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Lunch was a sweet rice with lentils, corned beef and carrot. Mo ate his well. Dinner was boiled potatoes & carrots, tossed in an onion, corned beef and pak choy sauce with granulated garlic, onion powder and paprika. Tasted great! Mo decided he didn't want to eat it so I picked up.hid bowl and a spoon and started to eat. Only one piece of potato layer and he was aggressively demanding I hand over his grub! On Garden Patrol I discovered this: I was using this to transfer condensed milk from tin to bottle for dilution. With no evap available for many months - going on a year now, probably - I have to use diluted condensed milk. Fortunately I have others but I have him a severe ticking-off, which he completely ignored. Killer Elite, a movie based on the controversial book by Ranulph Fiennes, about the murder of SAS soldiers on the orders of a Dubai sheikh. Controversial because there was a claim it was based on real events. Jason Statham, Clive Owen and that prick DeNiro. Till Death, with Megan Fox as the wife of a psychotic man who kills himself at their secluded lake house in winter, after first handcuffing himself to her as she sleeps. She can not get free of the corpse even when she has to defend herself against evil men who come to rob the house. Lou, starring Jurnee Smollet (sister of french actor "Juicy") as the mother of a young girl who is hiding out with her daughter from her evil husband who is incarcerated. When he is released and seeks her out, her landlady and neighbor Lou (Allison Janney) comes to her aid. Lou is not to.be messed with. Mechanic: Resurrection, with Jason Statham as a top assassin. I saw the original back in the early 70s. With Charles Bronson in the leading role, this was a very good movie in it's day. Renegades, about retired British Green Berets "arguing" with a local drug gang. These were selected by searching Google for a list of movies. Mo is looking out the window. The last few nights he has been opening the door by himself in the middle of the night. A while back he busted the bolt on the door and perfected a way of unlocking the deadlock from the inside. Hi hasn't done it in a long while but he's done it 2-3 times I'm the last handful of days. Will have to save up for a new bolt. Anyway, Wednesday tomorrow and pension (hopefully) the day after that. May go and buy a few essentials with my fat bank account ($17.45). Some extra veggies? Maybe wait. Will have to go before the weekend anyhow, Thursday afternoon (if the pension drops early enough) or Friday morning. And I think my had will run out soon, so I'm better get a backup. Soon after switching to this cylinder, I had an incident where I left the stove on all night. Dangerous! But also wasteful. Going to bed.

That must be Tara. Really, she was a bit of a shit. But by way of compensation, a picture of Wil and the ice-ball is in the encyclopedia under "Comedy Gold"...

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10¢. It's a charge levied by the bank. They charge a Service Charge each month. This varies from $10 to $16 each month and I don't know why. (It's $13 this month.) They charge a separate fee of 10¢ for Stamp Duty which is a charge that is levied by the government and I think it is on the cheque I write each month to the landlord. If you write a receipt to someone for more than $10 you have to stick a 10¢ stamp on it for it to be valid. A cheque is a receipt and I believe the 10¢ fee is to cover the stamp which you don't actually have to stick on the cheque. I make sure there is at least $16.10 in the bank to cover the Service Charge & Stamp Duty which gets levied at the start of every month. It's only $13 this month (the Service Charge) which is good. My available funds is now $17.35 rather than the $14.35 I thought I had. That's an extra tin of condensed milk.

Morning (left foot): Noon (shorts): Night (right foot): Mo only ate some of his chips. I ate all of mine and they were good! I am looking at his now but I don't think it would be fair of me to eat them. He might eat them later. Just back from Garden Patrol. Dropped the rent cheque in the landlord's post box. Leaves me with $30.45 in the bank. After service charge and stamp duty (due tomorrow) I estimate $14.55 remaining. Going to go go brew up my tea. Water set to boil prior to Garden Patrol.....

