AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
They work at places like Starbucks and make and mix fancy coffees, often with a decorative swirl or other image on top. The terms for the different coffees regarding sizes and ingredients are some pretentious hodgdpodge that I have never needed to know since I'm not a coffee drinker.
Nobody is in the office here now, except security. And even then I don't see them around much (saw one of them the other night; he was surprised to see me in the hallway and I told him I was going to check my mail - a normal thing for me to do at 2 am if I'm awake and wanting to go for a walk). So he said okay and carried on.
The manager mentioned that there are several vacant suites in the building that are being repainted - so that's what maintenance is doing these days. They're all upstairs so during the day when the home care people aren't here for their visits, I don't tend to see anyone.
This balcony clapping is also done in Italy and Spain, and there are areas there where people take musical instruments out and give each other concerts. They're still social distancing, but people have to do these things to stay mentally healthy.
When you do find it, lob it at Jason Kenney and his cabinet. That might wake them up.
Just beware of some online schools; make sure they're affiliated with brick-and-mortar institutions, because some of these online ones are nothing more than diploma mills (as are some of the physical "charter" schools; students have reported being given very few actual meaningful assignments and nobody ever fails).
Alberta's first fatality was a doctor in his '60s who is now dead because he - get this - attended a curling bonspiel for doctors (dentists?). This was when people were told "no groups of over 250 people and no groups of over 50 if anyone attending is at-risk, from out of the country, senior, or who works in an essential service.
Well, the only restriction these idiots didn't break was the "foreign" part. So now they're all in isolation, one's dead, and they've spread it to their families, patients, other health workers,...
Forcing the at-risk into isolation for that long a time would result in violence and suicide for some.
The Education minister in my province promised that every student will get a passing grade and all Grade 12 students will get the marks they need in the subjects required for college/university entrance. How she's going to make that happen, who knows?
This has resulted in some kids refusing to do the schoolwork brought home for them, or to bother with online classes (we're going to pass anyway, so why can't I just play games and watch TV?)
The people already home-schooling are sitting back and laughing, as they don't have much to make in the way of adjustments.
Anyone who ever wanted to design games to teach certain subjects should go ahead, as they'll probably be used now.
I've never tried Civ IV.
Would you not agree that reversing the decision about the date of the AISH payments would help a great deal? I'm scared to death my rent payment might be withdrawn before the money is actually in my account this month. It happened to other people last month, despite that the cheques were supposed to arrive on the 28th.
Since I'm at-risk, I haven't gone out in the last couple of weeks, I'm sure that if I were told to "call your worker" she's probably backed up with so many urgent cases, it would take days to get a return call.
What it was, was someone told her there were peasants starving outside the palace gates, and she asked why couldn't they have some of the leftover bread and cakes (from whatever meal had just gone on).
This was translated as "they want bread? Let them eat cake."
Currently that's the attitude in my own province with the Minister of Social Services. "They can't buy their transit passes after the first? Well, let them buy them before the end of the month". She doesn't understand that many of the AISH recipients simply cannot do that because by that time they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
That's the situation in Edmonton and Calgary. I don't take regular transit here because it's impossible to get to safely, plus there's no guarantee of anywhere to sit. There are senior/handicapped spaces reserved, but all too often those are taken up with young women with gigantic baby "strollers" the size of shopping carts. I've seen these women carrying their kids while keeping the "strollers" filled with their diaper bags, snacks, coats, blankets, toys, and groceries or other shopping. That's not what these spaces are meant for.
Thank goodness I don't need to worry about buying a pass. The rides are paid for piecemeal when you take them, either by ticket or the drivers take cash (no change provided).
They did in Rome. That's how Claudius became Emperor. And for a long time after, it was the army that chose the Emperor.
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If they cannot feed their own people they are to dumb for their own head. History is doing them right.
I do not give a fudge about the rocks.
