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| 07:32am 12/10/2009 |
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Been another long while with nothing much to really say.. But it's october now. :O My favorite month of the year. Halloween, thanksgiving, some vacation time booked, fall weather.. but whats this? SNOW!? ARRGGGHHH >.<
Yeah the temp has really plummeted here. We had snow as early as Oct 8th. Luckily it's just a smattering that gathered in corners and stuff but all the same it's disheartening to see cool go to cold so quickly. we had a few high 20C days in September.
My brother is now staying with Kyt and I in the spare bedroom we had. He has knocked up some girl I've never met back where I come from and his joblessness just won't cut it if hes to be a family man. It's took a month or two of mom asking and begging him to be let up for me to finally agree though, as most of my memories of my brother are not very fond and we're almost complete opposites: I've always been an honors student, he dropped out of highschool for two years. I've tried pot, he and his friends smoked it daily among other drugs. I've always been fairly well behaved save for a little unknown miscreant behavior with high school chums and, say, cartons of eggs or other throwable objects that I grew out of, He drove my mother and father(and me) nuts.. the list goes on.. Both he and mom swears he'll behave cause he can't afford to be a child anymore so we'll see how it works out. He is 21 by the way. So far it's not been bad and he's been helping out around the house a bit. If he keeps it up I might not kick him out but he needs to find a job and start paying his share soon. :P
PS: Go see zombieland. It fucking rocks. |
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| Moogle Gai Pan! |
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| 05:37am 17/07/2009 |
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mood:  Marf!
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So.. Moogle came and went, and I didn't actually stop to write about his visit. So, here I am now doing it. It prolly would have got overlooked even more than usual with all the Anthrocon posts from others anyway. XD
I picked him up on my second last day before work, sadly. It didn't give me a whole lot of time to hang around with him, nor did it for Kyt as he too was still in the midst of work. This was planned for though, as I couldn't get July vacation this year if I killed my bosses mothers for it, and kyt only had a week of vacation to play with despite Tsumi coming up for 3 weeks.
So anyway, next day my other roommate comes home from Victoria and comes to my room saying something like "Oh, is that kyt's girlfriend out there with him on the couch?" Lawl. At this point I realize kyt's gayness has never been dealt with and here he comes in seeing some long haired twinky thing lazing across kyt's lap on the couch. I tell him it's a guy. He tells me I'm joking. This goes on for several exchanges until he goes back out and discreetly checks for himself. I have a good chuckle at him and as I go to say something he tells me to "Shut up, just shut up!" XD I tell Tsumi after hes left. Tsumi chuckles too, as it's not the first time, and probably not even the hundreth time thats happened.
Nothing of importance happens while I'm at work, so we'll switch to days off and the Edmonton Trip with me, Tsumi, Kyt and Minimike! It's so far the longest I've driven on the road, having never had a car to do my own roadtrips with before. Four and a half hours of straight driving broken up midway with a gas station stop. My shiny new car that up till this point had only accumulated dust was a bug graveyard and at one point it was getting hard to see out my windshield because of all the little smears the fuckers left. Highlight of the roadtrip is listening to Sweeney Todd songs and singing along with them. We arrive to the West Ed Mall and check in to the Fantasyland Hotel only to find their system is down (including reliable WIFI for the duration of our stay >:/ all 4 of us had brought laptops). This works in our favor though as they give us a keycard to someone else's room. We go back down to get another keycard and for the awkward mixup they throw in free waterpark passes for all of us ($25 each)! Score! :3
