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2025-10-04 Shocktober

 

2025-10-04                    Shocktober     

 

Unwilling and (im)possibly unable / to tear himself away from the beauty of The Beaches up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up in here, (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and Shocktober daily makes the decision not to make the decision to head back / South – ‘an unflushed’, (y)our man the actor Charlie Sheen called the current state of affairs in the world that five-lettered wordle before during and after surviving no end / of ordeals, self-inflicted and otherwise in the recent Netflix rockumentary of the same name, and a nice if brutal descriptive line borrowed by (y)our man Cin before during and after last week’s remote meeting at work that four-lettered word down South to mansplain in advance his upcoming e-mail to (y)our (wo)managers a request to stay up here in The Beaches for one more week until Thanksgiving because beautiful and self-inflicted ordeals, ‘toilet’ - nice if brutal is all / we gots.

 

   Course there are (a) few good reasons not / to stay up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up in here in The Beaches – taxing the patience of (y)our (wo)managers in the Cubicombs at work that four-lettered word (that’s enough, -id.), who already agreed to a month-long ‘working from home’ remote arrangement with (y)our man Cin before during and after the month of August earlier this year, and years previous to be fair and in (t)his defence because precedent ; the hour-long and now week-long’s worth of meals that five-lettered wordle to come of dinner with (y)our (wo)man and housemate the(ir) Ma Noslouc, fifteen minutes’ of worth of which is spent by (y)our man Cin (m) / (bl) eating his How-Does-It-Feelings (hooker please, -id.) as we do and the rest of the hour listening to the sound effects – but to hell with it, he’s / staying, ‘to hell’ (y)our man the(ir) Da Noslouc RIP said it better to us before during and after we bailed on eleven o’clock Sunday Mass at St. Dominic’s in Luskvegas back in the 20th, innit Itt, ‘ Cin’, (a) few good reasons is all / we gots.

 

‘It’s just you’, (y)our man Cin said it better earlier just now to the month-long tenant in one of the rental houses – nom de pretension By-The-Way because locate by / the way of the road adjacent and once / a tearoom accessible by horse-drawn buggy as we do back in the 19th and 20th (hooker please, oh wait, what?) -id.) and because by the way the houses around up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up  in here all used to have proper (?), and still / do because quaint and in the summer fetch – and the tea-room-cum-rental where (y)our man Cin used to stay on summer trips to The Beaches before during and after moving into the big house Broadgreen because broad / green lawn get it with the(ir) M and P Noslouc, thereby freeing up / By-the-Way as a rental house in the lucrative summer months,  and apropos the vibe at nom-de-wireless-network By-the-Way, which unlike Broadgreen as a dwelling has few trees and less lawn to shield the house and its’ occupants from the ebbs and flows of the mighty St. Lawrence River adjacent to both, not to mention from the comings and goings of (y)our (wo)men the neighbors at Broadgreen, the houses located on the same patch / of land and long / lawn because broad / green, get it, ‘and the wind and the waves’, you and the wind and the waves is all / we gots.

 

Course the sunsets up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up in here make no distinction in their exposure to the houses big or small, whether in August or now Shocktober, though the sun’s setting takes place much further to the left now and along the mighty Saint Lawrence River horizon later in the year towards the unflushed toilet of the South (hooker please, -id.) and not to mention setting hours  / earlier now because ‘it’s getting later’, (y)our man one of their Shiretown College Rugby Club seniors – nom de guerre McConcrete – realized and to great / guffaws from his teammates before during and after the(ir) 4 PM to 6 PM Rugby Club Fall season training sessions on Club Midd’s Battell Field towards the end of the season ended in the pitch / black as we do, ‘earlier’, innit McConvict , and so it is tonight of (t)his Saturday after before during and after it becomes Another Sadurday Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody, ‘every junkie’ (y)our man Neil Young as always croaks it better in his dirge and eulogy surely to a fellow-performer downed / by drugs The Needle and the Damage Done ‘is like a setting / sun’, getting later / earlier is all / we gots.  

 

Before during and after making (t)his decision to request to stay up on out on up on out on up on out on up here in The Beaches for another pre-Thanksgiving week of working / remotely as we do – possibly fateful because the Cubicombs know no / end of pettiness and (wo)management may well say enough / is enough and not without / reason, and also because (y)our man Cin will have to make the same or similar request within this very same month of Shocktober, namely a request for another straycation, this one to attend a funeral in Florida for your beloved Lauren, innit Johnny Mo, and to stretch it possibly into a two-week affair with one week working remotely from The Sunshine State because ‘it takes a week’, (y)our man Cin says it better to who(m)ever is listening and apropos taking straycations in the unflushed toilet of the South (that’s enough, -id.), ‘to get used to / the heat’ that four-lettered word -  (y)our man Cin knows in advance that he will be after playing the mother card as we do, ‘our mother’, (y)our pair of military-serving brothers mansplained the same better to the Canadian Customs and Border / CBSA guard in his cabin at the Washington State / Province of Alberta frontier before during and after the COVID years, when sharing the same car much less crossing an international or even Provincial border was frowned upon severely, and in answer to the border patrol agent’s question as to how it was exactly that (y)our men this pair of Canadian military member brothers had decided that it would be a good / idea to get back into Canada from the Province of British Columbia (don’t / aks) by way of travelling by car through three U.S. States and two Canadian provinces, ‘told us to do it’, and before during and after being waved / through the border crossing by the amused Border Patrol agent because true story, a good / idea is all / we gots.

 

Course ‘all work and no play’, (y)our man Jack Nicholson as John Torrence hulk-smashes it better ad nauseum in Kubrick’s movie take on your The Shining, innit Mr. King – though in the movie the name was changed to Jack Torrence, and one of the disagreements leading cinfamously to no end / of your displeasure with the film – ‘makes Jack a dull / boy’, and there will be a couple of afternoon lighting nine-holed rounds of golf that four-lettered word to be played this pre-Thanksgiving week coming up by (y)our man and humble(d) narrator Cin because ‘golf’ (y)our (Irish)man Oscar Wilde quipped it better as always ‘ a good walk / ruined’, all work and no play is all / we gots.

 

Thank you for reading (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and Shocktober edition

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