I'm not sure why it's taken me this long to post again especially considering I'm doing a whole lot of nothing these days. My theory is that nothing leads to more nothing almost as if it was contagious and you need to do something to get other things done.
Camping last weekend was a lot of fun. We arrived at Murphy's point with one of two maps that we'd printed for ourselves at about sixish. After registering and setting camp at our site we set out to Perth to get some dinner. We firstly went to some little ritzy place with a nice atrium. There we had nachos and bruschetta and a few beers. At some point in the night, I came to the conclusion that there is stash of very attractive women in perth.
Later, we cruzed out of there to BK to get some whoppers. In half jest, we came up with a plan to start conversations with female parties by posing as travel journalists from Kingston. The next morning, I acquired a little notepad to write notes in and my acting role as a reporter began. We would never end up returning to Perth, but I did make some random notes in preperation for if we did so it would look like I had actually done some research. They go as follows:
- Pirate Bay
- followed blonde down street
- 2" gap
- do from behind
- You're the reporter
- RA says no, Zout is not the reporter
- How now brown cow
- Are you sure this is a parking spot?
- it is now!
- There is no appeal
- McM says 'F'n Traffic Jam!'
- Parked at 2 Wilson
- by Gore (left)
- Dash said maybe past Gore
- Dash spots cougar
- RA wants to abort search for Imperial
- Wilson and North (pass Gore)
- decided its a running gag
- Dash was taking a photo of the mailboxes all aligned
- RA was behind him and couldn't get the shot
- I waited in the car waiting for them to take pictures; not realy interested in the mailboxes
- whole minutes pass completing this task
- I still feel relieved from dumping earlier
- it was worth all the trouble
- Powerbook as portable storage device
- McM parked in someone's driveway
- Dash brought Mika
- He likes it because it's beautiful
- As a kid he was enthralled by it
- The park wants to give snakes a 'brake'
- Useful camp items: Big Tent, Dining Tent, Halogen Lamp, Tiki Torches, Grill and Propane, Frying Pan and Spatula, Fresh Fruit
- McM has precision chopping; my accuracy is quite poor
- Holy Cow!
- RA dosn't like cherries
- RA claims MMMbop is a measure of time
- He also said MK was singing it wrong
- RA claims his upper bossem hurts
- Clear skies on day 3
- My face and hair hurt from lack of cleaning
Random notes. All of them but, it's interesting to note some of the things that were noted but are now forgotten. I would recommend it once to write all thoughts down in a 10 minute span and look at it later. It's kinda neat.
As for camping proper, it was awesome. We chopped wood (illegally), threw the hatchet, made smores, cooked lots of bacon, drank beers and threw the frisbee. Overall very rewarding.
I've spent this week mainly packing and lazing. Doing a lot of excercising and jitsu. On sunday I'm moving all my jazz down to my cornwall apartment. Then I dissapear on friday.
Tune in next thursday for the finale of the 4-3-9 where zout parts for Cornwall. There is already a special guest cameo planned by the Hamma! and who knows who else might show up. It could be riotous. I predict drinking, dancing and merryment!
Also, my new cell phone is awesome. I love it and everyone should call me on it. Call now!
Friday, August 26, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Series Finale
It's almost ridiculous how this feels like the Series Finale of the 439. Soon I'll be leaving, much the same way someone always leaves at the end of a series to give it reason to end. There are a few episodes left before the end (and the McM spinoff begins) which include:
- The Camp Trip
- Zout teaches BPIC's club one week
But then comes the series finale, 'Zout parts to Cornwall'.
The past few episodes have not been that entertaining since the long weekend. I spent a week or so pulling items out of my organized mass of stuff and put it on e-bay. Overall the process was pretty straight forward and anyone can do it. That being said here are a few pointers I'll leave for others that I wish I'd had in the beginning:
- Pictures sell. Put up as many pictures that you would want to see of an item you were thinking about buying.
- Keep the text simple. Don't write a novel about your product. If people have questions, they'll message you.
- Paypal works. Use it.
