OK I so can relate Le Ministre de l’au-delà
This weekend I went out wearing shoes and starting tonight they’re announcing 30 freakin’ cm of freakin’ snow… seriously, after a sunny dry weekend of wearing shoes and being comfortable, not cold, I’ll have to put the boots back on :mad:
Wow!
I’ve heard that piece maybe 4 or 5 times live in Montreal. I love living in a city with a great music scene. 
Heard the OSM do Turangalila-Symphonie too. Amazing!
That’s crazy talk!
But…but…I don’t want to do any of that! I want someone else to do everything else, and I just show up for work and money shows up in my bank account! Wah!
** sigh **
It’s official — Regina sets new snowfall record.
Full whiny post here: I do find one foot of snow in less than 24 hours a tad excessive.
Spoons, if you’re driving through this year again, forget snow tires; you might want to invest in a canoe on top of your car.
Well, that may be a more sound approach than my first thought when I read the L-P’s story linked in the other thread. I was thinking some kind of Rube-Goldberg-type thing with a propellor connected to the driveshaft, and some sort of rudder on the front wheels.
More seriously, I’d be concerned about flooding; not just in Regina, but in all of southern Saskatchewan. The new arrangement at Maple Creek looks like it could handle anything now–but there are plenty of other creeks and watercourses passing under Highway 1 that haven’t had those improvements.
That’s probably how it will continue to happen, only now you might have to fill out a few more pages on your tax return, and might have to register for GST. Once you do it the first time, it will be easy as pie in further years.
Sitting here at 9 degrees does not make me miss Eastern Canada at all. And it has been beautifully sunny here the last few days.
I’m taking a powder day tomorrow. 
Just this morning I saw a woman pulled over in the school zone. At 8:30, so when the kids are walking to school.
Seriously, folks, please, please, please slow down near schools. Kids still get hit by cars. There’s just no excuse for speeding at that time and place.
In fairness to our cops, they’ve been on an enforcement kick in school zones recently and are handing out a lot of tickets, obvious Crown Vic or no. Way too many idiots not slowing down.
Obvious works too. Think of it as a gentle reminder to folks who are not white knucklers, but nonetheless have strayed from the path of righteousness, and who will return to the fold once they are alerted to the error of their ways.
Well sure, but then just use a regular cruiser.
The marked cruisers have to be available to chase me when I turn off the road from the ski hill. 
There are only two ways out from the ski hill – the direct paved road that connects to the highway, or the dirt road that turns off of the paved road and leads to my place. Every time there is a RIDE check trying to nab drunks driving home from the ski hill bar, I get chased, for they think that I am trying to evade the RIDE check by turning onto the dirt road. So with that, I’m off for an afternoon of skiing. Beats the hell out out shovelling.
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Well, that may be a more sound approach than my first thought when I read the L-P’s story linked in the other thread. I was thinking some kind of Rube-Goldberg-type thing with a propellor connected to the driveshaft, and some sort of rudder on the front wheels. :D/QUOTE]
Something like this?
Made by Lotus, so it’ll handle magnificently and be totally uncomfortable…
I see Calgary is the best place in Canada to live according to a recent news story. At this rate, the denizens will be as nearly insufferable as Vancouverites…
Although to be fair that’s jealousy on my part, living in the Wild and all. I have to admit Calgary has a lot going for it. Despite being a large city the crime rate is low, and the proximity to Many Interesting Places is a big draw. Now I just have to figure out how to pay for a house in Cochrane without working in the oil patch and never being home to enjoy it.
Awesome. Have fun. Loch is a nice little hill. I’m looking forward to Whistler some time after March 28th. 
I hate fucking school and playground zones. The playground zones go on until 11:00 at night here in summer, the school zones are on all day when there are never, ever any kids in them, you can’t drive anywhere in Calgary without hitting at least one school or playground zone, they have school zones for junior high schools now, assholes in their Breedermobiles tailgate me through school and playground zones every day when I’m driving the speed limit, they blaze through well over the speed limit if I’m not in front of them to slow them down, they teach kids that the responsibility for their safety is on the drivers and not on them, and the zones will never, ever go away, because no politician is going to be the politician who voted for “unsafe kids.” Hate them.
ETA: I forgot how useless they are, since kids are never allowed to set foot to ground.
Have fun!
Parliament approved a bill that will make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people. Very cool.
Very good.
I’m so sorry that you’re asked to occasionally slow down in your rush to save a panda bear or whatever.
Just a few weeks ago a little girl in Toronto, crossing a street legally, was hit and killed by a goddamned garbage truck. A man was struck and killed by a car right in front of my condo building just a few months ago; the car was, predictably, going well over the limit. HUNDREDS of Canadians (of all ages; in fact, the most disproportionately affected group are seniors) are killed by cars every year.
Is it really that much to ask people to drive a little slower? To be a bit more careful?