Winter is upon us
Well what a week, I'm just about to leave the office, but I thought I'd just blog for a few minutes. A strange thing happened at the end of this week with my Internet Service provider. Let me explain, last night my wife was trying to get on the Internet and couldn't connect. Now I've had this happen before so I simply restarted the DSL MODEM and then tried logging on again but to no avail it just wouldn't connect. Thinking this was a temporary issue I waited about 30 minutes and tried again with the same results. This went on during the whole evening and I finally gave up around 11:00 PM and went to bed. This morning I tried again, but couldn't get through and decided to send them an e-mail from work. When I got to the office I fired up my firefox browser and went to their website only to be greeted by a very surprising memo mentioning that the local big phone company had disconnected my ISP's phone lines because of some accounting dispute so basically the ISP was off-line. This would defintely explain our lack of connection last night. Anyhow, I monitored their website as they announced that they would be posting more information and as of 16H00 today their systems seemed to be back up and running. I just found this kind of peculiar and a funny thing to have happened. Not funny for them, but I was relieved to know it wasn't my setup or my account.
OK back to my topic for this blog, Winter. Eventhough its official arrival isn't for another 18 days, Winter did rear its ugly white head this morning in Montreal. The mercury plummeted to a chilly -8 Celcius according to my Weather Watcherand it sure felt like it as I bundled up my daughter and brought her to the daycare. I normally look forward to the changes in season, it's almost like an old friend coming to visit reminding you of good times. Well as I get older I don't look forward to the cold and the inconvenience that Winter brings. The drives to and from work become more difficult, the approaching Christmas season brings with it a frenetic pace of shoppers and angry mini-van drivers who are upset because their local Toyaresaurus doesn't have the latest fad toy of the season. Guess I've become somewhat of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas and this year doesn't seem to be any different, although I must admit I get a chuckle listening to my daughter asking to see Santa Claus. I suppose just for that this Christmas may have a little more magic than most in the past. Dressing in Winter is also a bit of a hassle and getting in and out of the car with long coats and boots, well it's something I could just do without now.
Winter for me also signals the fact that most of my hobbies and projects will have to move inside. As I had mentioned in my last blog, the window installations are now finished and the weather was cooperative enough to let me finish the chaulking. Now I have many projects to tackle on the inside and I hope to be able to blog about them in the next few months.
I should think about packing up and getting out on the road as the traffic may be a bit heavy as it's lightly snowing. If my Internet connection is up and running this evening I may blog some more later on tonight.
OK back to my topic for this blog, Winter. Eventhough its official arrival isn't for another 18 days, Winter did rear its ugly white head this morning in Montreal. The mercury plummeted to a chilly -8 Celcius according to my Weather Watcherand it sure felt like it as I bundled up my daughter and brought her to the daycare. I normally look forward to the changes in season, it's almost like an old friend coming to visit reminding you of good times. Well as I get older I don't look forward to the cold and the inconvenience that Winter brings. The drives to and from work become more difficult, the approaching Christmas season brings with it a frenetic pace of shoppers and angry mini-van drivers who are upset because their local Toyaresaurus doesn't have the latest fad toy of the season. Guess I've become somewhat of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas and this year doesn't seem to be any different, although I must admit I get a chuckle listening to my daughter asking to see Santa Claus. I suppose just for that this Christmas may have a little more magic than most in the past. Dressing in Winter is also a bit of a hassle and getting in and out of the car with long coats and boots, well it's something I could just do without now.
Winter for me also signals the fact that most of my hobbies and projects will have to move inside. As I had mentioned in my last blog, the window installations are now finished and the weather was cooperative enough to let me finish the chaulking. Now I have many projects to tackle on the inside and I hope to be able to blog about them in the next few months.
I should think about packing up and getting out on the road as the traffic may be a bit heavy as it's lightly snowing. If my Internet connection is up and running this evening I may blog some more later on tonight.
posted by Stefano at 5:05 PM
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