Interesting...  I received a phone-call this afternoon from SGI; SGI is "Saskatchewan Government Insurance", the motor-vehicle insurance agency in Saskatchewan.  Some provinces, like Alberta, have private insurance and you can select from any number of insurance companies to insure your motor-vehicle.  In Saskatchewan, the provincial ( Read more... )

     Back on July 11, I entered this post about the scum-sucking festering asshole that stole our child-benefits cheque out of the mail.  Well, here's the next part of that sordid tale...

It would seem that that particular cheque also came with a notice (which I've rather been waiting for) saying that if we didn't file our taxes soon, they'd ( Read more... )

I see that LJ's Rich-Text editor is still broken though; Seems that they've misplaced the .xml file that loads the editing controls. Thankfully the raw HTML editor still works, and I know enough HTML to be dangerous ( Read more... )

 
     I really need to get some sort of carpenter icon, or something...

We got the new door installed today.  I wish I could say that I had more to do with it, but I didn't do much more than help hold it in place while the shims and screws were installed, and pass tools to John, the fellow helping me out.

Turns out that John's not only a ( Read more... )