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Since coming to Kingston, Amazon has consistently impressed me, leading to increased purchases from them.
Whaddya think? Did I overdo it?
I think I may just miss Amazon most of all when I go home.

Almost two months after declaring my desire for more underwear, I finally have very X’Massy underwear:
Now to figure out who/when to wear them for……

This week’s Music Monday is going to be short because I’ve been in bed all weekend nursing a cold and a bad throat, but let’s get to it!
I was shopping at the mall (or what passes off as a mall in Kingston), the other day and was appalled to see cds being sold for $18 [...]

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These were a gift from the fiancee two years ago, and as much as I took care of them, they finally died a natural death after serving me well on many, many travels. Annoyingly, they chose to die when I was on a 3hr train ride from Toronto to Kingston, so I couldn’t watch as [...]

Since I posted up details about the party, I’ve gotten numerous requests for the yearly wishlist to go up. So here comes the shameless time of the year, although when you think about it it’s not that shameless. I just have enough mugs and photo frames accumulated from previous year’s birthdays. So something actually useful [...]

I picked these up almost a week ago and they’re part of the final (for now) wave of Minimates from DC Comics that will be released. I picked up the full set (4 sets of 2 figures each), so here they are:

So on the left we have Salaak of the Green Lantern Corps and on [...]

So this year I decided I needed some “excitement” in my life and chose to go to the PC show on the last night at the last hour. The office people made a trip on Thursday and I went with them to scout around and target the stuff I wanted, and then went back tonight.
So [...]

Last Saturday (an exhausting day after Social Media Breakfast), I met the guys for a belated birthday celebration for Rubin. Being his birthday, he got to chose the place and led us to Ambrosia, 19 Baghdad Street because of its’ $11 buffet.
So we got there and sat upstairs when a waiter came and said “Sir [...]

This post was going to be all praise for the Mandarin Oriental hotel, until they blew it literally at the last two minutes of my visit there.
I was at an informal discussion at the hotel. I hadn’t been there prior to their renovation and I must say the place is really swanky. On entering the [...]