While we're there, another recent friend of mine, Keragon from Second Life, joined up with us for two days since he lives like 20 minutes outside Edmonton. He goes to see "Up" with us on the first day, as we arrived late on a Sunday and couldn't do much shopping. Up was awesome, and actually very emotional in parts. n.n We make up for the lack of shopping the next day, buying tons of stuff and then going to do the waterpark thing. We spend a good 3 hours in there, playing in the large indoor beach with the wave-making machine(Kyt's favorite) that actually makes some really huge waves when they let it, and of course waterslides(Kyt's definitely notfavorite X3). Finished up with a dip in the hottub and then kicked off to the Old Spaghetti Factory. If you're ever in the West Ed for whatever reason, go eat there. Awesome food, awesome service. As soon as we sat down they brought out freshly baked bread with garlic butter before the even took any orders. Needless to say that bread didn't last long with 5 ravenous guys.. but they brought out more! Every meal there comes with a delicious minestrone soup while you wait for it that even vegetable-hating moogles will eat! Four outta Five of us had the spicy spaghetti and I was impressed with it, and all this for a decent price lower than most sit-in resturaunts. :3 After all this we go back to the room and try out the Jaccuzzi that was sitting in the corner and order up Xmen:Origins on the flatscreen tv. May as well, we paid for this stuff! X3
Aside from Tsumi and Kyt breaking off to go do their own thing and me barking attem some hours later for forgetting to take their phone after trying to contact them for a few hours, the last day and trip out were fairly uneventful. Overall I spent like a thousand bucks onna roadtrip but got a lotta stuff from it. New watercolor pencils, two NIN hoodies, a Tool T-shirt, a pair of white Tripp pants, the entire series of the Anime "Noir", "Drawn together" season 3, and a buncha music CDs among other random stuff. Kyt got some new clothes(of course) and "Breaking Bad" season one among some other things which me him and moogle sat down and watched the entire thing of when we had the chance.
After that though, it was back to work for us, so moogle got to spend the afternoons alone till Kyt came home. I didn't get to see him much up until my first day off(yesterday) in which we bid him a fond farewell at the airport, with kyt whimpering at him.
Don't worry Kyt. That mooglefruit isn't ripe yet. We have to send it back to grow before we can pluck it from Australia. X3 |
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| Happy National Foxcat Day! |
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| 03:31am 19/06/2009 |
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Yes it's that most special time of the rolling year again: National Foxcat Day!
Make sure to shower all the foxcats you know with love and affection, especially blue colored ones!
Have you been doing your part to help improve National Foxcat Day awareness? |
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| Foxcat updating in 7 easy steps. |
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| 12:45am 14/06/2009 |
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mood: Marf~
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A lotta noteworthy things have happened in the past month or two, but since I'm horrible at updating I'll just list em here as brief notes each.
1. Made it through the shutdown, made some overtime moneys and banked a few extra days off.
2. Kinda pissed at work though. They fired a well-liked and experienced coworker that got a lot of people considering leaving. The guy made a mistake but it was one any of us could have made and they've kept people on when they've done a lot worse.
3. Retention got paid out in mid-may. I made a lot of extra money that cheque.
4. Paid off 5k on my remaining student loan which was roughly 1/4 of it.
5. Also bought a new car! A 2008 ford fusion, black, fully loaded with cd player, bluetooth, usb port for ipod connectivity and the like, heated leather seats. It's nice. :P Was roughly 20k but I put 6k down on that. Ouch, bank account suffered a major dip but it's nice to have wheels(not to mention sleek, new wheels rather than an old clunker) all my own.
6. On vacation now! From June 10th all the way up to the 27th! Nothing planned for it. Though see 7..
7. "That Australian Moogle" Tsumi will be coming up to visit me and kyt for three weeks starting the 26th. Plans are that my next set off after Me, Kyt, Tsumi and Minimike will all be going up to Edmonton to spend some time at the West Edmonton Mall for a few days. Likely staying at the Fantasyland Hotel right in the Mall.
So yeah, that's all the noteworthy things I believe. If I missed something I'm sure I'll add it in later. |
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| It's offical.. |
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| 09:05am 03/04/2009 |
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mood: tired, but happy
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Got my mark back from ABSA after two freaking weeks of waiting (the last class waited 3 days..)
12 out of 20 people passed was the first thing I heard, which is a pretty low pass rate. Generally the marks are between 65 and 75 from what I can tell, even with a good pass rate, 65% being the minimum pass mark. That made me sweat a good bit.
I got a 74, Which means I as long as I pay my dues every three years I am from this point on a licensed 4th class power engineer. What a relief it was to see that mark. As far as I know I'm in the high scoring bracket. I hadn't felt that bad about an exam in a while. It was almost like walking into the exam for a different course.
