I spent some quality time with Google Calendar and the schedule from the City of Vancouver, what I came up with is this handy set of public calendars that will tell you when your garbage should be picked up You can subscribe in Google Calendar, iCal and maybe other programs, too.
This is the set of North Schedules. I didn’t do the South schedule simply because I wanted to see if there was any interest before I invested the time.
If you have questions, call the Vancouver “Garbage, Yard Trimmings and Recycling Hot Line,” M-F, 8-4, (604) 326-4600, or send them an email at . If anyone there wants me to change something, or to help me maintain the calendars, that’d be swell!
(There was kind of an existing public calendar, but it was only for the Purple Zone, and I couldn’t find a way to contact the creator, Tom Metzger for “Vancouver, BC South Garbage Collection Schedule, Purple Zone.")
“The superior man contains the means in his own person. He bides his time and then acts. Why then should not everything go well? He acts and is free. Therefore all he has to do is to go forth, and he takes his quarry. This is how a man fares who acts after he has ready the means.”
“kindergarchy n. Rule or domination by children; the belief that children’s needs and preferences take precedence over those of their parents or other adults.”
“As in 2007, the average U.S. worker has 14 vacation days this year. Just across the Canadian border, our counterparts get an average of 17 vacation days annually. But if you want a real “vacation envy” complex, consider the vacation banks of European workers. France tops the list with an average of 37 days, followed by Italy (33 days), Spain (31), the Netherlands and Austria (28), Germany (27) and Great Britain (26). “
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