My Calgary
Gonna start an image blog of Calgary, the city that's perpetually under-construction and never, ever there. A melancholy day made worse by the landscape...
They're everywhere these, the roadside-flattened-squirrels; Calgary should make a giant welcome mat out of them, if only to protect you from the needles...
I should print up a bunch of Artists Cards and leave them at these little extemporaneous found-art discoveries...
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Watch Porn
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On my list of YouTube recommendations, sometimes it gets it right. 20 minutes of watching somebody unbox a shit-tonne of treasure - some absolutely fantastic finds - including the Digital Bulova Driver, The Vintage Rolex, Hamilton Electric...kinda makes me want to go garage saling real bad. I'm definitely going to check out his shop next time I'm in Edmonton.
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Drumheller
Today, quite possibly, quite likely given the weather, the last chance to go fossicking in Drumheller with the daughter.
A cool day, but better than weeks to come, we try a couple of new areas and find a new bonebed. The weather; cool, rainy, generally shit, and there's no climbing, the bentonite is far too slippery. But very shortly into the new bonebed I find this:
A reasonably large chunk of bone with a tooth embedded in it:
More clearly visible - the tooth at bottom indenting into the bone, just guessing but maybe Spinosaurus? The tooth measures approximately an inch, although I'd need to get a dental pick and clean it to be certain. What is cool - that something attempted to eat something else and left a bit of itself behind...
A piece of turtella, or fossilized shell accretion. Might polish up and look quite pretty.
And a couple of other smaller bones, more definition than most, one - maybe both - appear to be toe bones.
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The Asshole Landlord
Email today, bright and early, from the landlord telling me to pay my rent today.
Hmmm. That's odd, my rent cycle is in the middle of the month - I offered to top up the difference to make it month-end to month-end when I took the lease, but he declined. So I forward him the receipt showing his acceptance of the e-transfer on October 2nd. And then I forward him the rent to mid-December.
No reply. Not an "oops" or "sorry" or nothing. He's an asshole. Now I've paid my rent for the past year largely 2-3 weeks and even months in advance - and never a word of thanks. But - if he imagines I'm paying it even a day late - he's on the computer sending me emails.
I still have to live here or I'd publish the weasels name, but it puts a fire under my ass to get out.
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