Posts in category "Daily Life"

Moving To Clearview

The mov­ing is most­ly fin­ished, and all that’s left is a bunch of com­put­ers and mon­i­tors from Trolley’s and Wheaties’s old place, and a small freez­er, suit, and food dish from mine. There’s still lots of unpack­ing to do; the 24-foot mov­ing van we rent­ed was actu­al­ly too small, and some stuff had to be dropped off at the new place before the rest could be fit in. The small freez­er is a bit of a wor­ry, but hope­ful­ly we’ll be able to bor­row my boss’s 4Runner and have Nick’s help to move it in on the week­end.

We end­ed up hav­ing nine peo­ple help­ing the three of us, twelve peo­ple mov­ing in total, so things went fair­ly effi­cient­ly.

One Out Of Two Ain't Bad

Just fin­ished writ­ing my eco­nom­ics exam. I found out last night that the exam was at 9:00 am instead of 2:00 pm. Usually, I make a last minute check of the sched­ule before I go to sleep the day before, so it was a shock. The last few hours before an exam are inte­gral in my abil­i­ty to pass, so my plan to study with Aaron basi­cal­ly fell through.

I have no idea how well I did though. Going in, I was think­ing that it would be a sure fail, but I end­ed up con­fi­dent­ly answer­ing the major­i­ty of the ques­tions. I only read through the mate­r­i­al once, and did­n’t do any review. If I do some­how end up pass­ing this course, than either:

  • I can remem­ber 90% of what I under­stand or
  • eco­nom­ics is a real­ly easy pro­gram com­pared to comp sci, or
  • first year cours­es are extreme­ly sim­ple after pass­ing fourth year ones, or
  • there was some sort of divine inter­ven­tion

I’ve decid­ed that just pass­ing one of my cours­es will my sat­is­fy­ing. That way the term won’t be a com­plete waste.

The Only One I Keep

I found an old receipt in my wal­let while pack­ing up and clean­ing today. It was for a VCR I pur­chased two years ago for the par­ents of an ex-girl­friend. I got the extra two-year extend­ed war­ran­ty, and even though we’ve long been bro­ken up, I still kept the receipt just in case the par­ents ever decid­ed to con­tact me if the VCR ever broke. The war­ran­ty expired this February though, so I can final­ly toss the receipt. I hope the VCR is still okay.

But I Should Really Be Studying Instead Of Writing This

I’m almost cer­tain that I’ll be fail­ing the class­es I’ve tak­en this term. The exams are in a few days, and I only start­ed study­ing, no, learn­ing the mate­r­i­al yes­ter­day. It just seems so point­less to try pass­ing a class when the cred­its will expire any­way. Sure, they don’t expire for a few years, but I don’t plan on going back to school with­in the next decade, if ever. This would­n’t be a wor­ry if I was­n’t work­ing almost full-time and mov­ing in the same week, but that does­n’t real­ly seem to mat­ter. I have a his­to­ry of fail­ing stuff at the right time. The two core cours­es I failed dur­ing my comp sci degree did­n’t hold me back and I was able to make them up with­out a hitch. Now I’ll be fail­ing two cours­es I don’t need. As long as I try my hard­est to pass, giv­en the cir­cum­stances, I won’t feel guilty what­ev­er the out­come.

This Is Where My Tax Goes

A tongue-in-cheek bill was passed here recent­ly which says that any­one wear­ing a Leafs jer­sey at a Sens game will be asked to donate to the local food bank. The city was orig­i­nal­ly dis­cussing a com­plete ban on Leafs jer­seys at the games, but some­one must have real­ized how idi­ot­ic that would have been. Supposedly, the bill was passed to show that the city is 100% behind their local team, although it was more to curb the num­ber of Leaf fans, which dwarf the num­ber of Sens fans, at the Corel Centre.

I think the entire idea is in poor taste and com­plete­ly unsports­man­like. If some­thing like this must be done, then I whole­heart­ed­ly sup­port the fact that a char­i­ty is being ben­e­fit­ed. However, putting a con­strain on the sup­port­ers of the oppos­ing team is as imma­ture as boo­ing them. Imagine this being done at a lit­tle league game, where the par­ents wear­ing the jer­sey of their kids teams are asked to donate mon­ey to the league. I believe that one should nev­er, ever, do any­thing neg­a­tive towards an oppos­ing team, no mat­ter what the oppos­ing may be doing. The only hock­ey that I fol­low is the Leafs-Sens rival­ry, and even though I’m a Leafs fan, I don’t go around say­ing that the Sens suck (and shame on the Leafs fans who do), I just say “GO LEAFS”. Which brings me to my next point, where shirts are on dis­play at the front of stores here, sim­ply say­ing in a large font, “LEAFS SUCK”. Do the Senators con­done this? Do peo­ple think that the Sens would be hap­py that peo­ple are walk­ing around with these child­ish shirts? Have the Ottawa fans become so inse­cure about their team that they have to lash out like this?

Are my tax dol­lars going to peo­ple who sit around and come up with shit like this “char­i­ty bill”?