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Love in the Mail and a Lunch Beer

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Lunch beer on Christmas Eve. Part of a box of goodies sent from Australia. They where quite good. These tasted great as well. Love these things. Saving these for Christmas day. Last of the goodies in the box was this. It's interesting tasting and gives a slight bit more zing to morning coffee. Free sample of vodka. It's literally one drink worth. It's about 1.76oz if you are wondering.  

Oops, My Bad, AKA Check Was in the Mail

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This is an update to a previous blog post . Well I was not getting a $500 rental supplement from the Federal Government, and was expecting it to be direct deposit. Turns out the feds had sent a check instead. Here is the issue, I went over the online form 3 times to make sure it was all correct. The default is to get direct deposit, and I DID NOT check the box that said pay by check. I had even phoned them and spent a good deal of time to get hold of them, and was told "it has been deposited in your account". Well, obviously not, as I ended up getting a check in the mail last night. So my bad on saying the bank was holding it up - but to be honest, I have had transfers take 3 or 4 days to clear in the past, and was expecting direct deposit, so it is obvious why I thought that. But on the bright side I got the money and am super grateful that I did receive it. It's too late to order a friend something I wanted to give them for Christmas, but it can be given after just as w

After Hitting My Head, I Get Tired Often

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This is me out for coffee with my friends on Thursday (Dec 15, 2022). It was exactly 2 weeks after a trip and fall that left me rather banged up and with very painful ribs. The pain level was manageable, but I got very tired for some reason. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but that was not the issue, I was just plain tired. In my fall I hit my head, and for some reason, I've been getting tired fast ever since, but at random - some days I do not have it happen at all. It's going to be a while until I see my doctor for a physical exam, but I'll talk to him about it then, if I remember. Also I missed blood work today and need to call them tomorrow for a new appointment. I thought there was a bigger rush, but the doctor appointment is a ways off, so no rush. It is snowy out and my friend who drives me would be a long time picking my back up, and I don't want to wait in the snow and bitter cold for 30 minutes, and waiting inside, I'd be in the way.  

This Windows 10 Update Was a Bother

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Still running Windows 10, as Windows 11 does not think my old PC is good enough for it. Anyway, this is the first time I've had this happen. It updated and literally took 2 hours. The entire time it sucked so much processor time I could not do anything at all other than let it update. The file manager also did not work properly when it was updating. The screen shown (photo) sat at 12% for 20 minutes. It was strange. Every other update let me do stuff and the file manager always worked. What a bother this one was. I really just fired up the PC that day to get a couple things done "quickly", but ended up playing with my phone for 2 hours waiting to be able to do stuff. When you can't even use Word, you know it's sucking too much resources.  

A Look Out My Window at 3:45am

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Taken out my window on December 15, 2022 - at 3:45 am. This is in downtown Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.  

Two Weeks After My Trip and Fall (Photos)

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My leg a few days after I tripped and fell in my apartment. The entire leg was bruised and there was 2 rug burns. This is the downfall of being a nudist, but at least I did not get rug burn on my unit. Two weeks in, this is my tummy. I'm amazed that my ribs have no marks on them as I injured them badly and am sill in a lot of pain from the fall. Two weeks in, this is my leg. Most of the bruises are faded and the scabs are all but gone. Probably going to leave a mark where the rug burn is, but that's life - I'm covered in scars anyway, not to mention the hernia sticking out of my belly.  

Bank is Holding up My Money Transfer

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 In my lost post I told that I had been granted the one time top-up for Canada Housing Benefit. Well that was issued (direct deposit) to my bank account on the 15th very early in the morning hours. Here it is the 19th and I still don't have it showing in my account. The bank tells me they have no way to see pending transfers and can't make it clear faster. They also tell me it can take up to 8 banking days to clear. Well this is 3 banking days and nothing yet. So why is it not instant like most of the world? They use your money the entire time and make interest lending it out. It seems an extremely common practice in Canada and the USA. This is not at all a necessity, it is a choice by the bank. As I said, most of the world, transfers are almost instant - they take seconds not a week. The technology is definitely in place here to do this, as preferred customers already do get instant transfers. The bitch of it is, I wanted to use some of it to order a gift for a friend, but now

