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I guess I have the "unfair" advantage of prolonged mask use experience. I'm hyper aware due to job training (and now covid obviously) of the do's and dont's regarding masks. Y'all have no idea what it's like to not be able to scratch or touch your face for 3-5 hours at a time lol. It's a special kind of torture.
PSA: Don't touch the front of your masks. It's a filter, you don't touch the dirty part. Instead, if you need to, remove your mask via the ear loops instead. Keeps your hands clean assuming no one coughed on the side of your face out there
Because of this pandemic, I’ve been forced to play on-line casino games. Can’t keep an old Asian down. Just got a welcome letter from Parq Casino. Damn, I miss that place.
Parq won't survive...
Hopefully, someone will buy it at discount after few bankruptcies and rebuild its foundation...
Because of this pandemic, I realized I actually enjoy staying at home and just spending all my time on the computer or doing projects in my garage. Besides losing my job, didn't really feel too much difference in terms of the social aspect...
Now I found a new job that's full time work from home, I barely go out or drive anymore. My insurance is up at the end of this month and I'm really considering not renewing it. It doesn't make sense to pay $2500~ a year to drive maybe 3x times a month.
Strange times... I love driving my car. I would literally get excited waking up in the morning or 5 mins before I'm off work, knowing I'm about to drive. But I just have no where to go on a consistent basis if it's not going out for work 5x a week.
(Since my wife still needs her car for work, we'll use it when we go out together, but driving her car is just not the same. Sad times, lol)
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i wanted to downgrade to insure 1 care, but wife insists having that 2nd for emergencies when she's at work and i need a car (eg to pick up the kids for xyz emergency). she's not comfortable in taxi or uber
I've been told you can get day permits over the phone, maybe see how long it actually takes. If it's quick then should you need the car you can just call in, slap a permit on and away you go.
I was considering letting the insurance run out on my daily driver since I've only gone through 1 tank since March, then I realized if I'm doing that I may as well just sell it since I'm not going to need a 4 door DD or get a chance to go offroading for at least a couple years. If we find only having 1 vehicle a problem I'll slap insurance on my Celica, but if I do that I'll have to find a more fun route to the grocery store since that's the only place I go now.
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Great Canadian Casino not so Canadian, if this deal goes through. Shareholders vote on it next month.
Head office will still be in Toronto.
I miss the Hard Rock so muchee.
I wonder what that means for the Delta Casino they broke ground on? I haven't driven past there, have they halted construction because of Covid? We didn't win the award so I hope it goes tits up, fuckem
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Has anyone came across an efficient way to get stuff in Blaine mailboxes back?
I've got a bunch of household stuff that I ordered earlier this year thinking the border would re-open some time.
With no end in sight, I'm starting to look for ways on how to get those stuff to Canada.
I checked with the mailbox, the only thing they could do is to ship them with a courier... but at the size of those items, the shipping would probably cost as much getting those stuff in Canada.
My absolute last resort is that I have a upcoming trip to US for business that despite my best effort, I cannot avoid the trip if I want to make sure it goes the way I want. It's in NorCal and I'm really thinking to just rent a one-way car and drive back just for the sake of picking my packages up.
I've recently read an article on Torontostar that a company came up with a clever way to bypass the restrictions for CDN snowbirds... they basically charter a helicopter flight from Hamilton to Buffalo airport, and ship their car on a flatbed to Buffalo airport so their owners can reunite with their cars there.
Just wondering if any company locally have came up with solutions to pick stuff up in Blaine.
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The owner of Package express in Sumas used to offer couriering your packages over the border (he lives in Abby) but I'm not sure if he still offers that, or if he's able to do that given the covid rules, but you should ask the different shipping companies in Blaine if they offer anything like that even if yours doesnt
for you to want to drive through 3 states? are there even cross-border rental drop offs now?
cbsa gonna rip you a new asshole for your NorCal to Vancouver plan for parcel pick up
Just a bunch of stuff... table legs (Floyd Detroit), humidifier (was on sale at Amazon), car stuff, some camera accessories... etc. Maybe about $1000 total if that...
Nothing really worth a whole lot of money, but all stuff I have actual use for, and it's just a hassle to get them here as I wouldn't know what to do with the one I have in the US if I do buy them in Canada.
Since the trip to US for business is inevitable, I thought it's an option. I've done trip down to SoCal cannonball style several times already (only stopping for food at drive-through and bathroom stop). NorCal is 6hr shorter drive. Driving doesn't bother me and in term of Covid contact is no worse, if not better than go into SFO and fly back.
No real difference in cost either... the only cost is the time and whatever lesson I'm going to get from border agents when I get back. So, I'm seeking alternatives. Ideally some commercial services that pick up stuff in WA and haul them back and have spaces on their truck. So they'd pick up "the cargo" and bring them over and I pick up this side of the border.
5D packages is holding parcels until the boarder opens up no extra hold fees. once the boarder opens up then the 30 day hold period starts, then the fees start after that
i thought that was pretty good of them. I've got a package waiting there now.
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but the deals are better in person, yes?
There are things in that shop that are not on-line. Discontinued stuff, for example. I saw this 9 inch "Winter Frost" pie plate on sale there for dirt cheap. I purchased 3 of them. The website said not in stock. It's been discontinued. I go back and there they were again. I purchased 3 more, because they were so handy for BBQ.
Anyway, I find it much better to get what I want and see stuff I never even knew existed. Pick up stuff and see it in person. No shipping, chances of damage, etc.
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Has anyone came across an efficient way to get stuff in Blaine mailboxes back?
I've got a bunch of household stuff that I ordered earlier this year thinking the border would re-open some time.
With no end in sight, I'm starting to look for ways on how to get those stuff to Canada.
I checked with the mailbox, the only thing they could do is to ship them with a courier... but at the size of those items, the shipping would probably cost as much getting those stuff in Canada.
My absolute last resort is that I have a upcoming trip to US for business that despite my best effort, I cannot avoid the trip if I want to make sure it goes the way I want. It's in NorCal and I'm really thinking to just rent a one-way car and drive back just for the sake of picking my packages up.
I've recently read an article on Torontostar that a company came up with a clever way to bypass the restrictions for CDN snowbirds... they basically charter a helicopter flight from Hamilton to Buffalo airport, and ship their car on a flatbed to Buffalo airport so their owners can reunite with their cars there.
Just wondering if any company locally have came up with solutions to pick stuff up in Blaine.
Ask the company in Blaine to ship the items to your hotel in Norcal? Then fly home with them?
Ask the company in Blaine to ship the items to your hotel in Norcal? Then fly home with them?
It's too much work and cost-wise to have everything shipped and fly home with me as some stuff won't fit into suitcases.
Either way, still debating about it... but most likely I'd do the drive for the heck of it given from the recent comments of JT, our borders/travel restrictions aren't likely to change any time soon.
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I've picked up my cooking at home big time in this pandemic. Was doing bakery stuff with a crappy hand mixer... until it broke today.
Took the recommendation of bakers' group and going big with a 7qt Kitchenaid Pro line... which is basically the most powerful stuff one can get before getting into commercial grade.
Anyone else into home cooking/baking... etc since the pandemic?
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