I’m trying to find the Sonic Rush soundtrack online (because it’s fantastic), but so far, the only thing I’ve found is a weird YTMND video featuring one of the songs and Jay Sherman, the Critic. The Internet = weird.
This past week has been fun and exciting: we finally got a decent snowstorm that left something fluffy on the ground for more than a few hours. The universities were closed on Wednesday as a result of it, which just left more time for shovelling. However, it started raining on Friday and it hasn’t stopped yet, so needless to say, there’s not much snow left.
Simon arrived back in town on Thursday for a quick two week vacation. We went out to dinner at Jungle Jim’s (horrible service, wicked food) on Friday with Janet and Mom and Joey and caught up on old times, basically deciding that everyone is exactly the same as they were in 2003. Life goes on, and yet we don’t seem to change at all. Weird.
In other news, Mom has gone to Sugarloaf for a week of skiing with Mary Ann and various people from work. I’m quite envious, and currently housebound, since she’s got the car. Fortunately, my grandmother is letting me borrow her car to get to and from work, but the rest of the time, I’m stuck here. I hate the bus, but I guess I’ll have to learn to love it for the next six days
Anyway, I’ve got some more studying to do, so I should get going. Things to do, code to write, etc. Ciao.
Comments
Steve
I wasn’t thinking that at all. I was thinking haha I have a car.
Mark
I wish I had a car. I could really go for some coffee right about now.
Pugs
I kinda want a milkshake
Keddy@hom
I have a car and I was just out in it… Its not safe tho… hehe.
Keddy@home
I forgot the "e"
Pugs
good job keddy.
Keddy@home
New Blog posting… Read it … Its awesome.
Simon
i ran into Janets sister regina this afternoon on the bus… this place weirds me out sometimes… always running into people u know - i love it
yeah thanks for coming out to dinner mark and co. it was nice… i’ll pop over sometime in the next few days and copy kath and kim for u. Im dying for u to watch it. Baiiii
Keddy@home
Lemme know when you guys are goin out again… I will come by and say hi.
Steve
Also the last two posts have had 30 and 40 comments respectivly. So this one should have 50 to make it a trend.
Keddy@home
I totaly agree!
Mark
Yeah, that would be pretty nifty. I think this would be a lot easier if I had something interesting to say.
Steve
Honestly you don’t have to have anything to say to post.
Pugs
I hate sonic.
Keddy@home
Why do you hate sonic? And I am listeing to Happy Happy, Joy joy… oh my. Its a classic. I miss Ren&Stimpy…
Pugs
The game annoyed me.
Katie
Pugs I cant believe you went out for milkshackes without me. I am taken aback by this injustice.
Katie
I also don’t like sonic
Simon
i loooooove sonic
that nintendo thingo is the bees knees i say
Steve
I say holy crap your dialect is fucked.
Steve
And Mark my searchbar in Firefox has lost all its sites! help me figure out how to restore them nothing I’ve tried seems to work!
Pugs
Forgiveness please.
Mark
Weird — try going to https://addons.mozilla.org/... and downloading some. Maybe they just got deleted.
Castro@School
Freaking bums in this city, it’s really sad.
I went to get coffee, and this guy was standing next to Tims yelling at people. That was the funny part. The sad part, was when he went to the curb and grabbed a cigarette butt and smoked it. So I mangled my cigarette when I was finished it, and he picked that one up too and smoked it.
It made me sad.
Simon
I went out for dinner the other night… and the girl i was with asked me if she could have the scraps that i left on my plate so that she could give them to the homeless people… she even took a plastic fork and put it in the bag. I didnt feel so good about doing that, i dont think they really want peoples rubbish… but ah well i let her do it. If they accept food from strangers, why dont they get unemployment payments from the government?
Alex
It’s hard to get unemployment payments if you don’t have an address for the government to send it to, that’s part of the problem…
Keddy@home
I think that some shelters should allow the homeless to get mail sent to them at the shelters.
Pugs
I believe they will allow them too keddy, also you can get a P.O. box without having an address. The real problem is that you have to pay in to the unemployment to get the payments.
Keddy@home
Yes that will deffinatly be a problem you do need to pay into that inorder to receive money.
Simon
i find it very hard to believe that the government wouldnt pay someone unemployment benefits just because they don’t have a house. Im sure they have a policy in place for getting payments to homeless people, even if it was by means of picking up a cheque, from their unemployment office or giving them direct deposit or something.
