It's quite fascinating the tidbits of information you learn talking to the randoms seated next to you on airplanes. For example, the older gentleman seated next to Adrian yesterday proceeded to tell the two of us about why cell phone use is not allowed on airplanes. (Not sure if this is exactly true, but...) he told us that he had talked to a pilot who said it had nothing whatsoever to do with interfering signals when piloting the plane. The reason they discourage cell phone use on planes is because the cell phone providers can't keep track of the calls when they're made in the air - so if everyone were to use them when flying......all their calls would be free! (Says the guy.) So in the interest of businessmanship, the airlines have taken it upon themselves to help the cell phone providers out and discourage us from getting free calls. Pretty sneaky (if true).

Taj - I promise that when I get back from Vancouver that I will start writing again on a daily basis.

Lee - I promise that if you make any snide comments about my blogs that I will write snide comments back.

Kenta - I promise to try to keep you entertained, but you are a much wittier soul than me so that is a hard task.

This morning on my way to work I came across a big rig that was stuck halfway in a right-hand turn. I could see that there was a man directing traffic so that the truck could complete the turn and get out of the way of oncoming traffic. The sight wasn't that spectacular until the truck moved on and the man jumped back into his car which was at the stoplight. I had thought the man was with the truck, but it was just a normal guy who saw a bad situation in the works and decided to do something about it. It was a great way to start a Friday.