Hump Day (Again)

Well it’s shitty outside, I’m burning out and I have realised that I really have no clue how far in debt I really am…not a bad start to the day! Okay, so the weather will get better…a little sleep will fix me up along with the visits to the gym (glad to be back) and the debt…bah, over time I’ll widdle it back down to nothing (besides the mortgage of course).

Okay, so now that I’ve vented and counselled myself its time to move onto some more interesting topics:

1) Today is my mother’s birthday, so happy birthday MOM!

2) Matt and I FINALLY caught the mouse that has been eating our food and leaving poop all over the place! We felt bad though, the little guy only had one eye and had scarring on his nose and face. This confirmed he was the one that set the traps upstairs off but always managed to escape…which was good. We let him go outside, so he should be back in here pooping all over my desk in a few days!

3) The house looks like it might be ready to be primed this weekend, or at the latest the middle of next week. That means the self imposed end of the month move in date is still in reach.

Well, I guess that’s it…nothing too exciting to report these days.

Cheers!
Andrew

“I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don’t just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.”

-Jack Handy

Tired

Nothing much to blog about these days…other then the fact that I’m extremely tired and need a vacation.  Unfortunately for me I just bought a house and will NEVER see a tropical place of any sorts unless I win the lottery or marry into money!

HAHA, Cheers!

Andrew

P.S. The basement is up for grabs, know anyone who wants to rent a (brand) newly finished basement?

Rona

125 2×4x8's
12 2×6x8's
10 bags of insulation
1 roll of plastic vapor barrier
1 roll of tar paper
4 cartons of nails
1 hammer
1 pry bar

$1127

HOT DAMN!

Cheers!
Andrew

Do it right the first time dammit…

HAHA, I just got a phone call from AME waste management regarding the final total on what that dumpster cost me. At $90 a ton plus a $160 dumpster fee and GST it cost me $916.56. Yup, who knew that place had 7.47 tons of SHIT that needed to be ripped out in order to correct all the shitty mistakes that were made the first time!?

Anyhow, this goes to show you…when you're building or renovating a house, do it right the first time dammit. If not for your own good, then for the sanity of the next person who is going to have to live there.

Needless to say, I'm doing the job right this time around and it's costing me an F'ing arm and a leg. Stupid people suck.

Cheers!
Andrew

Click HERE for pics of the house (before work)

Two Things!

Flag Barer:

When the winter games started this year Canada had to ask 4 or 5 olympians before a real champion, Danielle Goyette of the Women’s hockey team, agreed to carry our flag. Apparently the other athletes were afraid the hard work of carrying the flag would hurt their chances of winning. Now, I could understand if you had to compete the next day, but that wasn’t the case for some of the athletes that were asked to carry the flag. Anyhow, after it was all said and done we had an amazing olympics, however, when it came time to find someone to represent our country in the closing ceremonies the choice was pretty clear, the honor was Cindy Klassen’s if she wanted it. Of course she accepted and did a great job carrying the flag, it’s just too bad that she was one of the 4 or 5 that shot down the COC when asked to carry the flag at the opening ceremonies. I guess ultimately if you asked me, Danielle Goyette should have carried the flag for the closing ceremonies too!

TRIP:

It’s only 4 more sleeps away and I am freaking out! I’m almost all packed and I believe I’ve bought everything I need! I’m ready to kick back and enjoy the sun! YEE HAW!!!

Cheers!
Andrew

“A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. “Hear that?” you say. “That’s dynamite, baby.”

-Jack Handey

Two And A Half Hours Of My Life I’ll Never Get Back…

A couple of days ago while at work I got an instant message from Shelley telling me that she just heard Mike on KROCK and he had just won tickets to see some movie. I thought “Nice, I better email him and call dibs on one of the tickets” – thinking that hey, a free movie is good no matter what it is.

