Call in sick go to Jail

The above link is to a BBC story about a Police officer in the UK who repeatedly called in sick when his second job performing weddings conflicted with his police job. He has been sentenced to 9 months in jail for calling in sick when he was actually fine and working his second job. Let that be a lesson to you call in sick do hard time.

The Weather

Yeah that's right in great Canadian tradition I'm going to talk about the weather. It's often suggested that if the weather wasn't so bad or variable that Canadians would have nothing to talk about. People from other countries often can't understand our obsession with weather. In Japan stocks scroll across the bottom of peoples tv screens, in the US it's sports scores, here it's almost always weather. Here the weather has been very cold for the past month. but now it's going to change to +5 which will be really nice. however we can count on February to be a month of cold days. It's not really that we complain about the weather we just discuss it and talk about how we survived it like a group of old men at a bar sharing war stories. Statements like that's nothing you should have seen the pile of snow in my front yard are common and the oneupmanship can be crazy. However the long dark winter does make summer all that much better so that's at least one positive.