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Trying to shop for a 4XL winter jacket for myself without travelling too far out of my neighbourhood. My current jacket is about 10 years old, and the design works for my brain. Trouble is that retailers have their own ideas about what I should be able to buy these days.
No buttons in front, zippered pockets...these are features to my brain, not design errors.

Looking for recommendations, not financial support.
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I got a new belt and did some other chores today.

That's it.
dewline: Exclamation: "Hear, Hear!" (celebration)
I got my debit card PIN problem fixed up at the bank. (Sadly, this is an issue that has to be fixed in person, one of the few banking issues that has to be fixed that way.)

I used some Christmas gift-money to buy a personal DVD copy of Black Widow.

There was reassurance that my local comics dealer is still operational, and was able to reassure the staff that I have not forgotten my obligations to them. More pointedly, that I anticipate starting to get caught up on my reading next weekend because payday timing.

The local custom-t-shirt printer can work with PNG files I bring for them, and that they can print on 3XL t-shirts.

The British mystery novels that inspired the CBC TV series Coroner are still in print as of two years ago, and available through local booksellers.

It may be possible for me to finally get a used Wacom Cintiq without breaking myself financially. More on this anon, I hope.

New battery for the cell-phone, finally. Been worrying about the battery I bought with it for a few weeks after four or five years. Didn't think the shop I bought the new battery from would have it in stock yet.
dewline: "Not Fail" (not fail)
I finally rediscovered an intact pair of winter gloves today.
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
I bought a new winter jacket and considered trying to get one of the older ones I have - a five-year-old one that I particularly like and want to keep using - repaired. A matter of a zipper and a button replacement, really.

Books I read for the first time on the weekend: Featuring the Saint by Leslie Charteris, and The Comeback by John Ralston Saul. The former being a collection of 1930's short stories featuring...who else?...and the latter being a continuation of Mr. Saul's thinking on Canadian/First Nations relations, noting what he sees as an ongoing revival of the First Nations' fortunes in modern times. I don't think he's wrong about that.

I went to the Small Press Book Fair, but as a visitor, not a publisher/writer/artist this time. Been feeling too worn down over the last while for that. Pictures were taken, things were purchased, and conversations were had. None were regretted.

Also, I've started looking at winter gift shopping (whatever each of us calls the Season) and making choices.

More as it occurs to any of us...
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I am the proud possession of a classic "flat" hat, not unlike that traditionally worn by the dysfunctional British humour strip character Andy Capp. Or, perhaps, what seems in retrospect to have been nearly half of those male "99 Percenters" alive during the Depression of the 1930's who were able to afford and/or hold onto hats of their own at all.

Thanks, sis.
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NFB T-shirts? Damn! How cool is that?
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Ladies, gentlemen, respected others:

There's something in Hadeel Al-Shalchi's latest blog entry that's set me off on a rant of mine own.

As for the winter bundling-up rituals...Amen, Hadeel. I tend to think somedays that with all the stuff one has to put on just to go out for a walk, it might as well become a weightlifting workout as well as cardio exercise. That's what it usually ends up feeling like for many of us with the sense given by God to at least bears who heed the hibernation call.

Would that we could hibernate like bears do. Give ourselves 4 months off and literally go into voluntary comas. Unfortunately, assorted next door neighbours, business and defense partners and other interested parties might look a bit askance at adopting such medical practices, even though it might do us as a country a world of good. A pity, that.

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