Dave Nicholson

My first Pusheen plush ever. This is my favorite thing that I own. It brings me a great deal of joy. I pretend to feed and water her and I hold her and walk around the apartment with her at times. When I'm in pain, she helps just by me holding her, the same with anxiety attacks. I even talk to her. This was Moms and she had it sitting in her bedroom on her dresser. It was just for decoration and a sort of fill in for not having a real dog. She has always had a dog you see until the last one we owned died. When we moved into sperate apartments she got this for comfort. This is Jasmine the Cow. There was a joke on YouTube in the early days with a fellow YouTuber and several of us got named the "Cow and Bull Club". I miss those wilder days. Now people have grown away from the fun we used to have - the crazy fun. I guess we all just aged and lost the energy it takes for the silly things. Cookie Pusheen was interesting to get. I first ended up with a Chinese bootleg version of...

It's been of them really great days and I decided to have some fun and post it just for the heck of it. The sun almost came out and I had a blast playing puzzles. I got into several episodes of Bojack Horsman and just had fun texting with a couple friends. The pain was to this point low, then I sneezed and my back hurts now. But I'll still be smiling when I go to bed tonight. Enjoy life when you can. It can be a drag at times and crushing at times, but the moments you are enjoying it, make the most of it. Always just be you and don't let the world get you down. Love and happiness to you always - Dave.

Well I went nuts and pigged out on 5 pizzas and 2 26oz bottles of booze in one week and lost half a pound. How the hell, I'll never know. I'm full on expecting this next week, I'll be up like 12 lbs even after sticking to my diet the entire week. There is sometimes a delayed weight gain for some reason and it's happened to me several times. We will have to see, and if it does not happen I'm going to wonder WTF?   408.7 lbs (185.3 kg)

I recently got my first shot. It was a bit sore the next day, and I was almost instantly very fatigued. It also triggered a fibro flair later on in the day. I had no idea it could do that and no one asked me if I had it and the information I was given said nothing. However I'm told in other places they do ask you about fibro and tell you it may cause a flair. The worst part of this was sitting in a place with no Wi-Fi for 15 minutes after the shot surrounded by people playing with their phones so you don't want to talk to them. I booked at 12:30 (noon) and they tell you to be there 5 minutes early. Well I'm in line in the cold (it was 1C that day) and in a strong north wind. I'm also standing on a road as there is no sidewalk. Well we had to wait until slightly after 12:30 to be let in but after that the screening and the registering went fast enough. I got asked several questions and my identity verified at the station I was sent to. No ID was asked for, but they told ...

A while back Samsung stopped syncing several things to it's cloud. Among this was photos, videos and music. If your phone was not programmed after the cut off date, then it will still be linked to your OneDrive account if you added it to the list in your Samsung account. It did this automatically when the time to switch came about. However, it really does not work at all. I've tried a lot of the tricks I've found to get it to actually upload my photos to the Samsung folder on OneDrive and it just won't do it. Here's how to fix it. Hit settings. Search "Linked Accounts" and when it comes up under the heading "Samsung Account", tap on it. At the bottle is the linked account with the Samsung logo and the Microsoft logo. Tap it. Tap unlink and say yes. Restart your phone. Open one drive and tap the person icon in the lower right corner. Tap settings. Tap Camera Upload. Tap camera upload account. Tap your account (should be the only one). Tap the slid...

Below are the 8 movies with horrific endings. There are 2 ratings for each, first the IMDB rating then mine. The Descent (UK Ending) (2005) {IMDB 7.2/10} (Mine 9/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ Paranoid thriller kind of movie. It has lots of good action and a bit of gore. The American ending is rather lame as she escapes, but the UK ending is not so kind. Eden Lake (2008) {IMDB 6.7/10} (Mine 7/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/ A couple go to a soon to be developed spot (a beach) for the weekend. They run into trouble with the local teens and it turns deadly. There are a couple of intense scenes in this movie and then ending is not so unexpected, but I enjoyed it anyway. The Wicker Man (1973) {IMDB 7.5/10} (Mine 9/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/ A police officer makes his way to an island inhabited by people who hold ancient beliefs. He is looking for a missing girl and ends up in a web of lies and tricks. His stay is extended not by his will and he ends up i...

