Dave Nicholson

What is something you wish someone would say to you? I'm going to clean your apartment.

What do you like about your job? I don't work at all right now. I'm on disability. But I very much enjoyed being a cook. The place I cooked at, served a restaurant and a banquet hall. So at times it was busy as hell. To plate for a banquet, there would be 3 on each side of a table and we would put the meals together easy and have them out on the cars with the serving staff. One day 2 where away and I was alone on one side and kept up to the other 3 perfectly. Chef got me a bottle of whiskey for that (yes that's spelled correct).

1. What is the best and worst food you have tried? Best was a lemon cheese cake at a place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The worst was Lion Meat in Vancouver, B.C. - But… A smoked meat sandwich in Montreal was a close second to the cheese cake. 2. What is something that no one believed about you? I passed the entry exam for a very well known think tank. 3. What is a surprisingly deep moment you saw in a children's cartoon or movie? When I saw Bambi as a child with my Dad. The moment the mother was shot by the hunter. At the time I cried my eyes out but did not grasp the significance of the scene until I saw it again as an adult. 4. What’s the lowest you’ve ever been in life? Having to be hospitalized for depression. I was unable to function for the most part at the time. 5. Do you still think older movies are cool? Yes and no. Some older movies just suck, but some are very cool. It’s just like new movies in that way. 6. What is the most legal trouble you’ve ever been in? Well, I and ...

Little things you're grateful for? My Pusheen the Cat stuffed toy collection. Some people think it's silly for a grown man to collect stuffed toys, but I get a great deal of joy out of them. They make me happy to look at them, or to hold them. One in particular (not shown) had made my day go from total hell to happiness many times. I'm deeply grateful for them.

What service are you grateful for? I'm going to have to say publicly funded health care. I've had to rely on the health care system hundreds of times in the last 25 years and if I lived in the USA, I'd be crippled in debt from it. Co-pays would not be affordable to a person on as low an income as I have on disability in Saskatchewan. There have been some incidents of note, like spending 23 bloody hours in the ER and not being fed or offered a drink of any kind. But for the most part, it's been of great help to me in as timely a fission as can be expected. I rely on my family doctor, a heart specialist and the nice folks at the ER in my local hospital. Without these people, I'd have died many years ago. Not even joking, I'd literally have been dead if it where not for a medication I'm on and the help of a heart doctor. In my many years of having to go to the hospital, and seeing mom in a care home, I've only encountered one medical professional I thought ...

This movie starts with a family of three going to the Midwest for a family reunion. They are from California, and the mother is warning her son not to tell his secret to them. At no time do they actually say he's Gay, but the implication is very strong. Once at the reunion the kids are enamored with him and want him to draw pictures for them. The one girl is very into him for some reason. This leads to trouble when the teen boy and the girl end up in the barn and she comes running out with blood on the front of her dress between her legs. Everyone is thinking the worst at this point. The fact that they are wrong is not relevant to them it seems. The father of the girl is very aggressive and upset with the teen boy. This is when you find out he is an abusive person who likes to control others, with a deep desire to keep women under his control and there is an implied threat of violence if they don’t listen. The man later on seems to be a bit more than aggressive, but over the top me...

So there is a place in town I use now and then for items I don't actually need, but sometimes want to consume. Well it's been 3 months since I could log into their page to order stuff. They do not take orders on the phone, just on the web page. It logged me out 3 months ago for no valid reason, and I can't log back in at bloody all. When I type in my user name, password, and the math question (verify you are human) it just goes back to the login screen and never lets you in. Now I'm copy pasting the info from an encrypted text file, so it is 100% correct. The math problem is stuff like 10-8 so it's not hard to bloody do. Now I tried to reset the password on it, just incase it was messed up for no valid reason, but the link it sends me to my email says that the key is invalid. So no can reset the bloody thing. So I tried to make a new account with a new email (I have 4 that I use and 1 for shit I'm going to use once). Well, you do that, and back to the login scre...

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Well finally we get actual summer temperatures here in Moose Jaw. The entire province of Saskatchewan has been cold as heck the last long while. Now instead of hovering around freezing, it's actually nice outside - and to top it off, the sun came out for a while. We can't be having an entire day of sun light however, but there it was for a while. Last night there was a warning for possible large hail to fall, but it never happened that God. Now there might be rain later by the look of the clouds moving in, but I rather doubt it. It's been dry here for the most part - very dry. If this keeps up, the crops are not going to be great this year. I hope it's nice tomorrow, as I'm going out (even if it kills me). I missed last weeks coffee outing, and the hell if I'm missing this one. I want to be with my friends badly and I am going to enjoy my time with them, even though my fibromyalgia is flaring like crazy and I'm in level 6 pain right now. I don't care, I...

Who do you consider family? Since my family that cared about me is all dead now, I consider my close group of friends to be family. They support me when I need it, and I do the same for them. They make my life a lot better and I care for them deeply. What is left of my family (cousins and so on) all treat me like I'm dead. I was down to one cousin who sent out a Christmas letter once a year and nothing else. Then all the sudden that stopped. I'd sent her letters in the past and no reply was ever sent. I included my phone number (I could not find theirs, it must be unlisted) and no one ever called. Even cousins in my city won't talk to me. If they see me when I'm out, they go out of their way to not come close to me and avoid me altogether. My friends on the other hand treat me like a brother and I appreciate them a lot.