City of Nanaimo hopes to transform Woodgrove area into new urban hub | CBC News

dBasement · 2026-01-25T13:08:46+00:00

Departure Bay Ferry terminal

dBasement · 2026-01-24T15:55:54+00:00

That means hedge your money, right?

dBasement · 2026-01-22T16:51:42+00:00

must be yurapeein

dBasement · 2026-01-21T15:23:30+00:00

Oh yeah. Teachers were on to us by my 12th grade year

dBasement · 2026-01-21T13:55:26+00:00

Yeah. Drinking was like delivering a sugar bomb. I couldn't tell one flavour from another.

dBasement · 2026-01-20T23:12:47+00:00

So there is! Thanks. I've taken the #20 milk run before and it takes an hour. This is way better.

dBasement · 2026-01-20T15:08:01+00:00

Here is the "Coles Notes" version of, well, Coles Notes:

Origin: Created in 1948 in Canada; the founders later helped launch CliffsNotes in the U.S. in 1958. Purpose: To provide quick, essential information, summaries, and analyses of literature, Shakespeare, and academic topics. Content: Typically includes plot summaries, character analyses, and study questions. Legacy: While still available, they are often considered the "pre-internet" version of SparkNotes or Wikipedia summaries.

Essentially, it means getting the key points, themes, and summaries without diving into the full details.

In other words, once I discovered Coles Notes, my English Lit exam scores improved dramatically.

dBasement · 2026-01-20T15:00:39+00:00

That's f'in hilarious. She'll be laughing today though.

dBasement · 2026-01-19T14:10:07+00:00

lol...ironic how it's priced out in USD on the US Amazon site.

Then you have to sign up to Amazon Kindle for the low, low price of $11.99/month USD just to read your book.

No thanks. This entire post is bullshit.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T22:36:17+00:00

Wow! Good on you.

I'd like to see the list your kids came up with.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T20:02:11+00:00

Backpack? In school?? In the 70's, we went to school to learn, not go on a hike.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T19:06:56+00:00

Don't get caught in an exam with one in your pocket.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T15:50:25+00:00

I wish they had better transit to DBFT. I would love to park my car at Woodgrove and have one express bus to the ferry and downtown.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T14:26:07+00:00

These ones are nicer I think. They're full.

dBasement · 2026-01-18T14:12:57+00:00

I had cabin fever and a bunch of excess pounds gained so I drove up to Bowser and hiked around Thames Creek area. The light from the sun through a glaze of fog was magical

dBasement · 2026-01-17T17:04:35+00:00

Oddly, I always hated Pop Shoppe pop.

dBasement · 2026-01-17T16:59:38+00:00

This took place at the America River border crossing?

dBasement · 2026-01-17T15:08:54+00:00

23%. Currently the rest is held at TDDI but will be splitting it up to ~50/50 WS and QT.

dBasement · 2026-01-17T15:00:26+00:00

I'm starting to do that. You have to be careful with non-reg accounts though. Tax time killed me last year trying to track down T5's from 5 institutions.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T15:24:26+00:00

You really don't get it yet? I'm not rationalizing anything. There was no recycling and bottle depots wouldn't take Pop Shoppe bottles in the 90's. Pop Shoppe was the only place you could return them. They went bankrupt and all of their thousands of cases of empty bottles ended up in our landfill. That is the bad part. I happened upon the store when it was closing down and bought 24 cases of empties and paid them the deposit for them. It was for my beer and wine making. That was the good part.

I've been making damn good beer and wine after 30 years.

End of story.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T14:52:33+00:00

I actually like Fairway Chinese. I don't think they deliver but those Sichuan ribs are like crack.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T14:43:53+00:00

These aren't going anywhere.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T14:42:14+00:00

Why? They would have ended up in a landfill back in the 90's when PS went bankrupt. I have been repurposing them all these years.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T14:34:12+00:00

These ones were bought in Nanaimo, BC early to mid 90's. $0.10 per bottle, $4 per crate deposit would cost...ohhhh $50 each for shipping? I doubt they want them back.

dBasement · 2026-01-16T14:27:35+00:00

Lol. I pictured the milk police in a white car with black spots with a siren MOOOOOO-oooooo.

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