We went to the Alberta Centennial / Canada Day event last Friday - it was a free concert at the Coliseum, headlined by the Barenaked Ladies. Since my parents read this, let me just add that the Barenaked Ladies are a "music group" which does not actually involve any bare or naked ladies, so it's OK to click on that link even if you're at work or in a public place.
Right.
Anyway. Did I mention that we went to see BNL in concert for free? Yeah. Thppt.
Kaija had a great time; she danced in the aisles and made eyes at the people sitting around us. We hadn't been planning on going to Folkfest this year, but we're reconsidering now, since she liked the environment so much.
I can even tie this into economics a bit. The concert was free, but you had to have a ticket from Ticketmaster which they'd mail out, also for free. By the time we got around to trying to get tickets of the Ticketmaster site, they were all gone. We wound up getting 8 tickets at the last minute from a friend with connections (he knows people who know people....) and spreading them around some friends and family.
But the event was only half-full. At first there was restricted access to the floor area, but by the time the Barenaked Ladies came out, the floor area was so empty that they opened it up to anyone who wanted to come down and be near the band.
It would have been better to let in anyone who showed up as long as they could pack them into the stadium than to allocate tickets to people on the basis of their ability to hit Ticketmaster's web site in the first half hour after the tickets became available.
Can't make any claims as to future posting frequency, but I'm back for the moment at least.
Can someone explain to me why Canada uses the most f*cked up road signs in the English-speaking world? It's taken me nearly four years of living here to understand that "CAUTION: LOOSE CHIPS" means "GRAVEL ON ROAD". And here I thought it was maybe connected to these other signs that say "DIP".
And then there's "METAL PLATE ON ROADWAY", usually placed next to -- get this -- a metal plate that's lying in the road. Thanks for the tip! Next up - "WHITE LINES PAINTED ON ROADWAY".
It's almost as good as that Bay Area favorite - "HILL". What -- were people driving along and suddenly "Oh no! The front of my car is higher than the back! What is it!?! ... Look at that sign over there -- it's just a HILL! Thank God they warned us!"