Merry Christmas and things that make you go hmmm.

First off Merry Christmas. I was watching the Santa tracker on norad's website and the thought occured to me with a truckers mind in overtime.....

1. Does Santa have to follow the FAA rules when flying over US Airspace.

2. Does Santa have to set up gifts on a Fast Clearance or Does he have to clear thru ACE when crossing thru the US.

3. Would all the millions of cookies he eats every trip not seriously not qualify for a FAA medical.

4. Are there some families that leave something other than milk to drink, i.e rum and coke.

5. What kind of exemption did he have to apply for to go over his hours for FAA regs.

6. Why is Rudolph the only reindeer that gets carrots, just because he's the only on with a red nose means he's any more important than the rest of them.

I hope you all get what you want this Christmas and get to enjoy the time with Family ( even the ones you hate)

Snow and the road....

Well I survived yesterday's dumping of snow, I tried shovelling out the driveway but after 2 hours and only accomplishing a quarter of the driveway I called the nieghbour who was nice enough to help out and plow out the rest of it for me. Thanks Don!
As I figured, It took a little bit of extra time to get out of the yard this morning getting the snow of the truck and then navagating thru a half plowed yard to get hooked to my trailer, luckily didn't get stuck and wasn't overly shocked that during my travels at the amount of cars in the ditch some people just never get the message. Maybe the tow bill and the hike in your insurance rates will clue you in.

this wacko world of ours.

I've been thinking alot this week about the nut job in Nebraska that went ape shit in a busy shopping mall earlier this week, It got me thinking, how can the way the new generation is being brought up in this BS politically correct society. I'm only 28 but believe me things were much better when I was going thru the school system than they are now, first off in Ontario I am convinced that they are trying to raise a generation of pussified wussies that can't stick up for themselves with this safe schools program they have had along with the zero tolerance, lets say someone pisses your kid off or perhaps throws a punch your kid is now expected to sit there and take it and not defend himself or he faces expulsion if he does defend himself, now explain to me what the fuck is wrong with that picture, the other thing I got thinking about was when I was in school when we played spots we kept score somebody won and somebody lost and guess what you learned to lose and have good sportsmanship in the process, now they don't keep score and now everyone wins a participation ribbon because god forbid you hurt some kids feelings. This world would be a hell of a lot better if kids were told no instead of yes everytime they ask for something, some kids think they deserve everything because well thier parents say yes to everything and spoil them to no end. Maybe better yet we should give parents a test and license them before they are aloud to have kids. No my kids aren't perfect but they can deal when I tell them NO. I could be wrong but better parenting just might be the answer to this issue but I could be wrong