Where things somehow manage to get stupider

More info about the new dog. It arrives on Sunday morning. The parents had to sign a contract for the dog. Under terms of the contract they are not allowed to enter the dog in any dog shows, they are not allowed to breed the dog, and they are not allowed to sell or give the dog away unless they get permission from the breeder first.

There's some news from my extended family as well. My aunt in Lumby recently got a dog from her neighbour for free. It's a little cocker spaniel.

I could use a thousand bucks

Two of my sisters somehow got it in their craw that the parents need another dog. But it wasn't good enough to just go to the pound and get some mutt. They couldn't even find anything to their liking locally. Instead they arranged to get a cocker spaniel from a puppy mill in Alberta; a puppy mill with a website on Geocities. (I'm not going to link to them.) After flying it in on Westjet, it's going to end up costing about $1000. And I'm considered the stupid one in this family.

Spending myself happy

It's a good thing Jen only has one birthday each year. I don't think I could survive more than that.

I've been good and saved all my transit passes. I was expecting to get some money back on my taxes from them. But it turns out that this isn't the case, and I'm getting nothing back. I'm a little pissed off about that. I'm wondering if it's worthwhile to get month passes anymore.

The camera show this morning was a success for me. I got a shitload of 120 and 220 film; both c-41 and e-6. I think I ended up with 50 rolls, dropping $100. I got a pretty Felica camera for $15, and a blocky Photo Master Super 16 Twin 620 for $10. (Heather mentioned that it looks like something someone made in shop class.) Best of all perhaps is the Cokin Fish-eye conversion lens for $20. It says it's for camcorders and digital cameras, but I got a couple stepping rings for $5 to connect it to my Yashica Samurai SLR. I shot a roll with that. I bought a polarizer filter for the Samurai as well.

Now if only I can find something interesting to shoot.

It's interesting how things go in circles

I've been worrying about Leah lately. Her use of English isn't very good. Here's a quote from her weblog as evidence.

maggie was my last years cosume a lobster i was the prince from katamari damacy and rachal jsut had a purple dress cause she forgot the teapot hat my mom made in my van. rachal had to leave earley to see a snowboard premier. maggie clames that me and here where the parade it was so cool we couldent go 5 steps with out someone takeing a picture of us it was crazy...

But then I came across a cookbook from the 14th century called "The Forme of Cury" by the Master Cooks of King Richard II of England. As an example, here's a recipe for something called "DOUCE AME".

Take gode Cowe mylke and do it in a pot. take parsel. sawge. ysope. saueray and ooþer gode herbes. hewe hem and do hem in the mylke and seeþ hem. take capouns half yrosted and smyte hem on pecys and do þerto pynes and hony clarified. salt it and colour it with safroun an serue it forth.

While reading this, it dawned on me that Leah's English isn't bad. She's just using very old English. Yes, that's it. Olde English. Leah is smarter than I thought.