Daily Archives: May 21, 2009

Dresden stopover

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Wow, Dresden’s pretty damn cool! I’ve heard it was pretty much flattened during WW2 from Allied firebombing. They’ve sure done an amazing job restoring it though. The old city centre has some really amazing architecture and huge plazas. Hopefully some of my photos turn out well… with the overcast skies I’m not too sure the light will be friendly. I sure hope to come back though and spend more than one night here. So much to see!

Kirsten has caught a bad bug and hasn’t been feeling well for the last 2 or 3 days. Good thing we stocked up on Advil Cold and Neo Citran though – she should have this licked soon. We head to Prague for a week tomorrow, and will be able to unpack, relax, and actually sleep in for the first time in two weeks. Should be perfect medicine :)

I can’t upload any more photos to Flickr on this PC, but hopefully we find something compatible in Prague. Ran into a guy on the tram today who just came from there, and he was saying how much he wanted to just stay in Prague rather than continue travelling. I’ve still yet to hear a single negative thing about the city… can’t wait!

people amaze and annoy me…

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Who has enough time in their lives to call about a car being abandoned on a residential street?

more importantly, how is it a problem when the “abandoned” car in question is in front of MY OWN FREAKING HOUSE?!?!? I could maybe understand if it was parked in front of another house, inconveniencing that home owner and forcing them to park elsewhere, setting off a chain of events that could destroy the stability of the universe as we know it… but it is on the street in front of my house, in what I would consider to be “my” spot.

There was a sticker on the window saying the car would be towed if it hadn’t moved in 72 hours, and the tires were chalked, a single line at 12, and a double line at 4 and 7 if you think of the tire as a clock.

Biking to work today I happened to see a Calgary Parking Authority car parked on my route to work, so I stopped and had a chat with him. This guy said as long as the chalk is gone from the tire it should be ok to leave the vehicle on the street. I just got off the phone with the Parking Authority dispatch and they gave me a different story completely. Apparently I not only have to move the car so the markings are gone, I can’t have it parked anywhere ON THE BLOCK when the enforcement people come by or it will get towed, to the tune of a $200 fine.

@#%@#$

IF there was some problem with where the car was parked, wouldn’t most normal people knock on the door and say “hey, could you move this car? it is blocking my view of the mailbox” or whatever the @#$# motivation was to call about the car in the first place.

assholes.