Heating Up

Ridiculous. It's not even June. We're into our first heat wave of the year. Last week, we still had our furnace on. Yesterday, my neighbour turned on her air conditioner. I suppose I will have to turn mine on as well at some point to get rid of the moisture in the house. The temperature is in the mid-thirties, which is tolerable, but it's the humidity that sticks and drains the life out of you.

Looks like this wave will last about four days. This is day two.

Not an exaggeration any more when we say Southern Ontario has only two seasons - winter and summer. It's enough to make me want to move to British Columbia or Iceland.

But life goes on here.

I have my appointments today, going down to fix Mom's water faucet problem, and getting ready to receive our cousin late tonight. The Boy has his election "speech" done for the school assembly today. It's actually a rap, quite ingeniously written by himself. I was blown away when he did it for me the first time. He's well rehearsed now, including a late night call to Sis last night, and an early morning call to The Man this morning to practise.

The TTC is back to work today. Means I worry less about The Boy's ability to travel on his own. But it doesn't mean I trust the public transit system any more. Unions are great to protect the rights of exploited workers. But at some point, they outlive their usefulness. The workers they protect are no longer exploited. I mean, where else do high school graduates make $60,000 a year, with full benefits, working 35 hour week? Big unions have now become more of a threat and nuisance to essential services.

Is Harper right, that we all turn Conservative sooner or later? Can't be. But these big unions that support the NDP sure make it hard for voters not to give the enemy more serious consideration. My disillusionment continues.