I’m writing this from Gate A at the Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto. We’ve got a bit of a layover here, like I mentioned in my last post. Anyways, the security is pretty tight - they’ve got the metal detectors set so high that the rivets on my jeans set it off. Lots of people get stuff confiscated, we had a thing of bug spray in our carryon that wasn’t allowed through the security checkpoint here (though they didn’t say anything in Saskatoon.) We had to check one of our carryons, or leave the bug spray behind. We decided to check the bag…No big deal, we just moved a couple of things around, and everything is fine.

The flight was good, though I didn’t have a very good time. They served breakfast in flight, and it was good, though I’m wearing quite a bit of it - damned orange juice jumped at me, and it was all I could do to subdue it. It got my shirt pretty good though. I also managed to stop the runaway bit of hashbrowns that was making a break for it. It got my shirt pretty good too.

I guess Erin and I are going to play a game of Galactic Empires 2051 A.D. now, so I’ll sign off. I won’t be uploading this right now though :)

I’m without my collection of Simpson’s quotes, so I’ll have to forego them while on holidays. Sorry everybody. (Sorry Dr. Nick…)

This is being written from the hotel room in Fort Lauderdale. Our flight out of Toronto was delayed by technical problems on the plane - one of the tv screens wasn’t working, so they had to remove it, and in the process of removing it they screwed up one of the oxygen masks, and so on. In the end, it was about an hour delay before we took off - no big deal, we made up half of that by speeding - the cops couldn’t catch us up there anyways.

When we arrived at our hotel, we were (still are actually) quite tired, so we played a few more rounds of GE2051AD (in which my surprise attack was completely successful in turning the tide of the game :) When we came into the hotel room, I spotted a rare Hilton Spoon in it’s natural habitat, on the bed. Somewhat disconcerting to find a dirty spoon in the middle of one of the beds - just how thorough are the housekeeping staff if they leave a spoon in the middle of the bed. I did manage to get a picture before it went into hiding on the room service guy’s tray.

Speaking of room service - I don’t understand it. They’ve got prices for the stuff on the menu, then you add $2.50 for delivery (no big deal) plus 18% delivery charge. I’m not sure why there’s another 18% added on there. Then, they expect a tip too - I’m not sure why a $10 pizza (10″) costs $16 to have delivered to your hotel door… We likely would have been better off ordering from a pizza place - likely would have been better pizza too. I think we’re spoiled in Saskatoon with the price of things. The stuff in the hotel room costs the same or more than in Saskatoon (last time I checked) but it’s in Canadian money in Canada, and US here. For example, if we wanted to watch Seinfeld, it’s $6 per episode (only one episode to chose from) under their “Best of TV” category. Movies were $11 - Rush Hour 2 for example. Geez, a guy could buy the DVD for that practically (well, not quite, but you see my point)

I guess I’m just too cheap to go on vacation :)