Late Nights with BB26

Well this week I am on the “fun” shift. The great 1 am to 9:30 am shift.  it is 1:30 am and I already feel the brun of my eyes.  I have a box of tea bags in my  cabinet and I am drinking some “energy drinks”.  and no it is not Red Bull. Red Bull to me tastes  like something from the Bull (I will let you guess at what it is).  It is quiet. I am just responding to some email that has been hanging around for way too long. And right now I feel like curling up and catching a few zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz’s. My mind is now wandering.

Turkey Day pt II

Whoo hoo it is Turkey day. So while I at work in Canada dealing with 50 minute between call wait times I figure I would post once again. Well celine’s  manager came out and confirmed it was the negative comments about Celine that caused them to . Which I think is a shame. It was a good concert with a wrong venue. I think she would have sold well at the Halifax Metro Center but for an outdoor concert well I think it it would have sucked. I will agree that NS has this nasty habit of saying No to almost anything.  With this streak it is surprising we have moved past the horse and buggy.  With that said it is time to talk turkey (no pun intended)

Well the Prinz Eugen will soon start construction this weekend. The scale is 1/144. It is a Class 4 Austro-Hungarian dreadnought. It is one of the class of ships known as the piglets. They are small nasty little ships that tend to feast on the unwary. Last year a Class IJN Nagato thinking he would send to Davy Jones a Class 4 USS South Carolina. Little did the captain realize that a the piglet had some bite.  If it weren’t for the fact I had no pump, I would have stayed afloat to do a donout over where he sunk. He sunk from the stern first.  The USS South Carolina should have been the world’s first all big gun battleship. However the US congress held up the money for the program so that it enabled the British with HMS Dreadnought to be the first. The Prinz Eugen will be my Axis boat.

I am also working on a US battleship. it is a Sodak class boat. I am debating whether to call it the USS Alabama so that when I sink an opponent I can yell “GO BAMA”. The other name is the USS Indiana. That way I can wear a cheesy Harrison Ford Indiana Jones hat when sailing.

Turkey Day

As Homer Simpson would say mmmmmmmmmm turkey.  Speaking of turkey, I have another job that was no so stellar. This time I lasted 2 outings.  The job was a Dickie Dee ice cream card driver. I think I was about 14 when i did this job. Anyways The neighbor across the street got me involved in this. So this was the deal. You would drive around on this bicycle powered cart and sell ice cream.  The first day I was given my route. It was up in the area  knows as #2. In Glace Bay areas of town are named based on where mines used to be located. So I am up in number 2 driving the cart with the bells clanging on a hot summer’s day. Of course the day did not start taht way. Actually it was cloudy and threatened rain. And it was definitely before the age of SPF 1,000,000,000 that you need for your skin. I had a trio of 10 year olds demanding money.  As well as the money they wanted free ice cream. Not knowing any better I told them to  fuck off.  They kept threatening to get their brother to beat me up. They got told to fuck off again and they soon left. The longer the day went, the crispier my skin got. So when I ended the day with a bit of a sun burn and about 30 bucks. So two days later I get called out again. Once again it is another day that looks like rain then turns out to be a tanning session.  I had one customer that wanted to view each and every piece of merchandise. They did not believe the pictures on the side of the bike. They even wanted to haggle but I shot them down. So another 20 bucks for the collection but I had blisters upon blisters. So ends another  job. if I stayed i think I would have looked like the local coal.

One night stand

I was just thinking of some of the jobs that I have done in my life. One that comes to mind is when I was when I delivered pizzas for a night. yes a night. One night only in the booming metropolis of Sydney, NS. You may ask how did I get the job of a pizza delivery driver. Well i will tell you. i was asked. The place where I got asked was at a place called Island Greek donair. I had the fortune (or misfortune) to park in front and go in and order a donair. The owner of the place asked me if I could deliver Pizzas for him. The place where the pizzas was escapes my mind but it was only a few stores away from Island Greek. Since I had nothing better to do so I said yes. Well my first and only day was a Friday night. I showed up for 6pm and thus started my evening.  Well it really wasn’t a place that did a lot of delivery business. As a matter of fact I only made 4 deliveries all night.  Deliver number 1 was 2 pizzas to a birthday part in Membertou. Anyone who has been there, nuff said.  Actually it was not that bad except that I was delivering for a kids party and well I am not sure if the kids were drinking ginger ale or beer as there were open beer cases everywhere and you could smell alcohol. I am convinced if the cops pulled me over I might have failed the breath test. Delivery number 2 was to a place that decided that turning lights on was a luxury.  and just to add insult to injury that he and his neighbors decided to boycott house numbering. Well that was an adventure going to streets I was not familiar with and find a house with no number. Thank god it wasn’t 30 minutes or free. Cheap tipper too. Delivery number 3 was an actually normal delivery. And to end my night I had to deliver 3 pizzas to a place in Westmount. I dropped my cargo of pizza off and I was on my way back to the car when I heard a rather large scream and some very loud “Fuck fuck fuck fuck” from the place I just delivered. I decided to hurry and get the hell out of there just in case there was a problem with a pizza. So at the end of the night I made 20 bucks from delivery, 30 from tips and they gave me a pizza to go. Needless to say that was my last time as a pizza delivery dude.

