don't let the door hit you on the way out...

well, i got my walkin' papers today - sort of. my time at the salt mine ends the 29th of feb...others are outta here before that but i'm usually here until the bitter end. i'm cool with this ending, i had thought i'd be salt mining until the middle of march but it's ok - just in time to start getting ready to cut. i've been thinking about cutting a lot lately, i can't wait to get back at. shauna's gonna help me make a lawn order card i can put through people's mailboxes when i see a lawn that needs a little lawn ordering.
i'd like to get in the area of 20 lawns this year with a few off the grid lawns as well and chippers...i love that term....nevermind.
our washer and dryer at home may be giving up the ghost so yesterday i went and looked at a few new models and i'm not one to get overly excited about or by washing equipment but, the whirlpool stacker i looked at yesterday is amazing....we'll how it all shakes down but i could be the proud new owner soon of a new stacker unit.
no sign of money yet from kelowna even though we had a deal in place that should have seen money make its way to me by now...let this be a lesson to you kids - drugs are bad.
more spanish tomorrow but, as usual, i have left it until tonight before cracking open my textbook to study a little before the next class...hhhmmm.
this weekend sees me heading also to some Push festival shows - live theatre by artistic type folks doncha know...we have tickets, i think, to a few shows this weekend and one monday night.
also this weekend is the return to the ice and the bombers. too long between games really, hard on us old guys, i need more action than this to try and keep up...them young guys is fast.
the sickness has hung around much longer than i would have liked and now shauna is feeling it as well...we've been hitting the neo citran hard and it does help and getting a decent amount of sleep but this fucker just seems to hang around.
loaded a few toys up on ebay this week as well. step right up, step right up. i think by next week there will be seven or eight less toys around the yard. and some money to help pay for the new fancy pants laundry stacker.
funny too, the stacker unit. the place i am thinking of buying it from, they say they pay the gst...ok, cool. but he, the sales guy, explained it this way. "what we do is take the price you see, subtract 5% and then multiply it by 12% to get the price you pay..." so why not just take the price i see and multiply it by 7% instead and not to the reduction and then the multiplication?..he said that worked too. it's math, and it can be a tough nut to crack. so i actually did the math, on paper, and it works out better that way, 5 bucks or so but in my favor so i'll take it...who knew?...i guess they did...i feel like a bit of a tard...
ok..more details as they develop....

g. xo