Personal

Took today off to deal with the car and other such things. It’s amazing how damn productive you can be if you don’t have to go to work! It was a cash-hemorrhaging day though. First the car to Chilliwack, where I found that the master and slave clutch cylinder are leaking. They will give me […]

Just got 237,550 (with 6 seconds left on the 5:00 clock) in this game, which is as close as I’ve found to pure crack, in an online form. Since I’ve now beaten all the scores people have posted since I originally saw the link, I can stop. Again.

My Dad is selling his kayak, and if there’s anyone local (lower mainland/Vancouver area) interested, contact me. Details of the boat are as follows: “Critter” by Wilderness Systems, polyethylene single kayak (red), from Coast Mountain Sport in June 2002. Used maybe 10 times in 2002, stored all of 2003. 9’4″ long, 30″ wide, 14″ deep,

Argh! Ever since I got the call about excessive bandwidth use I’ve been watching my use on the shaw secure site very carefully. It’s only the 12th and I’m already at 15 of the 20G I’m allowed before they come over here and beat me up with baseball bats. I was doing kinda ok but

I was at the gym the other day, on the treadmill and watching the TVs on the wall. I was watching a report out of Seattle on KOMO or KIRO or one of the US TV stations. The report started out talking about an armed home invasion followed by a car jacking, just blocks away.

So yesterday I got “The Call” from Shaw cable. Apparently they were a bit concerned over my bandwidth use lately. I peaked in December with 117G combined upload and download, 90 in January, and 68 last month. Seems hey have a limit of 20 Gigabytes of combined (combined!) upload and download traffic before you get

A while ago I was muttering about how things that used to look far in the future are now looking closer and closer. Mars, the deep sea, advances in computers and technology that we looked at in movies are suddenly much, much closer to reality. In the car I’ve been listening to an audiobook of

I know it’s comparing apples to oranges, but I came across a couple of interesting things in the paper at lunch today that sort of conflicted with each other. The first was reader responses to what sounded like your standard “violent video games make people go out and kill people” bullshit article. I really don’t

… and I’m done. Finally got some numbers on my limit from CCRA today, managed to get an appointment at the bank then slipped out of work a bit early and maxed out my contributions. Go me. One more thing off my plate.

The gym today was blah. You know that feeling you get after a good workout, a really good workout, where you’re just on the verge of puking and your body is just screaming at you to sit your ass down and not move anymore? I kinda felt like that from the start of the workout.