Got the One Time Housing Benefit

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 Well I qualified for the $500 and it will be here tomorrow (this is the 14th). It will allow me to get my new TV I am in need of and with luck some sweat pants on the cheep. I'm rather annoyed that it is only online that you can get in on this with. The majority of older people I know have no access to the internet and they need the money just as much as I do. This is a heck of a fail on the part of the Liberal Party of Canada. Next month is the usual credits that I get every 4 months and they also very much help to offset the taxes I pay on items and the increased prices because of the carbon tax on shipping. Unfortunately, it does not totally cancel out the extra I pay out and trust me I'm low income. It seems in all the so called civilized countries, it is on the backs of the poor to pay out the biggest amount in tax when you scale it to their income. For some reason a great number of people thing somehow the rich getting tax breaks is good for the poor. The logic is total

Facebook is Messed Up

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Everything I click on Facebook right now looks like this screen shot. My profile, new posts, click a notification - all comes up blank like this. Sigh I have several things I want to post and it's messing with me. It's going to be a pain in the butt to do it with the app instead. I'll have to save a link for the posts then get them in Chrome on my phone then post the link. Total pain that. For such a large company with so many people working for them, they sure can't keep things going well. Not to mention the ads are 90% scams and dangerous links. I just saw one yesterday that claimed if you invest $500 with them, in 90 days you will get $5.5 million back LOL - as if. Not to mention ads for pot and shrooms. If I posted that they were on sale at my local store, I'd be tossed in Facebook Jail for 30 days FFS, yet if you pay them for an ad, anything goes. Hell, even saw a sex bot once. BTW I'm on a P.C. with Windows 10 and using Edge browser - it may well be workin

I Just Applied for the One-Time Top-Up to the Canada Housing Benefit

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Just applied for a $500 one-time payment from the Canadian Government. I qualify and have an online account with Revenue Canada, so I was able to do it. You will literally need an online account for this. It does not require direct deposit, you can get a check sent, but an account is needed, as it uses the info from your account to apply. There is no long form to do it all by hand. For the " one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit ". You must have an adjusted family net income of $35,000 or less, or $20,000 or less for an individual. You must have spent 30% or more of your net income on rent in 2022. If the link does not work, it has expired. It's a limited time offer it seems and can only be done once per Houshold. It tells me I will get the money deposited within 5 days or if you get a check, 5 to 10 days. Note, they may end up wanting proof of rent and may contact your landlord or even you.  

Amazon Orders and a Return

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Very satisfied with these purchases. They charge my phone very quickly. Much quicker than my old "fast charge" Samsung charger. The price of a Samsung 25.5W charger is more than I paid for the 2 pack, so I'm going with them instead. Well, this was a total of $277.43 and it was dead on arrival. I sent it back. I'm going to wait until January to replace it, as I was NOT offered the option of having a replacement sent to me by Amazon, so I got a refund. The money went to other things I needed, and a bit of things I wanted. I'll be getting the same brand as this, but a 32-inch 1080P TV. This is the size I originally wanted as 40 is a bit too big for the stand. I hope this one will work when I finally get it.  

Vlogmas Prompts

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Fell and Hurt Myself Badly

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On Nov 30, 2022, I tripped on a towel that was on the floor of my living room. Well, I fell. This was about 11pm the previous night and when I came around it was almost 5am the next morning. You can see I hit my head and messed up my leg. There is no bruise on my head fortunately, but the leg is one big bruise. What is not shows as there is strangely no bruising there either, is my left side (ribs). I hurt my ribs badly enough that it was the worst pain in my life. I forgot to tell the doctor I was knocked out, as I was still kind of out of it at the time. I am wondering how he did not notice I was rather not with it. But oh well. I'm left feeling extremely tired at random now after the fall. My ribs are mostly in severe pain when I move. Getting up from a chair is bad, and out of bed extremely painful. I have to sit on the edge of the bed for a time or I'll be going to the floor again. The pain meds the doctor gave me worked for maybe 2 days then just stopped working. I don

And the Police Get More Money Once Again

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Looks like the police are asking for an increase in funding yet again. There is the promise of a stronger presence in Crescent Park and the surrounding Downtown aria. Crime in this aria is indeed up, but it's also up all over the city and in other parts of town violence is more common. But here is my take on it. The city relies heavily on tourists to come to the downtown aria to shop, stay at the spa and gamble, among other things. So this is to make the tourists feel safer and continue to spend money. In essence, they are going to protect profits in the guise of protecting people. Yes, the side effect is less crime in the aria, but what about other parts of town? Just my thoughts on it, I'm no expert, I just know how things look to me.  

