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Sat, 2010-04-17 09:15

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Michelle

Just a lazy day...whatcha up to?

Actually, today won't be completely lazy for me - in fact, I even have to work for a few hours this afternoon at my regular weekday job.

But my son is with his dad, rr is off doing geeky radio stuff for the weekend with his radio friends, and I'm hanging out this morning and enjoying relaxing.

I don't even mind doing some housework at a slow pace when I have time to hang out at home and relax in between chores. The dishwasher is going (finally), and I have lots of laundry to do. I also wanted to plant an asparagus bed and perhaps some spinach and lettuce. I also need to do some rabble work that I've been looking for a few free hours at the same time to get done.

So really, not overly lazy. But it still feels like laziness because I can do it at my own pace.

I'm planning to take a few long weekends next month, just because. Just because it'll be nice to have three or four day workweeks for a little while. No major plans (although we might leave town the weekend before May 24). Just getting some stuff done around the house, stuff I never seem to have time to do anymore because I'm working too much.

I think, in the next world, we should make it so that no one has to work if they don't feel like it. Wouldn't that be nice? We work entirely too much in this one.

Sat, 2010-04-17 09:31

#2

Stargazer

We do work entirely too much. Five days of our lives are spent at work. We spend more time with strangers than with our family and friends.

My weekend is going to be the usual - clean up the place - because I can't do it during the week - probably do a bit of grocery shopping, some brunch tomorrow at The Only Cafe (my usual weekend brunch spot), maybe spend some time putting my photography together.

Oh and start watching Mad Men.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:12

#3

Papal Bull

I work today and tomorrow. Then I have 5 exams next week, as well as a driving lesson.

This weekend I am going to basically rewrite all of my homework assignments for my builing design class, and put in 2 or 3 hours of struggling against thermodynamics.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:24

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skdadl

I am a retired person. I never do anything but change the cat boxes and read about torture on the internets. It's a full life.

Actually, I will hobble up to the sexy butchers' in a while if I can face putting on some clothes. (Gah! No! Not that!) Such nice young men in there hacking and hewing at the carcasses. Great cheese, real bread, some local produce, and Kicking Horse coffee. No ciggies, though. I wish they'd sell ciggies. Wine would be good too.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:27

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Boom Boom

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Trying to keep warm. It's cold here, and my house (a trailer conversion, basically a metal box on top of a concrete foundation) is colder.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:39

#6

Michelle

Well, I just emptied the clean dishes from the dishwasher, put all the dirty ones waiting on the counter in, scooped the cat litter and swept around it. I forgot just how much fun cat litter can be. Not.

I think one of my chores today will be to go to the pet store and get a huge cat litter box with a lid on it for kitty cat. I'm so tired of walking through cat litter all over the floor that kitty kicks out. I think he does it on purpose, as revenge for not letting him outside. Either that or it's because he's so big that there isn't enough room for him in the one we have.

But he's such a sweetie anyhow. :) He looks a bit like your kitty in your avatar on...holy jebus, I just went and looked for your avatar on BnR and the whole site looks different, skdadl! Very nice. :) What software are you using for that?

Anyhow, he looks a bit like the black and white kitty on the avatar you USED to have on BnR. :) Except I think yours is thin and ours is fat. (I say that in the nicest way - gloriously, beautifully, cuddlingly fat.)

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:44

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oldgoat

So far I've gotten the car in for seasonal tire change, oil change and brakes, dragged a couple of old futons from the basement and stuffed them in the van, started to clean out the garage with more stuff going in the van, now I'm off to the dump. Then I'm going to Peterborough to help my daughter start moving out of residence for the summer.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:55

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Papal Bull

I took my dogs out to the park for a bit of a walk today. I found a 20 on the ground. The little diner near my house has a 3 dollar giant breakfast - greasy as anything. I'm thinking I'm hitting up their before noon special and starting my day right - with about a million slices of bacons.

