Hanging in there
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inulroI'm really quite crap at this taking care of myself deal, which is particularly crap considering that I've been doing it for a very long time. More specifically, it's the feeding myself that I'm not so good at, but I've been eating something closely resembling a meal at meal times and not getting takeaways for either lunch or dinner, so that's a kind of success. Fear not, pets are fed and cleaned.
It's winter. You can tell because I've reached the stage of pain and exhaustion where giving up work seems like a really good idea. Not going to happen - I like money & independence too much. Killing several of my co-workers also seems like a really good idea. Quitting not such a good idea, as I'd have to put up with them for four more weeks.
I've been busy at work, which is good, as if I'm not I spend too much time on the net. The Globe & Mail's recent addition of a comments section has reminded me that Canadians as a whole (y'all excluded) are a bunch of pathetic whiners. Meanwhile, the BBC's "have your say" section has alerted me to the fact that way too many people in this country are women-haters who think that it should be legal or even mandatory to fire women for being pregnant, and brag about refusing to hire women of child-bearing age. As for The Times's comment section, just don't go there unless you want to read about how having money makes you a better person (morally) than people without.
Yeah, I know, people suck. Next up, the religion of the pope and toilet habits of bears.
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sushidog's central heating woes and those of a co-worker, I realized that it's been a few years since we had our boilers[1] serviced, so I will attempt to get this remedied. It'll probably be February before we can get someone out, as every gas engineer in the country will be out fixing broken boilers till then.
The Canadian Election
I should try to arrange a postal ballot, but I don't even know which constituency, if any, I'd qualify for. The last time I voted in Canada was in the 1993 election. Not that I approve of having an election so soon after the last one, given that we're just going to end up with another Liberal minority government.
Or so we can hope. I'm (not surprisingly) an NDP voter myself, but given that the only realistic alternative to a minority Liberal government is Stephen Harper as PM, meaning goodbye to all that is nice and warm and fuzzy about Canada, and joining Bush's War on Terror. Has everybody forgotten that the Conservatives (not even Progressive any more) are the remnants of Reform? While we're at it, I'm also in denial about the popularity of Reform outside of Alberta, and keep telling myself it was all a protest vote. If the Conservatives get elected and try to retract the gay marriage legislation, I will come home to protest and riot.
So I got to thinking about Canada's weird four-party political system, and thinking about the BQ[2] lead me to a vague memory that there was an equivalent party that wanted Western Canada to secede from the rest of Canada when I was about 12. I googled for some info online, and have discovered to my horror that the Western Canada Concept[3] are still going, and this is the home of the people for whom Reform weren't hate-filled enough. My skin is crawling.
[1] Yes, two. One for central heating & one for hot water. Weird, but it means that if one breaks, we still have the other.
[2] Bloc Québécois, the Quebec separatist party, for non-Canadians.
[3] So much for my insistence that Canadians are lovely fluffy people.
It's winter. You can tell because I've reached the stage of pain and exhaustion where giving up work seems like a really good idea. Not going to happen - I like money & independence too much. Killing several of my co-workers also seems like a really good idea. Quitting not such a good idea, as I'd have to put up with them for four more weeks.
I've been busy at work, which is good, as if I'm not I spend too much time on the net. The Globe & Mail's recent addition of a comments section has reminded me that Canadians as a whole (y'all excluded) are a bunch of pathetic whiners. Meanwhile, the BBC's "have your say" section has alerted me to the fact that way too many people in this country are women-haters who think that it should be legal or even mandatory to fire women for being pregnant, and brag about refusing to hire women of child-bearing age. As for The Times's comment section, just don't go there unless you want to read about how having money makes you a better person (morally) than people without.
Yeah, I know, people suck. Next up, the religion of the pope and toilet habits of bears.
Between
sushidog's central heating woes and those of a co-worker, I realized that it's been a few years since we had our boilers[1] serviced, so I will attempt to get this remedied. It'll probably be February before we can get someone out, as every gas engineer in the country will be out fixing broken boilers till then.The Canadian Election
I should try to arrange a postal ballot, but I don't even know which constituency, if any, I'd qualify for. The last time I voted in Canada was in the 1993 election. Not that I approve of having an election so soon after the last one, given that we're just going to end up with another Liberal minority government.
Or so we can hope. I'm (not surprisingly) an NDP voter myself, but given that the only realistic alternative to a minority Liberal government is Stephen Harper as PM, meaning goodbye to all that is nice and warm and fuzzy about Canada, and joining Bush's War on Terror. Has everybody forgotten that the Conservatives (not even Progressive any more) are the remnants of Reform? While we're at it, I'm also in denial about the popularity of Reform outside of Alberta, and keep telling myself it was all a protest vote. If the Conservatives get elected and try to retract the gay marriage legislation, I will come home to protest and riot.
So I got to thinking about Canada's weird four-party political system, and thinking about the BQ[2] lead me to a vague memory that there was an equivalent party that wanted Western Canada to secede from the rest of Canada when I was about 12. I googled for some info online, and have discovered to my horror that the Western Canada Concept[3] are still going, and this is the home of the people for whom Reform weren't hate-filled enough. My skin is crawling.
[1] Yes, two. One for central heating & one for hot water. Weird, but it means that if one breaks, we still have the other.
[2] Bloc Québécois, the Quebec separatist party, for non-Canadians.
[3] So much for my insistence that Canadians are lovely fluffy people.
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Date: 2005-12-01 09:34 am (UTC)We met a pair in Rome, and not realising they were Canadian, asked "which part of the states are you from?" On hearing they were Canadian, we apologised profusely for assuming they were American, and they explained they were finding it very strange that people kept apologising to them for assuming they were American.
I like plenty of Merkins, but I've never met an obnoxious Canadian on holiday, whereas I have met the odd really annoying American.
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