Let's Look at My Phones Storage - For Literally No Reason

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  Lets look at the storage available on my phone shall we? Oh just because. SD Card is empty because I just deleted 82GB of video and photos from the Trash Can.

Passed Out Drunk And Stained the Carpet

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Well a very proud moment for me. I was into my second 1.75L bottle of Dill Pickle Caesar and the second pour from it went wrong. Honestly I've not passed out drunk in 30 years, and I did just as I was tipping the bottle over. It went all over the table and the carpet. This is as good as I can get it clean without getting in product from the store. I tried laundry soap in a rather not very diluted form, and all that did was make bubbles to clean up. After payday I will have to see what I can get at a store. I've got not one clue what to buy. I've never had too. I know the stuff Mom used to use killed my chemical sensitives and I'm sure anything else that will clean this will do the same. Best thing is, when I woke up I just went right to bed and left it until morning. Seriously, I almost never drink a tone of booze, and this is the only time I went lights out from it in probably 30 years. Oh well, there are other spots to be done anyway.  

Paddock Wood Brewing Company IPA Was Yummy

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Got this Paddock Wood Brewing Company IPA beer and it was yummy, but hear on it was brutal when trying to get it in the mug. I did tip the mug and do it right, but it still foamed up like mad.  Quite a strong tasting beer and very much not anything light going down, it was very filling. I'm going to give it a 7.5/10. It's the only product from the company I've consumed as it seems to be the only one I can find in town. In any even, way better than the average IPA.  

Jigsaw Puzzle Update

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I have been using Jigsaws Galore for many years. I've played thousands of puzzles on it over the years, and in 2022 I started to keep track of the folders of puzzles I have made, and have played. I keep saying I won't make for for a few months, then I see photos online I want to use for it, so it keeps expanding. There is an actual error in this screen cap, but oh well. The original is 7 less than it should be. Not fixing it and cropping out the image again, just not. I've managed to do 12 1000 piece puzzles and they take about 5 hours total play time to put together for me. Most of the are 100 Pieces and I can zip threw a bunch of them waiting for the computer to render a fractal or 8.  

My 56th Birthday

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November 18th was my 56th birthday and we went out for dinner. It was a great meal that I paid for with a gift card that I got with my credit card points. The picture shows what my friends got me. The jelly is delicious I have to say. The chips where great, even though I'm not a big fan of Old Dutch. The gummies where good too, and the spice is nice an hot. I just had some of the spice on some sliced tomatoes and it rocked. It was a very happy day, even if it did tire me out rather a lot.  

Make PSP 2023 STFU With Those Annoying Popup Ads

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To shut up the nagging to buy more stuff from Corel, go to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Corel\CUH\v2 Delete Everything in the folder This will kill their "helper" and no more SUPER ANNOYING popup ads. Trust me, setting the notification to OFF does literally nothing to shut them up. I love PaintShop Pro, but holly crap, enough with pushing more product on me. This should literally be against the law to do. You pay them a fortune, and the install ad-ware on your computer FFS.  

Nivea Essential Lip Care - My Thoughts

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My skin and my lips are always dry. In the winter when it's cold and even more dry than normal, my lips tend to crack and even peal (dead skin). I've found that Nivea tends to work the best for my lips. Nothing fixes it all the way, but using this seems to help a lot. Before when I used another product, my lips still became badly cracked in the dead of winter. I switched and it healed the cracks and prevented bad cracks from forming again. I do have to say mild cracks did however form a couple of times, but not the noticeably deep ones I was getting before. It also does not have any strange tastes to it and does not make my lips look glossed like the wax one did. All in all I'm going to rate this an 8/10 - it could be a bit better, but it's the best so far .  