Sat, 2010-04-17 10:56

#9

Papal Bull

I looked around the park to find an owner, btw. But it was covered in mud and sitting under the soccer bleachers. Good times.

Sat, 2010-04-17 11:03

Michelle

Score! Good for you, Papal Bull. That's a nice bit of luck for a Saturday morning. Sorry you have to work today, but hopefully you can have other lazy days. :)

I just wrote an e-mail to Dalton McGuinty telling him to restore funding to Transit City using this form.

And now, I'm off to put my wet laundry in the dryer and start another load. Very exciting.

Sat, 2010-04-17 11:08

skdadl

Great start to the day, PB.

I wasn't sure whether it would be appropriate to mention the BnR move, Michelle, but yes, Debra just took us all through some warpspace yesterday. We're still at the stage where people are wandering around trying to figure out how to make it work -- you'll know the experience. You'll have to ask Debra the tech questions -- I do not know how she does it, but she does it all herself. And she stays patient through the whole thing, whereas a lot of us are given to having hissy fits when we can't find the smilies.

My avatar used to be my sainted Oyster, who was a silver tabby, grey and white, and actually quite fat, although that was a flattering pose for her. My next task is getting her up again, I guess. Not quite ready for another hissy fit though.

Sat, 2010-04-17 11:41

Michelle

Smart gril, that Debra. :) Anyhow, looks like it's gonna be good.

Ah, so he was chubby too, huh? Is it a black-and-white cat thing, I wonder?

You know, I always find it so interesting about cats. I have had fat cats and skinny cats. I wonder what it is about some cats who will eat and eat and eat and eat as long as there's food there, but then others will just eat enough and then wander off. I grew up with an orange and white tabble who was the latter type - we could just stick a bunch of food in his dish and leave it for a day or two, and he'd wander by when hungry. A scrawny fighter, that one - outdoor cat, too, so maybe he got "extras" outside, I don't know.

Anyhow, then when I was around 20 or 21, I had another beautiful orange and white one - I think I chose him because he reminded me of the one I grew up with, although he had longer hair than the first one. So, I did the same thing - left food out for him the way we did with the other one. But in a few months, he started to get fat, I think before I even realized it was happening. And I thought, that's weird - I wonder why that's happening? :) But at that point, the habit of eating too much was set, and he never did get thin - it's really hard to resist a cat who wakes you up at 4 a.m. demanding food. :)

Sat, 2010-04-17 11:43

Bubbles

Like Old Goat, I am off to the dump, or rather to the scrap dealer. Loaded the trailer full with metal junk and hope to get my gas money for it. The rest of the family is picking garbage from the road side with other community members.

One of our goats had a kid this morning and another has a congested udder, so have to do some udder massaging.

Have a nice day.

Sat, 2010-04-17 11:54

Michelle

I'll be going to this event this afternoon. I have to get there at 2 to help set things up. The outfit I'm going to wear is in the washing machine right now. (Seriously, we got WAY behind on the laundry.) Guess I was a little TOO lazy this morning! I probably could have had three or four loads of laundry done by now had I been on the ball.

(BTW, if anyone wants to donate to the Norma Scarborough Emergency Fund at Canadians for Choice, you can do so easily online at that link. Money goes towards financially helping women with no abortion services in their area with travel/accommodation costs if they need to go out of town to have an abortion.)

Here's a more detailed event announcement if anyone having a lazy day in Toronto wants to come out at 3 p.m. :)

Sat, 2010-04-17 12:26

skdadl

RE the fat cats and the thin cats: I don't think there's a rule -- even how much they eat doesn't always determine much, near as I can tell. Right now, eg, I have two sibling pairs, and in each pair, there's one fat and one long lean and leggy, and that has been true since they were about two maybe. If anything, Mathilda (14) and Philibert (11) (who aren't related), the two long lean ones, are more demanding about food and eat more than anyone else -- they just burn it up through nervous energy, I guess. Minnie, Tildie's sister, is enormously fat, very like Oyster, and Olive, Phillie's sister, is a little butterball with very short legs and almost no neck.

