Good evening to you!

As you know I live in the political equivalent to Florida. It was floated about this week that the provincial government may tax EVs because they hurt the economy or some shit. The link is to one of the whackadoodle RW rags in this province.

Whaddaya think of that BfC????

This government was reelected so here we are.

Recently I’ve been speaking about the wild fire problems we are having up north and that you are experiencing the smoke from. Well the town of Edson, Alberta is having themselves a bad time this year. Is the provincial government doing much to help them? No. Did they resoundingly reelect a member from that party? Yes. They’ve been evacuated due to the wildfires and just this week were evacuated due to flooding. The government launched a task force (grift) in to looking at the possibility that it is eco terrorists lighting fires. It’s a preposteroUs claim but seems normal here now. They have yet to comment on the flooding but I’m sure another task force will look at how clearcutting our forests will benefit communities down stream. Or maybe a mine is more your flavoUr? I hate it here.

We all know wine, weed, travel and footy are my passions so we get everything right here right now!

Women’s World Cup Preview

A Host country! This should totally mean something right? Wrong. This may give them an easier ride to the knockout stages but Women’s footy is like women’s hockey but a little less to the extreme. The top 5 are far better than the rest as the gap in talent is very visible.

Australia

The Matildas are ranked 10th in the world and are led by Sam Kerr. She plays for the blue team in West London so I already don’t like her. That being said she’s an absolute star and will carry this team as far as they go. Upon reading some previews they said that the Aussies are very fast and adept at the counter attack. Perhaps they could surprise and go further than I anticipate due to home field advantage and an easier run to the QF’s. If you win this group you will like avoid England in the next round who should win their group.

Their group consists of Nigeria (40), Ireland (22), and Canada (8). Canada is a tricky team as they are getting old. Their taliswoman? Christine Sinclair just turned 40 and Mother Time always catches up with you.

Since half of Ireland lives in Australia it will be interesting to see if they get more support than we would think. Oddly enough Australia plays their three games in three different cities. Usually you see teams play in 1 or maybe 2 sites depending upon their stature but rarely does FIFA ask supporters to travel a lot in the prelims (Canada flies to and from Perth). You would think that because they play in Sydney, Melbourne, and Briz Vegas that climate would have to come into play for training as the 3 cities climates are very different.

Continuing in the Australian theme I have a story for you.

Today we have the travel story from Port Douglas, Australia where I lived out of a tent behind a backpacker’s hostel for 6 months. We had power for fans in our tents as it was so damn hot, and 100 percent humidity every day. The guy that owned the resto I worked at used to pay me in cash and any night that I helped on the grill which was next to the bar he would give me a free bottle of red. Who likes hot wine?

When arriving at Dougie’s backpackers hostel where we set up camp out back I noticed that there was no one selling weed anywhere. Weed at this time and still is incredibly expensive in Australia. I’d previoUsly lived in Melbourne where 2.5 grams would cost you 50 bucks. To remedy the lack of green situation I put out feelers in the two restaurants that I worked in and within a day or two another server approached me with the info that his roommate was a weed dealer. I was very excited and talked to my travel buddy and put up 400 AUD for an ounce (ouch).

We were like kids in a candy store the evening that I was to get the bag. Issue was that it was a fifteen minute bike ride, through the jungle, in the dark. The bike path went right through a thick jungle with no lights and I had never ridden it before. The only bicycle available to me was my now ex girlfriends and it was not in the best shape. I figured that I could use the light on my sweet flip phone and it shouldn’t be a problem.

I went off the trail twice, went ass over teakettle once, dropped the phone twice and ended up walking the bike a mile to the mobile home where my bounty was located.

Upon arriving it appeared to be a set from Hoarders and frankly I would have expected nothing less after meeting ‘Pops”. Pops was the dealer and he looked like Santa Claus if he had smoked 2 packs of Winnie Reds a day due the the staining of his white beard. He invited me in and I negotiated through all of the stuff this older gentleman had accumulated over the years. I wondered how could 1 man, let alone 2 live in this disaster zone.

Then I saw it.

“It” was a fucking enormoUs python in a huge glass cage nestled amongst the clutter.

Next to it was an enclosure of mice to feed said snake and their enclosure did not look to be the most secure.

I’m deathly afraid of snakes and mice can get fucked. I gave him the money and ran the hell out of there.

I had so much adrenaline running through me that I made record time on the bike path getting back without any mishaps. Clearly my senses had gotten a boost from my fright.

The next few days the folks in the camp caught wind that we were sitting on an oz of weed. Now I’m not a drug dealer as I did not want to end up in gaol but we did find a trustworthy Canadian guy who would be our go between so that the 3 of us could just smoke for free.

For instance a German backpacker would approach me to buy some weed and I would say I don’t sell it. Twenty minutes later you would see him talking to our go between and he would deliver the product. Was a lovely system.

We smoked for free the entire 6 months there.

Sports tonight!

Beisbol. Redshirt can only have an erection for so long Reds!

Have a good night, I will be at kid’s futbol watching 6 year old’s pick flowers and spin around in joy. Maybe even a game of British Bulldog.