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What are you doing today, II

Quiet day here. All the kids are home as buses were canceled this morning due to extreme cold. It's warmed up now.

Not sure if any of you southerners have been catching news of this but a large convoy of truckers started out in British Columbia on Monday heading to Ottawa to protest covid mandates and mandatory vaccination. The convoy is now over 40km long full of truckers and regular vehicles and is supposed to be arriving here this evening. They are running slower than the posted limit to disrupt traffic flow all across the country. This should be interesting. We're only a few km off the main highway but I have to drive my son in to work when they come through so I may check it out. There's another convoy coming from the east. They should be in Ottawa at the same time.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
Quiet day here. All the kids are home as buses were canceled this morning due to extreme cold. It's warmed up now.

Not sure if any of you southerners have been catching news of this but a large convoy of truckers started out in British Columbia on Monday heading to Ottawa to protest covid mandates and mandatory vaccination. The convoy is now over 40km long full of truckers and regular vehicles and is supposed to be arriving here this evening. They are running slower than the posted limit to disrupt traffic flow all across the country. This should be interesting. We're only a few km off the main highway but I have to drive my son in to work when they come through so I may check it out. There's another convoy coming from the east. They should be in Ottawa at the same time.
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You guys have to do something, you are getting screwed even more than we are.
 
Yep. We just came out of our 4th lockdown despite the government announcement only 2 weeks earlier that they were going to start easing restrictions. Instead, they put household limits of 5 or less indoors over Christmas. We have 8 people already in our place so if we followed the rules, we would have spent Christmas alone. Instead, we had 6 extra for supper. Guess what? We're all still here. Not one of us caught covid. Then after Christmas, they announced that indoor dining would be banned in restaurants BUT, we could still do patio dining. Lmfao. It's Canada. It's winter. It's -20 with 3 feet of snow. Yah, I'm going to eat outside on a patio. This week, they announced easing up on the restrictions with most being totally lifted by March. I predict that means another lockdown by valentines day. Can you tell that I'm fed up with pretty much anything political and all politicians in general.
 
I swear I wonder if we'll ever see anything along the lines of 'normal' ever again because EVERY single time you turn around, there's yet another new variant and it's more than tiresome. We've been dealing with this pandemic and all the bullshit hoopla around it for two solid years and it doesn't look like there's so much as an end in sight. Biden's mandates may have been struck down, but now small businesses are required to have all employees vaccinated and I own a small business. Can't help but wonder how that's going to pan out. And oh, yes. There's a new version of COVID dubbed 'Stealth' Omicron that WHO wants to investigate.
 
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Jumpin' Jack McDaniels said:
I swear I wonder if we'll ever see anything along the lines of 'normal' ever again because EVERY single time you turn around, there's yet another new variant and it's more than tiresome. We've been dealing with this pandemic and all the bullshit hoopla around it for two solid years and it doesn't look like there's so much as an end in sight. Biden's mandates may have been struck down, but now small businesses are required to have all employees vaccinated and I own a small business. Can't help but wonder how that's going to pan out. And oh, yes. There's a new version of COVID dubbed 'Stealth' Omicron that WHO wants to investigate.
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all of the mandates will fall one by one
 
Around here in liberalville, all I see is trucks (Parked).
The shelves are almost bare because the truckers refused to be poked and got fired.
The guvment excuse is that the truckers all have this new strain of misery and can't work.
 
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Around here in liberalville, all I see is trucks (Parked).
The shelves are almost bare because the truckers refused to be poked and got fired.
The guvment excuse is that the truckers all have this new strain of misery and can't work.
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where is it that you live out west
 
Was another day of being on call, at home, for a 12 hour shift. My shift ended 50 minutes ago, now to make dinner, and go for a long walk.
Was more work today, not only because it was busier for images, but also the first day my newest personal assistant was working alone, without another PA here to help her. Got a really good feeling about her though, that with some experience , she will be awesome.
So far she loves the job, its only her 9th shift.
 
My last day on call of this set, starting tomorrow is 8 days in a row off being the on call area Radiologist. Need to get a bunch of stuff done for my own businesses though. My newest personal assistant seems to have hit her stride today. Her CAN DO, and cheerful disposition makes it a pleasure having her around.
With my daughter away on holidays, it has been just the two of us together, and 24 hours a day, since she lives with me in my house, as part of her employment, she moved in, and is far away from her home town for the first time, and has never lived anywhere else but her parents place. Hasn't been awkward at all though, and she is clean and tidy like me. This is her first contract with me, only a 30 day contract incase it didn't work out.
Will be doing month to month contracts for the first year, and then if all is well, we will go to yearly.

