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Tax Return

Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town | Leave a Comment

It’s that time of the year again – TAX RETURN! and for us – it means very busy because everyone is getting extra money and is spending some to indulge themselves or their kids. No need for credit reports to get your tax rebate – just your T4s from you boss by the [...]

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What Is Your Future In Yarmouth?

Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Ranting, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment

As i sit here looking at my auto insurance quotes, I cannot help but overhear what the other tables of town folks are chatting about. This town Yarmouth is going thru’ some very major stuff and it’s one bad news after another. As an owner by association to my spouse’s business I wonder [...]

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Fuck you Dexter, Fuck you.

Posted on February 19, 2010 - Filed Under Ranting, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment

Yes, I said it. And I’ll say it again! Fuck you Dexter. I’m sure I’m not the only one who currently feels this way in regards to the current Premier of Nova Scotia. I had high hopes for the NDP government, who sailed into office on promises of accountability and transparency. [...]

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Burned Games Are Illegal!

Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment

I don’t know if I should be upset or just laugh at some people’s ignorance in this town. Every so often we get calls to see if we want to buy burned games! Now why would we want to do that for, right? Firstly it is illegal, we sure don’t want to [...]

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Previously Viewed Movies @ $5

Posted on February 13, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Movies, This Town, review | Leave a Comment

We just dropped the prices for nearly all of our previously viewed movies to $5 each because we have been accumulating quite a bit in the last few months. So we are passing the savings to our customers – YOU! The first day of the sale a customer came in to buy half [...]

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Congrats!

Posted on February 11, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Health, This Town | Leave a Comment

Our town has always been known as a baby boom town – there are a lot of teenage pregnancy here – in fact when I first arrived here some 10 yrs ago, I had mistaken a young mother for a babysitter. I had told the spouse that the babysitter wasn’t the best because she [...]

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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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Local Game Developers first release!

Posted on January 16, 2010 - Filed Under Entertainment, Software, This Town, gaming | 2 Comments

Xona Games, a local game studio manned by Jason & Matthew Doucette, has finally released their first game on the Xbox Live Indie Marketplace, Decimation X. I haven’t played it yet since it just released today and I’m still at work, but I bought it already. It’s only a buck (80 MS fun-bux) [...]

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If We Are Ever Late

Posted on January 14, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Ranting, This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment

If we are ever late – it has to be only 2 reasons – one snowing like last week – and secondly because the princess of the store is sick and refuses to get outta the house or keeps forgetting something that needs turning back. But when the kid is healthy and goes to [...]

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We Are Proud Of You Too

Posted on January 12, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Honesty, This Town | Leave a Comment

We were out looking for some office furniture at one of our local store and met one of our customer & his family there, when he stopped to chat with us. He mentioned that we should be very proud of ourselves since we are one of the 2 renting places left in business now. [...]

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Open On New Year’s Day

Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Business, News, This Town, shopping | Leave a Comment

In just a few days from today the year is coming to an end. Goodbye 2009 and Hello! 2010 – what would 2010 bring for us here in Yarmouth? As I am looking at some stuff at Baby jogger city select for a gift for a friend, I can’t help but wonder if [...]

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Homer Rocking @ Gator Byte

Posted on November 27, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town, building | Leave a Comment

Have you seen Homer rocking on our windows lately? This year we are very pleased that we got our xmas decoration up this early. Our friend who was into motorhome towing came to help with his kids and our kid and their kid had so much fun putting up the Christmas lights and [...]

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