This is the snow we got a while ago, you know, in April. Yup, April. So I was going to skip this one then I saw Twitter explode because people in Ontario think the world is ending because it snowed. Some are literally blaming the government - figure that out. Here it was like "shit it snowed, Oh well". Ontario it's like "the fucking world is ending, motherfucker! Why is the government not doing something". LOL Seriously it's the top trend on Twitter in Canada right now. I'm fucking going to pass out from lack of oxygen to my brain I'm laughing so much. I posted this photo in a Facebook group and people freaked out. To be honest, it's happened before in April, I looked it up. I just don't remember it for some reason. In fact it happened in May one time. This was probably around 20 years ago. A friend and I where at the truck stop on the North Service Road (Rodoes and it's no longer there), and we where almost alone. There was just one othe...

That moment you are going to check the mail and see this stuck to the door of the elevator. It's actually quite small and a magnet. What it's from I'll never know, but there it was. First thought was "tracking chip fell off someone" LOL.  

Was following a guy on Deviant Art. I liked his stuff enough, but I just unfollowed him. You see, I think he may be going slightly mad. He posted a status update saying that people commenting on his work from now on will be blocked. I've got no idea why the actual hell you would not want comments, but whatever man. So I just unfollowed and will not be looking back. For the most part people on there get along well enough. Most just like posting their stuff and looking at others work. They don't get pissy for stupid reasons and they enjoy their time on there. But some just should not be part of a community style site. But oh well, the majority of people I follow are well adjusted.

Photo fun. I took my photo below and removed the sky then added in a photo of my large Pusheen stuffed toy (also background removed). Then added in the sky and text. It was easy and did not take much cleanup as the sky was almost a solid color. The Pusheen was harder to background remove but not that hard. It came out with a fun result I think.  

  This is the house I first remember being in. Before that I was in Saskatoon and have no memory as I was adopted at age 11 months. It was a bit of a walk from here to the school that I attended and trust me there where no kids within 2 blocks any direction my age. There was this shotgun house beside ours (to the left in this photo) that is no longer there. The people who currently own the house bought it and tore it down and added it to their yard. The lady next door was kind and always good to me. She was obviously a lot more poor than we where, but she always had a cookie and a kind word. To the right was Judge Pope. He had a dog named "Coin" that I called "Hoin". I'd climb the fence to interact with the dog and my Mom would get ticked off and yell at me for it. This was not far from the then edge of the city and my Brother and I would go to there place that is not filled with houses to play. Most of my youth was spent out on my bike, with my Brother or my Fr...

This is actually a photo I took of a then closed barber shop on 1st N.W. not the place I'm about to talk about. I've not found a single photo of that place. The barber shop I grew up with was "Erle's" he was just under 6 foot and slightly fat. He was bolding and a happy man. I remember he had this plank of wood for us small kids he would put on the arms of the barber chair to make us sit taller. The other think I remember was this small demonstration model Electrolux vacuum he used to clean off the hairs after a cut. I've never seen another one other than a friends collection. The shop was off a busy street (9th N.W.) and you parked in the back and walked to the front to go in. There was a hall to the back where a beauty shop was. There was a constant repugnant smell from the back that I now know to be associated with perms. When I was older he would use a straight razor to clean up my neck at the back after a cut. To be honest I've never had a better hair...

This time you get Me and a Puppy. I think it's Corky. I found a photo on a Facebook group but could not get permission before I posted this, so I'll not use it. The A&W Drive-In on the west side of the city sat on Caribou Street West just across from a service station. It was a hub of activity hear round. You would drive up and the waitress would come out to your car and take your order. Then the order was put on a tray that hung from the window of the car. We would generally get the same thing every time, that being Teen Burgers and Root Beer. The place always had others at it when we went there and sometimes we had to go for a bit of a drive before we could get a spot. People would go in groups and get out of the car and talk to each other. It was a bit of a social hub. We would sometimes get a gallon jug of Root Beer and take it to the Wild Animal Park and have a picnic then walk around and look at the animals. It was never the same after the place closed and they moved ...

