Vacation

My plane pushes away from the gate at 8:00am tomorrow morning. Two weeks in PEI, two weeks in Ottawa. I'll be connected only occasionally for the first two weeks, probably hitting a wifi hotspot in Charlottetown or Rustico two or three times a week. Once I hit Ottawa, I expect to be a bit more accessible.

But should anyone be interested in what my family is up to for the next month, feel free to swing by our/my vacation blog at:
Brackley2Bytown
(Brackley is a beach near our cabin, Bytown was the name of Ottawa back when it was a grubby little logging town)

I hope to maintain an impressive flow of even more impressive photos of our travels and adventures (and at least one shot of a proper-sized lobster... not these crayfish that Red Lobster serves in Alberta). I might even experiment with voice or video blogging, depending on how many rainy evenings I have at the cabin.

Giant badgers invade town

The story is actually fairly lame, but the title is awesome. Hooray for inside jokes.

Pie

Calgary needs affordable housing. We have a huge homeless population that needs help.

These are inarguable facts; But it is idiots like Lily Phan (Facebook) that absolutely destroy the respectability of the fight for social equity in Calgary. She tried to throw a pie at Premier Ed Stelmach in an attempt to bring attention to the plight of Calgary's homeless (link). Unfortunately, all people heard on the news was her screaming and babbling as she was dragged away by the police.


There has to be a better way...

We need to protect the environment, but respectable and powerful people don't want to be associated with extreme groups like Green Peace.

Our aboriginal groups deserve respect, but blocking rail-lines does nothing but poison people and companies against them.

Our homeless population deserves help, dignity, and respect. They need a better representative than crazies like Lily Phan.

Acceptable

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart,
Be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my strength and redeemer.
Psalm 19:14