What a weekend.

I sit her in my computer chair, in front of my decrepit G3 iBook, eating a seaweed treat. Knock it all you like you uncultured ass, but they are still tasty. I sit in my chair and I reflect on this past weekend and I am reminded that it was good times.
It really was an interesting game in Ottawa. Sens Vs. Buffalo in case you forgot. McGratten and Neil raised their fisticuffs, Ottawa blew their 4-1 lead, however they managed to escape with a 6-5 victory. My voice after the game, well, wasn't much there. This is a normal occurrence when I attend a sporting event. Especially when it's a high scoring game. Two days later, and it's still not 100%.
After this game I learned something. I learned that Buffalo fans are just as stupid as Leaf fans.
Answer me this: If a team loses a game, inside enemy territory, is it even remotely logical to yell out that the winning team "sucks?" I think not. Should you not lose gracefully, accept the loss, congratulate on a good game and then make a hasty retreat? Why, yes. Yes you should. Did this happen? No. No, it didn't. There is no limit to idiocy.

Mad props to Grindy for piloting the automobile there and back. I know it wasn't easy as I have done it myself at least twice. Next time I go, it will be for longer than 20 hours. Perhaps three days would be nice.

I was fortunate enough to get an extra day off this weekend, that being today. I got an extra day to recover. Even though I didn't drive, any extended car ride has a knack of wearing me out. To finish off my weekend, I will watch movies, eat popcorn, and chillax. A suitable ending to an exciting weekend.

And in case you thought I forgot...

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Neglect.

Hmmm. Seems you haven't done much with yourself in my absence. Heck, I think you may have even added a couple of pounds. Disgraceful.
What? You think this is my fault? I go out to work! I support you! you'd rather me quit so that we're poor and pathetic? To hell with that. I think you need to get your priorities straight and stop thinking about only yourself. Well, maybe I'd take you out places if you dressed up a little more.
You know, I think I've had enough of this. I'm going to bed.

I have this same argument with my blog all the time. We're just hitting a rough spot right now. I'm sure we'll get through it. We always do.

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What a beautiful day..

... to work from home. So I did. Never before have I had the luxury of staying home from work, but still get counted as being there. Unless you're just waking up from hibernation, southwestern Ontario's first qualifying snow storm of 2007 hit today (only in mid February) and as such, I was able to make it a "snow day." To show that I am responsible enough to work from home, I locked myself in the computer room upstairs before 6am and got straight to work. i stayed there (with the exception of bathroom, coffee, and lunch breaks) until the end of my "shift." For the record, most of my team didn't even show up today, included my two immediate bosses. My absence was therefor legitimized, so screw you.
I must say that working from home was simply awesome. I loved it. It's kind of like a forbidden fruit that you've finally managed to eat, and yet not get punished for it. Instead, I got the reward of saving gas money, and not losing a "sick-day." And now that I've had the fruit, you know that I want more. Please, I want to see another snowstorm and soon.

Wait. No I don't. Guess who shovelled the driveway after "work." This wasn't an easy shovelling job, unlike the faecal matter that spews fourth from my oral orifice. I'm paying for this mandatory suburban exploit as we speak. Muscles are tight, and the lower back is working it's way to killing me.

What an interesting scale. Work from home and shovel snow, or drive to work and not shovel snow. What a conundrum.

And it was THO! I swear! I asked her myself. No, really.

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My latest lesson.

Just another quickie. This is the latest lesson I'm working on.

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This is how you do it.

Ladies.. well maybe not ladies. Gentlemen. This is how you get guys to buy a mac. Notice the unpadded T.H.O. ways.

Bet you thought it wouldn't happen.

But it did.

I said I would finish one soon, and so here it is. My fourth video podcast. Enjoy.

