What a wonderful winter land that we live in. The snow is nice, but… it was plus 11 on Friday and today it is minus 31 with the slight breeze that is going on. Nothing to worry about only a 40-degree difference. However not everyone is willing to admit defeat. Just now a girl walked by in a t-shirt. Pure Genius!
Often, especially as children, we are told that it is hard to take care of dogs. Maybe they just haven’t had a dog yet, because I am not entirely sure I would say it is hard. Below is a typical picture of our dog during the day.
Good News!!! Kim got an OT position. It is part-time, but fits her well. Not to mention it is nice to have a little consistent income into our lives!
I got an interesting letter forwarded to me about the recent Edmonton Police Sting.
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Police Sting?
Does the fact that both the targeted Edmonton Sun news columnist and the chairman of the Edmonton Police Commission taking cabs home not confirm that they had drank too much to drink to drive their own vehicles? Were and are they upset that they had to leave their vehicles? Were the streets not that much safer because they and who knows how many other notables did not drive home? Do these high-profile people not expect police scrutiny? Are they above the law?
Now had they pushed their luck and attempted to drive home, been stopped, arrested, and subsequently found to not be impaired, then they could scream that their rights had been infringed. That did not happen; so why are they howling now?
Those of us that have lost friends and relatives to drunk drivers have no problem with police targeting and laying in wait for possible drunk drivers- and I hope the police will not be intimidated by this huge media storm and turn a blind eye to any future offences these individuals may contemplate. I just hope that next time the police are more cognizant of the media police-radio scanners that allowed the present suspects to be forewarned.
H. Johnson
Sherwood Park
Congratulations to Mark and Pauline on their baby girl Hanna. Now don’t any of you be getting any ideas, because Kim and I will not be following the trend!
Good news for all of you out there. I have passed the Mortgage Agents’ Program! Soon I will be licensed with a brokerage and you can come to me with all your mortgage concerns including first mortgages, renewals, second mortgages, and whatever your heart desires.
Congratulations to Christine and Ryan here is a picture of their son Isaac at 2 days old.
and some Halloween pictures I forgot to put up.
Love Machines
rest of the crazies
Introducing… Gary (aka Mr. Orangee and Mr. Meowee)
Gary is Jeaninne’s birthday present from DJ. Renters in our basement. Pretty nice cat… until today… Gary was whining at the door. So, seeing as I am sucker I let him upstairs for a couple of minutes. With in no time he has peed on the blank on Kim, but unfortunately he got some on himself which he preceded to shake off and on to me. Needless to say Gary and I are no longer friends! At least today.
Did you ever think that Rat’s could fly planes?
Hey all. I got back from the visa run to Bangkok fine. Best visa run ever, actually. I usually fly to Hong Kong and don’t leave the airport, because it’s a little cheaper. It was Halloween though, so Alia and I went to Thailand.
I went strait from the schools Halloween party, with vampire makeup still on my face, to the airport and flew in really early Saturday morning. Alia and I mostly hung around the City. Eating good food and cracking beers on river boats. The river boats are awesome. We cruised around on a longtail boat for a few bucks to see some of the small canals, the rickety houses on the river with kids jumping off the boat docks.
We tried to do to the Grand Palace but got there to late, but we did get into one temple and to the ridiculously big weekend market. I found mask I’d like to buy but, I thought I’d look around a bit more and I spent about an hour wandering around lost, trying to find the shop again with no luck. The place is a maze.
We hung around Koh San rd. For Halloween which was a circus. It’s a backpacker strip of bars, shops and guest houses. The streets were filled with riotous Halloween fun all night. We had to crash early. Alia was leaving at 7 the next morning. The party was still going when she caught the bus to the airport.
I had a couple of days more so I went to the beach. The closest beach to Bangkok is Patya. But the town is supposed to be sleazy and the beach dirty, so I went a little further to Rayong. It’s pretty much just a Thai resort town so it’s empty mon-fri when everyone works. It was great I spent two days: not talking to anyone, reading and swimming. At night there was a big moon and little phosphoresce in the water.
From the Airport I went strait back to school, in time to get back for my one o-clock class on Wednesday and Alia’s B-day party last night. It was great, lots of friends came out and we feasted on good food. She’s caught up to me now, but I’ll be passing her again soon enough…
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