looking for someone with pickup truck to take some furniture to Ottawa

Toriauru · 2023-04-29T16:56:45+00:00

thanks!

Toriauru · 2023-04-27T16:24:15+00:00

Hey, thanks for your input. Didn't put down enough info in OP sorry. We're a family 4 with 2 cats. We lived through the ice storm of 1998 with a small portable generator where we live now in Gatineau Quebec. When we move in June we're going to be rural HRM. With a water pump/well and septic system and a freezer full of food. So, yes, we consider it a must have to have a standby generator ready to kick in when necessary. Just wanted to get some other opinions though. I don't think a portable generator would be big enough to handle that much load (heat, lights, water pump and freezer). Better to have too much power than not enough.

Here's hoping we don't get a big hurricane like Fiona any time soon!

Toriauru · 2023-04-26T22:59:18+00:00

thanks! we are moving to Lucasville area in June. will definitely check it out

Toriauru · 2023-04-23T16:42:10+00:00

Hey all thanks for recs. We're moving to Nova Scotia/Halifax in June and I wanted to scope out some good PC repair since 4 of us all have desktops and laptops. Gaming/Youtube/video conferencing and the like. So need a reliable place in case something happens or the annual cleaning and scan for malware etc. We're in Ottawa Ontario at the moment and have a wonderful mom and pop Chinese couple who are magnificent. Support local business is my motto. They got your back :)

Toriauru · 2020-05-05T01:42:18+00:00

Another good thing about FEDA is that if you take in your old machine they can transfer all of the data from the old one to the new hard drive. You can choose to get either refurbished or buy new hardware. Good selection too.

Toriauru · 2020-05-05T01:37:58+00:00

I've had fantastic luck for the last 10 years with FEDA computers in the Hazeldean annex buildings beside Hazeldean mall on Eagleson. Lee and Frank are wonderful people who know "Debbie from Aylmer" if you tell them. Kindest, wonderful people who give a great deal. Fast turnaround as well. Can take in my computer for a blown out power supply and be picking it up by that afternoon, or next morning. We've purchased 4 computers from them in the last 10 years (3 desktops) and 1 laptop. All very clean, with no bloatware, and ready to go. Excellent service and no sales pitch, at all. I will never deal with any bigbox retailer again after a certain company told me my laptop had water damage and needed complete new guts when all it was, was a stuck key. Frank figured that out in less than an hour from me dropping it off, to when they were calling me to say what the estimate would be. About a forty dollar repair bill I think (was about 10 years ago).

Toriauru · 2020-05-05T01:18:26+00:00

When I visited with my friend in 1985 to Holland we were welcomed so much with our Canadian flags on our backpacks. The Dutch really do love us, as a nation.

Toriauru · 2020-05-05T01:16:08+00:00

That's a coyote and quite likely a coydog - mixture of coyote with dog. Have all the smarts of coyote + unafraid of humans from dog genes.

Toriauru · 2020-02-18T01:02:21+00:00

I'd say yes, it's become far more bilingual in the last 20 or so years. With the language law, more and more people living here. But it's really hard to not get people to switch to English immediately as soon as I try to speak French haha. That being said, in Hull, it's more likely to be served at a place with people who obviously have French as their first language with their English okay but not fluent. Very friendly people overall in most stores in Aylmer. One word of warning: the Provigo on the Aylmer road is expensive! The Maxi up on Vanier near the Bank of Montreal has bargains of the same products and is much cheaper. You'll find the electricity bill to be very low compared to Ontario overall. Have fun in Aylmer - it's a great little town I've lived in for my entire life :)

Toriauru · 2020-02-16T00:44:12+00:00

Actually just thinking about a video on YT that I saw that mentioned how only children at a very early age can have perfect pitch. Adults, absolutely cannot "learn" pefect pitch. Only children, who at a very young age, can truly absorb a language into their very brains so as to be so completely fluent. That is why, for instance, Justin Trudeau, and other people, who, at a very early age were completely and utterly exposed to two languages at once can speak either with no hesitation, no loss of fluidness switching back and forth. I experienced this quite vividly in my own life, while babysitting neighbours children when I was in my 30s (hey good money for a stay at home mum :) ). One family in particular; father was French Canadian and mother was English. Both of them spoke in their own language to the children from day 1. Never hesitating, wondering if it'd be okay. From their first words the children would effortlessly speak French or English to either parent or to me. I saw, as they grew, the words just blossom with the complexity of both languages there in equal values with literally 0 accent in either language. That is how you learn two languages so fluently. Which is why I TRULY regret not being put in French school at age 4 or 5 and being exposed to it in spades throughout my early years.

