More news of the weird

Another woman, this time a local one, apparently fell from a fourth floor window to her death. They think she fell through her window while standing on a stool or chair cleaning it. She'd removed the two sliding inside windows.

Someone in northern Brazil has given birth by Caesarian section to a bouncing baby boy, 16 and a half pounds! That baby was big enough to slap the doctor back!

There's a panty thief on the loose in Ottawa. Lock your apartment doors, ladies.

News from Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein opposes a province wide smoking ban because he says, people of *his* generation are too set in their ways to quit. He's a long time smoker that has tried many times to quit and has had no success. Alberta tends to be generally a conservative "good ole' boy" province. Ralph Klein is probably the biggest Good Ole Boy of them all.

Frog farmers in Thailand have began selling tinned frogs since the bottom fell out of the live frog market. Yes really lol Frog legs and Frog Soup is a favourite in places like Taiwan where they were exporting their farmed frogs. Now it's ready-to-eat in a tin. I can rest easy now ;)

Hasbro has a new Mr. Potato Head figure... Darth Tater. Words cannot express how ludicrous i find this lololol

Holy Snowflake Batman!

I'm really getting tired of winter. I should have been born in Greece or someplace like that.

However, my friends Connie and Martin have made the trip down from Amherst where it wasn't snowing this morning. They drove into the storm but were nearly to Halifax by that time. I'm going to scoot out of the office at 3:30 (my normal 7 hour day end time... i work until 4 for the flex schedule) We're going to meet up and have an early dinner. I'll make up the time tomorrow and a bit next week as well. That will allow me to sit out the worst of the commuter traffic and get the busses a chance to get back on schedule.

The snow has stopped quite suddenly at the moment but i've heard the roads were not very driveable so i hope they decide to stay in town overnight as it's a 2 and a half hour drive up the highway and over Folly Mountain where it's bound to be treacherous. (ok, not a mountain by Alp standards by any means).

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They didn't shut down the municipal offices and by the time i left work at 3:30 to meet some friends, the storm had stopped completely and there was almost no traffic downtown at all. Everyone else left early i guess lol. I met my friends at Timmy's and we walked down a couple of blocks to the Old Triangle and had a nice meal. They drove me back home and again, the streets weren't too busy but the driving was pretty bad, very slippery. They were planning to go out to Bedford over a nasty hill for a meeting and originally had planned to drive 2. 5 hours back to Amherst tonight but i think they are going to stay over in a hotel at least. But i hope they didn't have too much trouble getting to Bedford.

Anyway, home now, warm as toast.