Happy Valentine’s Day

So sad to watch the local news this morning and hear about the untimely death of a 2 year old toddler, yesterday. A mother left her car parked and engaged whilst she raced quickly into her Calgary workplace, leaving her two small children in a running car. Somehow, the toddler managed to trap her neck…

The MV-22 Osprey is a controversial Tilt-Rotor Aircraft that has now been deployed to Iraq (contentious because “Three fatal accidents during testing, questionable maintenance records and a one-time fluke in computer hardware have left critics claiming that the Osprey is fundamentally unsafe). This aircraft is a tiltrotor vertical / short takeoff and landing (VSTOL), multi-mission…

I bought my first Spanish ‘novel’ today … one of my favourites actually:: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I’m really quite excited at the prospect of reading this short novel. Finding the time is another story! Today our class all decided to go see the movie “The DaVinci Code” (2 for the price of…

“It’s not what life hands you but how you handle it that counts.”