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Gold Nuggets and Tent Pegs
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The title says it all. Now were I finding these things pulling up Tent Pegs I'd be back with a metal detector and shovel within hours - this is a stroke of good fortune that I'd need to be out and about a great deal more than I've been. Anyways the fact that he didn't give a more precise area suggests he might be off doing that very thing...
Free Pho &
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Meanwhile, Tuesday, day off, a few chores done before I flushed it down the toilet.
Books, done, I went light, big books, "The Complete Charles Dickens..." heavy to carry, light on the cash. But they took them.
An email from a local restaurant, I'm due a free Pho, "won", I downloaded their app and then never used it, probably a win-back on their promotions front. So - for lunch, Pho it is. Pho is good. And after Pho I get an email promising me a free dessert, but that will have to wait until next week.
Neighbour, "Kramer" needs a hundred dollars to invest in her online crypto scheming, she'll e-transfer me the money. "Sure" I say and duty obliged wait for the transfer. It's not forthcoming. She comes over and I am a little sauced and confrontational and mention it. No money arrives. Now - not a big deal, I never lend money (anymore, not since Sam at Da Guido's) with the expectation of return, but this woman has perverted the word "borrow" to such an extent I feel obliged to correct her.
She's not pleased. She's down thousands borrowing from the Bank of Rod, and Rod's been a little too lax in collecting. Bank of Rod owes the Bank of Alberta thousands due to Rod's easy lending policies. Bank of Rod is exhausted.
Neighbour is not happy.
Fortunately she walks out before things get ugly. They were already ugly, just getting more so, I hate dealing with money, find it vulgar, as must she, but sometimes things have to be said.
Today, work, another shift picked up, I have bills, need to work more so neighbours can "borrow" more, and bills of my own long overdue, so - Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho...
Big Cats in Britain
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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This has been a thing since long before I lived in Britain, and continues to be a thing even now.
Big cats, Melanistic Leopards, Pumas or wildcats, supposedly from the 60's when they were kept as pet and then set free...
Amazing to think that a viable population of big cats could survive undetected in a such a highly urbanized area the size of Great Britain, roughly 1/3 the size of Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Links: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-dna-evidence-confirms-presence-of-big-cats-in-the-uk & https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/big-cats-in-british-countryside
Maybe Bigfoot is real after all? I need to talk to Mrs. Notkenny Hicks...
And this gives hope for the Thylacine, "Tasmanian Tiger", frequently reported as sighted but no evidence has been forthcoming. That would be a success story.
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Fine, a bit long, great casting, loved the scene where Brad Pitt drives into the ranch and is assaulted by the longing glances of pubescent teenage girls. And a fine bit of meta-violence when the Mansons come to visit.
Amusing, Tarantino did well. But - no epiphanies or revelations here, merely Hollywood promoting Hollywood, and in that sense a bit self-indulgent and reminding me of Babylon...
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