WRONG! You see, the free movie was “The New World” starring Colin Farrell. This was BY FAR the worst movie I have seen in years. I had very low expectations going into this movie because I had seen the trailer and it looked horrible (but as I said, I figured a free movie was good no matter what it was). Now, normally when I have lowered expectations for a flick I end up coming out pleasently surprised (i.e. Fantastic Four) but not even that could save this movie!

This movie was sooooo slow in building to a climax that never happened – sometimes there was about 5 to 10 minutes without dialogue. Instead, we were treated to a symphony of whinning violins and fluttering flutes! GARBAGE! I think we can all agree that I’m no artist, but I am capable of appreciating “artsy” flicks if the movie is done with some sort of plot in mind. But this thing was trash. I found it hard to even grasp the point of this movie. The same old stuff was in there, like modern people coming in and taking “the naturals” land, destroying their habitat, converting them into mindless workers, blah blah blah…now, all that stuff normally works in a movie but they took these concepts and crapped all over them with horrible dialoge (or a lack there of) and transitionless scenes – there must have been about 20 to 25 black screen transitions in this movie.

Now, I could go on and on (kind of like this movie – felt like it was never going to end) about how brutal this thing was but I’m starting to have flashbacks to sitting in the theatre so I think it’s best I just stop now before I go postal and throw my monitor off the balcony here at work!

Anyhow, all I can say is that this “sneak preview” COMPLETELY back fired on who ever made this POS movie because the applause that rang out through the theatre after this thing was over wasn’t because it had a Star Wars cult following that was still creaming over Yoda’s swordsmanship, but instead were applauding because it was FINALLY over.

Quote of the night goes to some guy leaving the theatre after the movie:
“Thanks KROCK for not letting me spend my own money on this crap!”

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. Miami Vice better be amazing for Farrell’s sake and that the next Batman better kick ass so Bale still has at least two good movies to his credit!

Saving

So…back to the usual BORING and completely pointless rants. I know what you’re saying “Did he ever get away from that?”. But in reality, I’ve actually blogged about some pretty serious stuff as of late, i.e. Politics and…uh…Politics. OK, so you’re right!

Anyhow, I think I’ll talk a little about my evening last night.

It all started with taking Max outside for some fresh air then coaxing him back inside after 5 minutes (It was shitty out alright!). Then after playing fetch in the house for a half hour or so with the little guy it was time for dinner. Had some roast beef and mashed potatoes with a nice little side of peas (gotta eat something green here and there – apples don’t count apparently). Did some dishes. Played with Max again then it was downstairs to play some Halo 2 (YES RANDALL, VID-E-O GAMES)! After that I hit the shower (break a sweat smashing on that controller and cursing at the 8 year olds over my headset – YES RANDALL, HEAD-SET!).

I went back upstairs, got ready for bed then watched some tube with Max. Good times!

The point…nothing really, other then the fact that no matter how painful last night was (not going out and doing anything in particular) I think I’m actually getting used to it! Which, is good because I spent a whopping $0 last night!

Well that’s it…

Cheers!
Andrew

What Constitutes a Snow Day?

Ok, nothing better to blog about today but this…”What constitutes a snow day?”.

Before I get the poll up, let me explain why I’m polling this:

I woke up last night at 1:30 and realised Max needed to go out. So I went outside (half asleep) in my slippers and boxers with no shirt on (sexy I know) and as Max disappeared around the corner of the house I went to follow him…that’s when it hit me: “HOLY F*CK! There is a foot of snow out here AND I’M HALF NAKED!”. So I ran back inside and Max followed. Once inside, the thought crossed my mind “I wonder if we’ll (Matt and I) be able to make it into work in the morning”.

6am rolled around and I woke my ass up and went outside with Max again and realised “HOLY F*CK there is more then a foot of snow out here!”.  Then I thought, there is no way Matt will want to drive in this shit, it’s just not right! So I gave him a call, “Bah, we’ll be alright” he says!  Remember, this guy grew up in the “snow belt” of Ontario. Twenty Five minutes later I get a call from Karla (Matt’s wife):

Karla: Hey, he said he’ll call you when he gets out of the driveway.

