Well, I made it and have survived so far.  I joined the everyone else in North America and bought a car. Now that HURTS the pocketbook.  It was a necesscity, and if you talk to anyone that knows me you will find out how much I didn’t want to buy  car.  But I did go for a beauty, a 2006 VW Passat.

There are a lot of things about here that are different than home. I am living downtown and have a grocery store close, but the only shopping down town is for clothes.  For everything else you have to jump in the car and drive for 15-20 minutes to the big box stores.  There are no, or at least none that I can find, independant retail stores.  No Greenlyph computers, no Duggers, no Mac Store, no Biscuit, no Carsand.  I think that last one is the one that is bothering me the most.  I am trying to develop my photography skills and the only store that sells cameras here is Huppins which reminds me more like Wacky Wheatley’s than a Carsand Mosher. When I spoke with someone there, they seemed to only know what the description tells them, and not use the equipment themselves.

I commute East 20 mins every day and the snow covered mountains in Eastern Washington is what I look to out the car window. This is one thing that makes the commute to work a decent drive in the morning.  I can’t wait for Spring and summer so that we can do some serious exploring and hiking.

And the weather, well I must boast and say that I haven’t seen snow, other than on the mountains in the distance, since I came here.  My folks have sent me many pictures of the white stuff, and it is nice coming down, but walking around in a sweater with no hat or gloves is really nice too.

The Beer Lovers Paradise

And the BEER, it is amazing, and there is a micro brew for every taste.  I really don’t understand why people out here still drink from the large breweries, there is really no comparison to the quality and taste.  I have talked to a couple of local “experts” and I have learned a lot about the different varieties.  @mysteriouswayz is another great resource as she has a much better memory than me, and had a 5 month head start on sampling the wares.  I still haven’t been able to find something similar to the Granite Breweries Peculiar, but I am sure to find something soon.

Right now my favorite is Arrogant Bastard, not only is the beer great the marketing is pretty good too.  Washington beer has some of the best graphic design that I have seen in Spokane.  With the large number of micro brews out here and the relatively small market (the majority still drink the coloured swill), they have to do everything that they can to be competitive.

I have been able to check out a few eateries and pubs that are in the area and I will be putting together some reviews in the next couple of weeks.  I am also hoping to get out to some live music, I work with someone who plays around the area and I am hoping that she will be able to help me out with finding some good tunes.

This is going to be the Winter of Capebretoner, this last few months have been the “Fall of Capebretoner”, and not in a good way.  Broke my hand, broke my glasses, gained weight, etc. So this is going to be the Winter and the year of Capebretoner.

First I am starting a new job, in a new country, on the other side of the continent.  I am heading to Spokane, Washington and loving it, in a nervous excitement kind of way.  I have been there a couple of times since August to visit and the area seemed like an interesting place to be.

On the suggestion from @VelvetCyclone I am going to document a “Capebretoner in Spokane” and why not do it on this very blog, its not like I was doing much else with it.  Along with that I have added a couple of new categories Hoser Music and Hoser Fitness where I am going to document all of the local Spokanish music that I find and my progress on getting rid of those pounds that I added to my frame this fall.

The music category is pretty self-explanatory, Halifax has an amazing music scene with Cousins, Room Doom, Mardeen, Superfantastics, Joel, Wintersleep, and I could go on and on (Check out The Coast’s Best of Music). So my goal is to find some great local acts in Spokane and get to some amazing live shows.  I know they have to be there somewhere.

Regarding the fitness category I am going to write a detailed post with my plans but it will mostly revolve around NOT EATING CRAP, and getting back to the gym.  I might even borrow @mysteriouswayz’s Nike+ and do some running.  The company that I am going to has a deal with a local fitness centre with a pool and gymnasium so maybe I can get a couple of basketball games in there too.  I will be checking out @untitleddesign‘s newish blog Your Inner Skinny (also on twitter @yourinnerskinny)

So if you are from Spokane and you are reading this blog, post a comment and let me know where I can find your music scene, or better yet is there any Pick-up Hockey that a guy can get into.  I had to fight to get my skates in my bag so I better find a game.

Cheers,

Jeff M

You see, a couple of summers ago Aliant went to most of the coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc around the city and installed their routers to allow free internet to the establishments patrons.  We all knew that this was going to end, and probably sooner than later, and really that didn’t bother me.  However when I got my Touch, I thought it was great, and was even thinking about switching my high-speed over to Aliant simply to have the ability to use their Hot-Spots that dotted the city.

