31st October 2011

Minimal effort applied

Just over a day since my last flu shot, and I’m still healthy. Let’s give two thumbs up to the advances in medical procedures, shall we. After the crazy circus over the last two calendar rounds (hundreds in a shopping centre), the health services moved the show to an obscure hospital basement. Unless you knew the location, there was no danger of puncture wounds. Almost like a secret club, what. Me and a bunch of more senior citizens, politely sitting for our fifteen minutes of R&R after the deed.

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30th October 2011

A panoply of features for a fistful of dollars

Although he didn’t sing it at Woodstock, Stephen Stills did coin the lyrical phrase “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with”. He sang it; dogs live it.

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29th October 2011

Pizza pizza

The urge hit me, late in the afternoon. Pizza for supper. And as a break with tradition, I decided to go out and deliver it to myself.

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28th October 2011

How many people is 7 billion?

I was flurried twice today. No lasting effect, but I’ve been warned. Find my toque (tuque) and mittens, before things get serious.

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27th October 2011

Lock the door, one more time

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.

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26th October 2011

Shook, but not all night

Awoke from a sound sleep, complete with a dream sequence. Odd. The dream, I mean. Something about being on a beach vacation and trying to get reservations on a bus for some downhill snow skiing. Let’s get back to the waking up thing. I mean, 03h36 is early. Especially when I don’t need to go anywhere.

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25th October 2011

Erase, displace, destroy the registry

The list of long gun owners is gone. The government has been planning this advance in record keeping for years, but the small issue of an opposition that was numerically superior interfered. Times have changed. In celebration, the government is coming through on a promise. First and last. Not to worry, though. The current government is going to clean up the cupboard, so to speak. The database that cost millions will be erased, shredded, stapled, folded, whatever it takes to assure that no trace remains. After all, “any job worth doing is worth doing well”.

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24th October 2011

In praise of virtual travel

Think of it as a game for this century. Turn on the TV and watch something that takes place in a real locale. Then, try to get there using Google Maps and Street View. I’m “in” the Orkney Islands right now, and I’d be willing to go there for real. A plus; they have good fiddlers.

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23rd October 2011

Beware the clipper

There are worse things than standing in line at the supermarket. You could be standing in line, just behind a coupon cutter.

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22nd October 2011

In search of bulbs and batteries

Up early, to buy batteries. And light bulbs. You know how it is. Sometimes things run out, and the only thing to do is to get in the car and drive.

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