Category: my ramblings

• Number of couriers I helped at the office today: 2
• Number of drivers who almost nailed me in the GO parking lot: 1
• Number of flyers for real estate brokers in the mail today: 5
• Number of postcards from my sister: 1 (yay!)

Why, you ask? Because today the Parks department turned on the waterfall at the Toronto Sculpture Garden. So there.

“Physics is cool, guy”

— Albert Einstein

Maybe he didn’t say that. But I think he would have.

1. It’s Valentine’s Day! Everyone loves Valentine’s Day, except for those lonely, bitter, jaded people. Not me, not this year. This year I surprised Sandy on the Saturday before, and she loved it. Plus I got us tickets to Wicked which she really wants to see. I got a new wrist rest for my mouse which I really needed.
2. It’s Sandy’s Birthday! Well it was on Saturday the 19th. We had already gotten her birthday present, an electric guitar, so on her birthday we went out for dinner with our friends. However, as usual for Sandy’s birthday, things did not go off without a hitch… when we got to the restaurant, Montana’s in Whitby, they were packed and even though we had a reservation, they had give our freakin’ table away! When the manager came to the front he was packing attitude and after we had waited 20 minutes told us it would be another 20 minutes for us, and that it was OUR fault our table was gone. Bloody bastards! So we ended up calling around and went to East Side Mario’s out in Oshawa! Finally. Well we had a damn nice time at East Side’s with a really nice waitress and bad-mouthing Montana’s all the way. So it ended up fine. Sandy really wanted to see our niece Raven and she was there, and such a good kid! She didn’t cry once through the whole thing.
3. Our basement. It’s coming along slowly. We’re working on finishing the drywall, and then painting the walls. Then Sandy’s dad will come back and do the ceiling, and we’ll get someone in to carpet it, and we’re done. Then it will kick ass! Yeah! We can’t wait.
4. Winter. I’m sick of it. Let’s move it along now.

• Kwanzaa was invented by some guy in California in 1966.
• Windows XP has a ‘scroll lock’ feature where you just have to click a scrollbar once and move your mouse up and down. Clicking again stops scrolling. IMHO most people would find this highly annoying.

Christmas is in just a few short days… I still have one more gift to buy. Not to mention wrap everything. Yay last-minute!

We had our Christmas lunch and gift exchange at work yesterday. Dim-sum for lunch was good, it was only the second time I’ve had it. I’ll eat just about anything though, including the dumplings with pork wrapped in egg with a piece of scallop and roe on top (I ate about 4 of these, no one else seemed to want them… I love scallops.)

At our gift exchange I got some movie passes and a lotto ticket for tonight’s 6/49. Cross your fingers!

• Work work work work
• Doing training at work (sucks)
• Didn’t go to the extremely cool WWNC, now regretting it, but going to the next one even it it’s located at the centre of the earth
• Succeeded in letting people down
• Busiest four day week EVER was last week. Actually, it was probably my busiest week of work ever, period.
• Saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse, it was OK, fun to see TONS of locations around Toronto turned into “Racoon City”
• Saw Shaun of the Dead, it was hysterically funny while being gory at the same time, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. It’s getting a North American theatrical release now, so go see it!

Apparently Showtime doesn’t want me to access their highly sensitive information – it’s for US residents only. Stupid boneheads.

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Despite it being a short week due to holiday Monday, it was still busy as all hell at work this week. At times my mind felt like liquid metal. I’m not sure why…

Jordan got Sandy and I hooked on The Flaming Lips. I think we listened to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots for about a week straight. It’s great for all kinds of activities:

• Driving
• Commuting on the train
• Playing Mario Kart: Double Dash
• Playing Simpsons: Hit and Run
• etc…

Sandy’s had a very busy week at the computer store too. There was a major storm that caused a flood of broken machines to come in.

I’ve been soooo lazy with uploading photos from our wedding and honeymoon! Problem is that the wedding ones are on film. We’ve already got prints and re-prints and will probably get even more. Work and house stuff is still top priority, and this means that this site and Newton stuff has to get pushed off to the side for a while.

The house! It looks great! All the major painting is done (except for one room) and we hung our pictures and posters on the wall. It really has that lived-in look now. Plus, I steam-cleaned the carpets downstairs and they look quite a bit brighter (white carpet sucks).