> Brunnen-"trying not to get wild visions of training as a *pilot*, since that will probably lead to disappointment"G

[link: http://www.geocities.com/yachtie_nz/Aerials.html]

That's a very nice set of pictures. You have a beautiful country!

I'm jealous. Funny thing is, lots of people here seem to be jealous of /me/! Some of you have recently been wishing for snow. We do have snow here in Edmonton, but it hasn't snowed for about a week, so the snow is kind of brownish-grey mostly, and piled on the sides of the roads when it hasn't melted. During the day it sometimes gets warm enough to melt the snow, but at night it gets cold again so when the city doesn't apply salt to some roads (residential streets, for example) there's a layer of ice on those roads by morning. That may sound cool, but when you're driving to school or work in the morning, it's not.

Another interesting thing to remember is that the North is often called the "land of the midnight sun" because in summer, in the far north, the sun sometimes doesn't set at all. Edmonton isn't quite that far north, but we do get our share of days when the sun doesn't set until around 11:00 pm and rises at around 5:30 am. Unfortunately, this works the other way around as well, so now, even with Daylight Savings Time, I go to school in the dark, and come home in the dark. Within a month or so I'm going to be wishing I still remembered what sunlight is supposed to look like!

I think it would rule to live near a large body of water. You could go swimming and boating all the time, the scenery would rule, and in addition to that, the water would tend to equalize the temperature so that the snow would be more likely to melt right away and you wouldn't have to worry about icy browny gunky stuff. It would make shoveling easier too!

It's kind of silly. We live /right next/ to the Rocky Mountains, and yet /just/ so far away from them that we can't see them! I think it would be cool to have mountains on the horizon. Oh, well. I'll be more optimistic about the way Edmonton looks when we get /new/ snow to replace this gunky brownish stuff.

Congratulations on the Air Patrol thing, by the way!

-Space "Tangental poster" Bar