Today's Visual Basic Code is:
MsgBox "Syntax Error in SARS() -- code not understood! ", vbCritical, "Cannot Compile!"
MsgBox "Inform the network administrator the network will be shut down indefinitely for no apparent reason.", vbInformation, "Cannot Compile!"
'network administrator's worst nightmare

this morning was another fun morning.. only 10 minutes to get ready, mom almost beating me to the car again.... slow-going ride to scarborough, slower-going ride on the bus in scarborough; why did that progress bus take so long to get to town centre?

sitting at this computer in the cafeteria at school, sipping a tim horton's french vanilla, i look out the windows... all this snow -- in april! toronto was hit pretty hard with an ice storm yesterday mid-afternoon... it's weird -- walking through it, it's like walking on cold, hard sand... like sand that's been rained on slightly... snowed for at least 12-14 hours (that's as long as i stayed up)...

being in toronto, with the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome <--- [as if you didn't already know!]) scare and all... the cold isn't helping it... more people get sick in winter because people pack themselves into buses and malls to stay out of the cold... there's more chance to spread sickness because you're with more people than in the summer (in a closed area).... i'm sure that everyone who needs hospital resources must be frustrated with all the precautions that are being taken... loved ones can't be visited unless it's absolutely necessary (e.g., palliative care and other reasons i can't remember)....

but yeah, this global plague (if you will)... it's scary, if you think about it.. people around the world have died from it... if someone i knew became infected -- and i couldn't even visit them..... .....very frustrating, indeed... it gives me shivers thinking about it.

Jackie, being in the very heart of SARSborough...
you're in my prayers.

......be careful, okay?

running total of scarborough trips till my MetroPass gets me savings = 9 / 52