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

I know how big Canada is, thank you Nick. If I remember correctly, Ben's rolling meet was going to take in some of Canada as well. They had quite an ambitious schedule.

No matter how you look at it, one country or traces of both, it easily looks like several weeks and a LOT of driving. I'm becoming intrigued.

It would be fun. It would also be expensive. You'll need to start buying those lottery tickets.

Yes, no and maybe. Our better car is fairly economical over distance runs. And proper B & B's, Ma and Pa thingies, are not that bad yet.

Glad to hear you had more pluses than minuses.


You never know, there might be a wandering Jock touring the colonies next year

And if you, Sir, have the nerve to ask, you can be sure that a town and street address is available. As is the guest room, if you can tolerate a couple of typically insane cats.

A Merry christmas to you and Milady and hopes for a prosperous 2008

Thank you, Lady Venus. Hugs and wishes for you and your little tribe as well.

Hiya, Lady Vix, best of the season to you and your little tribe.

Thanks! You too of course

Yes, Canada is a big country, but isn't a fairly high percentage of its population located within about 150 or 200 miles of the U.S. border? I'm not trying to imply that the U.S. is any kind of benchmark, it's just that large metropolitan areas are hard to maintain in places where it's 50 degrees below zero 8 months of the year . Though, God knows, there's a big city built on permafrost in Siberia, where it hit 80 below zero one time. They tried to beat the odds, but the state was also heavily subsidizing them....

I have always been beyond terrible with history and geography. But as I remember it, the core of Canada began along the St Laurence River (sea-way) ... and then just kinda went due west. That probably isn't far from the 49th parallel thingie. It may be as much happenstance as design that the two countries border that line.

Or was it an evile plot of Billy Gates, with an integral time-control feature of Windoze-2207 ... Reverse engineering of what should have been ... A single isle off of Newfoundland, known as Nickdom !!!

What you need, Rev, is a book on geography, to bring you up to speed. Tbere's a new one, put out by the Onion, called "Our Dumb World." It manages to be quite amusing, as well as informative.

That actually looks like a pretty cool book. AFTER the Christmas rush, and if the wallet heals, I may order one in from Amazon ...

me too!

Right then, ... in the last 24 hours we have seen the temperatures soar, rains that have melted weeks-old ice, then winds that shook our bungalow. Now, at 4 am, slow lazy snow showers.

What's the weird and wild world doing in your respective corners and locations, to bring on Christmas?

Wind is up, as they say It's warmed up too

Grey and overcast here, though warmer than it has been 'yippeeee'

Warmer here today as well