If the economy is trying to slow down, please don’t lay the blame at my threshold. I’m doing my part to keep the local merchants prosperous.
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Today, instead of just sitting around, I decided to do something about it. Go shopping for new chairs. After all, the solution to a problem starts with the problem, right?
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Looks like I’m in trouble! According to the newspapers, I’ve missed my holiday duty – to consume, madly. No queues in front of big box stores. No mall crawls. Not even a blip on the nation’s credit report. In a world where the economy trumps everything else, I’ve sat back and let others stand in my place. If we were at war (and we are), I might see people pointing in my direction and murmuring. “Failure to consume!”
posted in economy, humour | Comments Off on Failure to consume | 254 words
New city budget. New cuts, but not to taxes. The brave new world of municipal (provincial) (federal) administration. Probably been added to the curriculum at that fancy school of public administration (paid for with tax dollars).
posted in economy, politics | Comments Off on All debts should be equal | 288 words
Forget time travel as an unnecessary expense. Just wait for a few years, and the past will get a “do over” in the future. Perhaps an inspiration from video games…
posted in economy, music | Comments Off on Revivals and returns | 273 words
Looks like I’ve come full circle with my postal delivery person. Despite my heartfelt acceptance of the “Red Dot Campaign”, three years ago (and with it, 36 months of freedom from fritter), I’m now back to receipt of a gob of flyers and paid advertising in my mailbox. Thankfully, there’s a slot to deposit the stuff right on the same Superbox. You fill, I fill, we all waste each other’s time.
posted in economy, politics | Comments Off on Spend yourself into a corner, Euro style | 260 words
Proof that the Harper government believes in forgiveness:
Treasury Board president Tony Clement says the way the G8 legacy fund was handled “was not perfect” and he’s learned his lessons, but that he’s qualified to be in charge of the public purse.
posted in economy, media, politics | Comments Off on Canadian latte? | 252 words
Pardon my sense of melancholy, but another friend is going away. The local magazine shop will lock the front door in a couple of days, and the gang of individuals who have been there for the last couple of decades will be scattered to the wind, like the blow-in cards of their stock.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Lock the door, one more time | 287 words
Here’s a plan. Extend the human life span to 150 years. It might happen. Drugs. The question that sticks up like the proverbial mole in the hole is then, obviously, who would want to live like they’re eighty for another seventy years?
posted in economy | Comments Off on Live long and prosper | 290 words
Friday night: giggle time at my house. Ron James is on, doing what he does so well. Not exactly sarcasm, but he does know how to make the words come out in exactly the right order. Where else do you find a “real life” application for that stupid math question about two trains heading toward one another? Just sayin’…
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