The last couple of days has been kind of a drag. With everything packed and ready to go all I can do is wait. I guess it would be worse if I had to work. Nevertheless I hit the tarmac tonight at 12:30 headed for TO and then on to Havana tomorrow. I picked up my passport from Purolator yesterday with great relief. Just last minute things to do now. Hopefully my next post will be from sunny Cuba.
I guess it would be very, very funny if it wasn't so sad but one can't help shake one's head over the Canadian Navy's submarine debacle. It does not put us Canadians in a very good light when we have to buy Britain's mothballed relics to become our entire sub fleet. And now they have grounded the lot of them due to the inquiry over the Chicoutemi fire, which is funny because only one of them was commissioned and sea worthy anyway. Navy brass are red faced and up to their ears in this scandal and there's questions being raised in Ottawa, where I'm sure somebody will deny any knowledge.
It was quite a blow to hear that Christopher Reeve has died of a heart attack. It has shocked the world, especially considering that he will not be around to witness the fruits of his efforts into spinal cord repair research.

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