Category: General
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Low Cost Canadian Cell Phone Plans are Garbage
The requirements the CRTC has given the cell phone service providers to create low cost plans look like something written up from 2012, with features and prices that just don’t make sense for modern times. It looks like the big-three will continue to make huge amounts of money, even off…
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SUV Maybe?
This is the third in a series of posts starting almost two years ago about vehicle choices to someday replace our car. The first post was Electric Car Options in October of 2019, the second was Hyundai Kona EV – Too Tight a Squeeze and after that whole thing, I…
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A Year in Our House
So it has been basically a year since we moved into this house and while it wasn’t the year we expected when we started the process of buying the house, I definitely can’t complain. Living here during Covid has been great. It’s mostly little things like having our own entrance,…
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My Experiences Thus Far with Crypto
I have thought that cryptocurrencies were interesting for years now, but I have always been too risk adverse to invest any real money into it, until recently. Back years ago, I bought three bitcoin for around one hundred dollars. Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart with it and put it on a…
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Sol Prima Mothballed
So after a few months, I’ve decided to close down Sol Prima Miniatures for now. It just wasn’t converting and while fun, it was eating up a bunch of money each month. I was spending over one thousand per month for six months to try to get the project going,…
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Resin Printing with Donatello: Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K
So even when I was buying my Sidewinder X1, I was dreaming of also owning a resin printer that could do miniatures in high detail and now Wallace has a friend in Donatello. I wanted to buy a medium sized resin printer, something that could print large, high detail busts,…
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Covid Response in Canada: An Open Letter
I emailed something similar to the following to my MP and MPP regarding the recent response to Covid-19. I am emailing you today as a concerned citizen regarding the “second wave” of Covid we are experiencing as a Country. I am hopeful that you and the rest of our elected…
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Luna Has Hip Dysplasia
We had a health guarantee, but we don’t want to give back Luna, so we will find a way to keep her comfortable and hope she gets to live a good life. Luna just had her second birthday and today we should be on our way to meet up with…
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A House and Home
It feels weird to write about this since we’ve been living here for more than a month now but Annie and I bought a home. It is a raised bungalow with Annie, Luna and me on the main level, and my mom living downstairs. The house is semi-detached, so we…
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Hyundai Kona EV – Too Tight a Squeeze
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post where I discussed the options available to Canadians that interested me with regards to electric vehicles – Electric Car Options, but I was focused primarily on range and price, and since then I’ve come to realize that my top choices might…
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