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Dork Vader
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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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.
They find me...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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So I'm sitting on the bus, on my way to work, minding my own business, when the bus stops and goes to discharge it's passenger a short black guy, cool looking, makes his way to the back of the bus where I'm sitting and gives me a torn sheet of newsprint.
He's made notes on the back of it. "Check it out" he tells me, then exits the bus.
I look at the newspaper. It's a torn square from one of the free downtown daily's, with a handwritten list of "links" I should visit.
They find me...
I'll share them with you:
Google.ca "YouTube"
- 1) Dr. Deefat
- 2) Dr. Zackir
- 3) Dr. Khalid Yasin
- 4) The Deen Show
- Try Zem & HNY 2090
Moving
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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The strange signs on the pavement, markings, notices banded to trees proved strangely prophetic: my landlord declined my offers of 2 months rent, took only a month and served me my notice, the house is to be torn down and an infill put up in it's place.
Which explains, to some extent, my absence. Long days of packing boxes, borrowed trucks, cars, the finding of a new place and the moving of ones possessions to a new location...
And while I've found a new place, expensive and on the north side of Calgary, I'm not yet unpacked, and between working, the tribulations of dealing with Shaw cable and the moving I've not found a moment to blog. Another 2 weeks and it will be more regular again, for the time being it's the slow unpacking of the too many millstones about my neck, the rearranging of furniture, laundry, settling in around a grueling work schedule.
I'll catch up, I promise.
Valentines
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's Valentines Day and we're sort of busy.
Sort of busy, because we stopped taking reservations several days ago, the more experienced waiters looked at the book and said "enough" and so we stopped taking reservations.
Sort of busy, because we're only half full. Someone dropped the ball. In every other restaurant in the city Valentines day is the busiest day of the year. Still, after all the hype and anticipation "sort of busy" is a bit of a relief.
There's an interesting mix of couples that made it. Couples that are in love. Older Women out with their mothers. Happily married couples, couples that aren't yet couples but the man is really trying, couples of three that are trying desperately to cheer up a jilted friend...
There's an attractive couple sitting together. Tall slender blond, handsome muscular man. She orders a Chai Tea.
"I'm sorry," I say to her "We stopped serving Chai when we stopped making Vindaloo Curries..."
"You stopped making Vindaloo Curries" she exclaims, astonished...
Her boyfriend, he doesn't say anything. I want to offer some conciliatory remarks, she is very pretty after all, but it's not my place. Instead I apologize.
"I was joking. We don't make Vindaloo Curries. We don't have Chai Tea or low-fat decaf lattes. But we do have...." and I give her a somewhat more reasonable, albeit limited menu to choose from.
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