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Couch Surfing 2
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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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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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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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.
Mapping Fortune
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Back in Calgary, for a bit at least, winter is spent on the MTO, Mapping treasures, Emeralds, Topaz, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamonds, it will be, if I can afford it, a busy summer. It's all here. The diamonds, they're an Alberta thing, there are claims here for that as well, closer to the Alberta border, but for everything else there are claims within 50 KM of Nelson. I've already found Garnets, when the snow is gone I'll find the rest. Everything. Every Gem in the fucking world. I'm creating my own map, adding 2 or three new markers per day, everywhere here you can dig and be surprised, the trick always is recognizing what you've found and creating value from it...
John Wick 2
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Which I saw with the daughter, laughed out loud, better even than the first, tongue in cheek, doesn't take itself too seriously, but excellent for what it is and the ending promises even more great things to come...
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