Ah the weekend has finally arrived... been a long week. Doctor's appointment (does anyone like doctor's appointments, it's almost up there with seeing the dentist), Génie en Herbe on Tuesday (for those who don't do secondary school or have kids, it's the French version of "Reach for the Top", there's a whole league with rules, competitions, and statistics, great fun, but it means that when there is a competition, we get home after a 13 hour day) and finally having to deal with having my credit card cloned by some thief.
It is really a pain, although the credit card company is ok about it and they don't bill you for what was ripped off. But finally we all pay for the thieves since the companies make us pay higher interest rates to cover the losses. You'd figure that someone would come up with a better system, something with a NIP that isn't stored on the card, but then again people get ripped off with their interact cards. Maybe with computer chips but it probably costs VISA less to leave things as they are than to spend the money to change it (see article). I know at least 4 people who have had it happen to them so watch out even though there is probably not much you can do about it.
Now on to the weekend. Finally we are getting nice cold dry sunny winter weather, I love it. It's much better than the damp, grey stuff we've been having since the start of winter. You know kind of mixed up weather that can't make up its mind whether it's fall or winter or a hybrid of the two. So I finally got to go skating on the Rideau Canal... great fun and exercise. To top it off tonight went to a nice Scottish pub for a pint of Guinness with a steak. A fine ending to the week and tomorrow should be pretty much the same. That's the life!!! :o)
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