... and your little dog too!
Holy Crap! Felt like Dorothy last night. We had a pretty intense storm. Rain and 120km/h winds. My whole house was shaking and swaying all night long. The power was going off and on, interfering with my web activity. Bastards!
If you live in an older home you know what I mean. Not a very peaceful sleep, I tell ya. Everything creeks and shudders and sways. Every once in a while all three and you wonder if the place is going to come apart. Once the power went off however I lost interest and went to bed. The boy, however, was not convinced that the house would not come down so he didn't get much sleep at all.
At any rate that is the excuse he is using this morning for not going to school.
And another thing...
Something interesting in our local news this morning. A local couple were in the
one billionth car to cross the MacKay/MacDonald bridge. A toll bridge by the way.
That got me thinking. Shouldn't it be free by now? Consider that it costs 75 cents today to cross these bridges. Even if it started out as a quarter. A billion quarters is like a 25 million dollars isn't it?
I have no idea about math, and I can't use the calculator since I don't know how many zeros there are in a billion. But it is still a crapload of money at any rate. Much more than these two bridges could have cost.
3 comments:
auntie em, auntie em.... i thought the big tree out front was gonna slam into the place, glad i'm not on the 3rd floor of this place anymore...lol
Yeah, at a quarter per crossing, it would be a quarter-billion dollars (that's 250 million dollars).
Ohhhhh, but they have to be maintaaaaaaained
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