Pay day + Debit Card + Feeling down + Insatiable shopping companion + Being downtown = Money wasted, not feeling more upbeat, but at least looking good and stylish. So it's not all a loss... but still not anymore upbeat.
R.I.P. Don : (
Saturday began early for me(1pm), I went out to Alex's place for the purpose of helping him move. The Matrix was more than adept at handling things with it's roomy 32.5 cubic feet of cargo room. In there we fit several boxes and bags and an incredibly stupid desk with literally 300 pieces to it, I kid you not. Each piece was stupider than the last. The big furniture was put in the van, because as roomy as it is, the Matrix couldnt handle such things.
I only suffered two cuts, one crushed finger, and one ass cheek laceration from a wooden dowel sticking out of the afore mentioned stupid desk. So overall it was a pretty good move, accident wise. Much better than the time DC's desk collapsed on top of me.
Unfortunately there is some sadness to this post, as I now need to announce that I will never be visiting Alex again. His driveway is now 78.3KM from my driveway. Which is INSANE, curse his stupid ass for moving to Whitby. Now how can we make fun of the King City crowd when he is even further away?
After the move and the 6 hour drive back home. I was ready to kick back and relax at home. That is until I received calls to go out for the night, specifically clubbing, more specifically to the Phoenix. I figured that there's nothing more relaxing after a day of moving than dancing, so off to the Phoneix we went.
Good music was played during the start of the night, then it got lame, so we decided to make our own fun. We got incredibly silly, and were doing the stupidest dancing we could. I'm a bit hazy but I do recall inappropriately shaking my posterior to songs that clearly did not call for such things.
With the "Sweat dripping over my body, dancing getting just a little naughty" achieved, we went for food, and then called it a night.
In the morning I woke up with a sore neck which can be clearly blamed on some vigorous and misplaced head banging. But I'm going to blame the whole thing on moving Alex's heavy boxes, that way I can guilt him into paying for the shiatsu (so everyone keep the rest of that days events a secret).
I only suffered two cuts, one crushed finger, and one ass cheek laceration from a wooden dowel sticking out of the afore mentioned stupid desk. So overall it was a pretty good move, accident wise. Much better than the time DC's desk collapsed on top of me.
Unfortunately there is some sadness to this post, as I now need to announce that I will never be visiting Alex again. His driveway is now 78.3KM from my driveway. Which is INSANE, curse his stupid ass for moving to Whitby. Now how can we make fun of the King City crowd when he is even further away?
After the move and the 6 hour drive back home. I was ready to kick back and relax at home. That is until I received calls to go out for the night, specifically clubbing, more specifically to the Phoenix. I figured that there's nothing more relaxing after a day of moving than dancing, so off to the Phoneix we went.
Good music was played during the start of the night, then it got lame, so we decided to make our own fun. We got incredibly silly, and were doing the stupidest dancing we could. I'm a bit hazy but I do recall inappropriately shaking my posterior to songs that clearly did not call for such things.
With the "Sweat dripping over my body, dancing getting just a little naughty" achieved, we went for food, and then called it a night.
In the morning I woke up with a sore neck which can be clearly blamed on some vigorous and misplaced head banging. But I'm going to blame the whole thing on moving Alex's heavy boxes, that way I can guilt him into paying for the shiatsu (so everyone keep the rest of that days events a secret).
There were 2 parties scheduled for this weekend, one on Friday the other on Saturday. But due to complications they were both moved to Friday and to make it funner they were both at completely different parts of the city. But thanks to my skillful planning and driving skills I was able to attend both, while properly conserving enough party animal energy to equally and evenly rock da house at both venues. A skillful feat no doubt, and should not be attempted by the unskilled partier.
Party the first, was Brenda and Kyles house warming. Here is a photo:
Party the first, was Brenda and Kyles house warming. Here is a photo:
- Yours truly teaching Jay (aka "The Letter J") how to properly do a transformer scratch.
Party the second, was Pauls birthday party. Which went quite well. He was so out of it by the end of the night that we had to stop him from almost breaking a plasma TV by trying to take it with him. The place we were at being Wegz (all the way up in Vaughn), funny enough a former waitress from Whiskey works there now, yes we chatted, we had a lot of catching up to do : )
Switching to tea, bad idea. It made my tounge all brown. Gross.
sorry... I feel like I have to post this stupid stuff to move other posts off the top of this page... so why write stuff in the first place if I don't want to see it, you ask? Because it happend thats why, so I'll put it down amongst these other accounts of my life. It doesn't make me any happier about the situation, they are just facts... whatever. *sigh*
sorry... I feel like I have to post this stupid stuff to move other posts off the top of this page... so why write stuff in the first place if I don't want to see it, you ask? Because it happend thats why, so I'll put it down amongst these other accounts of my life. It doesn't make me any happier about the situation, they are just facts... whatever. *sigh*
We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web. - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEOWon the server? Really? Won it?
