I managed to waste an entire long weekend and do none of the cleaning I meant to. I guess it's a good thing we rarely have visitors. Maybe I'll try to get some cleaning done Saturday after stupid work meeting that will make me get up obscenely early. In the meantime I should try riding my bike this week. I never really got back in the habit of ( Read more... )

So nice to see friends while enjoying ribs and ice cream and playing with dogs and enjoying friends. That's all.

Oh yeah, one of my favourite points in the weekend abroad

"There's Tim Hortons, that's a donut shop"
"I find it hilarious that the American is telling the Canadian what Tim Horton's is"
"Why?"

I headed down to New York State to visit someone for four days this weekend and just got back two hours ago. Crossing the border has become really intense and slow since the last time I did it (about 7 or 8 years ago). The lady seemed nice enough as I approached the desk but when she set into the questions she immediately became this super harsh ( Read more... )

I'm still on the Shadow of the Wind and for the most part I'm enjoying it but there was one thing that really bothered me. It didn't bother me enough to put the book down but it did bother me. In the story a character who is sober and does not have a gun to their head chooses to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles and even worse, is happy about it.

On the brighter side, this week I'm heading to western NY to see a friend. I didn't realize NY was as big as it is cause she isn't very far while NYC is a fair chunk away. Hopefully it all goes well.

Unexpectedly invited out for drinks after work and a bbq tomorrow. Tonight was fun, I'm still drunk, despite walking home from the albion and eating sun sun's, a sandwich from short stop and drinking stuff. Also, I danced in my work shoes. Wasn't planning to but I figure I like dancing so if a pretty girl asks if I want to dance I should say yes ( Read more... )

I am currently around 100 pages into "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'm really enjoying it. The story takes place in post World War Two Barcelona and was originally written in Spanish though the interpreter seems to have done a fantastic job. The story follows a boy Daniel who discovers a book by an author that only a few people ( Read more... )

Toronto visit went decently well. I did get to see a lot of people with a minimum of random wandering due to not being able to find anyone. I wish I still paid student fares cause I would totally visit more often if that were the case. Still good weekend, though sadly this marks the end of my holiday.

Finally got around to getting a g1 again. Sadly my original g1 has been expired for so long that I must do the entire year (or 8 months with driver's ed) over again.