Instagram and YouTube Don't Stop Scams

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None of us want this crap. Well none of us who can think for ourselves. The amount of scam comments and replies on Instagram and YouTube is astonishing. Being they both employ and AI to deal with spam and scams, it's obvious they do NOT work. This one is Instagram. This one is YouTube and was replied to everyone who commented on the video and that was literally 2500+ people. The same posts by other bots are replied on many of the big name videos. So after thousands of instances a day, you would think it would trigger the so called AI, but it never does.  

Two Strange Things

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This fan was once one shade of white, now it's two. I've got no idea other than it must be two different plastics used and one yellowed with age. This is on the wall in my bedroom and does not want to wash off. Honestly it looks like a burn, but there is nothing behind the spot that should be getting hot. I'm honestly not sure how long it's been there, I just found it the other day. You can see the paint is pealed slightly in it. No hear source has been even close to the spot.  

Drinking!

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This was from the end of October when I got some money I was not expecting. It mostly went to getting stuff I need for around the apartment, but some went to fun, and some to a friend in need. The first one is 40%, middle one is 14.2% and the last one was I think 15%. Had this sitting in the storage room for months and decided to have it wish some beer I got a while ago. The whisky is 40%, Middle is an IPA and 5.4%, last one is a Wheat Beer and 5.3%. I used what was left of my extra GST rebate to get pizza and beer that day. Although the second batch was consumed alone while watching movies, I had help with the first batch and we had fun - they did need a ride home from one of their relatives.  

Out My Window - AKA, It's Winter (photos)

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It's This Easy LOL

Fact: Multiple studies point to the fact that sperm counts are going down steadily. Fact: Clinical evidence exists that the average size of the male penis is shrinking over recent years. Fact: Multiple international organizations have tried to get people to go Vegan in the guise of livestock being harmful to the environment. Fact: The eating of meat, in particular red meat, is linked to increased virility in men. Fact: The UN has stated that in the near future we will not be able to feed the growing population and we will go extinct if we do not do something about it. I put it to you, that the UN is part of a plan to reduce the human population to 800,000 people to control humanity for the purpose of using us as slave labor to cater to the people who are really running the world. This same group that meets on a not-so-secret island once a year in order to plan out the wars and so called natural disasters for the upcoming year. They are also putting additives in food and drinks in the g

Weight Update

  Weight 2022 DATE 12/29/2021 1/5/20228 1/12/2022 1/19/2022 1/26/2022 2/2/2022 2/9/2022 2/16/2022 2/23/2022 3/2/2022 3/9/2022 3/16/2022 3/23/2022 3/30/2022 4/6/2022 4/13/2022 4/20/2022 4/27/2022 5/4/2022 5/11/2022 5/18/2022 5/25/2022 6/1/2022 6/8/2022 6/15/2022 6/22/2022 6/29/2022 7/6/2022 7/13/2022 7/20/2022 7/27/2022 8/3/2022 8/10/2022 8/17/2022 8/24/2022 8/31/2022 9/7/2022 9/14/2022 9/21/2022 9/28/2022 10/5/2022 10/12/2022 10/19/2022 10/26/2022 11/2/2022 11/9/2022 11/16/2022 11/23/2022 11/30/2022 12/7/2022 12/14/2022 12/21/2022 12/28/2022 KG 174.7 ??? ??? ??? ??? 181.8 176.3 175.1 174.5 181.4 176.2 174.4 171.0 168.6 176.4 177.6 175.0 175.2 178.4 174.6 171.9 168.3 170.1 174.8 169.8 171.0 165.8 171.4 169.7 170.2 168.4 172.6 171.0 168.7 166.1 163.0 170.4 170.3 169.8 163.9 172.9 171.1 166.5 164.8 171.0 174.8 LBS 385.1 ??? ??? ??? ??? 400.9 388.6 386.1 385.1 400.0 388.6 384.5 377.0 371.7 389.0 391.6 385.9 386.3 393.3 385.0 379.0 371.1 375.1 385.5 374.5 377.0 365.6 377.9 374.2 375.2 371.2