evening star

It's evening, but don't ask me to tell you where the stars are. It's raining. This afternoon, up on Burnaby Mountain it snowed -- the wet sticky sort. It stuck to the cars and to the roads. Not a big deal really, but there were a slew of squeamish drivers who wanted to move very very very slowly -- even once they were past the snow line and safely on rainy pavement instead.

I feel like I am living in a bubble that insulates me from culture and world events.

The US President GW Bush is making a state visit to Canada tomorrow. Protests are promised in Ottawa, Halifax and elsewhere. Bush has refused to speak to Parliament because he does not want to have to face the heckling of question time. Stephen Harper is posturing, sort of. Jack Layton is being statesmanlike in his dissent.
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