Without George W. there would be no Obama

Any good blogger probably should comment of the Obama-mania. Sorry for taking so long. I should explain my history here. Back in August 2006 I moved to California. I heard about Obama and have been following the Obamite "movement" probably longer than most Canadians. I have to admit that at first I was a Hillary fan (I still am but have a different appreciation for the role she should play). Back in 2006 I didn't know anything about Obama and thought well Hillary is a Clinton and having lived in the USA during the Bill Clinton era and the George W. Bush era - Hillary was going to make the USA make sense again for me and probably most of the world.

During my time in California I met MF and she was moving from LA area to Miami for the job but also to contribute to the Obama campaign. That's when I decided to watch this guy more closely.

So most of you are say WTF about the Title of this blog? That was my first reaction too when I heard a Hamilton radio DJ say the same thing. Then he went on and explained what he meant. Here're the basics "Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to rise again". Obama of course would have always existed in a physical sense but not in such an inspirational and hopeful sense if it weren't for the last eight years of the Bush administration......

hmmmm......I think he got that right.

So where was I went Obama said the oath? I was knee deep in snow at an environmental centre just outside of Toronto reviewing their sample Photovoltaic installations that had been installed over the last 20 years.....considering some of the language in Obama's speech, seemed to be the right thing to do.

Update on my Condo and work situations

So over the Christmas holidays, I got an update letter from our board president. I wasn't special or anything, she sent it to all the owners. To my shock and surprise our condo had been cited for numerous fire code citations and further to that, it seems we didn't comply on the due date for the fixes so our condo was charged criminally.......and the condo board didn't bothered to tell us about any of it....until now!?!?!?!

So a few other owners and I have decided to investigate. I sent an email to our board president requesting a copy of the citations and I received a polite but very pointed letter back from the condo legal counsel stating:

"I draw your attention to ss.55(4) of the Act which provides, inter alia, that the rights to examine records does not apply to those documents relating to actual or pending litigation involving the Corporation."

The lawyer was referring to the Condominium Act.

So I ask you....does it seem like the Condo has something to hide??

I decided to blog about this today because in my investigations, today I found out that the condo attended court on Dec. 2/08, Jan. 14/09 and now has a date for Feb. 4/09 in the Criminal court of Justice.....you can bet I'll be there.

The fact that the condo board refuses to provide copies of the citations or share other details of the litigation worries me greatly - especially from an insurance coverage point of view.

I guess all I can say is - good thing that each of the directors from the board were charged along with the property manager - as is standard procedure when these types of violations happen without action....serves them right for not addressing these things in a timely manner.

So back to my work situation and the potential illegal activity at our one shop location.....
I asked independent legal counsel what would happen if a "raid" occurred at the location and this illegal substance, i.e. weed, was found on site - what would happen to the folks who happen, by bad luck, to be at the location at the time of the raid.....ANSWER: you got it - most likely they would be arrested as well.....

So....what do I do if I still think this activity is "active" at that site? Report it to the authorities? Refuse to go back there? Report it to my supervisors? Without proof - it's tough.

No Heat

So last night - one of the coldest nights this Winter - I wake up for the second time in my new pad with NO HEAT. The system is a heat pump and apparently something triggered the breaker. I have no idea what it was since I only had the TV on and the breaker for the heat pump is on it's own circuit.

Anyhow I fixed it and got heat back and went back to sleep.

So I wanted to ask everyone a question.

What do you do when you "think" someone is smoking weed at work?

You know I don't judge folks lifestyles but I'm totally not cool with anything like this potentially going on at work.

Let me know your thoughts.

PT

I started to settle into my new place in Toronto and decided to "borrow" some bandwidth to get online. I couldn't believe my luck. Someone had an unsecured network operating...yah!!

As I'm browsing, I decided to hit my facebook account. I get on there and I see one of my old "infatuations" and his wife had their first child. I gotta' say - weird feeling. I'm extremely happy for him but the weird feeling is there. I immediately felt like I was in the middle of a Sex and the City episode. Anyhow, I guess I'll meet up with the little one at our old work reunion in the Spring. I'm sure the weird feeling will have passed (like some bad gas) by that time.

Today, I'm just cleaning up my new "temporary" pad. The place is an old office building that's been converted to a loft. A good friend of mine owns the place but lives out of town and can't move in so she's letting me crash there until my loft comes available in mid April (pending the job holds out in T.O. that is).

Last night some of my new neighbours had a party. I was invited but declined cause I was a bit tired - I should have gone....the music kept me up anyhow.

Tomorrow I'm back to the old grind. I'll keep you guys in the loop on my work - very interesting time we live in and I must say - very interesting group of people I work with right now as well.

Ciao.
PT

Welcome

Welcome to PT's Blog. I live in Toronto but have lived in a few cities across Canada as well as a few different countries. I hope the blog entertains you. I'll try to keep it updated with the craziness of what I experience. Please feel free to comment if you find similar experiences in this world.
PT