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Shaw: $30.00 Installation Fee
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- 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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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- 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
Chai Symbol blazing on a dancing brunette
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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A beautiful dancing brunette, full figured, a Chai symbol blazing, burning upon her breast (or perhaps a He, or Heth, or Taw), I know she's Jewish, she's stunning...
The dance is short lived, she steps into a pile of gravel in the children's playground and sinks beneath it with her partner - male, I haven't seen him, but I know he's there...
These dunes of gravel on the playground, I know they're filled with the dead, waiting to reach up and pull us under, and so I wait upon the edge to warn my children and family, I find this terrifying, I know they're all beneath the dunes and waiting...
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