Then I looked into it, they say that is going to be limited too.  This amazed me, they are trying to sell me high-speed DSL, but I have to get the land line that I don’t want.  I already have a cell phone with them, so why would I want yet another number for people to call me at, and another bill to pay.  However for unlimited access to a large MESH of Wi-Fi Hot-Spots within the city I was going to forgo the naked DSL and jump to Aliant.  And when I saw that they were not planning to allow their high-speed customers access to the Hot-Spots for the long term I halted that.

Why would anyone ever want to work with these providers?  There is no advantage to stay with someone who simply wants to lock you in and FORCE you to use their services.  Don’t they realize that if they were more flexible and worked on cultivating a base of loyal customers they will be better prepared for the long term viability of their business?

There is something rewarding about realizing that I can simply downsize and my quality of life will be better, not worse.  I don’t NEED this stuff and it really doesn’t bring me joy.

The Continued Plan

The tough part about going through this exercise is that there is a lot of "good stuff” that I am just throwing away.  I don’t mean that this stuff is worth anything, but simply that I am sure that if I had the room and was able to organize it properly I would find a great use for it in the future.  For example, coax cable connectors.  I had developed a minor collection of these over the years of moving and such, and I am sure that I would be able to use them again in the future…maybe.  The fact is that we are probably going to cancel our cable in the coming days and even possibly sell the TV.  So unless I take all of this type of stuff when I move, I am not going to find a use for it here.  On top of all of that it is not worth selling and I am sure that the Salvation Army will not have a use for it.  So it gets thrown out.  And good riddens.

My goal is to have all of the books that I am not going to read again out of the house, and given away, all of my magazine subscriptions cancelled and old magazines given away, by the end of the week.  From there it is more of the same.

How about you?

Do you try to keep your surroundings lean?  Or are you a pack rat? 

Do you have any suggestions or resources on ways to un-clutter your space, and I don’t mean ways to store MORE.

Cheers,

JM

My friends gave me reasons varying from lack of snakes, a reason to act retarded and even a question back of people like it without the drinking, and who knows?  To many Irish and Irish descendants around the world March 17^th is a day to honour a Saint to many others it is a day to celebrate everything Irish.  And to many others they see it as just another excuse to drink and feel like a souse the next day at work.  There is something more to St. Patrick’s Day, today across the world there will be parades in Chicago, New York, Montreal, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, Liverpool, San Francisco, Sydney and many places in between.  People in the thousands and millions will line the streets, the pubs and music halls, they are offspring of the Irish Diaspora, the millions who fled the Crown and the Famine for better lives around the world, whose culture has transcended time and avoided the melting pots of other nations, being separated from their home.

In many years there has been an ever-growing crowd of people with no Irish connections but who may proclaim themselves “Irish for a day” who are coming out to take part on March 17^th.  So why do we love St. Patrick’s Day?  It isn’t the drink or the religion, St. Patrick’s day is one of the few days around the world where people who have nothing in common come together to simply have a good time with likeminded people, who only worry in the world is that you are having a good time.

A day of Religious observance, a day of foolish drinking has literally turned into a worldwide holiday and festival everyone loves to get behind.   I hope you all get out today and enjoy St. Patrick’s Day, if you are Irish or not, we all need a little joy and happiness in the world and the Irish have done that.  We owe a lot to the Irish, they have taken something personal and spread it to us all, if anything St. Patrick’s Day should be a world holiday for everyone around the globe, what else around the world brings so many people together without prejudice.

So enjoy it, wherever you may be today

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

The Event is at the Garrison Brewery on Friday March 20, 2009.  Advanced tickets are $20 and can be received either at the CBCL Limited offices at 1489 Hollis St, or by emailing raiseaglasshfx@gmail.com.

You will be able to buy tickets at the door but they will be at $25, so be sure to save yourself the $5 and get them in advance.  Although they don’t say it, the $20 will get you a couple of the great brews that Garrison is famous for, and there will be a lot of fun people to hang out with.

For more information you can see the two attachments that I received in the work email.

Raise A Glass Poster

and

Information Sheet

Be sure to Twit This, Stumble It, Digg it and do what ever else you can to get as many people as you can out there. There are some handy links below.

Hope to see you there.

MOVE YOUR FUCKING CAR CUNT!, go park in the parking lot, get your fat fucking bum-bum out of your comfort zone car and walk in the door.  HOLY FUCK.  Now this doesn’t happen where I currently live but I have seen it numerous times at a certain Tim Horton’s in downtown Fredericton.  Cunts and Douchebags make me angry kids!  I really really really want to see you get fined by waiting in the street because there’s no room in the parking lot at the end of the Timmy’s line.  I think where I live there’s 4 of them in a 300m radius.

