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	<title>Kalamaf Drackonsbane &#187; Business</title>
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		<title>&#8220;M&#8221; For Mature Games</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/07/m-for-mature-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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We are very careful these days when it comes to selling &#8220;M&#8221; rated games &#8211; &#8220;M&#8221; rated means mature games &#8211; that sometimes include violence, nudity and blood/killing. We are careful &#8211; not only because it is by law we cannot sell &#8220;M&#8221; rated games to minor but we cannot in good conscience turn a [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We are very careful these days when it comes to selling &#8220;M&#8221; rated games &#8211; &#8220;M&#8221; rated means mature games &#8211; that sometimes include violence, nudity and blood/killing. We are careful &#8211; not only because it is by law we cannot sell &#8220;M&#8221; rated games to minor but we cannot in good conscience turn a blind eyes and make the money because we are greedy.  Just like doing <a href="http://www.slimmingpillsreview.com/apidexin/">apidexin reviews</a> reviewers I am sure take them seriously too and like them we don&#8217;t want to recommend something that is not suitable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Integrity is very important in our kind of business &#8211; and we are also more vigilant now because the spouse had accidentally sold a copy of War Of World to a 14 yrs old who looked like 17.  Little did she know &#8211; plus she wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the rating &#8211; because the kid came in with a purpose &#8211; propped the exact amount and left very quickly.  It was only a few days later &#8211; his mother came online on FB to tell us off &#8211; that we were made known of it.  But parents should first talk to their kids because kids will be kids &#8211; they are rebellious and if they see their friends playing it and you don&#8217;t allow it &#8211; that he should resort to buying it and tricking the clerk on the counter &#8211; then seriously &#8211; as parents we should definitely sit our kid down and talk to them &#8211; and not call the poor store/clerk names.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We deal with lots of customers everyday &#8211; and as hard as we try &#8211; if the store is busy &#8211; we are only human and we too err.  But because of that particular incident &#8211; we are on a RED alert.   So in a way &#8211; we have to thank this unreasonable/irate mom.</p>
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		<title>Busy around the House</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/07/busy-around-the-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damn it&#8217;s been a hot summer so far and it&#8217;s barely started!  Temperatures have been over 25 celcius already pretty much every day for the last week, but stuff needs to get done regardless of how hot it is.  Mowed the lawn, put up the trampoline for the kid, started putting up a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn it&#8217;s been a hot summer so far and it&#8217;s barely started!  Temperatures have been over 25 celcius already pretty much every day for the last week, but stuff needs to get done regardless of how hot it is.  Mowed the lawn, put up the trampoline for the kid, started putting up a frame around the deck so we can fence it in with mosquito net so maybe we can enjoy the outdoors a little more this year without getting eaten alive by little blood suckers.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m a pretty stress free guy or I&#8217;d be needing <a href="http://www.migrainetreatment.org/">migraine treatment</a>s by now.  It&#8217;s good to be busy, but it&#8217;s good to have some time off to rest.  I&#8217;m not complaining though, things are a lot worse for many businesses in this town since our tourism industry has been cut off at the knees this year.</p>
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		<title>Snooping results</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/06/snooping-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went out snooping today to see what&#8217;s up at Movie Gallery and as suspected they aren&#8217;t selling stretchmarks creams.  They also don&#8217;t have new releases from the last 2 or 3 weeks, the newest they had was The Spy Next Door and Extraordinary Measures.  No sign of Alice in Wonderland, Wolfman, Dear [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went out snooping today to see what&#8217;s up at Movie Gallery and as suspected they aren&#8217;t selling <a href="http://www.stretchmarkscreams.net/">stretchmarks creams</a>.  They also don&#8217;t have new releases from the last 2 or 3 weeks, the newest they had was The Spy Next Door and Extraordinary Measures.  No sign of Alice in Wonderland, Wolfman, Dear John or any others.  Their New Arrivals board that typically lists which movies are coming out during the month hasn&#8217;t been updated since April either.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s just fallout from the bankruptcy in the States that is causing a temporary lapse or if it&#8217;s a sign of bigger things to come.</p>
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		<title>Movie Gallery Closing Here Too?</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/06/movie-gallery-closing-here-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard rumors lately that Movie Gallery here in Canada may not be doing too well either despite saying that their Canadian operations will be unaffected by their US stores ALL closing.  The one here in town has apparently not had any new releases in the last month.  Tonight I called them to see if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve heard rumors lately that Movie Gallery here in Canada may not be doing too well either despite saying that their Canadian operations will be unaffected by their US stores ALL closing.  The one here in town has apparently not had any new releases in the last month.  Tonight I called them to see if they had Alice in Wonderland or Wolfman in and they hadn&#8217;t even received either movie so far.  It must suck for the employees, I&#8217;m sure they have to deal with a lot of customers on a daily basis who want to know why the new releases aren&#8217;t in yet after so long!  Sell that store some <a href="http://www.dietpills.org/">diet pills</a>, it&#8217;s shrinking time!  Oh wait, it&#8217;s shrinking on it&#8217;s own! Can&#8217;t way for the going out of business sale to kick in, I&#8217;ll be snagging up all kinds of cheap movies to put on my own rental wall >=)</p>
