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Back story on the Hurlburt thing

Posted on February 9, 2010 - Filed Under Life, Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment

I forgot I hadn’t written yet about the first thing Hurlburt did! Before the $2500 TV was discovered, it was made public that Richard Hurlburt had purchased a generator for the heft sum of $8000. I also hear he paid $3000 to have it installed at his house! What the hell was [...]

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Hurlburt Claims the $2500 TV

Posted on February 9, 2010 - Filed Under Life, Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment

Well well well, what a surprise that turned out to be. Not really of course, but when I read today that Richard Hurlburt was the MLA who had claimed a $2500 LCD TV as an expense I was like “well that figures, that fucker”. Boy I’m sure glad I never voted for him! [...]

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Support The Tourism Industry

Posted on January 28, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Life, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment

If you are from Yarmouth or anywhere in Nova Scotia and can make it up to Halifax for the rally on Thursday Feb 4 at 10am – i urged you to go and support the people who are fighting to keep the Cat for another season. We at Gator Byte is not directly affected [...]

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One way to reduce a Mortgage Payment

Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Finances, Insurance, Life | Leave a Comment

One thing you may be able to do to reduce your mortgage payment a little is to get your own term life insurance plan to cover the cost of the mortgage. I think I’m currently paying $33 a month for life insurance as part of my mortgage payment. But even though the mortgage [...]

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Online Education

Posted on November 30, 2009 - Filed Under Life, Technology, school | 1 Comment

I’ve thought lately about going back to school, an electronics repair course would be right up my alley and would help out a lot. There’s only one place left in town that does repairs and they’re only doing TVs now from what I hear, so I’m sure there’d be a bit of business to [...]

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No Vacation in 6 years

Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Life, Travel, kids | Leave a Comment

One way or another, we are taking some vacation time this summer! Something always comes up whenever we plan to take some time off, but this summer we are going somewhere, somehow, even if it means closing the store completely for a week. Most likely we’ll spend a few days in the Halifax [...]

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Spring is here!

Posted on March 22, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Life, Weather | Leave a Comment

Overall this winter wasn’t too bad. It was weird, keeping with the recent trend from the last few years. Freezing cold one day, almost warm the next.. rain, snow, ice from the sky.. is it just me or has the weather changed a lot in the last 25 years. I could [...]

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Bringing Your Kids To Work

Posted on March 15, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Life, kids | Leave a Comment

We have the luxury of bringing our li’ monster to work with us everyday .. from the day she was born. Many people thinks it’s awesome – well we do too but it’s not all fun. You see, one have to make sure.. you have time for her because she needs a lot [...]

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I’m a Pack Rat

Posted on March 7, 2009 - Filed Under Life, building | Leave a Comment

The basement here is full of junk, stuff that will probably never sell but I refuse to throw away. The basement home is also full of junk, stuff that I might need someday, for something. But it’s too much and kept for too long so this spring I need to start tossing stuff. [...]

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Be an Olympic Torchbearer

Posted on January 9, 2009 - Filed Under Entertainment, Health, Internet, Life, News | Leave a Comment

Perhaps one of the biggest surprises of my day today was learning that Coca Cola is pumping 5 million bucks into it’s SOGO Active program in collaboration with ParticipACTION. The program is targeted at youths and teens in an effort to help them become more active.
As an added incentive to get more people interested [...]

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What she Needs can’t Always be Bought

Posted on January 5, 2009 - Filed Under Holidays, Life | Leave a Comment

It’s hard to buy a Christmas gift for a Chinese woman, they have a lot of superstitions. For example, I know she needs a new pair of shoes, but I can’t buy them for her. Might as well give her a set of Rimowa luggage, it has the same meaning. Giving shoes [...]

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So What Happened to John Watkins?

Posted on December 17, 2008 - Filed Under Life, News, This Town | Leave a Comment

2 weeks ago I read on both CJLS and Nova News that John Watkins was reported missing and the RCMP were asking for the public’s help in locating him. It was mentioned that he might be driving out west to find employment. If that was the case though wouldn’t he have at least [...]

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Insurance Company got Changed Again?

Posted on December 12, 2008 - Filed Under Life, Ranting | Leave a Comment

Just received notice that my car insurance comes up in January and the agent I deal with is switching me to yet another new company. The rates and the coverage look to be the same so I guess it doesn’t matter too much, but it seems strange that every year at least one of [...]

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To Dance or Defend

Posted on November 4, 2008 - Filed Under Life, kids | Leave a Comment

Now we’re trying to decide what sort of extra-curricular activities to sign Chloe up for. Like most little girls, she loves dancing and wants to take ballet lessons. She also loves to play karate, thanks to Spongebob, so we were thinking of putting her in a martial arts class. That would have [...]

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