So Blogger seems to have added a bunch of new widget plugin attachment things I can add to my blog. I guess they are trying to compete with the social networking aspect of successful web apps like Facebook. I might try a couple in the next stretch here. Let me know if there is anything you guys find annoying that I should remove, or something you'd like me to add.
I also removed a couple of the dead links I had in my link section. But now it's looking a little bare. If you have a polyphasic sleep blog, send me a link, and I'll check it out, and maybe add it. If you have any other blog or anything you think I should check out, do feel free to send it as well. I'll offer to buy a beer for anyone who sends me something new I like.
Also, I'm looking for a way to send beer via mail. Anyone know the shipping restrictions on that? If I want to ship like a 6 pack of cans, can I just toss them in a box? We need to find a way for me to make good on my offer to international folks. Maybe I'll just skype a delivery order for a beer joint nearby?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
I'm back!
I am back home after my long holiday, which was awesome. Let's go over some of the exciting points.
The first weekend of my holiday started with a Friday night wedding rehearsal, Saturday morning final, Saturday afternoon wedding performance, and Saturday night drunken festivities. It was a pretty fun, but very busy, way to start holidays. There was a lot of liquor consumed. A couple people came over to continue the party after the hotel kicked us out. It was a good night. The next day, I slept, packed, and rode to Edmonton with the Edmonton House folk. I had lunch with the newlyweds, and they were kind enough to drive me to the airport to catch my flight to Vancouver.
Vancouver was great. I spent a fair bit of time at Six Acres, in Gastown, as I have a buddy who is a manager there. It's a very cool little pub too, so I had no complaints. I went to a Radiohead concert, which was super awesome, and Beck a week later, which was also super awesome. I visited the Aquarium, met up with a couple friends for drinks various nights throughout the trip, and met some very cool new people. I do really like Vancouver. I could see myself moving out there after I get my degree, if I can find work.
I spent a weekend in Victoria, visiting some friends there. Victoria is also very nice. We had some beautiful weather, so I spent some time on the beach, and walking. There was one rainy day, during which we stayed in, played Monopoly (where I had hotels on Park Place, and Boardwalk, risking all my cash to set them up, then got 2 very unlucky rolls in a row... forcing me to sell everything) then went to the movies. It was also a friend of my friend's birthday weekend. As a result, we spent a fair bit of time dancing at the bar.
The weekend after Victoria was PAX. The attendance this year was apparently 58500 people. It was pretty crowded. They had estimated I think 45000, so they didn't quite have enough space for everyone. As a result, there was some panels I missed, as the theater was full, and they wouldn't let anyone in. Also Saturday, the busiest day, the exhibition room floor was packed. It was rather difficult just to navigate to where you wanted to be. It was not helped by Darth Roadblock, a very big guy in a great Darth Vader costume that had an amazing talent to cause HUGE traffic jams. I got to check out some sweet games though. Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Fallout 3, Starcraft 3, Resistance 2, Gears 2, and my new favourite, Ninja Town! I am mad excited for most of those, which sucks, as I'm somewhat poor from my trip, and now I have to buy a lot of video games in the next couple months. Sigh. It's a tough life.
I started school again, first class was yesterday. I'm only taking 1 class this term, which, when finished, will leave me with 2 more classes for my 3 year degree. It's a little sad to think after about 8 years of school, I'll be walking away with nothing but one 3 year degree. At least I'm finishing something though. My class is a computer security course, and it sounds pretty interesting. The prof is quite a character. I'm looking forward to some good discussions. The class is smaller than I expected, only like 30 people? It reminds me of my Physics times, which makes sense, as that was the other degree I took to around this point. The course workload seems pretty decent too, not too much, but interesting stuff. We'll see what I think of it later on in the course. The prof also said he'd likely google me, so he may end up reading this post. I better not say anything too incriminating then. Although the first hit for my name isn't this blog, but instead the video Ryan did, but I think it's pretty easy to end up here. Hopefully he doesn't hack into my blog and make me sound like an idiot. At least, more of an idiot than I actually am. Is that possible?
Final Note! I am restarting the 100 pushup plan. My holiday really screwed me up on that (As well as sleeping). I'll be getting everything back on track this weekend.
