From Your Editor:
Happy EASTER to you all,
I’m writing this on St. Patrick’s Day, BUT perhaps I shouldn’t be as I’ve probably had more than my fill of green beer only to have discovered that the stain – after spilling it down my front – doesn’t come out. I went for breakfast this morning, and the staff were wearing Green party hats and I just happened to smile and suggest to the people ahead of me that today the special was “Green eggs and ham!!” I hope not said the young lady, I hope that they have ordinary eggs! Well Sam liked them!!
We celebrate St. Patrick, BUT NOT Dewi Sant (St. David) whom children in the know would have you believe that he is the Patron Saint of Whales!! We don’t celebrate any other Saint’s Day in Canada. I may be wrong, BUT I don’t think that Canada has a Patron saint! I have since googled it and found that indeed we do. How many have heard of Saint Jean de Brébeuf and also know that his day is October 19th? (There, you learn something every day!!)
Enough of the easy stuff!! I am quite pleased to be able to announce that we have another PRIZE QUIZ. This one is being run in conjunction with OPINEON of The Ottawa / Sudbury Mensa Group and Millie Norry. I made up the quiz, she tweaked it a little and now it is up to us to show Millie’s group that more of us can get ALL the answers correct than they can. It doesn’t help us when we realize that there are twice as many members in the Ottawa group.
This Quiz is open to ALL Calgary members in good standing, with one prize going to the first all correct emailed answers – from the Yahoo notification and another prize going to the first all correct snailmailed answers, WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE QUIZ SHEET, WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND MAIL IT BACK TO ME. That is how the written answers will be decided. The date received will determine that winner.
We did have 130 members at the end of last year, BUT so far, only 83 have renewed, so the chances of winning are increased for everybody. The Prize is $20 each, and people have to remember that the membership dues are for the calendar year, January to December, regardless of when you actually joined up. Renewal notices are NOT sent out, BUT references to the renewal process and forms, prices and the address is given in MC2. It is the same every year, and your expiry date is on the label of MC2 also.
Spring must be the season for changing jobs, renewing the life / career process. I am aware of quite a few Calgary Members who have changed employers in the last couple of months. For ME, it is the same old, same old, as it is perhaps for some of you also. I have been thinking about donating my living body to Science. Goodness knows that there is enough wrong with me that numerous people could write a thesis about me. I would be a willing subject. I did volunteer last Fall at the Foothills Hospital, with the 1st year Doctors in their communication course. Lots of fun. Volunteering at The Calgary Zoo is also lots of fun. Sometimes I am quite glad that I am incapable of work so that I have the time to volunteer, BUT it would also be very nice to be able to participate in the same things with a paycheque at the end. That is the price we pay sometimes to be able to truthfully fully enjoy our “work”.
I truly wish that you all enjoy all your work, and are not stressed out over it. Just what is the value of enormous paycheques with all stress and no happiness?
Peter Walker
Editor
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