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Nash-tastic

This might be the most impressive goal I've ever seen.

Georgian Winter

It's kind of funny that this was the cover of the Sports Illustrated waiting for me in my mailbox today. Not ha ha funny- just funny because I left work early to drive home in the first snow I've seen in almost three years. I'm not one of those crazy people that freaks out when I have to drive in a little bit of snow, but my tires are bare and I don't trust the four million or so people in the city that DO freak out over snow. So I beat some of the traffic and got home incident free.

Well, before you knew it the little bit of snow was well over an inch of snow on our back deck. Still a little bit by Canadian standards but a lot in Georgia. I believe they said on the news that today was the first time since 1993 that all of Georgia got snowed on on the same day. It snowed for about five hours before switching over to freezing rain and now it's just cold. There's going to be a nice crunchy mess in the morning if it doesn't warm up. That bodes well for rush hour traffic. Tomorrow being a game day (Thrashers/Canadiens, 7 pm) I'd rather not be late getting to the office and then the rink.

Here's the evidence of the snowfall in case you're skeptical. That's the very early stage before it started accumulating. Our dog has played in snow before so she didn't mind it- she loves the cold anyway. The cat on the other hand is an indoor cat but he got to go outside for a few minutes and he couldn't figure out why stuff kept falling on his head.

We got enough snow for the people across the street to make a snowman and for me to lob a few snowballs. It was also enough for people coming home from work to stop at the top of our hill and think about whether or not they wanted to try to drive down the steep grade which is probably over 30 degrees. Steeper than the back side of the big hill in Canoe Cove if that means anything to you.

Anyway, I expect almost all of it will be gone an hour after the sun comes up, but that will probably be too late to prevent schools from closing. There's only a handful of sand trucks and plows in the whole city so it's not like they can do much to clear whatever's left on the roads.

So that was winter in Atlanta. Six more weeks and I should be able to plant the garden. As nice as the snowfall was I'm okay with going another three years until I see it again. By the way, they're already calling this the "Storm of '08".

A New Perspective On Remembrance Day

I'm a few months late in posting this, but here's my brother (who is a former reservist and current RCMP member) serving as one of the sentries at the National Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa.

And here's an article about Remembrance Day that just came out that I'm quoted in.

For some reason this was the year when something clicked in me and Remembrance day stopped being just about the people that served in the World Wars and Korea and started to be about the people serving now. Maybe it was the fact that three guys who were kids in my cabin when I was a camp counselor more than a decade ago had just gotten back (unscathed) from Afghanistan.

Going to Nashville

Wow. 6 weeks since my last post. I'm not into resolutions but let's see if I can get back to posting at least once a week.

Anyhow, I'm going to be in Nashville this weekend and I'm looking for stuff to do, particularly on Saturday. Any recommendations? I'm looking for a good site with live music listings since Pollstar is only showing a few bands, and this is Nashville we're talking about. There's got to be stuff going on.