March 2008

I’ve been doing school work all night.  Shocking, je sais.  But I have a couple projects and assignments that need doing and I figure now is as good a time as any.  I wrote a program to look up someone’s phone number in a text file and then some Java thing to test polymorphism (just means that more than one class can use the same method but get different results.)  And now I’m doing my database crap.  SQL is a pretty sweet language.  It’s really high-end so the commands are basically like speaking English.  It’s cool stuff.

Now I shalt have a beer and a cigarette and do something else because I’m tired of all this techy stuff for the night.

Hey, it’s getting kind of nice out.  All the snow is melting:

Pretty sweet, huh?

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Are you as organised as me?  Doubtful.

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Tony:  I came here to tell you today, in all seriousness, that I’m done.  I did what you said; I gave it a lot of thought and I decided, once and for all, it’s over.  The truth is this therapy is a jerk off.  You know it and I know it.

Dr. Melfi: I actually don’t know it but please continue.

Tony:    It’s a jerk off.

Dr. Melfi:  Yes, you’ve said that.

Tony:  Anyway, I was coming here to quit; had it all planned out.  But guess what?  My son is talking suicide.  So now I’m trapped here forever.

Dr. Melfi:  My god, what did he say?

Tony:  His girlfriend - fiancee - whatever.  She broke up with him.  He’s beyond devastated.

Dr. Melfi:  Would you like me to recommend someone for him to talk to?

Tony:  Carmella’s getting a referral from his own pediatrician.

Dr. Melfi:  Oh.

Tony:  After that incompetent you sent Meadow to.

-Silence-

Tony:  So I suppose now comes the inherent fucking grilling about how I feel about all this.

Dr. Melfi: Isn’t that why you’re here?

Tony: -Sighs- You know friends of mine, they got sons his age and they’re happy, ambitious.  They fucking take life as it comes. 

Dr. Melfi: I know it seems that way but do you really know these other boys?

Tony:  I know what I see.  My son curled up on the couch in a fetus position when he should be out bangin’ co-eds. 

Dr. Melfi:  Have you talked to him?

Tony:  ‘Til I’m blue in the face.  We both have.  And now we’re afraid to talk to him because of what he might do.  Obviously I’m prone to depression.  A certain bleak attitude about the world.  But I know I can handle it.  Your kids, though.  It’s like when they’re little and they get sick.  You’d give anything in the world to trade places with them so they don’t have to suffer.  And then they think you’re the cause of it!

Dr. Melfi:  How’re you the cause of it?

Tony: It’s in his blood, this miserable fucking existence. My rotten fucking putrid genes have infected my kid’s soul!  That’s my gift to my son!

Dr. Melfi:  I know this is difficult but I’m very glad we’re having this discussion.

Tony:  Really?  Cause I gotta be honest.  I think it fucking sucks.

Dr. Melfi:  What does?

Tony:  Therapy!  This!  I hate this fucking shit!  Seriously, we’re both adults here, right?  So, after all is said and done.  After all the complaining and the crying and the fucking bullshit.  Is this all there is?

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So I went to the Falls yesterday.  I left around 5 in the afternoon for the long journey there.

Somewhere on the 401 I guess.

Same thing, but I saw a Canadian flag and had to get a picture:

More random road photoz:

Coming into Hamilton.  There’s this hugeeeee hill that you drive on and your ears actually pop when you come down.  You can see pretty much the whole city:

This was the most gorgeous part of the drive.  Somewhere between Hamilton and Niagara Falls you go over this bridge that overlooks Lake Ontario and it’s amazing.  I wish I could’ve pulled over and gotten some better pictures but everyone was doing about 140 km/h and I didn’t want to get killed.

Here’s what I was looking at from the view of Google maps.  That’s the bridge going through the middle:

Finally I made it to Niagara Falls at around 7:45.  It’s a ridiculous city.  This is the main strip where all the lights are:

My first stop was the casino where I lost then won then lost again and had a beer along the way.  Overall I think I lost about $50.  I’m not too sure.  Here’s a picture.  The woman was eyeing me curiously:

On the way out you get this view of the Falls that’s pretty amazing.  They put all these lights behind them at night and turn them different colours.  Unfortunately it was dark and I was far away so all I could manage was this lack-luster photo:

I actually went down and checked out the falls up close that night but still couldn’t get a decent picture.  I also considered throwing myself over the barrier but decided against it.

