After spending an hour shoveling today, I went to the back of the house and it was as if I hadn't shoveled at all. It has been snowing continuously for the past few days making driving a real treat and the aforementioned shoveling a losing battle. However, on a positive note, it is not as cold today. The temperature has risen to a balmy -23 degrees.
The nominations for the Oscars are out and after taking a cursory perusal I see that Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King is nominated for 11 awards. Now, I am not one to usually follow this ego tripping award falderall, as you know, but with LOTR in the running I, for one, hope that Peter Jackson is given some recognition for at least the monumental achievement of bringing the Tolkien masterpiece to the screen. I will predict at least a best director nod for the Aussie hobbit. As for the other nominations, the only other movie we have seen is Pirates of the Caribbean which is nothing more than a bit of Disney special effects fluff so I don't see much competition there. As for the others....who cares?
What is wrong with these so called "all news" channels that they won't give you the news? I sat down for lunch at work yesterday and started flipping through the channels to get an idea of what was going on in the world. I had to surf for 20 minutes before I got even the top news headlines. CTV and CBC seem to think that sports and business news are more important than the actual news and CNN and Headline News are so busy self promoting themselves that you have to commit a whole evening to get any meat. I thought the idea of these news channels was that you could just tune in for five minutes and be brought up to date on the worlds happenings. The only one that seems to do any thing close to that is the good old BBC and we can't get that at work. And I can't stand all the cutesy chit chat the anchors seem to think they have to do to make the newscast more entertaining. Enough of these bubble headed "personalities". Just give me a guy in a tie that will deliver the goods. Remember George Finstad on the CBC?... Now that was no nonsense newscasting.

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