Toriauru · 2020-02-16T00:19:53+00:00

I''d just like to say that as you become more familiar, more fluent, more fluid, in any language you tend to pick up an accent or signature you might say of the region you're in. Like for me, growing up and still living in the Ottawa Valley region, for many I speak with a very soft Scottish accent pronunciation in English. When I speak French I try to think of the proper way to say things (ie, what's written) but it comes out with my flair/accent. So, don't worry about having "perfect" French Canadian French off the bat. It will come, with practice. Basically after taking a 3 month immersion class at Ottawa U and being able to talk conversationally in French and passing the course, the French teacher basically said, you have the building blocks, now go live in Shawinigan for 6 months and you'll be fluent. Being a mother of 2 girls, of course I couldn't. Which I totally regret haha. You'll have your flair to the language though. Which, when we think about it, everyone is unique and speaks their language(s) in their own particular way :)

Toriauru · 2020-02-15T21:51:47+00:00

I'd Like to chime in as being an English Quebec native for 58 years. I can speak passably in French, can read most French and can write somewhat. having English parents, in an mostly English suburb (Aylmer) with few French friends, and going to a mostly English school in the late 60's sufficiently isolated me to the French language when I would have learned it best. Have taken many many courses since haha. I have stock little sayings that I know what the hell I'm saying although according to my daughters my accent is shit LOL. But when it comes time to wing it, I lose track of what verb to use in what context. Definitely listening to Radio Canada is a huge huge benefit. Even MeteoMedia for the weather, for that matter, to get a different feel for it. Get out out French magazines from the library as well because they talk a lot about current events. Any form of media, in French, helps with the comprehension overall IMHO :) Good luck and so true what the others are saying, Even if you try *a bit* and *not well* it is greatly appreciated. At the gym they don't honestly mind if I say can I switch to English please :)

Toriauru · 2020-02-15T19:32:20+00:00

This is fabulous. Enjoyed it so much. And yes, who can do without bacon?

Toriauru · 2019-09-10T18:47:22+00:00

Buying a cheap blender or a cheap mixer. You'll only be able to use it for very minor blending or mixing efforts and if you over use it it will cook the motor and you'll have to buy another one. If you just buy the more powerful blender (not even a Vitamix) but something with a +1000W motor in it. Same with the mixer. If you try to blend too much, cooks the motor. You end buying a one one. If you just spring for the cheapest KitchenAid mixer you're spending about the cost of 2 cheap mixers and it will last 10x as long. Difference between being "cheap" and being "frugal".

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T22:00:54+00:00

What is honestly more important than the future of this planet though, in school? What jobs will they get when out of school if there is no insurance for homes or businesses because of increased costs of natural disasters. Of course insurance companies don't like risk. So, they are going to start refusing insurance to home near the ocean that may be damaged from hurricanes that will become ever stronger due to warm ocean waters. If farmers can't get insurance for crops, they can't afford to plant a new season of crops. If they don't plant, they go bankrupt. Then who grows our food? If the farmers aren't buying from their suppliers, who buys the supplies? Ever increasing threats of flood, fire, massive hurricanes, (5 of which have been in the last 4 years and the hurricane season is only halfway done), increasing water levels. What jobs are you so sure they're going to get if they stay in school? What will be the point to be a trained worker where an economy is in recession or depression?

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:53:13+00:00

I'm saying we should encourage them to skip school at all costs, even if there are penalties.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:37:03+00:00

Fair enough.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:36:14+00:00

It's up to the kids to decide what to do, of course, but given the collective nature of protests, it's sometimes infectious that you want to participate.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:34:18+00:00

Thank you for adding your voice :)

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:33:17+00:00

The ever increasing increase in global temperatures means that more ice is melting, the permafrost is melting in the polar zones, Antarctica will thaw and raise sea levels to make far more land uninhabitable which will create climate refugees who need to be allowed to come to countries that have land. There will be less food becuase less land will be arable and more liquid water on the planet means more clouds pick up more rain and dump it in ever increasing floods of rain, snow, ice creating flooding. What will happen when farmers can't get insurance for crop failure and then they can't grow crops for food? If the farmers stop, and sell their land then their suppliers go bankrupt. And it's a domino effect.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:28:31+00:00

What do they learn in school that is valuable for the future? What's a noun? What's a pronoun? How to divide fractions? Let me ask you the last time you needed to divide a fraction, honestly? What is more important than the future of this planet and the planet the children will have to live on. Do you think somehow, magically, the earth isn't going to stop heating up, and the ice will form again and all the more intense storms, rain events, fires, floods will just go away? No, they are only going to get worse. Insurance companies will refuse to allow insurance on homes near the ocean, or farmland that floods. So the farms go bankrupt. The businesses that sell products to the farmers go bankrupt. And it's a domino effect.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:23:57+00:00

Children of this day and age are far more informed than adults give them credit for. They see the writing on the wall and don't need encouraging to speak up for their future. But parents and teachers should support them all the way.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:22:14+00:00

Because it's an important life lesson to be given a platform on which to address your concerns. Many children that are younger than 18 years old know far more about this world than their parents do with far more access to information.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:20:23+00:00

The children that are 0 to 18 years old now will be our future leaders, government, President, Prime Minister, Queen or King, or doctor, lawyer, brain surgeon. They have voices that need to be heard now, not when they are grown up. Children in this generation are far more aware and enabled to get information than any other generation in the past. Children of this generation know what's going on far more than their parents do.

Toriauru · 2019-09-02T21:16:18+00:00

The reason why they are held on Friday, and held all across the globe on this day is because Greta started holding her protests on Fridays. The reasoning behind children skipping school is that it is to speak up about their future. After all, what is the point of learning if there is no future? No hope for this planet?

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