Christmas shopping is Done!!! well, sort of...No, no, no, I'm done. Finished the last of it yesterday downtown, in those little shops that look exactly alike. Did see some interesting things though. The Newfoundland Weavery has got these oilskin coats that are absolutely gorgeous! And freakingly expensive ($290!) The kitchen shop in Murray Premises has got some cool kitchen gadgets and the Silicone Rolling pins, and muffin cups! Unfortunately, 'Home on Water' is sold out of the bird feeders, but I can't complain as I pretty much bought out their stock in bath stuff. That travel store down by the strip club at the far end of water street, has got day-glo luggage tags that say things like ,"Hands Off", and "Mine". I think they should skip the niceties and have one that is shockingly pink with big words: Piss Off!!
Now I've got this huge pile of stuff for various people and I've got to put it together in a way that makes sense, and somehow make it fit in my bags.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
December
So this is pretty much the way I figured this blogging thing would pan out. A brief flurry of activity and then nothing for weeks, sort of the way my university experience is going too. My last entry was on the 6th and everything was hunky-dory. Everything went to hell in a handbasket rapidly thereafter.
Holli got up to go to work on the 7th at 5:30am, and came back into the bedroom and asked me, "where's the car?" Yes, you guessed it, in the middle of the first big snowfall of the year, some asshole smashed in our back window and stole the jeep! Not a great start to the Christmas exam season. Thankfully the police found it about 9 am around the corner from where we live. I guess there was nothing of interest in a '94 Jeep to bother with. Absolutely nothing, not even the coffee change out of the console was stolen, and the vehicle was undamaged aside from the broken window and ignition cylinder. So we were very lucky! Thankfully the insurance took care of everything from getting a tow truck to cart it off to the body shop to paying my cab fare back and forth from the body shop to see to my poor car. But we got it back on Wednesday, and all is good. The insurance people waived the deductible (which I look at as my Christmas present to myself) and took care of the whole bill.
So I took my windfall, and went out and bought a digital camera, since Holli is taking the SLR with her this Christmas. Do you think we'll ever get to the point that we stop referring to digital cameras as 'digital'? Since then, I've taken and deleted endless pictures of the cats.
Just went over to Dreae's blog, and she was writing about Internet Personality Quizes, and it reminded me of this which I did yesterday. I've got a 56% match to Anthony Hopkins, and a 50% match to Paul Newman, and a 40%match to Joaquin Phoenix, which made Holli roll her eyes.
Face Recognition Website:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&restore
Holli got up to go to work on the 7th at 5:30am, and came back into the bedroom and asked me, "where's the car?" Yes, you guessed it, in the middle of the first big snowfall of the year, some asshole smashed in our back window and stole the jeep! Not a great start to the Christmas exam season. Thankfully the police found it about 9 am around the corner from where we live. I guess there was nothing of interest in a '94 Jeep to bother with. Absolutely nothing, not even the coffee change out of the console was stolen, and the vehicle was undamaged aside from the broken window and ignition cylinder. So we were very lucky! Thankfully the insurance took care of everything from getting a tow truck to cart it off to the body shop to paying my cab fare back and forth from the body shop to see to my poor car. But we got it back on Wednesday, and all is good. The insurance people waived the deductible (which I look at as my Christmas present to myself) and took care of the whole bill.
So I took my windfall, and went out and bought a digital camera, since Holli is taking the SLR with her this Christmas. Do you think we'll ever get to the point that we stop referring to digital cameras as 'digital'? Since then, I've taken and deleted endless pictures of the cats.
Just went over to Dreae's blog, and she was writing about Internet Personality Quizes, and it reminded me of this which I did yesterday. I've got a 56% match to Anthony Hopkins, and a 50% match to Paul Newman, and a 40%match to Joaquin Phoenix, which made Holli roll her eyes.
Face Recognition Website:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&restore
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
The Effect of Puncuated Equilibrium on Group Development
I'm busy studying (yeah, right) today for Organizational Behaviour on Saturday. I've got 1 exam before then (English) on thursday, but I'm not too worried about it. I'll read over the short stories, poems and skim over the "Jakesbeer". I'm more worried about how I did on the re-write of my epic comparing "Jabberwocky" and "The Things They Carried", but I can find that out after the exam.
Finally made a decision about Christmas and got our flights to the mainland yesterday. We are leaving the cats here, cause that'll be cheaper and less traumatic for them than carting them to Ontario and back for a couple of weeks.
I managed to get all the classes that I wanted (almost) for next semester when the reserve lists were dropped on Friday, but I wish I could get into Sociology 2120 instead of one of my distance courses. Next semester I only have class on 3 evenings a week, and nothing before 5:00. I could probably get a dayjob if I wanted to. After the Maritime Studies dept. changed the course requirements, they aren't offering one of their new required courses! What's up with that?
