14th
September
2006
We went shopping tonight. I started out to buy light bulbs, but we were distracted and ended up at Staples/Bureau En Gros. The place where we leave lots of after-tax income in the hands of the media. Paper media, electronic media. Pens and pads. Blank CDs. Replacement wireless routers. Replacement school bags. Replacements for all the stuff that three students, a teacher and a geek need to get through the days.
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6th
September
2006
As I mentioned several days ago, gas prices have been moving downwards, and for two days now the psychological boundary of a loonie has been passed; prices now stand at 99.4 cents/litre. I know things will change, as soon as a bit of bad weather moves into the Gulf of Mexico, but I do appreciate that the greedmongers are forced to change prices in my direction for a bit.
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1st
September
2006
One of the markers that we have for our economy is the gas price. Here in Canada, we quote it in cents per litre, so imagine the collective shock just over a year ago when things jumped past the psychological barrier of 100 cents per. The displays outside of most stations had never been designed for this, so we saw odd workarounds while digging deeper into our pockets.
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27th
August
2006
I think my first shoes were probably booties, but I remember something that might have been termed as a brown Oxford with slippy soles very early on in my Homo erectus evolution. Still, the soul of my existence has been defined by low price sneakers.
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24th
August
2006
We just came back from the zoo. School opens soon, and all the parents are in full fever, buying everything that Dick and Jane might possibly ever need in the classroom. Today. Now. Get out of their way, they have lists and are on a mission. Just the right number of file folders, in the mandated colour. Three erasers, not two. Buy two packages and hope that the extra eraser gets lost (it will). Make sure that the vendors of dead tennis balls are able to unload a boatload full, newly labelled as chair-slippers. How about a laptop?
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23rd
August
2006
Vacation time is over. There, I’ve said it. Bring on the snow and the winter winds. I’ve had my ocean view for more than two weeks. I’ve eaten more fish than in the preceding year.
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29th
July
2006
I went clothes shopping with my son today. It took a great deal of suggesting and hinting to get him out the door, but the need was pressing… how many hours a day can one wear pyjamas without going to bed?
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24th
July
2006
Given the ambivalent state of the weather, and my need to improve our lighting supplies, we returned to the camper stores today. Two of them, this time, since our curiosity assured that once we’d parked in the shoebox lot at Latulippe (one of three lots) the store across the street was fair game.
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8th
July
2006
After dropping the rest of the family off at a cinema located a long way from home, so they could watch the latest Pirates of the Caribbean episode, I spent some time turning in circles in the wilds of Vanier. Amazing how that village, with a winding river running through it, adopted streets that also curve back upon themselves. I was in search of the OZ, where we go to repair musical instruments.
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28th
June
2006
At certain times of the year, meat prices go off the chart, in either direction. I had to go over to pick up some milk and bread this evening and brought home two large pork roast for about six dollars each. Dig out the clay bake pot, put the whole thing in the over for a couple of hours and then store the meat for later this week. Who said that things were tough to prepare? Granted, with the rest of the gang on new vacation schedules, I don’t have to be too fancy in what I prepare as “fridgefood”…
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