Fred's ramblings

[SUP]

The best possible reason to get a tattoo. 🙂

[Sheilajeanne]

In Ontario, the donor form is connected to our driver's license. There used to be a box you'd check, back when the license was paper. Now that it's a plastic photo ID, I guess the cops just enter your license number in their computer if they need to find the information.

Here's a potential donor doing stunts on the 400 Hwy, close to where I live.  I wonder if the person filming it was a friend, or a cop just waiting to see if he'd crash before he got pulled over...

Oh, and the bike doesn't have a plate on it.

https://www.facebook.com/atthescene/videos/1637958083830326

Edited October 14 by Sheilajeanne

[fredk]

#Oh, he's good. I used to some of that. Used to scare the sh-1-t out of car drivers. Truck drivers used to just laugh. A mate did some too. He was a cop and he used to load his side arm and machine gun as he rode to his work

[Sheilajeanne]

When I was doing visiting nursing, I had a Toronto cop as a patient. He was on IV antibiotics, as a result of cutting his hand while washing dishes. Yeah, pretty embarrassing...

Anyway, we got talking about the way our jobs are similar, in that we were in our cars nearly all day long, and would often have to multi-task while behind the wheel. 

I'd be reading my Might's Street Guide (no GPS yet!) and reading my client list so I could phone my next patient and tell them I was on my way.

He told me about the time he was doing waaay over the speed limit on the 400, while talking on the radio, and keying the perp's license plate number into his computer!

I said, I'm going to remember that if I ever get pulled over for distracted driving!

We both often ate while driving. He said, "When you're eating lunch, it's likely a sandwich and a drink, right?"

"Yes, that's right," I said.

"Well I'm talking Swiss Chalet, with all the fixings!" Swiss Chalet is famous for its chicken dinners with their special BBQ sauce. I can just imagine how messy that would be, if you were driving while eating! 

[Handstitched]

@Sheilajeanne imagine  if the air bag went off ?  ' pressed chicken ' 

Oh dear 😳 

HS

[Sheilajeanne]

LOL, Handstitched!  

[fredk]

Its that time of year again

Got my Halloween hat band on

Went up to the big smoke today

Got plenty of attention and questions about it

A surprising number of adults, even the doctor I was seeing, asked if they were real! My answer was 'nah, only plastic because the morgue wouldn't allow me to take real ones'. Some people laughed but some believed me

[fredk]

Its that time of year again . . . 

Tonite, 2am Sunday actually, we all put our clocks back to GMT

We were on BST = British Summer Time, youse lot would call it Daylight Saving Time?

Why do we still go through this needless exercise every year? The need arose in WW1 and again in WW2 (Double Summer Time) but with modern lighting et cetera its not needed

As a farmer once said to me; the cows, the sheep and hens still need their feed at their time not by our clocks. Your dogs would be the same, mine was, didn't matter to him what the clock said he brought his food bowl over for filling 

[Sheilajeanne]

Fred, we switch over next Sunday. I didn't realize you switched a week earlier. 

I sometimes suspect Halloween has something to do with the choice of date. If the switch happened before Halloween, it wouldn't be fully dark when the kids go out trick-or-treating. Although doing the rounds in daylight is safer, it destroys the ambiance of doing it in the dark! 

[Northmount]

16 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said:

I sometimes suspect Halloween has something to do with the choice of date. If the switch happened before Halloween, it wouldn't be fully dark when the kids go out trick-or-treating.

You give far too much credit to our governments.  It was just a few years ago, maybe during Covid, that our government decided in their great wisdom to extend the return to standard daylight into November in order to improve energy savings.

Studies have been done several times over the various years daylight saving time was implemented or repealed.  All showed there was no real energy savings, just shifted the usage period.

Ontario and BC have decided that they will move to eliminate DST when the states south of them decide to.  They make claims that it interferes with business if they are not on the same time.  Seems that doesn't bother Arizona or Saskatchewan.  South Easter BC used to stay on STD time year around.  So part of the time there were with Alberta and the rest of the time they were with the rest of BC.  Their major trading is with southern Alberta as it is closer than the rest of BC.

I have worked on projects with partners in the UK, Germany, France, India, Shanghai, NY state, and Ohio at the same time and never had trouble with communications with them.  With UK, France, and Germany, we could conference in the morning my time, and any revisions end of day or next morning.  Just part of business to make things fit.  Sometimes coming in an hour earlier, or staying an hour later, pretty much my typical day anyhow.

It's time to get rid of this flip-flopping back and forth.  It is healthier to be on a STD time and far fewer accidents and heart attacks in the 2 weeks following each change while people are having to readjust.

For shift workers, make no difference as they are always changing their awake hours according to their shift schedule.

My rant, done.