*cough*
- Netcraft Server Stats, Sep 2005 *cough*
And speaking of "moving fast to win the web", umm you might be behind schedule, as "the web" has been out for quite a while.
This pointless rant brough to you by my restless state of mind.
Sleep Induced Headache and Other Thoughts
mood: meh
music playing: Azure Ray - These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
[updated: 10:53pm]
I slept for about 11 hours, and woke up with the worst headache this afternoon.
Work is going to suck today.
Tim Horton's Steeped tea, although having the gayest of commercials, is actually QUITE good. So I'm off coffee and back to a tea only diet.
Todays musical cocktail:
I slept for about 11 hours, and woke up with the worst headache this afternoon.
Work is going to suck today.
Tim Horton's Steeped tea, although having the gayest of commercials, is actually QUITE good. So I'm off coffee and back to a tea only diet.
Todays musical cocktail:
Azure RayA calming somewhat sedated blend.
Lamb
Emiliana Torrini
Vivaldi
Hood - Cold House
Denali - Denali
Halou
Sigur Ros
How am I doing? People have asked (and I thank them for their concern of my well being). Well let me paint you a picture, paint it with sound.
My soundtrack yesterday consisted of (in no particular order, just made a on-the-go playlist and hit random): The Haunted, From Autumn To Ashes, Atreyu, Unearth, Damageplan. Basically a pretty loud and angry hardcore metal soundtrack, which I was blaring all day. The musical equivalent of the famous gin and bourbon? ...maybe. But it helped me vent.
Today, has been nothing but Nine Inch Nails (sorry I have no more alcohol points of reference to make analogies from). Is NIN progress? I don't know... but it does seem a bit better. Still nowhere near the sweet banality of lets say Goldfrap's Blackcherry, but somewhat better none the less. I'll let everyone know when I get back to that Goldfrappy state of mind. Again, thank you all for your messages of concern.
My soundtrack yesterday consisted of (in no particular order, just made a on-the-go playlist and hit random): The Haunted, From Autumn To Ashes, Atreyu, Unearth, Damageplan. Basically a pretty loud and angry hardcore metal soundtrack, which I was blaring all day. The musical equivalent of the famous gin and bourbon? ...maybe. But it helped me vent.
Today, has been nothing but Nine Inch Nails (sorry I have no more alcohol points of reference to make analogies from). Is NIN progress? I don't know... but it does seem a bit better. Still nowhere near the sweet banality of lets say Goldfrap's Blackcherry, but somewhat better none the less. I'll let everyone know when I get back to that Goldfrappy state of mind. Again, thank you all for your messages of concern.
Scheduling, The Least Of Our Problems
mood: Sad
music playing: From Autumn To Ashes - Take Her To The Music Store
For the past two weeks or so, I've been getting a strange vibe from my the lady. Well, ever since this whole full time working, stupid schedules thing started, we've sort of been drifting apart. But like I said, as of the last two weeks it's just been feeling more pronounced. Amongst other things I've noticed, the fact that it seemed impossible to maintain a conversation with her for more than ten minutes on the instant messanger seemed really suspect to me. In a related point, not getting curteous hello's when signing on any more, really got to me, I mean, thats just proper manners. Like I said, it was this, amongst other things, that I had picked up on, which led me to feel that something was not right.
Another thing that bothered me was that, I cut my trademark beard short a week ago, and she never said anything. Almost as if she hadn't noticed. Come to think of it none of my asshole friends have said anything about the new short beard look, it's as if no one cares... what's up with that? I apologize for this failed attempt at comedy in the middle of this post, I just thought I needed some levity before continuing with this.
People paying attention must have already inferred that we are now broken up. It happend tonight actually. We arrived at the park around 9 and got back to the car at about 10 in the PM. So sometime between those hours, closer to the latter half of that hour, is when it happened. I have no idea why I'm mentioning the time other than the fact that I happen to know the time.
Since I suspected something was wrong, it didn't come as a complete shock to me when it happend, although I was disapointed with the fact that I was not able to have the conversation I was planing to have with her prior to this happening, the one where I was going to ask what was going on, but I guess wanting to break up was what was going on, so then that conversation wouldn't have gone any different anyways. Umm am I making any sense? I dunno, I'm sorry for this crappy writing.
