20.5.04 [ ] 0 comments 
grr. what a big let down: I get home from work this evening and the abswering machine is blinking its defiant red light at me. In front of the answering machine is a note: heinrich - airmiles tickets fell through, talk to you in the morning.
Grr...via tango, roudtrip to Quebec City costs $500, but they are sold out for a May 24 departure; moving up to econ class would push the round-trip price to $900. Arg! I don't have $900 for a plane ticket right now..I'm sure my dad will have a strategy when I talk to him tomorrow.
On a brighter note: I got my bike back yesterday. I've always felt somewhat incomplete without it; but it was good to take it in. on the last day i rode it, I must have been a little absent-mined. For, i had turned north on to calgary trail south. Paniced (headed towards a stream of oncoming traffic), I pulled on the brakes and stalled the bike - this was the moment the starter decided to fail on me.
Headlights approaching, I jumped off and started pushing as fast as I could, let out the clutch, it roared to life and i hopped back on.
Gladly, the approaching car in my lane had stopped (lucid enough, i'm sure, to not mistake me for some kind of hallucination). So, I managed to pull into a parking lot and exit on the correct side of the road.
Anyhow, it was a good idea to take the bike in, not only to have it fixed, but have a break from driving. And, as a loyal customer of Zoli Bennerreli (I've been a customer since i was twelve when i was driving a moped), it took only a week to repair (despite a three month backlog). And, there was no shop charge. Hooray for motorbikes and loyalty points.
This morning, I had gone to the local coffee shop for my morning coffe and paper. While reading some hilarious accusations of collusion between the Conservatives and the NDP on media ticket prices (which, by the way, would be tacit [nonmediated/lawful] and one could argue that neither party serves the same market, so even sxplicit collusion would be a non-issue because, to use the econonomist's lense, they are offering different products - i'm not going to take this further but if you want clarity post a comment, i will talk economics for hours if someone wants to listen).
Anyhow, as it is in a small town with big-city conveinience, I bumped into an ex-girlfriend at the coffee shop. From her reports, it seems that Sherwood Park has developed quite the drug problem while I was gone. scary. Small-town social politics are as convoluted as ever. Everyone from the old days has dropped out of school. Everyone from the old days wears tatoos and piercings. Everyone fgrom the old days seems to be in a rock/punk/disco band that would make it huge if only someone could recognize their limitless talent.
neat.
Grr...via tango, roudtrip to Quebec City costs $500, but they are sold out for a May 24 departure; moving up to econ class would push the round-trip price to $900. Arg! I don't have $900 for a plane ticket right now..I'm sure my dad will have a strategy when I talk to him tomorrow.
On a brighter note: I got my bike back yesterday. I've always felt somewhat incomplete without it; but it was good to take it in. on the last day i rode it, I must have been a little absent-mined. For, i had turned north on to calgary trail south. Paniced (headed towards a stream of oncoming traffic), I pulled on the brakes and stalled the bike - this was the moment the starter decided to fail on me.
Headlights approaching, I jumped off and started pushing as fast as I could, let out the clutch, it roared to life and i hopped back on.
Gladly, the approaching car in my lane had stopped (lucid enough, i'm sure, to not mistake me for some kind of hallucination). So, I managed to pull into a parking lot and exit on the correct side of the road.
Anyhow, it was a good idea to take the bike in, not only to have it fixed, but have a break from driving. And, as a loyal customer of Zoli Bennerreli (I've been a customer since i was twelve when i was driving a moped), it took only a week to repair (despite a three month backlog). And, there was no shop charge. Hooray for motorbikes and loyalty points.
This morning, I had gone to the local coffee shop for my morning coffe and paper. While reading some hilarious accusations of collusion between the Conservatives and the NDP on media ticket prices (which, by the way, would be tacit [nonmediated/lawful] and one could argue that neither party serves the same market, so even sxplicit collusion would be a non-issue because, to use the econonomist's lense, they are offering different products - i'm not going to take this further but if you want clarity post a comment, i will talk economics for hours if someone wants to listen).
Anyhow, as it is in a small town with big-city conveinience, I bumped into an ex-girlfriend at the coffee shop. From her reports, it seems that Sherwood Park has developed quite the drug problem while I was gone. scary. Small-town social politics are as convoluted as ever. Everyone from the old days has dropped out of school. Everyone from the old days wears tatoos and piercings. Everyone fgrom the old days seems to be in a rock/punk/disco band that would make it huge if only someone could recognize their limitless talent.
neat.
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