Mark
You’d think so…
je
One can only collect unemployment if they have worked a give number of hours (I think it’s 900) and the amount they get paid is a percentage of an average of the last 20 weeks of work. So, most "homeless" people can’t collect unemployment…that is what "social assistance" is for.
Keddy@home
They dont even receive that… They only can receive Social Assistance if they have a residence to have it sent to. Also you need a Social Insurance Number. If some of the people have not got one they can’t even collect social assistance. So its really a catch 22 situation for the people who have no where to go. Also we can’t lump all homeless into one catagory. Some are legitimately out there for a reason they couldn’t help like kids who were abused, or were kicked out. Then while on the streets they will possiably pickup a drug habbit. I have seen it happen. I honestly feel for the people who are out there to get away from a worse situation. But then we have the folks on the otherside of the spectrum. The ones who would not grow up and stop the drug useage and can kick the habbit and now are so addicted that they spent everything on the habbit and are now homeless. And I know that its a habbit and its possiably hard to stop. But if people can stop smoking ( The most addicting thing to stop, according to studies) then why can’t these people stop. My therory is that they honestly aren’t ready. So what happens they try to kick it and then it comes back to haunt them. And then here we go back at square one. So I guess to sum this all up. Don’t judge all the homeless untill you know the whole story behind why they are there now. And also don’t assume I am a martyr for them I don’t always donate to them either. But a few cents here and there aparently make a difference.
je
Who was judging? We were all just talking about how they get money….nobody was judging them or condeming them for their situation.
Pugs
The following message is for Keddy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Keddy@hom
I am not saying anyone was… I am just speaking my mind. Sorry if people were offended. I didn’t mean to.
Pugs
I was merely pointing out that to assume you were a martyr we would also have to assume you were dead. I’m not offended, just giggling a little bit old buddy.
Keddy@home
hahah I know that was not the word I was looking for hahahah. I ment like a person who is standing up for their rights… I feel for them but I won’t have them living in my house…
Steve
So your a spokesman for the homeless now?
Keddy@home
Yes I am they don’t pay well but they always have some wine…
Castro
So now you’re drinking with them too?
Do you have your own paper bag? Or do you have to share?
Steve
Do you have a crown O’King of the homeless?
Keddy@Steve-s
I guess I am….
Angie & MA not @ Sugarloaf (*sniff*)
Okay - just back from the Mountain, and have to add two cents (at least) worth - this is Angie and I (Mary Ann). For the "heel" question, how terrible for you ALL (except Keddy) to be misleading our new Korean friend. THINK of where the comment in question originated…"Dear Abby". Now, folks, I know she’s dead, but people did not write to her with shoe problems. It was a column for the lovelorn. So, logically, the original phrase is a play on words - in the lovelorn world, the dastardly rats are sometimes called heels (as Keddy said - idiot…moron) - low to the ground snakes, as the case may be. And what goes around comes around (another cliché, but it applies). It’s comforting to believe that time will eventually wound the heel.
Steve
And to put this to rest:
"Someday this bitter ache will pass, my sweet.
Time wounds all heels."
This last line, from the 1940 film "Go West" is an example of Implied
Chiasmus, where the words of a popular expression (like "Time heals all
wounds") are ingeniously reversed.
Steve
In other words the real meaning is subject to the context on the phrase.
Keddy@hom2
Ahhhh hahahah I knew it damn it!
Keddy@home
Home not Hom2
Keddy@home
Also Nice copy and paste job steve… Wikipedia or google?
anon.
a lot of the homeless shelters in Halifax are over crowed as it is leaving no room for any other people in need to stay there. Also there are homeless people out there who are eating people’s leftover food from garbage bins…..so why not have someone give their "scraps" to them. At least it’s better than nothing. They are people too and without knowing them individually we really have no right to judge their situation and why they’re on the street.
Just my 2 cents…being as I’ve been close to being homeless.
je
Once again, no one here was judging anyone who is, was, or was close to being homeless. We were all just having a discussin abouthow one who is without a home would take advantage of the social safty nets we have in Canada. THAT’S IT….NO JUDGMENT!!!!!
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Let’s us all eat cake
Keddy@home
mmmmmm…. CAKE!
Steve
1.5 Pie?
Keddy@home
ME WANT PIE NOW!!!