My Worst Nightmare ...

Over the weekend a car plunged through the ice of Cascade Lake, the reservoir up near Spray Lakes and William Watson Lodge, in Kananaskis - a place I've been many times and am very familiar with so can envisage easily both winter and summer. It is beautiful in the way mountain lakes are always lovely - however, the fact that a car carrying four adults went through the ice on the lake and only one of them was able to be rescued - ah, thaand t is giving me nightmares. Even when I'm awake.

One of my worst fears is dying under ice, trapped between ice and water with a little bit of air - just enough so I would be alive for a few minutes so that I would know I was trapped and dying. Pretty much how I imagine it was for the three people who didn't make it out of their car.

It seems that there were many brave bystanders who went into the sub-zero water and tried to save these poor souls. They did manage to free two of them and worked on them, giving them CPR for however long it took the Emergency vehicles to get there. They couldn't get one person out and I cannot imagine how horrible that must have been. I only hope that poor bugger was unconscious ...

Terr and I saw the aftermath of a really bad accident ourselves while we driving home from Quesnel - there were fire-trucks and police cars and two vehicles off to the side. One no longer recognizable as a car, the other smashed pretty badly as well and a semi with the front pretty badly damaged. We haven't seen any news about this accident yet but there was no paper today given that it was New Year's ...

Speaking of which - the whole family, except for Grandma - met at the Jay's for Chinese tonight - our tradition - it was the right, normal thing to do - felt like getting back to some semblance of normalcy, I guess.

Of course, any time with Jack, is bonus time!

Through the Looking Glass

On more than one way to get around Microsoft cutting me off Word - I hate that the bloody progamme won't load on this old Tosh anymore when I just feel like writing a line or two, you know? It keeps asking for that bloody key code or whatever they call it and won't let me even edit stuff I've already written - yeah, so - I forgot - the last time I worked for Sun Life and was bored out of my gourd, I figured out how to get into one of my blogs and then could write away to my heart's content and then just take it off there when I got home so here I am again - nyah,nyah nyah..oh man, I do miss having a workable mouse over here. I'm too tired for this also. Tomorrow maybe.

Wondering Am I, If This Will Post

Not like I need another blog but am actually wondering if this one still functions, that's all.

And What Shall I Use This One For

As an experiment I decided to try and download (upload?) another gadget from the dictionary page I've just started using and sure enough - up it came. It's pretty busy looking and I may take some of it out but it's neat to see I can do it.

And why the locket you might ask? Hmm...why not?