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lost credit card turned up

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.12.19

Today I had to go back to the computer shop where I'd picked up my PC to retrieve my credit card.

I've never left the damn thing somewhere before, but in this case I think it happened because I was paying for the PC in part with the credit card and in part with Interac.

I'd had to get my Interac limit increased yesterday at a busy little bank at Bathurst and Lawrence, which is a very Jewish neighbourhood. I found myself smiling at my surrounds while in the line - there must have been half a dozen women in there who were just like Kyle's mum from "South Park".

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force