Guinevere (13) is a runt, always has been, eats tons, weighs about five pounds. The only one who I fear is fat because she's eating too much and not getting enough exercise is the baby, Gracie (3), who is so sweet but who won't leave my office because she is madly afeard of Phillie. Some day I'll tell you her story -- she comes from my old corner store, which is run by the wonderful Grace and family. She's never adjusted to wet food and doesn't come to the kitchen with the others for meals; she just eats her IAMS and ... gets fat. Sometimes I take her down to the kitchen, but she freaks out, crawls about nervously for a while, and then beats it back upstairs to safety. She is so pretty, but I don't know what to do about this. I might take her outside on a leash, but that will terrify her at first -- she's never been out.

Sat, 2010-04-17 13:05

al-Qa'bong

This thread reminds me of this song.

Yep, I figger I'll take down the rink boards today and try to clean up the back yard a bit. I have to go to Early's and look for seeds and something Mme. Qa'bong wants to find.

We had our hockey windup at a sports bar last night, so I'm moving slower than usual, which is nigh onto a glacial pace on the best of Saturdays.

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This weekend I am going to basically rewrite all of my homework assignments for my builing design class, and put in 2 or 3 hours of struggling against thermodynamics.

Hang in there, PB. I had a student a few years back who made an "I Hate Thermo" t-shirt, so don't feel alone in your suffering.

Sat, 2010-04-17 13:33

skdadl

On edit: Hmmn. I don't think I want to do that. I shall have to take tech advice first.

Sat, 2010-04-17 14:03

Papal Bull

I managed to make it down 'record store day'. Picked up some good ol timey stuff! 'Royal Polka Kings' some good ol' prairie Ukie musics. I also picked up a Balalaika album, which you don't find all that often. I got Kings of the Steel Guitar, which had a recording of Hillbilly Hula by Jenks Carmen that I wanted (for 2 bucks!)

Finally, the 180 gram release of The Harder They Come. Wicked ST.

Also, my breakfast was great. I sat around reading about caulking. You know what? I'm supposedly all grown up and mature, but when you are reading a paragraph that says 'the caulk comes out clear and sticky, sometimes with a white or other coloured finish'. I dunno, but I can't help but laugh. The people at the restaurant thought it rather odd. So I tossed that in my big ol' bag and hauled out 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' to read. Almost done. I love William Gibson's work. I remember reading Neuromancer in grade 10, kicked me off into a habit of writing really weird fiction. But yeah, that breakfast was great. 4 bucks - got three over easy eggs, some good rye bread, a nice hash of potatos and onion in curry powder and some kick ass nice, thick peameal bacon. I hadn't had a breakfast that good in a while.

Go to work at 5. I've got my thermodynamics notes on the ready (still need to print off about 20 pages worth of assignments that one of the other students sent for me to study from) and have a final take home test to do on housing construction. Get all my notes together for my housing final (OPEN BOOK, YEEE!) on Monday - gotta remember my calculator and architectural drawings. And then after that I have a make-up test in electricity. Tuesday I've got thermodynamics (working on my crib sheet tonight, getting together a study folder, blah!). Then I have an ethics exam on Thursday - no way in hell I'm studying for that. I actually tried to get the teacher to exempt me from the class, he didn't buy my excuse on why I shouldn't have to take 'Law and Ethics' - "I'm above the law and ethics hold me back". Finally, my electricity final is on Friday - so I need to get a crib sheet together, gather up all my labs and assignments and study.

Does anyone else here read Joe Haldeman? If so, check out his book "All My Sins Remembered". It is a lot of fun - quick read too.

Sat, 2010-04-17 14:11

N.Beltov

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Yea, it's raining here so that helps. I've got a small assignment and an exam to prepare for. I've also finally started reading The Phenomenology of Mind and it feels like a guilty pleasure.