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		<title>Printer from the Power Company</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/06/printer-from-the-power-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t completely free if I remember right, but they did cover 75% of the replacement cost.  A number of years ago there was a power surge at work and it killed my receipt printer.  One of the girls called the power company to complain and they verified that a surge had taken [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It wasn&#8217;t completely free if I remember right, but they did cover 75% of the replacement cost.  A number of years ago there was a power surge at work and it killed my receipt printer.  One of the girls called the power company to complain and they verified that a surge had taken place due to some people working on the lines or something, and they would cover a chunk of the cost to replace the printer.  We ended up getting an Epson TM-T88iii, a pretty popular model in it&#8217;s day and it&#8217;s been a great little printer, still going strong today!  The <a href="http://www.posmicro.com/epson/tm-t88iv.htm">Epson tm-t88iv</a> is now available but I won&#8217;t be upgrading for a while yet since a receipt is a receipt and I don&#8217;t need anything fancier than what I&#8217;m using.  The POS software I&#8217;m using is so old that it can&#8217;t handle the fancy features anyway!</p>
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		<title>Free Tech Support</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/04/free-tech-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We received a call from someone asking for tech support for his computer he had just bought a few days ago.  Well, of course &#8211; we must help if you had bought it a few days ago &#8211; hell!  even if you caught a virus after a few days &#8211; we will still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">We received a call from someone asking for tech support for his computer he had just bought a few days ago.  Well, of course &#8211; we must help if you had bought it a few days ago &#8211; hell!  even if you caught a virus after a few days &#8211; we will still take care of you even though it was no fault of ours.  After spending half an hour with the &#8220;customer&#8221; &#8211; I learned that he didn&#8217;t buy  his computer from us but from Staples.  in which I politely directed this &#8220;customer&#8221; to the <a href="http://www.freewebdirectories.org/">web directories</a>  and asked him to look for Staples contact number and go get help from them.  Why do people insist on buying their computers somewhere else and expect us to give them tech support? there are no freebies here &#8211; move along. </p>
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		<title>Video Games &amp; Your Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/04/video-games-your-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your kid goes to a video store and buys a &#8220;M&#8221; rated game, do you blame it on the video store owners or do you teach your kid not to lie and not to do something you don&#8217;t approve of?  As a parent myself, I asked myself what i would have done in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">When your kid goes to a video store and buys a &#8220;M&#8221; rated game, do you blame it on the video store owners or do you teach your kid not to lie and not to do something you don&#8217;t approve of?  As a parent myself, I asked myself what i would have done in that situation?  I definitely wouldn&#8217;t go kick up a fuss and call those people at the video store a crook nor blame them for my kid&#8217;s conniving ways.  I would definitely sit my kid down and explain to him or her what she did was wrong and to apologize to the video store owner and then asked politely if i can get my money back with a 20% retention fees for their inconvenience.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">That would be what a normal parent would/should do but nope not in this town of ours.  Instead of teaching their kids, they come breathing fire down our throat and called us a crook *slap forehead*.  It&#8217;s like someone selling a  <a href="http://www.bathroomvesselsinks.com/stone-sinks.asp">stone sink</a> to the wife and i didn&#8217;t liked it but instead of talking to the wife &#8211; i bring it back to the store and throw it back at their faces.  What is the world coming to these days?  Parents wonder why their kids turn out the way they do &#8211; now here is an example. </p>
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		<title>Selling hockey Cards now</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2010/01/selling-hockey-cards-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone suggested a while back that I should order in a few boxes of hockey cards to sell in my store, so I finally got around to doing that.   It&#8217;s been slow starting, but today we sold about half a box which is very nice to see and I hope it happens more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone suggested a while back that I should order in a few boxes of hockey cards to sell in my store, so I finally got around to doing that.   It&#8217;s been slow starting, but today we sold about half a box which is very nice to see and I hope it happens more often.  I know as much about hockey as I do about <a href="http://www.PhillyJobs.com/">jobs in Philadelphia</a>, basically nothing, but I do know profits when I see them and the markup on cards is better than on computer parts, so I&#8217;m all for it!</p>
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		<title>Like a Headless Chicken</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2009/10/like-a-headless-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So even though work hasn&#8217;t been overly busy lately, there&#8217;s been a lot to do to keep me busy.  Trying to rearrange some shelving and hopefully build some new stuff that will make better use of the space we have.  Stuff is just piling up and to me it&#8217;s like a huge pile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So even though work hasn&#8217;t been overly busy lately, there&#8217;s been a lot to do to keep me busy.  Trying to rearrange some shelving and hopefully build some new stuff that will make better use of the space we have.  Stuff is just piling up and to me it&#8217;s like a huge pile of clutter, although customers have said the store looks good and uncluttered the way it is.  You&#8217;d think all this running around doing stuff would contribute to some <a href="http://www.fastweightloss.net/">weight loss</a>, but no luck, gotta cut back on the tasty tasty junk food as well I guess.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been throwing some items upon kijiji lately too, older stuff that&#8217;s just been sitting around for ages.  Some of it has sold, so that&#8217;s good.  It makes the effort seem worth it, so I&#8217;m more inclined to dig up other stuff to list on there.</p>
