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CraZy SumMer DaYs
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And the days have suddenly gone insane, previously, busy, but in spurts of an hour, now, 2, 3 hours, non-stop all day, people have gotten used to higher prices, it's the same all over, everywhere, there's no getting away from it, patio, restaurant, full, if you're lucky 3 staff, usually just two.
Full on gong show.
Tell the customers - "Sit at any Clean Table", and they'll undoubtedly find the dirtiest table, husband gotten up to pay, wife in bathroom with child, and seat themselves there, like swine the lure of filth is too attractive and steam whistling from my ears they pretend not to understand English.
Sunday, Monday, we're busy, Tuesday the pace is furious, we're the only show open between Nelson and Nakusp, and paving & construction on the road means no one is taking the time to go to town.
Manners, people, manners, and did the Pandemic teach you nothing?
That said, there's the regulars, who've gotten used to it, and so you do what you can when thrown in the trenches but what you can is seldom enough.
7 weeks left of this, the full tilt madness, then it will drop an order of magnitude, things will once again be manageable, but surviving these 8, 9 hour days until then, I'm not sure there's enough Vodka in all the Kootenays...
On a more pleasant note, a rather charming drawing of yours truly done by a child customer when I attempted to ID her for her Shirley Temple...
The resemblance is obvious.
Fishhook (??) & Scraper
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The other morning, a long beachcomb after the winds of Sunday. Turning up a fishhook (paleolithic), scrapers, flints, and a whole host of other assorted rocks.
Also found a loonie, used for scale. Some knobs of tourmaline schist to the left Kootenay Argillite in the center (the greenish-to-greyish material) in the right.
Above the loonie, top, orange, no local material (jasper) that had me stumped - a drill? - but a bit of searching informed me it was likely a fishhook. Clearly worked to a sharp point it would have been attached to a stick via the indents.
Below that a heavily worked scraper.
The early bird...
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This morning, after a record stint of days off, shit, shower and shave at Kokanee creek and early to work.
The rain on Monday and Tuesday will be sure to have exposed some treasures.
And, sure enough, just in the water lapping the shore:
This could almost make me want to go to work...
Other than this; a few flakes, couple of large pieces of flint/jasper, one worked into a scraper.
I would not object to it raining all summer.
Wes Anderson - Asteroid City
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His inimitable style, taken to it's logical extreme. Masterful color palette, direction, sets, stellar cast (all of Hollywood by now is begging the most trifling of cameos), clever story, witty dialogue.
5/5 stars. He's nothing profound to say, but he says it with such charm...
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