Category Archives: Personal

Day 2 of the new shift.

Buh, it’s going to be tough get­ting used to wak­ing up at 5 AM almost every day. My new sched­ule at work star­ted, I now am work­ing 7:00AM through 4:00PM instead of 9:00AM through 6:00PM. This means that in order to get to work on time, the latest I can leave in the morn­ing is 6:20, in real­ity

Who am I kidding.

I know I have noth­ing to say. That’s a line from some­thing by either King Missile or John S. Hall. It’s also on a t-shirt that Lindsay made for me which is awe­some. Sometimes I get ideas that I think would be good things to write about, but then I for­get them. Those ideas never make there way here. Because I for­got

A Good Time Was Had by All.

Dinner was a hit I think. BBQ’ed Ribs and Pork Tenderloin Roast. I think the Roast got a bit dry and the ribs were not what you could plaus­ibly call “Fall off the Bone”. but the fla­vours were all good and the assort­ments of salads were excel­lent. There were also some last-minute pota­toes that went over quite well. Conversations

Happy Monkey!

Okay, so the folks at the Apple apple store were quite friendly, I signed in early just in case they could help me out before my actual appoint­ment and spent a good half an hour wan­der­ing around look­ing at all of the Mac toys. Lindsay was there hanging out with me so it wasn’t com­pletely bor­ing. My

Sad Monkey.

Boo000, I now get to exper­i­ence the dis­tinct pleas­ure of get­ting my iPod repaired. Clutzy me leaned over to pick up some­thing and the darned thing fell right out of my pocket! The screen is nicely shattered thanks to my care­less­ness. If I’m lucky the Apple per­son that I talk to will cover the thing under

So, what’s new?

Things change, though not always drastic­ally. The accu­mu­la­tion of small changes even­tu­ally develop into a major change though. I still work for a local Tech Support com­pany, as I have for a little over two years. When I first star­ted, my only com­puter know­ledge was some basics about Linux, minor troubleshoot­ing of Windows sys­tems, and what Mac OS looked like. Now,

Books?

So appar­ently there exists people who are proud of the fact that they don’t read. I have dif­fi­culty under­stand­ing some­thing like this because so much of human cul­ture is tied up in our lit­er­at­ure. There are people who hear the words “Big Brother” and think of a crappy tele­vi­sion show rather than George Orwell’s 1984 AMZN. Reading

This is a Test Post.

I recently down­loaded and installed the cur­rent Beta of Microsoft Office 2010. The upcom­ing offer­ing from Microsoft for all sorts of office needs. Apparently Word has blog integ­ra­tion, and that is where I’m typ­ing this post. I assume that when I click on the “Publish” but­ton, my post will auto­mat­ic­ally be sent to my Blog. That would

Writing is hard.

Sometimes you can spend an entire morn­ing star­ing blankly at a page, unable for force out even the most bare of syl­lables. Try as you might, you can­not find the will to write. Sometimes you feel like quit­ting, other times you do quit. Mostly though, you sit and stare. The blank page is hate­ful, cruel, and

Personal Space

It seems as though the people of Calgary have lost their sense of per­sonal space. At least, when it comes to pub­lic transit. There should be weight sensors in all of the trains that pre­vent the train from mov­ing if there is too much weight in any one car. Then they should set the max­imum