 Leap for work. He's sitting in his living room. Highlights of my morning. I go past his house and we wave at each other. I've always wanted a neighbor like that. Really great guy. He's the guy who gave us those ciders. I thresholded his driveway for him. He brought us a little house warming gift. He introduced himself when we moved in and every time he sees us he stops the chat. Really great guy. I believe he's from the UK. I want to say that because that's where his accent sounds like it comes from and he says that he has family out there, so one plus one now I would assume that he's from the UK, but I'll have to ask him next time. We don't get to see each other very much right now because of the whole virus thing going around. So it's not like we can just go visit each other. Highlight of my morning. Every morning he sits around his couch and as I leave the driveway gives me a wave. Good guy. So I owe, I owe, and it's off to work. I go again. Drive some trucks today again. Have some fun. Bring people their stuff. You know as simple as it sounds just bringing people their stuff. I love it. I love it. The simplicity of it is beautiful. I take stuff from here and I bring it over there in good condition. You see, people are always happy to get their stuff. It's sort of like getting an Amazon delivery. You're always happy when you get the stuff you order, right? So I'm like a hero of sorts, right? Maybe? No? Whatever. We'll just go with that. I'm sure everything's working, shall we? So I gave the truck a rinse yesterday. You'll see I didn't do a very good job. That's because it's gonna be just as dirty as it was yesterday. In about 30 minutes, but I did rinse her down and look at this. I've got a trailer door again. Again, just pretty much rinsed it down. It's a lot better than it was. We need to get this thing looked at a little bit, but it still works. It's still good. Well, I fixed it if it ain't broke. Another day begins. I'm gonna pick up something for the city. So if you don't know the Manitoba Speak Lingo, that means I've got to go into Steinbach and pick up something going to Winnipeg from town to the city. Town could be any town in Manitoba. It depends on where you're from. Town is usually where you're from or around the area you're from. If you say you're going to the city, every Manitoba knows what you mean. You're going to Winnipeg. In my experience, I guess everybody could be different. The truck, a little mini bath. I don't even know if I'd call it a bath yesterday. I had a little bit extra time after I got off. I just rinsed down the front end. If I got time today, I'll do the supposed to get really cold over the weekend. So if I am going to wash it, I've got to do it this week. Otherwise, I've got to wait for it to warm up a bit again. I don't want to be out there spraying water in minus 40. It's supposed to sit in on Saturday if the weather people are right. What they say you can take with the grain of salt. I don't know. It changes all the time. If you pay attention to the forecast, they're like, you know, the long range forecast, seven to 10 days. They change it every single day. They're just guessing. I don't know. What do I know? I'm not a meteorologist. I'm a truck driver. All I know is I don't like it when it snows. I love snow like on the weekends when I'm not working. I like it in the ditches. I like it on the trails for snowmobiling if I had a snowmobile. However, I am not a fan of it when it is on the road. If we could just find a way to like heat the highways so that as soon as snow fell, it just melted off the highways and ran into the ditch intersection. My crane friend touched myself a little bit more and I always thought it would be cool. I mean, it would cost a fortune, but if we could heat the highways that all the concrete and pavement is heated, that would be awesome. I want to have a heated driveway one day when we build our house. And that is within the realm of possibility, right? Just from our garage to the street. I want it to be paved and I want it to be heated so that whenever it snows, all you got to be like, hey, it's snowing outside. Turn on the floor heat or the driveway heat. And as the snow falls, it just melts and runs off. That way you always have a clear driveway. You never have to shovel. It's about to get that all I got to do. All I got to do is win the lottery. During this last lockdown thing that Manitoba participated in and we were forced into, lottery tickets was not essential. I get it. It's not essential. But they closed that down too. So we couldn't buy lottery tickets for like two months. So maybe you can buy them now. I don't know. But my chances of having a heated driveway drastically decrease when they take away my ability to buy a lottery ticket. You never know. You never know. Truck and drive might have a heated driveway one day. So that would be like, how long would our driveway be? We haven't really planned out our yard yet or our house build, right? I'm guessing it would be at least 100 feet of pavement. That would be expensive right there. Plus, heating it. I'm going to look into it. If I had to look into it, maybe it's cheaper than I think. Maybe it can be done. That way when I get old, I don't have to shovel, right? All