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Tequila, sweat of the sun, tears of virgins. As mandated in the new Canada's Food Guide.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...ebe752091.jpeg

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be careful you don't get too cross faded on that shit.

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Good thing most bus drivers in Vancouver are reasonable.

Wife gets a monthly bus pass from the ministry as part of disability benefits, she got a job and first day, silly bus pass isn't working for some reason (have to call the government later and inquire) but the nice bus driver let her ride anyhow, otherwise she would not have been able to get to work and missing a first day isn't good...

Hopefully a driver on her return will be nice and let her ride.

The pass should be working, but government did accidentally cancel some, maybe her's were part of that accidental cancellation of passes.

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A friend and I drank nearly a whole bottle of tequila and smoked a bunch of Mexican pot back in mmmmmm.. 1978? That's the night I got kicked out of the folk guild. Happy days, actually. :lol:
In Old Mexico I shared a small bottle of Cuervo with an old American man in a wheelchair (he had the sensemilla) and a young American psychology professor in a campground in Oaxaca, and when we finished the professor said "I can see where the Mexicans get some of their machismo from now; I just had the urge to jump over that wall right there!"
This heel of Hornitos is just something the bartenders shouldn't have put in with the empties, so not enough to hurt. It's a Sauza product, and pretty darned good, so I'm going to have to investigate and see what it sells for.
Ouch! Looked it up and nearly $40 for 750ml, no wonder it's good.

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No kidding! The number of abusive and/or intoxicated passengers in Vancouver seems to be high and it's surprising more drivers don't become callous. I like the skytrain more than the bus, for the view and the speed and convenience. I hope they got her card sorted out.

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I get very envious of people in my online groups who get to see a therapist 3 times a week.

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She is calling the government to try and get it sorted out.

We don't live along a sky train route so its not something we use often, but I prefer the train over the bus and wish we had a more comprehensive train network and less buses.

We also get to take some of the least fun routes in Vancouver the #14, #16, #20 going west, all go through the heart of the DTES so these buses can get interesting, very interesting especially between between Campbell Ave and Granville Street.

The # 20 is better as they use larger bendy buses so tends to be less crowded, the #14 seems to attract the most weirdness followed by the # 16.

If just going downtown the #20 is best, but if near the SFU express its way better, limited stops as its an express so skips over a good chunk of the worst area, and a lot of students going to/from SFU campuses.

Drivers are compensated well though, $22.83 first 30 days, then $24.46 for first 8 months, $26.09 2nd 8 months, $29.35 3rd 8 mos, then $32.61.

If I could drive a bus I would consider it, but driving is too stressful, no way I can drive a huge vehicle in Vancouver, I get stressed enough in a small sub compact.

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When I drive to Vancouver I generally park it and take transit or walk until it's time to leave; taking everything out so the junkies aren't tempted. Regina is small and doesn't have heavy traffic, so I'm not used to the pace of Vancouver. In the past I've even rolled in at 4 in the morning to avoid traffic. Montreal on Easter Sunday in a big slow Ryder truck wasn't too good either.

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When we drove to California we timed our departure from Vancouver so we hit no traffic in Vancouver, Seattle or Portland, worked pretty well, got through Seattle early enough, and go to Portland early enough to avoid the PM rush hour. 2nd timed it to avoid LA during the day, so only part we couldn't avoid traffic was Sacramento, which wasn't horrible as we got there around 12 noon.

Vancouver traffic is bad and on top of it the drivers are aggressive, and lack of left turn lanes and signals just make driving here a miserable experience.

When I was working at the airport going into work for 4am was easy, no traffic, a nice 20 minute drive, coming home was an average of 35 minutes, but sometimes as long as 45-50 minutes to go the same distance.

We overlook a busy street so now I just sit inside and watch the traffic.

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The problem with Vancouver traffic isn't the volume (it's lower then most American cities) but rather the quality of the driving as you mention. You have to really drive defensively to avoid getting side-swiped by someone changing into your lane without looking, and people don't leave a safe gap between them and the car in front, meaning you frequently have to hit the brakes. It's ridiculous how many crashes we have on a daily basis too just from poor driving.

I wish the government would start a big campaign to turn all this around - reform the laws, improve driver training, safer road design, better public safety commercials on TV, etc.

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Bummer, I really liked this show.

https://deadline.com/2019/05/the-kid...ge-6/#comments

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We're having a new roof done today. One of those metal ones that are sprouting up all over.

Beats me how they keep going up that ladder one handed with stuff balanced on the other shoulder. I just hope none of them falls and breaks the deck rails. :demon:

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We're having the house painted. The painter has his own mobile scaffolding and ladders & MrBEVS can access more mobile scaffolding through the company he works for and at no charge but now the painter wants us to have pole scaffolding erected so he can reach the last metre or so. * really fed up sigh*

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