Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

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I keep forgetting about shopping on-line!

I seldom do, but it's so commonplace that I was
wondering if you were being sarcastic.

I'm a Luddite. I've only ordered stuff on-line twice. Both times
it was from David and Heidi Sievers's soupbase,com to get Minor's
products.

On the other hand, the shipping and customs fees might make it
a less attractive proposition to you.

It generally does.

What an interesting life. I'd be envious if it didn't deal
so much in suicidal alcoholics.

Trauma counselling is certainly not everyone's cup of tea. I
certainly couldn't do it even if I had the training. When it comes
to wife beaters and child molesters I'd undoubtedly loose my temper,
and go out and shoot somebody by day 2.

She's seen solstices before.

Twice a year, every year! [g] But not always north of the Arctic
Circle.

(the newest members of the team has two teenage daughters who are
quite talented fiddlers.)

They took turns with a rock band blasting away next door at the dive
bar cum stripper club and tattoo and piercing parlour that used to be
KFC and for a little while they also yielded to the NWT Scottish
pipe band who did a set in front of us.

June 15th [...] beer barge

Sounds like a bunch of fun.

huge fish fry in a downtown lake front park and their live music
included drum dancers and jiggers, so more fiddle music.

I'm booking a ticket, too!

We can't afford your usual fee but if you're willing to work for all
the hotdogs you can eat and then all the beer you can drink from
Midnight to closing at the Gold Range ...

if American has a partner airline that goes there (WestJet I
believe once had an agreement with it but no longer does).

Westjet is not in any alliance but currently codeshares with Delta
and has interline arrangements with American. I'm not sure how
either of those arrangements affects collecting or using points
though.

Air Canada is a Star Alliance member.

Ugandan food.

How much Indian figures in the spicing?

It exerts a heavy influence which makes sense when you consider the
country's history. The yellow rice was rather curry like.

... I wonder how many mosquitoes will get addicted to meth this
summer?

For me the concern is when HIV or one of its successors
in the horribleness department decides to survive in a
wider range of temperatures so it can live through human-
insect-human transfers. People say, oh, that's impossible,
but I go, gee, how dumb and unimaginative can you be?

It is indeed very possible. Both the west nile virus and lyme
disease are present in southern Canada now thanks to both climate
change and new species of mosquitos and ticks becoming transmission
vectors. And thanks to climate change Alberta deer are invading
NWT caribou country and bringing both ticks and fleas with them.
This is one of the factors in the complicated decline of the
caribou herd populations.

Cheers

Jim

... Give a man a ticket and he'll fly for a day.
... Push him out of a plane and he'll fly for a lifetime.

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