Apocalypse Part II

If I didn’t think the for-casted Apocalypse of Post tropical Depression Noel was bad enough, it has been recently announced that the next BIG APOCALYPSE will be in Halifax next August. Celine Dion. Ughhhh. Could there be anything worse. image all 18 fans singing Titanic in unison.  It is time to start stocking the Pepto. I can see getting a great act like U2 but to get Celine Dion to play in an open air venue ( as opposed to a rink where her caterwaul could be contained) on the Halifax common. In this case I am hoping there is a hurricane that hits the day of the concert. Or tonsillitis.

Rememberance Day

This Sunday is Remembrance Day. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns shall fall silent. With that, the First World War ended.  Ever since then we have used this day to remember the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers who have given their life for the freedom of the country.   I think what stands out for me every year is that the numbers of veterans is dwindling and that their stories may be lost.  from the Korean War Memorial the words of Freedom is never Free ring true.  So on November 11th give a thought for those that fought for your freedom.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

How to survive the Apocalypse!!

Well it is Monday evening and I am alive. The great apocalypse called Noel blew into town and blew out just as fast.  It was a tropical storm but the for some reason the weather people kept saying it was more dangerous than that.  Hmmm I think that would put at Hurricane strength if you ask me but I am not a trained observer of such meteorological events.  Well anyways after Juan roared through here in 2003 and left me taking fucking cold showers for 10 days, people in HRM were all set for panic. Flashlights were a non existent commodity. I made the mistake of walking into Walmart on saturday afternoon for some pictures. The mass of panicking humanity was quickly evident.  I suspect the camping supply section must have been hit hard.  Nobody but either a supremely nutty or brave person goes camping in NS in November. You could go to bed and wake up  in a snow drift depending on the weather. As an aside, would anyone go in looking for pictures they dropped off 8 months ago and claim that they were called about them 4 months ago? I would think they would have become some objects of amusement for the Glad man. Of course this customer in front of me wants the clerk to turn the store upside down for these pictures. I just shake my head and think to myself “serenity now”.  The Blue Canoe (gas station) where I work part time ran out of gas. When gas is in short supply you know the end is insight. Well Noel huffed and puffed and well some trees were down but that’s about it. The power went out in places but then again with NS Power 2 centimeters of snow will knock out power. My tip to surviving the Apocalypse is this: the weather forecasters are full of shit.  The other tip is to have stuff in so you don’t have to brave the crazed shopping store zombies just before a storm.

FRY-day

Well the Canadian government announced it would not seek clemency for a convicted murdered on death row in Montana. The killer is a Canadian citizen. With this movie, the howl and cries from the NDP, the Liberals and Amnesty International are making the news. They don’t care that he show two people in cold blood. They argue that since Canada has no death penalty  then this clown should not be put down. Well I disagree. If you do the crime you do the time.  He received a fair trial and now must take his lumps. He has been sitting on death row for 20 years. I don’t think it is reasonable to expect that if I travel to another country that I am subject to their laws.  We was not tried a country that has kangaroo courts. he was given a fair trial and now has to pay the piper.

I don’t necessarily think that capital punishment has worked. After all Texas would be the safest place in town. But there are some people that need killing. Here is a thought. Let’s take all convicted murders and dump them in the arctic. If they survive well they  can go. Otherwise they become a food supply for the polar bears. And they become recycled back into the environment. What could be a better use for a convicted murdered. He gives back to the planet.

Flying High

Who would have thunk it? The Canadian Loonie is worth more than the US dollar. An increadible year for the maligned bird.  Last year I would have been happy with it around 92 or 93 cents US. Now it is worth more. Of course the big question is why prices haven’t dropped. If I go into Chapters and look at a book I will inevitably find a US price and a Canadian price. The canadian price is several dollars higher and you can not purchase the book at the US price. 

Of course the retailers are humming and hawing about costs etc. Some stores have passed on the savings due to a more powerful buck.  Of course the retailers are saying wait until the new year.  The fact that the Christmas buying season is hear and it would help their bottom line. That could not possibly be influencing their decision.

 It is now cheaper to buy from the US than to purchase locally.  Of course when the dollar drops the retailers will be more than happy to boost prices to “compensate”.