I probably don't seem that excited, it's just that I got off nightshift and am worn down. X3 Shutdown has started early which means everyone works a modified shift with lots of mandatory overtime. I have 8 more 12 hour shifts to go before I get 2 days off again, and another 9 days on after that before I get 2 off. I'm basically working the entire month of april straight and only go back to regular shift in May. It will be brutal but I'm expecting a few $3000+ cheques from it, depending on how it falls and if I choose to bank some of those days as time off instead.
Can't wait to see that 4th class ticket come in the mail. Bedtimes I think, now. @_@ |
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| Foxcats and friday the 13ths don't get along |
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| 03:02pm 13/03/2009 |
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Well, it happened again. Last Friday the 13th I got inexplicably sick. This Friday the 13th something else was thrown at me.
I was on my way to work when my car stalled in the middle of traffic. It's stalled before, this was just bad timing, I thought. I started it again, got a little further and it started to cut out again witht he oil light coming on. "Oh Fuck," I thought, cause running out of oil is NEVER a good sign, at least not if you like your car to not be a paperweight. I tried to call to tell them that I was going to be late for my training today but.. oh joy, the contact number is on a sheet of paper at home. I pulled an emergency stop as far as I felt I could get without the car. Unfortunately, that happens to be in the freaking fire lane in the back of a grocery store.. The car won't start anymore and I can't put it in neutral and push it myself. I'm fucked. Hazard lights on. So, I trudge through heavy snow to the nearest gas station, buy a quart of oil and trudge back.. I put it in, nothing. The engine is turning but wont click. I check the oil.. that quart actually put it a little past full. Awesome. I call my insurance company for a tow. After that, I remember when I slept in once I had called in to let em know I was gonna be late and checked my phone history for it. It was there so I told my current supervisor what happened. He offered to pick me up but lets just say through another wonderful bout of luck (aided by my cellphone dying) I ended up walking anyway. It wasn't too far from the gas station anyway.
So, anyway. At least I was where I was supposed to be. Though, also starting to notice like the same thing around this time last year, doing anything other than short periods of activity start giving me back pain. o.o Tow truck called mah work number after lunch to say they'd be down there shortly, 4 hours later. as I was getting ready to leave and walk back it hit me.. This is gonna make me sound really stupid, but I deserve it really: My father had been in town just two days before and had used the car. My fuel gauge is busted so I always have to rely on how much I drive and fill it up at regular intervals... so I can never tell how much gas is actually in the car. It took four hours for this idea to hit me. When I get back to the car I use a spare tank of gas I keep in the trunk but have to wait for the tow truck anyway, cause my cell is dead and so is my car battery now from needing to keep hazard lights on. He agrees to give me a boost and see if that was the problem. Sure enough, car starts. Thanks for burning a lotta gas and making me look like an idiot dad, wherever you went to with it! Technically, it was still stupid of me to not realize it sooner, could have saved me a LOT of hassle.
So yeah.. It didn't even strike me it was that accursed day until I got back home and logged into Sl, two group notices informing me it's Friday the 13th and that they're having special events cause it it. What a fucking coincidence. It I get anymore bad shit happening to me on the next Friday the 13th, it's going beyond coincidence and straight into the fucking twilight zone.
On a more positive note. My studies are nearing an end. I got an 85% on my classroom exam, and only have the government exam left to go before I'm a certified power engineer. |
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| Being Open-Minded |
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| 05:31pm 17/02/2009 |
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Morca had an interesting post in his LJ about being Open-minded, which spurned what I would figure to be some well thought out responses, including my own. Though mostly within the context of love, I decided to go one step further in my answer.. I thought it would be good fodder for my own Journal here.
The original post: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/629228/
My Response:
It's no big secret that our views of what is acceptable and what is not is traditionally shaped by our society. I, for one, DO consider myself to be open minded but there are limits to what I will and won't accept, otherwise, open-mindedness would merely be a slippery slope. Society's laws deem such things as pedophilia as illegal and just downright sick and I look at their reasoning and think it's justified. Children just aren't mature enough, physically and especially mentally, to enter into that kind of a relationship with someone. Also, for those who claim to be in love with someone underage.. is it really them that they are in love with or just their youth? When they grow old will they be dumped for another loli or lolita? I think that's a pretty heavy and relevant question. Incest isn't technically illegal(at least anywhere I know) but there are reasons to justify against that as well, depending on the exact relation. Cousins and siblings, though a little on the weird side, I am personally not bothered by. Any combination of parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc. to offspring though, regardless of age, totally changes it. And in the case of a heterosexual relationship there are genetic reasons not to go that way, ie: childbirth. Stagnating genes leads to retardation and deformities and all that.
