Is it just my age, or do others find that a federal budget is nothing more than platitudes? This is an election year; we all know it. What the media presented this afternoon is the government equivalent of a quick paint job before selling the house.
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By going for coffee, in a real coffee bar this morning, I stepped outside my comfort zone. Long enough to reaffirm just how good my home coffee is.
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Running a big corporation is hard. You take the investors’ money, and you buy things like shiny new aircraft, and when that same model starts to do unexpected things (like crash into the ground killing the passengers), you have to make sure the government doesn’t get antsy and forbid you to fly your planes. Sound familiar, Air Canada and WestJet?
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Canada is close to having real fixed election dates, at all levels (that affect me). With that, the inevitable polls. If an election was called, today, either federally or provincially, we would be destined to see change. Not real change, as politics doesn’t work like that, but the fancy name plates on the doors of the fancy offices would change. Did anyone else notice that elections were not called, today?
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As dusk approached last evening, somewhere between sunset and moonrise, the dog on his tether managed to foul the feeder pole. A full container of seeds, spread out effectively. No sense in trying to gather things back; the birds will return in the morning and take care of it.
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Something I don’t get to do very often, (OK, first time): call a sibling using Skype to be anonymous, and ask to speak with the new puppy that moved in yesterday. On behalf of a major political party, obviously, because every vote counts. My only regret is that I have but one chance to refine my tone, as this could actually go somewhere. People don’t expect calls for the dog (or do they?)
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Some stories write themselves. For example, Netflix has prepared a documentary about the lifestyle of a rock group, and the shocking thing is that it is shocking (for those who know absolutely nothing about the prevarications of young, on-the-road musicians).
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Living away from retail, and big box store, I find that we generate a lot of cardboard paper for the monthly recycle haul-out. Amazon, mainly. The alternative, where I rebox all my belongings and create puzzle mounds around the place is surreal. And so, once again, I’ve made the trip to the road edge with my blue bags. No snowstorm on the horizon, so they all should leave with a truck, just after dawn. Oh, I sincerely hope so. The pile also contains a hodge-podge of jars and milk jugs, but as I have no intention of constructing a raft for an eventual getaway, they also will feed the recycle beast.
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I haven’t gone out to actually see them, but we have new snow tires. This is something that only happens a couple of times a decade, thankfully, as special rubber commands a special price. However, the local garage did the job, with a minimum of fuss, and if winter should return, we’re ready.
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As our neighbours move into their “longest government shutdown”, I decided to look at what that actually means. I came up short. I understand the pain; go to work, do your job, forego your pay cheque because of a dispute that is without importance. And I realize that the redress available to those workers is limited.
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