Aaron Peori And The No Good Very Bad Month

[robkelk]

Ha ha! And here I am without a car or even a driver's liscense and almost an hour away from work (which is clear on the other side of the city and Ottawa is one of those amaglamated spread out cities) AND its basically freezing cold and blowing snow all the time here. This is a problem when even the grocery store is a good fifteen minutes walk away (one way). Normally I don't mind walking to/from the store, but hey somtimes when the tempertaure hits -16 (celsius) you just want to get a bus home or something.

And of course, getting to work has been murder. It's a fifty dollar cab ride one way and when they moved the offices last year everyone picked up and moved across the city to be near it (me, being stupid and wanting to save money, ended up moving about as far from the office as possible while staying in the same city). I ended up missing four days of work over the course of a week and a half there.

The next time I suggest you get an apartment close to where you work, remind me to be more forceful...

Get up. Shower. Call a cab. Wait two hours for cab (bus strike again). Get to airport for 7AM departure.

Oops. Seems that Halifax has 140km/h winds and frozen runways.

First flight gets delayed, delayed, delayed. Canceled.

It could have been worse. You could have been on http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2 ... c1124.html]the flight that caused the other flights to be cancelled.

Wonder what I am supposed to do for the next two weeks with no bus service and no food in my house.

I'm in town, most of my family isn't, I know you have my number, and I'm off work for the year starting around noon tomorrow. At the very least, we can make a grocery run...

Edit: Or, according to the http://www.viarail.ca/en_index.html]VIA Rail website, you can take the 12:45 train to Montréal today and make the connection to be in Halifax at 16:56 tomorrow.
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Rob Kelk
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