I'm begining to get used to asshole Stu. Today asshole stu went to subway and used his asshole like charm to get a whole 1 cent off his sub. I know it doesn't seem like much, but pathetic attempt at being nice Stu would never have had the balls to pull off something like that. So what's the moral of this story? Nothing actually, except I'm no longer going to give a pathetic attempt at being nice, I'm just going to be a total asshole and get one cent off my subs. Well anyways, work is done, I managed to watch How High during work today, not a bad movie. Who knows what the future holds in store for asshole Stu?

Does it make me an asshole if I push Steve out of the way to open a door for 2 random females? I'm struggling with this question today as I waste 2 hours of my life in business class. On one hand, I opened the door for 2 ladies, and they seemed to take a liking to my kindness. On the other hand, I pushed Steve out of the way to do it (well not really pushed, more like jumped in front of). Yeah, it's a really slow day today, but there's only an hour and 20 minutes left before I can go home. So I think I'll be wrestling with this problem for a while. Ahh well, I'll play some more Madden when I go home.

I've played Madden 2004 for 3 months now, and NHL 2004 for 2 weeks, and I can honestly say that Madden is MUCH MUCH MUCH better than NHL. Not just because I'm a bigger football fan than hockey, but because you can sense that there is much much more polish in Madden than NHL. It just feels like a more complete game than NHL. From the controls to the interface to the gameplay, I have much more fun playing Madden than I do NHL.

I can't believe I slept 12 hours last night. Man that felt really good. Not like I did anything that would have tired me out yesterday. Went to be around 12:15, and woke up around 12:30. Felt really good to get that much sleep, considering I have to be up for another 8am class tomorrow. Ahh well, WHERE THE FUCK IS DP? He told me he's up for Madden, I've been online for 10 minutes, and not even a message from him!

So I guess I'm blogging to kill the wait before the game. This sucks, I'm all ready to lay another beating down on him too.

Man, in life few things are more satisfying than revenge. I don't know why we always feel the need for it, but it's there and the only thing we as humans can do is act upton that need. But let me tell you, once you get your revenge, it's sooooo sweet. Nothing like getting somebody back for something (I know this sounds petty, but I felt the best I've felt in a long time this morning see my energy level before the soccer game which got cancelled by the way as proof) that they thought was a dead issue. Man I felt better about myself today than I have in a long time.

Whoa nelly, I think DP and myself may have had the greatest online Madden game ever! Here's the situation, Packers (played by me) -Broncos (DP). Packers come out to a quick 14-0 lead and things are going smooth. Bronco's punt, fumbled punt, Bronco's recover and score a TD. Next drive Brett Favre throws an INT, Bronco's score another TD. Game is tied. Bronco's score another 4th quater TD. By the time I finally get the ball back, it's with 48 seconds and no timeouts in the 4th quater. On 3rd and 10, Favre launches a Hail Mary to the 20 yard line...Driver catches on, my first instinct is to get out of bounds...but I break a 2 tackles and suddenly there's no need to go to the sidelines when the endzone is wide open. 77 yard TD catch to tie the game up! Overtime, Plummer throws up a ball, it's picked and I return it for a TD and an improbable come from behind victory over the Broncos, 27-21!

Only in Madden!

If I hear Another Perfect Day one more time during an NFL game I'm going to go insane. I must have heard that song while vintage NFL clips and some canned footage of highschool and schoolyard football were shown about 15 times today. Sure that clip of the Lions players from years passed (I forget the exact year, I'll check it up later, but I know it was Robert Porcher and Gus Ferotte in there so it had to be circa 199 or 98).

Let me get this straight: 100 km/h winds last Thursday, Snow a week ago, yet today it's only 13, yet feels much warmer than that and nice and sunny. Ok, I'm not supposed to know much about weather, but shouldn't the days be getting colder not warmer in November? Ahh well, I'm not going to complain about it.

Friday morning. My alarm went off at 7am, I was still in bed at 7:20, that's when I decided to get up...I made it one step away from my bed before I collapsed back into bed. Fuck it, I'll wait another 10 minutes. And the wait was well worth it (well not really), 7:30 I finally got out and faced the brave new world ahead of me. Yeah operations planning in business is really fun. Whatever, I still can't get over the fact that only 9 people showed up today...yet there's 10 laptops in the room. Seems somebody showed up but couldn't stand to be in here so they walked out. 8:45, breakfast break isn't for another 15-20 minutes. We'll see how this class goes.

I just realized I haven't posted a picture this month, so here's a self portrait from my Montreal trip. I've got no clue what I'm looking at either.

I finally got around to changing the burned out fuse in my Ford. So thats why the cigarette adapter never worked. Ahh well, maybe I'll know more for next time. Also I figured since it's a nice day today, I'd wash my car. As we all know, birds fly south for the winter. However what some of you may not know is, birds flying south in the big V can drop 9 simultaneous bombs on your car while you are going through a stop light. Yes that's right, NINE! And it's the green goose shit too, not the white seagull crap we are used to. Man, since when did my blog become a discussion of the different types of bird shit?

