A Mishap after 15 Years!

I woke up on time one of the days of the last week and got ready to go to work, as usual, when I realized that I cannot find my car key! Something that had never happened to me in my life and particularly in the past 15 years that I own this car! I have a spare key but has given it to a relative and they are nearly 15 min. drive away. I could get a cab to wake them up. However, this is the benefit of having two cars! 
I just got the newer one out and drove to work. The funny thing is that the Check Engine Light had come up the night before on the way home, for absolutely no reason and I wanted to drive the new car and it happened! I thought it was somewhere in the house but couldn't find it and then it hit me: What if I left it in the car? I went to the relative's house the next day and I got it. When I opened the door, it was in the vehicle and in the ignition! Someone could've easily stolen the car by simply breaking one of the windows or getting in somehow. This could be a benefit of living in a sketchy neighbourhood! The same care was broken into twice when I lived in Downtown Calgary and nothing was ever recovered: Flashlight, CDs, GPS, you name it! Getting off the subject but the only reason I lived there was my partner who never wanted to live somewhere else. Another disadvantage of being in a bad relationship!

I don't remember how this happened but it could be getting some shopping out of the trunk and forgetting the key inside.

(Photo: Many of the new vehicles do not need a key to enter or ignite the engine, including the one I have purchased but my old Corolla still works that way and I like it!)

The Disgusting and Stupid Milani Guys

I needed some electrical work at home and I didn't feel comfortable doing that myself. I decided to call the so-called professionals! The result was a disaster and I would like to tell you whom I had to deal with, so you guys, who are reading this and one day perhaps you need an electrician, you avoid these idiots, completely. 

I opened the Yellow Pages, yes you read it correctly, Yellow Pages, which had been brought to my door recently and looked for an electrician and there was this big add by these guys who call themselves Milani. I called them and asked if they did some small repairs around the house and the lady was like Yes. Then when it came to where I lived, just pay attention carefully here what kind of nasty, stupid, disgusting donkeys theses assholes are: I told them where I lived and the woman had difficulty understanding it, like she had never heard of this small town Alberta, before! Bare in mind that the number I am calling starts with a 403 which is an Alberta code, of course, and this woman goes: Our electricians mostly serve the City of Victoria!!!!!!

What kind of stinking, nasty, full of cockroaches and sewer rats toilet you guys of Milani assholes are running???!!!! You are a disgrace to a human being and every service provider of any kind in the entire country of Canada. Sorry I'm really pissed at these incompetent, disgusting, pinhead assholes of Milani. 😠.

(Photo: An electrician is messing with a bunch of wires! If you open your computer and go to YouTube there're many video clips about cheating and fraudulent service providers of any kind who go to people's residents and charge excessively for the issues that the system does not have as the economy is really bad and everyone is trying to keep up with the life style that they have for years and now it's very difficult to do so. Some people take longer hours at work and some people take second jobs. Others simply cheat! It doesn't have anything to do with this post but I should put it here as this is the main reason I have not called any heating system guys since I have a problem with my furnace for the past two weeks. I might have a post for that soon)

Is that a Murder?!

I saw an SUV had parked near where I usually park, or close to it, a few weeks ago. They were parking like a blind! The only thing is our street is not busy or they could have been hit or complained about. I wondered who that belongs to until one day, eventually, I think, I saw where the driver went. It was a woman who lives at a corner house with a man of a different ethnicity who is usually not home and when he comes he comes late, driving a big and noisy pick-up truck. I didn't mind that until one day she parked closer to where I usually park. Now it's difficult for me to get the other vehicle out of the garage because the first car is blocking it and the SUV has been sitting there for more than a week and that's the vehicle which was driven every day! I think there are only three possibilities:

1) The woman is on vacation, alone, without her partner.

2) The woman, unfortunately, has left the man, which is very unlikely, or

3) The woman has been murdered!

It's hard to believe that someone who lives with a certain someone and has never been on a trip by herself, all of a sudden travels and it's as unusual as thinking she has left either! So where are we getting at? 
I was going to wait another week to see if she's coming back and if not I'd report that to the police but the vehicle was moved on Sun. afternoon.

(Photo: I could park really close to this idiot and once someone is parked in front, she would be trapped like a filthy mouse she is, but gave her space to get the hell out)

Reactions to the new Vehicle

I drove my newly purchased vehicles to work for the first time and of course parked it in the provided parking lot which half of the employees park there (There are have three separate parking lots) and received all sorts of reactions which I kind of had expected but perhaps not to that extent:

1) The first person was my supervisor. He stepped in the office and after Good morning he went: You brought the ..., naming the model of the car!

2) Then it was my manager who asked me if I had purchased a new vehicle. I said I had borrowed it citing the issue I currently have with it. The second part was right! 