Also here’s the big crazy sign for the casino:

I was pretty goddamned depressed after I lost so I decided to go have another couple of beers at Boston Pizza.  I didn’t get any pictures but it was a pretty snazzy joint.  This limo full of American girls pulled up and dropped off about twenty of them.  I was sitting at the bar drinking on my lonesome and three of them ended up talking to me.  I think the one girl from Syracuse had some interest in me but I was so lonely and depressed that I wasn’t any fun.  She left and said she’d be back but I wrote her off at that point.  I think she went off and found some energetic good looking guy to set her sights on instead.  Still, it was cool because she was really good looking.  She complained about how Canadians make long island iced teas, though.  There wasn’t enough rum in it for her taste.  The other American girl made fun of our Canadian currency calling it Monopoly money and made me laugh.

I was pretty buzzed after my three beers.  I guess I don’t drink often enough.  So I went and got some pizza and went back to my hotel.  In desperate need of some female company I went looking for a strip club but couldn’t find one.  It was really goddamned cold out too.  I finally located one in the phone book but I didn’t know exactly how far away it was and it was too chilly to attempt the journey so I passed out in my bed instead.

Here was my hotel room, btw.  My gorgeous view:

I woke up at about 9 in the morning with a massive headache and decided that I should head out.  I wanted to peep the falls up close first, though.  I made some coffee, had a shower, and got dressed, and then dropped my key off at the front desk.  Here’s one of the natural wonders of the world:

And you can see a pretty cool skyline from the falls.  It’s a strange place.  Everything is so compact and huge at the same time:

After that I took the long road home, finally making it back to my wonderful city:

And that, as they say, was that.

PEACE

Oh yeah. I uploaded a few new videos to my Youtube profile. Check em if you’re bored.

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Fo’ real.

And fuck English and process writing and headaches and idiocy and computers and the internet and people and places.

Fuck ‘em all.

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It was 6 earlier too.

I went to my doctor’s today.  She recommended some Salinex for my sinuses, which we believe to be the cause of my eye pain and some other enema-type thing that washes out your sinuses =\.  They didn’t have that at the pharmacy though.

I also got a prescription for Valium to help me sleep.  5 mg once a week to try to regulate my sleep schedule a bit.  We’ll see how that goes.

And uhhhhhh.  That’s aboot it.  The doc recommended that I go to Chicago for some reason.  Apparently it’s pretty nice.  Only about a month left of school.  WIN.

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END THIS UNSUFFERABLE PAIN.  HAND ME AN ICE CREAM SCOOP AND SOME PCP.

Man.  Seriously wtf is this shit.  It’s making me frustrated.  I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow and thinking about it makes me want to punch a hole in the wall.  I hate going to the doctor’s and explaining what’s wrong and having that quack fruitlessly try to fix it.

I am not a happy camper at the moment.

Then again, at least I have a whole fresh pack of smokes.  You win some, you lose some.

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Success is speaking words of praise
In cheering other peoples ways
In doing just the best you can
With every task and every plan.
It’s silence when your speech would hurt.
Politeness when your neighbor’s curt.
It’s deafness when the scandal flows
and sympathy with other’s woes
It’s loyalty when duty calls
It’s courage when disaster falls
It’s politeness when the hours are long
It’s found in laughter and in song.
It’s in the silent time of prayer
In happiness and in despair
In all of life and nothing less
We find the thing we call success.

Word.

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Not much to report.  I applied to Esso today.  It’s directly across the street from my old gas station.  I converse regularly with the fellow who works the evening shift.  I asked if they were looking for any help and he said that he was leaving and they still hadn’t found a replacement so I should bring in a rezumat in during the day.  I did so and the manager interviewed me and said she’d consider it and I might hear from her.  She really grilled me, though.  I had to admit that I got canned from Petro-Canada and also that I had a slight criminal record.  BUT I made her laugh too.  So we’ll see what happens. 

I really need a job and money to pay off Visa.  I owe them $900.  =\   And I also want to have money to take a small trip in the summer.  I don’t even know if I have the summer off of school, though.  The whole thing is very confusing and their website doesn’t help with anything.

Man it’s gorgeous outside.  Nice and sunny and mild.  I love the nice weather.  Except we’re supposed to be getting snow tonight(?) but then it’s going up to 8 degrees sometime during the week.  I’m excited.

WELL.  That’s all for now.  I’m outtt.

