My Life is A Drama Free Zone

Yesterday I made mention to an ongoing court case involving child support payments and the dads who do not pay. Now, a decision's been handed down that I rather like. Retroactive support payments are the in thing. To throw my own interpretation of the ruling at it, because I just can't resist trying to decode a little law here and there, to me, it sounds a lot like exactly what I said in that entry yesterday. That being, if you're told you're paying 15% of your anual income for child support, then that's what you're paying. And if you don't, the courts can make you cough it up at once. I don't *think* this changes support laws in the sense that you're not absolutely forced to pay child support–I think a lot of that can still be decided upon between the divorcing couple. But, if child support is in the cards, then the agreed upon amount for support can now be proactively enforced at the court level. Like I said, something I can finally agree with.

What's in a promise?

Well, that was a short 48 hours. Israel's back in the US mindset. They've managed to piss off a good majority of the world now, resuming their bombing runs and whatnot… but they don't seem to give two shits. And the US still won't back a ceasefire… an *immediate* ceasefire. Not that it's surprising, or anything. Some people's definition of "peace in the middle east" are just fucked up, methinks. In US terms, it means "as long as Israel gets to blow the hell out of someone every couple years".

And again, Murphy's law.

Not quite in the same screwing with me as it's famous for, but… considering how well *cough, cough* my first attempt to screw with the database went, you'd think I'd know better than to try again. Well, I didn't, and this time, the database got a face lift. Significant enough back-end upgrades anyone reading this site probably wouldn't notice if I didn't have to make a post specificly to brag about it, but… eh. And this time, I didn't even *need* the backup plan so cleverly devised after my first ever blog oopsy. There is something just wrong about that, I'm telling you. Just… absolutely 100% wrong.

July 30, 2006

Israel has become another bloody US.

As if bombing the hell out of a country isn't bad enough, now they hit a civilion refuge. And neither the US nor Canada, nor anyone else who isn't directly affected by the bombings, is calling for a ceasefire. Yeah, okay, I can see the US not wanting a ceasefire–everyone knows "the war on terror" is just an excuse for the Bush administration to flex some muscle, so of course they'll back anyone else who wants to flex, too. As long as it makes them look good to the rest of the world's politicians. And it must, because no one else is bothering to oppose the idea, either. Oh, everyone's all kinds of full of "it has to stop", but that doesn't do a damn thing to *make* it stop. Well, at least Israel has the good sense to agree to a 48 hour ceasefire. I'm sure everyon you've managed to scare the hell out of will appreciate it, too. Thanks for doing us a frickin' favour.

Now there's a way to get your kids to take their medicine.

Who'd of thunk it. Apparently, sticking Pepto Bismol in ice cream makes it go down easier. Gee, if they got ideas like that when I was growing up I might not have learned to prefer to wait out whatever it was that was making me sick. What am I saying.. yes I would. =) They recommend vanilla, but it would *probably* work just as well with chocolate… something sweet, anyway, to counteract the god aweful taste of it. And just think, all it took was a hangover.

The stuff you by on Ebay amazes me.

And now, thanks to one particularly creative individual, Ebay is becoming the auction center for selling access to a DIGG account. I dunno why people won't just create their own accounts, but apparently, someone would rather sell one. $5 says that account won't work when it's bought. But someone gets money, anyway!

Finally, something I can agree with.

Child support has always been a kind of oxymoron. In Canada, at least. Fathers more often than not either didn't pay, or didn't pay as much as they should, all on account of no one had a clue they could afford to pay more, or anything at all. It wasn't uncommon for fathers, and some mothers in those rare cases, to have a support payment rendered against them based on the income they had *at the time*, and then when they find themselves a better job that pays more, the amount they pay out for support doesn't increase with their income. Finally, though in my honest opinion hellishly too late for some families, the Supreme Court of Canada wants to fix that. An idea I find myself very much liking, if only for this reason. Yeah, there may be a fair few dads out there who're seperated from their families solely because the marriage just plain wasn't working out. But there's a god aweful lot of deadbeats out there, too, who just up and decide they want absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the kid(s), or the mother. No visitation, no help whatsoever, just make a baby and split. Then, they get told their paying $$$ in child support, and they go either get fired so they *can't* pay anything, or they find themselves a better job so the $$$ they got told they're paying doesn't take away a thing from their own personal income–think an extra bill payment or two. Well, if the SCC has its way, thanks in large part to a couple cases going before them in Alberta, deadbeat dad isn't gonna get off that easy. If the court decides you're paying 15% of your anual income for child support, then you pay that damn 15% of your anual income, period. Whether you make $10000/year or $100000/year. You helped put that family together, so if you're not gonna at the least stick around and actually be a decent father and husband, fine. But don't go cheaping out on supporting that family. Take some goddamn responsibility for what you didn't seem to have a problem participating in already. I'm just glad for the sake of the kids involved the supreme court agrees with me.