I have to do is flip on a switch. Work smarter, not harder. If you want to see first thing in the morning, living up to its name. So beautiful day. A beautiful February day. Look at this. It doesn't get much better than this in February. The snow is actually slightly melting. That's not bad. And the truck is filthy again. And now you know why I don't wash the truck every day. I try to get it done as often as I can. But you know, if I got an easier day, or if I get off a little earlier and usual, I'll spray her down. But look at every vehicle here. Except for that one just off to the right there. He obviously just washed it. He'll get about to the next traffic lights and it'll look just as dirty as all the rest. Glad to the city again. We're coming out to bring some stuff to around the casino is. We're not going to the casino, but see what the Lord gods have for us. Usher fluid got filled up. We need it today. We find ourselves downtown in Winnipeg again. Running myself down here quite a bit. Boy, I sure end up downtown a lot. I don't mind it though. I love driving through here. It's fun. Get to see all the buildings, all the people, how everybody lives in a little box in the sky. And then I get to go home. And leave the city. I really wish. I wish the jets, like the jets arena is just off to my left over there. We went by yesterday. Did you see it in yesterday's video? A little Easter egg for you to go back and look more. I wish their brink wasn't downtown. That's the only thing I wish. But I get what they're trying to do. They're trying to revitalize it. A lot of these buildings here have been redone recently as well. They're investing a lot of money to revitalize downtown here. They're doing a good job, but they're not doing a bad job. But it's very hard to revitalize Winnipeg. I won't say it. It's just Winnipeg. Everybody in Canada knows it's Winnipeg. You can put a shiny bow on it. It's still Winnipeg. Winnipeg. Let's just leave it at that. A lot of good areas. I'm looking at something off on the right here. What are they building here now? True North Square. So this will have to be something to do with the Jets Arena, I'm guessing. Oh, they're tearing something down first. Well, what did they tear down this time? We've got a lot of heritage buildings and a lot of old buildings. It's been upsetting a lot of people. That's our history, you know? But sometimes you just gotta make room for the new, you know, out with the old and with the new. Right where the Winnipeg Jets Arena is right now. Used to be the Eaton Building, I believe. Built in somewhere in like early 1800s. This is one of the first big buildings of Winnipeg and it was a heritage building. And they knocked it down to build an arena that's way too small in a terrible place with no parking. It upset a lot of Winnipegers and a lot of Manitobans that they did that. But alas, it has to make sense. All you gotta do is say, Winnipeg. And oh, that makes sense. The next road up here is Broadway. Did you know that we have a Broadway in Winnipeg? Oh yeah, we're super fancy. What's this? There's a sidewalk, literally right there, my friend. I guess it probably doesn't work well for her walker. Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess. Oh yeah, we got this light red too. Of course we did. Of course we did. So we're gonna turn the left here. This is Broadway. Not quite the same as New York, but it's something, we got something going on here. Look at this. Look at this go. And this light's gonna turn green right away and there's still people crossing the road. Okay, you made it. You made it, but you and your Tims, you're safe. Good for you. New Broadway. We're gonna turn the other way on Broadway. We would legislate, which is our capital building on the Bronx. That would actually be fun to show you sometimes. It's actually a pretty impressive building. Of course it is. It's a government building. They spared no expense. Probably still paying it off. You know what's at the top of our legislature? There's a Golden Boy coated in real gold. You know what has been, and people have attempted to steal it more than once. One guy even had a helicopter and tried to fly away with it. Oh yes. And the Golden Boy points northward to signify the developments up north as we were developing and settling north from here. Pointed towards all the opportunities and minerals and stuff up north that we could go and hear this fancy hotel as the Fort Gary Hotel. It is said to be haunted from some pretty credible sources. I am not checking over myself and stay there for a night, but it's difficult to justify paying the rates for a hotel room here because I live in Manitoba. Why would I? Well, I don't know. Maybe a date night sometime we'll come and check out the haunted Fort Gary Hotel. Make a video about it. I don't know. Maybe we'll see a ghost. We'll see. You never know. And this right here is the Via Rail Station, Union Station. This was the hub. This was like the airport of Winnipeg back in the day before we had flying metal boxes in the sky. Everybody would come to Winnipeg by train. And this is where you would board the train and get off the train. The rails are right behind this building. This was the place to be if you're going