Pyat rides the rails

[pyat]

Snow, snow, bloody snow.

The train drifted in the limbo between Burlington and Aldershot stations for 45 minutes, as "the switches" were cleared by hand, one at a time. I entertained myself by sending a series of saucy and florid text messages to velvetpage.

In the end, I got home 3 hours after I'd left the office, making 14 hour day out of the house. Grand! :)

My older sister (a nurse) had an interesting day of another kind, recently:

"...a lady came into the office asking for help to get her husband out her car since he was 'short of breath.' So myself and another nurse went to see and he was so short of breath he was actually dead."

Yikes.

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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Yikes is right.

I remember when I was doing my stint in Cardiology, and I saw SEVENTEEN cases of chest pain one night on call after the first heavy snowfall of winter.

Winter can be tough on older (and younger) persons with underlying heart disease.

::B::

[pyat.livejournal.com]

All the more reason to invest in a snow blower. Some day. When I have a bigger property.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

This never ceases to amaze me. I mean, if I said to these people, "OK! We're going to go work out at the gym, so I want you to do all these lifts, and all those squats, and so on, and so on. Oh, tired? Too bad! More! More!", they'd look at me as if I was crazy and patiently explain that they haven't worked out for months and they'd better start slow.

Then the first snow-fall hits, and they're out there digging as if they'd just put down the shovel yesterday.

Take your time people! Breathe! Rest! Plan your shovelling to keep the lifting less than the pushing!

Sheesh.

On the upside, I feel a lot less bad about dropping back my basketball to one day a week during January and February, knowing that I'm getting a lot of that exercise clearing out my 2.5 wide drive way, on the inside of a curve, at the bottom of a short hill (thank-you municipal snow plows...).

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

I started driving at 5:00pm, and just got home.

Admittedly, I picked The Mate up around 7:30 and we dined for an hour or so.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Still, yeah... long time. I'd rather doze on a train for the extra hour, rather than sit in traffic.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. You can doze in traffic, too! I'm living proof.

You can only do it for miliseconds at a time. :)

That said, I got a good, solid ten hours of sleep last night, and I feel like a new rabbit. You there! Fetch me a... (etc)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I've dozed through red lights! Much more exciting than waiting for them.

*peers* Fetch you a what?

[iridium-wolf.livejournal.com]

A Shrubbery!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ack!

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a tanker truck laying on the horn at your bumper to get you going with a little jolt of adrenaline, is there?

A new rabbit, of course!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*facepalms*

I need to improve my straight line recognition skills.

[iridium-wolf.livejournal.com]

*high-fives bunneh* We confuzzled the mouse! Yay! :D

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

*does the high-five and the hip-bump!* Awesome! We rock. Who rocks? WE rock.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Your sister's story is scary. 0_0

I actually had a snow delay here in Toronto - there were several accidents clogging up Eglinton and it took the bus 30 minutes to travel from Yonge over to Redpath, about 4 or 5 blocks. I couldn't stand it, so I got off and walked the rest of the distance out in the storm. That was about 14 blocks, but I managed it in 15 minutes. Also reached Bayview before my bus did.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Also reached Bayview before my bus did.

It's sort of cool when that kind of thing happens. You feel like, "Rar! I'm Faster than a Speeding Bus!"

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

When the landspeed of the Teddog exceeds that of a motorized vehicle, we have reached a sad point in history.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yes, but were you laden, or unladen?

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I was laden, but so was the bus. However, due to it's lack of speed, the bus became increasingly unladen over time, but this had no effect on its overall speed.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe the bus would have gone faster if it had more people on it?

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Hrm. More people on the bus would mean less cars on the road and potentially going faster on the downhill parts, but it would more stress on the uphill parts. Eglinton and the surrounding area is not exactly flat.

That said, the slow downs were caused by stalled cars and accidents and I don't have a timeline as to when those obstacles where put into place. If they were recent, then more people on the bus would have prevented it. If they were older and not the result of rush hour traffic, the amount of people on the bus would have less of an effect.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

One wonders if there is a law of diminishing returns. Still, I theorize that, if everyone in the world got on the bus, that bus could travel through time.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

...

I'd go for it. I suggest we hijack the Yonge bus and pick up anyone and everyone we see.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And the great thing is, the more people we put on the bus, the easier it will be to catch the next person.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Well, until we start going backwards through time and catch up to the last person who just got on.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

If we keep picking up people before we pick them up, we'd be pulled over for speeding, and for violations of the Blinkovitch Limitation Effect.

[thebitterguy]

The 401 West was thankfully very clear.

I was going thirty, but I've taken my chances in a storm once, and not again, even with snows and abs.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Abs? Have you been working out? :)

[thebitterguy]

Hah!

Yes, I have, but unfortunately I meant Anti-Lock Brakes.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Psst! Now that's romance. (http://rapidtrabbit.livejournal.com/342626.html) Was Velvetpage impressed? ;)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I really outdid myself this year!