It isn't even that day yet...

… and I'm nervous as hell. I dunno if it's the prospect of the job, or of possibly moving out, but… yeah, I'm a little bit jittery. And the job I'm being interviewed for hasn't even gotten to the "you might be hired" phase yet. I dunno what's more pronounced, the nerves or the excitement about the possibility of actually having my own space again. I did it for a year in college, and I like to think that went fairly well, save the fact you can't stay in school very well on $930/month when you're paying $5000/year for residence fees on top of tuition. But, yeah, I liked it… I'd still be doing it if it wasn't for that small roadblock. Now, with this job, I not only get a chance to have my own place assuming I get hired, but I'm not going to school, and I'll be making more with this job than I was in college, so I'll both be able to put more money towards, and have more money to put towards, important things.. like rent, hydro, and all the fun stuff that all goes with. I think it'll be nice, once the initial.. um, awkwardness(?) gets out of the way and I actually get used to the idea. Of course, I could end up not being hired and everything I've written here will be moot–but I'm not thinking about that right now. Get past the interview first, then I'll do the "what if I don't get hired" panic dance.

July 29, 2006

Now this is surprising.

I usually don't like posting things from sites like Slashdot, but in this case, I'll make an acception or few because it gives me an excuse to bash Microsoft. Not that they need me to add to the pile of MS bashers, but you know… and people wouldn't be looking to bash them senseless if they didn't do something incredibly stupid, like slam the door on antivirus software manufacturers. I dunno just how reliable what's been referenced here is, but it sounds like a Microsoft thing to do. Kind of like charging $1.50 per download of the new Microsoft Office beta products.

National leadership qualification: must be a whackjob.

As if we needed further proof of this, all one need do is take a look at the latest thing to come out of Iran. Long story short, 'foreign' (meaning western cultural) words are now officially being banned from use in that country. Maybe it's just me, but there's something a little off about calling a pizza an elastic loaf. Someone kindly correct me on that, if you wouldn't mind. Backwards countries amuse me. Even if said backwards countries happen to be ruled by nutjobs with nuclear capability.

July 28, 2006

What's your 1920's name?

Yep, I'm voting for you next election.

I seem to be making a lot of posts to this category lately. You can blame stupid people like Prime Minister Stevey for that. Not only does he not see a problem with joining the US in backing Israel's almost constant bombarding, even though that'll more than likely be the cause of his being voted out of office, but now on top of that, he wants to make money off it. Yes, I'll donate to a fund raiser to keep a government with policy ideas I don't agree with in power. You know, if this keeps up, I look for a NDP government to come out on top in the next election. I'll vote for them, or an independant, before I vote for the conservative or liberal crackpots.

Okay, so it wasn't a DoS attack this time.

Apparently, the slowness was on our end of the network this time around. Specificly, from the next room. Stupid brother deciding to upload half a million files at once to half a million people at once. Well, now that I'm done feeling stupid, our DSL line now actually goes at DSL speed rather than 23KPS. And the next time he wants to run a file server, he can pay for his own damn line.

Not how I wanted to spend a friday...

I haven't exactly gotten all that much sleep, at least as yet. But that's perfectly fine… I haven't had time to think about it yet. I'd planned to go to bed about 2:30 this morning, but by 2:25 I got hit with… something. I don't know if it was a DoS attack, a virus, or whatever, but this machine was pretty well hammered, and the network was all kinds of saturated from the resulting… whatever it was that happened. I couldn't even bring up the google homepage. On top of that, the virus scanner I use took a pretty heavy hit, to the point where it needed to be reinstalled. Okay, no problem. Fortunately I had the instalation file on this machine from when I saved my family's computer, so that wasn't *too* much of a headache. Except for the fact I had to run back and forth between computers comparing information and trying to figure out how the hell I pulled it off installing it on the other one. I love Trend Micro's virus scanner, but damn it's a bitch to install. Finally got all that sorted out by about 7:00 this morning, thank the gods of all that is sane, and grabbed a couple hours' snooze–it was damn well deserved! The rest of the day was pretty evenly divided up between dealing with the finer details of the afore mentioned interview with Dell, and kicking the shit out of my web host for being crappy on a day when I coulda been blogging instead of doing what I actually had to get done. And, apparently, we're being hit with another DoS attack again… so if I can't post this freaking thing, we know why. Bastard child that it is. But, all has been averted, at least for now, anyway. Disaster number 54000 of my online life. Sadly, closest thing to a real life I've got right now. At least until I've got me a job… *fingers crossed*

No, no, no, no, fucking *NO*!

I'll put this here so every single person who feels like repeatedly asking these questions can be directed to this entry, and I don't have to hear about it anymore. If you didn't plan to ask any of these questions, you're one of the inteligent minority.

