h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Time goes by so fast, yet some nights definitely seem to last forever

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I continue with my plan to stay young until I'm 60, then start my second childhood.

I know the feeling.

My best Gypsy fortune teller tells me I'll be around till I'm 94.

I still want to live forever anyway.

I'm not too concerned. Is it not written: time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

It is

Phew! Just back from a week away in Calgary, Alberta (middle of Canada, in case anyone is interested whereas I'm more around the bottom and a bit east of Canada. While I was away my Call for Participation appeared in the Post. If anyone is interested in popping by to reflect, here is the link:

http://h2g2.com/entry/A87872872

Love to see you there!

~Beeblefish

Calgary is the middle? Maybe they moved it since I was last there ...

How can you get east of Canada, maybe Greenland?
The Maritimes extend far more easterly than any part of the US.

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Caught up at last!

'lo Gw7en!

Well, middle-ish, really. I always thing of the Prairies as the middle 3 provinces. But the Americas geography is weird. Toronto lines up with New York in terms of time zones for example (All Eastern), but also with the west coast of South America!

Yeah, without looking at a map, I kind of assumed Chicago and the Great Lakes were roughly North of me here in Houston, Texas, mainly because we're in the same time zone as Chicago.

I met my bride at a teeny RCAF RADAR site about 3 hours slow drive north of Winnipeg ... I consider that roughly the middle of Canada.

That location - Gysumville, Manitoba - has short comings. A small gas station that made danged good burgers. A teeny chicken and pizza place. And other than life on the military site, that was about it.

How-ever, we approach 32 of knowing each other, and even closer is our 29th wedding anniversary. So it was a charmed place to be in '85.

(For clarity, we met on October 8th, 1984. Thanksgiving Day for us, a bank holiday, and coincidentally my 25th birthday)

And to REALLY wear out my welcome:

My first marriage, only child and 1st military posting was St John's, Newfoundland. Eastern most city of North America, has claims to also being the eldest city of the same measure, and have visited Cape Spear lighthouse with 2 young ladies (neither became a bride). That single point being the most easterly point of any in North America.

Right, done with Canuck geography - on with stuff ...

Meeting on a milestone birthday is a sneaky way to ensure you don't forget the date

If lunchtime is doubly an illusion, if you procrastinate over eating lunch so that it takes all day, does that mean you would never age?

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My daughter married on our 16th anniversary - another easy way to remember dates.

Oh, and son-in-law was born sometime between the dinner and the dancing of the wedding of his in-laws ... (My first marriage)

Yeah, is Canadians have the weirdest geography and neither we, not the US seems to understand it. For example, there is a casual myth that we are further north of the US—for example in terms of media representations (it's always snowy here, for example too). But our prairie provinces are actually a lot further north than Ontario, so if I went due west from here I would actually have to travel through 4 US states and then need north if I want to reach them. If you can tell I love maps. I love blowing the minds of undergrads showing them how maps like the Mercator has distorted our picture of reality and telling them that one day we might have a bridge from Alaska to Russia (cold-war geography minds destroyed!).