Last few weeks kathy has been off school and living in Cambridge with me which is really nice. It is nice to wake up next to her semi curled hair and funny to watch her invade the part of the bed I was just sleeping in. I apparently hog the bad during the night : p. We spent a few days down in Harrow with her relatives during her Birthday, it was fun and relaxing. I got to see a muskrat swimming about and some birds with red on their wings and some other crazy stuff like Leya. Played a lot of Blokus too and found out that those bastards made a PSP version but not a DS version, fuckers.

Mario Kart is fun, but 150 is damn hard, too many enemies and I can never get into first, it is very difficult to get to just 3rd and I fall apart at the end. Last couple of weeks I have watched seasons 5-7 of Buffy and am now working on Angel however Kathy will be watching the rest before school really picks up, oh well. Cottages are expensive to rent for a week or two, even after Labour day.

I am sleepy and nervous now. I do a full day in my new position and it is very time intense and I am not sure if I will remember everything, so many unknowns.

I walked to the 401 centre and got my socks soaked completely. I think I am going to get virus’s in my feet. Of course not too many places had their sidewalk plowed. On the way back I saw on of those mini bobcats clearing the sidewalk, those things are pretty manuverable. The peron in it cleared the sidewalk and than wanted to get to the otherside of the street. She raised the shovel and than pivoted in place and pushed the button for the traffic lights with the bobcat’s shovel. I want to drive one of those. Super fun.

So with the freezing rain the carpool didn’t go to work. Second time in less than 7 days and apprenlty another snow storm is going on right now and won’t let up until the morning. I’ll feel very uncomfortable if I couldn’t come in again :/. I had to drive my niece to her hockey game which is 5 minutes or so from my house. It was a miserable drive and really slippery. I got stuck at a nearly level stop sign due to ice and had to roll back a bit to get a running start to get past it.

When coming back from the Ice Park I left through the back road so I can get the light back home. The road was of course all white and I thought I was following the car in front but I guess I was off to the right a little because all of a sudden it started to sound like I was going through fresh snow that hasn’t been driven on so I steered back towards the centre of the road. I didn’t realize at that moment that the street has no sidewalks or curbs and has ditches so I almost drove into a ditch : / I don’t think I would have been able to drive out of it. So that was dumb of me. How about you?

I feel depressed and excluded today at work, which is kind of good since I have
to finish up my stuff, especially since it seems like a storm is coming
in today, meh. I feel like I am stuck in a rut and am underused. Part
of this is a blessing in a way since I can have time and try and do
stuff for my self but the downer is I doubt it’ll hellp in the end. Meh
sigh.

Oh well Friday after the snow storm was pretty good and I had delicious tacos yum yum. Oh and Gingie never did learn anything. After cleaning out his cage yesterday Kathy found that there was a big pee spot that was shaped like his igloo, so he still pees where he sleeps. He also peed and pooed on his edible bridge :/
I’ve been looking more and more at digital SLRs. I am pretty surprised that Sony ones actually seem to be pretty good. I mostly find this surprising since their video game systems and TVs and such would be high on the price and stiny on the features, not so here, it is quite the refreshing change. I like that it has the image stabilization built into the camera and not the lens, so I can but any lens later without having to pay a premium for IS. The pictures looked really good from what I saw. Pentax is another camera with the stabilizer built into the camera, unfortunatley the pictures aren’t nearly as good which is quite a shame since they use AA batteries which would have been a real treat since I have about 20 rechargables. Another plus for the Sony is that everyone doesn’t say the starter lens that it comes with is horrible. Even with all that it looks like Canon still edges out the Sony Alpha a little bit but they do seemed priced higher, especially since the image stabilizer is built into he lens. I’m mostly worried about that since my hands are pretty shakey even on the best days.

Maybe I am just worried about money too much. I do want to go up and make more, actually I feel like I have to. House orices are scary unless you want to live by the rail road tracks. I lost the 6/49 on Wed so I guess I have to try making it. Oh and Scotia Bank Mutual Funds suck ass.

It could have been mine for the low, low price of $25. I did get a gallon of Febreeze today, it cost $23. I need to get Access to do what I need it to do for work, I have to condense 6 tabs of info into something meaningful, hope I can, otherwise I’d have to use MySQL or something.

Katty is still feeling icky, it has been a few weeks now, sigh.

My drive home last Friday was bad,, this week it was even slower. Going the last 3 KM on the highway took 15 minutes, and the worst part is that I was considering getting of on the previous exit and use the city streets to get in the same position, I figured the HWY was moving well enough, it would be the same amount of time either way. Again there were accidents everywhere and they had me cut off to Waterloo, the one on Bridge St made the drive through Bridgeport 40 minutes in itself. All said I think it took 2-2.5 hours to get here from work, good thing I was able to leave an hour later.

The weather sill looks icky and I need to do homework, I have to finish off my assignment and prepare answers from the text since my group will be called up to provide the answers for them in front of the class.

I have for the last 7 minutes been reading an article online all the while tapping my nails in a very obnoxious way onmy laptop. Katty would stop and stare at me until I stop if I were in the same room as her. I am pretty jiminiy if I can use that as a word. I should be reading a chapter but instead tap tap tap. It seems strangely theraputic in a way, I keep wanting to do it even now, tap tap tap. The sound felt good, my joints in my fingers were alive. I was trying to get the perfect beat, like it would unlock everything I want to know. God is in the tapping.

Hopefully I’ll have it out of my system when I go to see my honey.

I am already falling a bit behind in my studies. My schedule is thrown off due to the snow fall that cancelled class on Monday, although I mmight be in the same predictament otherwise since I did have all day Monday to do this shit. I have to read half of this chapter still, do the questions for it by Monday and than behind the scenes make notes for the second and third chapters and double check my work for the class missed to see if I did the problems correctly.

Work has been uneventful lately, some things to do, mostly non emergency yet still important, just not terribly exciting tasks that eat up time. Tomorrow I think I’ll be having a one on one meeting with my boss, should be fun, unless it is cancelled since we have to do markdowns, well she does, I just set up the file. : /

Scotia Bank fucking sucks, I really do hate them. I set up my card for online banking, reset the password and than get kicked out saying that I have to call in and get set for Scotia Online. it seems many years ago when I left the bank due to them charging me fees for an empty account that I did not use I got them to close my account. I wanted to open one to get some mutal funds so I would need a banking account. They only have one ‘free’ banking account with no monthly charges. However it only comes with the ability to remove money from the account twice a month, and moving money from that account to a Mutal Fund counts as a transaction. That is so fucking useless, I have no idea why people bother to put up with that or any of it. Monthly fees and having every transaction taxed. Basically every account of theirs has a monthly fee.

I signed up for a CIBC account through PC Financial, it will cost $24 a year but at least this way I can easily move money into a fund at regular intervals, I am still pissed about it. I assume and hope that the management fees are at least less, probably not, they do make more money than Scotia.

Some people have said the roads really weren’t that bad, I haven’t really gone out to take a look though but there is still a lot of bad shit happening out there on the highway.

I put together my BBQ, I think the igniter bits are installed correctly, we’ll see in about 3 months time I guess, probably 4-5 actually. One of the legs wasn’t cut very cleanly and had a bit of metal inside of it that I needed a hammer to get a plastic piece in, overall not bad. Still kind of small but I’ll be mostly doing hot dogs and hamburgers anyways so it’ll be fine.

My sister has left on vacation so her kids are staying here for what I assume is one week. This is going to be loud and unpleasant, I did get them to help fill my fish tank to the top again, the water dropped in temperature quite a bit, I hope they can cope.