Did I miss any? Probably. When I get asked, it'll go here. It's common sense, mostly, true… but the average person tends to sleep through that class. Or skip it. Hey, sounds like my brother's entire highschool career. Well, as close to a career as he'll ever have anyway.

Okay, I think I explained myself clearly enough, in spite of my apparent need to digress a little and throw in a bitch about the waste of space that occupies the downstairs bedroom. Disagree with the answers? Well, if and when you get your own blog if you don't have one already, you can bitch about that. Until then, suck it up, buttercup.

***DISCLAIMER***

This entry is not targetted at or about people named or nicknamed Buttercup. Unless you fall into the above criteria, at which point see my above response.

Finally!

Just when I thought I was about to be overwhelmed by morons with little backbone, no IQ, and the personality of a piece of crap, I get the occasional nice little reminder that there are, surprisingly enough, still people out there I *don't* want to beat repeatedly with heavy, blunt things. There's hope for humankind yet… or so I keep telling myself. Hey, it beats screaming at the top of my lungs and putting my fist through some snobby 16-year-old's face out of frustration. Although, now that I bring up that option… it is a little tempting. Damn, still illegal. I tried.

July 27, 2006

Dating purity test.

And once I find me some employedness, I'll go a-looking. Until then, well… we shall just see who's looking for me. Or I'll sit on my rear and watch TV. That sounds like a better option.

How brutally honest are you?

I love it when quizes are that easy to fill out. Answers did not require thought.

I didn't give Dell Canada enough credit.

I do recall saying not more than a week ago they weren't going to get back to me. Well, they did, this afternoon. I now have an interview scheduled for next Thursday afternoon… freakin' yay! Hopefully, it'll go better than the one for Online Support ended up going and I'll be employededed and such. But, even if I'm not, freakin' yay! Yes, I'm enthused. Deal with it.

The voices made me do it!

So, earlier today (that would be yesterday) I made brief mention, and bitched a fit at the same time, about our friend Andrea and her non-conviction that's a load of crap. And now, she's choosing to maintain that, in true 1960's/70's bad movie style, "the voices" made her do it. Apparently, voices in her head told her to drown her kids. Yeah, I already went on a take it like a cold-blooded killer kick about it, but… oh well. I don't know what I find more surprising. The jury actually bought that defense, or the judge didn't overturn the virdict. I *really* hope the prosecution plans to appeal. I'm not holding my breath, but… what the hell? I would wonder if the average American citizen is really that stupid, but recent election results tend to reply with a resounding yes before the question's even out of my mouth. Oh good lord no, I've criticised the American people *and* their president in one post! I will never recover from the coming onslaught of hatemail! What ever will I do?

***DISCLAIMER***

Anything and everything mentioned in this entry is true. Not because I said so, but because anyone who can prove me wrong is smoking something real good, and I want some. If only because there will be no arguing if we're both just as high.

Decision made; RSSFWD loses.

After Bloglines registered updates to my chosen feeds upwards of 9 hours before RSSFWD, my decision is an easy one. Buh bye RSSFWD. I'll miss ya. But, you know, greener pastures and the such. The comparison be done… and now, back to your regularly scheduled randomly posted crap from me.

July 26, 2006

What do people think of your face?

Selfish? Moody? Well, I guess occasionally. Anyone who says they arent's a liar, though. IT's a fact of life, if an unfortunate one.

They did *not* just do that to me...

Management has lost its mind. Peca is one thing… but Belak? How the hell? More importantly, *why* the hell? He hellishly le *stunk* last year. And the season before. And if they had a season in 04-05, he'd of sucked then. For the love of all that is sanity, why…? If they play him regularly I'm going to bitch such a fit… a *fit*!

Saddam would like to be shot.

Something about that amuses me. Oh, yeah… my theory that stupid assholes who're full of themselves to the point of delusions should be shot. Which is exactly what master Hussein wants. I say, if the man wants a bullet in the brain, then give the man a bullet in the brain. Give him 2, just in case the first doesn't meet with his approval. I don't like how the US handled the war in Iraq, but now that it's been handled, I subscribe to the theory of ask and ye shall receive. And he certainly asked. Harsh? *shrugs* You decide, all… 1.3 of you that actually happen across this thing.

Not guilty by reason of insanity?

I never really agreed with the whole not guilty by reason of insanity thing. I mean, either you're guilty, or you're not, it's as simple as that. You still did the crime. Now suck it up, call yourself nutty if you want, and take your lumps as they come. And this here case is a perfect example of why I don't agree with it. A mother drowns her 5 kids in a bathtub, then says she was insane. I followed this story closely when it was developing 5 years ago, though I couldn't very well be blogging about it then. Whether she snapped, lost her mind, or whatever it is you wanna call it or not, the point is moot in the end. She still killed all 5 of her children. And the only difference in the case was that her husband didn't testify. Personally, I'd of had him testify anyway if I was the prosecuter. She'd of probably been found guilty, then. Ah well, no one's perfect. Some people just so happen to be farther from perfect than others. Sorry, mad mommy, but you're on the wrong end of the perfect spectrum.

