Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and decided to take the whole day off. It was just a routine appointment, don't worry, all is well. All I will say about the appointment is new intern working with my family doctor (although very nice) = inexperience and "OMG, that was very unpleasant"!
On my drive back to the Northside from the medical clinic, I drove past the TD tower building and saw TONS of people out of the sidewalk. It was a little after 10 a.m., so I figured it was break time and they were all out having a smoke. Wrong. They were all outside waiting to get inside the building to process their application for a passport. It was nuts! They were lined up almost to King Street and there were so many people out there, that there was a commissionaire outside with them!
Ok...yes it is a royal pain in the a$$ that the US now requires that we have a passport to fly into their country. Yes it is a royal pain in the a$$ that next year we'll have to have one to even drive into their country. I know the Canadian government's intelligence is questionable, but seriously, come on! You knew there was going to be an abundance of people who were going to apply for a passport in the new year. Surely something can be done to help this situation, rather than having people waiting, for what I've heard is a minimum of three hours, outside in the cold. It's also easy to see why the Canadian government didn't put up a fuss when ole George W decided he wanted us all to have a passport to enter his haven. Our government is making a fortune off of this! At 120 bucks a pop (thanks for raising the price as of January 1st...convenient, eh), think of the quid our government is raking in off of this!
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i wondered what all the fuss was about yesterday. sheesh, i guess it will be a while (never) until i return to the us. (not at 120$).
on another note, thank you very much kelly, for the card. it was the first one i received and it was really very nice of you. we're all doing ok, i guess i did most of my grieving after the cardiac arrest in october, but every once in a while this week, my eyes tear up...i guess that goes without saying, right? i was going to go back to work tomorrow but decided sunday was soon enough. thanks again, my friend. poet.
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