AWOL - not national bean counting week...
Sorry guys. I have been AWOL this week. Believe it or not, thats Audit Week Of Learning. They've run 2 of these this year, and given a weeks training to 500 people in total in a posh hotel in Niagara falls. Training from 830 til 5, and free bar every night.
Back in April when i was trying with DBH to negotiate my escape date from Bham to here, one stumbling block was a week that DBH had understood to be the Canadian National Auditors week. Sounded really dull. Come to think of it, how much better does Audit Week of Learning sound?! I really need to get out more...
Or maybe not. 200 people, 4.5 days of learning, and 5 nights of quality food, wine tasting, beer and shot drinking, casino gambling and poker playing... we literally took over the clubs we were in for 4 of those nights... it was like freshers again back home, or Eckenberg maybe... well, freshers without the whole meat market element... this is Auditors we are talking about after all, and whole bunch of these guys are married off (there were no non qualified accountants there, which ages them a bit).
I will post later more on the trip later, but it was the best 'working' week i have ever had, and i cannot offer greater praise to the guys than that..
Might need to get the beans out tomorrow. Petrol (gas) is now $1.33 a litre here, mainly as a result of Katrina's work down south. Whilst this pales in comparison to UK prices (133 is still only 60 to 65p), it was $1.05 last week, 85c when i arrived late June, and apparently as low as 60c in January. 200% annual equivalent inflation rates... lets see if the Canadians see fit to try a fuel strike!! You can at least sympathise with why they are somewhat perturbed at the latest position..
And the 25c rise this week is just in time for our 500km round trip to Algonquin Park. Nice. Oh well. Luckily, I'll be spending the weekend with 4 accountants, so we should be alright for a few bob..
Back in April when i was trying with DBH to negotiate my escape date from Bham to here, one stumbling block was a week that DBH had understood to be the Canadian National Auditors week. Sounded really dull. Come to think of it, how much better does Audit Week of Learning sound?! I really need to get out more...
Or maybe not. 200 people, 4.5 days of learning, and 5 nights of quality food, wine tasting, beer and shot drinking, casino gambling and poker playing... we literally took over the clubs we were in for 4 of those nights... it was like freshers again back home, or Eckenberg maybe... well, freshers without the whole meat market element... this is Auditors we are talking about after all, and whole bunch of these guys are married off (there were no non qualified accountants there, which ages them a bit).
I will post later more on the trip later, but it was the best 'working' week i have ever had, and i cannot offer greater praise to the guys than that..
Might need to get the beans out tomorrow. Petrol (gas) is now $1.33 a litre here, mainly as a result of Katrina's work down south. Whilst this pales in comparison to UK prices (133 is still only 60 to 65p), it was $1.05 last week, 85c when i arrived late June, and apparently as low as 60c in January. 200% annual equivalent inflation rates... lets see if the Canadians see fit to try a fuel strike!! You can at least sympathise with why they are somewhat perturbed at the latest position..
And the 25c rise this week is just in time for our 500km round trip to Algonquin Park. Nice. Oh well. Luckily, I'll be spending the weekend with 4 accountants, so we should be alright for a few bob..
posted by CBC at 10:27 pm
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