Well, it’s snowing again. They said we could expect about ten centimetres. (See how I used the European spelling?) I’ve been expecting ten centimeters for a while now if you know what I mean.
Oh, and how much is that? Like a foot or something? I know a litre is sort of like a quart, and multiplication rock taught me as a kid that “A metre’s just a little longer than a yard. That’s not very hard.” But centimeter?
Let’s see. 100 cm in 1 m. 36 inches in a yard. so a foot is 12 inches or 33.3 cm or so. So 10cm is about 4 inches of snow? Is that right?
Let’s do this the reverse way. 10cm, double that and add 30. so 10cm is 50 inches of snow?
God dammit this is confusing.
Anywho, didn’t do much last night. Jumped off the give a shit about the price of dinner for the company thing. Every night it’s the same thing. Do I knowingly order overpriced stuff here out of convenience, or do I call a cab to take me somewhere to pay slightly less, knowing I’ll have dropped $20 to $30 on the cab, and then it’s a wash.
Whatever. I stayed the middle weekend on this trip to save the company 900 bucks on airfare. They can throw me a bone on a meal or two.
So I got a 42 dollar half inch thick ribeye and a caesar salad. I nearly laughed at it when it came to the table. I was tempted to make a waffle house steak joke, but they wouldn’t have gotten it. That and five beers made my bill, with tip, ninety bucks. I had a good time though. Sat next to a short Scotsman and talked soccer and rugby and hockey and drunken Irish girls, etc. Fun was had by all.
Today, I’m taking it easy. I want to go into town and find a ticket to the game tonight, but everyone’s saying it’s gonna cost me $150 - $200 and I’m not sure I’m okay with that. I could stay here, hit a sports bar and watch the race AND the hockey game, screw around on the computer, have some beers and bar food and spend less than half that.
Plus, I wouldn’t be out $90 for the cab and I wouldn’t be wandering around outside amidst the snow drifts.
Wow. I changed my mind and decided not to go just like that.
Thanks worldwide information super interweb. Is there anything you CAN’T do?
What say you?