I'm happy to report that I've resisted the urge to watch hockey all day. However, with my tendency to write everything down, I have a crosstable with all the teams in the playoffs and I expect to fill it in as the process goes forward. Must be my inner administrator or something. lol.

Sat, 2010-04-17 14:29

al-Qa'bong

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You know what? I'm supposedly all grown up and mature, but when you are reading a paragraph that says 'the caulk comes out clear and sticky, sometimes with a white or other coloured finish'. I dunno, but I can't help but laugh.

Laughter is a sign of maturity.

Carry on.

Sat, 2010-04-17 14:50

scott

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I only get one day off a week and this is it. Today is the first proper no jacket day in rEdmonton and everyone is on the street. There are laundry and groceries to do later but I started the day at the local cafe. I read the entertainment weeklies while I had bison bratwurst with a poached egg and some home fries, all washed down with a glass of Belgian ale. Later I will cruise the opticians for some new glasses.

Sat, 2010-04-17 15:48

N.Beltov

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There's a lot of what could be called price gouging wrt glasses. Look around.

Sat, 2010-04-17 19:49

Michelle

Memories are good, Webgear. Sorry for your loss.

I actually didn't know the woman whose memorial I went to this afternoon. Clearly, most of the people there did. It was interesting, being in a room full of people who had such personal and funny and lovely memories of a women who was also notable due to her role in the women's movement. It was a really, really nice way to spend the afternoon and early evening.

Sat, 2010-04-17 21:18

Papal Bull

Michelle wrote:

Memories are good, Webgear. Sorry for your loss.

I actually didn't know the woman whose memorial I went to this afternoon. Clearly, most of the people there did. It was interesting, being in a room full of people who had such personal and funny and lovely memories of a women who was also notable due to her role in the women's movement. It was a really, really nice way to spend the afternoon and early evening.

Indeed, WG.

This reminds me of last summer when a friend passed on. It was the first time that I'd had a friend die, so it was an occassion with a lot of meaning for me.

As for today? I managed to study for a few hours so far. Maybe two or three? Did about 5 thermo problems and summarized two building chapters.

Not as productive as I'd like, but better than nothing? At least I watched the new Doctor Who today (PS: IT RULES)

Sat, 2010-04-17 21:46

Boom Boom

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I have to get new glasses, but the one optician east of Sept-Iles charges what the market will bear - $700 for one pair! I can get the same glasses in Ottawa or any other city for about less than half that amount. And my health care coverage doesn't include presciption glasses.

Sat, 2010-04-17 22:46

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Not a relaxed day at Casa Bandit. The blond guy is out of the country shooting, so I am wrangling wild girls solo. First thing, get Ms T to kung fu. Join her at the school for my class an hour later. Rush home and get kids fed, take shower. Discover that the water is only tepid. Check basement. Water heater is leaking. Turn off water, go to a protest to help save our provincial public broadcaster, SCN, slated for closure in 2 weeks. Give kids sidewalk chalk and paint, help with petitions, etc. Get kids home, call water heater guy, who may get to me by day's end, but may not. Realize that the kids are filthy and there is no warm water, cross fingers. Start soaking up water in the basement, clean the kids playroom (have to pull the area rug out anyway). Still waiting for repair guy, take down Christmas lights and sweep off porch. Guy arrives! Pull out bins of summer clothes (had to move them anyway). Cull through summer clothes to see what fits while water heater being replaced. Wait for the water to heat up so we can do dishes and hose down the offspring.

That's pretty much it. Oh, and emails so we can organize the next step of the SCN thingy. And some work I've brought home that I'll work on later, when the kids are in bed.

I need a beer.

Sun, 2010-04-18 00:14

al-Qa'bong

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Water heater is leaking. Turn off water, go to a protest to help save our provincial public broadcaster, SCN, slated for closure in 2 weeks.

What? I hadn't heard about this before.

Sun, 2010-04-18 03:24

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al-Qa'bong wrote:

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Water heater is leaking. Turn off water, go to a protest to help save our provincial public broadcaster, SCN, slated for closure in 2 weeks.

