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I was walking to the Subway station this evening after stopping at the grocery store for a few more supplies when I look up ahead and I see Colin Power from Halifax walking down the street towards me. It has to be one of the most surreal moments I’ve had in a very long time. I basically stood and pointed until he almost bowled me over. It turns out he’s in Toronto for just a few days visiting an old friend from High school, and another friend who just moved here from Halifax three weeks ago. He had remembered too late that I had just moved and didn’t have my contact information. We managed to bump into each other right in front of the restaurant that he would have invited me to.
We had a great meal, basically a ‘cook it yourself’ restaurant. Each table has its own BBQ in the middle of the table, and you order raw meat. We all got the all you can eat.
It was really good to run into some people to have an evening with. Though I’ve managed to find a nice friendly house I still don’t really know anyone in Toronto besides Sasha. Hopefully that will change tomorrow as I’m going to check out the Toronto home of the Bujinkan tomorrow night. Wish me luck.
Letter to JPJ Computers
Hi Tom,
This is Trevor, your favorite repeat costumer of late, and temporary Torontonian. Thanks for the emergency fix of my computer before I shipped it out, unfortunately a new power supply didn’t do the job. I can only get my computer to work some of the time. The screen starts to get pixilated with lines, and will try to reboot multiple times before going to some sort of emergency shut down screen. If I leave it off for some time, then come back it will usually work again, but not forever. This morning when I turned the system on again it booted, but it had reverted to minimum resolution. I did check to see if it was seated right, it is.
I mentioned this once in passing, but it may bear repeating. The computer did exhibit this behavior once very shortly after I got the system, but when it reset itself it was fine so I didn’t think any more about it.
I don’t know what to do.
End Letter
I planed to spend a good amount of time here in Toronto keeping in touch with Halifax/Playing on-line games, and generally passing the time on my computer. You can imagine how amazingly frustrating this has been for me.