Nova Scotia
I'm updating from my living room, on my laptop, on a "borrowed"
wireless internet connection. But more importantly, from Nova Scotia!
Christmas was great, but what I was really looking forward to was coming home and having a break from work. I'm definitely not disappointed. Everyday has been better than those study days back at Carleton, which were probably worth it because it is so far so good as far as grades go. I went back to Chapters to talk to some old co-workers and everyone was happy to see me. I even got a free pot-luck out of it. Wam, bam thank you Sam.
Tonight I'm hitting up round two of Grafton St. Dinner Theatre, with the lovely Natalie. She is too cool and I am such a geek. She gets me a super nintendo game for Christmas and I absolutely love it. Unfortunately my SNES is in Ottawa, but they'll be plenty of playing when I get back. We've already reminisced on old times since I've gotten home, having gone bowling, and seen a movie on Christmas Day, just like last year. The only thing missing is Boys Night Out in the CD player 24/7.
It's kind of interesting how the weather seems to be following me. It was snowing and -20 every day in Ottawa, and like +10 here. When I get here it is suddenly -12 and it snows 50 cm. Today it is even colder here then in Ottawa, which is rare. This reminds me good ol' White Juan. Boy are people sick and tired of people calling anything weather related 'Juan'. We need a real good rainstorm to call 'Wet Juan'. How about a string of freezing temperatures to call 'Cold Juan' ? Anyone?
Lastly I'm sure everyone has heard about the disaster in India / Thailand / Sri Lanka. It really opens up people's eyes when something like this happens, and we have the technology to make it thousands of times less severe. The problem, of course, is that this technology is terribly distributed. There is a cruel irony watching interviews of people from Indian resorts getting interviewed about how they "lost everything" including their passports. I guess nobody told them "everything" includes homes, jobs, food, water, and even family members to the locals. I also read somewhere that at one time richer western nations usually forfeited upwards of 10% of their national budget to foreign aid, while last year that number was closer to 0.2%. If it takes a disaster like this to change that statistic, it comes with a severe cost.
Christmas was great, but what I was really looking forward to was coming home and having a break from work. I'm definitely not disappointed. Everyday has been better than those study days back at Carleton, which were probably worth it because it is so far so good as far as grades go. I went back to Chapters to talk to some old co-workers and everyone was happy to see me. I even got a free pot-luck out of it. Wam, bam thank you Sam.
Tonight I'm hitting up round two of Grafton St. Dinner Theatre, with the lovely Natalie. She is too cool and I am such a geek. She gets me a super nintendo game for Christmas and I absolutely love it. Unfortunately my SNES is in Ottawa, but they'll be plenty of playing when I get back. We've already reminisced on old times since I've gotten home, having gone bowling, and seen a movie on Christmas Day, just like last year. The only thing missing is Boys Night Out in the CD player 24/7.
It's kind of interesting how the weather seems to be following me. It was snowing and -20 every day in Ottawa, and like +10 here. When I get here it is suddenly -12 and it snows 50 cm. Today it is even colder here then in Ottawa, which is rare. This reminds me good ol' White Juan. Boy are people sick and tired of people calling anything weather related 'Juan'. We need a real good rainstorm to call 'Wet Juan'. How about a string of freezing temperatures to call 'Cold Juan' ? Anyone?
Lastly I'm sure everyone has heard about the disaster in India / Thailand / Sri Lanka. It really opens up people's eyes when something like this happens, and we have the technology to make it thousands of times less severe. The problem, of course, is that this technology is terribly distributed. There is a cruel irony watching interviews of people from Indian resorts getting interviewed about how they "lost everything" including their passports. I guess nobody told them "everything" includes homes, jobs, food, water, and even family members to the locals. I also read somewhere that at one time richer western nations usually forfeited upwards of 10% of their national budget to foreign aid, while last year that number was closer to 0.2%. If it takes a disaster like this to change that statistic, it comes with a severe cost.