Largely, I judge people based on how they act rather than just the interests they might profess to be a part of. For instance.. I have my kinks, and there are people within those kinks that really freak me out. Meanwhile there are people that are a part of things that don't interest me even slightly and I'm quite cool with them. There's always people who will take things one(or more!) step too far, or feel the need to parade their ideals around and demand acceptance rather than learn the better side of discretion. Kind of that whole 'what happens behind closed doors' argument. It is truly these people that I am intolerant of, and for what I believe is good reason.
I figure that's how it is with most intelligent people. They aren't just trained to be completely accepting of everything, nor to blindly follow what others have deemed unacceptable, but to make their own decisions based upon society's standards versus their own personal experiences and opinions, and that is what I believe to be a big part and parcel of what open-mindedness really is.
Tl;dr: Open-mindedness is not just acceptance.
There, I think I said my peace on the subject.
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| Ugh.. struck by Friday the 13th |
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| 01:43pm 13/02/2009 |
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mood: feeling a bit better now..
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It only hit me afterwards the irony that I would get sick on Friday the 13th without any known cause.
I woke up fine and went in for my last day of class for the week. Had a small quiz and a marked test today to do, did the quiz then went to do some self study.. less than an hour later I find myself getting excessively cold. I put on my jacket, but it doesn't help much.. I've got the test in an hour so I weather it out.. but I start shivering violently. Then the nausea kicks in. I go to a stairwell I know is well heated and hang out in there a bit. It helps, but not much. Still.. I wait. I gotta get that test done and I know a mark above 80 means I can fuck off after lunch. (A deal the boss offers to people who score high since our profs catch a plane back to BC for the weekend every friday) The test is at 10:00am, and lunch is far away... But I hold on and do it, somehow managing to score 92%(We get the mark back fast because it's done on a college website instantly) despite my lack of concentration. I head out and ask if I can take off early as I'm in a winter coat and hat and still shivering like it's 20 below. Even some class mates were like "You don't look so well.." My face musta been as pale as ash since it felt cold.
Boss gives the okay to "Get thee hence and I call a cab up, trying to avoid the urge to vomit at this point.
I pass Kyt as he's heading out to work, he looks at me with a 'wtf' expression since im shivering and breathing raggedly. I tell him I don't feel well and promptly go to my bed, curling up in a fetal position for what must have been an hour before I started to finally feel warm. Headache started to set in then, but I can deal with a slight throb as opposed to the cold and nausea.
Not very fun, but as a bonus I'm home and there is a stat holiday, "Family Day"(unique to Alberta) next Monday so it's a long weekend. Things are looking up so long as I don't have another random shiver attack. |
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| Bottom of the Barrel |
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| 01:03pm 24/01/2009 |
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Not too long ago.. probably in the range of 6 to 8 months. Me and my roommate Kyteriah (and I think Minimike was there atta time too) were having an oft chuckled look at some of the weirder profiles that shows up at Eka's, and wonder how humanity keeps continuing to propagate without heading towards the likes of which is oft acclaimed in the fabled documentary "Idiocracy". It was one particular day that I had discovered Jet girls on there. Yes, Girls made of jets.. and apparently boasting that TURBINE VORE was possible. TURBINE VORE PEOPLE!!11!
It was then and there I made a comment to the tune of "What's next.. Anthro Volcanoes?" and it escalated to me actually on the fence about making a spoof character of an anthro volcano character (I think it was settled on the pic would be one of the Easter Island heads with arms and legs heads in it's "anthro" form) which constantly ate ONRY HUMAN FEMALES (since it is ekas were talking about) and it would demand these sacrifices constantly. Except to avoid having to actually legitmately use the character it would only eat Hawaiian chicks. :P
Well, I forgot entirely about the anthro volcano thing. That is.. until now..
http://rp.aryion.com/fullinfo.php?&nick=MtAndrea
Edit: Just so there's no confusion. No I didn't make this profile. I'm amazed that a spoof idea I had became a reality in some random person's mind who actually wants to legitimately use it.
