Dinosaur Pedal Carts!
July 30th signifies a very special day. Is it a birthday? No. Is it the start of a festival? No. Is it even a long weekend? Nope! If you are dying to know, wait no longer! It is the opening day of....
The Edmonton Corn Maze!!
I never knew Edmonton had a giant corn maze, but we do! The site says it is approximately an average of an hour to get through the maze. After that, other attractions include some mini mazes, a "mountain of bale" to jump around on, and dinosaur pedal carts!! Actually, I'm pretty sure everything but the actual giant maze is lame because there are no other pictures. However, the designs and size of the actual maze is ... amazing... dammit I tried to think of another word to describe it...
The maze has been designed in the form of Ryan Smyth of the Edmonton Oilers and Ricky Ray of the Edmonton Eskimos. This year the current design is a nod to our new junior hockey team, the Oil Kings.
I think it would be neat to get in the maze, especially at dark, and try to navigate your way through. Anyways, just thought I'd put a post so if anyone is bored one day, we can head out to the 'ole corn maze... yeehaw!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
A Day in the Life
I've been unable to come up with a blog topic I was comfortable with or something that could sustain itself for more than a few lines so stay a while and listen as I blog a typical day of my current summer life. Note that this day is really composed of various events that happened over a bunch of days, but its a little more interesting to pretend it all happened in one day.
0545/0600
I wake up and stumble out of bed. First thing I do is look for the newspaper to see if the sports section is in the mailbox, and... it isn't.
0615
Hey, the paper is here! I read the sports section in about 3 minutes and then go and get ready for a fun filled workday at the local landfill.
0628
I head out for the fun drive onto the Yellowhead highway. As I try to exit onto it, I see that no one is at a speed where they can merge properly. The cars are moving at about 30-40 kph while people are zooming around 80-90 kph. As I get nearer, I see the reason for this and its a huge rottweiler that apparently wants everyone to fail at merging and crash horrifically.
The fun continues as all of a sudden, traffic jams up on the two lanes where the speed limit is 100 kpm. Now, we are moving snail speed but we're still on a fricking highway. Nevertheless, a truck is riding my rear end hardcore, and at one point when I had a to suddenly brake, the truck had to swerve onto the shoulder of the road to avoid rear ending me. This delay was apparently because of some car rollover, but I didn't see it, as I was too busy trying to drive...
0700
Aah, I arrive at work to the fresh scent of compost in the air. I merrily drive over the somewhat fixed railroad tracks and note it is no longer a 6 railroad track long speed bump. The car has sustained no damage, yay!
Frick, the flat tire I thought was fixed on Friday is still flat. Its leaking and luckily a co worker notices it right away. The earlier the better, because it can take 2-3 hours for tire guy to get to your vehicle...
0715
I think our landscaping crew actually starts to do some work. We goto a plant bed and start picking out all the toxic weeds. The crew is responsible for keeping the landfill clean of litter (the landfill is only one part of the whole place really) and upkeep of all the trees, grass and plantlife. I think the reasoning behind this is to show the landfill is being environmentally responsible in terms of the litter control and upkeep of the area, and it proves to the public you can't just dump your garbage anywhere as the landfill is actually quite nice and clean.
0800
Is it break yet?? Its freaking hot... One of our coworkers decides to go back to the Ops building for something, and asks if we need anything from it. One girl says yeah, a jr. bacon cheeseburger delivered on a horse, and I ask for a dinosaur. Later when she gets back, she actually took the time to track down some paper and draw out our requests! In fact, my dinosaur was so big that several pieces of paper were stapled together. I proudly display it on one of the trees, but other crew members thought it was litter and wondered why no one took it down...
1030
Our first break is about over and we started on what I think is one of the most random tasks ever. Basically, the landfill takes in computer monitors and televisions which are to be recycled once a new facility is built (to be finished in the fall). In the meantime our crew has to store them away. We do this by building makeshift crates out of various 2 by 4's and pallettes that we can find in the woodpile. Then we hitch up the trailer filled with all the tv's and monitors and tetris these things into our makeshift crates. Thankfully, the majority of this task actually takes place in the shade.
1330
This is after lunch and we're done the task of building crates and jamming as many tv's and monitors them as possible. It has been estimated that they have collected about 10 thousand tv's and monitors. So now we face going back to the ever awesome task of pulling weeds. At this point, people are begging for other tasks like picking up litter with our poker sticks, or washing the trucks.
1500
Woohoo! Its hometime for me! Currently I work a 5 day 8 hour schedule, but that will change to a 4 day 10 hour schedule which means 3 day weekend! Yay!!
1502
Ahhh shit.. I hit a train.
1520
Yay, the train finally ends and I'm on my way home. Looking forward to the best part of the day, my nap before accounting class.
1745
I take a nap, than around this time get ready to goto NAIT. The class starts at 6:15 pm and goes 'till about 9:30pm. The instructor I have right now is pretty good, but he usually does not let us out early.
