"Be a Man... Do the Right Thing..."

(It's 1:45AM and for some reason I can't sleep, so I know venting in my blog won't help me sleep, but it'll give me something to do till I can tire myself out to the next morning, despite the fact I gotta miss fellowship for the next two weeks, I'm somewhat grateful I wasn't given the morning training shift at my new, yet another non-Engineering temporary job, but it's somewhat of a blessing despite the SO deprived pay for this type of position, still can pay off my OSAP in like 2 to 2.5 years if there wasn't any interest and I didn't have to pay for anything other than OSAP, but since that's not the case...my annuity period's probably still going to be like at least 7 to 8 years if not the full 9.5 stated by OSAP based on my current payments. Anyhow ya, this entry is just a summary, MAY expand on it later)

Let's do some background info first... some of you may remember that famous line from the "FOB" commedy episode of Russell Peters that was widely talked about long ago... I've also come out with a new re-write of his joke involving my beef with the new MUCH HIGHER 407 prices after the Harris Government sold the highway to a private company.

Actually the prices have from what I known gone up yet AGAIN maybe another 1 or 2 cents per km at least to pay for expansion, etc... and also to cover the actual savings you get with highway mileage vs stuck in traffic which is basically local milelage anyhow with todays higher gas prices. LOL it's best I go try out CCSA before gas gets to $2/Liter (will eventually, one day, maybe sooner than we think) *OY*!

Anyhow, so here's the joke. Before the government sold the highway 407, there was a significant price difference in the toll rates, I believe peak hours were like 8 cents and some non-peak times, if there were 3 categories, maybe 6 cents per km, down to 4 on the really peak hours which would probably include Sundays. But now it doesn't matter when you drive on it anymore unless you want to use it for REALLY REALLY long trips cause the price on peak hours the last time I checked it (2 years ago), it was like 13.6 cents/km for peak hours and 13.1 non-peak, LOL! Keep in mind all these quotes don't include the $2-$4 non-transponder use fee which I don't need to concern myself with since I have one. Personally I rather save the extra gas from not being in traffic since my mom's old car idles really badly anyhow, using an extra 3 to 6 liters per 100km, especially it's winter. Let's not forget the roughly $800 brake rotor job which I couldn't do myself since the rotors are tied down at the back and I don't have the equipment, not to mention if I screw it up and I'll be really in a hard place when our family doesn't have a car for me to run some extra parts that I might have broken by accident while working on it, happens occassionally even with professionals, but they always have some extra parts handy. Ok ok, enough car talk, I get the picture :P

So let's assume a 0.5 difference per km, since I don't drive that long-D on it anyhow, let's be nice to the new owners and round it up to the 15 (fifteen) cent difference so that it flows better with my parody of Russell Peter's joke...

I hear from my friend sometimes, I wanna complain about it myself, but hey, what can you do, just gotta live with the Progressive Conservatives and their past mistakes, including the elimination of interest-free student loans when they sold the Ontario Savings Bank also...doesn't stop me from doing a 22 Minute or Royal Canadian Air Farce style joke on them though :P excuse my bad grammar, trying to imitate the FOBness of the original joke ->

"13.6 cents/km to drive on the 407??! That's pretty expensive man! How about 11?"

"Nooooo.... I give you 11 cents you come back to tommorow, highway close down!"

"Forget it, I rather drive in traffic then...not much traffic in non-peak hours anyhow, just need to drive a bit the wrong way though..."

"Ok... you seem like nice, safe driver, I give you best price... 13.1 cents..."

"13.1? I drive maybe only 40km at most, that's like fifteen cents man (rounding up)..."

"Fifteen cents is a lot of money! You save 15 cents on the way there, you drive back on the 407 (even if there may be no traffic on the trip back :P) back and save another 15 cents...then you go to pay phone and make local call!"

"Forget it man, I don't wanna drive 407, it's not a deal, too expensive..."

"Hey... be a man! Do the right thing!"

"What are you talking about do the right thing?!?!?"

"Maybe you don't drive on 407 today, you go to other highway, there is big accident, maybe take you 40 hours!"

LOL See the original joke here: http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos.php?v=brown_guy.wmv&t=Russell%20Peters%20is%20Funny

You know up until last night, I thought I'm in WAY over my head! I can no longer fulfill all these spiritual obligations I have now that I found a new full-time job in addition to my working my part-time job at FFS cause I'm still lacking income due to certain financial struggles I have with the subsidized rent in this apartment and the OSAP blues.

Something I read relating to today's Sermon today really kinda helped, I think I can zzz in peace now, so until tommorow, or later on in the week when I can explain the rest ok? ;) RIP...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Continuation, well maybe more like the "body" paragraph... that joke was only meant to be an "intro". I've finally found some peace to sleep, so I ought to be :) But instead I think I still need to at least START what I need to type, before I forget the sermon yesturday completely.

It's really cool, cause on the night before, with no EXTERNAL influence, I had began to ponder on the same subject the Senior Pastor preached on that morning. And strangely enough, well I supppose not TOO strangely, I was doing my Sunday School homework that night.

Ok, I'm going to finish this tommorow, should try adjusting my sleep schedule to normal, basically the topic of the sermon is about God giving us the right amount of yoke/struggles He knows we can handle. Yup... expand more on it tommorow. ;)

-------------------------

(TO BE FINISHED SOON, JUST SO BUSY...)