A Few Quick Notes 450

-As expected, today was incredibly hot (kind of like the past few days). The humidity made the relatively high temperatures incredibly unpleasant and sweat inducing. As the evening has started to set in the temperature has started to drop, amazingly this hasn't seemed to caused much change in our apartment (presumably because of the heat retaining power of our apartment building's bricks).

-Today, because of the expected arrival of Hurricane Earl, a number of non-standard actions were taken in Halifax. One of the first of these actions that I learned about was the holding of an auxiliary farmer's market this afternoon. Strangely, they seemed to suggest that tomorrow morning's edition of the farmer's market was also expected to go ahead (I guess I will have to wait and see if this actually happens). The second somewhat unusual going on was that Halifax closed all of its sports fields for the long-weekend in anticipation of the storm. The result of the closure is that our final regular season Ultimate game of the season has been cancelled. As much as it might have been nice to play one more regular season Ultimate game, I am particularly pleased to know that the game won't be going ahead several days ahead of time.

-Jeannette and I ended up visiting the auxiliary farmer's market this afternoon. The trip was definitely a waste of time, there were very few vendors and basically no deals to be had (a fact that was driven home by a recent trip to the Valley, where they have real deals).

-Hurricane Earl is definitely on course to hit the Maritimes in the next few hours. That being said, I am not entirely convinced that Halifax will be hit to hard (at least if the imagery is to be believed).



(Source: National Hurricane Center)

On the other hand, it looks as though the North coast of the province will be hit pretty hard. Of course, this is of increased interest to our apartment now that Rebecca's brother, Nick, lives on that side of the province.

-We discovered more mouse activity in our apartment this evening. Hopefully all available food has been secured and any incentives for further presence removed.

-Tonight Neil signed up for a Costco membership. Because I was there, reside at the same address as Neil, and have a drivers license I was given the second membership card. We then went on to purchase quite a number of item, very few of which were complete extravagances.

-Just a few minutes ago I reported the advertising graffiti that wrote about earlier. Hopefully the city will clamp down on the offending company and consequently discourage other companies from adopting similar practices. I guess for any thing to happen the city will actually have to take action, which likely won't happen until after the long weekend.