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January 21, 2012

So much for "every day"

Thanks to Sam for the picture!
It has been, yet again, a considerable time since I have last posted. I haven't been that busy either, web-logging just isn't that interesting to me haha. Although I also haven't played Skyrim in about a week, which is also strange. Maybe I need a new hobby.

I've decided I'm going to make some mead sometime soon, need to save money for 16 lbs of honey and brewing buckets. Yesterday I saw that they do sell mead in liquor stores here, I bought a bottle of The Golden Drop. Sweet, but surprisingly not as sweet as you'd think, tastes a like white wine with just a touch of honey. I was expecting a sticky kind of sweet.
Last night while drinking some mead, I decided to paint a canvas. Turns out I don't have the colors I need, so I'll be making a trip to the art store soon for pinks and blues. It's aggravating to have an unfinished painting laying around.
Sunday has been added to the nights that I work, four nights a week means plenty of cash, which makes everything a lot easier.

January 12, 2012

PH4T L00T, D00Dz!

While walking to work yesterday, Sam and I found $60 between us scattered through a parking lot. It seemed almost impossible, but I decided I'd double-check on the way back home. I found $120 in the same lot! The only thing that could have made it seem any more like a video game: if they had been in wooden chests. This will definitely help with our plans to go to the bar!
Tonight we're heading to Baba's to see a couple bands play, I've only ever heard Uigg, the other bands are new to me. Any band called Eviction Party has to be a blast, right? I've been to those, they are good parties.

January 08, 2012

Has it been that long? -OR- Tales of inexplicably flustered women.

Wow, it says I last posted on the 3rd, almost five days ago. Shame on me, I suppose I'll have to make a full update of the past few days' events to make up for lost posts.

On Wednesday I worked, it was lackluster but probably only due to the Christmas' two-week wake of financial destruction on the part of the people who I serve. That happens to be the better aspect of not  celebrating Christmas, makes buying drinks for people afterwards a lot easier.
Thursday, Sam came over with Dann, to smoke and chill out before Sam and I joined my family for dinner at ESM's. I got a Stella and the chicken parmigiana sandwich, it was pretty good but I have trouble deciding what I like there because everything is chicken; I'm not a big fan of chicken because it tastes like fuck-all. Nevertheless the sandwich was decent, later we drank Boone's. Good times all-around.

Yesterday, by that I mean Friday (tomorrow doesn't come until I wake up), Sam and I went up to the mall so I could pay my Internet bill and get a few things. The lady at the counter couldn't seem to understand why I don't use my bank account to pay bills, and got inexplicably flustered the way stupid folks around here do. I haven't used my bank account in a year or so because of the monthly fees, I save money better when I deal wholly in cash. "You know the bank takes cash, right?" is an exemplary quote from our exchange, surely the finest instance of rhetoric in the modern age. It was just one of those moments where I have to nod politely, pay the bill and keep walking. It happens to me a lot actually; people like to be rude to me while they are work for some reason. Once I told a cab driver it was inconvenient the stores close earlier on Sundays, because I work late and it makes it harder to buy groceries that early. She quipped back, "That's no excuse, you've got all day. I go to bed late too. That's no excuse." The nerve, right? As if I needed an excuse for anything, all I did was state an opinion. That is a big deal with conservative Islanders though; the "right" to force every store to close on Sunday because of... I don't know, Jesus or some shit. So, I probably offended her political-religious-social mental complex by being such a goddamn bleeding-heart liberal. But, I digress.
We went to a couple places after that, I wanted to get new markers but they were really expensive, I bought a video game instead. It's pretty shitty actually, I usually hate zombie games and this one isn't much different. Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, it's pretty goddamn boring.

Later Friday night, Sam and I ventured to the bar to drink with Jenn and Rissa. We had a couple drinks and played some pool, at one point they all went to the washroom like girls do, so I racked the balls and got myself another drink. The bar is less than 15 feet from the pool table, and I was away for 30 seconds. When I turned around, two people were about to play the table I'd just set up. I told them I had just set it up for my friends and we're about to play, the guy gave me his cue. The girl stood over the table again with the cue, so I walked over and once again told her we're playing the table. She took aim anyway and said, "You don't have to be a jerk." Laying my cue across the table so she couldn't shoot, I told her again not to shoot because we were playing. She yelled, "Don't be a jerk!" I kept my stick on the table and stared at her, she put her head down, handed me the cue and walked away. All agreed that she was the jerk.
Eventually Mike showed up with a few people, we played pool some more until Kyle started skipping the cue ball and shot the balls straight into the pockets. But he's kind of a douche anyway.

"Today", we'll call it, I hanged out in the apartment with Sam until she went home. Then I had to work, it was slow at first but then it got so busy I had to call for back-up. I have to work again at 12:30, which sucks because that's in seven hours and I'm still not that tired. I'm basically just going to smoke and eat enough to become tired, and hope I pass out for like six hours. Maybe I'll post again sooner, next time.

January 03, 2012

Decent day

On my walk earlier I got plenty pictures of tags, I was a bit disappointed because someone said there was a piece, but it was just some outlines and bombs. I also got some groceries and liquor bought, so that was good.
Here are some choice works I found on my jaunt:


















The Events of Yesterday, The Plans for Today

So yesterday I thought I worked at 8:00pm, when I got to work Mike was already there because I forgot we agreed to switch shifts. Luckily I brought a bit of cash to work, so I bought a few drinks and chatted with him for a couple hours. Then I came home and immediately got very high, which culminated in the watching of Boss Nigger on my laptop. I have to say it's a pretty awesome movie, it's about two black bounty-hunter cowboys fighting crime and racist whiteys, and it's full of moments that are inappropriate to laugh at. Like this unforgettable moment:

"Just kill me, nigger."
*loads gun* "That's Mister Nigger to you!"


The police also came into my building last night because my neighbor was playing music too loud at around 2:30am. I had my headphones on to watch the movie, then took them off to hear police arguing with him in the hallway. All I really caught was it was the birthday of the guy who called the cops, it didn't sound like they charged the guy they just warned him.

As for today, I'm getting ready to go out for a stroll. Gonna take pictures of graffiti, or anything else that catches my eye since Charlottetown has changed a lot since I last had a new camera. I'll upload some of the pictures later.

January 01, 2012

Got a camera!

What are the odds that just days after I blew the dust off my 5-year old camera to start this weblog, I'd get a new camera? Awesomeness abounds.

I just finished getting all my Christmas presents into the apartment today, there were so many I left bags of them at my parents' place. Lots of kitchenware, bedsheets, a console with 60 Atari games, laptop bag, and copious piles of chocolate.

Michou had a decent New Year's party, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures.