Caffeine

Up and awake very early this morning, 5:30AM on a Sunday is almost ridiculous! However, I've got to say it was worth it.

The sun was shining, the neighbourhood still sleeping and all you could hear were the birds in the trees. Yes, it was worth being awake.

Unfortunately here it is less than 4 hours later and the clouds have once again moved in. The weather forecast calls for showers right through to Thursday, if this keeps up nobody will have to worry about getting a sun burn.

Today there are over 50 antique cars in the market and vintage aircraft flying overhead heading to the aviation museum. Which way should I head?

I'm thinking the market and the cars - my head isn't often in the clouds.

Wow what a difference!

Waking up yesterday, it was +7 outside and raining, all through the day nothing but steady rain and wind blowing it all around.

By 4:00PM that rain was ice and the temperature was -15 with a windchill of -26. Needless to say - everything and I do mean everything quickly froze over.

The weather office predicted this flash freezing, television and radio stations reported that this was going to happen, the police were advising every one to slow down on their way home from work; did it make a difference? Hell no!

The city claimed it had no warning and so didn't get out to salt and sand the roads. drivers spent most of their time in ditches, the number of collisions rose exponentially every 5 minutes. I watched car after car slide through the corner and into each other and for what?

Have people forgotten how to drive? Did everyone forget this is Canada and it is after all winter? Where were the salt trucks? Oh yeah they apparently don't listen to the radio or watch TV, they missed the warnings from the day before.

Right now it is -18 with the wind making it feel more like -26 and I still haven't seen or heard a salt truck go down my little street. I have heard a lot of thumps and bangs though while cars slide into each other.

What a gorgeous day!

The sun is shining, it doesn't feel very cold outside and Ottawa is covered with a fresh blanket of snow. Sure, there is a transit strike that began today - but on the bright side of it all those smelly, dirty buses are off the road.

Sure it's a huge inconvenience, I like many depend on the buses for transportation; I am also very glad that people are seeing just how ridiculous this union's demands are. The head of the union was on the radio early this morning and basically told all of us to just go F##K ourselves.

The complaint by the union, they want to be able to schedule their own hours and what routes they drive. I don't know about you, but I've never worked a job where I could pick and choose the hours I worked or the work I did.



Thirty five cm's of snow on the ground, roads clogged with all those extra cars and I'm so happy to be able to say - screw 'em leave them out, let them strike in the end they lose more than they gain.