( For further lulz, see here... )
ALSO OMG TORRLE YOU'VE PLAYED AND BEEN TF'D BY IT!?! I'll get the holy water.. don't worry bud we'll save ya. |
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| 06:41pm 22/01/2009 |
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Okay, so I guess some people do still read this so It's worthwhile to update XD I'm sure tons of stuff has happened that I meant to put in here at some time but I'm not gonna bother recapping that last several months in detail.
Winter sucks. Working at an oil plant in -25 to -35 degree weather is not fun, particularly when shit starts freezing up and causing problems. And the steam tracing you have around it leaks so you get neat ice castles everywhere.. then you have a warm spell which causes things to thaw and shit busts even more. Huzzah!
Sadly we actually had a death on site due to falling ice. It was a guy I worked with too. If anyone gets any Alberta newspapers they likely read about it. Its the first time Syncrude has had a death at site in a long while.
Luckily, I'm out of the cold for now and back in class doing Part B for my fourth class ticket over the next two months, and just before that I signed off my post to get a tasty 9 dollar an hour raise :3 As much as I enjoyed having 6 days off in a row, getting off at 4pm every day and actually being able to do shit in the evenings as opposed to work 12 hour shift/hour bus ride there and back/sleep/rinserepeat has its charms as well.
Oh.. I has an XBAWX360 Now(since I believe the Wii has become entirely useless save for the games I already own), and over xmas got GoW, GoW2, and Left 4 Dead among a few other offline games. Gonna pick up a gold membership sometime and start trying em online. Lemme know if you have a Live account and gimme your name. I go by the usual PaganFC.
I'll try to update more regularly again with more interesting stuff than a list of what I been up to. >_> |
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| I'm not dead! On the contrary.. |
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| 04:14pm 21/09/2008 |
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I'm really bad for updating on here lately, even if I'm sure I have something noteworthy to put down. Things have really been looking good lately. Just this week I did my orientation for full time status which makes me a permanent employee of Syncrude, complete with all the tasty benefits, potential raises and vacation time, which I might take sometime in November, during a certain release date. >_>
Also during the entire summer we've had one of my uncles sleeping on my living room floor. I didn't plan this, and definitely didn't want it, but he and my father came up looking for work. Rather than ask me if it would be alright if they could stay they assumed it would be okay and showed up. Dad got a camp job and my uncle had no place to stay with his job so I got stuck with him. :P He's apparently only staying long enough to get the hours he needs to qualify to be in the union, then takin' off(so he can make more permanent plans).. but at 12 hours a day at about 5 days a week for the past several months I figured he would have it by now. Oh well, at least he is paying a quarter of the rent to stay on the floor but I'd still rather have my living room back. :P The entire lot of us here at my apartment are quite nocturnal when not working.
The plus side of that little story is that they drove up here in our old 91 Chevy Lumina.. Hey, it's old, but since dad is out at camp I get to use it.. and having a vehicle around is a lot better than having to cab everywhere! |
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| WTF Crime. O_o |
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| 07:31pm 26/06/2008 |
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I get up today to head to work with my friend/coworker/roomate Dwayne. We're halfway to the bus stop when we get turned around by some guys up on their patio saying to get indoors. The police have barricaded our section of town looking for a mass murderer. Naturally, disbelief is the first thing that hits my mind, and I consider going to the bus stop anyway. We become distinctly aware of a helicopter circling around about a kilometer away, make some calls, and sure enough some guy apparently shot up anywhere from 3-13 people not far from us. No known motive. Get indoors, lock the doors, call work. They already know. The guy is still at large. Thats all I know about it at the moment.
Same day, in the wee hours of the morning, there was apparently a shootout between two cars on the other side of town. Lots of collateral damage but no leads on the owners of the cars.
