please?
It's been really stinking hot here for the past few days and while I feel like I'm actually starting to get used to it again, I'd really rather that the humidity broke.
The air quality is crap, it's oppressive actually.
Speaking of oppressive, well, maybe not oppressive but really annoying, we're getting an "LVEC." Aren't we lucky? I don't talk about this thing too much at work because many of the folks I work with are really excited about it and see it as a great opportunity to reinvigorate our barely surviving downtown core area.
Personally, I feel that it's a huge waste of tax payer money. We had an opportunity, a few years back now, to have a charity casino in our little town. The City felt that the negative social effects were not worth the economic boost it might provide to our community. Instead, they built the casino about 30 minutes east of here. Financially, it's been very successful and I wonder if the push for this LVEC isn't being driven in part by the sting of a bad decision and a missed opportunity.
In some ways, I think that a larger/newer/improved sport and entertainment complex is a good idea for this area. I really don't think that it's a good idea to plunk it down in the middle of downtown. I'd really rather see the money spent on road improvements instead of a project like this. Our streets are a disgraceful mess of pot holes.
Having said all of this, I doubt very much that I'll ever set foot in this place for any recreational reasons because I don't really care to watch hockey and I know that no bands I like would ever play in a place like that. But hey, "go LVEC!"
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
lazy hazy crazy days
...of spring?
You know it's going to be a scorcher around here when the haze is so thick in the morning that you can hear the fog horns from the lake. I can hear the horn right now. Yikes.
Hot! Hot! Hot!...indeed!!
You know it's going to be a scorcher around here when the haze is so thick in the morning that you can hear the fog horns from the lake. I can hear the horn right now. Yikes.
Hot! Hot! Hot!...indeed!!
Monday, May 29, 2006
yay
today was a busy day.
now it's almost over, I'm going to bed soon.
today was a good day, I love it when a plan comes together.
music is good. it can make you smile when you need it the most.
"puck bunny" by the knurlings made me smile today.
rock!
now it's almost over, I'm going to bed soon.
today was a good day, I love it when a plan comes together.
music is good. it can make you smile when you need it the most.
"puck bunny" by the knurlings made me smile today.
rock!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
our "fearless" leader
Charming, but not entirely surprising. Our big baby of a PM is going to his corner to have a sulk it seems, rather than actually do his job.
Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps
Last Updated Wed, 24 May 2006 23:11:10 EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll no longer give news conferences for the national media, after a dispute led a number of journalists to walk away from an event when he refused to take their questions.
Speaking to A-Channel in London, Ont., Harper said "unfortunately the press gallery has taken the view they are going to be the opposition to the government."
"They don't ask questions at my press conferences now. We'll just take the message out on the road. There's lots of media who do want to ask questions and hear what the government is doing."
Since becoming prime minister in January, Harper has had a testy relationship with the national media in Ottawa. His staff has tried to manage news conferences by saying they will decide which reporters get to ask questions.
The press gallery has refused to play by those rules. "We can't accept that the Prime Minister's Office would decide who gets to ask questions," Yves Malo, a TVA reporter and president of the press gallery, told CP on Tuesday. "Does that mean that when there's a crisis they'll only call upon journalists they expect softball questions from?"
On Tuesday about two dozen Ottawa reporters walked out on a Harper event when he refused to take their questions.
That led Harper to say that from now on he will speak only to local media.
The CBC says it will continue to cover the prime minister. "If the prime minister chooses to take questions we will be there to ask them," said Ottawa managing editor George Hoff. "We will have a journalist there to ask questions," he said.
Harper's supporters said Wednesday they believed the conflict is being blown out of proportion.
"I think this will get sorted out over time," Conservative Geoff Norquay said during an interview on Politics on CBC Newsworld.
"I think both sides have an interest in sorting it out and I think they will over time. The reality is that every new government wants to keep a tight lid on its messages and this one in particular because it had the previous example of Mr. Martin who had so many priorities that they all turned to mush in the minds of the Canadian people. And that's why this government is tightly focused on its messages," he said.
Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps
Last Updated Wed, 24 May 2006 23:11:10 EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll no longer give news conferences for the national media, after a dispute led a number of journalists to walk away from an event when he refused to take their questions.
Speaking to A-Channel in London, Ont., Harper said "unfortunately the press gallery has taken the view they are going to be the opposition to the government."
"They don't ask questions at my press conferences now. We'll just take the message out on the road. There's lots of media who do want to ask questions and hear what the government is doing."
Since becoming prime minister in January, Harper has had a testy relationship with the national media in Ottawa. His staff has tried to manage news conferences by saying they will decide which reporters get to ask questions.
The press gallery has refused to play by those rules. "We can't accept that the Prime Minister's Office would decide who gets to ask questions," Yves Malo, a TVA reporter and president of the press gallery, told CP on Tuesday. "Does that mean that when there's a crisis they'll only call upon journalists they expect softball questions from?"
On Tuesday about two dozen Ottawa reporters walked out on a Harper event when he refused to take their questions.
That led Harper to say that from now on he will speak only to local media.
The CBC says it will continue to cover the prime minister. "If the prime minister chooses to take questions we will be there to ask them," said Ottawa managing editor George Hoff. "We will have a journalist there to ask questions," he said.
Harper's supporters said Wednesday they believed the conflict is being blown out of proportion.
"I think this will get sorted out over time," Conservative Geoff Norquay said during an interview on Politics on CBC Newsworld.
"I think both sides have an interest in sorting it out and I think they will over time. The reality is that every new government wants to keep a tight lid on its messages and this one in particular because it had the previous example of Mr. Martin who had so many priorities that they all turned to mush in the minds of the Canadian people. And that's why this government is tightly focused on its messages," he said.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
late night...
I'm a little pooped, it's been an extraordinarily long day today. I had to work quite late tonight as we had an event this evening. The whole thing went really well and everyone seemed really happy, which is the main thing, really.
Stupidly, I got up at my normal time this morning so by the time I got ready to head for home (about an hour or so ago), I was blindingly tired. Of course, now that I'm home, I'm a little wired. It's that feeling of being really tired but you can't settle down to sleep. Hopefully that won't be the case, if I'm lucky, I'll be asleep before my head hits the pillow but right now, it doesn't feel like that.
Oh, btw, we had DVR'd AI5 tonight and it took us about 35 minutes to bop through the whole 2 hour show. We're both pretty pleased (but not entirely surprised) that Taylor won. What a nice change, to have a seemingly genuinely nice person win one of those things, and he loves music too. Hurray for the anti-Mariah!!
Stupidly, I got up at my normal time this morning so by the time I got ready to head for home (about an hour or so ago), I was blindingly tired. Of course, now that I'm home, I'm a little wired. It's that feeling of being really tired but you can't settle down to sleep. Hopefully that won't be the case, if I'm lucky, I'll be asleep before my head hits the pillow but right now, it doesn't feel like that.
Oh, btw, we had DVR'd AI5 tonight and it took us about 35 minutes to bop through the whole 2 hour show. We're both pretty pleased (but not entirely surprised) that Taylor won. What a nice change, to have a seemingly genuinely nice person win one of those things, and he loves music too. Hurray for the anti-Mariah!!
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