Stories like this bother me. There was a terrible plane crash in Thailand, and all the Canadian media is focussed on is whether or not Canadians were injured. In the Vancouver Sun today, in a story apparently published before they found out a Canadian was killed, the focus of the story was on the Canadian survivor's French bulldog, who died in the cargo hold. How sad is that? Apparently Canada.com feels that the dog's death was more worthy of media coverage than say, a citizen of another country.

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I was just reading through some of this old site and realising, hey, it used to be pretty funny! Now, just a sad shell of it's former self, it gets updated maybe monthly, and only a tenacious few family members are still reading. Okay, well maybe there were only ever a tenacious few family members reading, but still. Now it's just the really, really tenacious ones.

As you might imagine, at this stage most of my energy is focussed on my pregnancy, which is why the pregnancy blog is getting updates a little more often. I have officially finished work and am waiting for the government dollars to start flowing in! I managed to make the cut-off for eligibility of 600 hours. Of course the EI web application (aka the fourth circle of hell) then started to tell me if I had worked less than 900 hours I needed to account for the past two years of employment. Egads. Thank God for Julian's filing system as I was able to track down a few ROEs (records of employment for the uninitiated) from eons ago.

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