It snowed over the weekend. I live in Canada and it’s November, so it’s not that unusual of an occurrence. Still, it makes me sad. The first snowfall (that sticks) typically signals the end of my bike-riding season. My goal every year is to make it to the first of December, but I always seem to fall short of that goal. I’ll be running on the bus schedule until May. Biking to work is also my principle form of exercise. It’s not optional because I need to get to work. I’m going to miss my bike.

Related to taking the bus, sometimes not paying attention pays off. Consider the following math problem: If taking the bus once costs $3 and you need to take the bus twice a day to go to and from work, how many days would you need to take the bus before a $53 bus pass is worthwhile? Nine, right? This was the math I was counting on when I went to buy a bus pass for the rest of November today after work. I have nine work days left in November so it made sense.

So I went to buy my pass only I didn’t notice that the cashier gave me a pass for the month of December until after I paid for it. Now I’m going to need a bus pass for December so the money wasn’t wasted, but it still left me needing a pass for November. The problem was they had no November passes left. That meant I would need to buy bus tickets. Here’s where things worked out in my favour.

Bus tickets are sold in packs of five for $11. For nine days worth of travel, I would need eighteen tickets, so four packs (leaving me with two left over) which cost me $44. So because I didn’t pay attention I saved $9 for the month of November and the month of December is paid for. Yay me!

This past week I wrote some more Funnies scripts. I fully expected to switch back to what’s happening in the bandit camp, but I keep extending what’s happening with Red Rich’s group. In trying to end their group’s part on a Thursday I keep having to find something to do on Tuesday. That new idea inevitably takes more than one strip to accomplish and when I’m finished I’m back to Tuesday. This idea’s the last one though. When it’s done, I’m switching back to Cyran in the bandit camp no matter what day it is.

In Skylanders news, I was in Trois-Rivières on Friday and finally found Wave 2 figures back in stock. I really like the red accents added to Jet-Vac’s design. The new Trap Masters are alright. Bushwhack seems the strongest off the bat but he lacks range. I like the Wave 1 Trap Masters better. Speaking of Wave 1, I leveled up Chopper over the weekend and he’s a lot better than I originally thought. Enough to get pushed into my favorites.

That’s all for this week. Have a good week everybody!