“OO OO (monkey noises) look out everyone, gotta have my large triple triple so my breath will stink, and my teeth will yellow, and I’ll breathe my stinky gross coffee breath in my co-workers faces then have a caffeine induced diarrhea in the workplace toilet and spray brown splatter all over the toilet seat and back of the toilet bowl.”
YEAH, you guys know exactly what I’m talking about because it’s true.  Go and idle your engine for 15 minutes in the drive thru, then afterward throw your non-biodegrable cup out the window in the ditch ya fucking rednecks.

Now listen, it really doesn’t bother me THAT much that people drink their Tim Horton’s, but once assumed title of Cunt of the Month, I must rant regardless of my anger level.  And let us not forget the nucleus of the Cunt, not the coffee drinkers, but the fuckwads who extend the drive thru line out into the street… or the ones who take 2 minutes trying to make a left turn into Tim’s.  Now I may be a PRICK at times, with no filter who steals your alcohol and stinks up your bathroom, but I am not a pushy-in-public type douchebag.  AW GAWD their everywhere!  Push push, shove, mine, my kid is #1, we’re more important that you, i’m cutting in line, don’t give a fuck about the other 100 people here, I can park here and block traffic if i want, my truck ERRGGHH is bigger than your civic so i drive down the middle of the street, move! etc.  I have subtle courtesy, you probably would never notice but it’s there.

Bottom line, IF I WANTED A FUCKING TIM HORTON’S SHITTY GROSS COFFEE AND THE DRIVE THRU LINEUP WAS JUST ABOUT TO SPILL ONTO THE STREET I WOULD EITHER:

A: Park and walk in.
B: Go to the next tim horton’s 100 metres away
C: Go anywhere else
D: Tell tim horton’s to fuck off and go piss on a church.

And for all the reasons mentioned above, you fat lazy engine idling franchise-logo dependent pieces of shit who think you own the road and can just SIT there on the street truly are deserving of Feb. 09’s CUNT OF THE MONTH AND I HOPE YOU ALL GET FINED!!!

-L

Suddenly I feel like humanity has redeemed itself.

I get around to a lot of coffee shops as these are the places that I get the majority of my work done.  I try working from home, but there are too many distractions that I can’t seem to get anything done.  The key thing that allows me to get work done is that most of the coffee shops around have free Wi-fi which I love.  And when I am there I buy a lot of coffee and treats to so that I have the energy to keep going.

The first place that I am going to be reviewing is The Daily Grind.  Why?  Well that is where I am sitting while I am writing this, so it only makes sense.

The Daily Grind is situated in behind the magazine part of the shop on Spring Garden Road in Halifax Nova Scotia.  They have a variety of baked goods to go with their coffee, along with sandwiches, and an all day breakfast.

Where you can find The Daily Grind

The tables in the seating area are huge and you can very comfortably sit 4 people and there is still lots of room.  It is usually quiet, with just some friendly chatter going on around you.  I first found the place when I was still in University at DalTech and I was trying to find a quiet place to study.  The alternatives at the time were the Second Cup and SteveRenos (both which I will review next time I am in) and they were both far too noisy.  I credit this place for me passes Signal Analysis all those years ago. 

The Pros:

The coffee here is decent and when you get a cup to stay you get one free refill, which is a step up on a lot of places that simply give you a discount on the refills.  They also have a large variety of teas, if you are into that sort of thing.

The tables allow for some great sitting and if you are just looking for some place to unwind you can come in, buy a magazine and sit down with a coffee and samosa and read.  And like I mentioned before, the tables are large enough that you can sit down with a couple of people and spread your work out to get some real stuff done.

The Cons:

NO FREE WIFI.

This is usually a huge deal, but for me I like to think that it is a plus, when I plan for it.  I come here when I have a lot of writing, reading, or other work that does not require me to be online.  This keeps me away from twitter, my google reader and other distractions that the internet has abundantly available.

Up until recently the WIFI problem was not a big one.  Your Fathers Moustache was just next door and they had their own free wi-fi open, but they have since gone to the dreaded Aliant Hot-Spot and since I don’t have them at home I am stuck to pay if I want access, which I refuse to do.

Another con that for some is huge and others not so much is that as far as I can tell the coffee is not fair trade.  Typically around the city the coffee vendors have taken to loudly announcing if it is as a selling feature forthe socially aware public.