What? I hadn't heard about this before.

Here's a link: http://www.scnmatters.ca/

It would be great if you'd send a letter (there's sample/form letters on the site), call your MLA, etc. The announcement was on budget day, so we've had a very short time to organize anything. I emcee'd a rally at the leg on Wednesday, got on the talk radio news...

Another link that explains the issues: http://www.leaderpost.com/Government%20fading%20black%20amid%20misinform...

Will stop with the thread drift now. Cheers!

Sun, 2010-04-18 08:38

Michelle

Wow, you had a late night, Timebandit! Hope you got your beer. And that's terrible re: SCN. Sorry to hear that! Cripes, that government of yours really sucks, doesn't it? Hope you get a better one next election. :(

Sun, 2010-04-18 09:23

skdadl

I'm surfing gardening pron and kitchen pron, my favourite Sunday time-wasters. I want a trad chef's/bbq apron, for instance. At the moment I'm torn between one that says "Just step back out of my kitchen and no one will get hurt" and one that says "WWJD? What would Julia do?" Whaddya think?

Sun, 2010-04-18 10:06

Boom Boom

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skdadl wrote:

I'm surfing gardening pron and kitchen pron, my favourite Sunday time-wasters. I want a trad chef's/bbq apron, for instance. At the moment I'm torn between one that says "Just step back out of my kitchen and no one will get hurt" and one that says "WWJD? What would Julia do?" Whaddya think?

What? No "Kiss the cook" ???

Sun, 2010-04-18 10:15

skdadl

Oh, there are lots of options for things you can do with the cook. This is a kind of sedate household though. We're kinda post-exchange of bodily fluids.

Sun, 2010-04-18 10:31

Papal Bull

I remember I was at a crafts sale a few years ago in Toronto and I saw a sort of HP Lovecraft themed apron. It had a picture of cthulhu and where the tentacles were were pouches - toss your spatula in there and whip up some madness inducing eggs from beyond the ether of space.

I also just discovered that pretty much every single classic Dr. Who episode is online. I just finished watching the very first.

I see no good coming of this.

Sun, 2010-04-18 10:33

Boom Boom

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Well, in that case, I'd go to the WWJD as a best choice.

Sun, 2010-04-18 10:36

Papal Bull

WG PM sent

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:21

Polly B

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Our snow has almost melted, leaving only spots here and there in the shade. So today - is Dog Poo day. I get the bucket and the shovel and the mutts follow me around, celebrating everytime we find an offering. Oh, and my girl dog will make the task as slow as she can by dropping a stick in front of me every six feet.

Still, beats being indoors :)

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:28

Michelle

I don't know, Boom Boom. I remember skdadl telling us at one point (I think?) that she's the type of cook who doesn't want help, doesn't want people meddling in her kitchen stuff, or to be distracted while putting a meal together. Right, skdadl? So I like the other apron.

But when you get right down to it - aprons get dirty, right? And you don't do the laundry every day (I assume, unless you're the ultimate FlyLady).

So I think this is one of those occasions that calls for choosing both. :)

(I know, I'm no help at all.)

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:32

Michelle

rr will be home from doing his radio geek stuff with the boys around noon, so maybe I'll be nice and make some lunch for us. Not sure what to make, though. I'm feeling too lazy to do anything major. And I haven't had a chance to go shopping this weekend, either.

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:39

Refuge

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Total lazy day for me. I was out of town visiting my partner Friday and Saturday, who is working in Barrie, then back for a friends Wedding Shower yesterday. Today I slept until 11 and now am giving into a bit of the nesting instinct to get the house ready for when baby arrives. But I plan to stay in my PJ's all day long while I do it!