3) Then there was this guy who has been working for the company for over 12 years or so and believes his job is the most important one. I have a plan to demolish him, partially, at least, later, and I will write about it! He came out of his nest! (he sits on his ass for at least 7 straight hours a day, coming out only for a lunch which he purchases from one of the local businesses or goes to the shop, rarely) and went to a couple of colleagues and said: Who drives that electric vehicle? My supervisor says: It's his, pointing at me and a colleague makes a face and says: The Troublemaker drivers an electric car?! 🤯. The Nestle guy(!), I think I'm going to call him that from now on(!) says he would like to ask the CEO to provide him with a gasoline pump now that I can simply charge my battery! Then he adds: If I disconnected your car, you wouldn't be able to get home tonight, would you? I told him that it was not my vehicle, firstly and secondly, I would easily get home, even if he disconnected the vehicle because the car has a gasoline operated engine! I add that it was a Hybrid Plug-in vehicle! He said nothing much after that! 

4) The next two people were two ladies who work together and I bumped to them when we were all leaving work. They said they had wondered who drove a vehicle with a licence plate from the State of ..., considering it was a very long trip! It's more than 2,300 Miles or 3,700 Km! I told them that the vehicle belonged to a relative and that was it. 

(Photo: Almost all of the major auto manufacturers have started electric, hybrid and plug-in vehicles. I saw this Fiat a few years ago in a parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not mine though!)

The Crafty Government of Alberta

I once suggested to one of my colleagues to talk to an MLA to have periodic, at least once in two years, maybe, and it would depend on the age and records of the driver, driving tests both in practical and theory format for all the drivers in the Province, considering we have lots of crazy and careless ones on the roads. My intention is to not only improve the driving knowledge and skills of the drivers but also to generate some revenue for the Provincial Government. His answer was logical: No MLA would take any steps for that because they knew they would lose their seat!   

I agree but I have decided to do this myself and I will write about this later after I go forward with the plan. Nevertheless, it was just yesterday that I realized the Government has easier plans to make more money and no one would lose their seats! They want to increase the maximum speed on the divided highways to 120 Km/h! As crazy and stupid as it sounds, I understand what they're looking for: More incidents, which, of course, will lead to more revenue for, not only the Government, but also many businesses which eventually have to pay taxes to the Government! 

Just a few weeks before this, the crazy, dictator woman of the Province introduced a new licence plate with a new stupid slogan: Strong and Free! While all the provinces, including Alberta, so far have non-political slogans, this woman becomes a hero all of a sudden and thinks Alberta has not been strong and free until she calls it on the plates! 

(Photo: This is a divided highway for which the Government of Alberta intends to increase the speed limit)

Thank You Mr. Cheney

Dick Cheney the former Vice President at the time of George W. Bush presidency died last night at the age of 84. He was repeatedly criticized for his major role in the 2003 US led invasion of Iraq which led to the fall of one of the biggest dictator's of history Saddam Hussain. The US led invasion destroyed the Iraqi forces in just 100 days, the army which was considered the 5th most powerful at the time. Saddam with all the money he earned selling oil made on of the strongest forces but that didn't stand long against " Desert Storm ". That was the name of the operation which wiped out Saddam and his men quickly and effectively. Some people in the West opposed Cheney strongly and even demonstrated against him for orchestrating the war citing he was lying about the Weapons of Mass Destruction that had been said Saddam had. It does not matter if Iraqis had or did not have any weapons of that magnitude, although I believe they had because my definition of such weapons is different from Westerners (Weapons of Mass Destruction in the view of Western people and politicians are the weapons which are able only to hit Western targets!), Saddam and Iraqis deserved the punishment.

When Saddam Hussain came into power in 1979, Iran was still a very strong and powerful country. Neither Saddam nor any other Arab or non-Arab politician did not even think of doing something to upset the Shah (King) of Iran but when the Shah left in early 1979, Saddam though he could use the confusion and chaos in Iran to gain what he always wanted: Arvand-Rud a river between the two country with the imaginary line in the middle as the border. For that Iraqi forces cross into Iran in Sep.1980 and that was the beginning of the 8-year devastating war. Iraqi forces committed every possible crimes to defeat Iranians including dropping chemical bombs in the forces and civilians, attacking cities with surface-to-surface missiles, you name it but because no Westerner was hurt, none of those was considered Weapons of Mass Destruction or War Crime!

Saddam did not stop there. He attacked his own people of Kurdish ethnicity in north of the country with chemical bombs and killed nearly 5000 civilians including elderly, women and kids. 

Kuwait was his next and last target which led to two operations: " Desert Shield " which in that the US led collision defended Saudi Arabia as at the time they were convinced that they would be the next target and " Desert Storm " which was briefly referred to above. 

Stories about the crimes of the brutal regime of Saddam Hussain, his sons and Ba'ath Party is numerous but then again as long as no Westerner is hurt, he shall be free to do whatever he wanted to do unless people like Saudis and Kuwaitis ask him to come to their aid! For that I say: Thanks Mr. Cheney. You did great by planning to topple the brutal regime of Saddam Hussain. Rest in Peace. When I get a chance to go to the States next, I will make sure I pay my respects to the gentleman. Whatever else he has done is not my business! 

(Photo: Cheney is seen next to Rumsfeld in his early years. Rumy, as they called him, was his trainer and mentor. He passed away in 2021)