- Shipping works like this. If standard postage in Canada is X, the Xpresspost in canada is 1.5X and shipping to the states is 2.5X. And don't forget overhead like costs of boxes and packing materials. It all adds up.
- Start bids low even if its an expensive item. People like to see cheap items they think they can afford. Expensive items will inevitably go up.
That's about all off the top of my head for tips. When I wasn't ebaying, I would be doing work around the house like painting trim and cleaning up. The week after, I painted the main floor in my sisters house. More work, less fun.
Upon finishing that I decided to head back to K-town to get the gears moving for the Cornwall movement. I arrived friday and cleaned up my computer and tidied up the house a little bit. I didn't want to do much since the course was the next day.
The course itself was awesome. For once in my jitsu run, I felt like I was working at 110% and I was super pumped for everything we were doing. That, in addition to getting semi intoxicated and sleeping on hard wood, sent me into hurt bag mode the next day. I realy didn't say or do much except for eat and sleep while my body attempted to repair all the damage.
Monday I awoke to McM telling me there was a ride waiting for me to Cornwall that morning if I wanted it with his Mom. The catch was that I had to be ready in the next hour (this included a pre apartment hunt). After throwing things together that I needed, we were on our way. Mrs. K gave me a small tour around and after going to work, gave me her vehicle to go apartment hunting which was very kind of her. I eventually found a place which is located at:
1430 1st Street East, Apt 308
Cornwall, ON
K6H 6H1
Upon returning to the hospital to return Mrs. K's vehicle, I was told that she had arranged a ride back for me to Kingston and that I wouldn't have to take the train. Mrs. K = awesome.
The ride was from one on McM's sister's friend's who I'll name chatterbox. She was very polite and courteous with me in the car up until we got into town and she saw McM at which point she morphed into this chatterbox. Overall, still two thumbs up to her for giving me a ride back without going on a friend's mom's word.
That brings us to now. I just got myself a new cellphone and plan for the move and think I'm going to be living off my cell phone and internet. I pretty much do that now anyways.
The past few months, I've felt like I've been growing up. I got rid of all my old toys, arranged my tuition loans and will have my own place. It's almost like I'm reponsible. That's a scary thought.
Current Song: Backstreet Boys - Never Gone
Current Mood: Excited about my new cell phone!
- The Camp Trip
- Zout teaches BPIC's club one week
But then comes the series finale, 'Zout parts to Cornwall'.
The past few episodes have not been that entertaining since the long weekend. I spent a week or so pulling items out of my organized mass of stuff and put it on e-bay. Overall the process was pretty straight forward and anyone can do it. That being said here are a few pointers I'll leave for others that I wish I'd had in the beginning:
- Pictures sell. Put up as many pictures that you would want to see of an item you were thinking about buying.
- Keep the text simple. Don't write a novel about your product. If people have questions, they'll message you.
- Paypal works. Use it.
- Shipping works like this. If standard postage in Canada is X, the Xpresspost in canada is 1.5X and shipping to the states is 2.5X. And don't forget overhead like costs of boxes and packing materials. It all adds up.
- Start bids low even if its an expensive item. People like to see cheap items they think they can afford. Expensive items will inevitably go up.
That's about all off the top of my head for tips. When I wasn't ebaying, I would be doing work around the house like painting trim and cleaning up. The week after, I painted the main floor in my sisters house. More work, less fun.
Upon finishing that I decided to head back to K-town to get the gears moving for the Cornwall movement. I arrived friday and cleaned up my computer and tidied up the house a little bit. I didn't want to do much since the course was the next day.
The course itself was awesome. For once in my jitsu run, I felt like I was working at 110% and I was super pumped for everything we were doing. That, in addition to getting semi intoxicated and sleeping on hard wood, sent me into hurt bag mode the next day. I realy didn't say or do much except for eat and sleep while my body attempted to repair all the damage.
