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The Turnagain Nugget
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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This, the largest gold nugget still in existence, found by the wife of a prospector wedged between boulders while walking Turnagain Creek in Northern BC. The nugget weighed 52 Troy Ounces, and was bought by the Royal BC Museum for the price of $1500. The creek was later renamed the Alice Shea Creek in her honour.
Read a little more here: https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/turnagain-nugget-largest-existing-gold-nugget-from-bc2-1200x1033/
Note the late date of the find; almost 50 years after any of the major gold rushes in BC.
There's still a lot left to be found...
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes - 2020, Japan
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This was actually brilliant, a madcap time-travelling movie set in Japan when the owner of a cafe discovers a two minute gap in the monitor in his cafe and the monitor in his apartment. His future self appears in the cafe monitor to advise him what he must do, soon his friends find out and things get out of hand. More or less hilarious, and for a low-budget high concept film does an amazing job.
Brilliant. And I sure and the hell appreciate the plot wrap up - no 3 season's of "Dark" or (How many seasons?) of "The Umbrella Academy" for a completely unsatisfactory resolution to the time-travelling paradoxes, this finishes well.
Link to the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2Ey9hoGOg
Dark, 2017, Finished
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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I finally finished this. While well written it was getting pretty old towards the end, my media diet as of late has not been one to inspire me and I feel that these TV series just suck up your time without ever delivering on the premises...
Anyways, maybe back to just watching films for the moment, there has to have been something new drop recently...
Oil Lamp, Closet, Etc
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finally, after several trips to the hardware store I find the part and hacksaw it down to fit the Oil Lamp, take it to the antique shop to hang in their window. The owner's as impressed with it as I am. The first time in 35+ years it's hung, it looks happy there, a fine stopover on it's way to a castle.
A few of my other candlesticks in the lower left...
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The daughter comes for a whirlwind visit, to pick up a car she had me look at. She's over the moon happy, she got a "bargain"; if you can call 4X the book value a bargain...
She manages to get the winter tires put on the following day, her old car to the wreckers, insurance - and I tell her to use the book value so she doesn't overpay on the GST, but the seller won't adjust the price on the bill of sale, fortunately she has a friendly insurance agent that suggests she rewrite the bill of sale, the price, and then when she does it again - still too high, the agent slips her a little slip of paper with the black-book price written on it, and she clues in.
So for her a successful trip and Friday morning she was off back to Nanaimo.
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My website, a few days, down, unable to log in. Call customer tech support, who assure me everything is fine on their end...
Tech support, you're damned. But that's all I needed, poked around the back end and discover my database had some sort of injection-session attack, filled it up, truncate all the useless queries so it's back up and running again and here I am.
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More clutter to be sorted through, the arrival of my chests of drawers means I need to attack my closet. Pushing my way through the bramble and briar of metal coathooks and thrice hung shirts, trousers, I'm more than half expecting to arrive in Narnia and meet Aslan.
Only, four bags of clothes to the thrift shop, 1 to the dumpster, 2 empty suitcases for somebody (?? Who ??), and I can see there's a wall at the back. I find an American Officer's jacket from the Korean war, phenomenal gilt buttons, this goes to Michael, mint condition, someone will want it.
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Then burger month, had two others, one at the lakeside, good but not a contender. And one from a burger place in town, same as always, just bigger, more processed cheese, more bacon, more beef, both delicious and disgusting, but again, not a contender.
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And work, unrelenting, full tilt from start to finish, a full on 10 KM, $1400 server marathon, this all to serve tables of two half a burger, tables of 4 2 burgers, again halved, this is one hell of a lot of running. And of course the kitchen is not keeping up, we're turning people away, advising to-go orders it'll be 45 minutes to an hour, it's pure unadulterated chaos, running out of glasses, and again, out of spoons, bowls, plates, chopsticks, cutlery, everything you might want to run a restaurant.
Damn I'll be glad when this month is over.
Otherwise, on season 3 of "Dark", the last season, fortunately, I'm curious how it'll wrap up but a poor choice, really, to watch this now, the season in the show too closely mirror those in town right now, the lowering grey clouds and snow lurking over both Nelson and Winden...
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