Bad Friday

Left Sylvia's food at the drive-through after paying for it, got high-centred and stuck in the snow just before getting home (some folks came to rescue us after about 20 minutes), and then overcome with nausea and other unpleasant symptoms from a new medication. A less-than-ideal start to the weekend. 

Springtime in Edmonton

Stop! In the Name of Snow...Before You Break My Car

This morning I drove this far, and no further. Our residential street hasn't been plowed at all this winter, and today's melting temperatures turned an already difficult-to-traverse road into a hill impossible to climb for my little car. To make matters worse, when I phoned AMA, a prerecorded message informed me that AMA would not be towing anyone stuck on one of Edmonton's side streets. I have to admit, that took me off guard - what am I paying my membership fees for, if not for situations like this? To be fair, they connected me with a towing company and told me to keep the receipt "for reimbursement at the AMA rate." Maybe they'll cover the whole cost, but it sounds more like I might get a small portion refunded.

I'm not going to slam the city for not having this street graded yet; after all, this is a record-breaking year for snowfall. Still, I hope the plows will get to my neck of the woods soon. Today I waited over six hours for a tow, messing up my workday and causing me to miss a meeting that I was looking forward to. Yes, I worked from home and phoned in for the meeting, but still.

I'm just glad this happened today and not yesterday, the biggest day of the year for folks working in politics. I would have hated to be stuck on the sidelines for that.