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Desk & Armchair
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And my first find, a chair at thrift shop, $15.00. Perfect, comfortable, not too fine, not too shabby.
And, upon loading it up and getting it into the place, a drive around the block turns up a perfectly fixable antique oak desk:
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We're off to a good start...
Shaw: $30.00 Installation Fee
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- Category: Who's Your ISP?
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Need internet at the new place, call Shaw. They've done away with the 30 days to disconnect rule, well, they didn't, the CRTC did, but they found a new way to get me, a $30.00 instillation fee. It would have been free if I would have booked it online, but then if I had an internet connection I wouldn't be calling them...
$70 per month for 30 mb/s, amongst the most expensive internet access worldwide, but for the first 6 months they'll discount it by half. I have half a mind to pin my wifi code & password to the hall door so the neighbors can all cancel theirs, or maybe we could pool as a building...
Senior's Day at the Thrift Store
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Conversations
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I'm at the thrift shop, revisiting old haunts, hunting for the essentials I'll need to be able to enjoy my apartment. A short list: Kitchen table & chairs, loveseat, 2 armchairs, a couple of coffee tables, I'm looking for quality, but the kind of quality I can sell again when I'm done, Garage Sale quality, the locker won't hold any more belongings...
No furniture, not today, but arriving at the till with my other treasures the clerk advises me: "You're in luck, it's Senior's day today, you'll get 10% off...."
Now I know I don't photograph well, but I always put that down to me being a vampire, it's like my reflection, nothing to look at, nothing to see, but still there's that voice in my head that's telling me "I gotta stop drinking..."
Courting Crows
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- Category: Found
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And while not exactly treasure, this is interesting; a girl feeds crows, the crows, in return, bring her the treasures they find in the neighborhood.
Intriguing.
Link: http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
The concept of reciprocity with wild animals. We all know this with cats (the dead mouse, bird, on the doorstep, in the bed), but all in all I prefer the tastes of crows....
UPDATE: And this, related: http://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm038-do-crows-mourn-their-dead
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