Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.

    When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.

    Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say ‘see you later!’ … and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.

    We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college … we never saw our friend again.

    We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.

    I think about my old childhood friends … I’m middle aged now … some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids … a few had hard lives and became addicts … one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose … and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.


  • I’m in Canada and I’ve always supported the third candidate consistently. I always vote the New Democratic Party, the NDP in our province and national elections … I’ll even volunteer a bit of time and support the local campaigns and I donate to them annually. And it never matters to me, if polls show that they are definitely going to lose, I’m still voting for them. Even if people claim that my vote is ‘splitting’ the vote, I’ll still hold onto my principles and vote for who I want, not play some game to try to choose the one I disagree with the least.




  • I do have a nicer board … a big thick one I use most often.

    I use several boards for different things … one specifically for meat … one for just garlic and onions … another for fruits … and a general one for everything else.

    It’s the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they’re cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don’t understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.

    I’ve also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.

    They’re melee weapons … lol


  • I’ve heard of that and I’ve seen that but I never do that.

    I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.

    Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We’d cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It’s just faster that way.

    I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.

    A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.







  • Local politician … a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn’t get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he’s well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.






  • I bought it when it was ten years old and from a friend of a friend who was selling it privately. The only real way to grab a good vehicle is if you know of someone who had a vehicle from new. It’s just constant searching and luck that one is able to find vehicles like this. The guy I bought it from had it from new and took care of it and by the time I got it, it had minimal rust. He knew the truck’s life was limited which is why he wanted to get rid of it. As soon as I took hold of it, the rust started growing on the damned thing and I’ve been fighting to keep it going and away from any further rust as possible. The engine and transmission are good and will last a very long time, its just the rest of the truck, especially everything from the wheel wells down (minus the engine and transmission) that will fall apart first.