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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 14, 2022 21:13:31 GMT
Get them all a fishing license; nothing says romance more than a fishing license. I was thinking "give the gift of beef jerky"- but my wife doesn't eat it...
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Post by infant on Feb 14, 2022 21:34:48 GMT
Not a lot planned for today….shovel the overnight snow, chiro appointment this afternoon, pick up a Valentines cake ( I got flowers for my wife and daughter yesterday). Gonna cook something for dinner tonight….I’m thinking of veal Marsala or scallopini with mushroom risotto. I was going to pick up some beef tenderloin steaks and but my wife said that she’s not in a “steak mood”. Good idea there! I bought my wife flowers Friday night to beat the rush and the price gouging. I didn't get flowers for my daughters because they both have boyfriends and they can pick up the slack! Admittedly Valentine's Day is one of my very least favorite occasions of the year. At the risk of sounding like a grouch, I hate the imagery of hearts and Cupids and I don't like feeling obliged to buy flowers. I bought roses for my wife’s birthday 2 weeks ago for $24.99 in the flower shop at our grocery store. I was there today and I saw that the roses were going for $29.99. Talk about taking advantage of people….
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Post by infant on Feb 14, 2022 21:37:39 GMT
Get them all a fishing license; nothing says romance more than a fishing license. I was gonna get her a new frying pan but was afraid that she may hit me with it. Yikes!!!!
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2022 1:17:17 GMT
Well, coasting into another evening. Luckily no activities tonight but there is a bottle of wine in the house with my name on it. Just went for a walk with my wife- feels much colder out there (17°) than it is.
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Post by spellcaster on Feb 15, 2022 5:19:45 GMT
I'm having a bit better day today. My stomach problems have pretty much disappeared, and I think my back problems are on the mend after a long sleep this afternoon. I have a hell of a mess here after several days of neglecting housework and dishes, so I made a start on cleaning up, and my mess from working on the speaker box and having my stacks of gear apart needs to be dealt with, probably tomorrow. I'm get ready to send my tax information to the accountant to get last year's taxes done, so I spent tonight getting all my paperwork ready. It's the most productive day I've put in for a few days.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2022 12:33:12 GMT
I'm having a bit better day today. My stomach problems have pretty much disappeared, and I think my back problems are on the mend after a long sleep this afternoon. I have a hell of a mess here after several days of neglecting housework and dishes, so I made a start on cleaning up, and my mess from working on the speaker box and having my stacks of gear apart needs to be dealt with, probably tomorrow. I'm get ready to send my tax information to the accountant to get last year's taxes done, so I spent tonight getting all my paperwork ready. It's the most productive day I've put in for a few days. Yeah that reminds me, today is the day I meet with my tax accountant too. Generally we get a fair amount back but I'm not so sure about that this year because my wife had a second job that didn't deduct taxes, so all that will get put on the bill. I guess we'll see...
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Post by infant on Feb 15, 2022 13:01:55 GMT
I’m still waiting for some of my tax information from my bank and the govt. I’ve gotten most of it ready to go, I just have to plug in the numbers.
I had a bad sleep last night. I went to bed around 12:30 and woke up around 3am. Fell back asleep and woke up again in a cold sweat around 5:00 tossed and turned for another hour before I finally just got up.
I’m doing my daughter a favour this afternoon as she’s been looking for a barbell and weights and she’s asked me to go pick up a set that she found on Facebook Marketplace. The guy lives in an apartment building and I’m hoping that I don’t have to carry everything down to the parking lot by myself.
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Post by infant on Feb 15, 2022 13:05:17 GMT
I'm having a bit better day today. My stomach problems have pretty much disappeared, and I think my back problems are on the mend after a long sleep this afternoon. I have a hell of a mess here after several days of neglecting housework and dishes, so I made a start on cleaning up, and my mess from working on the speaker box and having my stacks of gear apart needs to be dealt with, probably tomorrow. I'm get ready to send my tax information to the accountant to get last year's taxes done, so I spent tonight getting all my paperwork ready. It's the most productive day I've put in for a few days. Just take it easy for another day or two.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2022 17:02:50 GMT
I’m still waiting for some of my tax information from my bank and the govt. I’ve gotten most of it ready to go, I just have to plug in the numbers. I had a bad sleep last night. I went to bed around 12:30 and woke up around 3am. Fell back asleep and woke up again in a cold sweat around 5:00 tossed and turned for another hour before I finally just got up. I’m doing my daughter a favour this afternoon as she’s been looking for a barbell and weights and she’s asked me to go pick up a set that she found on Facebook Marketplace. The guy lives in an apartment building and I’m hoping that I don’t have to carry everything down to the parking lot by myself. Because of my son's band business, my taxes are pretty complicated so I have the accountant do it all. There are all kinds of things to be estimated, like % of the house used for small business purposes and it is better to have him do that stuff!
