latestoneforty
Monday, July 28 @ 5:12 PM
movin' on up ]Heh! Not only do I get a window seat with my new cube, I also managed to snag a bigger monitor! :D
Yes, I take joy in the little things in life ...
Sunday, July 27 @ 3:07 PM
and then there were more ... sort of ]I discovered today (through a new member of the UWwebring), that LiveLournal has a healthy University of Waterloo community as well.
(The link has been fixed)
Thursday, July 24 @ 7:21 PM
musical desks ]I think I may have figured out a way to solve my laziness - get a chair that does not have wheels on it.
Of course, this afternoon I still tried to "roll" my chair-without-wheels down our little aisle. And I succeeded (if you know me, you will know how stubborn I am) - but at least I would be getting a better workout if I had to do that on a regular basis.
Now that I'm moving desks again - one desk closer to the printer, one desk further away from one of the people I have to talk to on a regular basis - I think the rolling may get even worse.
Thursday, July 17 @ 8:34 PM
FINALLY! ]Everything* is finally out of my old apartment and moved into my new apartment!
* with the exception of my old couch, which isn't coming into the new apartment but is being moved back to my mother's house.
@ 7:23 PM
can I get change with that? ]I had to laugh when I opened my final phone bill and saw the staggering amount of $3.56. Of course, it all makes sense when you realize that I pre-paid the monthly charges the previous bill and it was only my long-distance charges that remained.
And it's still not nearly as funny as my friend who opened her most recent phone bill to see the staggering total of $0.00 ... and a credit of over $2000. At that rate, she figured she would have free phone bills for the next six years. Unfortunately it was just a clerical error. But funny none-the-less.
@ 7:55 AM
we can only hope ]Reality TV swirls down drain - the ringing of the bell for reality TV.
Not soon enough for some people, "Reality TV" has been read its last rites and the white light at the end of the tunnel (appears) to be getting blinding.
Thank God.
Tuesday, July 15 @ 8:02 PM
two-nothing ]While talking with a friend this afternoon, I realized that Logan is two years old today.
She doesn't look a day over one.
Sunday, July 13 @ 11:54 AM
par-tay! ]
1 kiddie pool
31 bags of topsoil
2 dozen friends and strangers
Mud wrestling: who knew there were so many stones in top soil?
I think everyone who participated in the mud wrestling events of yesterday - think "keg party" - walked (or crawled) away with a few bonus openings. I only caught one major gash, but it stings more than a bee ... sting. My knees look a little worse for the wear, and just when they were starting to heal from the bruises of moving. Ah well, I may bruise easily, but they at least seem to fade fairly quickly. The cut on the bottom of my foot will take a bit longer, judging by the rate the cut on the bottom of my other foot is taking to close.
And yes, the mud wrestling was planned. 'Cuz mud doesn't wash out of your clothes very easily, let me tell you.
Friday, July 11 @ 11:48 AM
plants aren't this much trouble ]Somehow I have been cursed with bad fishtank luck.
First there were the many unexplained fish deaths.
This morning my filter spontaneously ran dry. The tank was full, the filter was cleaned two days ago and has been running smoothly since then, there were no leaks in the casing or the intake tube, there was just nothing that I can find that would make the filter run dry.
And yet it did. Dry as a bone.
Monday, July 7 @ 10:06 AM
co-ordination ]It's funny when you send an "important" email to two people and get out of office auto-replies from both of them where each person says to contact the other while he is out of the office.
Sunday, July 6 @ 11:23 PM
the 'natural' butt lift ]Well, almost all my stuff is now in the new apartment. It's all still in boxes in the new apartment, but at least it is here. The only things that didn't make it yet are my fish tanks, mostly because I got tired of the whole moving thing and stairs thing (third floor to ground and back up the third floor again, no elevator) and pretty much threw in the towel for the day. So it means for the next few days I have to make an extra trip there in the mornings to feed them and another at night for the second feeding until I finally have the time to properly move and set up the tank without killing the fish.
Damn, my butt better look good after climbing all those stairs.
Saturday, July 5 @ 10:22 AM
if only it was wireless ]Internet at home is a wonderful wonderful thing. Even if it means getting up at 7am on a saturday to wait for the cable guy to come. And then waiting two and a half hours for him to come.
I almost feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
Friday, July 4 @ 3:01 PM
huh? ]It's really bad when you can't read your own handwriting.
And even worse when you vaguely remember thinking at the time you wrote it that you couldn't even read it then, and yet you still didn't fix it.
@ 10:54 AM
one day more ]One more day 'til I get my internet access again.
Thursday, July 3 @ 11:23 AM
home sweet home ]Even though I am not officially living there yet, the new apartment is beginning to feel like home; when I walked in last night, I actually checked to make sure the cats didn't run out - which is silly of course since they are still at the old apartment with me.
Someone left me some flowers at my new apartment and it's bugging me to figure out who it is. I'm assuming it's probably not the people who moved out, although they did seem like very nice people, since they left more than a week ago and the flowers are still fresh (and I don't remember seeing them when I went to take measurements last week). I doubt the painter/plasterer would becase, well, why would he/she? Which really only leaves the superintendent, who just doesn't seem that like that type of person.