Craving Spaghetti and meatballs, so will make enough for us to have at least 4 meals worth, starting with lunchtime today.
Tomorrow I am going to take her snowmobiling, nice easy ride, as she hasn't ridden one before.

My new pup only has 2 speeds, full blast, or asleep, he is awesome!
Renovation couple starts next week on the basement, and the upstairs bonus room that was never completed.
Life is good!
 
Taking it easy. It's mid-afternoon here and I'm wondering what I can do for the rest of the day. No more drinks for me for now. What I had is fine, but it's just a few hours of drunken or tipsy pleasure and it's gone. But it's better than a hangover. Although I'll admit, I did sleep better last night than I have for the past few nights.
 
I went grocery shopping, then went to see my kiddos, then had dinner at a place called Hill's restaurant here in town for the all you can eat fish.
Good stuff!
Right now I'm enjoying a bottle of Stella Artois.
 
On my way to Springfield/Hippie Ridge.
Got a load of insulation in Cathy's new Pacifica minivan.

She gave me this look like Whaaaaaaaaaaaa.
So, I pointed out that on the title it is registered as "a truck."!
 
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I went grocery shopping, then went to see my kiddos, then had dinner at a place called Hill's restaurant here in town for the all you can eat fish.
Good stuff!
Right now I'm enjoying a bottle of Stella Artois.
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I think I have been to Hills, is in Napaolen about a mile down from the Walmart, right off the corner on another street. Owned and operated by a husband/ wife team. Small Cafe style
 
We had a great weekend in the Ozarks. Spent Saturday finally getting the old shed cleaned out from all the critters two, four, 6 & 8 legged who have been living and depositing there for over 10 years. Between that and the ruined supplies it filled the back of the pickup.
I have to hand compliments to Crumpy (Cathy) as she jumped in and did the dirty part of the job. I'm still wheezing from just handling the mess after she bagged it up.

Whilst there, we met the rock guy, so now he knows what to bring and where to put on the place. Five 15 ton loads of 2" ballast, 1" clean and 1" minus. Been trying to get someone for over a year. About $350 per load. So finally, I can get the base for the cabin and decks done, plus all the driveways.

Turns out his girlfriend and him are building a house 1/2 mile from us, on the same road. We are gonna be neighbors! A lucky find. Jake is well connected to all the trades in the area, making projects like the well much easier to get done and done right.

Sunday, we slept in late, but I still got work done around the Springfield Bungalow. Both days sunny, windy, and in the low forties.

Next weekend goes below zero. I don't know what I will be able to do. We will see.
 
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Went to Notre Dame for the DiCicco Dual meet fencing event. 2 day event. Day 1 (Saturday) is NCAA competition and day 2 (Sunday) is club competitions (non-NCAA). We arrived on Friday to have dinner with Dasha, our foreign exchange "daughter" and then watched the competition on Saturday. Alternating our attention with Dasha and also one of my former high school fencers, Lexi. Lexi is the captain of the Lawrence University team and scored an astounding 20 wins, 4 losses during the Saturday NCAA competition, then racked up a 9 - 0 record on Sunday against the fencing clubs. I spent a short time coaching the Purdue University club saber fencers this morning. We also got to spend a good bit of time with Dasha over the course of the weekend.

Kobe, as usual, was the star of the fencing competition.

Below: Lexi & Dasha

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Dasha took Kobe out onto the competition floor during the event.

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My 16 year old son was always a "play it safe" non risk taker. He's never shown an interest in much outside so I was very surprised the other day when he agreed to go for a snowmobile ride as he'd never been on one before. I took him out on the old beat up trails around the house. He liked it. So today he had the day off from school. I took him out for a good long ride. We loaded up at first light and headed 45 minutes west to join onto a section of the provincial trail system that accessed hundreds of kms of perfectly groomed trails. Considering this was his first actual time riding on the groomed trails, he did awesome. I was going at a good speed and he kept up without issue. Almost like he was a natural at it. He loved it and is looking forward to the next time.



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NorthernRedneck said:
My 16 year old son was always a "play it safe" non risk taker. He's never shown an interest in much outside so I was very surprised the other day when he agreed to go for a snowmobile ride as he'd never been on one before. I took him out on the old beat up trails around the house. He liked it. So today he had the day off from school. I took him out for a good long ride. We loaded up at first light and headed 45 minutes west to join onto a section of the provincial trail system that accessed hundreds of kms of perfectly groomed trails. Considering this was his first actual time riding on the groomed trails, he did awesome. I was going at a good speed and he kept up without issue. Almost like he was a natural at it. He loved it and is looking forward to the next time.



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