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6 days left
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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6 working days now until vacation, and the restaurant is as busy as ever. Busier, in fact.
And after work, the last bus home, almost crowded, everyone boarding and fumbling for out of date, post dated transfers, shortchanging the bus driver a quarter, arguing, pleading (everyone gets on the last bus, you only need to pass the interrogation. Which, depending on how you approach it -"I promise to pay more next time I get on the bus"... is quick or long, depending).
I sit and wait, it's been a long day, long night, I just want to get home and go to sleep.
7 days
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7 days until vacation, but who's counting? There are so many things to be done. Projects to be wrapped up, camping gear to acquire, plans to solidify; plans amorphous and changing....
Days at work pass slowly, there are the moments where I think that I can't leave, there's a recession on and jobs are hard to come by, then there are other moments, more common, where I remember my life and realize that I have to get out of there, whatever the cost. My investment is that of an owner, not an employee...
Things to do: Shrines, Theater, Write (some, more), start/finish book 1, 2, 3, read, listen to music, exercise, go to indy films, house parties, road trips through rural alberta, further afield, paint, there are 1000 reasons to leave the job, very few to stay: the money's good (I'm at work 60 hours a week) .. money's good... The classic conflicted internal dialogue.
Strange Music
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Almost 1 AM and there's construction on Crowchild, up late writing.
There's the beeping of vehicles in reverse, distant, erratic, and there's this deep bass, the distant echo of machinery off the sound-proof barricades, the digging of the earth, oddly melodious, it's strange music and I'm taking a moment to pause and listen..
Ishango bone
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The evolution of ideas..
The Ishango bone, various theories surrounding it's purpose the most persuasive of which imply that the people who created it had some knowledge or understanding of prime numbers.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone or read up on prime numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number. More interesting links from the Wiki.
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