It has been a while since I posted anything. I haven't had much to say I guess. It has been a long winter and it is not even the middle of February yet. I haven't been able to run at all for 3 months now, or x-country ski and the lack of exercise is driving me buggy. It is frustrating and I can feel my physical conditioning slipping away. It is going to take a huge amount of work to get back in shape once my foot heals up. This is my second go-round with plantar fascitis and the recovery this time is taking much longer than last time. My wife can't wait for me to be able to starting running again. She says I am driving her crazy around the house, that I make a very grumpy couch potato. I think she is right and I do see it in myself; I am touchier than normal, and get cabin fever all too easily.
On other fronts the political situation here is starting to really bug me, with the Harper government wanting to take too much of a lead from the Americans. The demise of the Gun Registry is an ideological not a practical accomplishment, making police work much harder without improving our civil liberties at all. The new proposed legislation tabled by the government giving the police all sorts of warrantless information about us is a major infringement on our civil liberties, and the use of "child porn" as a boogieman is not conducive to rational conversation. Opposition to this serious over-reaching of spying powers should not be cause for demonizing someone.