After I droped her off at home. I made some calls and ended up going for coffee with the Monika, who provided some of her patented moral support. Thanks Mon, you're always there for me. Well, that's enough writing for me for tonight, time to sleep, good night.
Another thing that bothered me was that, I cut my trademark beard short a week ago, and she never said anything. Almost as if she hadn't noticed. Come to think of it none of my asshole friends have said anything about the new short beard look, it's as if no one cares... what's up with that? I apologize for this failed attempt at comedy in the middle of this post, I just thought I needed some levity before continuing with this.
People paying attention must have already inferred that we are now broken up. It happend tonight actually. We arrived at the park around 9 and got back to the car at about 10 in the PM. So sometime between those hours, closer to the latter half of that hour, is when it happened. I have no idea why I'm mentioning the time other than the fact that I happen to know the time.
Since I suspected something was wrong, it didn't come as a complete shock to me when it happend, although I was disapointed with the fact that I was not able to have the conversation I was planing to have with her prior to this happening, the one where I was going to ask what was going on, but I guess wanting to break up was what was going on, so then that conversation wouldn't have gone any different anyways. Umm am I making any sense? I dunno, I'm sorry for this crappy writing.
After I droped her off at home. I made some calls and ended up going for coffee with the Monika, who provided some of her patented moral support. Thanks Mon, you're always there for me. Well, that's enough writing for me for tonight, time to sleep, good night.
From delusion lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortalityAnd when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence
Then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosenend
The doubts of the mind vanish,
and the law of Karma works no more
700 Club's Pat Robertsons Nonsensical Fear Mongering
mood: meh
music playing: Jurassic 5 - Acetate Prophets
whaaa? Communist muslims? The new wave of terror!
Earlier this evening, Monika and I met up for the purposes of going out for dinner. Neither of us had eaten and were incredibly hungry, so we rushed to a nearby Queen St. thai food restaurant, to fill up on Pad-Thai.
As soon as we walked into the restaurant we got a weird vibe from the place. After we were shown to our tables by whom we assume was the owners wife, the owner of the place came by and threw the menus at our table. It was really weird and we laughed at this guys mannerisms because he was throwing stuff at all the patrons of this restaurant, and some of them were noticing and were amused by the weirdness as well. We had plenty of time to observe all this because the food took forever to arrive. As I mentioned earlier, we were starving so the long food delay was really getting to us. Eventually an appetizer arrived, and minutes later our main dishes, which luckily were placed on our tables and not thrown at us.
Just as we'd begun to eat our food, which was quite tasty from what I sampled. We heard some yelling coming from the back of the restaurant, then there was a ruckus, and there were sounds of stuff falling or being thrown sounds, then yelling, more flying kitchen ware sounds, what we think were sounds of the wife being hit. Crying, yelling, a woman yelling fuck you, crying, yet more yelling. Then the owner that was throwing stuff stormed outside yelled at us that the restaurant was closed and threw bills on everyones tables. Then he stormed away to the back of the place where there was more yelling.
Some people that were looking at the menu and had not ordered yet, got up and left. Us with food in front of us were a bit more confused about what to do. Monika asked a couple a few tables away from us what they were going to do, and the couple were confused and said they didn't know. We said we were just going to leave, this guy was insane thinking we were going to pay after that insanity, and us hardly touching our food. So while he was still in the back we got up and left. Hopefully he didn't come back outside and take out the anger of us having walked out on the meal on that poor couple who foolishly didn't follow us out the door right away.
I must say that without a doubt that was the strangest thing to ever happen while out on the town for dinner.
Still hungry, since we barely tasted our thai food. We ducked into a sushi place, where we had MUCH friendlier service, and some delicious maki to boot. Although the Japanese waitress that served us was speaking with a British accent, which totally freaked me out, but that my friends is a story for another time.
As soon as we walked into the restaurant we got a weird vibe from the place. After we were shown to our tables by whom we assume was the owners wife, the owner of the place came by and threw the menus at our table. It was really weird and we laughed at this guys mannerisms because he was throwing stuff at all the patrons of this restaurant, and some of them were noticing and were amused by the weirdness as well. We had plenty of time to observe all this because the food took forever to arrive. As I mentioned earlier, we were starving so the long food delay was really getting to us. Eventually an appetizer arrived, and minutes later our main dishes, which luckily were placed on our tables and not thrown at us.
