Ah, the promised (and much overhyped) rant on prices is as follows. While at the airport waiting to go to Edmonton last week I was hungry. It was 6:00am and I hadn’t eaten yet, and had just spent an hour on the road. In short: “me need food.” I was through the gate and past the (closed) legit places to eat, and all I had left was the little vendor right there in front of me, amidst the WestJet gates. I picked up the following:
- A 5 finch bun with meat and lettuce
- A minute-made orange juice
- A mars bar (yea yea yea, I know, but I needed that early morning sugar fix!)
Grand total? Over $12.00!!! I believe that the bun was $5.50, and the mars bar was over $2.00. I guess that’s just YVR‘s way of saying “please bend over and spread ’em.”
Been working on the project for UserFriendly lately. The last two days have been the only time I’ve had to completely dedicate myself to it with everything else going on. A meeting with the self-employment dude (hopefully I didn’t shoot myself in the foot by registring myself for business already… if so I can plead ignorance), and various other things. Still no word from Edmonton, but I hear through Tig to “hold tight.” Apparently things are in the hands of HR, and I know of at least one reference check that has gone out (lie for me lie! lie!).
Oh yea… someone on the news (CNN anyway) said that there were some rumblings that Dubya’s plan to make CEO and CFOs personally responsible for the numbers that they report is, (wait for it)… not a real solution but just polictical handwaving. My god, they should be shot for such un-american speach… next thing you know people will be able to say that the wonderful president looks like a monkey [archive.org link]! But those people will be sent to the Ministry Of Truth to be brainwashed, so don’t worry about it.
A very ballsy female senator from from somewhere is apparently claiming that the September 11th attacks were orchistrated by Bush! I have no idea how you could get away with saying something like that. I have no evidence to back this up of course, only that I saw it on TV yesturday morning.