Tt's Wednesday. Let's recap how my day went:

8am...woke up, realized work doesn't start until 4pm, went back to sleep.
9am...woke up again, rolled over went back to sleep.
9:30am...woke up...again...rolled over...couldn't fall asleep
10am...got out of bed, watched back to back episodes of dawsons creek...if i can't sleep through that, i don't deserve to sleep.
12pm...didn't sleep, still in PJ's, heated up some pasta for lunch
12:30...check e-mail and boards...nothing important
1pm...decide to play NHL 2004 USA 3-Canada 1...urgh, I got beat by those filthy Americans
1:30pm...rematch....USA 2-Canada 0...urgh, even worse that I got shut out
2pm...decide it's time to clean up the basement
2:30pm...get the vacum cleaner ready to clean the basement
2:55...actually use vacum
3pm...cleaned basement for 5 minutes, time to shower and go to work
4pm...arrive at work
4:15pm..actually start working
6:15pm...Coop leaves to get dinner
6:20pm...steady rush begins, i sit down for no more than 2 minutes at a time
7:30pm...rush ends and food arrives
8:00pm...finish eating
9:50pm...write this blog

So that's my day in a nutshell. Yes it's an exciting life around here. Goodnight!

I put in my contact the wrong way this morning and it's still hurting like a bitch. I think I'm going to leave school at 9 today because it's bothering me that much. But that brings up a interesting debate. If the ride home is only 5 minutes, and I got a 10 minute break, is it really worth it for me to bother coming back to class. Because class will be over by 10:30 anyway, and you have to factor in motivation and willingness to return. I think I'm going to stay home. Well I have a soccer game at 1 today so I'll have to come back for that, but I think when 9am break rolls around I'm going home for a few hours.

*update*

My eye is feeling a bit better. I think I might stay after all.

*update*

Lets see what's happend since my last blog? Well, went to Montreal on Thursday night. Great trip highlighted by a visit to the Peel Pub. Friday was the drive back to Toronto through snow and a stop at the big apple (mmm, apple pie). Saturday was the Dianasaur's birthday which will forever be remembered as the day Ian opened the door to subway screamed inside and walked away. That's the condensed version of my last 3 days.

The expanded version includes such memories as Mike trying to annoy me with the constant crushing of a plasitc bottle, almost losing the car going 150 on the 401 somewhere between Cornwall and Montreal, almost losing the car going 80 on an off ramp while talking to my cousin on the phone (wow, 2 near death experiences in 1 day!), picking up Bubbles from Long Island on the side of the street at 3am in Montreal, a visit to Ruebens (man that sandwhich was one of the best I've ever had), ride home with no CD player (never again, I'm buying a deck very soon), that huge accident on the other side of the highway that had traffic backed up for 5km! never finding Kingston Penn (damm, I wanted a picture of that place too), almost passing the unmarked cop car going 160 (haha, I remember saying to Ian...damn this guy is driving fast)

There was the big TD run and catch where the whole defence stopped moving Saturday afternoon...man if felt good to sprint 60 yards, the sliding catch in the endzone (ok, I showboated a bit, but come on), calling Mike only to have him drive right by me, the lineup to the club (those bouncers really suck) seeing Robb at the club and watching Jackass on TV, the ho that stuck her ass right in Robbs face while Karen looked on (I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that), the bouncers being losers (why the fuck should I have to wait in line to go to another level of the club)...umm a bunch of other things too, but this blog has gone on long enough.

It's 9am Sunday, I'm on 4 hours sleep and the Lions game starts at 4:15.

Yeah so what if this blog is a little late. Sorry to all my loyal readers who expect a new one in the morning....I got lazy. Well anyways, it looks like I'm going to Montreal tomorrow to help Mike with the Montreal Mission (details are confidential so I can not say anymore than Montreal Mission...which does give away too much, but ahh fuck it). Anyways, we are heading down tomorrow afternoon, going to spend the night in a very expensive hotel and come back Friday. Sounds like fun! So yeah, no blog on Friday (well most likely not until the evening) and a short one tomorrow...although this may count as tomorrow's so...ahh fuck it). But I'm brining my camera with me, so there's going to be some pretty nice pictures Montreal and the party that never stops down there. Well I gotta get some sleep. I just took out my contacts and have to wait 20 minutes before I put in my eye drops, so I figured what better way to kill time than to blog?

Hmm, I think the new Stu just traded in his morning apple juice for something better. Me and Robb went to Tim Hortons for our morning bagel and beverage of our choice. Despite Robb claiming that he would be ordering a hot apple cider (I sure do love cider) he broke down and instinctively ordered a tea with the bag in. Needless to say, I taunted the shit out of him with my apple cider (did I mention how much I'm hooked on it....I love it so much that I don't even care if there's all that crap floating at the bottom of it, it just tastes that good). But that brings me back to a good point...how often do you get in the habit of ordering a certain item that when you want to try something new you can't because you are so used to what is old and normal. I haven't had a coffee in a couple of weeks...well thats not true, had one on Saturday morning, but I've almost cut coffee out of my diet.

W00h00, happy birthday to me! I gotta bust out the birthday cake again!

