DrainKikoLake

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[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

I love all of those things! Whenever I hit up a thrift store, the media section is my first stop. I've gotten so many great CDs and movies for next to nothing that way.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The Rest is History (history podcast with both mini-series... serieses... series... and one-off episodes)

Clear Eyes Full Hearts (Friday Night Lights rewatch)

The Line (Canadian politics -- there are a number of podcasts with this or a similar name, so you're looking for the one by Jen Gerson and Matt Gurney)

Stories Podcast (short stories for children; my kids like this a lot for road trips)

Old Books with Grace (old/very old book talk with a medievalist)

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

You're Dead to Me is a great one. I also really like The Rest is History in a similar niche.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I started consciously trying to read more old books in the last year or two and I've discovered that I love adventure stories! Jules Verne, Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels... Winston Churchill's "My Early Life" is nonfiction that might as well be an adventure story, haha.

For humour it's hard to go wrong with P G Wodehouse; he wrote much more than just the Jeeves stories.

Recently I read through all of Lucy Maud Montgomery's collected short stories (the author of Anne of Green Gables among many others).

Dracula was a great read and genuinely spooky, ditto Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

Sometimes I go to Project Gutenberg, hit "random" and download anything that catches my eye :)

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great job! Your first real project is a huge accomplishment :D

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Can I suggest an alternate as you work up to this? The Klaziena Shawl is a free, beautiful pattern that looks far more complex than it actually is: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/klaziena-shawl

There are really only three stitches to worry about (chain, single crochet, double crochet), the pattern is extremely clear, and it has both written instructions and a chart. This could give you great practice reading charts as well as with general shawl construction. (I've made it four or five times now!)

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The other major advantage of credit cards is consumer protection. Generally speaking you can't file a dispute or do a charge back on a debit transaction -- or at least it's very difficult and time-consuming. Credit cards offer a certain amount of peace-of-mind when it comes to things like fraudulent transactions.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

She said another problem the company ran into in recent years was that its stores’ hours didn’t always align with that of the malls where they are located.

That's the case where I live: the mall opens at 10, but the Bay doesn't open until 11.

I've also found it hard to identify their target audience. With women's clothes, for example, they have a ton of stuff that says "hi, I'm 21" and a ton of stuff that says "hi, I'm 75" and... not really a lot in between. It's pretty confusing.

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