A waste of bits and bandwidth

Check out the Vancouver Crime Map! How convenient is this? The real question is, how useful is it?

Mom, Dad? I mailed your cards tonight. They will be late. Again. I hated to change up the routine.

Lastly, Paul has the tale of a five foot penis. Ah, the dog days of summer around the Infowave office!

Damn, I woke up this morning and found that the site was blank again. You know, I sat down several times last week with the intention of blogging something witty for you all. For whatever reason I got distracted and it never happened.

I have resolved to write some long overdue emails this weekend as well. Damn I’m such an email leech but that will change, unless I get distracted… “Hey look! A moth…” *Focus*

Nice to have a short week as it’s obvious that I have gone soft over the past four years. I’ve noted several aches and pains, a couple of cuts and watched the skin between my fingers loosen up and fall off. I don’t think I need to tell you, that’s an attractive image though it doesn’t hurt at all.

Surprisingly (or maybe not), I’m reasonably content these days and that scares me a bit. I don’t want to get too comfortable as this is really meant to be a short chapter. I don’t care for the commute even if it is pretty easy and the environment hasn’t changed at all. The boys are still thick as bricks but I’m not irritated by them anymore. “Have you ever watched the Trailer Park Boys or does that hit a little too close to home?” “Uh, once in a while…”

Out of the blue, I had a phone interview on Monday. “Sorry for calling you on a public holiday… No problem, thanks for waiting a month to do it.” We chatted and they sent me a test to do. I did their little test and have heard nothing back. I guess that seems about right and it doesn’t bother me as I didn’t put much effort out. Given that I had applied a month ago, maybe it’ll be a month before I hear from them again.

Whatever. The interesting thing is that the phone interview lead to something else in the air. Perhaps there will be something more interesting to blog about next week.

Happy, Pappy?

Herro

So I found myself in the North Van Walmart today… Do you have any idea of how many people work there? I’d bet money that the ratio of staff to customers is damn near 1:1. In case you were wondering there is no punchline or point to that; it was simply an observation.

My trip to Hooterville was really good for me; a nice break from my *life* for a few days. There was also brain-boiling heat, which I would normally view as a good thing. I’m talking almost 40c. This combined with my advancing age and waistline resulted in my not enjoying it like I used to. Janice tells me there are large breasted, young women out there but I missed them too.

So the comment spam assault is continuing unabated; the past two weeks have been unreal. “Hey, 200 people visited my site today! How odd given that I haven’t posted in a week and when I do post, it’s crap” *checks activity log* “Oh… there’s the answer…”

Maybe they target blogs that they figure have been abandoned. I haven’t abandoned my blog; I have been abandoned by blogworthy thoughts.

I have been resisting the urge to blog about my job woes. (Looks like that failed too) Yesterday I was rejected for another job that I wasn’t even all that interested in. Something about the description changing… *yawn*

IT is a part of my history now; there are too many variables. It’s too easy to not fit what a company is looking for and there are still more people than jobs. The first two years were bliss while the past two years have been like the worst hangover you could ever imagine. Actually, unless you went through it, you couldn’t imagine it.

No regrets but it’s time to start a new chapter.

Andrea finally sent the five questions along. Wow, it’s almost as fun as the dearly departed Friday Five!

1. leno or letterman? and why?

Easy, for me Letterman’s the man. He’s had a much wackier sense of humour than Leno, though I miss the physical jokes he used to do; the velcro suit, sitting in huge bowls of cereal, the prancing fountains…

Leno has surely won the ratings war but for me he’s too mainstream. Of course that’s probably because I’m such a wild and crazy, cutting edge sort of guy… *blink*

2. if you come into a million dollars today, what are the first three things you would do?

1) have a party for my friends and Biff where I would ask Rachel to be my wife
2) travel until I had been everywhere that I’ve ever wanted to go
3) give some of the money to my folks, buy an apartment, go back to school and invest the rest in Infowave stock

3. what was the last book you read?

I’m still working on The Lord of the Rings; the big bugger that has all three volumes in one book. I bought it to read on the plane to Korea thinking it would be a great way to pass the time. I dragged it all the way to Asia and all the way back, never cracking it once. So, I’m working on it now… It’s not going well.

4. if you have to lose one of the five senses, what would it be?

I guess smell would be the easiest to live without. If nothing else it would make it easier to be around some people.

5. what brand of soap (or body wash) do you use?

Zest.