Made lentil, potato, onion and pak choy soup for breakfast. Boiled the lentils and potatoes, put them through the blender and added the pak choy and boiled some more. No meat. Tasted good. Made lentil rice with corned beef, potato, pak choy and carrots for lunch. Mo didn't bother to eat his - it is in a bowl at my feet. He had the last of the chow for dinner last night so he will have to eat cooked food again. Should not present a problem because he has been eating cooked food all along, alternating with the chow. Oh, he has just walked in and after a quick look at his bowl, he has curled up on the floor right beside the bed. I hope he eats his lunch eventually. It was tasty and I'd hate to see a good meal go to waste. I'm watching Jason Bourne. It's the 3rd (4th?) in the series with Matt Damon. I'm doing a little clean-up around the garage. Not much because I am feeling lazy. Also considering various little tools I might make to enhance my woodworking. You recall how I make a "magic spacer block" to help get half-lap joints right? Works good but have to make a new one for each wood width and each blade kerf. This takes time. Visualizing a little device that functions as an adjustable magic spacer block that can be quickly set for any wood width and any blade kerf. I have the device visualized but I have not yet tried to make it. I am thinking that it might be possible to use such a device to help make bridle joints as well as half-lap joints. Gotta think about it a bit more to see if I can perfect the thing in my head/on paper before I start trying to build a prototype. Otherwise, not been up to much. Thought about making a three legged stool. And also thought about prepping some pallet wood to build a rustic Adirondack chair for myself. I have a pattern for the shaped parts of the miniature chair I built for my great grand niece a year or two ago. That chair (and obviously, the corresponding pattern) was half-sized. So to try and build myself one I will have to create a new pattern, double the size of the one I have. This means I have to spend money on some expensive, large format photocopying... or build a pantograph. But right now I think I will go brew up a mug of tea and un-pause my movie.

If it's made by Disney.

I'm sure that in 37 seasons, this has happened before.

Yes. Great, isn't is?

Mo didn't eat his lunch. So when he started to get excited about the chips I cooked for my dinner, I kicked the lunch-bowl over to him. He was a little pissed but he ate the lunch and I ate the chips. Which were pretty good! It's been a strange day. I had nothing to do all day so a nap would have worked out fine. But because I had nothing to do all day, I wasn't tired. Of course, I had a lot I could have done; cleanup and so forth. But I didn't feel motivated. There are things I feel motivated to try but I don't have the materials and even if I did, I'm not sure I would want to expend it on experimental stuff. There are a number of things I'd like to build that I never have simply because I have no real need for them and the price would be prohibitive. For instance a digital clock, but different. It would use the standard 7-segment method of displaying the four digits but each segment would be a 3' fluorescent tube. (Or a modern LED equivalent.) Either that or a mechanical element of comparable size. A flat board that is painted black on one side and white on the other and flips over to display one slide or the other on demand. I'd have to put the clock outside so passing motorists could use it. I wouldn't have room for it inside. Another think I'd like to build would be an 8 foot tall chess piece. Or a small number of them that could be set out to show a classic end-game. 7 don't play chess but I always wanted a nice big chess piece standing in the garden. I know how to play, I used to play but I concluded long ago I was a poor player really, so I don't play any more. How about a 3D wood-block puzzle? Where each piece is two or more cubes fixed together? They can be tricky to take apart and tricky to put back together again. Especially if the cubes that form the fundamental basis of the puzzle are 24" square. I am watching a couple TV episodes of miscellaneous shows. For instance, I just watched the pilot for Eureka, a sci-fi comedy from the mid 2000s. Colin Ferguson becomes sheriff of a small town that is actually a secret enclave for all the world's top scientists. And they are all a cross between Heath Robinson and The Nutty Professor. (Speaking of which, that's a movie I have not watched in decades. The real one with Jerry Lewis, of course.) Mo is outside barking spiritedly at something. Dunno what. We had our Garden Patrol and I've just finished my bedtime mug of tea. As I was making it, I was contemplating that I can't afford coffee these days. I like coffee. I like tea too. Normally I'd be drinking several mugs of tea a day for weeks or months and then I would decide to have coffee. I would enjoy that and it would be coffee for several weeks or months until one day I'd drink tea again... I can get 100+ teabags for the same money that a small jar of coffee would cost. I really have to struggle to convince myself to buy a jar. And while I can decaffeinate teabags at home, I have to buy the coffee decaffeinated which is more expensive than regular. And for some reason, much more scarce. Mo is still outside keeping a racket. Anyway, I will go and see what else I can watch. It's about a quarter past nine and I suspect that if I put a movie on I will quickly fall asleep. So it will have to be something extremely exciting or interesting to prevent that happening. Wish me luck finding something suitable! Mo just wandered in.....

He hardly has room in his life for a toothbrush. He doesn't even want to have a fanny-pack with an extra pair of drawers. You think he will hang on to the bike? Doubt it. He will probably ride to the next bus terminal or go until the fuel runs out then give it to someone or just park it and walk away.

