Fuck Netbooks

I'm done working at SaskTel in 3 days. My pending unemployment is both exciting (i get to sleep in!) and terrifying (i'm broke!).

Hopefully I get a job sooner rather than later.

Hopefully I also win some sort of lottery. I need (or only really want?) a laptop, and thats not going to buy itself.

And fuck netbooks. They're mini-laptops. Why change the name?

somedays

somedays i feel i have something interesting to write on this blog

but i dont, because i know it bugs joel that i only occasionalyl update this, while he is a slave to his own blog.

take that joel

The Last Straw

So, yesterday, I attempted to withdraw $220 from the ATM in 'The Last Straw'. Half way through the transaction, the ATM just stopped working, and went back to the 'insert card' screen. So, I thought "oh, maybe $220 was too much for it, ill only take out 20 to pay for my lunch." So I take out $20, no problems. I look at the balance receipt... and the $220 is gone. "WTF" i say, so I talk to the management. They say the money will probably turn up when they empty it out at the end of the night, and that I should come back tomorrow.

So I went back today. The bastards didnt find the money. So after yelling a bit, and swearing at the manager (I lost the nice guy approach when they basically accused me of lying), I had no choice but to try and reclaim the money through my bank. And the bank says its gonna be two weeks.

Needless to say, Phil better pay me the money he owes me for bills soon. I was paid two day ago and now im broke. Its gonna be a long two weeks. /rant /bitchfest

27 days later ...

... I finally got around to posting on this thing again. I wasn't joking when I said it would only be occasionally updated.

So what did I do since my insightful "Pistachios and Jolly Rangers" day? School. Loads of school. I wrote four papers totaling over 40 pages. Then I wrote a bunch of final exams. Tomorrow, I finish school for the semester. I should be more excited, but I'm not.

That's because, the end of the semester means I need to take my bi-annual week-long visit to Nipawin. I predict I will attain maximum boredom within 36 hours of my arrival. I usually combat this boredom by keeping myself in a state of semi-drunkenness the entire time I'm there. This is much easier to do during my Christmas visit, since everyone is in a festive spirit. No one is festive at the end of April. Everyone is just mad that it's still not beach-weather, even though April is known for its rain and chilliness.

I guess I'll try to make taco-salad for supper tonite. Hopefully my flimsy bank account allows such things.

Pistachios and Jolly Ranchers

Tonite, for supper, I ate a couple Jolly Ranchers (the red ones of course), a Coke, and a whole mess of Pistachios.

Yum.

The Miley Cyrus Song

Here's a video from a band one of my buddies down in Vancouver just formed - Post No Bills.

Shorts

I live in Saskatchewan. Do you know what that means? It means that winter extends right into March, and sometimes sticks around until April. I don't really have an issue with this. Sure, the cold sucks, but whatever. It's not like I expect an early Spring.

However, there does exist this mindset among some morons that, just because there's a picture of flowers on the March page of the calender, that it's nice outside. We had one day that was above 5ºC, then it went back to sub-zero temperatures.

These people, whom evolution will eventually get around to dealing with, insist that, because of that one semi-nice day when the snow melted a bit, that it's time to bust out the shorts, and burn all the full-length pants.

The day after the aforementioned nice day, I'm sitting in my English class, and the guy beside is sporting full on Hawaiian flower shorts and flip flops. I could not believe it. First off, there's still a foot of snow covering the ground. Second, the temperature had dipped back below freezing.

This jackass, however, wasn't content just wearing his obnoxious flower shorts and flip flops. Oh no, he has to start talking like "cold enough for you? oh the cold doesn't bother me." Really? Are you determined to get frostbite? Or do you think that your attire makes you immune to the elements? Like fuck. I want summer just as bad as you do, but have some common sense.

The sad part is, that day, and in the weeks since, I have seen dozens of people supporting the shorts and sandals look. Never mind that we've had less than a week of above freezing temperatures. Doesn't seem to faze them. No wonder there was an outbreak of tuberculosis at the University of Regina. People are determined to make themselves sick.

I'm usually pretty laid back. But sometimes the idiocy of people just gets to me. These people are making a conscious effort to be jackasses. All I can do is just shake my head.