Miscellaneous Updates

• Our OHIP cards go live in April. We paid $6 in parking for 30 minutes to get our socialist health care. Yeah!  And Ontario caved (or is going the good karma route, depending on your view) and is giving the mom the drugs she was asking for (see previous post).  
• S is potty training. He has had three accidents since yesterday - all at home. We even went out all morning and he did a stellar job. Yippee for S!  E is a super duper helper. Of course, it is encouraging his already prevalent nudist tendencies. 
• I liked this article about the War in Libya by Margaret Wente. 
• We went to Tim Horton's today for the first time in almost two weeks. Ahhh. It is such an interesting cultural phenomenon -- everyone in Canada goes there. They even hold their Tim's cups differently, with four fingers on the bottom and their thumb on the lid, or maybe it is vice versa, but they don't hold around the cup like you would normally.   Fancy business people, parking enforcement, ladies meeting for coffee all meet at Tim's. My father-in-law never would have left.  Ever.  
• Don't take two young children with you to the liquor store.  Especially when they have these little plastic rolling baskets and you only get one and your kids have to take turns (Why are your kids pulling the alcohol, you ask? Gigantic lapse of judgement.) and it is the end of your errands and they are starting to fight.  That is all I have to say about that.