Monday I awoke to McM telling me there was a ride waiting for me to Cornwall that morning if I wanted it with his Mom. The catch was that I had to be ready in the next hour (this included a pre apartment hunt). After throwing things together that I needed, we were on our way. Mrs. K gave me a small tour around and after going to work, gave me her vehicle to go apartment hunting which was very kind of her. I eventually found a place which is located at:
1430 1st Street East, Apt 308
Cornwall, ON
K6H 6H1
Upon returning to the hospital to return Mrs. K's vehicle, I was told that she had arranged a ride back for me to Kingston and that I wouldn't have to take the train. Mrs. K = awesome.
The ride was from one on McM's sister's friend's who I'll name chatterbox. She was very polite and courteous with me in the car up until we got into town and she saw McM at which point she morphed into this chatterbox. Overall, still two thumbs up to her for giving me a ride back without going on a friend's mom's word.
That brings us to now. I just got myself a new cellphone and plan for the move and think I'm going to be living off my cell phone and internet. I pretty much do that now anyways.
The past few months, I've felt like I've been growing up. I got rid of all my old toys, arranged my tuition loans and will have my own place. It's almost like I'm reponsible. That's a scary thought.
Current Song: Backstreet Boys - Never Gone
Current Mood: Excited about my new cell phone!
Thursday, August 04, 2005
The laminate has ended
The conclusion of laminate installation has ended. Overall, it wasn't that bad except for the fact that working with my father drove my nuts. I'm slow and recognize things and thus I like to take my time and do things right. This means looking at problems at thinking them through. My father is the opposite where he comes up with some crazy solution (in most cases) and decides that its the best. Thus there were quite a few times we conflicted and it ended up with some sketch work in some places. (Especially the day when he decided to do things without me and finished things off in a less than professional manner.) The trade off in this is that its their house for the most part from here on in.
I've packed up the majority of things that I have and have them boxed up in the storage downstairs. It took almost four days straight of organizing and packing but I got it done. I've moved on now to getting rid of all the 'junk' that I've amassed so that if I do end up in Vancouver in september of 2006 I won't have much keeping me here. It's working for now but slowly.
I took a trip down to K-town this weekend with the dual intention of bringing back all the things I had in kingston that I wouldn't realy need in Cornwall and getting a little partying done over the long weekend. Friday night I arrived after they'd completed poker and were winding down. People decided to head home and since I was still in driving mode, I gave people rides home. After that, J-Bun and I randomly took a drive to Ganonoque and drove back. It was more my doing than anything since I enjoy a nice long quiet drive. That ended friday night.
Saturday morning, J-Bun and I headed out to Cora's for breakfast on the pretense that fresh fruit would make their breakfast the best ever. To me it was just regular breakfast with fruit and EXPENSIVE orange juice. From there, we got some tasks completed mainly revolving around the bbq later and then headed home. BBQ started about 7ish with lots of meat going on the grill which made for one sucessful bbq. Naturally, after the bbq was beirut which proved to get me fairly drunk and fill McM's camera with lots of photos of me. Some randoms showed up and I think I ended up getting puppy dawg eyes from one of them. I also ended up getting quite a few glances from a friend's girlfriend which made me slightly uncomfortable, but I guess it goes with the hotness territory. The night ended with J-Bun and I heading out to Toucan to grab a beer with BPIC and BPICgal.
J-Bun left the following morning to head home and I slept in til about 11. Woke up and cleaned the house for a little bit, had some food and proceeded to start packing up all of the jazz which I had come to Kingston to pack. [Insert boring couple of hours here]. Upon completion of this, we preped the ridgeliner for drive in movie night. The actual night started out pretty good with some carnival rides and some normal hijinks. Then the movies started and things went downhill. Stealth was a terrible movie and the only thing that saved it was Jessica Biel's hotness. I didn't even bother with the next movie and just went to sleep in the trunk of Dash's truck. As soon as I got home from the drive-in I passed out hard.
I woke up the monday morning at about 9 with the intention of leaving at 10. Naturally with a few last minute things, it ended up being 10:30. I stopped by Thumper's on the way home to drop something off and to say hi. After that I finished the drive home.