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:48

Michelle

Baby! Baby?? Really??? Congratulations!!! :) Did you mention that on babble before, Refuge? If you come out to oldgoat's retirement party, I'll buy you a Shirley Temple in celebration. :D

Sun, 2010-04-18 11:53

Michelle

Polly, that's adorable that your dog drops sticks in front of you while you're outside. :) I once had a cat who fetched. It was so funny. The boyfriend I lived with at the time discovered it. The cat was bugging him while he was watching TV (I liked the cat a lot better than he did), so he threw the plastic bottle cap from a pop bottle down the hall to distract him. Kitty-cat trotted after it, picked it up, trotted back, and dropped it at his feet. So he and our roommate wanted to see if it was just a fluke, and he threw it again. Same thing.

He fetched those things for the rest of his life. (It was one of the few ways he got exercise - he was the big, fluffy, fat orange and white kitty I was talking about earlier.) It was quite amusing to everyone who met him.

Sun, 2010-04-18 14:42

Refuge

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Michelle wrote:

Baby! Baby?? Really??? Congratulations!!! :) Did you mention that on babble before, Refuge? If you come out to oldgoat's retirement party, I'll buy you a Shirley Temple in celebration. :D

Yep, I think I mentioned it before, not a formal thread but in the HIN1 thread (I got H1N1 at the beginning of my pregnancy) and an OMEGA thread. I am going to see if I can come to the party on the 26th. I know that I am free that night but sometimes I get to the end of the day and am just pooped (I am in my 7th month) so I will have to give a tentative yes.

I just have to pull myself away from babble right now, trying to get into some cleaning / nesting but babble keeps distracting me! Trying to do short breaks of cleaning and then short breaks of babbling but am finding that is turning into long breaks of babbling and short breaks of cleaning!

edited to add: oops I mean party on the 27th!

Sun, 2010-04-18 15:22

Papal Bull

Supposed to study at work today. Have headache from hell which is preventing me from concentrating. Took extra-strength tylenol and it did less than goggles in a flood of acid.

Sun, 2010-04-18 15:55

welder

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Watching a NASCAR rain delay and the White Sox botch another game against Cleveland...

Sun, 2010-04-18 15:58

Boom Boom

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Fours hours of landscaping today - trying to repair the lawn and driveway from all the sand that's blowing around and which probably took most of the topsoil with it.

Sun, 2010-04-18 16:11

al-Qa'bong

I've been out digging up the garden with the old fork. I'd better cool it before I raise blisters. I'm getting a bit of a sunburn too.

Tue, 2010-04-20 13:34

Caissa

Saturday was grocery shopping, a trip to Canada's first common law market for fresh produce, taking in Record Store Day with some new purcahes (Backstreet Records) and then out to my father in laws to do some chores.

Sunday afternoon was the closing party for our youngest son's curling season. So they celebrated by skating on the curling ice. It was our youngest (8) first time on skates. He'll be sticking with curling.

Thanks for starting this thread, Michelle.

Mon, 2010-04-26 16:52

al-Qa'bong

Yesterday I stayed inside and watched the previous night's snow melt.

No sunburn to report.

Mon, 2010-04-26 22:54

Michelle

I had Thursday and Friday off last week, so I got stuff done around the house (still). But because I did it at my own pace, I actually enjoyed it and felt rested by the end of the weekend.

Mon, 2010-04-26 23:07

Boom Boom

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In and out of the clinic most of the day - now have to wait to be airlifted out to Sept-Iles for treatment of an eye problem, gum disease (not cancerous) and a cyst. One of the disadvantages of living here is that we have to do a lot of travelling for medical services, sometimes at significant expense, although if a procedure is covered by medicare, then the travel is as well. But at least the air here is clean - when Toronto folks visit here, they can't breathe, so we usually see them at the back of vehicles sucking on exhaust pipes to get the air quality they're used to back home.

Mon, 2010-04-26 23:13

N.Beltov

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Had an enjoyable day on the water yesterday. Today the winds were much stronger, with some white caps, and it rained as well, so I was happy to be in doors and snuggly warm. I recorded "The Bicycle Thief" again and this time I will be sure to watch it. Italian neo-realism is, by all accounts, responsible for some great films.

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