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I just received this from a good friend of mine who lives in Alberta.
This chart from the utility company EPCOR contrasts water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta on two different days. February 27th is charted to show a normal day. February 28th was the day Canada won the Olympic gold medal hockey game. As you can see, a huge percentage of their customers waited for breaks in the game to “go”.
This chart demonstrates how passionate Canadians are about hockey!
My friend commented, “I am surprised by the spike after the third period because I thought everyone just peed themselves at 19:38 of the third period and wouldn’t have to go anymore.”
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March 8th, 2010Travel
Hey! I just want everyone to know that I just booked a hotel room through Kitty Malone Travel, and it was “smooth as silk” and I got a better rate than if I had called the hotel directly. (I know, because I tried).
If you are planning a flight or cruise, or looking for a hotel room or rental car, I highly recommend that you give Kitty a try.
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March 7th, 2010Careers and Occupations, Health and Wellness, Internet, Software, Technology
Please check out the following new Web sites from the EGF International Group:
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March 6th, 2010Costa Rica, Entertainment, Humor, Travel
If you live in, have visited, plan to visit, or are just interested in Costa Rica, I encourage you to go to the Costa Rica Photos page here on this blog. (http://www.ethelthefrog.com/?page_id=2451)
Follow the instructions to start slide-shows running and you will really enjoy it. I can sit and watch for hours!
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It’s been awhile since I gave you more episodes of Pilot Season, so here are three for you to enjoy:
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March 6th, 2010Current Affairs
Did you hear about this?
The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating January 12 earthquake.
Guess where they went?
They went to join their eldest son in Chile, for what seemed a refuge from the fear and chaos of Port-au-Prince.
Well, you know what happened next.
Their “sense of security” was shattered when and even more powerful earthquake hit Chile.
Fortunately, all of the Desarmes immediate family survived both earthquakes . . . but the family now sleeps in a garden that their son found for them just south of Santiago.
Understandably, they have trouble sleeping at night.
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March 5th, 2010Humor
This was sent to me by a good friend who has a great sense of humor . . . like when he says he can’t pick me up at the Calgary airport next Thursday . . . ha, ha, ha . . . anyway, you have probably heard some or all of these, but they’re pretty funny, even the second or third time around:
How Fights Start:
My wife sat down on the settee next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’I said, ‘Dust.’And then the fight started . . .******************************************My wife and I were watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, “Do you want to have sex?”“No,” she answered.I then said, “Is that your final answer?”She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying, “Yes.”So I said, “Then I’d like to phone a friend.”And then the fight started….******************************************Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the van, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, “The weather out there is terrible.”My loving wife of 5 years replied, “Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?”And that’s how the fight started…******************************************I rear-ended a car this morning.So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car.You know how sometimes you just get soooo stressed and little things just seem funny? Yeah, well I couldn’t believe it…. He was a DWARF!!! He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, “I AM NOT HAPPY!!!”So, I looked down at him and said, “Well, then which one are you?”And then the fight started…..*****************************************My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’I bought her a bathroom scale.And then the fight started…******************************************When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her some place expensive… so, I took her to a gas station.And then the fight started…******************************************After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s License to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt’. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, ‘That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me’ and she processed my Social Security application.When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.’And then the fight started…******************************************My wife and I were sitting at a table at my school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.My wife asked, ‘Do you know her?’‘Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.’‘My God!’ says my wife, ‘who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’And then the fight started…******************************************I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason took my order first. “I’ll have the steak, medium rare, please.”He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”"Nah, she can order for herself.”And then the fight started…******************************************A woman was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to her husband, “I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.’The husband replied, ‘Your eyesight’s damn near perfect.’And then the fight started…..____________________________________________________________________________________Don’t forget to visit Kitty Malone Travel for all you travel needs (hotels, flights, cruises, rental cars, etc.)
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March 5th, 2010Costa Rica, Food and Drink
I’m sure all of you remember the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld.
