The Holiday Inn part deux

Well after another attempt at connecting to the internet a call to the front desk and a new room with a somewhat better connection..........at least this time it allows me to half my job........responding to e-mails and adding another message to a blog that no one reads.........the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The ever so helpful Holiday Inn

Before I lose the swell connection again............I'm staying at the Holiday Inn on Sherbrooke street in Montrreal, not my choice of hotels but seems that my client has signed a new deal with them, I guess what they forgot to ask was......"does the internet work?" according to the helpful....yet well placed and obviously in a job that is above his education grade explained to me..."it works fine" I carefully and at this point with great patience explanied that my dial up is faster and your "fine" internet is the shits. At this point another well meaning and yet totally useless front desk boy told me that he would re-set the modem and if I had any further problems to call "handing me a piece of paper with a 1-800-fuc-koff" number. While I type this I have 2 other pages trying their best to load........not going to happen....... as Raoul the desk boy so wonderfully reset the modem to stun and fixed nothing...........just out curiosity.........as I wait for the pages that I really need to use for work snail along to load.........I find that porn loads without a problem...........I had a little laugh thinking how nothing else works but something that'll get you a boner works without fail............So I think when Holiday Inn came up with the "I'm smarter because I stayed at a Holiday Inn express" they were just wanting to watch some porn.............and as I sign off I see that my movie is ready.........Triple D tits and the midget......I can hardly wait...........

2010 Paralympics

Now that the big show is over the Paralympians have all rolled into Vancouver. I've been watching what I can find on TV, seems that CTV and TSN have decided that coverage should be disabled as well. Now that all the big guys in TV have headed out of town they bring in the Rogers and Shaw cable students to do the great camera work. The voice over on the highlight curling package sounds like the announcer wasn't even at the event, probably being done from the studios at Rogers in Toronto, read from a script, and without any emotion, they have managed to make curling even more boring. Every now and then some guys with bagpipes wander across the screen, for no apparent reason.

The alpine event for visually impared skiers was cancelled due to poor visability, that just didn't sound right. TV did show us fog for 10 minutes, spectacular.

The problem is, these athletes train just as hard and have overcome many challenges in life, they deserve the same respect, not a disabled version.

Canada owns the top step- revised

Canadian athletes are a medal away from setting a new record for most gold medals won at a winter games. Canada may not own the podium but they own the top step..........well done team.

The hockey boys came through...........Canada has now set the Olympic record for most gold medals won at any Winter Olympics............the podium? Canada

The Olympic movement

So it seems that once again the official language police have decided that there just wasn't even french being spoken during the opening ceremonies..........as it was said "we paid our 20 million to hear more french".......Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Liberial Prime Minister wannabee Iggy have jumped on board the more french train and are in support of an investigation as to why there just wasn't enough.........have the First Nations folks come out and wondered why more whatever they speak wasn't spoken.........bang a gong........tapp the drum.......whatever.........I don't think so.. as most of the ceremony was devoted to their culture..........I thought the ceremony was fine......some very cool things happened......so why can't the politicians leave well enough alone and say thanks Vancouver that was great......instead of pinching out another Olympic movement.

The Olympics

Well here we are just wrapping up day 2 in Vancouver and all the hype spewed out by CTV and TSN about our best Canadian chances for gold medals have come and gone on day 1 with a choke and a silver.... own the podium...we have been hearing......honestly I hope that during the remaining days Canadian athletes do own the podium........whether we believe in a jinx or not.... having TSN and CTV pinning all the medal hopes on these already stressed athletes is just not something that should be done...........as we hear........."coming up next Canada's first guaranteed gold medal winner"........ add more pressure......add a jinx.........and what happens........nothing............so the women's hockey will win a medal.... it won't be gold..........men's hockey is a team to beat.......and they will win a medal......it won't be gold.

Canada will listen to the experts stating that "he should be overjoyed by that 15th place finish as he wasn't expected to finish that high" That's an amazing performance by the young Canadian.....just 17 spots away from the bronze.......Canada as it has always done thrives on the mediocre....and accepts it............it's not acceptable.....it's not owning the podium...........Canada owns the gold medal of mediocre.

My bus ride

I rode the bus today and as usual was amused at the wide... very wide....variety of obese people......I like to stand on the bus that way I can have my own little bit of personal space......I had that little bit of personal space today until I was surrounded by 2 people......one who if dressed in red would have looked very much like a fire hydrant and the other who orginally had a seat until the woman with the suv stroller took over the seats that he had swarmed..........these 2 people completely surrounded me .....but in the event of an accident I would have felt very well protected...........Now I do realize that everyone has the right to ride the bus.........and I shouldn't complain......well I'm not really even complaining....not really......except that these 2 had the balance of weebles......when the bus stopped they rolled to the front.....as the bus left they squished to the back...........and me in the middle like a steak wrapped with fat.........riding the bus is fun.