My alarm went off on time this morning, but I had absolutely zero motivation for getting out of bed. Well that's not true, I did get out of bed for a second, convinced myself I had a headache (so that's how women do it) and went back to sleep for another hour. Second attempt at getting out of bed my left ankle was sore for no reason (I don't remember hurting it yesterday) and my right knee was pretty sore (but that's to be expected because I did dive alot during the soccer game). So right there I should have taken a hint and not bothered coming to school, but as the genius I am, I still continue with my daily treck to school (well 3 days a week at least). On my way in, I grab one of my halloween tic tacs (Mmmm, orange tictacs) when I dropped my last one! DOH! Nothing worse than dropping your last tic tac. CST boards are down right now so that's already 3 strikes against me, and it's not even 10am. What next? Actually statistics point towards something good happening to me, so who knows, maybe I'm building up on the bad luck so I get something really good happen to me. In a warped kind of world, maybe I'm on to something. Who knows?

Woke up this morning (no I'm not going to type the lyrics from the Sopranos) at 6:50 (mental alarm clock went off). My alarm doesn't go off until 6:55 so I figured, WTF, I'll just go back to sleep and enjoy the last 5 minutes of my sleep. Well I close my eyes, open them up again, and BAM! 8:05! Nice, I how I turned 5 minutes and getting to class on time into an hour and 10 minutes and late for class. Trust your mental alarm next time kids. Anyways, I get to school and who do I see in the parking lot? BoostMonkey. Had I been 1 minute later to school, I could have run him over with my Focus (haha, just kiddin buddy, thanks for the Apple Cider!) So after a slight detour which involved a trip to Tim Hortons (hey you can't be later than late can you?) I get to class, only to find out that the network won't let me communicate with the outside world! AHHHHHHHH! That really sucked because for 45 minutes I couldn't blog. Well here I am, 10am blogging while Ed (I think I'm Jesus because I'm wearing sandles in November) rants on about Assignment 3. Well moral of the story here is listen to your mental alarm.

I know I said I'll keep my political ranting to a minimum now that the PC party has lost power, but come one, when you are just 2 weeks into office and you are already breaking another campaign promise, don't you get the sense that these guys have NO FUCKING CLUE OF WHAT THE HELL TO DO. Fuck man, how could anybody have voted Liberal because "we needed a change". Well here's your change, things are going downhill now thanks to those idiots who voted Liberal. But hey why bother fighting with them right? Because when Harris first took power, all he did was live up to his promises (because he knew he could keep them) and tell the critics where to go. It's going to be a long 4 years.

It feels good to sleep in on a Wednesday. I know I don't have much more of this left (I think only 2 months worth) so I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Anybody hiring for co-op that needs an employee? No, well I tried for today. It struck me last night that now with the reduced schedule of classes at school, it really is the begining of the end for the CST crew. We've gone from seeing each other 5 times a week down to 3. Soon we'll be lucky enough to see each other once a month if that (assuming people don't sell out). It's kinda depressing when you think about it, but ahh well so is life right. Can't believe I'm less than half a semester away from graduating (man can I even spell that word right...scary). Maybe fate will play us a different card and we'll all end up working together (that'd be funny to see who the first of us to get fired will be).

Well other than the no game for CST FC (it was rescheduled to later in the week) this has been a pretty dull day. I installed a new light fixture in my family room (well 2 actually). The first one sparked pretty good on the test light (it was pretty funny when I realized I had the ground wire crossed with the black one) I thought I blew a fuse (which would have been funny because Home Depot takes back anything for an exchange), but in the end, it was just a spark. We put some energy saving lightblubs in the family room so now instead of 4 60 watt lightbulbs, we have 4 14 watt blubs which means we are using a quater of the energy we used to. Ain't that cool? Bring on the higher hydro rates!

I think there is a curse on me preventing me from sleeping in Monday mornings. I don't have to be at work until 11, but yet, I still think I need to wake up at 8. Adding to the fact that I set my alarm for 9 not 10 and there is definetly some higher power preventing me from sleeping in. Funny thing about the 8am wakeup was I got a text message at 8:10 so I had to leave my bed to see how (un)important it was. But the good thing was unlike most working sapps, I got to stay in bed afterwards for 2 whole hours. Yup, Monday's aren't so bad after all. Sucks that I have to wait until the evening for my wings.

Was reading up headlines on espn.com when I came across the White Sox and possible hiring of Cito Gaston. When teams like the Detroit Tigers have the season they did and you got teams like Pittsburgh who haven't had a winning season since 1992 (hey that was the year Cito won the first of his 2 world series titles) oh yeah and then there is Oakland who have lost 8 or 9 straight chances to close out a series you wonder why this guy hasn't been hired. Other than Joe Torre how many managers can say they have won consecutive world series titles? Wow and one of them has been out of a job for 7 years. Amazing.

Played some football today, besides catching the game winning touchdown, I think I may have injured my left middle finger when I caught a ball awkwardly in warmups. Other than that I feel fine today, my legs aren't as sore as they normally are after a game, but that has more to do with the dry field than anything else. I know I talked about not buying anymore beer, but I really sucked at pool on Friday without my beer power. Towards the end of the night I started to regain my form, but it was scary for a bit to see the way I was playing.