. This couch surfing and perennial homelessness, it's getting a bit much, I only wanted a couple more weeks to pad the wallet, wanted the weather to improve to do some prospecting before I return to BC, but like a whip the entire 2 week long term forecast changed overnight.
"It could change again" I tell myself.
The other staff, immigrants every one of them, papers tying them to the restaurant, this restaurant, they're not so happy. The salad girl tells me she'll miss us, I understand, we've all been through a lot together. The Nephew, he's tossing the idea of travel, he has savings. The waitress, she's panic-stricken, she needs the job, bad, overspends, doesn't budget, she's in deep trouble. The rest, well, plans will divulge themselves over the next week I'm sure.
We've cancelled the reservations for March, April, May, started telling the regulars, some are in tears, there will be more I'm sure, the restaurant's been there 27 years, people proposed in it, brought up their children there, for a lot of people it's a big part of their lives. The staff as well, nowhere in the world could you get dinner and a show for such a reasonable price. But times change, and this is not necessarily a bad thing. A tank of gas, or 4, a few cans of beans and I'll be hitting the creeks for a few weeks before working my way to BC. I have a feeling that it's time now to earn my own fortune,
Couch Surfing 2
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And couch surfing again, this a 3 week tour, maybe longer, will depend on the new owners, the improvement in the weather leaves me restless to be off and about in the jeep, and all this sleeping on other peoples couches, it's gotten to be a bit much. All well intended and appreciated, but there's a distinct lack of...well, desk, the trifles that I need to get by. A Desk. Maybe a bed, not urgent, a bathroom is more important, and that's it. If I'm here in March I'll have to go looking, there's no peace of mind to found on the couch, in front of the TV, always some idiocy playing, vacuous distraction, the current couch, the full slate of cable, always something inane to distract you from projects of importance, I'm far better prepared this trip, but lacking the privacy to meditate or otherwise catch up is making me insane. "It's only temporary" I tell myself, but that's become at the moment my life...
Enhydro
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Specifically, fluid inclusions in agate, more generally the term has come to mean fluid inclusions within crystals or other gems or stones. The fluids are typically millions of years old and are most frequently water or liquid petroleum...
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The last is not an enhydro inclusion, it's a tiny garnet grown within a diamond.
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