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January 31, 2006

Pool

OK, off to the office and then to the final final pool night. I'm ready ... I'm even wearing my lucky pants.

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January 30, 2006

Weekend puttering

I spent all weekend working on this cabinet to hide my computers (and their noise) away.

The cats helped by playing with the bags that the stuff came in.

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January 29, 2006

Dead people

It turns out this weekend had a dead people theme. On Saturday morning my photoclub had an outing to Mt Pleasant Cemetery and tonight I went to see that movie with the vampire chick in leather. Ok, honestly, it was more about the leather than the dead people, but still...

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January 25, 2006

Pool shocker

Soooo, due to some weirdness in how the pool league is constructed, our team is actually in the finals next week. Since we won this week, I think the worst we can do at this point is second. Yes, I too am shocked. While there are three of us who are sporadically decent, we have two phenomenal players on our team without whom we would be in the basement. Whee, pool is fun!

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January 24, 2006

Chill out guys

You'd think the people who worked here would be more, you know, relaxed about stuff ...

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January 22, 2006

Here I sit

Here I sit, brokenhearted; brought my keyboard and only brain-farted. I wanted to write a blog entry but can't think of a thing to write about. Nothing. Nada. Oh ... There's a thought ... oh ... oh ... Nope, wasn't.
It's actually quite comfortable to sit here without a thought in my head. Relaxing. What a nice wall; I think I'll stare at it for a while. Ok, there is a slight danger of drifting off to sleep. What is that strange shape coming up next to me. I think it's a "person". Their mouth is moving and noise is coming out. Uh oh, they're expecting a response of some sort. Wait while I come up with some answer. 'Grunt' seems to have been the correct response, the person has gone away.
Oooh, but they left something. A white thing with something dark in it. Experimental taste. Another. Ahhh, it's coffee! I'm in a restaurant. That person was a waitress. My name is John. Pi is 3.14. The Pizzahut phone number is 416 310-1010. It is Saturday. The answer to the universe and everything is 42. That wall is boring. Everything floods back.
But, I still can't think of anything to write about. Oh well.

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January 20, 2006

It works!

After struggling with this $%#!&? program for almost two months I finally have a preliminary version running!

I really must celebrate tonight before the temptation to touch and mess it up hits me.

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January 19, 2006

Online bookclubs

Article about an online book club. Heaven.

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January 18, 2006

Sensattional meedicine

Email I just received:

When I first read this I thought they were saying that they could guarantee 4 inches of total p-enis length after using their product. I supposed that if one were smaller than 4 inches, one would likely try any type of meedicine. After rereading it again I'm guessing that's not what they meant.

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January 15, 2006

Blue Man Memories

Seeing these bags in front of the Blue Man Group theatre made me laugh. If you've attended one of their shows you'll know immediately what's in them!

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January 12, 2006

Silly people

If you know anything about programming you'll know how dumb this ad is:

They're scaring the real programmers away with this mess!

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Speeding ticket

So, I got a speeding ticket in Owen Sound on the weekend ... we had just left Tim Horton's and I was distracted by the caffeinated goodness, or something. The cop was really pleasant and even though I was going 73 in a 50 zone he wrote the ticket out for 60kph so I wouldn't get hit with the large fine. But, he wrote completely the wrong date on the ticket. He has the offence as occurring on November 26, 2005 rather than January 7, 2006. I was at a hockey game with my brother on that date in November and have the pictures to prove it. I'm thinking I could beat this rap because of the date mix up but do I really want to go to court in Owen Sound to get out of a $40 fine? Not to mention that I did commit the crime and the cop was very good about it. Dilemma.

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January 10, 2006

Yurt route

The yellow highlight on this map is the route we took during the Yurt trip. Toronto is on the lower right and Owen Sound is on the upper left (gotta speeding ticket there, grrr). The yurts were in MacGregor Point Provincial park which is the little finger of yellow poking almost to Lake Huron on the upper left. The lower, mostly straight, line was the route to the yurt, the zigzaggy line at the top was the route coming back. We were looking for interesting buildings and horses as we were SICK of trees!

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January 09, 2006

Yurt sweet Yurt

My (and 5 other people's) home this past weekend.

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January 03, 2006

What was old ...

... is new again.

Add a $30 bedspread to my old couch and, vavoom, new couch. Amazing.

(Yes, same old languid cat.)

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January 01, 2006

Life as a teeter-totter

In simple terms, all I want for the new year is balance. Doesn't sound like much, but it's been my resolution for a few years and I still haven't managed to achieve it. And by balance, I don't mean that I want my cheque book to magically sort itself out, rather I want my whole life to sort itself out. I know it's possible to do all the things I want to do and spend time with everyone I want to see and spend time with myself and still manage to get some work done and get enough sleep. I'm sure I've met a person or two in my life who have done this. Unfortunately, I think it usually involves things like 'schedules' and 'discipline' and 'budgets' and other such stuff that I've tried to live without all these years.

Realistically, it comes down to deciding what's really important and focusing on those things. But, what's important? Love, work, learning, feeding the cats, climbing Everest, playing pool, winning a Pulitzer, solving the Rubik's cube, doing the daily Sudoku, scoping chicks, barbecuing the perfect steak, photography, rollerblading, discovering the Cadbury secret. The list is already ponderous and I didn't even mention book club or seeing a movie a week or exercise or the much loved 'staring into space'. Maybe there isn't time to do everything after all. Did I mention eating? I'll have to really peruse the list and see if I can pare things down. That part of the resolution should be done by July or so and then I can start working on those 'schedule' and 'discipline' things.

Then, it will be close to the end of the year and it's time to slow down in preparation for Christmas... I don't suppose it's difficult to understand why it's managed to be my resolution for so long.

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