What I Learned on my First Workday of 2012

Snow causes people to drive funny.  Not funny ha-ha.

There were so many collisions during London and area’s “snow event”, not to be confused with Snowmagaddon, that police stopped counting.  Finally they had to shut down stretches of the 401 and 402.  Those drivers who blame the ice or their car or the weather have never had to get a lecture from 680’s Darryl Dahmer! Darryl believes there is no such thing as an accident.  He says collisions are caused by some sort of human error, either driving too fast or inattention or whatever.  Traffic reporters on 680 News who said there was an “accident” somewhere would get an earful from Double-D!  I find it amusing and accurate at the same time.   People are going to have to understand that they just can’t drive like it’s sunny and dry when there’s a snowstorm.

Hospital CEOs are doing very well, thank you.  Ontario hospitals released their compensation packages yesterday.  The CEO at London Health Sciences Centre makes $495,000 in salary, gets a performance bonus equal to 20% of that, has 6 weeks vacation and a $16,800 car allowance.  The CEO of St. Joseph’s must be pissed. She gets all of those perks but only $390,000 a year.  How can she make ends meet?

If you close your eyes, raw cauliflower florets taste just like shortbread cookies. No, really.  And if I repeat that to myself often enough I expect it will eventually come true!  Yes the diet train left the station around the holidays and it hasn’t been seen since. I’m sorry to say that several weeks of hard work evaporated in a haze of mint meltaways and chocolate-cranberry squares.  But Derek is about to start on a program for which he will be the local “spokesmodel”.  I will get on board by osmosis and by being the cook of the house.  And I’m joining his gym and we’ll start going together.  So, there’s a plan.  Now pass me the florets, please.

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