2000
We have our break and I reach another hilight of the day: Snack time! Usually I'll have something packed, like smokies!! Mmm... smokies
2130
At some point in this class, I can't help but clock watch. A minute seems like an eternity, and when its finally time to go, I can't fathom it. Its like I'm expecting it to be a trick, and that really the clock was set ahead an hour and I still have to sit in the class.
Some point in time
I get home, watch some sports hilights, make a sleep playlist and then goto bed. I'm not sure what time it is anymore, just that its time to make things go dark in the head for a little while...
Well it was an exciting day in the neverending battle of keeping the landfill clean. Be sure to stay tuned for death defying tales of mowing the lawn and suiting up for a treacherous stint of weed whacking!!
I've been unable to come up with a blog topic I was comfortable with or something that could sustain itself for more than a few lines so stay a while and listen as I blog a typical day of my current summer life. Note that this day is really composed of various events that happened over a bunch of days, but its a little more interesting to pretend it all happened in one day.
0545/0600
I wake up and stumble out of bed. First thing I do is look for the newspaper to see if the sports section is in the mailbox, and... it isn't.
0615
Hey, the paper is here! I read the sports section in about 3 minutes and then go and get ready for a fun filled workday at the local landfill.
0628
I head out for the fun drive onto the Yellowhead highway. As I try to exit onto it, I see that no one is at a speed where they can merge properly. The cars are moving at about 30-40 kph while people are zooming around 80-90 kph. As I get nearer, I see the reason for this and its a huge rottweiler that apparently wants everyone to fail at merging and crash horrifically.
The fun continues as all of a sudden, traffic jams up on the two lanes where the speed limit is 100 kpm. Now, we are moving snail speed but we're still on a fricking highway. Nevertheless, a truck is riding my rear end hardcore, and at one point when I had a to suddenly brake, the truck had to swerve onto the shoulder of the road to avoid rear ending me. This delay was apparently because of some car rollover, but I didn't see it, as I was too busy trying to drive...
0700
Aah, I arrive at work to the fresh scent of compost in the air. I merrily drive over the somewhat fixed railroad tracks and note it is no longer a 6 railroad track long speed bump. The car has sustained no damage, yay!
Frick, the flat tire I thought was fixed on Friday is still flat. Its leaking and luckily a co worker notices it right away. The earlier the better, because it can take 2-3 hours for tire guy to get to your vehicle...
0715
I think our landscaping crew actually starts to do some work. We goto a plant bed and start picking out all the toxic weeds. The crew is responsible for keeping the landfill clean of litter (the landfill is only one part of the whole place really) and upkeep of all the trees, grass and plantlife. I think the reasoning behind this is to show the landfill is being environmentally responsible in terms of the litter control and upkeep of the area, and it proves to the public you can't just dump your garbage anywhere as the landfill is actually quite nice and clean.
0800
Is it break yet?? Its freaking hot... One of our coworkers decides to go back to the Ops building for something, and asks if we need anything from it. One girl says yeah, a jr. bacon cheeseburger delivered on a horse, and I ask for a dinosaur. Later when she gets back, she actually took the time to track down some paper and draw out our requests! In fact, my dinosaur was so big that several pieces of paper were stapled together. I proudly display it on one of the trees, but other crew members thought it was litter and wondered why no one took it down...
1030
Our first break is about over and we started on what I think is one of the most random tasks ever. Basically, the landfill takes in computer monitors and televisions which are to be recycled once a new facility is built (to be finished in the fall). In the meantime our crew has to store them away. We do this by building makeshift crates out of various 2 by 4's and pallettes that we can find in the woodpile. Then we hitch up the trailer filled with all the tv's and monitors and tetris these things into our makeshift crates. Thankfully, the majority of this task actually takes place in the shade.
1330
This is after lunch and we're done the task of building crates and jamming as many tv's and monitors them as possible. It has been estimated that they have collected about 10 thousand tv's and monitors. So now we face going back to the ever awesome task of pulling weeds. At this point, people are begging for other tasks like picking up litter with our poker sticks, or washing the trucks.
1500
Woohoo! Its hometime for me! Currently I work a 5 day 8 hour schedule, but that will change to a 4 day 10 hour schedule which means 3 day weekend! Yay!!
1502
Ahhh shit.. I hit a train.
1520
Yay, the train finally ends and I'm on my way home. Looking forward to the best part of the day, my nap before accounting class.
1745
I take a nap, than around this time get ready to goto NAIT. The class starts at 6:15 pm and goes 'till about 9:30pm. The instructor I have right now is pretty good, but he usually does not let us out early.
2000
We have our break and I reach another hilight of the day: Snack time! Usually I'll have something packed, like smokies!! Mmm... smokies
2130
At some point in this class, I can't help but clock watch. A minute seems like an eternity, and when its finally time to go, I can't fathom it. Its like I'm expecting it to be a trick, and that really the clock was set ahead an hour and I still have to sit in the class.
Some point in time
I get home, watch some sports hilights, make a sleep playlist and then goto bed. I'm not sure what time it is anymore, just that its time to make things go dark in the head for a little while...
Well it was an exciting day in the neverending battle of keeping the landfill clean. Be sure to stay tuned for death defying tales of mowing the lawn and suiting up for a treacherous stint of weed whacking!!
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