81 (True) North

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Knowledge is power

I rolled up to Colonial Laundromat. From Bubble-Up car wash, I hear a voice. He's talking to me in rapid-fire fashion. Shades of the Midway. Step right up. Something about $15, wash and wax and polish your car, $20 inside and out, while you do your laundry, $50. Hunh? I walk up to him. One five or five oh? I ask. One five, he says. Twenty, inside and outside. I have to go up the hill, I tell him. Which I do once I start my wash. I come back. I go for it. Inside and out. What's your name? Knowledge, he says. You should have a T-shirt that says Knowledge is power. I take him up on it. This entrepreneur with a bit of the showman and the entertainer. Philosopher, too. You gotta love what you do, he sings out as he makes some change at the laundromat. As I dry my clothes, and he does my car.

water

Several years ago, I said to a friend in Dallas, during a severe and prolonged drought down there,


"Where you gonna get your water from?"

or

"How you gonna get your water?"

He laughed uproariously at that, thought it was just hilarious.

Haha.

Water as a resource is not a problem in the Lake Ontario region, and won't be.

Hahaha.