So this guy gets arrested in New Mexico, but it’s not because they found 2000 anti-tank missiles, it’s just because he didn’t have a proper license for them. The rest of the article makes it a more boring story, so just chuckle over the state of the world with me.
Incidentally, the guy was Canadian, so don’t think I’m slagging the American system at all. Far from it. Over the past several months, I’ve seen a few proposals to convert the Canadian dollar to American money, and I’ve also heard somewhere that US dollars will start coming out in colours other than green, so maybe there’s some harmonization there. This may have already been suggested, but I think Canadian dollars are just going metric. $1 US is worth about $1.56 Canadian right now. A mile is 1.6 kilometers (right now). If we can devalue the Canadian dollar just a bit more, it’ll become the “metric dollar”. This will really help tourism. Every car will have a built in currency conversion guide on the speedometer!
Speaking of speed, I got on my bike today for the first time in a long while. This might have something my reading The Immortal Class lately. Incidentally, I had to link Amazon instead of Chapters because Chapters feels the book isn’t available yet, despite it being in my hands. Amazon says it hasn’t been published yet either, so maybe I have the only copy in Canada. Anyway, Amazon has it for cheaper (in metric dollars). Back to the point, I went riding. Man do I suck. I don’t think I can really blame the bike here, even though it’s getting up in years. What I can blame to some extent is my seat height, which after some actual research seems can be tweaked a bit. Of course, it requires the one hex key that I can’t find anywhere. This may become the Bachelor University lesson for the day: when you can’t find your tools, it’s time to clean up. In any event, my mortgage company can rest easy; I won’t be quitting my job to become a bike courier anytime soon.