Author: chuma

Some otherworldly force doesn’t want us to see the movie Hidalgo. Thrice we have planned to see it and thrice we have been denied by ourselves or others.

Last night was a prime example, as our delivery from Grocery Gateway was over an hour late. For no real good reason from what I can tell… the first CSR on the phone said that the driver was “held up” by someone on his route. Also, they had no idea that the driver was late until I called, which was right at the end of the delivery window (8pm). So, he wasn’t going to let them know he was late? It would have been a good thing to do.

Finally the driver showed up an hour and a half after the end of the window. He said he was ‘busy’. They credited us for a free delivery next time… but in the meantime I spend a lot of time waiting for someone who wasn’t going to show up. I had to go to the post office (didn’t happen) and we were going to go to the movies, and both of those got screwed up.

I guess I’ve had no time to write. All of my previous entries scrolled off the front page!

• Our house is firmed up! Yay! We’re moving in in under two months!
• In advance of moving, we’re working on packing and getting rid of stuff we never unpacked from our last move, as well as trying to make and save as much money as we can before we move, so we can comfortably put up the closing costs as well as get a few little things for the new place.
• Crazy busy! No new commitments for me for a long time…

Maybe later I’ll be able to put my thoughts down in a more coherent form…

First the Sheppard line wasn’t running. I think. There was a complete lack of information and just a lot of people standing around. The collector didn’t even know jack. Instead of putting my fare in at Don Mills I went outside and got on the 85 Sheppard bus. The bus behind us seemed to be a shuttle bus, so I guess there was a problem on the line.

Then I got to Sheppard-Yonge and southbound trains were totally bloody slow becuase of “signal problems”. When I lived in Toronto prior to 1998 I had never been in a delay due to signal problems. Now there’s “signal problems” at least once a month. Sounds bad to me…

Man. weekends.

We had a bunch of stuff to do on Saturday. First thing was to go to see my sister’s jewelery teacher Shao to have our ring sizes taken for our wedding rings. Sylvia (my sister, currently living in Taiwan) is designing them for us and then Shao is doing the casting and carving here in Canada. Shao is really cool and has a cool studio/work/living space at the Distillery. He had some wicked cool stuff there and also on his website.

Sandy cleaned out her closet again so we had a bunch of clothes to drop off at the Goodwill at Jarvis & Adelaide, since we were already in the area. Also some old blankets and leftover bag of kitten food went to the Toronto Humane Society.

Finally, I was supposed to install a server in the machine room at torque.net but I was a bonehead and forgot my building access card! Long story short, I had to drive down again on Sunday morning to take care of that.

Sandy’s valentine’s day present was that I’d buy her an outfit for when we go and see The Hollow Crown for her birthday. This means fashion show for me! We spent a lot of time at the Eaton’s Center and had a blast.

Sunday was a stay at home day. We started packing for our move in April. Yes it seems a bit early, but it was good to go through some stuff and get rid of the crap, and find the crap that’s worth money so we can sell it. In the evening we had dinner with Mike (Sandy’s brother) and Nikki (his girlfriend).

All in all it was a good weekend, except for my forgetfulness and drivers, drivers, drivers! Toronto drivers have gotten so bad in the last five years.

• Mortgage approval? Check..
• Home Inspection? Check.
• Moved my desk at work? Check.
• Setup my new workstation at work? Check.. And Mandrake Linux 9.2 is damn slick.
• New UNNA server? Not quite, but damn I spent a lot of time on it…
• Spending time with Sandy? Lacking a bit, but valentine’s and her birthday is just around the corner…
• Lawyer for buying house? Check.
• Clean teeth? Check.
• FIxed cat? Check. (Poor little guy.)

Man it’s been a freakin’ busy week!

I feel like I should add another category: life-changing events.

We’ve bought a house! At the end of April we’ll be moving from our current apartment in Don Mills to a two-year-old townhouse in Whitby. It’s gonna be awesome. I can’t wait. Time to start packing and saving!

On Saturday night we went to Linkin Park… along with Sandy’s brother and five of his “country folk” friends. I say that in the nicest way possible, because we had quite a time corraling them all on the subway from our apartment to the ACC. And when I say “quite a time” I mean “I’m surprised we didn’t get arrested.”

The concert was amazingly good. I’d never been to the ACC before but it makes for a fairly decent concert. The sound quality was alright, certainly not as good as other smaller or open-air venues but not as bad as the horrible, horrible echo machine known as SkyDome. The band played everything and sounded great. They even pulled some random guy from the audience to play guitar for a song! I had tons of fun and Sandy really, really enjoyed it as well.