They're making me wait 'til fall...

Apparently they don't have any guitar instructors that do lessons at a time I like until at least the fall, so I'm stuck making a fool of myself 'til then. But at least I'm good at that! LOL… Now, if that got me anywhere I'd be very much in business. The piano teacher I'm looking at doesn't do her scheduling 'til the end of August either, so I'm waiting 'til fall for those lessons, too. That part sucks, but I'll live. I can be lazy as oh hell 'til then… *snickers*

Lazyness prevales.

Today is yet another day of doing absolutely nothing. Which is perfect for the guy who's in the mood to do absolutely nothing. So, watching TV and consuming generous amounts of coke (no, not the snorting kind) is the order of the day. Oh, the awesomeness of it all. Maybe I'll get around to doing a quiz or few in between Tv shows. Depends on how lazy I feel like getting. Teehee and such…

July 25, 2006

The Panthers must be desperate as hell.

Their season's going down the crapper before it even starts. They signed the dud. Poor, poor, poor saps… but, at least Belfour has a place to play next year. I hope he breaks his back this time.

It might as well be a bloody world war.

I know it only involves the middle east, but christ almighty… it's all over the bloody headlines everywhere else, too. Apparently there's all kinds of trouble going on for UN personnel in the area, now. They got the hell bombed out of them. There's been idle tossed about threats that this that and the other country's gonna get involved if it keeps up, and before you know it, the US is gonna end up getting to bomb the royall hell out of someone else, too. As if they didn't have enough fun in Iraq. As much as I like politics, this… is rediculously stupid.

Well, it's a little slow, but...

Bloglines eventually does actually get the updates from certain sites. Specificly, mine. Now, let's just see how long it lasts. Overall, though… I think it might be an interesting little site to work with. At least until something better comes along.

What's your blogging personality?

It's been reading my entries on redesign, I swear. … But I don't do it often! … Sorta?

Well, Bloglines is getting somewhere.

Already it's winning my favour away from the other site.. it can handle sites better than the other, and a few sites that rssfwd.com wouldn't read, this one can… so I'm thinking… *grins*

Because I like to try new things.

So I'm doing that whole seeing how this Bloglines thing works out. It's so far fairly good, and… potentially? a lot more reliable than RSSFWD.com, though that still remains to be seen. IT doesn't email you the new feed updates like the latter site does, but there's a small program (100K, maybe?) that sits on your computer optionally, and checks every so often (you decide how often) for updates, and lets you know. Then you can either go to the site and read all the updates it found, or… not. They'll still be there when you decide not to be lazy. So far it's working alright… but we shall see. I think I'll run a comparison of the two for a few days and see which one holds my interest. RSSFWD isn't proving as reliable as I'd like to see, so… holding breath, here.

I love it when people finally agree with me.

I'm due for a round of Shadow Siege bashing. But I don't even have to do the bashing… someone already did it for me. I'll stick to Eternal Struggle when I can actually get to RPing, thankya much.

What colour red are you?

What alcoholic drink are you?

I have really got to stop doing that.

It's bad enough I have this odd tendancy to end up not sleeping at all kinds of odd hours… like 3:30 this morning. I should also try to remember, though, that it's a bad time to be dinking around with the site, too… even if it is uber fun. I tend to break things. Even though I've yet to do that in at least 2 attempts. Sure, there was the accidental floppage, but to this day I continue to blame PHPMyAdmin for that attempt blowing up in my pretty (ha, ha) little face. Besides, I learned a little more about PHP from that experience… I was just hoping I wouldn't have to use it to save my own rear end. I think it's a psychological thing… boredom or lack of sleep triggers some odd little part of my tiny little brain that goes into website redesign mode and there's just no stopping it. At least it's a small change this time… can't break the small things. Much. Now, if only it did a damn thing for the sleep…

July 23, 2006

Well, it's been 2 weeks.

And I've not heard a thing from my application for a job with Dell Canada. Didn't expect I would, but it was worth a gamble. Back to firing off multiple applications in multiple directions and seeing what happens. Wonder if I'll have any better luck with Rogers…

What time of day are you?

Cooking… me… haha… yeah, could happen. And what's this sunrise thing? There'd better be at least 2 cups of coffee with that sunrise.

July 22, 2006

Let me turn on the part of my brain that gives a damn.

The perfect bumper sticker for me. Now all I need is a bumper to stick it on. This is also my general train of thought with 99.9% of local cry babies. Because they irritate and amuse me. But mostly irritate.

How sarcastic are you?

Yay for other people taking over!

Those other people, of course, being the dog's actual owners… finally! So, I actually had time to get crapola done tonight. Freakin' amazing, that. As much as I can tolerate that dog, and as much as I like the idea of taking care of puppies, I already did that once recently. She's nearly 2, now. I'm not about to be doing that again… so these people can take their dog and stuff it. I dun wanna play no more!