I let the ground dry out a bit but this is Friday. Later on Popular will be jammed with people, filling up.thecparking lot and causing the lines to be long for the cashiers. And the weekend is upon us so I surely don't want to be without food and have to go shopping later. So off we went to Popular, stopping for $20 gas on the way. I had a list on my phone but things didn't go 100% to plan. The cheap condensed milk for $1.89 per tin were not available. Only PHD condensed milk was available at $2.99 per tin. It is unquestionably better quality but it is that much more expensive. I was going to buy 5 tins but settled for four. There was no pumpkin or cucumbers but there was pak choy! Never seen it at Popular before, but there it was. Bought three bags. They were small heads, two per bag. Otherwise got potatoes, sugar, tea bags, rice, carrots, sugar and two tins of corned beef. And according to my calculations I am still good for $14.35 after rent is paid. Made corned beef rice with carrot, lentils and pak choy. It tasted great! Mo (who is sleeping between my feet right now) has not eaten his for some reason. That's his business.

Given Quinn's fondness for cutting people I would have preferred for Reacher to slowly dismantle him, slice by slice, over a period of several minutes.

Yeah, I pay something like $48 per month for Sanitation Services to come and haul away my trash. They come once a week on a Monday. So about $12 for each time they visit. It is now Friday and they have not come yet. It is highly unlikely (but not impossible) that they will show up over the weekend. So next Monday, assuming they show up then, I will have 'lost' an entire visit. What is most annoying is that the stuff in that bin has been in there since last week! So potentially 12 days, now. It could be quite noxious! I'm not going to stick my nose in the bin to find out for sure. Also, by Monday the bin will contain two weeks worth of trash. More than it is intended to. And if the trash guys decide there is too much trash or that it is too putrid, they can refuse to haul it away! So they cause the stuff to build up to excessive levels, they cause it to putrify, and they get on their high-horses and blame me for the situation and refuse to clean up the mess they caused! Was just going out to buy some essential groceries when the rain started falling. It is not falling hard but this is kite season so the wind is blowing. I'd rather not be out and about in it. Upshot: no tea. Speaking of kite season, I've been hearing the sound of 2-3 "mad bull" kites in the sky for the last few weeks. These are kites anchored and left. They fly day and night for weeks until they finally fall apart, the line parts or (rarely) they are taken down again by their owner. Anyway, I can usually search the skies and spot them (during the day, not at night). But so far I've been unable to see any of them. I am assuming that my eyesight is definitely deteriorating. Not that I was in any doubt about that...

I have been worrying about rent, which is due in 5 days. I have been short when outstanding bills are accounted for. But one of those bills isn't due until the 10th of next month. By then I should receive another cheque and my next pension payment should drop. So by delaying that payment, I can make rent with $100.90 left over. Which is a good thing because the cupboard is quite bare. I have a couple potatoes, a few onions, a quarter bag of rice and two bags of pasta. There is two tins of corned beef and one of tuna but the only veggies are 3-4 carrots. I boiled up a package of lentils (which went into the rice at lunch and the pasta sauce for dinner). So that $100 will be very welcome to get some grub in the house. There are a couple servings of chow for Mo (3-4) but there is no more milk. I have a coupe dozen tea bags and most of a kilo of sugar, but no eggs, cheese, bread or biscuits. So some groceries are required. The pension & welfare next month will pay that outstanding bill but there won't be enough to pay rent for May. Hopefully I can get some more woodworking jobs in the next couple weeks. More towel racks would be good because I'm all set up (mentally and tool-wise) to do those but I don't think any more of them will be required in the near future. So I don't know what. I didn't do much today. Took the last towel rack out of the clamps and sanded the glue-joints, is about it. Also walked over to the mall and deposited some cash. Yet I am unexpectedly tired. Mo is here sleeping on the floor next to the bed. I am ready to switch off the lights using the bedroom remote and just roll over and go to sleep. As soon as the lights go out I expect him to join me in the bed and find a spot to curl up. Probably against my back. He doesn't often curl up against my tummy, but he did this morning in the wee hours. The 'fore-day morning. There is no milk for morning tea. I will have to go out and buy some before I can brew up. But I have three towel racks in the car and don't want them banging together in the back of the van. Not sure when they will be connected. No time soon, I expect. I will have to find somewhere to put them until called for. I had a flimsy, makeshift table in the garage that had got piled with more & more junk over the passing months. It finally collapsed and the junk ended up all over the floor. I'm sorting through it and separating it into good junk and bad junk. The bad junk can be disposed of. (But see below.) Alas, I don't know where to put the good junk so I have started piling it on to a different flimsy, makeshift table. Two minutes to midnight. I'm going to call it quits, now.