Friday, September 16, 2005
Did You Know?
It's a rainy, rather grey day here in Calgary and I'm post-call (as they say). Not a bad night, all things considered, some sleep here and there. Going home shortly to catch up on my ZZZZZs.
Here are some item of Random News, off the top of my head:
Did you know:
The NHL lock-out is officially over and the ice hockey season starts up again tomorrow. The Calgary Flames are playing the Edmonton Oilers in Edmonton, so it should be a bit of a grudge match. Tickets are going for $ 100 per person, and they've had to ration them as demand is so high!
The CBC (Canada's awful national broadcaster, a bit like a much-tamer version of the BBC, mostly considered a mouthpiece for the eastern, liberal, French-speaking part of Canada and much-hated in Alberta) is still on strike, so they've been playing elevator music on the radio for the last few weeks, and the TV news is being read by slightly-stunned management-types. Long may it last!
Gas prices have gone down a little this week. The highest local price was $ 1.15, which is about 55p a litre, which meant that filling up the Jeep cost 84 dollars. Now we're down to 1.10 and the price should fall a bit more. Most of our time here, the price has been between 0.84 and 0.89, which is about 40p a litre.
Because of the massive jump in oil and gas prices, Alberta (which has LOADS of both) has a huge budget surplus and doesn't want to give any of it to the CBC-watching, eastern, liberal, French-speaking part of Canada. So the plan is to divide the cash up between all the residents of Alberta and send everyone a cheque for about 300 dollars! Only in Alberta - SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Dr Huber is away this week on a Temporal Bone Surgery course in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before going home to Switzerland (Sweden?) to sort out his job. He called from where he's staying in the US to tell us that his hotel has the new VOIP phones (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol) and as a result, can provide free calls for its guests to all of North America. How's that for value?
The HERBs are off in BC at the moment, meeting up with the 4 in-laws who are just back from a cruise off Alaska. They're meeting up in the Okanagan and then heading down to Pincher Creek for the Great Canadian Barn Dance. Richard didn't want to go, but he was out-voted. Dance, boy, dance!
That's all for now from Items of Random News,
J
Here are some item of Random News, off the top of my head:
Did you know:
The NHL lock-out is officially over and the ice hockey season starts up again tomorrow. The Calgary Flames are playing the Edmonton Oilers in Edmonton, so it should be a bit of a grudge match. Tickets are going for $ 100 per person, and they've had to ration them as demand is so high!
The CBC (Canada's awful national broadcaster, a bit like a much-tamer version of the BBC, mostly considered a mouthpiece for the eastern, liberal, French-speaking part of Canada and much-hated in Alberta) is still on strike, so they've been playing elevator music on the radio for the last few weeks, and the TV news is being read by slightly-stunned management-types. Long may it last!
Gas prices have gone down a little this week. The highest local price was $ 1.15, which is about 55p a litre, which meant that filling up the Jeep cost 84 dollars. Now we're down to 1.10 and the price should fall a bit more. Most of our time here, the price has been between 0.84 and 0.89, which is about 40p a litre.
Because of the massive jump in oil and gas prices, Alberta (which has LOADS of both) has a huge budget surplus and doesn't want to give any of it to the CBC-watching, eastern, liberal, French-speaking part of Canada. So the plan is to divide the cash up between all the residents of Alberta and send everyone a cheque for about 300 dollars! Only in Alberta - SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Dr Huber is away this week on a Temporal Bone Surgery course in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before going home to Switzerland (Sweden?) to sort out his job. He called from where he's staying in the US to tell us that his hotel has the new VOIP phones (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol) and as a result, can provide free calls for its guests to all of North America. How's that for value?
The HERBs are off in BC at the moment, meeting up with the 4 in-laws who are just back from a cruise off Alaska. They're meeting up in the Okanagan and then heading down to Pincher Creek for the Great Canadian Barn Dance. Richard didn't want to go, but he was out-voted. Dance, boy, dance!
That's all for now from Items of Random News,
J
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