Conclusion

The Daily Grind is a great place to come to get some serious work done with a coffee in hand and some great fresh baked goods, or an all day breakfast.  I like to sit by the back windows so that I can keep track on what is going on outside, and if it is nasty I will grab another coffee and hope that the weather is going to clear up before I head home

There is a song that describes my week to a tea. It’s Rat Silo’s,
Getupgotoworkgohomegotobed. All I was able to do was get up in the morning, get into work and then leave around 10pm.

It is not a way I would like to go for very long, but I think I should have a break from the madness next week and will be more active with everything else that is going on in my little world.

If you like Rat Silo, be sure to check out some of the other bands on CBC Radio3.  It is a great resource for finding new music and I have all of their podcasts on my iPod for when I am not near a computer.

I was there twice in the last little while and was tipped that it existed by an ad in the Coast.  When I was there I had brunch, it was Sunday morning after all.  They have a decent brunch menu at decent prices.  I had the omelette that comes with whole grain toast and home fries.  And not the home fries that you expect to get from Smitty’s or such, but real pan fried potatoes with onions.  They were delicious.

What’s the Hook

The Rockbottom Brewery seems to be a brew pub, but from what I have heard they cook the wort at another location and then only the final stage of the brewing process is taken place on site.  This is different compared to the other brew pubs in Halifax including, The Granite Brewery and Rogues Roost(someone needs to get these guys a modern websites)

“To run great restaurants…for the benefit of our Guests, our Community, and Ourselves.” – From the website.

Why would you go?

Where you can find the place

Both times that I was there to eat the service was first rate.  The lady that was serving us the first time was awesome.  She was very keen on letting us know all of the offerings of the place, and showing us the evening menu.  The second time they didn’t really go out of their way in terms of service, but they were friendly enough.  I think that there was a hot guy sitting at the bar.

As for the seating atmosphere, it is a big change from the Dooly’s, in a very good way.  It still feels “hard” like a lot of the new places popping up, but the lighting helps to offset this to make the place feel more welcoming.  I also enjoyed the seating, there are high booths with foot rests and comfy lounging chairs which makes the place comfortable enough for me to hang out for extended periods.

What will Stop You

There was one evening that I got to stop in to try out the beer on tap.  It was a cold night near the end of December and the hockey game was on.  I didn’t want to dare to try the other sports pubs on Spring Garden as I knew they would be packed, and I only needed to catch the third period.  This meant it was the best chance to check out the beer at the Rockbottom.

Hated it.

I am not sure if it was just that it was one of their first batches and that they haven’t quite got the hang of it, but I had the ale and my GF had the IPA.  The ale seemed very fruity and the IPA had none of the kick that we have come to expect from the Garrisons, Propellers and Granite Brewerys of the world.  HUGE disappointment.  Oh yeah….and the game was on MUTE.  WTF we are in Canada and they our Junior Team was playing an important game.

I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and give it another try in the near future, but I am not going to make a special visit on my way home.  But if I am thirsty and am close I will give it another try.

So what do I Really Think

Value – 3/5

Really middle of the road. not expensive but you can get cheaper brunches elsewhere

Menu Selection – 3/5

Again they have select items that I assume they are going to make really good.  It seems like a chef inspired or developed menu which is not necessarily a bad thing.  Everyone will find something on it.

Food – 3/5

Great food.  Everything that I had and everyone else that was with me had was cooked perfectly and tasted amazing. The fired potatoes were amazing and omelettes full of great stuff, and the omelette eggs were REAL.   Not for a carton.

They would have gotten a four (4) if it wasn’t for my disappointment with the beer.

Service – 3.5/5

Like I said above, we had one that was amazing (5) but another that was at best a 3.  Not that she was bad, but she really didn’t go out of her way.

Atmosphere – 4/5

I really enjoyed sitting in the place.  It was damn near empty every time I was there, and the fact that there are a lot of hard surfaces it might get loud when it is busy.

Overall – 3.5/5

Decent but not amazing.  It is high enough that I will recommend it to people to give it a try out.  If they can get their beer tasting better, unless that was the way it was supposed to, then I will be revisting this review.

What do you think?

So have you been?  What did you think about the place?  Let us know.

Cheers,

JM

With that said I still have stuff that I want to get done, and even though I don’t watch a lot of TV in the first place, I am going cold turkey.  I am turning off the TV and not turning back on except for HNIC on Saturday.  I am going to keep the TV off, except for HNIC, till at least the New Year.

