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...and work has been a madhouse. Running, top speed, I should be in the Olympics, from the beginning to the end of the shift, non-stop, always 2, 3, 4 steps behind, there’s a line up at the door, turning people away. Rumour has it that we’ve a good burger. We do, I’ve tried it, and for sure it’s a contender, but we’ve doubled our volume and not our staff and the next three weeks will be trying indeed. Last night, $2200 ring-out in 4 1/2 hours, and this is not regular dining, this is a burger split between 2, 2 burgers split between 4, separate bills, keeping up with this - insane.
Nonetheless I’m still alive.
This week, looked at car for the daughter, twice, a long walk, she’s now booked a trip out to pick it up for Tuesday. So - for her a success.
And - more stuff to Michael’s little vintage booth; there’s a few fairs coming up, I’ve stocked him up with jackets and waist-coats & neckties & cufflinks & tie clips & belts & jackets and too much more to list.
It’s liberating to be getting rid of this stuff, this detritus that has been holding me back for how long, let it go, let it go.
I might be in a position to clean out the closet and sort my shirts, already discovering piles of clothes I’d forgotten I have.
The locker is still very much full.
Then, hey, if the closet clean-out works I can always try cleaning up the kitchen, but…1 step at a time. To consider it all is to be overwhelmed and paralytic and get nothing done.
While cleaning I listen to an NPR "This American Life" podcast on how our things come to own us...appropriate. This is how to get things done.
The chilli plants, finally, I had enough, the were in the end under the grow light 18 hours a day with limited progress, not worth the rain of debris, leaves, pollen, resin, then finally the small black flies and fungal gnats, the leaves were crawling and so I took them finally to the balcony to die…
All that work for what amounts to maybe 10 grams of tiny chilis. Definitely not worth the work. Or clean-up.
The genii-infested-oil-lamp, now ready for sale, had to make a custom part but look forward to hailing it to the antique shop Wednesday, they have a fine selection of candlesticks (largely mine) in their window, I’m pleased to note that some are selling…
Then there’s Kramer, who has decided that her place is haunted; she’s uncomfortable in it, and so has taken to making herself comfortable over at mine. Wake up in the morning to a clatter in the kitchen, it’s Kramer making herself a cup of coffee and cozy in my chair. Come home from work in the evening and it’s Kramer, just waiting in my place, not comfortable in hers.
Now, this is preposterous, see my place and wonder how anyone could be comfortable there, I’m not, it’s an asylum of unfinished art pieces, picture frames, paints, supplies, paper, ephemera…
And she’s not what you’d call great conversation, for the most part just trying to stay out of her own place by commandeering mine.
This catches us up. Today, more stuff to Michaels, breakfast, dishes, shave and clean the bathroom and I feel like calling it a success already yet there’s hours to go…
French gold hoard found digging in garden...
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A resident of Neuville-sur-Saone, near Lyon, discovers $1 000 000 worth of gold bars and coins while digging a swimming pool in his garden.
Note that it doesn't even appear to be that old...
And the Habsburg Florentine diamond has been found after a century's absence, right where they left it:
The Bunnik Hoard, found in the Netherlands by a couple of metal detectorists:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnik_Hoard
And the New Forest Hoard, a clump of gold tudor coins found while gardening, sell for over $700, 000 CDN at auction.
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgv6k5kgo
That's all the treasures for today, folks...
Katzen Symphonie
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Via the Public Domain Review, an 1868 drawing by Austrian painter Moritz von Schwind:
Shopping for used cars...
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This, on behalf of my daughter, she's found a used Toyota rav4, roughly around the year 2000. Conveniently located in Nelson, a "mere" 230+thousand K and "bargain" priced at $6200.
This is absurd.
I check the Edmund's price, it's worth roughly $1000. No shit. But - look around, shopping on Facebook and other sites, that's what they cost up here. More even.
Bullshit.
Nonetheless the daughter needs a new vehicle and so I, the dutiful dad, go to check it out.
4:00, down by the Orange Bridge, a 3 KM walk through the pissing rain, the owner, she shows up on time. I explain I'm shopping for my daughter and she wouldn't be able to make it out until the weekend but...she'll secure it with a deposit...."there's been a lot of interest" she tells me, ominously. She wants to sell it ASAP, I understand, but the ad went up on Monday and it hasn't yet sold. The vehicle, looks good, minimal damage, dings in the doors is all, great shape considering the year, it's getting dark already, there'll be no looking under the hood in this light, no crawling around underneath it given the rain, but lets go for a drive...
Note that while she has winter tires, it's equipped with summer tires, these will have to be switched out for the daughter to drive back...
Only it won't start. The battery's dead.
And so that's that.
Walk home in the pissing rain.
I take it in stride, she can let me know if she gets it running, 4:00 was not a good time to look at it anyways.
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Bloody hell, every used piece of shit by I've ever owned by today's pricing has appreciated 10 Fold. My Old Jeep Laredo, the one taken out by a logging truck, cost $2000, could have sold today for $5000, and that with the added mileage. The same for practically every other vehicle, and you have to wonder, when did vehicles become a "good investment"????
Annoyed.
The owner's messaged me, she's sourced the problem, will look at it again tomorrow. But...damn, this isn't ideal...
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