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I managed to install Vista x64.  Man that took for fucking ever.  It’s cool though cause it’s up and running and I’m currently moving all of my music back onto this computer.  Yay.  Opera is awesome.  I just had to synchronize my bookmarks and speed dial with the Opera website and then move a couple of .dat and .adr files over and now it’s like I never changed.  Except I can’t get it set up as my default browser but I’ll figure that out later.

SO YAY.  I’m out.

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I hit up Detroit tonight.  I left at around 8:30 for a 2 hour drive to the Motorcity.  I’m not sure why.  I guess that I was bored.  I had taken a clonazepam at around two in the afternoon and then slept until six so I had a bunch of energy (now long since gone).

My route:

Next time I’ll take the 401.  The 402 is really boring.

Here’s a few snapshots.

Just driving down the road.  I don’t know where exactly that is.

Same thing.

Some random gas station that I stopped at to have a cigarette.  I think it was closed.

The toll bridge to get in to the US? 

That might have been around the time I got lonely and called up Aurashu.  We had a good convo.  She wants my babies, I can tell.

The American border guard was really nice and didn’t hassle me at all.  Just took my passport, asked what my business was and told me to have a good night.  Much ado about nothing it seems.

On the lonely road.

My first American convenience store!  The dude who worked there kept calling me "guy."

That’s where I picked up these babies:

P.S. Americans cigarettes taste like shit.

I made it to the casino!  A helluva lot more snazzy than any of the ones I’ve been to before.

So I went in and withdrew a hundred dollars from the ATM.  I then promptly lost it.  The blackjack tables had a $15 minimum!  What kind of bullshit is that?  In such a poor city you’d think that they’d have a $1 minimum table.  Or even 25 cents.  But no.  So I went and cashed $45 in chips, lost it in three hands, went and cashed $30 in chips, lost it in three hands (I won once then doubled the next time).  After that I had no reason to stick around so I made my way back out and to my car.

The bridge once again, this time going back to Canada.  The Canadian border guard was an asshole.  I liked the American one way better.

After that it was just two hours of driving until I got home.  I had a crazy ass snow storm to drive through though.  I passed three separate cars in the median ditch on the highway, two of them with police and ambulance surrounding them.  I almost lost control too because I didn’t realise how icy the roads were.  On the way back out of Detroit some woman in a Jeep spun out in front of me and I had to avoid smashing into her.  Crazy times.

I made like five different videos that I’ll upload later but they pretty much just recount everything that I wrote in this entry so they’re probably not worth watching.  They’ll be up on my Youtube channel by the end of tomorrow.  Okay.  Right now I must sleep.

Farewell.

Oh yes.  I need a new destination.  New York?  Possibly Montreal.  I’ve heard that it’s a beautiful city.  Only time will tell.

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I got my printer networked to my laptop and the desktop in my room.  I’m very happy.  I was having so much trouble.  It’s a HP Photosmart 2575 and whenever I’d try to add it through the network I’d get "Cannot find printer" or whatever it was.  I fixed that just by turning off Zonealarm and using the Windows firewall instead.  THEN I started getting this "0×000003eb" error when I’d tried to add it.  I guess the Printer’s firmware doesn’t support Vista or something. 

I finally said fuck it and took my ethernet cable and just plugged the printer directly into my router, went into the printer’s options, and printed off the network settings.  Then I downloaded the software/drivers from HP and when it asks if the computer is plugged in locally or through a network, I chose network and voila it automatically recognized it.  FUCK Vista’s software for setting up printer sharing.

So there you have it.  Problem solved, I kick ass, etc.

Now I have to do 20 self-assessments and print off the results then write out any patterns that I find and whether or not I agree.  Fun stuff, yeah?

PEACE

Well I’m back for a quick update.  HP SUCKS.  Fuck that company and their low-quality printers.  Don’t buy HP.  Ever.  In fact all printers suck.  When are we going to get past the point of cutting down trees to print shit out when we can just use a computer monitor?  Therefore, teachers who require printed stuff SUCK.  We’re supposed to be in the digital age, people and here I am fiddling around with a fucking print tray that keeps jamming paper or not feeding the paper in properly.  I’m boycotting HP and printers in general.  I suggest you do the same.

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That the only good girl I know… 

Is my dog.

