17 Mar 2013
Posted by Dave under Dave's Thoughts
The Much-Anticipated St Paddy’s Day Update
Once again, St Paddy’s Day! We had our friends the Harrison’s over for brunch – a delightful repast of ham (with the choice of green-tinted applesauce or green-tinted mustard) and green poffertjes with green whipping cream – yum! Oh, and Shamrock shakes from McD’s! Thanks for bringing those over, Stu and Jaquie!
Ok, enough of that – I know that what you (Brian) are really waiting for is the annual update on my progress in the license plate game. Well, wait no longer! Today is the 10th anniversary of the glorious day that I saw 000 – way back on 17 March 2003. So what is the total?
769. Again a slow year, only 48 plates this year. It was, at least, a little better than last year. More commuting has probably helped, but I definitely think that the 4-digit plates make it harder to pick out numbers at the same distances as before. It’s certainly worse in poor light and when the plates are dirty (i.e. all winter in Calgary!). So, that means the rate has continued to drop from an overall average of 85 plates/year two years ago to 80 last year and now 77 plates/year at the end of 10 years, or about 6.4 plates/month. It looks like I’m still a good 3 years away from wrapping this up. Ah well, at least I’m still ahead of Scott!