Well, I'm trying to write my work term report, so obviously it's time to waste time on the internet by update my journal. In all seriousness though, it's going fairly well. I've got some pretty good material, and I think I can craft myself a fine report. I'm really going to shoot for having it done by next Friday so that I won't have to think about ( Read more... )

My Aunt Sylvia passed away last night. She had cancer in her brain stem. She had been fighting it for severals years now, but it finally caught up to her. It was expected though, as she has been in the hospital for about a month or so, and was basically getting worse each day. Unfortunately I won't be getting home for the funeral, since it's a ( Read more... )

So when I was walking through the parking lot at work today, some random guy starts scolding me. He was like, "you passed in a very dangerous spot," or something like that. He was referring to when I passed another car just before the blind-crest of a hill. He had a valid point of course, but when I tried to explain that I had looked along the ( Read more... )

I've been calling Wal-Mart all week asking about the Wii. So far the best I've gotten is, "It's on order." That was on Monday, since then, all I've been able to get out of them is, "We have absolutely no idea." Considering that Nintendo was supposed to be sending out its second shipments for Thursday and Friday, I don't think that bodes well. It ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like I won't be getting a Wii today. I went to Wal-Mart at about 10:30 this morning (it opens at 12 on Sundays) and there wasn't anybody around. Then a couple of people showed up, but there wasn't a line to speak of so I just hung out in my car for a while. Turns out that the Manager was handing out tickets, and by the time I headed ( Read more... )

So, Wii tomorrow. I went by Wal-Mart today, and it looks like they've got a lot of copies of Twilight Princess. They had a poster covering the Wii section, but along the side, I could see that there were at least three sections dedicated to copies of TP. If there are that many copies of TP, then there must be at least that many Wiis, so getting one ( Read more... )

With all the excitement about Wii launching on Sunday, I've been completely ignoring the DS lately. Well my interest in the DS just skyrocketed. I got an email from GameSpot talking about the release of Yoshi's Island DS. I might not have even clicked on the link, but they described it as, "possibly the best platformer to hit the DS this year." I ( Read more... )

Well, it's been more than a month since my old roommate Matt moved out, but I finally got the phone changed over to my name. Matt had some trouble getting his charges moved over to another account, so it ended up taking a while. Course, I don't think he tried to get it changed right after he left. I'm pretty sure he was just too lazy to do it for a ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've felt the urge to go see a movie, but the trailers for "Casino Royale" have really piqued my interest. There's just something about it that is almost compelling me to go see it when it comes out. I think it's the music. That Bond theme is damn catchy. I'll have to see if I can find someone to go with me, so that I don't ( Read more... )

My parents, being the wonderful people they are, finally took pity on me and decided to drive eight hours to Bathurst to deliver me one of their cars for the rest of my term. They drove up with two cars, the Jetta, and the Sentra for me. Dad has the Jetta running on filtered and slightly modified Canola Oil, so it didn't cost them too much, but I ( Read more... )