Renegades Season Ticket Holder

Well I'm officially an Ottawa Renegades season ticket holder. Aldo and I each bought a season pass and I couldn't be happier that he talked me into picking the upper south side for our seats. His argument was that the lower sections were in the end zones so you had a very limited view of the game. At least in the upper south sections you can see the whole field pretty good.

I thought that was good reasoning, but there's an even better reason to be happy. The Ottawa Renegades announced that the upper south side of the stadium will be Mardi Gras! Every home game they plan to give guys in the upper south section bead necklaces. The girl who can collect the most beads will win $1000. This could be good! So much for taking Matthew to the games. Keep checking back for an update on the Mardi Gras section.

With my luck the league will can this promotion before I get to see it, as I'm not going to make the home opener on Canada Day. What the F%CK were they thinking?!?!?!?! Why on Canada Day? At least make it an afternoon game!!! Retards!

OC Transpo Sucks!

It takes me an hour and a half to travel 12 kilometres using OC Transpo! I went to their website and expected it to tell me to take the local 160 from my place to Centrum plaza and then take the 118 to work in Bell's Corners. Apparently the faster way is to take the 60 Express bus downtown and get off at the Queensway stop and then transfer to 179 which comes back towards Kanata through Bell's corners. That trip is supposed to take 50 minutes.

I've tried what they suggested for the past 2 days and each time I missed connecting with the 179 by 1 or 2 minutes because of the traffic on the highway. We need a bus lane from Kanata to the Queensway stop... just like the one they have coming in from Orleans.

And just to piss me off even more... today I didn't wait to see if I had missed the 179, I just assumed I did. So I got on the next bus that took me to Baseline station so I might catch an earlier 118 then the previous day. I arrived just in time to watch it pull away and had to wait 20 minutes for the next one.

Geez, I wish I could take my car to work... it's only a 15 minute drive! Apparently 3 hours of bussing on my part is ok as long as my wife can go to Walmart in the morning :)

I'm going to try biking in... sometime soon.

I wish there was a way to pull my share of taxes out of public transportation. It sucks!

The Short Cut

I'm curious to know if a study has been made regarding the average age that a woman decides to cut her hair short. A man-cut being a short haircut. It just seems that older women in general seem to have short hair. Why is that? Is it a time-saving thing? Is it tied to menopause?

If you've heard of such a study (there has to be one underway somewhere!) then please comment on this post.

Thanks!

Book Review: The Narrows, by Micheal Connelly

At the bequest of a recently widowed Graciella McCaleb, retired police officer Harry Bosch decides to look into the death of the ex-FBI agent. The Poet is back in play (haven't read that one yet) and his protege Rachel Walling appears to be his target.

One clue leads to another and eventually Bosch stumbles onto the FBI investigation which is underway in the desert not too far from Las Vegas.

This book started pretty good but just when they get on The Poet's trail, the book is over. I just felt like the ending was rushed and it left me wanting for more. If anything, it interested me enough to make me want to read "The Poet".

Overall I give it an 8 on 10.

Bus Ride Musings

Why is it that when I take the bus in the morning, every seat is packed thigh to thigh with people, but when I catch the bus home at night, people never seem to squeeze in as tight? There's always several "half seats" available on the long benches that no one seems willing to squeeze into.

What is it that makes people less likely to wedge themselves into a seat in the afternoon? Is it because we've all had a whole day to get stinky?