Cheese products are being recalled across Canada over possible listeria contamination. Dozens of products, including prepared salads and meal kits, are affected.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All of them show two men in suit and tie, talking at an outdoor cafe. One man is a redhead with a mustac…
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If the US is the way I think it is, it's only a matter of time before another sociopathic narcissist sends us on the same kind of journey again. Trump no longer being president doesn't solve the systemic issues that led to his presidency. :/
Ugh, overslept, which isn't a big deal as I had to take today off. Getting to sleep was a challenge, but I mostly slept it through, I got up a little near 5, but mostly slept it through, but struggled to wake up. Still feeling like I'm struggling with that, but we've made and ate breakfast, though the cooking didn't go well, tried to flip the open face omelette to early, then got side tracked and over cooked the other side, then left the cheese on too long, almost made it crispy cheese. Edible, but subpar breakfast. Coffee doesn't seem to be helping with the sleepiness. Bleah, what kind of day can I look forward to?
Stretches, "Well, guess I'm up until… Dunno, woke up about 0130 to go to the bathroom, and kinda drifted in and out until 0315, and gave up. Wide awake, guess it means I've gone nocturnal again, or perhaps i've gone polyphasic, either way, we're up, eating breakfast (open faced Italian sausage omelet, taters and beans), and sorting things out. Bank account over drafted, oops, not like I don't have savings to cover it, just need to figure out what happened. I'd actually go do some work, but Amazon doesn't need any drivers at this time of night, nor do any of my other apps. Well, Roadie has(had?) a pharmacy order out of Granite City, but that's 20 miles away, and it paid like $30 for 35 miles from the pharmacy, so not exactly worth my time, especially as I have to be back here at 1000. So, what're y'all up to this chilly (15°C) morning?"
It's Thursday night and thus the start of our Easter holidays! Australia takes Easter very seriously, that and Christmas are the two biggest events in the calendar. Good Friday is a major public holiday and everything is closed. Most people have Easter Monday off as well but retail shops are open on a Saturday schedule and overtime rate.
Last year, the federal government said Canada Post would be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or convert some post offices.
Police Chief Kurt Frisz said a total of 10 officers will undergo an online, self-paced training that gives them quicker access to ICE in order to determine the status of individuals found without legal status.
💬 0 🔁 303 ❤️ 362 · THIS is the comic that has been banned · It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an er…
Call me crazy, but I don’t think an official government app should be loading executable code from a random person’s GitHub account. Or tracking your GPS location in the background. Or …
As if we needed any more evidence showing just how deep and thoroughly corrupted the Trump administration is. It’s an endless cycle of self-serving actions, pushed forward by bigots, grifters…
Ooops, guess I'm re-inventorying the comics, was trying to figure out how to remove some of the books and accidentally erased them all. 11000 comics… This is going to be a project to redo. Oh well, was already thinking of doing it as some books turned up around the library when I first did it, and around the house while doing the books, so things are a bit of a mess. Plus I used existing boxes, so I have a fair number of long boxes, it'd prolly be good to use only short boxes as there's already more of those. I think I'll be giving the graphic novels to the book buyers, they might not give me much for them, but with the scale of the collection, most shops won't give me much either, prolly 50¢/book, maybe 75¢ if I'm lucky, so its not like it'll hurt me, and it'll let me thin the collection down, prolly not enough to make a difference, but we'll see.
Ok, its been a rather productive week. I'd've done this as a #Loops video, but its back to crashing when I try to record there, so…
Any how, as I've mentioned in other posts, I've been working on blowing out my husband's book collection using apps, three apps to be precise. Sure, they don't pay great, and it leaves me to deal with the books they don't want, but its fast and convenient, and got rid of about 900 books. The result is that the library is much smaller, with the books fitting on one wall now, plus one case in the living room. That's down from around 9 cases downstairs, 2 in the living room and 1 in the bedroom.
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Those haven't gone to waste, being used to upgrade my bookcases in the bedroom and rearrange them a bit, that narrow case for example is going to be used as a display case.
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But, this is just the tip of the iceberg, I'm also replacing the bed, dropping down from Queen to TwinXL, and I had thought about relocating it to the one wall over there, since late 60's design only leaves me two walls to use, but I'm also thinking of moving my desks and computers in there, so that won't work. Sure, I could put the desks where the bed is now, but that'd leave one sticking out into the room, and I suspect that'd make moving around the room difficult. Putting them on the back wall, aside from the standard electrical nuisance that I'll need to fix, will make for a more balanced space where the bed is in the front, and the bookcases and desks are in the back. And the TV will be floating around, as there's no good space for it. I might throw out that stereo that's sitting on the floor, I'd bought it in a thrift store, and it works… so long as you don't want any lights or digital displays. I'd figured it'd be an easy fix, that'd have to be a lighting circuit common wire, right? Yeah, the design and wiring of that thing is a nightmare, and with my computer room stereo coming with the computers and desks, I don't really need it as I have a record player in the living room. It was cheap new, it was cheap used, and its prolly too much work to fix it so we'll see.
Any how, this is the most productive I've been since he passed, between how much has been on my plate since November, and a lack of motivation to do anything here, not much has been done. That said, time is never on my side, and I have a lot to do, tons to sell, throw, etc. I have for the last month or so been cleaning out the shed, throwing out about half a can a week, but the house has mostly been ignored, and now I'm making it my house, or at least a test version, I'm still expecting to downsize and relocate as I live in a Republican state, something I'd like to change.
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