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Excuses to Look at Hot Chicks - My CD Explained

I hope you got a few minutes, as this might be a bit of a long read. Daejin had it smart when he broke his CD explaination into numerous posts. I, on the other hand, am not nearly as smart as he is so I'll do it in one sitting. So I bring to you:

Excuses to Look at Hot Chicks unincluded liner notes
(by the way.. the links are to the music Videos.. more ways to kill time)

1. Vorspier - Johann Sabastian Bach
I got the name of this track wrong on the actual leaflet. My bad.
Kanon would be too.. commercial. Overdone. Overplayed. I like it, don't confuse my meaning here. I just knew something else with class should open up my masterpiece. I actually got this recording from the Evangelion score collection. I felt that this was also a good introduction to lead into

2. White and Nerdy - "Weird Al" Yankovic
I'm not an über nerd, but I do have certain elements of geek that still reside in my being. White and Nerdy just seemed like a bit of a satire of my high school and college years. Also, it's just so damn catchy. Did I mention that I'm now becoming known as "Sour Creme" at work?

3. Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - Lemon Demon
I admit it, I saw the video first. "Weird Al" was a childhood hero of mine, and so I thought an appropriate segue then a song about lots more of my heroes. Another song I just truly dug in the past year and cranked the car stereo whenever it came on the iPod.

4. Mr. T.'s Commandments - Mr. T.
So yes, an apparent ongoing theme here. I didn't actually find out about this track until my later high school years when I watched the Weekend marathon Much, hosted by Steve Anthony. The song resurfaced while I was in China, and it's been on my playlist ever since.
5. Spider-Man Theme - Michael Bublé
Best. Theme song. Ever. Better than The Romone's cover. A crooner singing about Spidey? Awesome.

6. Fading Into Obscurity - Sloan
Something that happens over time. Great track. Good social commentary.

7. The Lonely Shephard - Gheorghe Zamfir and James Last
This was the last of my hero theme. Something to slow it down, bringing the wonder back down to earth. A great track that landed on the playlist. The melancholy of the big come down. We all know this feeling. I revisited this feeling last year.

8. Circles - The Salads
Funny thing about popular music; songs always seem to appear that describe what you're feeling at that moment. This was one of those songs in 2006. A track that I found myself looping on many an evening. A circle that seems to have finally ended.

9. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Yes, another theme. I had big ideals when I came home. the longer time went on without these ideals being met, the more heartbroken I became.

10. Bitches Ain't Shit - Ben Folds (feat. Mr Reynolds and Lin-Z)
Intermission. Like Daejin and NIN, Ben Folds repeatedly finds himself on my mixes. What can I say? I'm a fan. Besides, this track matched my intro.. it was, uh, classy.

11. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
Slowly beginning to accept the status quo. Never accept the status quo. It's detrimental to one's health.
This track was actually one of iTunes weekly freebees. They had a long series of good releases this year. This happened to be one of them.

12. Mad World - Gary Jules
A brilliant cover to say the least. Taking a track, and making it his own, and having sound like it should That's Mad World. Simply awesome.

13. Borrowed Time - Scissor Sisters
Another CD mix re-offender. I often think about how close i was giving up on staying home. Living on borrowed-time, as it were.

14. Theme Original - XOC
Reset.

15. Best of You - Foo Fighters
I never actually heard the whole album, although I'm told it was was poop. This, however, is a great track. Somewhat of a motivational track for yours truly. A faithful reminder to keep trying, and not giving up.

16. Work it Out - Jurassic 5 w/Dave Matthews' Band
Keeping up with the motivation is hard work.

17. Pump it - Black Eyed Peas
The album was trash. Hated most of what I heard, but there's always a diamond in the rough. Of course they had to take samples from another song to do it. My only question, when are they gonna dump Fergie's as-er, Trunk?

18. Back in Black - Pee Wee Dread
It was cover. It really wasn't innovative. It was just.. cool.

19. Anna Molly - Incubus
Squeaked into this years mix. I love the track. I listen to it pretty my daily. I just couldn't, you know, make it work. So I threw it in at #19.

20. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Since it's inception in 2005, it's never left my iPod. I actually believed that the first Gorillaz album would be their last, but they surprised me with this new release. Oh yeah, it's a cool video too.

21. Peanut Vendor - Perez Prado
Roll credits. When's the sequal? Next year.

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