The Mike Haddad Show: This is relevant to my interests.

My body temperature is completely out of whack. I'm either sweating when my room is super air conditioned, or wearing a sweater out in the sun.

My skin felt like it was burning yesterday and the day before. Today isn't so bad.

On and off I get throbbing headaches. Sometimes these are accompanied by the spins. They were so bad earlier I didn't know where I was (I was in my bed) and I couldn't up to figure it out for an hour. I went back to sleep (it was 3pm).

Sometimes, it makes me feel like I'm going to vomit everywhere.

Bombardier became a shoe-in for the $3-billion contract after its main rival, Germany's Siemens AG, pulled out of bidding at nearly the last minute.

680 News: Bombardier most likely to receive streetcar replacement contract

Well fuck. Toronto, get ready for ugly, uncomfortable, "utilitarian" LRVs on the Transit City LRT lines that were supposed to show the GTAH that transit doesn't have to suck.

141 years old, and we're still living the stereotype. Keep on keepin' on Canada.

My life has been a little crazy recently. I think I have some sort of mild sun stroke, or physical exhaustion. I went to bed with the spins last night. I was completely sober. Probably too much partying on the weekend during Pride. There's a bunch of albums that I've put up. They should be on Flickr soon enough too.

Last Wednesday, we had a "Joey is leaving soon" BBQ on the patio, which was pretty sweet. There are also pictures from that.

Monday I had Steve's Prom, which I tried not to puke through. I've been feeling really under the weather for the last two weeks, which wasn't helped by the partying on the weekend. Nor will it help my performance on tomorrow's statistics term test. Sigh.

Sunday I had movie night with Christine and Chris in Oakville. We watched Jumanji and got ridiculous. There are no pictures, because we didn't know what we were doing.

Saturday I was at Abby's for her grad formal. That was also ridiculous. There are so pictures from that, many of them showcasing Abby hammered.

Friday Paul was in town from Halifax. I was at Wonderland in the morning, and then went straight to Oakville to grab a car, drive back downtown to get Ali and head to the Green Room. There aren't many pictures, and the one REALLY good picture of Paul was accidentally deleted.

Looking back on me week, I now understand why I am so exhausted. Sigh. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here, buried under drinking and sun stroke. Not that I'll remember it in a week.

I also didn't finish updating the CSS for the new layout, so some stuff is buggy. My bad, yo.

Which brings me to another point. The auto-focus on my lens is broken. That sucks. I'm sending it back to Canon tomorrow to get it fixed. Thank goodness for warranties.

Every major Canadian newspaper that publishes in the GTA had an article yesterday about the problems the fire department has with the new ROW for streetcars on St. Clair. What does it come down to? Centre poles. They cite the curb might be hard to hop, which I doubt, as well, but say the centre poles only give the fire department 6 inches of clearance.

I laugh at this because Steve Munro's said this over and over. I also sigh, because the fire trucks we have now are way too big.

There was a link to this report on Steve Munro's page, about route choice for the Waterfront West LRT.

That's not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is Exhibit 6, on the last page, a depiction of what the route under the Gardiner can look like. Look at the stop. It still uses the standard TTC streetcar stop pylon. I can't believe that. In a time where you're trying to differentiate between the terrible traditional streetcar service you run, and entice people with what is supposed to be a new approach to transit, you can't even design a new stop pylon?

VIVA did a great job with a new brand. The TTC needs to do the same.