Andrew: What a nut!

Karla: Yeah, he’s shoveling, he’s not laughing now!

Andrew: LOL alright, I’ll be waiting!

Anyhow, we made it into work and now I am here and all I hear are sirens every 15 minutes…

SOOOOO, with that being said, take my poll and tell me whether you think it should be a snow day or not!

Take the Poll

Cheers!
Andrew

The Chronicles Of The Weekend: “The All-Nighter, The Cards and The Bad Beats”

WOW…I sure got the most out of this weekend.  Cards, cards and more cards with a movie and some booze…it was good times!

Friday night was a small fun poker game at Matt’s where I lost both games and both were on what we poker addicts like to refer to as “Bad Beats”.  But it was fun…got home around 2am and hit the hay.

Saturday was also nice as it was my dad’s birthday.  The grandparents were over for dinner along with my brother and the rest of our family.  After dinner and the festivities were over my brother and I decided to play a little heads-up poker.  Sure enough, I call Craig and just like that there is three of us playing poker (started at about 7 or 8pm)…Well 5 in the morning rolls around, we’re drunk and finally decide to call it a night while making the decision to go to see The Chronicles of Narnia sometime the next day.

I’m a nice guy so I make the boys some breakfast and we head to the 1:15 show…let me say this…THAT MOVIE SUCKED!  I’m sorry, I had high expectations and the whole time I was watching that POS I was begging for one of two things to happen: A) for it to end abruptly due to a power outage, or B) For me to be 4 years old again so I might have a chance to appreciate it.  Ok, so it’s a fairy tale movie and I knew that going into it…but don’t market it as having these massive fight scenes and mythological lions that rip peoples heads off…because all I saw were a bunch of kids leading an army of talking penguins during a 5 minute fight scene in a movie that was 2 hours and 12 minutes long.

So there you have it, my “Birthday”, “Movie Reviews”, “Poker” and “Rant” blog all in one!  Enjoy.

P.S. Did I mention that Narnia SUCKS!?

I Hate Trojans (Pardon the double meaning)

WOW! Yesterday was a long day.

I had BIG plans for the night that included playing with Max (my Jack Russell/Poodle a.k.a Jackiepoo…YES “Jackiepoo�, problem with that?), watching Survivor and chatting online and hitting the hay early for once. I was halfway through the night and it was about 15 minutes until Survivor came on when all of a sudden my computer speakers made a sound similar to that of nails going down a chalkboard and then my computer crashed. Mid conversation with some hot Swedish model my computer crashed, ok, that’s not completely true but still!

So after frustratingly trying to get the POS to start in “Safe Mode� 5 or 6 times I finally gave up (mostly because Survivor was starting). Once I finished watching yet another SOLID episode of Survivor I decided to go downstairs to my sister’s computer to research the quickest way to bring my computer back to life. And guess what, as soon as I log in “Freeprod.com is downloading files for you�.

WTF! I don’t want any “files�!!! I tried frantically to get into Task Manager to end this “Freeprod.com Trojan� without success. So, now I have two computers, one that won’t turn on and one that is full of viruses (wow, so much for going to bed early). I dig around my sister’s computer and sure enough I find the dirty little program (not the kind you like Randall) and I can’t seem to remove it. So I have to research THIS now!? SOB, after a couple hours of installing a plethora of spy ware removal applications like Hijack This and CWShredder and running them in a specific order in a specific way, I was able to remove the virus.

It was 11:30 when I wrapped up, and I was PO’d! Yes that’s right, “PO’d�! Needless to say, if I ever find someone who admittedly writes these good for nothing viruses I swear I’ll castrate the little bastards!

WOAH, this blogging thing is great. I feel much better now!