Not how I planned to spend an afternoon.

Yet more evidence of my brother's irresponsibility, not that it's required; I already know he's the least responsible person I've ever met. He decided he'd walk over to his girlfriend's place, who is also supposedly the other owner of 'their' dog. Okay, fine. So you'd think he'd take the bloody thing with him, right? Wrong-o. Instead, he pawns him off on me, like I don't already have 2 of 'em to mind. Thank the gods he's actually sleeping now (I think, anyway), but that isn't the point… it isn't my dog, I didn't *want* the dog, and I'm the one minding it. Again. Well, I guess no one ever accused him of being inteligent, or possessing common sense. He's guilty of a lot of things, but none of them relating whatsoever to a presence of either potentially redeming quality.

July 20, 2006

How normal are you?

July 19, 2006

It would seem I spoke too soon.

Apparently, the teacher they were trying to find for me can't work the time I was originally aiming for… so my guitar lessons get to be put on hold a while longer. Ah well, time for me to continue being lazy. Yay lazy!

God, I hope she never has kids.

My brother's girlfriend decided, apparently completely at random, she wanted a dog. She was warned, several dozen times, what's involved in it… she decided to go for it anyway. Well, okay, so she knows what she's doing… you'd think that, anyway. Not even 48 hours after she bought this dog, though, he now lives with us because, as we rather painfully found out, she doesn't really want one. She wants it for the convenience factor… something to entertain her. But as soon as she found out there was actually a degree of responsibility involved, she dropped it like a bad habbit. So now, we have 3 dogs here, which isn't *really* where the issue is. The issue is, now we have to take care of a dog that maybe only one of us actually wants, that being my brother. And my mom and I do more taking care of the thing than he does. I mean, yeah, his girlfriend might still kinda sorta want it. But she doesn't live here, nor does she really do anything to help out with him. As sad as it is to say, that dog's more than likely gonna end up going to the SPCA or something. We can't handle him plus the two we already have. And they knew it fully when they bought the thing. But apparently, that didn't do a damn thing to stop them. I wish I could be that irresponsible… really, I do.

One yes, one... maybe?

Apparently, I can quite possibly start my guitar lessons as early as next week. Not bad, considering. Now I just need to get called back by this apparent conservatory music teacher regarding piano lessons, and we'll be in business. Next stop, something with which to record so I can stick various attempts, as shockingly harmful to the hearing as they may be, up here. Hey, I've got the space for it…

What temperment are you?

Me? Spiritual? Ha… yeah, could happen. I could buy my way out of going to hell, too.

July 18, 2006

See what I miss when blackouts kick my ass?

I go and lose power (see this entry), and they go and sign Wellwood. Now, I'm not complaining… I just wanted to actually be around when it happened rather than posting about it a day late. Stupid power outage…

And, uh… what's with signing Peca? I mean, I know some whackjob called in claiming to be his cousin after a few of the games and said he was interested… but… is he really what Toronto needs? I guess it can't all be positive news… it wouldn't be Toronto if it was, no?

That was all sorts of unfun.

Shortly after my last post to this here thing yesterday, we decided to lose power–thank you, thunder storms. Originally it started alternating between going out, and staying on… with the occasional blink/flicker thing in between. Then it just died for good, and stayed dead for over 24 hours. Not good in 30 degree weather. That's celsius, by the way. We only just got our power back about 8:00 or so, or so I figure anyway, about the same time we were sitting down at a restaurant for supper. This after my aunt and I both spent the day harassing our hydro company for something akin to an answer, or a rough estimate at least, as to when we'd get our power back. Of course, all we got back from them was "We don't know", or the famous "Sometime between tonight and tomorrow". Yeah, helpful. Really. But, I suppose on the up side it was an excuse to kill a couple hours this afternoon in an air conditioned coffee shop. Yay for Tim Horton's restaurants that actually have power! Now, if Pembroke hydro had actually been paying attention to their phone calls last night, this morning, this afternoon, and part of this evening, *all* of the Pembroke/Petawawa area would have probably had power by that time this afternoon. At least, I can always hope, anyway. It gives me something to bitch about if nothing else.

July 17, 2006

What kind of coffee are you?

Iced coffee? Ewww! Though I do likes me some coffee. Medium caffeine addiction… heh… the pile of coke cans sitting on the desk next to me would beg to differ.

4 more signings!

Yay for 4 minor league signings! Hopefully at least 3 of them will manage to get into the NHL this season, though the fourth, I'd just as soon have seen let go. Either way, can't complain about the deal, really. Even if they won't tell me how much they were signed for and such. Oh well, I guess it could be a hell of a lot worse… so I'm not wining about it anymore. Until the season starts.

Because it's way past time.

