Day FiftyNine: Still snowing... Worked in the basement most of the day. The big piles are diminishing and I'm starting to work on the totes of miscellaneous crap that got put in the basement not because they belong there but because they didn't belong anywhere... in these bins it's hit or miss... everything from diamond rings to rats nests that fell out of the wall on or about the turn of the century. AND mostly all back filled with sawdust from the last, well, all the projects since we moved in... not that all the sawdust flies around the room, most of it get hoovered up during the cutting, the bulk of what's left over get swept up eventually but there is that stuff that blows around in the air and get in your hair and in the crack of your ass... ok, well the stuff in the crack of my ass didn't escape down there and end up in the bins, it was stuff like that that got into the bin. And I sifted through all of it... didn't want to toss anything out that mattered. So at the bottom of one of the totes in about a shopping bag of sawdust I find a ear ring the wife was looking for... the wheels and trucks for my old skateboard, Tiny little lead figures I painted in high-school and used to play D&D with, a couple tins of smokes, no cigarettes left but a few good lighter that still work, a Canadian dime from 1943 (real silver) gotta be at least worth $2.00, Heather's late grandmother OHIP card... a father's day card I didn't seem to get, it says on the envelope Do not open until June (so I have to wait a month to see who sent that)... Pogs... I found 2 containers of POGS... the bouncing Tigger that terrified my oldest son through most of his childhood (did you ever buy your kid something that was really cool but it scared the shit out of them for no good reason? This was that thing). The list goes on. I came up for lunch and had an omelette, cheese and mushrooms. Heather was making cookies (not for us - fuck it I ate one anyway, worth it), chocolate cookies with walnuts, salted carmel and chocolate chips... there are still some left, she made like 3 dozen or more, the boy is going to have to start working out to burn off the cookies. We played a little minecraft, raided one of those ocean temples and then I headed back down to the basement to continue the treasure hunt. Wood, there was a lot of scrap wood, No I mean a lot, like some idiot was hoarding it totally oblivious to the forest outside his door. Lawson took a good bunch of it out to the wood stove for a new purpose... sorry wood, you're not going to be a jewellery box but the warmth you create will bring a smile to someones face. It was Pizza and Wings night... I cleaned off the dining room table, the boy fixed his own Pizza (doesn't like all the crap we put on ours), wings (proper Buffalo Wings not the the things they call buffalo wings up here) and some taste buvrogess from my liquor store heist yesterday. The Monopoly Game came out, we played until 8pm, at this point the boy is looking good for the win if he would only buy some damn houses... he had the game well in hand from the beginning, he lapped the board 3 times before I made it around once (we play no buying on the first turn around the board), so I'm basically boned, never seen so many rolls under 5 in my life. Came to bed and the outlet the cable modem is plugged into died... it was going fine at 7:54 (last time we talked to Hey Google)... and then 8:15 when Lawson went to set an alarm to get up and make Mommy breakfast... nothing. Not the breaker, other things on the same circuit are fine, just the one outlet... it got an extension core for the night so I could post this... tomorrow I will poke at it. Any good ideas out there for last minute mothers day gifts? I usually have a few weeks of walking around the mall with the boy to look for gifts but not really a thing this year... man birthdays, anniversaries and holidays are really sucking ass this year. I mean last year Lawson spent a week building a huge statue of Heather for mothers day... sure it was in Minecraft, but it was 3d, it looked good and he spent a lot of time working on it specifically for Mothers Day (which would have been good for this year but he did it last years so...) Well he can start with making Bacon and Coffee in the morning and we will wing it from there.

Robert S
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