Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, May 31, 2007
June
You know what I just realized? There is no long weekend in June. How long have things been going on like this? I thought the great thing about working in Canada was that there is a long weekend every month during the summer. Well apparently not! This just hurts my soul.
On a related note, I'm about a weeks short of holidays for what I want to take off in the first two weeks of July. How about that. It means I will need to work more than one extra day a week in June to make up for this. I'm not sure that is going to fly. What is a man to do?
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Check mate!
UPDATE: for some reason, the distance from Saskatoon to Yorkton is 50 km shorter on google maps than on the yellowhead highway website. that is some bulllllllshit. I don't know who's right.
Upon yesterday's pointless discussion, Ryan estimated the distance along the Yellowhead highway as being a shorter route to Winnipeg than going through Regina. Now, I'm no arithmetician, in fact, I'm not even a medical doctor, but here is what my web-research has shown:
Yellowhead (source):

Saskatoon to Winnipeg (Through Regina - source)

So, if you do the calculus, Ryan was right in his assertion that the Yellowhead was a shorter route, by a whopping 2 km. But if you take into consideration that you get to go 110km for the Regina drive on double highway and that the Trans-Canada is close to being totally twinned, then clearly, you should never go to Winnipeg. Dirty, dirty, Winnipeg. (Sorry Blair, its true).
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