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[pepperj]

Morning Bill and Bart

 

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[pepperj]

My avg electric bill is 80.

Well that would be living the dream having those types of bills.
We have a hydro system that is run by some very entitled folks.
I'm not pointing a finger at an employee out on the line maintenance jobs.
It's the big "Nuke" plants that generate the big $$$ paying jobs.
So we had a thing called debt retirement fund paying off their debts which turned into then, line loss, the demand charge, then the rates, rural charge, then the HSTax on top of all that.

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[Blak bart]

Golden Storm: Winter Waves Push Amber Onto Russian Beach

A winter storm hurled valuable chunks of fossilized tree resin onto a beach in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, sparking a rush to collect the "Baltic gold."

www.rferl.org

 

[bill from lachine]

Thanks Bill, you've obviously done these events before haven't you.

Companies know they have their staff and dealers as a captive audience for a few days, so they try to pack as much information into the time we have there as possible. Every day from Monday to Thursday from 7am - 10pm is full of training sessions, trade shows and information presentations. I leave my house on Sunday morning at 5am and my flight doesn't get back into Toronto until 12:30am on Friday morning... talk about a long week.

Dave, I remember a gathering in Calgary where we were hosting our short line railway partners. I arrived on a Saturday checked in and we had a group dinner with them. Sunday a fancy train trip with munchies and cocktails up to Banff and again group supper. Monday and Tuesday meetings with the short lines and supper outings. Then 2 days of team meetings and group suppers. Friday they had us booked for a sales course. I phoned the director Friday morning and told her no way jose I'm taking a down day before flying back to Montreal in the afternoon. At some point enough is enough.

 

[pepperj]

Golden Storm: Winter Waves Push Amber Onto Russian Beach

A winter storm hurled valuable chunks of fossilized tree resin onto a beach in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, sparking a rush to collect the "Baltic gold."

www.rferl.org

Dry suites, and harvesting the amber is well worth it at $1000 a kg.

 

[Blak bart]

If you add gris...to the end of amber, you get ambergris.....10,000 a KG. !! And you only need flip flops, and don't have to get in the water !!

 

[Blak bart]

I would be all over that amber treasure, if I was there though.....pretty cool !!

 

[ARC]

nothing like that washes up here... sheesh

 

[RTR]

The Amber room is still missing https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-amber-room-160940121/

 

[WannaDig3687]

Good morning, Bill, Bart and Pepperj.

 

[pepperj]

To add insult to injury, the little folks pays, pays, pays to keep the public sector employees flush.

 

[pepperj]

You know what Jim, I've been to Vegas at least 12 times for work related trade shows over the past 22 years and I've never been to a Gentleman's Club... in Nevada anyway.

I find to get the best value for your money in Vegas, you have to get away from the strip and eat where the locals eat.

What can I say......but......

 

[ARC]

I just started my own digital currency...

I will be handing money out to everyone here.

Hold....

 

[ARC]

RTR... here is some digital currency.

ARCcoin.... RTR gets ummmmmmmmm ummmmm

1000 ARCcoin.

***NOTE - ARCcoin is currently worth 1 cent per million ARCcoin.

 

[RTR]

What can I say......but......View attachment 2005615

Last time we were there I found a place that had shrimp cocktails for a buck ,and they were big ones

 

[pepperj]

RTR... here is some digital currency.

ARCcoin.... RTR gets ummmmmmmmm ummmmm

1000 ARCcoin.

***NOTE - ARCcoin is currently worth 1 cent per million ARCcoin.

Let me have a look at the change jar, ummmmm,
Got about $7.2 million sitting around on the table

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[RTR]

I just started my own digital currency...

I will be handing money out to everyone here.

Hold....

You guys find that Amber Room and you wont need money One report says its in the Caribbean on a sunk U Boat... U Hear that Bart !

 

[RTR]

Let me have a look at the change jar, ummmmm,
Got about $7.2 million sitting around on the tableView attachment 2005620.

That looks like that funny money in Nam.Five dollars would buy anything you could imagine,and then some

 

[pepperj]

Last time we were there I found a place that had shrimp cocktails for a buck ,and they were big ones

Food seemed to be one of the deals there. We enjoyed the shows on our visits

 

[pepperj]

That looks like that funny money in Nam.Five dollars would buy anything you could imagine,and then some

That was $5000 us converted into Indonesian Rupia before it devalued. Now it would be worth around $500.00
Current rate is 14,319.2/1 in 1992 it was 1425/1
But it was fun to feel like a multi-millionaire

But the truth of that picture and what it represented was when the teller started to hand hand hthe bundles over to me, I filled the money belt up, the Mrs filled hers. It just kept coming.
I just said to the mrs to give me the small backpack, we threw it all into there.

I started to do the security thought before we left the bank. $5000 US = Common folks were earning $1.00 a day
5000 days ÷ 6 days a week the average person worked = 16 years of hard work = Lets take a cab.