Category: General
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Bought a New Computer
So recently, my brother came to Brockville. I had been considering upgrading some of the parts in my computer, but the requirements of the parts were such that I`d need to replace many parts. And so, my nearly three year old computer was getting to the point where upgrading it…
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Third Challenge in Writing Course
The third prompt was given to the entire class. The previous prompts were randomly selected and were unique to each of us. It was interesting to see us all deal with the same prompt and the different stories and writing styles we’d come up with. The prompt was: fired from…
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Second Challenge in Writing Course
My second prompt is the first bit of dialog in the story below. No other prompts to help me write.
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First Challenge in Writing Course
So we were given random papers today to write a quick story based on a prompt. Mine was “write about a noise or a silence that won’t go away.” Here’s what I came up with…
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Growing a Beard
So for a little over a month, I grew a beard. It had its ups and downs. The major upside being that I didn’t have to shave every day, but to make it look decent, there was still a fair bit of grooming involved. The main two reasons I decided…
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My L Lens: 24-105
So one of the things I did right before taking a leave of absence from this blog is buy my first L series lens. I had been thinking about it for quite some time, and finally took the plunge and purchased one. Nearly two grand later, I had it in…
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What’s Up?
Well, I decided to take a month off from blogging, or rather, my life was such that I needed to take a month off writing and while many things have happened over the last four weeks, which I hope to go over in the coming days, I’m also gearing up…
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My 2011 Birthday/Christmas Wishlist
As I have been given the opportunity to give little gifts to my family recently, I’ve also been asked what I’m looking to receive this fall as my birthday and Christmas approaches, so I whipped up my yearly list to make it easy for family and friends. Gadgets and Accessories…
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Knowledge Doesn’t Lead to Expression and Experience
I don’t know why, but I have a strange issue. I have a ton of knowledge but I can’t put any of it into action. I know how to get fit, but I’m not doing a good job at doing what I know needs to be done. I know how…
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Conflicts in Life Goals
While I pride myself on being a relatively focused person when it comes to what I want out of life, there are some things that conflict. Right now, the conflict weighing heavily on my mind, even though I can’t act on it, is the fact that I want to live…
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Almost Purchased a New Lens
So, during the weekend, I stopped off at Henry’s in Kingston and almost bought the Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS lens. It would have been nearly $1600 after tax and slapping a protective filter on the end of it, but because they were too slow to act on price matching…
Malcolm Peralty 