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I’m roughly 45minutes south west of Toronto, and the houses on my street are valued at roughly $435k by the city. Yet for the past couple years I have seen the houses creep up to $800k and then the past couple years (when Covid started) it’s been $1.1 to $1.3m. One of them just being 2 houses to my right and we aren’t that big. Like 3-4 bedroom/1.5-2.5 baths, but we have backyards, great location to highway, go transit, schools and shopping. Be interesting to see how things 1)cool down with Covid restrictions lifting 2)will people move back/closer to the downtown core with no work from home option 3)the housing market crash? (More when and how soon)

Funny enough that I thought I would of been all ebook by now myself. After the great word of mouth it got back in 2010 from a panel of writers at the World Horror Convention, which included Joe Hill. I loved the idea of that these short story writers wanting to do a subscription service/site which they could release their works for people to purchase/read almost instantly. I don’t think this has really happen yet either, but it was exciting enough that it made my sister and I buy a Kindle from the airport in Houston. It was cool at first but I gotta admit that I missed the textile feeling of a book in my hand. Something about holding a book just feels rights unlike staring at a screen, which I pretty much do all day anyways (like right now) So I’m back to buying/trying to read my physical copy books. I was gonna start reading Cradle to Stage from Dave Grohl’s mom, but can’t after Taylor’s death. Which I guess kinda brings me to music now, and I have pretty much stopped buying cd’s. I’m not yet a record player owners and so we’ll hopefully keep that habit demon at bay for now. I pretty much use whatever free music is offered for streaming/downloading. Will stream playlist from YouTube in my car, but would love to actually buy the 2 Acoustic CD releases from Above and Beyond. Use mainly my free prime music but hate that what was once free can be taken away just as easily. I fell in love with the last Rag ‘N Bone Man release but that keeps disappearing and sometimes briefly reappearing on my phone. Too broke at the moment to pay for Spotify or the Unlimited Prime Music and have no real desire to do so. It’s just enough new and old music here and there too keep me satisfied

Something was making my manager sick on Monday, and I went into work to cover the rest of his shift. Took a test at work and came back negative. This morning my other manager came down with what the other has and wanted me in, but I think I’m coming down with something too. My throat kinda hurts, rushing to the bathroom emergency shits (3 as I type in the past 2hrs) and my sleep has been almost non existing this week with my weed. It ain’t just me who are having this insomnia issues, but the weird thing is I’m more awake/wired with less sleep then waking up after an ok sleep. Last week I would be in bed by 12:30-1am and be fully awake ready to start my day. . . .at 3-3:30am. Sometimes I would just lay in bed and toss/turn and hope to fall asleep but don’t. Sometimes I would hit my bong again and that would overall helped me rest my eyes but only did twice because of morning shifts for work. Who know what I really have, because this is also the start of my allergy season and some of these symptoms are very close (minus the shits) to what I get with them for most of April. Might just be a bit worse because I’m walking occasionally more with no mask to filter out most of the allergens (unlike the past 2 years)

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Amazon to have PS5 digital system in stock at 11am est/8am pst for Prime Members Only

I’m still a physical media guy myself and sadly it’s more expensive 3D imports then anything getting a good chunk of my money. Sadly I missed out on a few Marvel 4K/3D Steelbooks but can still can get (for now) the marvel superhero films 4K/3D that way from Japan. (minus No Way Home, so FUCK YOU SONY!) I’ve had to import from the UK, France, Germany and now Japan. Ok they were mostly because of the very cool 4K/3D steelbooks artwork(Spiderman:Spider-Verse & Far From Home being my favs from Germany) I agree on the shrinking 4K selection and I’m seeing it disappear from Walmart and more DVD returning (wtf) I admit my movie buying is down because of a few factors (money, streaming, no working HT receiver) Still I didn’t spend a shit ton of money on my home theatre for streaming movies that still can’t match the visual quality still offered by a 4K disc. Plus some streaming services (Crave in Canada) still don’t offer a lot of 4K content or any Atmos sound. Some discs also offer DTS:X and some imports offer Auro 3D sound that, again, can’t get on a streaming service. Would love to see some streaming service for my 3D films if they are stopping the discs, but still showing in 3D theatres. It’s my movie version of blue balls

