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Says 57 – Arrived in Woodstock

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June 10 Sunday, 5:30 pm I arrived in Woodstock and stayed at my ex-wife’s apartment while I looked for a place to stay. I arrived on Sunday evening and my daughter who was expecting and out visiting friends, went into labour and had boy (Max) 5 lbs 12 oz at around 4:00 am on Monday morning.

June 11, My first order of business was to get my vehicle safety inspected and emissions tested so that I could get it licensed. It passed with flying colours, but I had a haste with a woman at the license place who tried to make me believe that the Saskatchewan dealer never gave me the proper papers.
I called the dealer and while he was on the phone, I tried to get her to talk to him so that he could send down the missing papers, but she refused. She reluctantly said she would call head office while I waited to the side. I thanked the salesman from Regina Honda for his time and ended the call and waited.

It turned out that while she was on the telephone, I overheard the ignorant bitch say that she had never registered a vehicle from Saskatchewan. She then asked me for the same papers I gave her before and not saying a word, she did her job as she was walked through the process. She then tried to charge me GST that I had already paid in Saskatchewan and I called her on that, and she quietly corrected her mistake. There was no need to say anything more as she knew, her co-workers knew and all the 15 people waiting in line knew that she had fucked up as I overheard those that had been in line when I was having the issue, tell the others who were asking what the problem was.

June 13, I found a place and will be moving in on June 14. It’s an old Victorian house with 5 rooms on the second floor that are being rented out. There are presently two young guys and one woman living there and another woman will be moving in on Saturday. I have one of the largest rooms, measuring about 15 x 15 feet with a closet. It also has a queen size bed, night table, dresser, bookshelf, computer table, small drop-leaf table with two chairs, a small bar fridge, LCD TV, cable TV and wireless internet. We all share the kitchen and washroom that are also quite large.

Says 56 – Back in Regina and finishing up last minute business.

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May 26 – May 31 Recuperating , and beginning to feel better. A couple of days later I cleaned up the Toyota Tercel to get it ready to sell and posted it on Kijiji.

June 01 While I got enquiries for the Toyota, I never got any offers as people were leery of buying a car from Ontario that was not safety inspected and certified. I decided to spend the $125.00 and got it certified, which not only increased my odds at selling it, but also in getting closer to the price I was asking for it.

June 02 – 04 I started going through my things and began packing up the Honda CR-V. On Monday morning, June 04, I sold the Tercel to a young woman. Having sold the Tercel, I now had to arrange to get a temporary day permit as well as an inter-provincial permit that would allow me to drive the Honda CR-V back to Woodstock Ontario.

I had previously told my Mother that when I sold the car that I would drop her off at her sisters place some 150 miles from Regina and I called her telling her that I would be leaving on Wednesday. She said she wanted to go, but that she also wanted to go to the funeral of my brother’s father-in-law that had died on the weekend. I then told her that I would leave on Thursday. Tuesday night she called me telling me that she now didn’t want to go, that she wasn’t feeling that well, so my plans changed again. It would be a rush to try to pack up and leave on Wednesday morning so I decided to stay with the Thursday departure.

June 06 On Wednesday morning I had just put gas in my Honda, and was driving away from the gas pumps when a strong gust of wind blew a heavy garbage can off a raised platform and against the driver’s and passenger side door, denting and scratching them. I complained to the attendant who told me to take my vehicle to a scratch and dent shop and that Superstore (where I bought the gas) would pay for it. I went to the place he mentioned and after getting an estimate of $275.00, I was told that it would take 2 -3 weeks before they could fix it. I had no time to wait so I asked him to give me the estimate in writing so that I could get my money from Superstore.

I took it back to the attendant and after contacting his supervisor, informed me to get the vehicle fixed in Ontario and to send the bill to him. I really had no other option as I wanted to leave tomorrow and I still had to pack up the Honda.
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Says 55 – I’m Back on my Blog – Basic details of my trip out West

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I’m not going to go into any details, but simply give you an outline of what has happened these past two months. Seems like time is just flying.

May 22 – Drove to Edmonton where I met an internet friend – Rick
May 23 – 24 From Edmonton, drove to Kamloops, and then the next day to Kelowna where I tried to hook up with some old friends but that was not to be, as the stores had closed and people moved. Picked up some food poisoning from a curried chicken pita I ate for supper.

May 24 – 26 From Kelowna, I drove down to Osoyoos as I was planning to spend some time in the area. After Osoyoos, I was also planning to re-visit some hot springs around Cranbrook that I had been to in 2005 and then stop in and see a friend in Lethbridge on Monday, before heading back to Regina. While I had all these plans, I wasn’t in any mood to do any exploring as I wasn’t feeling well. With the weekend coming up, I decided to skip Osoyoos, and push on to Creston BC where I spent the night. Still not feeling well on Saturday morning, I decided to drive back to Regina, arriving around 8:30 pm.

NOTE: A couple of unusual things happened to me on my trip from Penticton to Cranbrook. I was driving through the mountains when suddenly I got very dizzy and felt disoriented. It felt like I was driving though waves, like the kind you see rising off the pavement on a hot summer day. I felt I had passed though an energy field of some kind that was physically affecting me, so much so that I had to stop and get out of the Honda and get grounded. It wasn’t until later that I realized that this area is the area where there have been minor earthquake activity. So now, I am wondering if what I was feeling and sensing was the energy of the pressure points in the Earths crust that eventually will cause an earthquake. Although the Earthquake map show them as only 2.1 in magnitude, I feel that much larger one will be occurring in this area that will also have a major effect on transportation and other services in this mountainous region.