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The Idiot
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's always the same shit, a different pile. The owner's son - Think the Bosses Nephew, only without his intelligence, good looks and charm, he's been dogging it for the last few weeks, working every other day, "Managing" the rest, which is to say in the office talking to his wife on the phone, he misses her, it's been hours, or going upstairs to visit his folks, he misses them, it's been hours as well, and his absence is perhaps the best thing about him. Customers, the ones with brains (not many, not out here), they are quick to note his insincerity, his ... well, -- something's off.
He's never worked in a restaurant other than this, for anyone other than his folks, and so his "experience" is more a lack thereof, and sometimes...sometimes...
They're going to start metering the water, and he warns me to stop giving the customers free glasses of water. I just look at him..."It's all about the costs.." he tries to tell me...
...and then, in the kitchen one day, he's doing cold side, I order a salad, split, and he tells me how much work it is, "I have to put it into two bowls!! TWO BOWLS!!", he warns me to never do it again, and I give him that sustained look of "WTF Buddy, are you an idiot?" but he merely trenches in, digs in a bit deeper, elaborates, he can see my expression, I must be stupid if I can't understand how much work that is and I get that 2 bowls, for him, that's a lot of work ...
He wants to be a politician, a few people, they say he'd be good, they don't mean it kindly, and he complains that he was bullied as a child, I can understand, but his very survival is proof that he wasn't bullied near enough...
The Favorite
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By the director of "The Lobster", whose films seem to be a little more engaging and intelligent than most.
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If, When I get back to civilization, get a place to live, I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do...
Small Beryls
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Finally, my 8th attempt in perhaps 3 weeks to get out and close to the areas I want. Close, closer, but the logging roads divide and multiply and I'm never quite sure where I am, I have only a rough number of KM up a logging road that becomes 2 and then 3 and then 6, and when finally I've explored every dead end the day is almost over and I'm parched and well devoured by black flies and mosquitos.
The geography up here, it's perfect, even the feldspar crystals in the granite are a couple of inches big, pyrite crystals a quarter inch, the whole mountain was slow to cool, and from here it's just get out and walk and explore...
On the way back, long road, I stop and explore a couple of roadcuts of interest, and finally find something, hard to see in the overwhelming, bright light of day, but I pack it home to check later. A white, degrading feldspar filled with smoky quartz, mica, some black tourmaline or schorl...
And, under better examination, more time:
Beryls. Small, pale blue-green crystals, some with good shape, none larger than a half a centimeter in the micah/black tourmaline/smoky quartz matrix, but what I'm here for.
Now to return, dig deeper, follow the vein up or down the mountain and see if I can't find better...
Double Rainbow
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Spotted this one a couple of weeks ago:
This place is really quite infested with them. Must be all the unicorns.
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