I'm right around the corner from a Gino’s Pizza. An actual pizza franchise in (at least) Ontario. Their pizza quality over the years has been up and down, but thankfully up right now. My local is under new ownership and the workers just fucking load it with toppings (bacon, Italian sausage, pepperoni and chicken being my go to toppings. It’s my pizza version of the Krusty Burger Clogger) Can we at least agree that a good creamy garlic dipping sauce is the best thing to dunk that slice into. My favourite version is the one from Pizza Pizza, so creamy and lots of garlic taste too

. . . . with the an amazing soundtrack as well. Jared Leto let slip that a third movie is close to being announced. Plus I would also like to state that the Tron: Uprising series was also very underrated

My uncle made a quick visit to let us know he was retiring from The Beer Store come May 20th. He was talking about how he is still wearing his mask and was confronted by a customer saying he doesn’t have to wear it. My uncle told the fella “it’s because I still live in reality and the virus didn’t leave because Ford dropped mandate” He’s not afraid to tell them the truth and add a little kind FU in there too.

I wish Chris Farley was alive and not this shit (sorry best video I could find, Canada) Showing that he’s still that annoying shit from even way back then, still has no idea what is even happening.

I was still holding out hope they would tour, but Foo Fighters just made it official. All upcoming concert events have been canceled. Had tickets for them in Toronto for July and had tickets back in May 2020 to see them in Hamilton. At least I got to see them in Toronto in the summer of 2018.

Fuck that! I want a new Hot Shots movie and what the hell, let’s bring back Charlie Sheen too I gotta come clean and admit that I haven’t even seen the first movie yet. I do have my 3D blu-ray copy to view but no system to listen to it properly on. The day my receiver crapped out on me, I was in the process of watching my 3D copy with my cousin. New movie looks great and can’t wait to see it in Atmos and hell D-Box would be fucking insane.

Let your UGP expire next time. Buy 3 of the 12 month Xbox Live Gold cards (Canadian can get them for $60 Costco) and a 1 month UGP card. Add the 3 years of gold first and then the 1 month UGP to auto convert the cheaper 3 years all to UGP. Works out to just over $60Cnd a year for UGP.

Yeah, but I just payed slightly more then $180Cnd and I now have Xbox Ultimate Gamepass until 2025 with new game releases day one. Sony is just gonna keep being Sony, and take the money without giving back to their loyal die hard fanbase. If I see it cheap I might still go for the lowest tier because the free monthly games have been good and I need to finish Control on my PS5

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Could this also be a sign of them switching into the more extreme weapons in their arsenal?

It’s only been like 10+ years but we have a new Porcupine Tree album coming out soon

I don’t have the skills but someone has to either sync up/meme the Will Smith slap with Tropic Thunder’s Tom Cruise telling the intern to hit the director

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Someone better add Mike Tyson’s PunchOut and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme to that punch. So since lives pretty much in Bel-Air, does that he moves back to Phili? Plus we gotta get a Comedy Central Roast of Will Smith hosted by Chris Rock out of this. Please for the love of God make it happen.

I thought it was fake at first but Chris Rock’s reaction and the complete lack of sound afterwards between the two of them. I don’t know what was said but it look like legit heated argument and was awesome. were they talking about Bruno?

Will Smith there showing he should of won for his portrayal of Muhammad Ali on Chris Rock there

I went shopping 2 days ago without a mask for the first time. (Quick in and out) Gotta say 60-70% are still masking up. Although if I were to point out 2 that don’t seem to masking up as much were the late 20’s/30’s and elderly people. Sure some are masking but most don’t seem to give a shit about the mask or their past 2 years of living. For some, this Covid issue is all but over for them it seems. As the week has progressed at work, gotta say we are at about 50% or less now who wear a mask. First couple of days after the mandate ended, I would of said 60-70% came in with their mask on. I guess that March break buffer is shorter for some folks then others. Still wear mine almost everywhere I go and/or when I’m with customers at work.