So what am I going to do with all of this extra time?  Well going to the gym comes to mind, and there are other projects that I have on the go that need to be cleaned up in the next couple of weeks.  My plan for the gym is to be in there every day, I am going to do some light cardio on my “off” days and some heavy lifting, or soon to be heavy since I am a sloth at the moment, on my “on” days.

The program that I am following is the 5×5 that I found when searching around.  It is a 3 day a week lifting program and you start off very light and add weight every day you go  back to the exercise.  The idea is to teach your body slowly how to lift the weight correctly, and then when you get to the heavy portions you will not get injured.

I will be chronicling everything on Twitter, when I go to the gym, and how it went when I left so be sure to follow along.  I will make a weekly update on hoserlife.com
Cheers,
JM

One of the moves that I have made recently is that I am not buying any books.  I am using the library.  Of course there are always going to be reference books that I am going to need to buy for work, but for the last few years I have been buying books, reading them once and putting them on a shelf where they sit till I put them in a box, move them to a new apartment and unpack them.  This is tiring, and takes up a lot of valuable space in my home.

The other move is working on going paperless.  I get all of my bank statements online, I pay all my bills online and I do the majority of my work online.  That said I don’t enjoy reading on the computer, so I still print off large reports that I am proof reading to read and mark up on.  The other thing I print off are large format drawings for review, this again I find hard to work with on the computer.  Most of the problem is the ease of marking and eye strain.

I think that I have found a solution for both the eye strain and the marking.  It is the iRexTechnologies Digital Reader.  This reader is approximately the size of a letter sheet and has a Wacom pen-tablet built it.  It is the first e-ink device that I think is large enough for me to review reports full size.  With it I will be able to review reports, mark up and then send back to be modified.  I will also be able to use this device to take meeting notes and make design notes, both things that I currently do on paper and then scan into the project file.

With this tool I believe that I can go completely paperless in my day-to-day life, there will always be print shops when required.  That means that I can also dispose of my printers, which I have 3.  One ink jet, one laser and one “large” format 11×17 max.  These take up a lot of space that I hope to clear out.

What Stays, What Goes

The next step is to look at what comes into the house and give it a 1-10 rating on importance.  For example, magazines I am going to give most of them a 2, maybe some of my industry specific magazines I will give a higher ranking but for the most part every magazine that comes into my home is read once and then put in a pile.  The advantage that I believe that magazines have is not in the actual information that they convey, but in the filtering of the noise out there.  This is the same reason I still read technical books.  I can find the information free in other places but there is much more work involved to parse through all of the crap.

Getting Rid of it

Some of this is the magazines that I mentioned before, the printers, but it is also books and “stuff” that I don’t need any more, well they can go now.  Some of this I think there is still some monetary value in and I can probably sell online with ebay or Kijiji.  I will use the money generated by these sales to off set any costs that are associated in the new tools (or Toys) that I am going to use, including the Digital Reader.  I will have more on my strategy, and talk about the volumes of stuff I have purged in the future.

I must say that I have been very busy with my life and haven’t had a lot of time to do anything.  However there is one good thing about being busy at work, and that is that I eat out a lot.  I have been to a lot of different places in and around Halifax that I will be writing about, just like I did for Annies Place.

I am also reading and going to more shows and will be talking about those to.  Maybe even get in a review of a CD that I have just bought.

Oh and don’t forget about the forum.  I am working on a couple of contests to get that place hopping, and make it the place that you want to spend some time.

Later,
JM

The funny part is people will stop right in the middle of the bloody cross walk and look at you, yeah just stare. Then drive away, or the ever popular, I am going to speed up and possibly try to hit you trick. Or the one I have found fun, I am going to try and drive through the cross walk while you are walking through it.  A nice lady in a sunfire discovered, people can walk on cars too.

I am afraid to go across the cross walk, bloody hell, I believe at any moment I could be gunned down.  People really don`t pay attnetion it is almost scary, ill take my chances in a mine field vs here. Hell crosswalks in Toronto are more safe to cross.

So I will be taking wagers for when you believe I will get hit first

bonus points if you can pick the injury

Now you don’t have to believe me that SBTS is a great show The Coast thinks so too.

Oh yeah, the company is great this year too. I would link you to the page but people these days still like flash to make all of their sites for some reason, so navigate yourself over there and check them out. There are some great resumes there for such a production.