Oh other note: I'm debating picking up a Neti Pot, and trying that out. PureDoxyk swears they are amazing. Allergy season usually hurts my sinuses a lot, and I'm curious if something like that would help. Plus it works me closer to my true life goal, to be as much like PD as I can. Next up, Sex Change, and moving to the States.
The first weekend of my holiday started with a Friday night wedding rehearsal, Saturday morning final, Saturday afternoon wedding performance, and Saturday night drunken festivities. It was a pretty fun, but very busy, way to start holidays. There was a lot of liquor consumed. A couple people came over to continue the party after the hotel kicked us out. It was a good night. The next day, I slept, packed, and rode to Edmonton with the Edmonton House folk. I had lunch with the newlyweds, and they were kind enough to drive me to the airport to catch my flight to Vancouver.
Vancouver was great. I spent a fair bit of time at Six Acres, in Gastown, as I have a buddy who is a manager there. It's a very cool little pub too, so I had no complaints. I went to a Radiohead concert, which was super awesome, and Beck a week later, which was also super awesome. I visited the Aquarium, met up with a couple friends for drinks various nights throughout the trip, and met some very cool new people. I do really like Vancouver. I could see myself moving out there after I get my degree, if I can find work.
I spent a weekend in Victoria, visiting some friends there. Victoria is also very nice. We had some beautiful weather, so I spent some time on the beach, and walking. There was one rainy day, during which we stayed in, played Monopoly (where I had hotels on Park Place, and Boardwalk, risking all my cash to set them up, then got 2 very unlucky rolls in a row... forcing me to sell everything) then went to the movies. It was also a friend of my friend's birthday weekend. As a result, we spent a fair bit of time dancing at the bar.
The weekend after Victoria was PAX. The attendance this year was apparently 58500 people. It was pretty crowded. They had estimated I think 45000, so they didn't quite have enough space for everyone. As a result, there was some panels I missed, as the theater was full, and they wouldn't let anyone in. Also Saturday, the busiest day, the exhibition room floor was packed. It was rather difficult just to navigate to where you wanted to be. It was not helped by Darth Roadblock, a very big guy in a great Darth Vader costume that had an amazing talent to cause HUGE traffic jams. I got to check out some sweet games though. Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Fallout 3, Starcraft 3, Resistance 2, Gears 2, and my new favourite, Ninja Town! I am mad excited for most of those, which sucks, as I'm somewhat poor from my trip, and now I have to buy a lot of video games in the next couple months. Sigh. It's a tough life.
I started school again, first class was yesterday. I'm only taking 1 class this term, which, when finished, will leave me with 2 more classes for my 3 year degree. It's a little sad to think after about 8 years of school, I'll be walking away with nothing but one 3 year degree. At least I'm finishing something though. My class is a computer security course, and it sounds pretty interesting. The prof is quite a character. I'm looking forward to some good discussions. The class is smaller than I expected, only like 30 people? It reminds me of my Physics times, which makes sense, as that was the other degree I took to around this point. The course workload seems pretty decent too, not too much, but interesting stuff. We'll see what I think of it later on in the course. The prof also said he'd likely google me, so he may end up reading this post. I better not say anything too incriminating then. Although the first hit for my name isn't this blog, but instead the video Ryan did, but I think it's pretty easy to end up here. Hopefully he doesn't hack into my blog and make me sound like an idiot. At least, more of an idiot than I actually am. Is that possible?
Final Note! I am restarting the 100 pushup plan. My holiday really screwed me up on that (As well as sleeping). I'll be getting everything back on track this weekend.
Oh other note: I'm debating picking up a Neti Pot, and trying that out. PureDoxyk swears they are amazing. Allergy season usually hurts my sinuses a lot, and I'm curious if something like that would help. Plus it works me closer to my true life goal, to be as much like PD as I can. Next up, Sex Change, and moving to the States.
Monday, August 11, 2008
week
Hey.
This is a quick note to tell you to go away.
I won't be making another post for likely a full week. Likely not until after Radiohead. (Maybe if I'm bored at the airport, I'll make an iPhone post) I am just a touch busy.
