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A 552 Carat Yellow Diamond, Diavek, NWT
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Headline says it all: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/large-diamond-dominion-nwt-1.4946571
The biggest diamond found so far in North America.
A hit gone terribly wrong
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm in front of a convenience in my jeep, trying to get some sleep. An old 70's Cadillac, black sun-bleached paint, going back and forth in the parking lot, I can't see a driver...
I fall asleep, wake up a couple of hours later, am going to go home. The sun is low in the sky, it's autumn, I'm driving home, through suburbs that remind me of Edmonton, my teen years, passing a walk-up apartment block there's 27 bodies (??) on the front lawn, all of them draped in white sheets, there are cops, ambulances, it's a drug related hit gone wrong, they didn't get the right apartment and so hit the whole building...
At home I'm telling Mom and Dad, they're upset, it's not their neighborhood, not the one they knew, I'm reassuring them, this crime, it's just an anomaly, a blip, things here are as safe as they've ever been...
(**Weird, filled with evocations of being a teenager again, the old neighborhoods-not neighborhoods, suburbs that remind you, evoke Edmonton...)
A new Cell-Phone
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Every time. My contract expires, I start getting text messages telling me that my contract expired, that I'm due for a free upgrade. I ignore them, my phone, it's working great, what would I need another for?
But one day, maybe 6 months out of contract, the "company" has had enough of my resistance, charging the phone and it fails. Charging is when it updates, I'm suspicious, according to the display the battery isn't charging, but - it's a bit of a coincidence, the phone, it's like new, A Samsung Galaxy Neo 5, and every time I'm just out of contract the old phone mysteriously dies and I have to get a new phone, change my agreement, upgrade my service...
The new phone, a Huawei, the same as is in the news, an absolutely great camera on it, amazing, otherwise it's still a damned phone, only now I'm allowed more texting and day to day internet insanity than I would ever have needed or dreamed I could afford.
Leaving ...
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Finally, Finished work, been to the Kootenay Rave, To Victoria to visit my son, and back, and it's time now to start heading towards Calgary. But a last couple of photos from the D&D before I leave:
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