I've heard of some things happening before moving up here, and while living here, but nothing as bad as whats happened in one day here in Fort Mcmurray. Most of the deaths are attributed to poor driving on Highway 63, not crime sprees. What the fuck? o_o |
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| Happy National Foxcat Day!!! |
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| 11:11am 19/06/2008 |
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Yes, it's that time of the rolling year where that most sacred of holidays(for those in the know!) takes place. National Foxcat Day! The birthday of the foxcat =^_^=; If you see a foxcat today, especially any blue ones, you must give them love and affection, plus offer up any personal savings you might have!
(No, I'm not really that full of myself. But come on, National foxcat day sounds cute, doesn't it? ;3)
I haven't wrote here in a while, but I have been busy. New roommate to fill in our empty room: My friend dwayne from back home. He is still getting settled in. I actually work on the same shift as him so we see a fair bit of each other. Works been picking up, and it looks like I'll get the hang on the unit I am stationed on before I go back to school to finish up the power engineering course. I've got to personally speak with many of the higher ups at Syncrude, including the Vice president who was extremely long-winded at a meeting I recently attended. :P
I've also been using wii fit and trying to melt off a few pounds. According to Wii fit I average a wii fit age of 34. I keep trying to tell it I'm 27 but it says I need better balance. XD I had my doubts but it actually is kind of useful and having a valid exercise program at the push of a wiimote is kind of a good motivator.
I am absolutely addicted to Team Fortress 2. I like FPSes in general, and I like the theme of this one even more. I LOVE the fact that the characters are very varied in their profession, each have their own unique personality and it makes playing as each one of them a different experience yet still fairly balanced. The game is basically a hilarious slightly toony FPS with a very appealing style. It's also nice to be playing and run into other people I know. Some of them I havent seen in a while, others it's like "Oh, I didn't know you played!" For any I havent seen on there yet that play, my SteamID is PaganFC and I'm usually on the cc2iscool servers.
Anyway, time to head out. Again, Happy National Foxcat Day!
LOVE YOUR FOXCATS! |
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| Trent Reznor is the fucking win |
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| 09:52pm 05/05/2008 |
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When I chose my idols, I think I chose well..
Some may not like his music, claming it to be too violent or morbid or whatever. But to me it's freaking great. He's multitalented, can play multiple instruments and produces his own music and the music of others. Usually sells his music dirt cheap. Granted, I liked the older stuff much better but subsequent NIN releases always has a different flavor, one there I end up liking. Lately I've been noticing him doing other things as well.. taking a stand for things he believes in whether or not anyone stands beside him.
For one, He's doing services as an animal rights activist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14L9otvV0-U&feature=related
It's a bit old, but I only came across it recently and was impressed.
But even more recently, he's taking a stand against the music industry and the corporations behind it which is basically the complete opposite to, say, what happened between metallica and napster oh so many years back:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/05/05/nin-free-download.html
You have to respect someone who releases their music just for the sake of having it heard. Thats the kind of thing only a true musician at heart would do. I hate prince's music, but I respected him when he did similar by giving away cds with the morning paper.
Speaking of which. If you want to download the latest NIN CD for free it is available at their website www.nin.com
I haven't been through it all myself yet. But again, it's a bunch of new flavors, it's time to taste test. ^_^ |
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Soooooo.. The snow is finally all melted again. A few days of 15-20 degree weather showed it who s boss. The large river here even had it's ice break and start to flow. :3
As for my Power Engineering course.. I Passed Part A with flying colors, I didn't finish with the TOP marks in the exams like i did for most of the class, but I did get second and third highest marks on both Exams.. 85 on the BCIT(classroom) final, beaten by an 87, and a 76 on the ABSA(Government) Exam, beaten by 80.6 and 81.3. :P 5 out of 17 failed the ABSA and another 1 failed BCIT and wasn't even allowed to write ASBA. So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty good about myself! Did my usual home improvement thing and among other things got new covers for my bed so it doesn't look so plain and ghetto. :P
I've been out at Syncrude site for the past week or so. It's mainly just more classroom stuff as additional training before we actually perform the job, but all the same we've got to tour the stuff we'll be working with and some of it is pretty amazing. Boiler systems that are larger than an apartment complex.. Furnaces the size of houses. Miles of pipe maze, each with a specific purpose! And stairs.. holy shit stairs... my section of the plant tour group went up 9 flights of them on one of many of these plants and were kind of out of breath after reaching the top. Should be a good workout to do rounds on these things several times a day. I feel I'm a bit outta shape and could use this, in addition to some gym time I'm looking into. >_> I also found out that I pretty much got the schedule and area of the plant I requested, so thats good! I'll be having friends in the vicinity.