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I can’t let other people affect me so much.  I have no control over other people and I need to realise that.  I only have control over my own mind and body.  All the external forces will do what they please and there’s nothing that I can do about it but I can choose (I think) how I react.  I exist independently from everything else (also dependently, but I’ll figure that one out later) and I need to act accordingly.  Yes.  Things are fine.  They’ve always been fine, relatively.  I need to be grateful for what I have, not pissed off about what I don’t have.  Acting like a baby doesn’t help anything or anyone, especially myself.  I’m out.

nvm

Btw, I was just kidding, Kate.  =)

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You won’t regret it.  Unless you have bad taste in movies *cough* Kate *cough*.

Hey.  Yeah.  People suck.

Bye.

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Restless and bored.

Bored and restless.

My eyes hurt too.  Wtf is with that?  Maybe I need glasses.  I gotta ask my doc.  They hurt constantly.  It’s this aching at the front of them.  Or maybe it’s the back.  A headache in my forehead generally accompanies the pain.  Ughhh.  I can’t concentrate when they hurt like this.  FUCK LIFE.

At least it’s nice and sunny out.

I also think that maybe my parents didn’t bestow enough attention on me as a child.  I pretty much beg for it.  Or at least from one person.  Most everyone else I couldn’t care less about.  It’s like when they’re not focused on me, it just pisses me off.  I feel like waving my hands in front of their face and screaming "LOOK AT ME."  Maybe I’m just insecure.  Charlie Manson once said, "I don’t need attention.  Insecure people need attention."  Could be it.  I’m looking for some sort of validation.

Who the hell knowssssss?

And why is Ubuntu so fucking hard to erase from your computer?  I know the devs probably hate Windows but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s hella inconvenient for 90% of computer users when they don’t include some easy uninstall thing.  It should be a Windows program that deletes GRUB and  formats the Ubuntu drive.  Or even just replaces the boot loader and the user can manually format the drive.  Fuck you, Ubuntu devs!

Btw, word of the day:

chagrin: acute vexation or embarrassment.

ex. Much to his chagrin, Aura took another 5 AP courses, leaving no time for anything else.

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I’m listening to the Postal Service.  Some okayish shit.  A bit too techno. 

I drove to the store to buy cigarettes.  I always get the urge to pick up people and give them rides to wherever they’re going.  Maybe it’s because I hate walking.  I’ve gotten rides that way a few times.  The first time I was walking home drunk from my buddy’s place when I was about 17.  It was winter at the time and about an hour and a half walk but I was up for it.  Some white car pulled up and I got a bit freaked.  I thought that I was gonna get robbed by a bunch of gangsters.  But it was just one dude and he asked if I needed a ride home and I said sure.  It was cool.  Dropped me off right at my door too!

I got an 89 on my Java midterm.  It wasn’t the 95 that I was hoping for but it’s still decent.  Now I have to wait for Tony Haworth to hurry up and mark my C++ project that I handed in.  It’s not due until the 18th, though which is when he’ll start marking so I have a while to wait.

I’ve done three loads of laundry today (I believe that the washer was $900, Evey).  My sheets are currently being tumble dried.  I’ve had to restart it three times.  I hate washing sheets for that reason.  They take so fucking long to dry.

If you want to see a movie with a fucked up ending, watch The Mist.  It was actually sort of depressing.  Good film, as is indicated by any sort of emotional reaction.

I keep thinking and searching for some essential truth.  Some fact or phrase or idea or saying that will cause everything make sense.  If anything bad happens I can just recite the phrase or understand the concept and realise that everything’s cool, that it all happens for some reason.  I guess that Zen Buddhism could hold the key.  I suppose that I’ll just keep reading that book.  That one prayer helps things.  I say it daily.

I am of the nature to grow old.  There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill-health.  There is no way to escape having ill-health.
I am of the nature to die.  There is no way to escape death..
Everyone I love and hold dear is of the nature to change.  There is no way to escape being separated from them.

My actions are my only true belongings.
There is no way to escape the consequences of my actions.
They are the ground on which I stand.

Deep shit, yo.

I’z out.

Zomg.  I forgot.  I picked up my camera yesterday!  That’s how I took the washer pictures.  I was tres pleased.

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It got delivered early this morning.  It’s really big and has lots of lights.  Tres fancy.

Yeah, I know you’re all jealous.  It’s okay.  So it’s time to do three loads of laundry.  I’ve picked up all the clothes from my floor and currently about a third of them is being spun around in water and soap (and fabric softener).  Yeah boyeeeeee.