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 15, 2022 17:03:59 GMT
Ugh, had to pick my daughter up from school today...
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Post by george on Feb 16, 2022 3:12:20 GMT
First day of martial law up here; haven’t noticed anything different so far, pretty much status quo. I wonder if it will be permanent… lol
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Post by infant on Feb 16, 2022 5:02:27 GMT
Ugh, had to pick my daughter up from school today... Hopefully nothing serious.
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Post by infant on Feb 16, 2022 5:12:07 GMT
First day of martial law up here; haven’t noticed anything different so far, pretty much status quo. I wonder if it will be permanent… lol Come on now....it's not martial law. He's just temporarily given the cops around the blockades more power. His dad did it in 1970 when the FLQ kidnapped British diplomat James Cross and Quebec minister Pierre Laporte ( who was later found dead). It won't affect you....unless you decide to go and park your truck at the foot of the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie
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Post by george on Feb 16, 2022 5:37:31 GMT
Yes, it’s a family tradition but that doesn’t make it ok. Try and spot the difference between now and back in 1970 when people were being kidnapped and murdered and there were bombs going off. The difference is a bit subtle but it’s there. Right now its just the people in Ottawa being inconvenienced by the fact that their pad Thai takeout is arriving late; a bit different than the FLQ crisis in 70. Then consider that Caledonia has been under a much worse siege for many years where the police turn their back on criminal assault because the people carrying out the assault are a protected class. Another thing is that the current war measures lockdown goes beyond the localized area in Ottawa and includes interfering with banking, businesses and includes attempting to contact trace individuals who may have donated money. It also allows the government to seize privately owned tow trucks and force the operators to remove the vehicles currently in the blockade; presumably that will be done at the end of a gun if the operators don’t comply. I have read much of the material that was before the courts in the Caledonia lawsuits; and if even half of it is true you people up here will not know what hit you.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2022 12:28:36 GMT
Ugh, had to pick my daughter up from school today... Hopefully nothing serious. Luckily nothing really serious this time- but serious enough to need to get her!
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2022 12:40:08 GMT
Well met up with the tax accountant yesterday and I doubt I'll be getting any sort of a refund this year and might even have to pay. For some reason my wife's employer is not deducting any taxes for her at all, which means I will have to pay taxes on all of it. I need to have her look into this!
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Post by infant on Feb 16, 2022 14:49:32 GMT
Yes, it’s a family tradition but that doesn’t make it ok. Try and spot the difference between now and back in 1970 when people were being kidnapped and murdered and there were bombs going off. The difference is a bit subtle but it’s there. Right now its just the people in Ottawa being inconvenienced by the fact that their pad Thai takeout is arriving late; a bit different than the FLQ crisis in 70. Then consider that Caledonia has been under a much worse siege for many years where the police turn their back on criminal assault because the people carrying out the assault are a protected class. Another thing is that the current war measures lockdown goes beyond the localized area in Ottawa and includes interfering with banking, businesses and includes attempting to contact trace individuals who may have donated money. It also allows the government to seize privately owned tow trucks and force the operators to remove the vehicles currently in the blockade; presumably that will be done at the end of a gun if the operators don’t comply. I have read much of the material that was before the courts in the Caledonia lawsuits; and if even half of it is true you people up here will not know what hit you. My daughter works at the Jukasa Recording Studio on the reserve near Caledonia. She is affected every time they shut down the Hwy 6 bypass or take over a piece of land. She just wishes they would keep to the properties affected and not block off roads as it becomes a huge inconvenience to the citizens and as we have seen in Caledonia as well as Ottawa, people stop sympathizing with the protesters. when they first heard about this protest, the Ottawa police and the OPP should have nipped it in the bud and blocked off the area. That was the mistake that led up to 3weeks of blockades. What would happen if they did this in front of the White House? I’m sure that they’d call in the National Guard or military to clear things out after a few days. We’ll have to wait and see because I’m sure it’s gonna happen south of the border soon. I’m not being political here but I feel that the border blockades were doing serious damage to both countries economies and the Ottawa protests were hurting local citizens and businesses. In Ottawa, they made their point, go home. At the borders, they hurt many peoples lives “on both sides” of the border. Then in Alberta, we had a group that was armed to fight the cops if they tried to break up the blockade. Why shouldn’t the government take measures to nip this in the bud? by the way, most of the restrictive mandates were put in place by the provincial governments, not the federal. So Trudeau had no jurisdiction over vaccine passports for restaurants, movies etc or limiting indoor and outdoor gathering sizes or even masks for that matter.