Well, unfortunately, I have to report that we have “Ice Cream Nazis” in Huacas (in Guanacaste, Costa Rica).
The Heladeria (ice cream shop) in Huacas is well-know by everyone who lives in the Potrero, Flamingo, Brasilito, Huacas, Tamarindo area. As far as I know, it is the only ice cream shop in Huacas. (It’s in a little strip center . . . I think there is a law office to the left, the pharmacy is in a separate building to the right and, if I recall, there is a dental clinic up above). If you’re familiar with the area, you know the place.
Anyway, for months I have been hearing complaints about how rude and obnoxious the people who work there (own the place?) are. From what I heard, they apparently hate children (their biggest customer demographic) . . . but I tended to write that off as maybe an isolated incident or two when children were unruly in the shop . . .
Well . . . the complaints kept coming in . . . and, for some people, today was the “last straw”.
Several families from the Country Day School went for ice cream after school, and they were treated extremely rudely.
This time, I have eye-witnesses who assure me that the children were not behaving badly, but yet the employees/owners of the ice cream shop treated the customers (both adults and children) like dirt!
Several times the proprietors made comments, in Spanish, to the effect of “stupid gringos” (but, as I understand it, using nastier language). The proprietors apparently didn’t think that the “stupid gringos” understood Spanish . . . Well, the parents may not have, but the children (again, they were students at Country Day School) did . . . and they told their parents what was being said.
The American/Canadian parents that were at the Heladeria have informed me that they will never set foot in the place again. They have contacted me and asked me to write this post, encouraging people to boycott the Huacus Heladeria . . . not just parents of Country Day School children, and not just “gringos”, but everyone . . . including Costa Ricans!
I don’t know if the people at the ice cream shop are Costa Ricans . . . but I doubt it. I can’t think of any other instance wherein Costa Rican shop proprietors have been rude and obnoxious to their customers . . . (Indeed, right now, I can’t think of any rude obnoxious Costa Ricans, shop proprietors or otherwise. As far as I’m concerned, Costa Ricans are the most friendly, hospitable people in the world . . . where these people came from, I don’t know. Wherever they are from, they should be ashamed of their conduct, and they should be aware that they are about to experience a sudden drop-off in business, which may well put them out of business!)
Good news for you “Ice Cream Nazis” . . . I don’t think you’ll be bothered by as many “stupid gringos” anymore!
Adios, Ice Cream Nazis!
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March 5th, 2010Internet, Technology
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March 3rd, 2010Costa Rica, Health and Wellness
Before moving to Costa Rica, I was cynical about alternative medicine. Since I’ve been here, however, I have seen and heard of “almost miracles” as a result of acupuncture, massage therapy, herbal, natureopathic and homeopathic medicine.I think that North Americans are too “closed minded” to alternatives to conventional medicine.
Open your mind and take a look at http://www.AlternativesToConventionalMedicine.info.
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March 3rd, 2010Canada, Current Affairs
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, the anchor of the NBC Nightly News, wrote the following on his blog, The Daily Nightly, prior to his final broadcast from the Vancouver Winter Olympics:
After tonight’s broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we’re going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.
Thank you, Canada:
For being such good hosts.
For your unfailing courtesy.
For your (mostly) beautiful weather.
For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.
For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.
For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us laugh and cry.
For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.
For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games — you’ve made wearing your name a cool thing to do.
For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.
For not honking your horns. I didn’t hear one car horn in 15 days — which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.
For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.
For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.
For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.
For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.
For always saying nice things about the United States…when you know we’re listening.
For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.
For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.
Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.
Below is a video essay put together by Stephen Brunt, a Canadian sportswriter and commentator) on what the Olympics meant to Canada. (It’s introduced by the Canadian Brian Williams, the main studio host for CTV.)
It’s beautiful and moving, and, amazingly, it was done before Canada’s historic gold-medal hockey win on Sunday, the singular triumph that really brought the country together.
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