trades in sports

Hi,
You know when your team's star player is traded or signs with another team? Then he returns with his new team to play his old team, and the fans boo him? I can understand if you boo him because he did something bad to the city, like took a whiz on a famous monument or something, but if he went to get more money, why boo him?

It's like if your favourite bag boy at your supermarket went to another supermarket to make a dollar more per hour... would you boo him? Like, it's a bit different in sports, I agree, like an extra $1 million a year when you already make $8 million is trivial, but people are greedy. It's a fact of life.

beijos

the bus

Hi,
The other day, I was waiting for the bus at the transitway station, and I saw an out-of-service bus travelling on the road parallel to the bus only lane. Like, if they have their own lane, it would just seem logical to leave the already crowded roadway to cars. And this was during rush-hour too. I don't get it.

beijos

march break

Hi,
Of course, the March Break for high schools doesn't affect me at work, 'cause I'm here rain or shine. But, it does affect the city busses. OK, one word, WHY!? Like, probably about 80% of the riders still have to travel to and from their place of business! My bus to work, normally runs every 15 minutes during the morning rush hour, but this week travels every 20. It may not seem like much, but that's 3 busses an hour instead of 4. So take all the people that are travelling in the already packed bus and cram them all into the other 3 that are already quite full.

See what I mean? Another strike against OC Transpo.

beijos

allergies

Hi,
How come there are more allergies now than there were 20 years ago? Like, back when I was in school, there was always 1 or 2 kids allergic to dust. But then again, that was if they inhaled it. Now, there's nuts. What's up with that? And a bunch of other stuff too. I can't help but thinking that this cleaning craze that we've experienced in the past several years has something to do with it. Like, kids these days were born in a sterile environment, then their houses that they spent most of their lives in, was pretty much a sterile environment because of the insane cleanliness that's been going on, but then when they're 4 years old, they go to school. Which can't be kept clean all the time, with all the other kids running around.

So in a sterile, or near-sterile environment for 4 years, any little piece of dirt can cause sickness. I'm not saying I lived in a pig-sty growing up, but I never got a big illness when I was a kid, that's because the environment wasn't as sterile in my house.

Now, kids can't even have nuts at school. Luckly I could, or else I would've died of starvation years ago without my peanut-butter sandwiches!

beijos

Media

Hi,
The weather here in Ottawa today sucks, freezing rain, wind, it feels like someone is constantly throwing stones at you when you go outside!

I meant to mention this awhile ago, it's a few months old, but well worth complaining about. First, an obvious question: what's the most popular, nation-uniting game in the world? Obviously, soccer, right? It's never been all that big here in Canada, because of our 10-month winters (see p. 1), but it has been catching on. We see all the World Cup games on TV, and even get a "game of the week" on Saturday mornings, from the English Premier league. The Euro championship is also big here, the one that happens every 4 years, alternating with the world cup. Even FA cup matches from England, Italian league games, Spain and Portugual.

What about South America? Did any of you know that back in December of 2006, Internacional of Porto Alegre, Brazil, beat Barcelona from Spain to win the "World Cup of club teams"? It was NOWHERE in ANY of the media here. Maybe it's my biased opinion, because I used to live in Porto Alegre, but I can't help but thinking if the mighty Barça had won, it would be known here.

How come we only hear about European soccer? After all, where do you think most of the players come from?

beijos