So Friday is my last day of work before my holiday. Friday night, I have a wedding rehearsal, Saturday morning I have a final, Saturday afternoon is the wedding I'm playing at, and Saturday night is the wedding dance. Sunday morning, riding to Edmonton in a friends car... Oh, and a big project at work I'm supposed to have finished by Friday. Sweet.
So I have to study / learn an entire course in 4 days, while learning 4 songs for the wedding, and getting all my ducks in a row before my holiday. Awesome.
So yeah, I won't be wasting much time with any blog posts. I'll catch you on the flipside.
This is a quick note to tell you to go away.
I won't be making another post for likely a full week. Likely not until after Radiohead. (Maybe if I'm bored at the airport, I'll make an iPhone post) I am just a touch busy.
So Friday is my last day of work before my holiday. Friday night, I have a wedding rehearsal, Saturday morning I have a final, Saturday afternoon is the wedding I'm playing at, and Saturday night is the wedding dance. Sunday morning, riding to Edmonton in a friends car... Oh, and a big project at work I'm supposed to have finished by Friday. Sweet.
So I have to study / learn an entire course in 4 days, while learning 4 songs for the wedding, and getting all my ducks in a row before my holiday. Awesome.
So yeah, I won't be wasting much time with any blog posts. I'll catch you on the flipside.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Seatbelts
You should wear them. They protect you in the case of a major car accident.
They are also a kick ass band from Japan. Yoko Kanno is the Keyboard player, and main composer, but it's essentially a super group of Japanese musicians. I very highly recommend them to everyone. You can find some of their live shows on YouTube. I recommend starting with Tank! It's Jazzy, but they play the crowd and songs like Rock songs. Freaking awesome. I may or may not have spent the last 45 minutes here at work watching a whole bunch of videos. Blue is also a freaking amazing song.
I always find it interesting when I listen to Japanese music (or other locations as well) that they have so much English in their songs. Morning Musume is another example. They use English regularly. I understand that quite a few people there speak English, but in comparison, our second language is OFFICIALLY french, but I never hear any English Canadian songs that use French as well. American music is similar. I think I'll make it my goal to start writing music that uses more languages in it. Nolto(apologies now for the MySpace link, I died a little inside doing it. I don't think he has anything better for a site...), get on that. (The better site, and the Non-English verse). I want your next song to have at least a full verse in not-English. We took that intro to Japanese course for a reason! Also, you need to do more concerts with a live back up band. I know a extremely attractive, single, awesome, humble, friendly, kick-ass bass player. I'm sure he'd play in a heartbeat with you, any time. Maybe after his vacation you should jam with him?
7 More days until my vacation! Couldn't get here fast enough.
They are also a kick ass band from Japan. Yoko Kanno is the Keyboard player, and main composer, but it's essentially a super group of Japanese musicians. I very highly recommend them to everyone. You can find some of their live shows on YouTube. I recommend starting with Tank! It's Jazzy, but they play the crowd and songs like Rock songs. Freaking awesome. I may or may not have spent the last 45 minutes here at work watching a whole bunch of videos. Blue is also a freaking amazing song.
I always find it interesting when I listen to Japanese music (or other locations as well) that they have so much English in their songs. Morning Musume is another example. They use English regularly. I understand that quite a few people there speak English, but in comparison, our second language is OFFICIALLY french, but I never hear any English Canadian songs that use French as well. American music is similar. I think I'll make it my goal to start writing music that uses more languages in it. Nolto(apologies now for the MySpace link, I died a little inside doing it. I don't think he has anything better for a site...), get on that. (The better site, and the Non-English verse). I want your next song to have at least a full verse in not-English. We took that intro to Japanese course for a reason! Also, you need to do more concerts with a live back up band. I know a extremely attractive, single, awesome, humble, friendly, kick-ass bass player. I'm sure he'd play in a heartbeat with you, any time. Maybe after his vacation you should jam with him?
7 More days until my vacation! Couldn't get here fast enough.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Dreams
After reading a friends blog, she was talking about crazy dreams. I've shared some of my crazy dreams before, and this is no exception to that.
