3 days and counting

Amorphous plans. The day off this week usurped to business requirements, predictable, somehow, and so what should be 2 days off and counting (today a day off) is now 3 days and counting. Only 3 days.

There's much to do, and time runs out. The restaurant, always insanely busy, late departures (11:00, 11:30 PM), trip to the thrift shop this morning, picked up a sleeping bag, booked appointment with dentist, called landlord and advised of my notice (message left on machine, hate that), there's the organization of 1000 things that need doing before I can finally leave...

And the computer's acting up, scanned for viruses, issues persist. It's Telus, their modem, their security suite, but it's bigger than that. Windows Live Messenger crashes on boot up, and while I never use it it annoys me that it's not working. And I'm unable to burn discs, the PC goes through the motions, but when attempting to play the disc I find it's blank. No errors, just that the disc hasn't been burned. The desktop icons are rearranged every time I log in, I used to sort them, there was order of sort but it's undone now with every hibernation or reboot. Trivial things that annoy you and consume your time.

Time passes.

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Category: Miscellany

Created: 29 July 2010

Ansel Adams Negatives

From CNN, man goes garage saling, spends $45.00, makes $200, 000, 000. Not a bad return. Read more here.

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Category: Found

Created: 29 July 2010

Treasure of Lima

This is one that you see cropping up every couple of years in the media (always false reports, the treasure has yet to be found):

Link: The Treasure of Lima - Wiki

Link: The Telegraph on the Current Contender 

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Category: Lost

Created: 27 July 2010

Big Talker at 7-11

And I've piled the laundry on the bed and head down to 7/11. I need a slurpee, some cigarettes, maybe (although I'm not consciously thinking it, if I did I wouldn't go) a bite to eat.

And there's Big Talker, working behind the counter, he's got his "I'm a Trainee" badge on and I'm surprised to see him there, but only for a moment, it makes sense, probably his son got tired of paying the rent and made him get a job and I notice, only for a moment, a slight glimmer of schadenfreude; how the mighty are laid low, but there's some conscious wrestling as I'm paying, he's messing up big time, can't ring in my cigarettes, food properly, he's given me the incorrect change and I begin to feel wretched - ashamed that in any way I should take pleasure in another's misfortune, ashamed because in a couple of short months that could be, may well be, probably will be me, ashamed because while I've overheard all the talk of the big deals going down, (rather sceptically), he's done nothing to hurt or offend me, and I just want to hurry and pay and get out of there...

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Category: People

Created: 26 July 2010