November 2004 Archives

What I thought would never happen finally happened. Ken Jennings, the guy who racked up over $2.5 million on Jeopardy, has lost. I figured that he was unstoppable and would be retired after 100 episodes or so, but that was not the case. It seems funny to me the he lost on his 75th episode after winning just over $2.5 million. I guess we may never know if he threw the last question or not.

Either way a lady by the name of Nancy Zerg beat him on the last question, or should i say answer. :)

"Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year."

That's gonna be a popular quiz question for a while now I figure. Ken said FedEx, not a bad answer (or question) but and correct answer, which Nancy got, was H&R Block. Like alot of people I think it will be a while before I forget that little tidbit.

You had a great run Ken. You're a party of pop culture history now. Congrats and thanks!

L8r.

It's my birthday again. Another year older. Am I wiser? Probably. Do I feel any older? Not really. Guess I don't have too much to complain out now do I? :)

Happy 2-4 to me!

Apparently this weekend Nova Scotia was hit by a HUGE snowstorm. So big in fact that it's now Monday and 100,000 people in the province are still without power. Not bad eh? Now here's the funny part. The total snowfall over the weekend was somewhere around 30cm. Well, you might say, that doesn't seem like much. You'd be right! I will concede that wind was also a factor. The CBC reported that gusts got up to 70km/h. That is some pretty good wind but still only gusts, not sustained.

Ok, so maybe being from Newfoundland might have desensitized me a little when it comes to snowstorms. I'll concede that point. One glaring fact that I did find out that really suprised me was that the "storm" this weekend brought down more power tranmission centers than Hurricane Juan did. That's right, a CATEGORY 2 HURRICANE was topped by 70 km/h gusts and 30cm of snow! I'm sorry but that is just ridiculous.

Today at the news conference held by Nova Scotia Power about the "storm" they instead got called out by an outraged woman who attended. Who can blame her? I think there should be more of us up in arms about this! What kind of a state is our power grid in?

The best part of it all is that one of the many postponed meetings throughout the province today was a meeting between Nova Scotia Power and the provincial government. The topic of this postponed meeting? A rate hike of 14% for NSP!!! This is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!

Just think, I'm this worked up about the situation and I didn't even lose power! Think of the poor woman who interrupted the NSP news conference today that has 4 or 5 kids in a house that doesn't have heat or hot water!

I think it's time for NSP to get it's act together. Don't you?

So this year for Halloween I did something completely out of season and character. I made a Gingerbread House. Yeah I know, those are for Christmas but it seemed like a good idea at the time! Guess I'm going to have to explain this one.

You see Lauren was down for the weekend and we were looking around at Costco when we saw this Gingerbread House kit. It was totally one of those spur of the moment "Well why not?" moments. So we ended up getting the kit and making it later that day. It was actually kinda fun. Although I probably shouldn't be admitting that someplace where it can be held against me at a later date.

I took some pictures of the final product and posted them here. Enjoy!

L8r.