I'm seriously entertaining the idea of getting back into regularly playing the piano, and even taking lessons again just as a way to distract me for an hour or so, not counting practice time of course. I used to do it almost religiously, then reality popped up and decided I wasn't allowed to have fun anymore so that went the way of all things that keep me sane. Well, as sane as a fool like me can get anyway. Now that things have gone back to their usual (almost, relatively?) calmness, I can look into the possibility, however remote, of picking that up again. On top of that, I'm thinking about taking guitar lessons just because… well, for the same reason as the piano ones, minus the whole having done it before kinda thing. If and when I can find some method of sticking what I've already devised ways of playing up here, for piano at least, I'll toss a few things up here… but as it stands right now, this laptop, portable though it may be, is not being dragged downstairs to where I've got the piano stashed away. Plus I don't have much faith in my microphone for something like that.C

What kind of soul are you?

Um… kay. Dunno how that came from some of my answers… but apparently, it works, so… not complaining! Except for the part about the newborn soul. What the hell?

Just for you, Erin.

Because I know somewhere deep down you know damn well I'm right. Sabers are teh huge suk! … I now go run and hide from the various blunt objects that shall be hurled in my general direction.

Trillian's about to get cut out.

Call it a response to programs kinda sorta like Jabber and Trillian if you're so inclined; I'll just call it about goddamn time. Microsoft and Yahoo are, apparently, working on a kind of IM partnership. MSN (Windows Live, now, I guess?) Messenger and Yahoo Messenger users will be able to IM each other without having to be actually on the same service. At least, that's what they're saying, anyway. *That* is about freaking time. Maybe next they'll manage to accomplish that with AIM and the much less favourable ICQ, both of which are, of course, owned by AOHell. As much as I'm all for open source thingies, Trillian can now kindly go to hell. That's one open source program I'll never use.

July 15, 2006

How average American are you?

How to accomplish nothing in 2 relatively stress free hours.

We decided completely at random to kill a couple hours at the mall–which, for me in itself is almost miraculous, given I hate malls unless I'm going there with a purpose in mind. But, it was out of the house, which is always a good thing. So we went there so my aunt could pick up a bunch of pictures from a wedding or somesuch… I'm guessing it's not a recent wedding but I have no clue. We ended up having lunch there, and surprisingly, that's what killed most of our time there… not shopping for once in a goddamn blue moon. Other than that, absolutely nothing was done today. Because it's the weekend, I'm lazy, and… um… I'm lazy. Did I mention I love being lazy as hell on weekends? And during the week, but… eh.

My logic frightens me.

An example: I should be sleeping now, but I can't. So rather than try, I'm consuming generous amounts of caffeine. Why? *shrugs* I can. Maybe by 6 I'll be awake enough to do something semi-productive, and by noon I'll actually be doing it. That's being incredibly optimistic, though, given my lazy state of mind the last… well, forever. But hey, someone might as well be optimistic around here. The place is one giant ball of bleh otherwise.

Which American cities best fit you?

July 14, 2006

The computer guy strikes again.

And in true idiotic fashion, my brother decided it'd be fun to start downloading music and such without a virus scanner. Oh, sure, Limewire's got a virus scanner built in… but does it do a thing for spyware? Or viruses that *don't* come in through Limewire? Nope… sorry. So, the family computer spent a day or two in completely fucked up land, until I got around to finally fixing the damn thing. The browser they use ended up highjacked,, and pointed to some web page with a dialogue box that popped up warning us we had spyware. And it would keep repeating, and repeating, and repeating… real hard to get things done when you're trying to combat with that, and it was irritating my mother to no end. So, I finally said fuck it and gave them a copy of Trend Micro's virus scanner with built in spyware protection. It works awesome, considering. An hour after I installed the thing on their computer and tweeked the settings a little, I had that machine virtually completely clean. And without a Zango toolbar. That… was surprisingly the worst of it though, at least. Not that it makes me want to hurt the idiot brother any less, but at least now I can concentrate on seeing how many ways I can hurt him rather than how else to fix that computer. I love it when a program is all the difference it takes to solve a problem. Now, perhaps, a sledgehammer will get it through the moron's head… there's a reason we have virus scanners! *screams*

July 13, 2006

The Birth Order Predictor

July 12, 2006

Woohoo!

Leafs schedule released… and I'm lovin' it. They play Ottawa 8 times again this year, and Montreal, hell I think even the Sabers… I want October 4th already god dammit! Arghhh… this schedule's making me twitch…

July 11, 2006

What year do you belong in?

I now can't wait for September.

Why, you ask? Well… the Leafs' preseason games are a good enough reason for me. But aside from that, training camp starts on the 14th (damn right that's going in the calendar), with the first preseason game on the 18th and the last October 1st against the Red Wings. And with them having re-signed Nik Antropov to a contract, even if it's only for a year… I do believe it'll be an interesting watch this year. And no Domie! Yay! Okay, I'm done now.