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		<title>Extreme Gamers</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2009/08/extreme-gamers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everytime I read about Japanese gamers.. and how some would die in front of their computer or gaming system, it never failed to leave me flabbergasted.  How do one get to this extreme and ignore their health and even their life. Someone that I came to know online was on  disability insurance played [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everytime I read about Japanese gamers.. and how some would die in front of their computer or gaming system, it never failed to leave me flabbergasted.  How do one get to this extreme and ignore their health and even their life. Someone that I came to know online was on  <a href="http://www.allsup.com/">disability insurance</a> played all day and all night.  Good thing he had  Allsup who has a 98% success rate for those who complete the SSDI process with them. I heard that Allsup is a leading nationwide provider of financial and healthcare related services to people with disabilities. Since 1984, Allsup has helped more than 110,000 people receive their entitled Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits.  So gamers out there.. who needs insurance like that, check them out. </p>
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		<title>Little Gadgets</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2009/06/little-gadgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting quite a collection of little gadgets building up in my store.  Digital cameras, Mp3 players, game systems &#038; controllers and so on.  It&#8217;s pretty normal for this time of year though, June can be a pretty slow month with lots of people looking to sell stuff, but it turns around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been getting quite a collection of little gadgets building up in my store.  Digital cameras, <a href="http://www.thesource.ca/estore/category.aspx?language=en-CA&#038;catalog=Online&#038;category=mp3&#038;pagenum=1&#038;sort=1">Mp3 players</a>, game systems &#038; controllers and so on.  It&#8217;s pretty normal for this time of year though, June can be a pretty slow month with lots of people looking to sell stuff, but it turns around in July once school is out and the vacationers start roaming around.  At the moment I&#8217;ve got a good range of mp3 players in, an iPod, a Zune, a Zen and a Sansa.  All with between 4gb and 8gb of storage.</p>
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		<title>New Store Opening down the Street</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2008/12/new-store-opening-down-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see they&#8217;ve been doing some renovation work on one of the empty stores near where I work, but for the longest time there were no signs up to indicate what was going to be moving in.  Earlier in the week when I had to go to the bank I saw they finally had [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see they&#8217;ve been doing some renovation work on one of the empty stores near where I work, but for the longest time there were no signs up to indicate what was going to be moving in.  Earlier in the week when I had to go to the bank I saw they finally had a sign up.  Shh&#8230; Don&#8217;t Tell is the name and it appears that sexy undergarments such as <a href="http://www.lingeriediva.com/Catalog/Bridal-Lingerie">bridal lingerie</a> and adult novelties is what they&#8217;re all about.  It should be open soon if they plan to grab some of the Christmas rush money.</p>
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		<title>Another busted Vacuum</title>
		<link>http://www.kalamaf.com/2008/09/another-busted-vacuum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I bought a new vacuum for the staff to use in the store since we had moved to a new location with carpets instead of just a concrete floor.  I didn&#8217;t want to spend much on it so I just got one at Zellers for around $65.  It worked good, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back I bought a new vacuum for the staff to use in the store since we had moved to a new location with carpets instead of just a concrete floor.  I didn&#8217;t want to spend much on it so I just got one at Zellers for around $65.  It worked good, for a while, then it died.  First the head wouldn&#8217;t spin and then eventually it just wouldn&#8217;t work at all.  I tried to return it but it was out of warranty already after just 3 months.  Now I have to lug the one from home back and forth every few days &#8217;cause I&#8217;m too cheap to buy another new vacuum.  I should just bite the bullet and look into <a href="http://www.allergybuyersclubshopping.com/electrolux-vacuum-cleaners.html">Electrolux vacuums</a> instead.  They&#8217;re more expensive, a lot more, but my parents have had one for about 15 years now and it&#8217;s still working great.</p>
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		<title>Stupid Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalamaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago when I was starting my business I made appointments with the 2 banks I normally deal with.  I was planning to buy out the inventory of another store that was closing down but I didn&#8217;t have that kind of money laying around of course.  It was only $15000, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A number of years ago when I was starting my business I made appointments with the 2 banks I normally deal with.  I was planning to buy out the inventory of another store that was closing down but I didn&#8217;t have that kind of money laying around of course.  It was only $15000, not a lot really in the grand scheme of things, but neither bank would help me out.  I ended up using credit cards and borrowed money to get the deal done and it proved to be well worth the purchase.  A couple of years later when business had picked up I went to try and apply for <a href="http://www.cyberloannet.com/2007/10/26/debt-consolidation-loans-not-always-the-right-choice/">debt consolidation loans</a> in order to replace the somewhat high interest credit card debt with a more reasonable interest bank loan debt.  Their answer?  Still no, bastards.  If you don&#8217;t have money you can&#8217;t get money, what&#8217;s the point of even trying?</p>
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