October 20

Had a New York Strip Steak for breakfast (rare), along with a baked potato and a slice of key lime pie. Attended the Banff Mountain Film Festival, held in the dining hall. The dining hall staff placed signs on all of the front tables (best seats in the house) that said "Reserved for dining hall staff. Please vacate this table for dining hall staff". I was happy to see the signs were for the most part ignored, often crumpled and tossed on the floor. I enjoyed the film festival. My favorite movie is about this couple that bike through Mongolia, China, Tibet, and India on down to the Ocean. The trip was 6 months and 8000 km. They talk a lot about enjoying the simple things in life.

I ate midnight lunch with this dude's dude, he was mostly just bragging about how long he can stay outside in the cold, and how if your hands start hurting you are fine because its when you can't feel your hands anymore that you have to worry. He didn't understand why people would say they want to go inside because their hands were in pain, because that means your hands are fine. And today some guy was begging to go in but dude wouldn't let him because he was only complaining about parts of his body that were painfully cold, which is fine. I told him I was glad I didn't work with him.

Spent a few hours of my off night sitting in the cluster lounge with a few drunk people, they were talking about God and grace and some firefighter kept talking about how great the fire department is and how they do shots of alcohol together, which is an indicator of good teamwork. I told him I thought it was mean that they make the firehouse dispatcher shave. (The firemen have to shave so they can properly wear the fire mask, but dispatcher dude doesn't ever need to wear a fire mask and his face isn't one that's made for shaving.)