anywhere or coming from anywhere. Must have been a pretty happening place back in the day. I mean, that was the only way to get around. Like if you wanted to go to Calgary, you had to get on a train. If you wanted to go to Toronto, you had to get on a train. Either that or get on a boat and go down the rivers. I mean, but that only takes you so far, right? Oh, there's one of those buses that folds in half. Main Street is behind us. As soon as we get over the Asciniwine River here, it turns into St. Mary's Road onto Marion Street and go into St. Boniface, the French Quarter. The French Quarter of the city where everybody speaks English anyway. The English were on this side of the river. And eventually the English won because if you look at our provincial flag, it has the Union Jack in the top left corner with the crest, Manitoba Crest on a red background. That's our provincial flag. Wow, we're getting into like Winnipeg history here. Wow, I'm sorry to have bored you. Now you know. See, Winnipeg isn't really on the map. People always forget we exist. Now you know something about it. You know more than your neighbor. Congratulations. This is myself for a couple of hours. So how was your hump day? Thursday and Friday, that's it. Hey, then we got one more full week and then it's a long weekend. That's the commander. That's the commander. He cares. One second, boy, let me get my work boots off. Got my shield. Got my shield. Got my shield. Okay, so maybe I egg them on a bit sometimes. What? I enjoy the welcome. Britt, does that work right now? Chevy, Chevy. Careful. Weiner's coming. Careful, careful, careful, careful. Okay, okay. Okay, watch out for Weiner. Weiner. Weiner, go somewhere safe, buddy. Go somewhere safe. That's not somewhere safe. Oh, okay, Chevy. Chevy, are you excited to see me or are you excited to see them? I think he's excited to see you. Wow. So that's how I get home when I know Brits at work. We're very lucky. Yeah, well, Brits at work. The boys will have some fun, right? All right, Chevy, can you sit? That's not sitting. Sit and I'll pet you. Hi, Commander. What's up? What's up, Commander? I got all your messages you sent to me. That was rude. I was talking to the Commander. Can you sit still? Sit. I'll pet you if you sit. No, you got to stay sitting. Diesel's sitting. Quiet. No, Diesel. Okay, no, you stand up. I don't pet you. You have to stay sitting. Stay sitting. Then I'll pet you. No. Only if you're sitting, you get the pets. No. Okay, you can't handle it. You can't handle it. I should pet myself then. Oh, but I'm not sitting. I have to sit first. All right. All right. They want to go outside or something lame like that. I got to find my tube. Where's my tube? Is it right here? There it is. One second. Let me put you find people down right there. Don't move. That you might fall. Watch the little guys, Diesel. Watch them. You stink. I've been working hard all day. What do you expect? More than I can say for you guys. I'm a tired man. I don't work anymore. But we're tired. Must be nice. I'll take these fine people. Okay, everybody. And let's go outside. Let's be a little quieter out here though. Okay. That's not annoying, everybody. Oh, that was a good day. That was a good day. A bit of a shorter day, like I said. So I'm home just after five o'clock instead of usually lately I've been getting home. Like what is usual, right? Every day is different. There is no usual or usually. But I would say lately I've been home usually around six to six thirty. And today I'm home at five. So Britt only gets off work at six thirty. So that gives me over an hour, almost an hour and a half. Just to do whatever I want. Do you want to know another pet peeve of mine? I feel a rant coming on. I don't know. Maybe not. People who have cats in town and they just let them loose outside to roam around town. They jump our yard because of course our fence, right? Because of course we got dogs. And they spray our entire yard. And in summertime they wreck stuff. And of course they make our dogs go crazy, right? Because the dogs when they see the cat chase them right out of the yard, right? And I'd encourage them to do that. They're supposed to chase intruders out of our yard, right? That's what they're supposed to do. But why do people who have cats in town let them loose out into town to just wander around everybody's backyard? There's this one cat that keeps coming here. There's actually two with it. But there's one for sure, black and white cat. He's obviously an indoor cat. Obviously has owners. He's well taken care of, well fed. And they just let him out every day. And he always comes to our yard and then he teases our dogs. He sits outside on our front porch there. Makes the dogs go crazy. And then he goes around to the backyard, jumps our fence and climbs it, jumps over and then sprays our backyard so it stinks like cat urine. And then dogs go out there and they're going nuts because they smell it all, right? I'm really not a cat person. I don't know if you knew this. Well, work is not over yet. Work is not over. Just one part of it is over. Now we must show everybody what we did, right Diesel? And him and we're both the kitty cats. Yeah, you're a big bad wolf man. Good job protecting me.