In other news. Mike finally went to see a specialist in Edmonton about his condition. He determined what I suggested it could be like 2 months ago - an ear infection. He also said that the only thing to do is to give it time. As such, Mike is gonna be moving back out of the apartment. So, it will be just me and Kyt here for the summer it seems, unless we manage to find a known, trusted roommate(as I will NOT accept strangers..). Preferably another furry as it makes it much easier to be completely open and silly. That being said, if any reliable furries are looking for a change of scenery, opportunity and residence: Apply within~! |
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| 10:34pm 20/04/2008 |
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mood:  pissed off
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Seriously.. What the fuck!?
It was 20 degrees last weekend. Bright, warm, sunny... Dry! The snow had nearly all melted save for hiding in nooks and crannies. People were out in shorts.
WTF #1: There was snow forecasted for this weekend...
WTF #2: It came.. Friday had wisps of snow collected on everything.. Nothing serious. It would melt with 5 minutes of sunlight.
WTF #3: Fast Forward to Sunday.. I was shoveling 4 inches of snow off my walkway! Everything is coated again like it's fucking winter all over again. O.o
WTF #4: IT KEPT FALLING!! The bit of shoveling I did got covered back up in the space of a few hours!
What is this!? Its nearly the end of April and there is snow back on the ground!? >_< This isn't right! It better melt again fast Or I'm gonna freak @_@;
Anyway, Finals week, I've been studying over the weekend. I probably could have studied a lot harder but I am confident I'll do fine regardless. I could have studied a lot less and I do have the highest marks currently. Have the first Tommorow(Monday) and then three days to study up for the big Government one. Hopefully this freak snowstorm isn't an omen. Having to study for finals brings back all that old stress and strain of my university days, bad memories of crunch time and trying to recall everything you did in the past few months.. =/ Despite going over most of everything and being confident.. I can't help feel this way. Ugh, now that its here I'll be glad when it's all over. |
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| 11:34am 13/04/2008 |
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mood: content
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I should really use this thing more, but I don't figure anything about my life is interesting enough unless summed up. >_>
Anyway! I'm rocking my power engineering course, as I have the top marks out of 17 of us, consistent mid to high 90%. Still, the finals worry me because I have went into exams with a high average before and bombed them to come out with a much lower average n.n; All the same.. I'm guessing I should be fine. There's less than 2 weeks until the finals now and I just can't let up and keep on top of the materials. They stupidly fit in one of the largest and most imporant subjects, boilers, into one week, or 3 and a half days (out prof always leaves to catch a place ride back to BC Thursday evening and Friday is a self study day).
That being said, the pay I was getting before just raised itself 10% as of april 1st, my paycheck last Thursday was even bigger. I get paid around 29-30 bux an hour to be there now when I work out my salary vs time spent in there. I've been kinda using my newfound pay to buy all kinds of shit like a proper spoiled Fort Mcmurrayite! Though, admittedly, a lot of these things are important so I guess I'm still using it responsibly. :3
Things I've bought recently:
250 dollah vaccum. It goes "WRRRRYYY!" and is full of win. The shitty small like 60 dollar one mike's mom gave us sucked(not really, it didn't suck and that was the problem). We did one go over our apartment and were surprised with what we took out.
Coffee & End Tables. Really fills out the living room.