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So I’m updating.  Why?  Because of Audrey.  The girl who refuses to get a blog even though she’s highly entertaining.

My washing machine broke earlier this week so I haven’t been able to do any laundry.  It’s making me mad.  Good news, though!  My parents bought a new one last night and it will be delivered demain (or manana).  Gosh I can’t wait.

K, I’m done.

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Salut!  Check it, yo.

Or for you Americans,

Nice, huh?  All I need is 10 more degrees and I’ll be happy.

I finished my C++ program.  It counts the characters in a text document and gives you the most frequently used character, and the least used character.  Very useful, huh?  It should be.  It caused me a lot of frustration.  Especially when I had and i instead of a 1.  I spent a half an hour trying to figure out why the array was going out of bounds.  That explained it.

Uhhh.  Yeah.  So I’m all done with midterms.  FOUR MORE WEEKS until school is over.  Damn that’s soon.  I can’t wait.  I wish I had some cheddar, though.  I’d like to go somewhere in the summer.  Ah well.  Maybe I’ll hitchhike.  I’m pretty big and scary-looking though.  I don’t think very many people will pick me up, although it has been known to happen.

I’ve been listening to these indie playlists that Laurie recommended.  You can get the torrents here if you’d like.  Some of the stuff is pretty good.  There’s like a thousand songs, though.  I burned four CD’s for driving around and that didn’t even get through one of the playlists.

I’m re-reading this book, "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki.  It’s got some cool stuff in it.

     Tozan, the famous Zen master, said, "The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud.  The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain.  All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each other.  The white cloud is always the white cloud.  The blue mountain is always the blue mountain."  This is a pure, clear interpretation of life.  There may be many things like the white cloud and blue mountain: man and woman, teacher and disciple.  They depend on each other.  But the white cloud should not be bothered by the blue mountain.  The blue mountain should not be bothered by the white cloud.  They are quite independent, but yet dependent.  This how we live, and how we practice zazen.

… So we are completely dependent and independent.  If you have this kind of experience, this kind of existence, you have absolute independence; you will not be bothered by anything.

I’m out.

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Actually, some of my highschool midterms were probably worse.  We had to copy a website and re-create it using Dreamweaver.  Sooo frustrating.  I couldn’t get some parts right so I gave up half-way through and submitted it.  Fuck it yooo.

This is what it was supposed to look like:

And this is what I ended up with.

I brought my camera into the repair place a couple days ago.  Hopefully it’ll be fixed in about a week.  I miss taking pictures and making random videos.  And I know Rey misses it as well.  =p

Two days till the weekend.  YUS.

Wednesdays suck azz.  I have to go to school from noon till five.  Actually it’s usually more like 4:30 but still.  I don’t like staying here that long.  At least I get a couple extra hours of sleep, although I still have to wake up to drive my dad to work at about 7:30.

HOLLA

p.s. alt-country/goth country kicks ass. Check it out on Last.fm

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Someone from 195.225.178.29 has been acting very badly.

Those spambot bastards.  I bannzored their IP from my website so that should take care of it.  Good thing for Akismet.

In case you’re wondering how to stop it, download Akismet from here.  Then sign up for a wordpress.com blog.  They’ll provide you with an API key somewhere in your dashboard.  You can then use that key in your own Wordpress Akismet options to activate the spam catcher.

I wrote my Java midterm yesterday.  I think that I did pretty well.  I know for sure that I lost three marks, though, and possibly a few more.  S’all GRAVY THOUGH.  I’m sicka these sucka emcees steppin to meeeee.  It was a pretty easy day yesterday cause I had five hours between classes.  Most everyone else had to write a make-up C++ midterm yesterday first because the class bombed it.  Luckily I got that 95 so I was able to forego it.

Now I have my web design midterm demain and that shouldn’t be too difficult, if time consuming.

I’m outtie.  PZ

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Monday:

• Chillax

Tuesday:

• Kick it

Wednesday:

• Idle

Thursday:

• Lay back

Friday:

• Laze

It’s a good life, huh?

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I remember way back in the day when I was really poor.  I had this method of getting free cigarettes.  It was really easy, actually.  All you had to do was call them or submit a complaint online saying that the tobacco was packed too loose or too hard and they were hard to smoke.  Then they’d send you a postage-paid envelope and you’d mail back any given package of cigarettes.  A couple of weeks later you’d receive a free carton in the mail!  I think that I did that about three times with a couple of different companies.  One of them only sent me four packs, though.  Those cheap asses.  I got this girl I was seeing, Sarah, to try it too.  They only sent her ONE pack!  I’m pretty sure that they got sick of handing out cartons.  I felt a bit bad because I promised her a carton.

