21st
January
2011
Bring on the bargains. I’m ready to deal.
That’s a nice way of saying that I’m actually too cheap to pay full price. No reduction for whatever the justification, and I will find a way to do without. That’s why, when the background noise at home mentioned the need for a newer iPod, I started noticing the asterisks in the flyers. In particular, the one that offered $50 for trading in an old MP3 player.
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17th
December
2010
The head of the Van Owe (a big winter game festival held almost one year ago on the other coast) is very proud. To quote from a CBC website article: “The operating budget resulted in neither a surplus nor a deficit”. Before your next burst of applause, please try to interpret what that actually means.
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16th
December
2010
It’s only when you run into the neophytes that you realize how the professionals in on-line sales have really perfected their craft. Believe me.
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12th
December
2010
How do you get from singing Irish ballads to making public commentary on the economic situation in the land of the Celtic Tiger? In Canada, it’s an easy road.
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5th
December
2010
We’re (as a family) standing on the starting line, for the great holiday marathon. All the usual worries, doubts, predictions in a big sack, with a calendar to keep us on course. Fits right in to that recurring nightmare.
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3rd
December
2010
Sometimes the explanation just makes me go “Huh??”. Perhaps that’s what convinces a person to accept the appointment to the judiciary. A chance to hear convoluted reasoning from others.
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26th
November
2010
The rules are clear. If you are poor and getting older, you’d better plan on keeping that part time minimum wage job until you die. And you’d better die old. After all, there’s a shortage of cheap labour right now.
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15th
November
2010
I think it’s time I read another book. Specifically, China Inc., by Ted Fishburn. The times have changed, and my kids won’t be getting a job in a local factory where they will labour until they die. No more factories, locally. We’ve got McJobs, millions and millions of them, and the heavy hauling has crossed the ocean.
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13th
November
2010
A hard played game, lots of good hits, and I don’t hurt a bit. Football on TV; rough stuff for the rest of us.
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13th
October
2010
The scoreboard reads “Underground 4 Rescued 29“. That’s good for the interested parties, but a sad commentary on a dangerous occupation.
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