If you have already been, make sure that you leave a comment telling everyone out there how great of a time it is. And the admission is by donation too (suggested donation is $15)

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Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

There are now a group in Paraguay that are going to use their Kiva Loan to help bring prosperity to their families.

The ladies are involved in many business activities such as: running grocery stores and selling fruit, clothes, bags, shoes, drinks and sheets among others. The money provided by Kiva lenders will be used to purchase these goods.

The five previous loans that we have made through Kiva are all on track. When you sign up for Kiva yourself remember to tell them that jeff@hosernews.ca told you about it.

So now that I know you want to go there they are open at7am-4pm Monday to Friday and 8am-3pm on Saturday. Annie’s Place is closed on Sunday.

All in all I give it 4 beers out of 5. It is a great place to stop in for lunch or brunch, but not the be all end all. However it is excellent in what it is trying to do.

However I go there not for the food but the atmosphere. It is one the of the most relaxed and friendly places to eat in Halifax. There are only a few tables and you can sit by the window and watch people scurry around on Spring Garden Road. And then there is Annie, she is great, always wanting to chat and she will remember you the second time you go there and ask how you are doing. It is like going home and having lunch at your grandmother’s.

If you have been here, let us know what you think, how many beers out of 5 do you give it?

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This is the first “review” for Eating in Halifax. I have started a Google Map so that you can find your way around as I review places that I stop into in and around Halifax and HRM.

I also like to drink the beer and coffee so I may be adding a couple more maps and review types in the coming weeks.

It was a blast, just like last year the sun was shining, the balls were flying, and the beer was flowing. I don’t think that I know how to play ball without beer.

The ball game took place on the Halifax Commons and started at 9am, which is a god-awful early morning on a Saturday, but I made it. Our team wasn’t very successful, but it turned out that our pool was the toughest. I like to think that if we were in the other pool we would have at least made it to the semis.

I took a couple of pics while I was there, take a look

I have added a sample from the Flickr Set by the author Ray Fenwick that shows just how great the work is. You will be admiring the genius for years to come, and I am sure you will find new and strange oddities within the work.

So I am encouraging you, if you haven’t already bought the book, head over the Amazon, and get your order in now.

Or better yet, get outside in the beautiful spring weather and visit your local independant bookstore. I am a frequent visitor of a couple of my favorites in Halifax, one is Frog Hollow Books in Park Lane, and BookMark located on Spring Garden Road.

And if you have bought Hall of Best Knowledge, what did you think about it? You like it as much as me?

Another beautiful day in Halifax, however I seem to be a day behind in my dress. I wore short sleeves yesterday, and was cold, and today I wore long sleeves and am cooking.

If you don’t know what the offshore picnic is, it is a “Trade Show” that OTANS puts on every year to get plublicity. In all actuality it is a great big party.

The gist of the story is that he started to notice food missed from his fridge, so he installed a camera that sent images to his phone. He saw someone in the kitchen, called police and they searched the place finially finding her in the closet, top shelf.

My question is how quiet was she for him not to hear anyone for a year. Or how much was he really home? The moral of the story is to check your kids closet every night for the little tyke. You never know he may be right one of these days.

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I think that I now see an end in sight, not like I am going to be slacking at work, but I won’t be working weekends. Which means more for HoserNews YEAH!!…Come on scream with me, you know you want to read more about my rambling.

Oh yeah, this month’s Kiva Loan, well my bad. I didn’t even have time to do that, if someone wants to head over there and suggest one for me I will get on it, but otherwise I am just going to make 2 in June, or maybe even one big one. Later this week, I will give you all an update on where all of the other great loans that you helped make are at. I think that one should be about to be paid back very shortly.

That is all for now, I have to get back to the hockey game (Pittsburgh is losing) and my drawings.

Canada Wins!…again

I am not sure if anyone else is paying attention to the IIHF in Halifax, but Canada won yesterday and it was a doozy. The thing that scared me the most was the fact that Finland had more shots…..at lest from what I remember. This is not promising if Canada is the “powerhouse” most Canadians, myself included, think it is.

It was also interesting to see PM Harper (at bottom of page) in the stands. He was in town to make a DND announcement, but I think that was just an excuse to come to Halifax and watch Canada play before they head to Quebec.

If you didn’t get to the game, or missed it on TV, the IIHF has a decent gallery and recap so you can read about everything that I missed.

Cheers,

Victoria is 48 years of age, and she graduated from high school. She has three sons but only supports two of them. She lives in the district El Cortijo, in the province of Trujillo and in the department La Libertad. She sells fuels in the local market

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