Let's see how well this new resume pays off.

I fired off an application for a position at one of Dell Canada's Ottawa offices last night. IT's for an entry level tech support job, pretty much, and they're not looking for any insane amount of education it doesn't look like… they *prefer* at least a year's experience in the field, which I've got thanks largely to the fact I work in a tech support equivalent department for A Call to Duty Roleplaying. Yeah, so it's not an actual business and such along the same lines as what I'm applying for. It's still applicable so far as work experience goes, if only on a volunteer basis. I'm just kind of hoping Dell sees it that way, too, or I'm probably gonna be up shit's creak without a paddle. It's an entry level position, so it *shouldn't*, in theory, matter. But that's theory. And my theories usually blow up in my face after about 5 minutes. We shall see.

July 10, 2006

And it's about time, I think.

I finally relented and went to pick up my resume today. It only took me, like… oh… I dunno… somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2 months to actually go and do it. So now I get to do that job hunting thing with a resume that actually makes me look like I might, possibly, maybe, know a thing or two about the positions I'm applying for. Freakin' amazing, that. Now watch there be no jobs in the areas I'm looking for. Murphy's law loves to fuck with me like that, and such.

July 8, 2006

If you can't hold your alcohol, stay home.

Apparently, our drunken crusaders with a Canada day pissing problem have finally been identified. One of them is 23 years old, and being charged with public mischief. The other two are under 18 and apparently not being charged, which I think is just rediculous but I didn't call the shots. Apparently, the reason they pissed on the National War Memorial, not that it's any excuse in my honest and not worth shit beyond this blog opinion, is they were drunk as fuck. The 23-year-old claimed not even to remember dooing it, and didn't even know about it until one of his friends told him he made the front page. Public mischief, though? I'd of at least charged him with providing alcohol to minors, if absolutely nothing else. I mean, he flat out admited that whole group came loaded with alcohol and had been drinking the whole day, and they couldn't have bought the crap themselves, so that wouldn't be too far a stretch, I wouldn't think. Of course I wouldn't know worth a damn, but that's just me. I bitched a fit about it when it happened, so I won't bother doing it again even though it still pisses me off. But jesus christ people, enough with the slaps on the wrist already. At least the public mischief charge carries a maximum of 2 years in jail. Maybe he'll come out of there a bit more mature.

Are you a sociopath?

July 7, 2006

Raycroft for 3, Ondrus for 2... yay!

This just in… today was another day for a goalie signing. Toronto does that smooth thing and signed Ben Ondrus to a 2 year contract. Which is completely awesome. In fact, I'd of bitched a fit if they didn't sign him after the way he played last year, as little as he did. Now the fun's gonna be figuring out who starts this season. I hope it's Ondrus, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's gonna be Raycroft just because he has more NHL experience. But that's just my take on things. I just know whichever one it is is more than likely gonna be well worth what they were signed for. They'd better be, because we already had one crappy goalie this decade. Well, two, but mister backup dood from last year is toast, I think. Again, yay!

Well now. That was a kick in the head.

It's official. Just when I'm threatened with an easy week, something always comes up. This time, it was a head cold from hell. Whiped me right the holy hell out. I think I may have been awake for all of.. maybe 5 hours yesterday. Not counting the half the night I spent either blowing my nose, sneezing, or trying to get back to sleep after blowing my nose or sneezing. But at least this morning things were improving… once said nose stopped trying to be a tap. Then, we went out for breakfast this morning… I think the fresh air might have helped, too. No doubt the coffee did. And I managed to stay awake this long… I'm bloody amazed. No doubt I'll make up for it tonight, but hey, I lasted this long.

July 5, 2006

Not sure what I think of this game yet...

It's a little bit off the types of games I like to play, but so far… I think I might kind of get used to playing Hat Trick. IT's a soccer simulation, wherein you control everything except what the individual players do on the field. I guess it kind of classifies as a strategy game, if only sports strategy, but it works I suppose. Now if I can just find a hockey game that's similar we'll have it made. Oh, wait… I played a couple. They sucked. I quit. Okay, soccer it is. *sigh*

July 4, 2006

What's your religious philosophy?

3 years of potentially good goaltending!

After trading for Raycroft from Boston a week ago, the Leafs did the ultrasmart thing and locked that sucker up for 3 years. Of course, they aren't releasing the juicy details of the contract, but I don't care… the guy's a pretty decent goalie, and I'll take him regardless to that. Now, seeing as I've said that, he's gonna go and suck this year just to spite me. Because that's how my Leafs luck works. IT's a failproof routine. But, oh well!

There's having fun, then there's blatant disrespect.

