We had to wait for a school bus to arrive, but once the cargo of pupils were clear, we left our safe harbour and returned to the high(way) seas. A full day of travel without incident.
posted in politics, travel | Comments Off on Not about to play solo petanque | 280 words
Is there something worse than playing a game where the rules are changed in mid-match. Think of Monopoly, when the banker decides how the money part works on a whim. Or a soccer game, where the goal posts are in flux. How about government?
posted in food, politics | Comments Off on With undefined game rules | 260 words
Four years ago, I ordered a nifty little gadget from a web site. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it does what I want. Specifically, clone one hard drive to another. Granted, not as practical as a screw driver, but if you’ve ever tried to stream “the bits” from one storage unit to another… Cloning a new SSD drive for the netbook took about an hour, but I now have a light, more rapid laptop for any eventual travel.
posted in computing, politics, Wx | Comments Off on Watching an approaching storm, physically and politically | 258 words
If the latest trickery by the provincial government is any indication, our whole system is in a state of gridlock. The provincial parliament introduced a bill, which went to the courts. The court declared the bill (not yet a law) to be unconstitutional in tone. The provincial government, in a move that may redefine “classic”, decided to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Now what?
posted in economy, politics | Comments Off on Stalemate, not checkmate | 258 words
Politics is like chess. You sacrifice your pawn, try to get the knight or the bishop into position, deliver the match. Today, a big name from QC left the safety of the crowd (the opposition), determined to start his own party and spawn a new match. In reality, he has pretty much, helped his friends to concede the current game, and the next one. However, come another cycle (typically four years) and the proposed game is open. Unfortunately, there’s a dark castle lurking. He “whose name we dare not speak” could return. After all, he’ll only be sixty-four (isn’t that the same number as the squares on the board?)
posted in food, politics | Comments Off on What if we run out of spuds? | 257 words
That feeling where, as darkness sets in, knowing that you have a job to get done. In this case, just like every other month, the “recup”; it has to hit the curb before bedtime, because the truck might be early.
posted in environment, politics | Comments Off on Cut them all down to size | 267 words
A new variation on the foggy day: airports in BC are having to cancel flights, as the wildfires pump more and more smoke into the air. I’ve seen times when my sky in QC was “cloudy” due to forest fires, but the airport never had to wave anyone off. Do they still do that? Or have I seen too many old movies?
posted in education, politics | Comments Off on An odd sense of cloudy | 265 words
In a move that was really outside of my comfort zone, I did something this evening (for the first time). I attended a local political rally, complete with speeches from the hired help in the city and a secret ballot. No, I’m not elected to anything (as far as I know). And we’re still a long way off from the planting of signs on the front lawn and the singing of old traditional songs from the hustings. Is that even a thing? As I said, this was my first time.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Grass roots political activity | 271 words
About six months back, while on a trip to Halifax, I set out to find the Donair Cam. Didn’t choose the right counter, but I opted to test the product at hand. Pretty standard. Filled the hunger pangs. Allowed me to move forward.
posted in food, politics | Comments Off on Go for messy | 256 words
Got your cray-cray cap on? Well, someone in Las Vegas certainly does. The owner of the hotel where a mass shooting took place in October 2017 has launched lawsuits against the survivors of the tragedy. Some of them. If a person doesn’t already have a case file open against the hotel, this is being done as a preemptive attack. Or as one spokesperson put it succinctly: “the most outrageous thing I have ever seen”. Have to agree.
posted in politics, travel | Comments Off on In the land of the preemptive lawsuit | 254 words
