My New Toy

Okay, so not really relevant to the normal run of things on this blog, but I got myself a new toy. After a long long time I now own a bike again.
This was taken over by the docklands of Toronto to the east of where we live. Never been there before but decided to go for a couple of hour cycle yesterday morning.

The bike has 24 gears apparently, but I've only used about 4 of them. Not sure why you need to many gears. I'm currently using it to commute to work. Now I haven't ridden a bike for about 10+ years, yet I can get to work in just over 15 minutes. Using public transit it takes 25+ minutes. So quicker and better for me. Plus it looks like the transit may strike on Monday so it's the best time to buy a bike.

Of course when you buy a bike and you have no car you need to ride it home. When I picked it up on Monday night it was from the store at Yonge and Eglington. About 8km north-east of here. First time on bike in so many years, yes that was a fun cycle home. At least it was mainly downhill.

Bloomin' thieves

Well some people are just brazen about their activities. Some people like to keep their activities secret from the world, while others like to flaunt it and rub it in. Last night thieves and vandals struck in downtown. In the early hours of the morning some hooligans came along and destroyed the CN Tower. They used cutting torches to take it down about halfway up and left a pall of smoke over the area and the now broken stump.
The city is distraught over this. An icon of the city and the country has been cut down in its prime. All that remains now is a bit of a stump looking like a felled tree in the city.

The council says it'll have it repaired soon though. Apparently, and this is the cities best kept secret, the whole thing is just inflatable. Emergency planning had anticipated this may happen sometime so they'd stored a spare in a warehouse in an undisclosed location. Authorities insist that it'll be back to normal in a couple of days, and the world won't notice it was gone. They just need a few people to help inflate it, and foot pumps have been handed out to the populace.

Well better go, the police have just turned up to tell our floor that it is our turn to blow into the nozzles to help in the effort. I'll speak again.