1000!!!

With the arrival of my latest shipment of Cd's from CD Universe, the awesome CD collection has at last reached the milestone number of 1000! 1000 Cd's. From Beethoven to Black Sabbath, from Mozart to Megadeth, from Alice Cooper to Enya, from Tom Jones to Tristania, from Enigma to Edguy, from Rossini to Red Rider. You name it, it's all here.

Each and every title is saved on a microsoft works database. Now the next step is to get this amazing collection insured. It's worth it. It's the soundtrack of my life.

Ironically, the 1000th CD that I added to the collection was Uriah Heep, and that was the very first band that I ever bought on CD. Is it coincidence, or destiny?

Oh, and one more thing. The one thing that you won't find in my collection is country music. Never had it, never will.

Wednesday

I saw this totally cool pic online, and I just had to share it with my loyal readers. ( Do I have any?)

Anyways, it's a Wednesday night and I just found out today that the fun has just started. It turns out that I'm still going to have to go see a surgeon, but since WCB rejected my claim, I'll have to go through the normal channels. That means months and months just to see a surgeon, and then God only knows how long until I can have surgery. They say we have an awesome medical system, but sometimes it's not the fastest.

In the meantime, I'm stuck on modified duties at work. I'm doing the stuff that nobody else wants to do. Putting up signs, taking inventory, doing process audits, updating documents, etc. I would really just like to get back to my normal job. Oh, well. When I go home after 8 hours, I still get 8 hours pay, so I guess things could be worse. At least I'm not in constant pain anymore. This is me, counting my blessings.

Natural Disasters

An article appeared on the CBC website today. Canada's preparedness to deal with major national disasters and emergencies "gives new meaning to the word 'discouraging,'" says a report released Tuesday by the Senate's committee on national security and defense.

This isn't good news at all. What are we going to do, wait until we get bit in the ass? The rest of the world has been hit by tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.. Do the people in Ottawa really think that we're not going to get hit? It's only a matter of time. It's painfully obvious that the worlds climate is changing, and with those changes are going to come a lot of nasty and unexpected disasters.

The Americans got a nasty surprise when hurricane Katrina level New Orleans, but it looks like they learned something from it, and have an ongoing program to upgrade their natural disaster preparedness. Much as I hate to admit it, sometimes the Americans seem a little bit more sensible than us. At least in some things.

I guess politicians have more important things to worry about, like winning elections and stuff. After all, if a major natural disaster should hit Ottawa, you can be assured that all of the members of parliament, the senate and their families will be the first ones evacuated, and the first to get medical attention. So I suppose they really have nothing to worry about.

But what about the rest of us? Are we expendable? We're supposed to be a developed nation, and yet in some things we're one of the most ass-backwards nations on earth. But I suppose if I'm waiting for the government to get their shit together, I'm in for a long wait.