I swear to God I thought I had a photo of the Snow Hut, but I don't, so here is my Brother and I on our swing set. The Snow Hut on South Hill is an icon to this day in Moose Jaw. We went there after a meal of chicken in the park or burgers elsewhere almost every time. I always got Tiger Tiger. Mom always got strawberry, my Brother always got chocolate and Dad always got cherry. The place also had a car wash and a laundromat and a convenience store. I've not been there in probably 15 years, but it's still going strong. After I started to drive I went there myself many times for a cone or to buy a magazine only they sold. Some times I'd get a cone and go watch the sun set just outside of town. It would be a great end to the day .  

We used to get KFC in the summer every Saturday that Dad was not working days. We first got it at the place in the above photo before it flooded. Dad would go in and get our chicken and some paper plates and we would go park in another part of the park it was in. At the time the park was called "River Park". After the flood, this place was torn down but the land was still owned by the same family and many years later the son of the man who ran this KFC put up "The Burger Cabin" on the same spot. After the flood the KFC was relocated to a spot just outside the east entrance to River Park. It was on a hill and a lot less likely to be flooded out. It was still the same format where you went in for pickup only. Years later it had an addition added on for dining in. None of us eat the buns, we tore them up and tossed then to the Seagulls that would beg for food in the park at the time. After our meals, my Brother and I would get out and run around the park for a while. M...

Part one of a series of places we used to love as a family, The Burger Palace. I asked for photos of this place in a Facebook group and was provided them for my blog post. Much thanks to Kathy Shull for looking for them for me and sending them to me. Some of my earliest memories of going out to eat at the drive-though was at this place. It was run by a very friendly guy by the name of Leo. There was one little table inside to wait for your pickup order as BTW. We would get our food and park facing Main Street and watch traffic go past. The food as I remember was amazing. I almost always had the mushroom burger. Now and then Dad would go there and get a pizza for the family after work. That was also very amazing food as I remember. But to be honest, it was the only pizza I'd had at the time. It was just after I started to drive a car myself that the place was sold off to make way for a new development on the block. I was sad to see it go and have many fond memories of eating there w...

Paid about $38 for this. It's not a bad price for something 12 years old, even if it's not the greatest distillery in the world, or even in Canada. To be honest it's not a great deal more then the normal Canadian Club, but the taste is vastly better. I enjoyed this for about a week in total. 26 oz in a week is a bit much, but hay, it was tasty. I don't have money to spend $90 or more on something better and I never will. I'm going to give this an 8/10 for price and quality. If it was more money it would rate less, but it's reasonable. It's not very complex, just oak on caramel mostly. But it's worth the money. Way better than my normal purchase of Alberta Premium.  

In pink you see the delivery attempt time. I was in front of my TV watching the security camera feed the entire time. It came up as him not being able to deliver and he never entered the entry way to use the intercom to buzz my apartment, so I have to call complete bullshit on that one. In fact I was watching from 8am to just after 1pm when the notification email came for the "attempt". BTW they are supposed to leave a slip on the door that they could not get you, there was no slip on the door at all - further evidence he never left the truck. I got them on Twitter and they told me he said the buzzer was not working. The thing is, the same dude 5 times now has said "the buzzer was not working" and it's always been on a Friday. Amazing coincidence that. I mean what are the odds with the dozens of delivers the company has made to my place, that only on Fridays the buzzer magically stops working. It's astonishing. They typically deliver to 5PM by the way. Notic...

It snowed in April. Sigh. Yup we got about 1 foot of snow in total. Seems to be melting right now as it's nice and warm again for the next few days. First we had a 2 day snow storm then two days later it snowed again, but not nearly as much. Sad thing is it's calling for snow again next week. I want green grass and flowers, not more snow, but you get what you get, don't ya?  

-8.2 lbs 409.2 lbs (185.6 kg) This Term: +10.2 lbs All Time: -88.8 lbs 7 Weeks Up 1 Week The Same 7 Weeks Down  

So a friend texted me and this bit of strangeness happened. They are both him but 2 different numbers. The second not in my list but it knew it was him. Then it went right back to his normal phone number. The hell was that? Sasktel have a stroke or something? This just because I think it's cool. I use Google Message to send texts as it's just way better than Samsung native app. Well this new goodie just showed up. You can tell it to send a text at a later time. Cool.

