Actually, Ralph, as usual you hit a nail right on the topical head with mention of martinis since they are all the big news now here in BC. Most of the media items of the recent week centre around the Premier of the Province who, while in Maui for a holiday, got busted, handcuffed and mug-shot for drunken driving and a breath test at 1.64 on the roadside instrument. The papers and TV have been full of martini stories (he said he mixed his own at a party that night) and how many you have to drink to get to 1.64 and questions about whether a jerk who drives in the wrong lane at 90 in a 45 zone head on into oncoming traffic and then swerves into the bike lane for a while to avoid a car is trustworthy to be the great Pooh-Bah of the government. There are the expected questions about his ability to make good judgements, but mostly the populace is sitting back laughing and then forgetting all about it. At a press conference, he was asked if he had ever done it before, and amazingly his answer "I do not recall ever having done this before." was not jumped on with the notice that he said he didn't realize what he was doing during the incident in Maui either. God, even the press is dull witted here! However, the incident does help explain the insane decisions the Provincial Government has been decreeing this year, Historic sites, for example are being "Devolutionized" with bureaucrats saying with big smiles at public meetings that the whole point of investing millions of tax dollars into restoration and preservation of the places for decades has always been with the idea of giving them up and letting them rot one day. You bet, my balls are in an uproar. Maybe I should take up the taste for martinis to help understand this and maybe fit back into the government fold of nice quiet respected contractors.