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Google Messed up! Double CN Tower in Streetview

October 11, 2009 by Tricia

Ha! Google didn’t edit all the shots it has of the CN Tower (Still the worlds largest standing tower for a few months!) in it’s newly released Streetview Canada.

If you go to Google maps to try out Streetview and type in 52 Manitoba Drive, Toronto, Ontario and spin around to the right a few times you’ll see this:

I just heard about this on this evenings CTV news and I had to go searching for it myself. It’s a pretty cool picture, but I’d imagine that Google will fix this pretty soon!

When I first went to Google maps I just typed in CN Tower, Toronto and it put me at the base of the tower on Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario … Of course I couldn’t find the double tower that way … but after traveling North on Bremner Blvd in street view I found this picture (after tilting upward of course):

Top half of CN Tower is off kilter - Google Streetview

When I zoomed out it looks like you might be able to get to this address by typing in 200 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario (at Lower Simcoe St.).

Actually, I gave it a try and I got an even cooler shot! Take a peek!

CN tower top offset in Google Streetview

Are you able to access Google Streetview for your area of the world yet? If so you might want to waste a little bit of time looking around your city or town and see if you can find any odd views like I’ve posted here. My guess is that taller structures will be more likely to be messed up.

Let me know if you find anything interesting!

BTW Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!

The new neighbors seem ok – So far

October 7, 2009 by Tricia

I’m not sure what to make of our new neighbors yet. They moved in last Wednesday (the moving went on until 2:30 am! not a good first impression!) so they’ve been here for a week.

So far they seem ok. We haven’t really talked to them this week because we haven’t really seen them – they seem to stay indoors most of the time. That’s fine by me … the last renters that were in the house next door (The Rednecks as I called them) were always outside and yelling and banging things around in the driveway. The quiet is a nice change! Especially since I’m still not feeling all that well.

The guy is apparently a car freak – just like the last neighbor! When they were moving in he had boxes of car gear! At least we didn’t see tons of tires like the last guy! I do like his car though – he’s got these really cool halo headlights. I’ve never seen headlights like them. Pretty neat.

Our only problem with the new neighbors so far is that my husband doesn’t want to have anything to do with them. Not that we’ve had a chance to mingle or interact with them so far … but still … my husband is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He pretty much likes everyone and is friendly to all he meets … but after our experience with the last renters next door he just doesn’t want to bother to get to know these people.

I think it’s because these new neighbors were recommended by the old ones so they have a connection, AND the night that the new family was moving in we talked to them and he told us about this real druggie guy who lives down the street and what did he see later in the evening … the new neighbor going to the druggie guys house! Chris has said he’s seen him visit the house a few times since they moved in too … so I guess that’s tainted his view of the new neighbors.

My view is that as long as they are quite and there aren’t any unsavory people hanging around their house (or in front of ours!) what they do is their own business. I do kind of hope that Chris is wrong about our neighbors visit down the street though.

I can’t seem to get better

October 5, 2009 by Tricia

I’m still feeling awful. A few days ago I thought I was getting a little better – hey at lest that terrible pain in my right side went away but I guess was wrong.

I hate Crohn’s! I hate it. There I said it!

I won’t bore you or shock you with the details and symptoms of Crohn’s, but lets just say that I’ve spent far too much time over the last week lying down in pain or practically living in the bathroom. Hmmm … maybe I should set up my laptop in there? LOL Yeah, it’s that bad!

So … I’m going to try to keep up with my blogs, but if I go a few days without writing it’s probably just because I’m feeling crappy and need to just rest in order to feel a little better.

One good thing is that I saw my specialist today and he upped my Crohn’s meds … so maybe that will give my inflamed bowels a kick and make them a little better.

I need new body parts!

October 3, 2009 by Tricia

So last week I wrote a post about how crappy I was feeling due to a really bad Crohn’s flare. I swear the pain I was feeling was just like appendicitis. Awful!

As the week progressed I started to feel a bit better but then I got a few cankers in my mouth – another side affect for people who have autoimmune diseases.

Anyway … I’m feeling a bit better, but I could be feeling a whole lot better. Still it’s progress! Hmmm I think I need to get some kind of extended service plan for my body! LOL Somehow I don’t think I’d qualify.

Now our furnace thermostat is broken! What else can go wrong

October 3, 2009 by Tricia

It figures. We’re going through a rough patch financially and it seems like everything in our house is breaking down or not working quite right. Ironic isn’t it?

The latest thing in our growing list of household items and appliances that are breaking is the thermostat for our furnace! It doesn’t seem to be calculating the room temperature accurately. I spent some time on the internet trying to find out where we could buy a new one or figure out how to fix ours and I keep getting sent to a page for a Honeywell Barcode Scanner when I type in the thermostat model number. I guess our thermostat model is not being made anymore.

Last week the bottom of our shower stall cracked! LOL … Really .. I have to laugh or I’ll start crying. We just have no money to fix these things!

We’ve been trying to be very careful with our spending over the last few months (generally we are careful about our spending anyway, but we’ve tried to find other ways to cut expenses recently) and if we can keep it up for a few more months we should be able to fix or replace most of the things that have broken over the last few months. I just hope that nothng else breaks in the meantime!

The list of broken things includes our toaster oven, the washing machine, the shower stall and now our furnace thermostat. I’m sure there’s a few other things that have broken recently but those are the biggies. Of course we need to fix that thermostat now, since it’s getting quite cool here in Toronto!

Anyone else having things break down in their home that they can’t afford to fix or replace right now?

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