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The app on my phone, it tells me it's sunny, 20 degrees. Meanwhile there's a gale force wind whipping up the lake, mangling the pagodas, tearing up the umbrellas.
Check the app on your phone again. Oh, now it's updating, rain.
Every day, the forecast dictating where I'll be working, the forecast off - invariably - by an average of 10 degrees above or below the target.
You want to know the weather? Look at your phone - then take your best guess. Whatever it is it won't be that.
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And this, you've probably noticed how restrained I've been in commenting on Current Events. I mean, Trump, the elections, pandemic, Alberta, Toronto, the world at large, the eventual and much anticipated "return to normalcy", which will - hate to break it to you - probably never happen.
The news, overwhelming, even a few minutes inoculates you against disbelief, and how much now is not being reported, front page stories sidelined for more election nonsense, more idiocies, the no-longer gradual seizing of liberties, out-and-out robbery, kidnapping, abduction and state-sanctioned murder, and people rally to protest having to wear a mask?
The world has gone insane, and you couldn't make fun of it if you tried. The news, generally bad and at best irrelevant. A photo of a mylar kids balloon, released by the military as proof of UFO's, photographed by a jet, they have to be trolling us, the rumour of a "Galactic Federation", but - really - wake up tomorrow, see spaceships hovering in the sky, laser-guns blasting the White-House, it would be at the end just another day in 2020, no need to raise an eyebrow, nothing to see here.
I haven't been paying so much attention, crazy busy summer, travel, homeless, I've had a lot of other things on my plate. But this pandemic - it's not over yet, not by a long shot, and the dominoes that have started to fall won't upright themselves once there's a vaccine. The system is not even broken, it was built this way, by design, and is functioning much as it should or would be expected.
A few things that amaze me: How China, almost a year in to it - has come away looking like the good guys. Compared to the US, the UK, even a lot of aspects of Canada - it is not the worst place in the world. Here we have illusions of freedom, until they're tested and fail, there they merely know the rules. They're simply under no such illusions.
Maybe it's time. "Normal" was a comfortable place for us to be, but not a good place, not for our citizens, neighbors, planet, so maybe it needs a good shaking up. It's merely the uncertainty of where things will go to next, and without leadership - of any sort - how will we get there?
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This is infuriating. Banks routinely commit fraud, seizing or freezing the assets of the customers, launder money, etc, etc.
And the Police do nothing.
Quote Adam Palmer, Vancouver Chief of Police: 'The bank was adamant that a fraud had been committed,' - Walk into a bank and call the police and show them the fraud, service charges, you're illegally frozen bank account after you've declared bankruptcy, etc. that they complete daily. Demand they be arrested. Good fucking luck. When was the last time a police officer read a fucking book? This man should not be a police officer, yet somehow it comes as no surprise that he made it to "Chief".
I hope the Grandfather & Grandaughter don't settle for anything under the larger 8 figures. As for the police? Arm yourselves. One day...
MORE ON THE BMO:
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bmo-customer-s-account-emptied-of-87k-as-bank-falls-for-scam-1.2555647
- https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/dozens-of-bmo-customers-complain-of-double-charges-for-purchases-1.4561325?cache=yes
Who ended up in cuffs there I wonder?
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Our track record when it comes to holidays is pretty spotty. Sometimes we close, sometimes we open. When we're open the owner would joke: "Beats staying at home and babysitting..." and laugh, he didn't get that some of us liked our kids and family...
Holidays are usually busy, busy with people that don't value holidays or tipping, cruel to say, but generally immigrant families who don't know how to make a turkey, or don't have space to accommodate them all...they'd usually want to bring their own dessert, and drink water, you could be run off your feet and make what you'd a made on a slow Tuesday or Wednesday lunch.
So we close, the owner's gotten a little more laid back about this holiday stuff, only now instead of working the half day Monday we work the entire rest of the week, doubles every one, no matter how slow or unnecessary we are. And so the long weekend becomes an even longer week...