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Summer 2015 Paid
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And today I caught up with all the bills from the daughter's visit in the summer. A lean visit, we accomplished next to nothing on my list, yet still there were an abundance of pawns and debts outstanding that had to be caught up upon...today, for a limited time only, what's mine is mine. I should get rid of it quickly before all is lost...
Looking for a new car, the old one, well, it's done, even to buy a tire for it, given how long it has left, seems a waste, and so I"m shopping for the ultimate 4X4, in my mind a beat up old Mercedes jeep styled SUV, but I'm open, and so searching Kijiji I find not 1, but 2 1986 Volvo's, 240 DL, Manual Transmission, and everything looks as if it might be pawned again...but I can't, the daughter's due back at Xmas, that's the next imminent bill, afterwards, for a couple months at least, my money's my own...
Oh, and Xmas, probably too late now to even try or hope, but if I thought of the children (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!) and ordered them some online presents, some of them stand a roughly 24% chance of being here by then...
Promiscuity & Interconnectedness
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- Category: Ideas & Questions
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An interesting article on how women carry the Y chromosomes (or DNA) of former lovers about in their bodies.
Link: http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(05)00270-6/abstract
Which leads to a few questions & speculations, addressed here: http://jenapincott.com/do-you-carry-the-dna-of-your-former-lovers/
In a sense, though, if you've every done LSD or mushrooms, this should come as no surprise. We are all - at every scale and distance, inextricably intertwined, and our every interaction and idle thought shapes both ourselves and others. But if you haven't had that trip, well, consider this a little more proof to add to the pile...
Brilliance in Advertising
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Brilliance in Advertising. No, really...
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The best thing I've seen since the Old Spice Commercials. I don't have a TV, but I hope this is on it...
Little G & The Thrift Shop
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I'm at a thrift shop, a windowless, drab affair, 2 story building crammed with rubbish in no particular order, a sort of sort-and-find your own treasure affair. It's expensive, as they go, but I've managed to find a few treasures, a few wooden jewelry boxes, another, checking the price, for a moment I misread $12.00 as $120 and put it back, I can't afford it, then I check it again and realize my mistake...it's filled with secret doors and old mismatched earrings, cufflinks, I pile them all in the box, I'll sort it out and explore it later when I get home...
And there's a puppet, lobster, folkways, companion to one I bought for a fingerless friend, a crab, I put my hand in, the long claws can be pulled back to fit over your fingers, check the price, $3.00, fine, but it's scratched out, a note on the tag says it's $5.00, too much, this thrift shop is expensive...
I'm unpacking my finds in the bedroom, time now to go through them, see what I've found, the $12.00 jewelry box is the treasure, when I hear someone enter the house and come upstairs, looking through the doorway it's A****, little G's son, he's pulling, carrying a 4 year old boy up the stairs (her other child (???)), putting it in his room, he sees me, but says nothing, and I realize that I shouldn't be here, this isn't my home, and I'm going to catch it when little G finds out in a big way...
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