Some cheap chairs so the table we have we can sit at properly
A copy of the Orange Box
A copy of Guild wars Platinum pack
Still a few other things I wanna find, like a decent shelf for my room and likely a new, decent video card because I want decent fucking framerates again, and my old one is starting to do weird things occasionally, like making the ground disappear in world of warcraft which for some reason makes my framerate go low in a game where it is normally fine.. Not to mention I never intended to this one this long anyway, as despite it being GEforce it is internal to the motherboard. >_>
Kyt is also doing pretty well for himself. He went out and bought himself a new bed to replace the air mattress blob on his floor that he was using and it makes his room look a lot nicer and cleaner in addition to being more comfy. He got himself a pay & talk cellphone(he didn't wanna plan) as well! |
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| *Peeks in* .. O, hai! |
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| 11:30pm 09/03/2008 |
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mood: happy music: SSBB Theme!
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So yeah, the new 'job' is goin great so far, getting paid to go to school is definitely a lot more win than paying to go to school, especially when you are guaranteed a job for doing well in the course. Which, at the moment, I am. Still, It's a lot to learn since it's a 4 month course compressed into 2 and the last group passed the course easily enough, but less than half passed the goverment qualification exam. That's a bit of an anomaly though, normally the 2 month compressed course sees only failure rates of 20-25% on the ABSA test. Plus, just because those people failed the ABSA doesn't mean they won't be able to continue, you can rewrite that exam each month, it just costs money, they still have part A of the course done. But enough about them...
We may be losing Minimike as a roommate soon, since he has some sort of unexplained illness that affects his balance. It sounds like an earache/ear problem but no doctor in town seems sure. He'll likely have to see a specialist in Edmonton. Either way, because of it he seems unable to hold a job. So, he may be moving back home to mom if he can't manage to get one where he can, y'know, sit down and not move a whole lot. The only thing is that he did sign a lease with us, has postdated cheques given to them along with me, and is part of help keeping the place afloat normally. Luckily, Kyteriah just got a promotion to supervisor of the photolab at the local superstore and is making $5.50 more an hour than what he was! That will help out tremendously if it comes to Mike having to leave. It means we can likely do more than break even with the bills and stuff. Living up here is expensive, even if you're making double digit wages hourly. I'm sure if it comes to that we'll work something out. >_>
Anyway! I've managed, with a little help from Kyt, to locate and purchase both a wii recently, and of course, Super Smash Bros Brawl today! Great fun ^_^ Had a lil get together with some friends and we played SSBB for like 8 hours straight. We played it enough to unlock several characters though just brawls alone, right up to Lucario whom I'd like to start using a fair bit. Managed to Unlock Snake, Luigi, Ness, Falco, Captain Falcon, and Marth along with Lucario, so my roster has grown a bit for one day's play.
Anyway, for those of you interested in having me as a wii friend/brawl competitor.. here are my numbers!
Wii Friend Code: 1796 7162 6620 0821
Brawl Code: 3480 2226 0777
Of course, if you do wanna add me respond here with your codes so I can do likewise, otherwise it's kinda useless. :3 |
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| Opportunity has knocked.. |
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| 01:01pm 12/02/2008 |
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mood: accomplished music: Incubus - Glass
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...And I answered. I've put in my two weeks notice for my old security job and am now moving on to something bigger and better! I got a job with one of the major oil companies in all Canada, Syncrude, as a trainee process operator.
What does that mean? Well..
For one.. I don't have any degrees for the job yet. They will be providing the training for it. Normally it's a 4 month course followed up by on the job experience and then another 4 months in the classroom. It's compressed into two two month classroom portions. I'll be getting paid 27 dollars an hour during the classroom portion, monday-friday with weekends off. Then after that I'll be doing work out at site for 6 months with added on benefits from shift premiums and overtime, etc.. Then go back for the 2 months. Provided all that goes well and I obtain my 4th class power engineering degree I get signed on for permanent employment at even more. ;3 From there I'm guessing there is opportunities to get the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st class power engineering degrees.
This is a big change for me and I think it really is something to pick up as a career, so I'm quite pumped about it. Not only that but it sure as well beats standing outside in winter as a security guard. It's a 9 dollar raise over that job and comes with much better benefits including a better health/dental package, pension, annual days off, etc.
Not only do I think it'll be better/easier work, but it makes me feel a lot more financially secure in Alberta's volatile living environment. So.. I think this calls for a little celebration!
Now if I can just deal with some other things.. Or get certain others to deal with them since they're mostly outta my control.. Everything will be peachy.~ |
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