Yeah.  Just felt like reminiscing.

I’m supposed to write out some notes for ecommerce today.  I put it in my Google calendar but I’ve yet to accomplish it.  I started.  Then went to sleep for a while.  A little SIESTA.  I guess I’ll try to get it done before the end of the day but I’m not promising anything.

Speaking of Google calendar, it kicks major ass.  It’s fast, nice to look at, and I can access it from my desktop when I’m at home sau my laptop when I’m at school.  It’s a win-win-win situation.  I don’t think I would’ve missed my database exam last semester if I had been using it.  I tried using the Windows Calendar but it’s mad complicated to share with other computers.  If I could synchronize it with my laptop easily then It’d be good.  But as it is, fuck it.

Also, I’m using Opera 9.5 now.  It’s pretty fast and cool.  A little faster than 9.26 I think.  I never realised it till yesterday but you can synchronize your bookmarks and speed dial with my.opera.com.  So if you install Opera on another computer, you just put in your username/password and you’ll get all of your bookmarks back.  Pretty neat stuff.  Except I did something to the status bar and now I can’t fix it.  I’m a dumbass.  I guess I’ll reinstall.

I finished The Brave One today.  I started it last night but then got really tired so I went to bed.  Jodie Foster pwns a lot of people in it.  Terrance Howard is pretty cool too.  Unfortunately, Morisa Tomei isn’t in it, let alone getting naked.

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So I was watching Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead and goddamn, Marisa Tomei looks good for a 44 43 year-old.  She gets almost buck naked twice.

Here:

Here:

And here she shows a bit of ass:

I apologise for the dudes in the scenes.  If I had more energy I would crop them out.  But yeah, nice body, no?  I understand why George Costanza wanted to date her.

Oh yeah, the movie was good too.  Pretty intense stuff.

That Rollo chocolate cone was pretty goddamned delicious as well.

Yay for primal urges and gluttony.

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Too much snow.  It keeps snowing and snowing and snowing.  It’s cold and blustery and I hates it, yo.  Hahaha check out this weather warning:

"Menacing" rofl.  Good word.  I’ve never seen it used in conjunction with snowstorm, nor have I seen it used in a professional manner.  It’s usually hyperbole or something you’d say in casual conversation.  It struck me as hilarious.  Then again, I’m a bit nuts.

Man I’m hungry.  I could definitely go for some Cinnamon Toast Crunch right about now and then a fruit plate.  Some strawberries, kiwis, melons.  God damn right.

I was at the store yesterday buying cigarettes and I asked the cashier if I could have some change.  I leaned over to check to see if he had the change to give me and that I wasn’t putting him out and he got all weird.  He’ like, "Don’t look over the counter!"  And I go, "What" (He was Indian or something.)  And he says, "Don’t look over the counter.  I’m here to help you but I don’t want you looking in my register."  And he went on for five minutes.  I was like, "Take it easy, man.  I don’t want your money."  Eventually he gave me my change and I left.  It was strange.

NOW I’M LEAVING.

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(That means "good day today!")  I checked my bank account and found out that Google paid me!

So with my newfound wealth I rushed out after my database midterm (which I eked out an 83 on) and bought a sound card and some speakers from Future Shop.  The speakers were like $83 off so I had to buy them.  Who could pass up that deal?

I’m ballin, hooooooo.  No more more buzzing on the mic or in the speakers.  I’m very satisfied.

I watched Things We Lost in the Fire with my new audio system.  It was pretty good.  A bit sappy but Benicio Del Toro is definitely one of the coolest actors out there.  Overall, 8/10. 

Some crazy shit just went down with my fonts.  I Googled for something and all of a sudden everything was in italics.  I checked Firefox and it was italicized too!  Same with IE.  Wtf.  Aurika sent me her copy of Arial.ttf but to no avail.  I searched around for an answer and found that you had to right click on the c:\windows\fonts folder, Install New Font and re-install the Arial font.  Very weird crap.  I don’t know how it got erased. 

So I just had some coffee and a cigarette and I’m chillin for ze night.

Easy.

