25 August 2013
Oddities
25/08/13 14:45
First lets' start with a married conversation. This is a real conversation Marsha and I had on the way back from Victoria on Thursday. Those of you that have been married will recognize this, you may have had a similar conversation yourselves. It's the unadvertised part of a relationship: the routine chatter about mundane things that goes on all the time.
Marsha: I threw away the upstairs toilet brush.
Doug: Good it was getting nasty.
Marsha: I checked Target for one but didn't see anything I liked.
Doug: Uh Huh.
Marsha: Well, they were too expensive. If I'd liked them I might have paid that much, but none of them looked right.
Doug: Yeah because a toilet brush is something that really has to come from the heart.
Marsha: What?!?
Doug: Well, you mentioned how you had to really like it. How you'd be willing to pay whatever it took for the right brush.
Marsha: Hardy hardy hardy har.
Doug: That's Cab Calloway isn't it?
Marsha: You are so weird.
OK maybe routine unless I'm part of it. If I'm involved you never know where a conversation end up. What strange left turn it might take. What odd references and connections might happen. It's part of my charm, though Marsha might disagree.
Edit: And the story continues. I found a non-descript one at the Superstore that was on clearance. Or at least that is what the label said. When I paid for it, the cost was substantially more. So I went back and double checked the price, everything matched and so I took the label to Customer Service and received the item for free. Yup FREE always makes my heart strings go TWANG. TEE HEE.
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Yes, we did make a run to Victoria this week. As some of you heard there was a question about complications on my right eye cataract surgery. The local doctor was concerned so he sent me to a specialist in Victoria. The specialist, who reminded me of Tom Bodett, looked and said "Well, I see the problems the other doctor saw, but let's wait a bit. I think a lot of that will heal on its own. I don't think we want to jump in trying to fix things that might not need fixing and in the process cause more damage if we don't have to." I like this doctor. We see him again on Wednesday.
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In Vancouver the PNE is going on. The PNE is the Pacific National Exhibition. It takes place at the end of summer every year. There are livestock and produce exhibits, and music, and rides, and lots of food on a stick. It takes place at the Fairgrounds. Nobody seem to know WHY is it called The PNE and not The Fair? http://www.pne.ca Interestingly there is also a CNE, The Canadian National Exhibition, a similar event going on right now in Toronto. http://theex.com and in Manitoba they are currently hosting The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba http://www.brandonfairs.com so maybe The Fair is only used south of the border. There is also an event going on in Quebec called ExpoQuebec2013 and seems to be more about shows and corporate exhibits than livestock and fair rides. It's Quebec so they do things their own way. http://www.expoquebec.com/en
Anyway at the PNE the big news was the horse that spooked and ran into a couple of people.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/22/bc-pne-horse-breaks-free.html and the brief power outage Saturday morning. Other than that it's just been a normal fair with the highlight of deep fried things on a stickhttp://bc.ctvnews.ca/fair-food-favourites-the-pne-s-healthy-and-not-so-healthy-treats-1.1420902 and concerts by Melissa Etheridge, The Jacksons, and Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans. There's something for everyone there I guess.
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And now for something completely different.
Did you hear the one about the guy trying to smuggle pot into Michigan? He thought it would be a good idea to swim it across the river using SCUBA gear. All went well until, well, until he started the swim. He was spotted immediately by someone, who undoubtedly wondered why anyone would be swimming across the river in the middle of the night. They called it in and border services monitored him with their remote cameras. When he climbed out of the water, agents were there to greet him and his artificial log with 6 kg of pot inside. Not a good plan.
However I do wonder what the "concerned citizen" was doing out on the river at 1:00 am. "Fishing?"
Doug & Marsha
PIX: More time at the beach. Oh and Geiger in the sun.
Marsha: I threw away the upstairs toilet brush.
Doug: Good it was getting nasty.
Marsha: I checked Target for one but didn't see anything I liked.
Doug: Uh Huh.
Marsha: Well, they were too expensive. If I'd liked them I might have paid that much, but none of them looked right.
Doug: Yeah because a toilet brush is something that really has to come from the heart.
Marsha:
Doug: Well, you mentioned how you had to really like it. How you'd be willing to pay whatever it took for the right brush.
Marsha: Hardy hardy hardy har.
Doug: That's Cab Calloway isn't it?
Marsha: You are so weird.
OK maybe routine unless I'm part of it. If I'm involved you never know where a conversation end up. What strange left turn it might take. What odd references and connections might happen. It's part of my charm, though Marsha might disagree.
Edit: And the story continues. I found a non-descript one at the Superstore that was on clearance. Or at least that is what the label said. When I paid for it, the cost was substantially more. So I went back and double checked the price, everything matched and so I took the label to Customer Service and received the item for free. Yup FREE always makes my heart strings go TWANG. TEE HEE.
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Yes, we did make a run to Victoria this week. As some of you heard there was a question about complications on my right eye cataract surgery. The local doctor was concerned so he sent me to a specialist in Victoria. The specialist, who reminded me of Tom Bodett, looked and said "Well, I see the problems the other doctor saw, but let's wait a bit. I think a lot of that will heal on its own. I don't think we want to jump in trying to fix things that might not need fixing and in the process cause more damage if we don't have to." I like this doctor. We see him again on Wednesday.
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In Vancouver the PNE is going on. The PNE is the Pacific National Exhibition. It takes place at the end of summer every year. There are livestock and produce exhibits, and music, and rides, and lots of food on a stick. It takes place at the Fairgrounds. Nobody seem to know WHY is it called The PNE and not The Fair? http://www.pne.ca Interestingly there is also a CNE, The Canadian National Exhibition, a similar event going on right now in Toronto. http://theex.com and in Manitoba they are currently hosting The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba http://www.brandonfairs.com so maybe The Fair is only used south of the border. There is also an event going on in Quebec called ExpoQuebec2013 and seems to be more about shows and corporate exhibits than livestock and fair rides. It's Quebec so they do things their own way. http://www.expoquebec.com/en
Anyway at the PNE the big news was the horse that spooked and ran into a couple of people.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/22/bc-pne-horse-breaks-free.html and the brief power outage Saturday morning. Other than that it's just been a normal fair with the highlight of deep fried things on a stickhttp://bc.ctvnews.ca/fair-food-favourites-the-pne-s-healthy-and-not-so-healthy-treats-1.1420902 and concerts by Melissa Etheridge, The Jacksons, and Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans. There's something for everyone there I guess.
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And now for something completely different.
Did you hear the one about the guy trying to smuggle pot into Michigan? He thought it would be a good idea to swim it across the river using SCUBA gear. All went well until, well, until he started the swim. He was spotted immediately by someone, who undoubtedly wondered why anyone would be swimming across the river in the middle of the night. They called it in and border services monitored him with their remote cameras. When he climbed out of the water, agents were there to greet him and his artificial log with 6 kg of pot inside. Not a good plan.
However I do wonder what the "concerned citizen" was doing out on the river at 1:00 am. "Fishing?"
Doug & Marsha
PIX: More time at the beach. Oh and Geiger in the sun.