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.
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That was all sorts of unfun.
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What kind of coffee are you?
You Are an Iced Coffee
At your best, you are: hyper, modern, and athleticAt your worst, you are: cheap and angsty
You drink coffee when: you’re out with friends
Your caffeine addiction level: medium
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.
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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.
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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
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What kind of soul are you?
You Are a Dreaming Soul
Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world
So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time
You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all…
But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficultYou are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you.
Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses.
Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others.
Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life.Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul
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?
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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.
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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.
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How average American are you?
You Are 60% “Average American”
You are average because you support affirmative action.You are not average since you’ve known your best friend for less than ten years.
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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.
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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.