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I just returned from Tim’s with a donut, a glazed cinnamon roll (apparently they stop serving frosted rolls at 3 p.m. (wtf?)), and a hot chocolate.  I will now roll up the rim to win…

OMFG I WON A DONUT.  This hasn’t happened YET.  Thank God for good luck.

Man I’m happy.  Except I had to take those pictures with the family’s camera because mine still refuses to work.

Also, my dad just gave me the receipt for my camera.  I have to take it to some repair place in the south end of town.  FUCK.  Ah well.  At least it shouldn’t cost anything.

Today was nice.  Aura is dying of a cold so she stayed home and we talked like old times.  It was very relaxing.  Felt good.  Andddd now I’m decent.  I have to do this essay on outsourcing but after that I’m pretty much set for school.  I think it’s only supposed to be aboot two pages so it should be no sweat, really.

OUT.

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I have about six empty Tim Horton’s cups in my garbage and I didn’t win on any of them.  What a crock.  (For you people who don’t know what I’m talking about: http://www.rolluptherimtowin.com/en/)  Also, I’ve decided that if you go there and they don’t have the type of donut you want, you should get another one free.  It’s only fair.  Makes up for the inconvenience, imo.

Being back at school after a week sucks.  Getting up at 6:30 is mad harsh.  School should start no earlier than 10:30.  FACT.

Also, cool prayer from my man the Buddha:

I am of the nature to grow old.
There is no way to escape growing old.

I am of the nature to have ill-health.
There is no way to escape having ill-health.

I am of the nature to die.
There is no way to escape death.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love
are of the nature to change.
There is no way to escape being separated from them.

My actions are my only true belongings.
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
My actions are the ground on which I stand.

- Buddha

Holla

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And I am.

Today I was dropping my dad off from work and we had the truck door open and were talking.  And the door was blocking the sidewalk a bit.  And some woman, who I’m pretty sure was a hooker, was like, "Thanks!" all sarcastic-like.  Hey, lady.  Fuck you!  You can’t walk around?  We’re trying to have a society here.  JEEZ.  Another guy was like, "Let’s move it off the sidewalk, guys."  Who the fuck are you?  A cop?  WALK AROUND, NUMBNUTS.

Also I have an assignment to do on outsourcing.  I hate business.  =\ Especially essays about business topics. GAH.

Also, if I don’t get a working camera soon, Imma have to smack a bitch.

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hatt.us

It was only nine dollars so I couldn’t pass it up.  Now what am I supposed to do with it!??!  I don’t know.  You tell me.

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Life is crazy.

I don’t know what I’m thinking when I do stuff half the time.  It may be the fact that I’m a very sensory person (I learned that in Team Dynamics) so I usually go with my gut which, as it turns out, is often wrong.

My impulsiveness as of late isn’t helping anything, either.  Ah.  What to do, what to do.

Btw, I take back what I said.  You don’t sound like a cheerleader.

I’m out.

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I just went to Brantford, which should be an hour drive.  I think that it ended up taking me about two hours to get there, though.  Google Maps totally failed me and I managed to get lost about half way there.  Some kind gas station attendant showed me the right direction.  He even drew a map.  I ended up taking the highway, which I was trying to avoid, to get there.  But I was desperate so I was like, whatever works.

So I got there finally and hit the slots.  I lost forty on a couple of games then went to the black jack tables.  I bought in for $40 and managed to leave with $125.  So that was cool, except I thought, "I didn’t come all this way to win twenty five bucks. (I had arrived with a hundred)"  So I took 40 more and spent it on the slots and promptly lost it.  I wanted a jackpot.  >:|  

I drove back using the highway and realised how low on gas I was about half way home.  I was starting to freak out, searching desperately for a gas station along the highway.  The absence of them amazed me.  I finally saw a sign for an Esso so I took the turn off and put twenty dollars in.  Phew.

I made it back into London and said fuck it.  I drove to the slots in my city and spent another forty on the slots that I had been lucky on in the past.  I wasn’t lucky today and it was gone in about two minutes.  It was funny because when I pulled into the parking lot about ten cars had been double parked.  Some chuckleheads decided to make a new row BEHIND the legitimate parkers.  It was unbelievable.  I’d never seen anything like it.  One of the dudes who had been blocked in was standing at his car and I talked to him for a minute.  He kept saying, "Are they really that dumb?"  I just nodded and said the whole thing was ridiculous.  And it was.  One person must have done it and the rest figured, somehow, that it was okay.

So yeah, I went home and slept.  And that’s that.

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