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I love watching videos taken from landing planes in San Diego, I miss those old days of flying in there almost every week in my late teens/early 20's. I took a flight somewhere about weekly between 1998 and 2004.





San Diego is the busiest single runway airport in the US, and 3rd in the world.


On another topic, I applied to an airline again, I have done so every 6 months for I dunno 3 or 4 years now, never get anywhere, but I keep trying. I always see training groups for this airline when I am at work, so its clear they are hiring.

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No, it won't work for me, unfortunately as I wouldn't qualify because it's based on HOUSEHOLD/ Individual income (which doesn't work well when you have financially co-dependent adults officially at the same address due to mortgages and things! even though apart from that both parties are financially independent) Thanks for the thought though! :)

"The Trillium Drug Program is for people who spend approximately 3 to 4% or more of their after-tax household income on prescription-drug costs.

However, if I get to 65 there might be ODBP.. https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-cove...rugs#section-5

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It’s similar to American English. ;):D

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12 hours of non-stop drilling, jack hammering or whatever the heck the commercial place downstairs is doing. 85 decibels inside the apartment all day long.

Nothing we or anyone else can do, the city permits commercial work from 7:30am to 8pm which is idiotic. Noisy work should be limited to 9am to 5p.

Good thing I don't work tomorrow or I would be screwed by not getting any sleep.

I see no way out of this hole, its not physically possible. Only reason we stay even remotely floating is because MIL helps from time to time, but each month we get deeper in the hole and unless I can manage to somehow get energy to work 20 hours a day, not sure what the solution is.

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You've got 3 days off, you said? How's the progress on this going?

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Wasn't that place north of where you are a possibility? I don't remember the name but there was a rail link IIRC so any loss of Greyhound might not be so bad.

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It's amazing the difference in drug programs across Canada.
As i mentioned before, here in Alberta at age 65 everyone is enrolled in the provincial Coverage for Seniors plan which is premium free and includes spouse who does not have to be over 65. It is not income tested. It also covers ambulance service and a few other extended health benefits.
http://www.health.alberta.ca/service...s-seniors.html

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Possibly in the future. I need to be in Vancouver for the next 30 weeks for the mental health treatment I am starting next week, so can't consider moving until I am done there. There is also the lack of funds to finance a move, we couldn't even move down the street at the moment.

We also still need to go and check these towns out as well, but again not something we can do at the moment.

As far as I know the only train service in that town (Quesnel) is Rocky Mountaineer and it's a tourist train and not cheap and not year round, its not suitable for basic transportation.

Now with Greyhound pulling out we have to reconsider places since we can't live remotely and not have access to other regions, and flying within BC is costly, and most smaller towns don't have full medical services so you need to be able to get within a region, but cars and gas inflate the cost of living, and with lower wages in these smaller towns, then inflated cost of living because of a car, add in rent, and well might not actually be better off in the end.



I have the going rates per hour and for various services the other companies are charging, now working on how much it would cost to start up with the basic supplies needed, and what services to offer, and how I can do it on my scooter, public transit or via car share service. Its a work in progress still, and my wife is helping me. She is the people person so would be in charge of getting customers and sales....lol

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Do you not get issued with free earplugs/ear defenders?????!!!!!! I've worked in noisy environments and employers are terrified of hearing damage lawsuits so there are barrels full of earplugs in all lunchrooms etc.

Good to hear some positive action... good luck and keep working at it - I'll ask again next month ;)

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They provide these ear muffs from 3M but I leave them at home as I cannot stand wearing them, ears get too hot and sweaty and they are not comfortable to wear, find them too bulky.

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Seriously? You aren't wearing the PPE provided?! Because they are sweaty and bulky?!

Hearing aids aren't too comfortable either.

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I provide my own. I prefer ear plugs and every single company up until this one provided ear plugs. The ear plugs I buy meet all the CSA requirements for the noise level, and have a higher NRR then the muffs.

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When you break down taxes and other deductions from pay, its crazy sometimes how many hours it takes in a 2 week pay period to just pay these......

Of the 59 hours I worked, 17.25 hours of wages goes to taxes CPP, EI, parking, and extended health. Kind of crazy in a way.

Granted some of that will come back in March in the form of a refund for the taxes.