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[ny biker]

We like to settle in in the evenings and watch dvds (movies or old TV shows), we prefer to read but my honey can't read too much in the evenings as her eyes are wrecked from staring at spreadsheets all day. I do go to the library often to get movies and the occasional book, that really helps the budget.

So, pulled the trigger on a gym membership for both of us, money was an issue but the gym owner is a retired firefighter and gives a "hero" discount to any firefighter/medic/cop/nurse/teacher who sign up. Not thrilled with the use of the word hero, but I still took the discount. It's much smaller than I'm used to at the University, but the equipment is top notch, very well maintained, and the place is spotlessly clean.

Sounds like a good gym to me. I hope you both like working out there.

[shootingstar]

I told myself to save money, so I'll justify today' book purchase as a something I'll give away to a family member. Am starting a light Canadian non-fiction book by writer, Zarqua Nawaz who lives in prairie province of Saskatchewan, "Laughing All the Way to the Mosque". She wrote also story series for the CBC national tv gentle comedy "Little Mosque on the Prairies". It ran for 6 seasons. Featured a family that intermarried where hubby was Muslim but wife wasn't. Had their mixed daughter. http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/

With the terrible crap in the international press and fear, I just wanted to read a book where really Muslims (these were Punjabis from India) led such ordinary, basically boring ordinary lives. To them, it's boring but not to us, if we only a little about Islam. With some humorous takes...about daily life. (Author wears a hijab, cloth on her head but she writes well for a broad audience.)

When I went up the cash register in bookstore to buy it, a hijab covered store clerk, kept looking at the back of the book, to skim what I had bought. I wondered if she had even heard of this Canadian show which stopped running about 2-3 yrs. ago.

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Little Mosque on the Prairies isn't available on Netflix. At least in DVD format it's not available. Keeps pulling up Little House... instead. I for one just can't sit still and watch most all movies and TV shows. Music, I could listen for hours. And books, I have to be in a mood for it. Mood for reading last for several months and it goes away without warning for several months at a time.

I don't think a woman wearing hijab in US will be safe. So many loonies around.

[shootingstar]

Little Mosque on the Prairies isn't available on Netflix. At least in DVD format it's not available. Keeps pulling up Little House... instead. I for one just can't sit still and watch most all movies and TV shows. Music, I could listen for hours. And books, I have to be in a mood for it. Mood for reading last for several months and it goes away without warning for several months at a time.

I don't think a woman wearing hijab in US will be safe. So many loonies around.

Would agree and not when the gun laws in U.S. are different (though I realize there are variations across states) compared to Canada. Because they are.

Little Mosque on the Prairie gentle comedy series, is now syndicated in several different countries. The federal Canadian govn't has committed to screen and accept up to 25,000 Syrian refugees over the next few months. About several hundred just arrived at our city. Canada accepted 60,000 Vietnamese (boat) refugees in 1979. I was a university student in my 2nd year in a German-Mennonite based city (of Kitchener-Waterloo).

The rest is history, where now many are working, having careers, etc. There problems of adjustment where some fall into crime, mental illness. Just like the rest of us here where our families have been in North America for generations.

Guess what I was thinking at that time of international crisis was: How can people distinguish between those of Chinese, Japanese, Korean descent from other East Asians? The height of fear was great at that time in the press combined with those who wanted to help.