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12:38 PM
Musings on downtown life

• It's great not to need a car... except to do groceries... or to visit IKEA or Wal-Mart... or to visit family and friends in the suburbs... or... okay, I guess I do need the car after all.
  
  
• The most frequent musical taste of car sterero blasters seems to be hip-hop, followed by middle eastern music, electronica, and - in one amusing isolated case - polka.
  
  
• The air pollution is much more noticeable. Everything in my apartment is covered by a layer of indistinguishable dust, and the air has a distinctive staleness to it.
  
  
• Our city's crumbling infrastructure has meant three cases of the water being shut off over the past week alone. Someone might want to fix that, maybe? Just sayin'.
  
  
• With so many great takeout options, restaurants and cafes right nearby, sticking to my food budget is proving to be difficult.
  
  
• What's louder than trucks, ambulances, construction workers and honking horns put together? That's right, university FROSHers!

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12:21 PM
Cry me a river

The squeegee kids are protesting, complaining that they just can't get a fair shake:

After four years on the streets, Hohaus says he's lost count of the number of tickets he's been issued.

Hohaus acknowledges he's a drug addict and squeegeeing helps feed his habit.

But it's his way of life, and he begrudges those squeegee kids he calls "weekend warriors." "(What) keeps me going is the fact I got to make it to tomorrow."

Poor baby. Oh, and quit attacking my windshield.

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