So after dropping my lovely Pixel Android phone once too often, I was forced to procure a new one but inpecunity got in the way. Thanks to the generosity of one of my friends (thanks, Will) I do have a rather lovely-looking Apple iPhone 11, yet I am unable to use THE PHONE THAT I OWN because I have to create an Apple ID. The process has been…troublesome, let us just say, and after two whole days of trying,
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Cream of the Cool
Sometimes, I have this dream where I am flying. When I first started doing it, I had the best kind of flight, superhero flight. I could just fly any direction, brake, stop, hover, full freedom of movement in every axis. Want to fly upside-down (feet above head) and backwards, just to see what it feels like? I have. It's funny.
At some point the flying started to change. It went from Super Man to Super Mario. If you know, you know - it was mostly feather powerup type flight,
…An accident delayed me-- not mine, but one that required me to reroute my trip through rural roads and a whole lot of dust, and finally back to New Hamburg. It's a picturesque town with some excellent eating establishments in its heritage-designated downtown, but we met, as Canadians do, at the local Tim Hortons.
Wayne Roth, now in his 80s, is a former mayor of Wilmot Township who recalled New Hamburg's short-lived "MonsterFest" from the 1970s and began, in 1997, to re-incorporate the
…"Snow" is the English title of a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, originally published in Turkish as Kar. The work was finished in 2001 (in December, which is significant), was published in Turkish in 2002, and published in English in 2004. The novel is a contemporary work of what seems at first might be social realism, but that also includes aspects of surrealism or magical realism. The book covers several contemporary topics, but is not strictly about any of them.
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