Another gorgeous day in Edmonton as we celebrate the Labour Day weekend. I'm not sure how you would celebrate "Labour" day other than by " labouring" but as most people seem to take the weekend off, except for us poor shiftworking slackers, it almost seems a contradiction in terms. Nonetheless, the long long weekend gives the gas companies an excuse (as if they needed one) for jacking up the gas price for the occassion. Here in Edmonchuk we are enjoying (ha, ha, a note of sarcasm there) our fuel at 79.5 cents a litre. And of course once the weekend is over the price will probably stay the same for a few weeks with perhaps 2 or 2.5 cent sympathy drop to make it look like they are being fair, only to raise it another 10 cents for the next long weekend. I guess if I want to rant about gas prices I should get in line, but it seems that as much as it irks us and as much as we gripe about the high gouging for gas, none of us, myself included, will do much about it. We still drive as much and a lot of us in larger gas guzzeling vehicles. Unfortunately, our lives dictate the same amount of driving regardless of the gas price and raising it does not magically bring the office closer to our homes, unfortunately.
Another thing I would like to vent about is our old friend Microsoft. The XP box has been giving me the Blue Screen OF Death quite frequently lately and for no good reason. I will walk past the office one minute and see the screensaver merrily screensaving away and the next time I go by I've got a computer at death's door. What gives? Is a screensaver that demanding on the resources or am I just suffering from the usual hodge podged, thrown together, patch it every five minutes operating system we have come to know and hate called Windows. I think the latter is true. It's a good thing the power grid doesn't run off Windows. Oh, wait a minute, maybe it does....
Hopefully my next post will be a bit more positive.

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