Tuesday morning I have to move out. I'll load up the cargo van and my car, then park them somewhere for a couple days. Then I move into my new condo and hopefully I can get the server back up ASAP. There might be some issues since Rogers has never sold their services to that suite before (nobody has lived in it yet). They had to add it into their database, and were going to phone me back. They haven't yet. Rogers is my one and only choice for TV, Internet and telephone. I couldn't believe it when Bell told me they aren't set up to service that building! My dad says builders make deals with the provides so they can have exclusive rights to everyone in the building.

I've got almost all of the furniture sold. The kitchen table is going tomorrow morning. The coffee table and bedroom set MIGHT be sold tomorrow.. but I don't know for sure until she calls me. I'm pretty desperate to get rid of it. Since she's a co-worker, I'll see if she'd be willing to pay me over 4-5 months. I have a designer coming 11 days after I move into the condo to help me create a consistent look in every room.

Next month I'm moving into a Toronto condo with a smaller living room. I can't fit this home theater in the living room and need to sell it. If you're in the Orillia/Barrie area, please email this link to your friends.

What's included:

• Fancy 3 piece Concordia wall unit (shelves, drawers, curved glass doors)
• 52" wide screen RCA HDTV (model D52W20BYX1)
• Panasonic SA-XR50 A/V receiver
• High end Samsung DVD-HD931 DVD player
• Philips VRA63IAT VCR
• Original xbox with 12 games and 2 controllers
• Yamaha YST-SW015 subwoofer
• 6 piano black Yamaha bookshelf speakers and 4 speaker stands
• All cables and manuals
• Surge protector
• One remote controls everything

I paid over $5,000 for this four years ago. I'm asking $2500 or best offer. 705-828-2223, Orillia.

There was an animal that looked like a dog, but I'm not sure what it was. Just think of it as your neighbor's dog. It was laying on the ground with someone's boot crushing the neck until blood squirted out of the nose. Then they stepped up onto the skull to crush it. Next, a knife was shoved into the butt to skin the animal. The entire skin was peeled off, right up to the snout. Picture a skinned dog. The animal was still breathing!!!!! Imagine someone went that person's house and did the same to his child. It is exactly the same, the only difference is that there are better laws to protect humans. I hope PETAs video put that guy in jail for the rest of his life.

Next was a Butterball turkey slaughter house. They kill 50,000 turkeys a day. Some people might think it's ok, as long as it's done humanely. What kind of person do you have to be to slit the throats of animals all day every day? The kind of person who thinks nothing of animals, thinks they feel no fear, pain, and have no feelings. These people have fun abusing the turkeys daily. Breaking legs, smashing their heads, sitting on them to crush them, putting fingers into the vagina of a hen, etc. It was all caught on video. Yes they are all going to die anyway, but why torture them like this?

How about monkeys in American research institutions being shoved into tiny cylinders so they can't move. Or, being put into an immobilizing device so that the monkey can't move any part of its body, then purposely inflicting pain once per month. Or sticking tubes down their noses twice a day to test chemicals on them. These monkeys clearly had terrible open wounds on their skin, and were absolutely terrified.

I also saw how pigs are killed -- being chased around the pen with a crow bar and being beaten to death while other pigs watch and squeal in terror, waiting for their turn. A friend of mine was telling me that there's a pig farm around here that kills pigs the same way.

I remember reading in the local newspaper about a local congressman (possibly the Mayor?) who has a farm with a dozen reindeer. He was starving them to death, and the OSPCA went there several times to check on the animals. Imagine pictures of Jews during the Holocaust; just skin and bones. That's what he did to these animals until they were all dead, and the laws did not permit the OSPCA to do anything until after the fact.

I can certainly empathize with PETA activists because I've lived with dogs and animals all my life. I know they are more than just a living organism. I wish I could do something but I don't know what. Maybe every time someone phones asking me to donate to a charity, like the Police Association asking for $35 towards their "Fish with a policeman" thing (why do they need money for this?!?!), I will turn the conversation around and ask them to donate $100 to WSPA, OSPCA, PETA, and other grossly underfunded organizations that could actually use the money for a good cause that will make a difference in the world. Maybe one day I'll be one of those people secretly video taping animal abuse then putting people in jail for what they have done. Maybe when I retire it will be on a farm that cares for rescued animals. Who knows.

Today I ran across a very cool video of a new Cisco technology. The CEO was on stage doing a presentation standing beside the projected image of a co-worker on the other side of the world. It looked and sounded like they were both on stage.

StarWars

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