Tuesday to now has mainly been spent doing house work and putting things up on e-bay. This weekend I'm helping my sister move the rest of her stuff out of the family home to her new place. Next week I'm painting a few rooms in her house. Saturday, there's a peterborough course and then sunday I'm back in kingston for two weeks. Mostly business though as I need to find a place in Cornwall and then pack up the stuff and get it to Cornwall.
Closing thoughts:
- I'm gonna teach my kids to be minimalists as the less you have, the less you're tied down to one place
- E-bay's a good place to unload you're stuff. Too bad I didn't start way before as I have a lot of nicks and nacks to unload
- I want to get rid of my textbooks now but since I'm in cornwall, its gonna be tough to sell them to Queen's folk in Kingston
- Anyone got any good jobs info in cornwall. I need to get a job otherwise I'm gonna be broke ass.
Current Mood: Wanting to fast forward time one year (is there a word for this)
Current Song: Robbie Williams - Strong
I've packed up the majority of things that I have and have them boxed up in the storage downstairs. It took almost four days straight of organizing and packing but I got it done. I've moved on now to getting rid of all the 'junk' that I've amassed so that if I do end up in Vancouver in september of 2006 I won't have much keeping me here. It's working for now but slowly.
I took a trip down to K-town this weekend with the dual intention of bringing back all the things I had in kingston that I wouldn't realy need in Cornwall and getting a little partying done over the long weekend. Friday night I arrived after they'd completed poker and were winding down. People decided to head home and since I was still in driving mode, I gave people rides home. After that, J-Bun and I randomly took a drive to Ganonoque and drove back. It was more my doing than anything since I enjoy a nice long quiet drive. That ended friday night.
Saturday morning, J-Bun and I headed out to Cora's for breakfast on the pretense that fresh fruit would make their breakfast the best ever. To me it was just regular breakfast with fruit and EXPENSIVE orange juice. From there, we got some tasks completed mainly revolving around the bbq later and then headed home. BBQ started about 7ish with lots of meat going on the grill which made for one sucessful bbq. Naturally, after the bbq was beirut which proved to get me fairly drunk and fill McM's camera with lots of photos of me. Some randoms showed up and I think I ended up getting puppy dawg eyes from one of them. I also ended up getting quite a few glances from a friend's girlfriend which made me slightly uncomfortable, but I guess it goes with the hotness territory. The night ended with J-Bun and I heading out to Toucan to grab a beer with BPIC and BPICgal.
J-Bun left the following morning to head home and I slept in til about 11. Woke up and cleaned the house for a little bit, had some food and proceeded to start packing up all of the jazz which I had come to Kingston to pack. [Insert boring couple of hours here]. Upon completion of this, we preped the ridgeliner for drive in movie night. The actual night started out pretty good with some carnival rides and some normal hijinks. Then the movies started and things went downhill. Stealth was a terrible movie and the only thing that saved it was Jessica Biel's hotness. I didn't even bother with the next movie and just went to sleep in the trunk of Dash's truck. As soon as I got home from the drive-in I passed out hard.
I woke up the monday morning at about 9 with the intention of leaving at 10. Naturally with a few last minute things, it ended up being 10:30. I stopped by Thumper's on the way home to drop something off and to say hi. After that I finished the drive home.
Tuesday to now has mainly been spent doing house work and putting things up on e-bay. This weekend I'm helping my sister move the rest of her stuff out of the family home to her new place. Next week I'm painting a few rooms in her house. Saturday, there's a peterborough course and then sunday I'm back in kingston for two weeks. Mostly business though as I need to find a place in Cornwall and then pack up the stuff and get it to Cornwall.
Closing thoughts:
- I'm gonna teach my kids to be minimalists as the less you have, the less you're tied down to one place
- E-bay's a good place to unload you're stuff. Too bad I didn't start way before as I have a lot of nicks and nacks to unload
- I want to get rid of my textbooks now but since I'm in cornwall, its gonna be tough to sell them to Queen's folk in Kingston
- Anyone got any good jobs info in cornwall. I need to get a job otherwise I'm gonna be broke ass.
Current Mood: Wanting to fast forward time one year (is there a word for this)
Current Song: Robbie Williams - Strong
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