Definitely
The apathy is strong today.
meh
Both a happy thought and a sad thought: the mean girl of abandoned-lunch-in-microwave infamy is quitting. Which is both 
because I donāt have to deal with her any more but also 
because weāre approaching busy season and despite her considerable flaws she did have a substantial workload.
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f that. you could be overworked alongside an ogre or really overworked/no ogre. door #2 please. life is too short for awful people
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Planning a winter camping trip for Uwaterloo students. Weāre going to have to carry all our equipment about 3-4 miles into the bush, on sleds. I do all the organization, transportation, food prep and generally provide all the equipment.
Except as of right now, weāve got 16 people interested in going. I guess I can do food prep for that many people, but Iāve only got ice fishing equipment for 8 people - and everyone wants to go ice fishing (I originally thought some folks would want to go snowshoeing, but nope). So now what?
Second logistics problem, 4 days means cell phones will be out of juice. Do I pack in a generator for power all that way into the bush?
Also not yet sure what Iām going to do about bathroom faciliites. In the summer/fall I just bring a shovel and everyone buries their business. Canāt do that in three feet of snow and frozen ground.
Cell phones shouldnāt require too much juice. Ask people if they have a portable battery to bring it. Iād guess at least a few have one, which should likely be enough to manage.
Sign up for a shift.
Is there enough ice on the water yet to go ice fishing??? 
Not yet, but soon. I figure 2-3 weeks.
Thats what you get for living so far south
Ikr? My buddy up north has been ice fishing since November.
Why do you need cell phones in the bush?
And if itās that important, people should plan accordingly.
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These are university students. They have their phone in front of their face 247. Imma have to remind them not to drop it into the water. I dont play boomer on the trips so they want cell phone power, ill figure something out.
And i need cell, in case we have an emergency. Though im not sure we even have signal where we are going.
They can turn it on for photos but have it off otherwise.
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Fellas, donāt let your phones slip through the five hole.
Thatās about the extent of my knowledge of hockey lingo.
This is the primary impetus of my comment about the āneed for cellsā in the bush.
and making the kids responsible for their cell energy isnāt āplaying boomerā . . . if they know whatās likely to be the case in advance, Iām sure that theyāll get it figured out. And they can learn āthe hard wayā if theyāre going to play āitās your responsibility to take care of my every wantā.
It might be worth pointing out that ācell phone serviceā and ādata serviceā can be two very different things*āat least it is here the US. A few years back, we had a situation where we were in the mountains and needed to get to an ER. Smart phones couldnāt google the nearest available ER, but we could call someone who could do that and get the info needed. I canāt imagine that Canada would be that different.
*My dad worked a long time in this space WRT the cell towers. It also turns out that if the overall capacity of the tower is nearing its limit, then data service will be dropped in favor of providing cell service.
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ādonāt let the fishies get a hat trick!ā
I donāt think we will be dealing with voice Vs. data. Itāll be a total lack of bars.
Though surprisingly, even in the Canadian bush cell phone reception is surprisingly available. We use cell instead of radios when we moose hunt now, actually works better.
Even where thereās no cell signal,.like one of my favourite moose hunting spots, itās often sporadic. Iāll be walking with no cell, and then ping ping ping, for 5 seconds Iāll get all my texts at once. Happens just from walking around the bush.
Anyway, the students want a generator, I prefer everyone bring battery packs. We will have to have a convo.
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Make each of them pay half . . .
A moose once bit my sister . . .