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Post by infant on Feb 16, 2022 16:12:48 GMT
My wife and I are going to the “Interactive Van Gogh” show this afternoon and then we are going to go out for a nice dinner somewhere. We’ve been looking forward to this for a while now as I had it previously booked for mid-January, until they closed all public venues (museums, sports facilities, theatres etc) in January due to a serious rise in Covid cases. This works out well as the show was a Christmas gift to my wife and the dinner will be a valentines dinner.
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Post by Bill h on Feb 16, 2022 16:29:22 GMT
First day of martial law up here; haven’t noticed anything different so far, pretty much status quo. I wonder if it will be permanent… lol Martial law? holy shit, the world has gone bananas!!!! It will be interesting to see what blowback comes of this.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 16, 2022 21:48:35 GMT
Good day at work. I put a lot of time into some background information for a presentation my boss had to make next week and he was really happy that I covered so many angles.
I'm really happy that tomorrow is Thursday- I have off Friday and Monday and it looks like my wife and I will go away for a couple of nights without the kids
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Post by infant on Feb 16, 2022 21:49:38 GMT
Opinion piece in the National Post written by Peter MacKay, former Conservative Minister of Justice, External Affairs and National Defence under Stephen Harper and Senator Vern White, former Ottawa police chief. Sounds like they agree that the occupation in Ottawa and border blockages are not protests but rather illegal activity that is a national security and economic threat. Maybe if the Conservatives had elected him as leader instead of “Erin the Tool” the conservatives may have been in power right now. nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-mackay-and-vern-white-whats-happening-in-ottawa-is-not-freedom-its-anarchy-on-display
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Post by spellcaster on Feb 17, 2022 14:33:46 GMT
It's going to be kind of a strange day. BC Hydro has scheduled a power outage starting at 10:00 AM to replace some power poles. So, I'll be off the grid for most of the day. I haven't a clue what I'll do while the hydro's out...Maybe take a cruise out to the used book store and look for something new to read.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 17, 2022 16:37:41 GMT
House is QUIET today. Kids and wife are all at work, school or both. Nice to have a quiet day.
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Post by infant on Feb 17, 2022 18:53:39 GMT
Stayed up late last night (2pm) to watch the Canada-US womens hockey gold medal game. So I woke up around 8:30 this morning. I did a Costco trip early today and also gassed up the car. I also got some gas for my snow thrower but I haven’t mixed the 2-stroke oil with it yet as the snowthrower is full and ready to go. It’s no use to mix the oil in it if I don’t have to as the snowthrower is my only 2 stroke machine.
Currently doing some laundry and then I’m gonna go play some guitar and wait for the snow.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 17, 2022 22:24:21 GMT
Yay, the work week is over! I have tomorrow and Monday off so I'm going away Saturday night with my wife after the gig and coming back sometime Monday.
I managed to avoid any non profit and work meetings until Tuesday
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Post by zontar on Feb 18, 2022 6:15:46 GMT
Well Saturday went well for most of it. We visited some friends who moved recently to a nearby town. I haven't seen their new place yet--it's much better for them & their kids than their last place--ahd a great visit, shared some food & got caught up on stuff. Then on the way home visited some family also in a nearby town. So had a good day of visiting (All Covid protocol compliant) But we got home & my son let us know an old friend of his, that he hasn't seen for a few years due to addiction problems caused him to drift away in his teens-and people lost track of him, had died. However it wasn't drug related. He had been getting help for his addictions & was apparently clean. Not much more detail yet though. He is still friends & keeps in touch with this friend's brothers (Living now in the US)-which is how my son found out about it) We are also friends with the family, and knew the friend who died. It's hard to see a young man who had fought against an addiction die for some other reason (Again--details unknown beyond that at this time.) And though it's been a while since my son has heard from this friend, or indeed since his brothers have--it hits hard--and we are grieving for this family and for my son. So most of the day went well, but it ended not so well,and worse for the family. That’s so sad. Prayers to the family.🙏🙏 Thanks
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Post by zontar on Feb 18, 2022 6:16:33 GMT
Get them all a fishing license; nothing says romance more than a fishing license. I was thinking "give the gift of beef jerky"- but my wife doesn't eat it... More for you then...
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Post by zontar on Feb 18, 2022 6:25:03 GMT
My sleep is still messed up & all sorts of other stuff going on--so I'm almost comatose by the time I get a chance to log on here. Have a bit of time tonight Still not a bad week.
Long weekend coming up
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 18, 2022 13:12:12 GMT
I was thinking "give the gift of beef jerky"- but my wife doesn't eat it... More for you then... Or my kids- any beef jerky that enters the house is quickly devoted by them
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Post by infant on Feb 18, 2022 13:19:39 GMT
Gonna go out and do a quick cleanup outside as I have a dentist appointment this morning. I’ll clean the rest of the snow when I get back. Dentist had a few cancellations and have moved up my appointment (after checking with me). I guess they want to go home early.
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