Weekend Recap: Startin’ ta get Cold
This weekend, the nippy weather has finally arrived. Yaa hoo! I hate that disgusting heat and humidity that plagues southern Ontario every summer.
On Saturday, I took a drive out to Burlington to buy some records. But I forget where in Burlington the record store is located. I’d only been to this place once before and I was a passenger in the car, not the driver. Getting out there was going to be a problem. I didn’t know how to get there. I, of course, didn’t realize this until after I left the house. I could have turned around and driven back home and surfed the web to find the name and location of this store, but I didn’t feel like turning around. Instead, I punched in “Burlington” into the navigation system in the dashboard and hoped that the guidance system would eventually lead me to something I found familiar from the previous visit.
The problem with these navigational systems is they don’t know traffic patterns and road re-construction projects. Over by the 401 & 427, construction and lots of it. That never makes the drive a smooth ride, or a quick one. There was also some construction on the QEW. That created a nice parking lot effect on the highway.
Eventually the navigational system tells me “Exit right onto, Brant Street.” Brant Street, that sounds familiar.
Once I got off the highway, everything looked very familiar. That’s pretty incredible seeing as how I’d only been over there once before. What wasn’t familiar was all the construction happening on Brant Street. I guess it was just one of those days where you just can’t avoid road work.
I spent most of Sunday trying to relax. I hurt my back again, not sure how. I hope it doesn’t bother me too much. This afternoon I’ve got to pick up three people from the airport and I will probably have to spend a lot of time with these people in the next two weeks. Generally when I’ve got family from aboard visiting Toronto, they have no idea what they want to do. Italians have no knowledge of Toronto and what it has to offer. The only reason they come to TO is because they have family here, family like me.
Recommended Listening: Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath.
October 15, 2007 at 8:18 am
I’ve found those navigation systems to be generally more trouble than they’re worth as they like to screw with you, and are often out of date with the information. And road work sucks every single time.
October 15, 2007 at 8:59 am
I enjoyed the competing navigational systems on saturday night.
October 15, 2007 at 9:49 am
Hmmm, I really want a GPS system as i constantly get lost, geographically inclined I am not.
Take them to Little Italy or Woodbridge LOL.
October 15, 2007 at 10:25 am
Not many Italians in TO?
October 15, 2007 at 10:40 am
BDS - the sytem I’ve got for work has actually told to to turn right and make a U instead of just turning left, so I’ve lost a lot of faith in the systems over the past year that I’ve used them
Bob - stayed tune for round 2 of Ceano vs. the Porsche PCM
Miss Ash - if you get one, make sure its upgradable. This one I used this weekend didn’t know where I was when i stopped for gas. It had me in the middle of a field. AND Little Italy is pretty much a joke these days. There are no Italians left there. And Woodbridge, yeah, well there’s one day.
Wiwille - lots of Italians, its just Italians aren’t often interested in Toronto’s culture. Yeah, I know, what culture?