The New Coffee Room

I’m just converting, but yesterday in YYC it was $5.22 US per gallon but in Central AB it was $4.64 US per gallon.

It’s costing about $50 CAD to travel 200kms on the highway.

There are pumpjacks everywhere!

Yes! Good news. Keep on gaining!

I still hear the word Pulmonologist. Maybe it’s where they trained?
Last year the UofC IT people were offering up safe laptops and cellphones to almost anyone wanting to go to a U.S. conference.
I know of no one who went down there. I’m trying hard also to think of anyone who went to the U.S. for a vacation.
Fears of harassment, detention, deportation, the reasons.
Canada is a pretty diverse country. Many come from countries far away to train, work, do research. Few want to risk their lives being torn up with threats of being turfed back to the countries they left.

@nobodysock .. I’m quite interested in your piano, but want to hear what your plans are to position it, put a rug under it, maybe what you’ll do for the walls if the sound bounces around, humidity, all that.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this $2M per ship thing.

Not so open air public defecation, but I gotta get something off my chest…
I’ve seen this x2 in the past few years in public areas inside hospitals. Zippo no one was rushing in to clean it up. Everyone stepping around it. In one instance I was reprimanded by a nurse, she threatening to call security on me for voicing up her rationale for leaving the mess there.

There’s no reason friends can’t organize informally to celebrate a person’s life. I went to an impromptu culdesac barbecue where we ended up around a fire pit sharing great memories of a neighbor. He didn’t have a funeral. He didn’t want it. I respect that.
None of my elders wanted funerals. Their choice. Our family was so tiny we just went to their favourite restaurants after we put the urns in the ground. That seems a tradition with us.

You 2 look so in love! Beautiful dress.
The food looks yummy.
What an exciting trip!

Cash only, unless I’m forced to use a card. Can’t recall the last time I’ve written a cheque.

Congratulations! Looks spacious inside and the yard too. How excellent!

I don’t know how legal this is for you folks, but up here when our culdesac got hit hard and heavy (& the city wasn’t doing anything for us), all us neighbors pitched in and hired our own guy with a snow plow to do the street. We especially needed to clean up the exits from our driveways. Cash worked.

I haven’t been to Mexico since hurricane Odile washed away most of the resort I loved so much in Cabo. Then came the overpass hangings in 2017 and I think also 2019. News of missing people, other gruesome violence pretty sealed my decision to never return.

I know I’m not a colonist.
But as Canuck, I still apologize. That’s almost genetic.
UBC is a fine university. Good nurses and doctors graduate from there. I’d rather do medicine there or see a doctor who graduated from there than Toronto. B.C. is expensive though. We’ve a saying, “B.C.” -> “Bring Cash” .

Wow. That’s an impressive amount of snow. Go slow with the shovelling. Or just wait it out if you can. Heart attacks can and do happen.

Why did you folks tour UBC?
Sorry of the signage, btw. (We colonists have to acknowledge & apologize).

Tremendous spirit here for the game. All 3 pubs opened real early for the game!

@Renauda said

I feel exactly the same way about the righteous and remorseless Maple MAGAts who are currently infecting this province with their divisive performance politics and promoting the breakup of this country.

Quite. I need to remember that term.

Congratulations!

Labor rates increase. 100K from now could make for an expensive repair. Can you predict what your 135K Pilot might be worth then? I get anxious to get a new Honda once my yearly labor + parts costs approach trade in/resale value. I think Ive purchased 10 new Hondas in my life time.

Just had this done on my 2014 Ridgeline. At 140K. I don’t have the invoice in front of me but it was expensive. Truly, I was getting nervous driving with it for so long. @lufins-dad , I think I’d ask myself how long I plan to keep my (new) 35K 2021 Honda Pilot. Having the belt etc replaced now while the engine is out is quite appealing. The labor costs otherwise are real high for this. It also plays well with its resale/trade in value. When I traded in a 2016 CRV last year, that timing belt change question was near the top of a list of questions they asked.