Recent weird dream I had, a Hockey Game. Nothing really that excited. I guess I was feeling very Canadian? We won. Actually, my team dominated. It was kind of a joke of a hockey game. I found it very odd that that was the entire dream though. Nothing building up to a hockey game. Nothing after the game. Just like a highlight reel of me playing hockey. What the heck is that supposed to mean? It didn't really instill any feeling in me either. It was like watching a hockey game on TV, except that I was in it, and I didn't really care which team won. Maybe it's a sign that I need to watch more sports?
I do agree with Ruby's statements though. I'd reply, but I have no livejournal account. I know she reads this occasionally though, so she'll likely see this. One of the side effects of napping a lot, is more situations to dream in. Some I remember, some I don't, but they always have a huge impact on how I feel for the rest of the day, or at least until next nap period. I don't remember the dream at all, but I know I liked it, and that puts me in a good mood. Now I can get all philosophic, and say does the dream exist, and what not, but that's not my style.
At least not when I'm sober.
8 Days until holidays.
Recent weird dream I had, a Hockey Game. Nothing really that excited. I guess I was feeling very Canadian? We won. Actually, my team dominated. It was kind of a joke of a hockey game. I found it very odd that that was the entire dream though. Nothing building up to a hockey game. Nothing after the game. Just like a highlight reel of me playing hockey. What the heck is that supposed to mean? It didn't really instill any feeling in me either. It was like watching a hockey game on TV, except that I was in it, and I didn't really care which team won. Maybe it's a sign that I need to watch more sports?
I do agree with Ruby's statements though. I'd reply, but I have no livejournal account. I know she reads this occasionally though, so she'll likely see this. One of the side effects of napping a lot, is more situations to dream in. Some I remember, some I don't, but they always have a huge impact on how I feel for the rest of the day, or at least until next nap period. I don't remember the dream at all, but I know I liked it, and that puts me in a good mood. Now I can get all philosophic, and say does the dream exist, and what not, but that's not my style.
At least not when I'm sober.
8 Days until holidays.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Pushups Day 2
I did my second scheduled day of Pushups yesterday.
It was 12, 12, 10, 10, Max (13).
It's still very exhausting. Fortunately, my arms don't hurt as much today as they did after day 1's pushups. Maybe I've improved my form? I had 90 seconds between sets, so I tried to do some stretching as I was waiting, which may have helped a bit. If I can get my regular Yoga going, then things will likely be even less painful.
Reasonably uneventful weekend. Starting to get a bit nervous on how I'll manage my nap schedule over my 2.5 week trip to visit friends. Hopefully things will be laid back enough I can just lay down wherever I am for 20 minutes. We'll see.
It was 12, 12, 10, 10, Max (13).
It's still very exhausting. Fortunately, my arms don't hurt as much today as they did after day 1's pushups. Maybe I've improved my form? I had 90 seconds between sets, so I tried to do some stretching as I was waiting, which may have helped a bit. If I can get my regular Yoga going, then things will likely be even less painful.
Reasonably uneventful weekend. Starting to get a bit nervous on how I'll manage my nap schedule over my 2.5 week trip to visit friends. Hopefully things will be laid back enough I can just lay down wherever I am for 20 minutes. We'll see.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
pushups day 1
so I did my first day of pishups today. My initial test was about 25 pushups. Today I did sets of 10, 10, 8, 6, 15. I was reasonably happy with that. The downside is I am not in shape, and my body is sore. From just a reasonably small amount of pushups. I guess that is why I'm doing them.
So my iPhone was having problems with time lately. Today, now, it has the right time, but it was totally an hour off yesterday. Weird other than that I am super happy with it so far. I'm actually making this blog post on it. The first time I types on up though it crashed safari (the web browser on it). This time seems to be a little smoother.
Well I want to go now though. I reading watchmen, the graphic novel, and I'm intendingto hit the fringe yet his afternoon. Hopefully the weather stays enjoyable for it.
So my iPhone was having problems with time lately. Today, now, it has the right time, but it was totally an hour off yesterday. Weird other than that I am super happy with it so far. I'm actually making this blog post on it. The first time I types on up though it crashed safari (the web browser on it). This time seems to be a little smoother.
Well I want to go now though. I reading watchmen, the graphic novel, and I'm intendingto hit the fringe yet his afternoon. Hopefully the weather stays enjoyable for it.
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