Being that PayPal is a pain in the ass for paying for my YouTube premium and google pay does NOT like my credit card anymore no valid reason, I want to buy a gift card for Google Play store and redeem it threw YouTube to get my subscription payed. BUT, I'm slightly over my limit so it won't let me guy the gift card from Amazon. What a piss off. I guess I'll have to wait for the 29th when my payment on my card clears in the middle of the night to buy one. The payment for Premium comes out on the 1st, so I need to redeem the card before that and select the google play balance as the payment method. This is a pain in the ASS. But I can't tell when the PayPal comes out of my account so I can't rely on not spending the money by mistake. Literally nothing can be easy. NOTHING. It worked fine for a year then POOF it stopped liking my card. The strange thing is, I have 3 google accounts and the other 2 the card works fine on google pay. The tech support was useless to be to...

+11.0 lbs 417.4 lbs (198.3 kg) 7 Weeks up 1 Week the same 6 Weeks down This term +18.4 lbs All time -80.6 lbs  

Reading a review on a local business. I know the situation so it's interesting to see how they went off on the review. Saying the owner is an asshole and they refused service. The reality is, he would not give them the booze because the woman who came to the door was badly beaten and needed a hospital, yet the guy who beat her up demanded the beer and got aggressive. But yah, he's such a bad person for not giving you beer. Sigh. People are shit. This is why I was pissed off at all the fuck-heads that where going after him when his debit machine went down. If you can't be without booze for a couple days, you need rehab not a fucking bottle of booze. Seriously, when it's worth more than your life or the life of your so called life partner, you are a pile of shit. Every one of the negative reviews is a similar situation. One of the fuckers tried to rob the guy because he had no money to pay and just tried grabbing the bags. But yeah, it's the owners fault right. Animal...

Good lord spammers need to be better at the language they are trying to spam in. Also if you don't know what the fuck a Graphic Designer is and you are trying to sell the services of one, you need to GTFO my groups and spam some other place LOL. Normally I just report the spam to a mod, but this was too much to not reply to. And I just HAD to share it. The account is not blacked out because if you spam a public group I'm not hiding your name LOL, plus it's a throwaway account anyway, they always are .  

This was on my wall the other day. It ended up with a few great replies mostly talking about how most people do hide at least part of who they are. I like this reply a lot. There is no part of my life that I have left unsaid, either on Facebook, Twitter, This blog, or my YouTube videos. I've shared the good times, my memories, my pain, my sorrow, my extreme sex drive - nothing was left unsaid. I've even on rare cases talked about this fetish I have for self castration, something you should never do BTW. I've given more than a little thought about what it might be like to cut the boys off. Fortunately, I know more than most people do of what happens to you if you get stupid enough to carry it out. Lets just say, it can fuck your entire body up and even kill you. But enough of that nonsense. I know a lot of people think I'm crazy for just saying everything I feel or think, but to be honest I literally don't understand not wanting to. Hell I've even talked about th...

1. What religion do you believe in? My own brand that borrows practices from several others. 2. Do you believe in God or another deity(s)? I assume this means "the Christian God" I believe there are many faces of the same God to accommodate the many different people. 3. When did you choose your faith? It's been evolving for 20 years or more. 4. What is your idea of what God looks like? A woman with long black hair. 5. Is heaven real? I think that heaven is many different places. How you live determines what afterlife you end up in. 6. Is hell real? I think if you are not worthy, you just get destroyed when you die instead of continuing on. 7. What does heaven look like? As I said that is determined by your life. 8. What does hell look like? Non existent. 9. Why should someone start believing in God(s)? Because they need it in their life. 10. Does your past play a role when joining a religion? Yes it did in the past and my experiences with organized religion...

12" Hand Tossed Extravaganzza (Domino's) Jalapeno Peppers, Pizza Sauce, Extra Cheese, Pepperoni, Ham, Onions, Green Pepper, Mushrooms, Sausage, Beef Crumble, Black Olives  Cheddar Habanero Crust Dip Cup With delivery and tax it was $20.81. It's a medium, I'll eat half of it when it gets her at 11am then half of it at around 5pm. This is my Easter feast. I'm not getting up to much today. I'm just going to watch something on Netflix or Prime. Not even sure what yet. May be a couple movies, may be a series. I've added a couple new series to both services, so might be one of them. I miss the days of family meals on holidays. Mom always went out of her way to make it special, even if she sucked at cooking. It was always special. The best part is being with people you Love. That is long gone now and because of the pandemic, it's harder to even be with friends. There is a limit to the number of people who gather, so they will be with family and I won't be ...