Tofield

November 7, 2005

Well I had a good weekend in Calgary.  Unfortunately I didn’t realize that my first job this morning, in Tofield, was just out of Edmonton until yesterday.  So I drove up Highway 2 until the snow started to fall.  By the time I reached Leduc there was a thin layer of snow all over the highway that made it feel like I was driving on butter.  I slowed down to between 40 or 60 kms/hr but the fools around me didn’t.  I had one jack-ass fish tale in front of me twice before he finally pulled off the highway as I’m sure he only had summer tires on!  Now I’m in Tofeild listening to the CBC and the accident reports are crazy.  You’d think that living in Edmonton people would know how to drive in snow.  SLOW DOWN!

Because of this weekends antics I’ve decided to quit drinking.  Yesterdays hangover was just horrible and lasted until I went to bed last night.  Now don’t worry I’m still going to drink wine but anything else is done.  No more…

Travelling through Alberta has been rather interesting actually.  Listening to CBC and witnessing the hyper-growth economy in action here just blows me away.  It’s rather frustrating that in both Alberta and BC all you ever hear about is how there’s not enough workers to supply demand and yet I can’t seem to find a job that I actually want to do.  How does that work?  It really gives me incentive to keep working at looking to see if Narcissus will be a viable business.

I’M GOING HOME ON THURSDAY!  I’m very much looking forward to it as I’m pretty tired of travelling.  It’ll be nice to see my friends again.