Al Gore made this wonderful anaolgy to Global Warming yesterday when he made pleas for the environment before U.S. Congress, in Washington. His biggest Congressional skeptic, Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, who has called threats of catastrophic warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” challenged his views on Global Warming. In…
Midday arrived all too suddenly … the snow had melted somewhat and icy roads were soggy rather than treacherous. We had arranged to meet my step-sister Lindsey in lake Louis for an afternoon of snowshoeing. Haven’t done that since I was a teen, so we were looking forward to discovering LL and all its delights….
Waking up to the sound of silence was blissful and welcome. I felt like a child at Christmas, sneaking out of bed, poking my head out the door to see what presents had been left … But the gift I was searching for was what lay beyond the windows of this lovely cabin (built by…
The day couldn’t go fast enough for us to get away. The 3 hour drive through the mountains would be a bit of a crap shoot as to which route we would have to take. The TransCanada passage through to Golden from Banff is notorious for road closures (mudslides / avalanches / landslides / heavy…
I wish the ESP program I learned today, for work, was as interesting as the normal coined phrase involving Extrasensory Perception. Not so … alas, it involves something a bit more benign. ESP stands for Environmental Scheduling Personnel …. a payroll software program that I must learn in order to coordinate the hours of my…
Freecycle is unique in that you never know what can be stumbled upon. I actually saw an ad a few days ago for a 1964 Mercedes Benz … I was on it like a bee to honey, but the possibility, with 5000 Calgary members, is that there might be someone quicker than you in responding…
After a four day weekend, I was refreshed and enlivened to begin my first day at my new job with the Calgary Health Region. My official title with Community Oral Health and Education was that of a Secretary to the Departmental Manager. Not really concerned with titles, and not nearly as exciting or interesting as…
We were excited to be invited to the Awards dinner for the 2007 Visa Canadian Bobsleigh, Skeleton and Luge Championships. It was held at the Four Points Sheraton, across from Olympic Park, in way too small a room for all the athletes that showed up. The sense of being included in with such a clan…
What a wonderful fantastical Tim Burton movie …. ‘Corpse Bride‘ is a stop-motion claymation film that I recommend to ANYBODY. Corpse Bride carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Tim Burton’s classic films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Brilliant voice cast behind the characters. I would love to watch it again! Watching…
Tonight there were a ton of spectators cheering on the competitors. It was both surprising and fun to see the number of television stations broadcasting the event. Indeed, an impressive spectacle. I spent much of the time filming the races, from many different vantage points. Kinda cool to try an capture a single frame of…