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Starbucks Card Swap

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Starbucks & Gift Card Swap

Published: 06 April 2010

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I'm looking to swap Canadian 2010 Olympic Starbucks cards (unused, uncharged, unregistered) for any foreign Starbucks cards with a unique local design. So, for example, the card above is obviously Canadian, looking to swap the same for cards from other countries - Ireland, for example (The Dublin Card), or Taipei or Japanese Starbucks cards that have designs not used elsewhere. Don't ask why. But if you mail me your Starbucks cards with your address, then I'll mail you an equal number of the above. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need my address. 

Helicopter Pilots have big heads

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 05 April 2010

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I've been selling off my belongings. Not all, but the recent move and staggered unpacking have brought to my attention the gross surplus of furniture and useless possessions that clutter my life.

And before I have to move again I'd like to pare them down to the essentials. A set of 4 leaded glass doors, a gift from a friend who had no use for them, moved 4 times with me before I figured out that I didn't have any use for them either, sold on Kijiji for $220.00 to a young Russian couple refinishing their house. An old hoosier top sold for $50.00 to a older plump dealer who will take it and mark it up to $300 or $400 in her Antique shop. I'm not bitter, I'm just glad it's gone. Then there's the table, a 30's or 40's hardwood dining room table with ornately carved double pedestal base and quarter cut walnut veneer, cheaper than an Ikea table made from laminate pine and yet not a single call. And the helicopter pilots helmet, a bargain I picked up at a garage sale, that too should go, I'll try for $100.00. I've already humiliated the kids as much as I can with it, wearing it on walks and bicycle rides, now someone else should have some fun. With a very little bit of effort it would make a great Boba Fett helmet.

After a couple of weeks somebody calls about it and I'm surprised that it's been found, ready to bargain I describe it to him, he agrees it's a helicopter pilots helmet all right, but it's only a medium and somehow he infers that this isn't what he's looking for; he hums and haws, really what he needs is a large, helicopter pilots have big heads...

Dork Vader

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 22 March 2010

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She's been watching the Star Wars Films. All 6 of them over the past few months, the last one on Friday night.

And she's been playing "Lego Star Wars" on the Gamecube, it's quite an impressive game, it was recommended to her by her brother.

She's only eight. 

She's learned to play the "Imperial March" on the piano, when I'm over with her on Wednesday's she plays it for me. "Very good" I tell her. I loved Star Wars too when I was a kid.

SO I give her a gift card I won in an online contest, Toys R Us, $50.00. Enough for a DS game, but she sits on it for a few weeks and quietly makes other plans.

She shares them with me later - she wants to buy a Darth Vader Costume. It has lots of applications she persuades me, she can wear it for Halloween, of course, but she can also wear it to Brownies and sleepovers and all sorts of other events. 

I bite my tongue. Maybe she'll forget. I gave her the gift card after all.

Today she comes over for a visit with her mother, she has something to show me and I've already guessed, they went to Toys R Us and sure enough she's wearing the mask and the cape when I answer the door and I'm appropriately scared, only partly acting...

On our walk she wears the cape, reluctantly leaving the mask in the car, I need to get a picture of her in the full outfit, she needs only a light saber and I've seen some good ones around, will have to keep my eyes peeled...

She's becoming Dork Vader.