The first major snowfall of the season was last night, almost blizzard-like at times and apparently it is going to majorly dump on us tonight too. I actually may have to leave the house to shovel tomorrow. Only 1 bottle of India Beer left, so I guess I will have to go get more from the corner store. Holli picked up some Apple Cider when she was shopping today, so I will make the Hot Buttered Rum recipe from the Food & Drink magazine that Dad sent us last week. I don't know how the newfie's survive without Food & Drink!
Finally made a decision about Christmas and got our flights to the mainland yesterday. We are leaving the cats here, cause that'll be cheaper and less traumatic for them than carting them to Ontario and back for a couple of weeks.
I managed to get all the classes that I wanted (almost) for next semester when the reserve lists were dropped on Friday, but I wish I could get into Sociology 2120 instead of one of my distance courses. Next semester I only have class on 3 evenings a week, and nothing before 5:00. I could probably get a dayjob if I wanted to. After the Maritime Studies dept. changed the course requirements, they aren't offering one of their new required courses! What's up with that?
The first major snowfall of the season was last night, almost blizzard-like at times and apparently it is going to majorly dump on us tonight too. I actually may have to leave the house to shovel tomorrow. Only 1 bottle of India Beer left, so I guess I will have to go get more from the corner store. Holli picked up some Apple Cider when she was shopping today, so I will make the Hot Buttered Rum recipe from the Food & Drink magazine that Dad sent us last week. I don't know how the newfie's survive without Food & Drink!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Never trust a house elf
Finished HP & The Order of the Phoenix last night at 1:36 am. Couldn't put it down, and what an exciting read it was too. All I can say is (despite how pissed off I am that they killed off my favorite character - all right, my favorite after Dumbledore and Ron) it's too bad that the dementors aren't still guarding Askaban Prison! Cause "someone" would be getting what has been coming to them for the last 4 books! But it wrapped up everything I was wondering about (almost) and now I've got to go get the half-blood prince to find out what comes next. I almost bought it in hardcover in the University bookstore today, but I resisted.
The bookstore was having a 20% off sale today, so it was good to stock up on some Christmas presents for people, even if I don't know who is getting what yet. Well, that's not true either, I've got Gillian done.
Watched the Lords of Dogtown over dinner. Not a bad flick, but I'd really like to see the original documentary Dogtown and Z-boys that it is based on. But I liked the way that the original people in the movie all were offered cameos and in most cases got to interact with the young actors that were portraying them. Stacey Peralta, who was wrote the screenplay and directed the documentary original also did another documentary which I saw this summer, Riding Giants, about big wave surfing in Hawaii and the men who started it in the 1950's. Riding Giants was excellent, and I think that Dogtown and Z-boys would be excellent as well. But the local Blockbuster doesn't have it anymore. BUT, Murderball comes out on DVD today, so go and get it!! Outstanding documentary!
The bookstore was having a 20% off sale today, so it was good to stock up on some Christmas presents for people, even if I don't know who is getting what yet. Well, that's not true either, I've got Gillian done.
Watched the Lords of Dogtown over dinner. Not a bad flick, but I'd really like to see the original documentary Dogtown and Z-boys that it is based on. But I liked the way that the original people in the movie all were offered cameos and in most cases got to interact with the young actors that were portraying them. Stacey Peralta, who was wrote the screenplay and directed the documentary original also did another documentary which I saw this summer, Riding Giants, about big wave surfing in Hawaii and the men who started it in the 1950's. Riding Giants was excellent, and I think that Dogtown and Z-boys would be excellent as well. But the local Blockbuster doesn't have it anymore. BUT, Murderball comes out on DVD today, so go and get it!! Outstanding documentary!
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Sunday, rain, fire alarms, tests, freaky cats
Overcast sunday, woken at 1:30am by friends of Holli's in Ontario, who thought it would be funny. Hahahaha, but no. Slept in, only to be woken by sound of smoke alarm going off. Holli's cinnamon buns have risen too far and are dripping into the oven creating more smoke. Laundry day, cats are chasing each other around bouncing off each other, the walls and the furniture. The washing machine always makes them mental.
Checked out the blogs and the TFP to start with. Posted my term paper yesterday in the literature section looking for criticism/comments. Finally passed my 500th post and got a custom title. Promptly changed my title from "Psycho" to "King of Shadows". Just a little bit more free expression in the home of free expression.
Checked out the blogs and the TFP to start with. Posted my term paper yesterday in the literature section looking for criticism/comments. Finally passed my 500th post and got a custom title. Promptly changed my title from "Psycho" to "King of Shadows". Just a little bit more free expression in the home of free expression.
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