Money

Broke the garage door yesterday, called a repairman who now apologizes profusely but can't get here until tomorrow at the earliest. I could call another company. Which I may do.
After breaking the door, thought about attempting to fix it myself. However all the websites I visited warned against it due to the springs used and tension that it may fly off and kill me. And since I don't really know how the spring interacts with the door...might be a good idea to spend the money and get someone who knows what they're doing in to fix it.
Which got me to thinking about money. Who thought up this stupid idea that we all work for money or work for some reward? What a dumb idea. Just shows to go you that thousands of years ago, we had the "What's in it for me?" attitude.
So, outside of fixing the house it got me to thinking about the Caymans. Yes, more island talk. Since it's minus 11 outside and the windchill puts it to -20, why not think about the Caymans? ha.
There is a lot, I mean a lot of rich and well off people there. And, since I'm not one of them. How did they do it? Investments? The one good idea? Inheritance? Planning? I don't know. I would like to be one of them, however my 6/49 ticket says I only won 5 dollars. I'll be a while amassing that fortune.
Here is a picture of the house I think I would like.

And it's just been reduced to sell for 2,000,000. Cayman. So that would be about 2.5 mill. Cdn. 

And they are including the boat. I'm sure it's not an aluminum runabout. I hope.  

http://www.beachcastles.com/developments/individualListings.php?view=276

I already have a former marine police officer offering to man the gates and make sure all is safe on top of the water and under. I just haven't told him that part of his uniform is when he peels off his drysuit (since wetsuit would make it wet, duh) his uniform is a tuxedo just like in the Bond movies. 

Snowday

Today is definitely a snow day. I sometimes wish my work would let us take snow days. Go ahead, kill each other, we're all at home watching Oprah and having hot chocolate! Yes, that would be cool indeed.

I (we- my better half and myself) have just come back from a week in Grand Cayman. Yes, the weather was awesome thank you. First time I had ever been to an island other than centre. My wife says it wasn't like other places she had been (Bahamas, Acapulco, Aruba). Was very Canadian there. Except they do have some rules that the English do, stores open only during the day 9-5 type thing. Left hand driving on the road. The island shuts down or seems to at night. Only two nightclubs there that I knew about. Very dependent on the cruise ships, which my wife had spoken to a t shirt vendor. He said they used to have 7-9 cruise ships in at once, now they were lucky to get 5. Recession hurts everyone it seems.

This was a trip I had won by signing up for a marathon and a running room clinic back in February. We figure the trip cost us just over 2 grand. The hotel and the airfare was free however we still had to eat. I guess we could have eaten more cheaply, but everything was so wonderful and delicious there. Only had two mediocre meals the whole time there. Their dollar is worth what the American dollar used to be like years ago, 1.25 to one of ours.  And we rented a car, that was around 380 Canadian, because we are too used to being independent and I wanted to explore the island. And also ran a half marathon there (which was the whole reason for being there), they tied in their marathon with the Scotia Toronto Waterfront one. Here I am just before the finish.

Yes, very happy to be there. An excellent run which I'd do again in a heartbeat.