Call me lazy, but I took a couple of days off to go to a concert…and I’m still in Winnipeg!
Aug 17th, 2010 by admin
– or – ’CSIS’ and ‘ROASTS’ take on whole new meanings!
For me, CSIS means ‘Constantly Soaked In Sweat’ (although with a sudden change in weather over the last couple of days, I may soon have to change ‘Sweat’ to ‘Snow’)! And “ROASTS”? Well, besides very accurately describing what I’ve been doing quite consistently for the last few weeks (as temps, with the humidity factor, hit 40 degrees Celsius), ROASTS is my acronym for ‘Risk Of A Severe Thunder Storm’ which, along with the high day-time temps (and it doesn’t cool off much at night), is a very regular occurrence, along with very high winds and heavy rain which, as you may have heard about, has caused severe crop damage throughout the Prairie provinces.
I wore my “TOBACCOFREEWORLD.CA” t-shirt into a Royal Canadian Legion last week. I do wear it quite a bit (besides when I’m doing my marathon a day), but that was the first time I’d worn it into a bar. There were a couple of dozen people in the Legion (mostly vets)…and I was expecting someone (possibly a smoker, but not necessarily) to say something to me about military personnel fighting and dying for “freedom and choice” (to smoke, etc.) but, much to my delight, that didn’t happen.
Then I wore it to an awesome outdoor concert in Spanish, Ontario (about half way between Ste Saint Marie and Sudbury)…with April Wine, Prism and Honeymoon Suite. Al Harlow, lead singer of Prism, got me in for free (tickets were $96). It was a smoke-fest…and I had an interesting conversation with a young First Nations fellow who, while not terribly impressed with me or my t-shirt, acknowledged that he was a little drunk. So I gave him my card…and he promised he would call me the next day, when he was sober. I’m still waiting for that call.
Lookin’ forward to hitting the road again tomorrow, starting about 30 km east of Winnipeg. Hope you’re all well…and say a few prayers for some (better late than never) Corporate Sponsorship for me, will ya!