And what a couple whackjobs decided to pull during the Canada day cellebrations in Ottawa was just plain blatant fucking disrespect. I dunno if it's because they were drunk, stoned, or some odd and stupid combination of the two, but they apparently thought it'd be fun to piss on the national war memorial. This, naturally, had several people including war veterans up in arms and calling for significantly tighter security around the memorial, but that aside, there's no goddamn reason for it other than the fact these people were just being morons. Photos were sent to local newspapers, and the police, taken by a former peacekeeper as that was going on. It hasn't been decided as yet if charges are being laid regarding that, though if you ask me, and no one ever does, it's a no fucking brainer. I would restate my theory on stupid people, but that doesn't accomplish anything and stupid people usually don't realise it's being directed at them. So instead, I'll just settle for this. If you can't have the decency to at the *very* least control your disrespect for your country, get the fuck out. The US is always looking for another disrespectful asshole. You'll fit right in with the ones down there who like to burn American flags.

July 2, 2006

Downloading music and such may be illegal, but oh well.

I got bored, and TV sucks, so now, I watch CSI. It's a two-part eppisode I haven't seen before… which is odd, 'cuz I thought I'd seen all of them. But this one hath escaped me. Until now! Mwa! IT's a damn good one, too. I won't say anything specific about it in case someone actually reads this who hasn't seen that eppisode, not that anyone actually reads this anyway. But a cop ends up shot. This is just… well, I know I've used the word too often on here already but to hell with it. Awesome. And all it cost me was some bandwidth. Which is good, because I can't afford anything else.

What kind of American english do you speak?

Damn, that was fun.

I came, I drank, I enjoyed, I got wasted. Enough said. Canada day was awesome, even if we didn't end up going to the fireworks… most of us couldn't care one way or the other if we saw them or not, and a select few of us, me included, were in no shape to go see them even if we wanted to. But it was awesome anyway! I brought half a case of beer over to go with the stuff they already had over there, and we killed it. I think I drank my half case and then some myself… though I know for sure I had help. My cousins and a couple of their friends, and another cousin's boyfriend, were sitting in the hot tub getting completely and totally hammered, so if nothing else I can blame them for drinking the beer I didn't get to. Them, my mom, my aunts… ah, hell, the list of people who *weren't* drinking last night is probably shorter. And, of course, we had a BBQ. All in all, I loved it. Even if I ended up feeling like shit last night… it was still fun! And now, I can sit here and watch CSI, because uh, I don't feel like doing anything else. LOL

July 1, 2006

What's your theme song?

Everything here is copyright by me. Keep the disclaimer in mind.

Web hosting provided far too generously by DreamHost.

Skip Navigation
Home	Who am I?
Off-site links	Contact me

My Life is A Drama Free Zone: July 2006

July 31, 2006

As I suspected, the dads lose.

What's in a promise?

And again, Murphy's law.

July 30, 2006

Israel has become another bloody US.

Now there's a way to get your kids to take their medicine.

The stuff you by on Ebay amazes me.

Finally, something I can agree with.

It isn't even that day yet...

July 29, 2006

Now this is surprising.

National leadership qualification: must be a whackjob.

July 28, 2006

What's your 1920's name?

Yep, I'm voting for you next election.

Okay, so it wasn't a DoS attack this time.

Not how I wanted to spend a friday...

No, no, no, no, fucking *NO*!

***DISCLAIMER***

Finally!

July 27, 2006

Dating purity test.

How brutally honest are you?

I didn't give Dell Canada enough credit.

The voices made me do it!

***DISCLAIMER***

Decision made; RSSFWD loses.

July 26, 2006

What do people think of your face?

They did *not* just do that to me...

Saddam would like to be shot.

Not guilty by reason of insanity?

They're making me wait 'til fall...

Lazyness prevales.

July 25, 2006

The Panthers must be desperate as hell.

It might as well be a bloody world war.

Well, it's a little slow, but...

What's your blogging personality?

Well, Bloglines is getting somewhere.

Because I like to try new things.

I love it when people finally agree with me.

What colour red are you?

What alcoholic drink are you?

I have really got to stop doing that.

July 23, 2006

Well, it's been 2 weeks.

What time of day are you?

July 22, 2006

Let me turn on the part of my brain that gives a damn.

How sarcastic are you?

Yay for other people taking over!

Not how I planned to spend an afternoon.

July 20, 2006

How normal are you?

July 19, 2006

It would seem I spoke too soon.

God, I hope she never has kids.

One yes, one... maybe?

What temperment are you?

July 18, 2006

See what I miss when blackouts kick my ass?

That was all sorts of unfun.

July 17, 2006

What kind of coffee are you?

4 more signings!

Because it's way past time.

What kind of soul are you?

Just for you, Erin.

Trillian's about to get cut out.

July 15, 2006

How average American are you?

How to accomplish nothing in 2 relatively stress free hours.

My logic frightens me.

Which American cities best fit you?

July 14, 2006

The computer guy strikes again.

July 13, 2006

No, no, no, no, fucking NO!

DISCLAIMER

DISCLAIMER

They did not just do that to me...