Just as we'd begun to eat our food, which was quite tasty from what I sampled. We heard some yelling coming from the back of the restaurant, then there was a ruckus, and there were sounds of stuff falling or being thrown sounds, then yelling, more flying kitchen ware sounds, what we think were sounds of the wife being hit. Crying, yelling, a woman yelling fuck you, crying, yet more yelling. Then the owner that was throwing stuff stormed outside yelled at us that the restaurant was closed and threw bills on everyones tables. Then he stormed away to the back of the place where there was more yelling.
Some people that were looking at the menu and had not ordered yet, got up and left. Us with food in front of us were a bit more confused about what to do. Monika asked a couple a few tables away from us what they were going to do, and the couple were confused and said they didn't know. We said we were just going to leave, this guy was insane thinking we were going to pay after that insanity, and us hardly touching our food. So while he was still in the back we got up and left. Hopefully he didn't come back outside and take out the anger of us having walked out on the meal on that poor couple who foolishly didn't follow us out the door right away.
I must say that without a doubt that was the strangest thing to ever happen while out on the town for dinner.
Still hungry, since we barely tasted our thai food. We ducked into a sushi place, where we had MUCH friendlier service, and some delicious maki to boot. Although the Japanese waitress that served us was speaking with a British accent, which totally freaked me out, but that my friends is a story for another time.
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Never In History Has Someone Been As Wrong As Mycophile Was!
mood: meh
music playing: Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra Leone
What's up with that?
World's Biggest, is having a sale on all O'Reilly books!
Yesterday I picked up High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication & Load Balancing for %30 off! It was 20% off plus an additional 10% for being an iRewards book club member.
w00t
(offer may also be good at other Indigo/Chapters stores, but I don't know for sure, since I just happen to be at Worlds Biggest that day)
Yesterday I picked up High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication & Load Balancing for %30 off! It was 20% off plus an additional 10% for being an iRewards book club member.
w00t
(offer may also be good at other Indigo/Chapters stores, but I don't know for sure, since I just happen to be at Worlds Biggest that day)
Noizex has procured their own servers. Which means Tribe will be once again moving, which is why all the bugs and not working stuff from the move of 2 weeks ago hasn't been tended to yet, I was just waiting.
But rest assured the new servers are doper than buddah. I think this line from php info says it all:
But rest assured the new servers are doper than buddah. I think this line from php info says it all:
dio support - enableddio support, nuff said.
You are the driver
You own the road
You are the fire go on explode
You've got desire
So let it out
You've got the power
Stand up and shout
The problem is as follows. Now that school is over, Liz has started working full-time, which is fine in and of its self. The problem lies in the fact that her schedule is now the polar opposite of mine... weekend wise, fixing none of our scheduling/lack of time together issues. I'm still Sun-Wed 2-12, she is now Tues-Sat 3-11, which gives us exactly ZERO days together! To make things worse, she is addicted to this "sleep" thing and never has the energy to stay up after work so that we can go out. She is stubborn and refuses to become an insomniac, even with her 3 large coffees a day she can't be made to stay awake for the purpose of courting. Perhaps the coffee addiction needs to be replaced with a crystal-meth addiction, that's bound to keep her awake and alert for days, let alone, hours at a time.
The only nice part of this new schedule, is that we do overlap during the start of the week. So we can see a bit of each other durings breaks, which is nice and all. But since the in thing to do at work regarding inter-office relationships is to keep them on the down-low, there can't be any sort of expressions of affection between us (so as to not arrouse suspicions in those work like settings). So, briefly seeing each other at work is really not the same thing at all.
Anyways I'm just whining here so I'll just shut up now. Since there's not much to do about the situation. Hopefully the schedules will eventually re-align and will work out better for us. That, or I'll manage to invent a colour-less taste-less version of crystal-meth which looks like sugar, so that I can sneak it into her coffee.
The only nice part of this new schedule, is that we do overlap during the start of the week. So we can see a bit of each other durings breaks, which is nice and all. But since the in thing to do at work regarding inter-office relationships is to keep them on the down-low, there can't be any sort of expressions of affection between us (so as to not arrouse suspicions in those work like settings). So, briefly seeing each other at work is really not the same thing at all.
Anyways I'm just whining here so I'll just shut up now. Since there's not much to do about the situation. Hopefully the schedules will eventually re-align and will work out better for us. That, or I'll manage to invent a colour-less taste-less version of crystal-meth which looks like sugar, so that I can sneak it into her coffee.