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walking to Sears

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.04.10

Today I went for another walk to try to pick up some things.

I went to the Sears clearance centre to have a look at some ultra-cheap casual-office-style shirts that Charlie had noticed. Unfortunately they were all of the 32-34" length in the sleeves, which is anout 3-5" too short for my gangly limbs. I had to pass up some $9 shirts, dangit.

Then I went home and finally bit the bullet on the long-standing issue of the lost beard trimmer. I decided that since the movers had coughed up some $ for the thing, I'd buy myself one online. So I did - I wound up with the recently-relabelled Philips line's closest approximation to my last one (which I think was also a Philips). I had to call their distribution wing in the 'states and place an order. $US80 (before duty). What a pain in the ass.

My last one had never shown a sign of ageing, either, and I'd had it for something like six or seven years.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov