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Friday, February 6th, 2009
12:37 pm	IPOD Quest So, it's been awhile since I brought this up, but here is how it sits today, 18183 songs 9227 songs down. 8956 to go. Hmmm.... I am only ahead about 40 songs... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
9:58 am	IPOD quest continues I restarted the ipod quest again. i am determined to listen to everything that is on my ipod... all 11964 songs. I am doing it a little different this time, I have created a playlist that is everything that doesn't have a play count on it yet, so hopefully it will work this time and I wouldn't screw it up. 11964 songs 2975 down 8989 to go... wonder how long that will take me... :P (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
1:12 pm	Weird VP So one of the new VPs in CLS is wierd, but a good wierd. I was walking out of the building for lunch today and when I was leaving I ran into the new VP. The flags at our building are flying at half mast today, not sure exactly why. But anyways, he says to me "Do you know what it means when the flags are flying at half mast at a post office?" I say nope. and he says "They're hiring" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
3:43 pm	Gotta Love Calgary Weather So, Yesterday, while I was working at Glenbrook with Corey reimaging PC's... we went for lunch in his mustang convertable... with the top down... in november... WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 5th, 2007
2:03 pm	Completely Random... Mountain Goats ate mountain boogers off my truck while in banff yesterday... :P (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
10:55 pm	I WAS IN AN ACCIDENT... AGAIN So... at 6:45 pm today... I was in an accident... again.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Well, I guess I should explain... I was on my way to my rover meeting this evening, I was on memorial drive heading east just before deer foot... I was stopping for the read light, quite quickly because the person in front of me slammed on their brakes... and a car rear ended me... it was an 2002 acura rsx... and though there isn't alot of damage on my truck, the car was toast... it hit me quite hard and the whole front end of the car went crunch... coolent leaked all over the road, his passenger side airbag went off and cracked the windshield... funny thing is that it didn't set off the driver side one... when it happened I looked back and I could only see the top of his car. So I got out, made sure he was okay... and called the cops since there was no way he was driving away. filled out the report with the cops, and went along my marry way about an hour later. the only damage that he did to my truck is there is a dent and some scratches in my bumper and he screwed up my trailer tow wiring... other than that I am not sure there is any other damage to my truck, I will get it looked at... but I can't see anything else... the part that sucks though is in one week and one day I leave for my trip up north and he f'ed up my trailer hookups... bah... what a bad time for this to happen... but at least we are both okay eh... (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
5:53 pm	HORSEPOWER BABY So I went down to the diesel performance shop today for their dyno days. got free food, talked to lots of people and dynoed my truck. I have a baseline now of what my truck is laying down... and the offical numbers are... 252 HP and 530 ft pds of torque... WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE oh... and I got to be 10 feet away from a rocket powered race car when they fired it up today... even with ear plugs in it hurt ... and it filled up a city block with smoke in about 1.6 seconds... and the head and thrust coming out of it were amazing... even though they didn't let it out and actually run it was pretty impressive when they started it up and run it for a couple of minutes... Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
9:09 pm	roof goes up Yesterday I went with the girl to her parents house to help but the roof on the garage they are building. It's interesting to me how good it feels to get out and do some physical labor every once in awhile... so in the end, there was some bent nails, a banged finger, some blood, a very impressed girl, and some very impressed and appreciative parents... not bad for a couple of hours of work... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 1st, 2007
3:43 pm	Ack... Ipod quest has ended. So I desided on easter weekend that I was going to put my ipod on shuffle, and leave it play through the whole 6400 songs or so.... Well, that was a month and a half and 2400 songs ago... and now... I flubbed... I plugged my ipod into the computer at work to charge it this morning... and it is all gone.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... it's all gone... all that time... all those songs... now do I start over and try the quest again... or do I say F' it and just use my ipod regularly again... stupid me... why did I do that... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
9:17 pm	Philosophical Question. Now I was listening to a song by popa roach and it got me thinking. I want to know your responce to the below quote from the song and tell me why... "What do you do, When it all comes down on you. Do you run and Hide, Or face the Truth?" From "What do you do?" by Papa Roach. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
8:14 pm	Insainly Awesome weekend. -18th Bday party -18th bday girl really drunk -good band and lots of fun. -home -wake up next to "the girl" -smile -Picnic -campfire -smokies -strawberries -SMORES -Rain in the daylight -Scenic Route home -Snowboarding -January snow @ the end of april -snowed at least 8 inches -Default -Broken bindings -home -tired -sleep (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
10:26 pm	And the truck didn't start... AGAIN... So to make things worse, returned the rental today at lunch because my truck was supposed to be ready. Went to the dealership to get my truck. Payed for my truck because it wasn't covered on warrentee and it has apparently been running just fine... get my keys... walk to my truck... try to start it... WON'T F@@@@@ start... F@!#... walk back, tell them it won't start... now I get to drive a 2007 ford focus station wagon... :P ... I miss the 2007 chrysler 300 that I had rented before... this focus has absolutely no balls... like WAY worse than my civic ever was... even now I could blow this focus away with my civic and it is a tired old 310000 KM abused car... BAH... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
8:50 am	Week from hell So, things have not been going great for me this week... and it started right out of the gate on monday. Ugg... So, monday it seems something happened on that network that made everybody who uses a Lexmark t630 laser printer have HUGE issues with all of microsoft office, and some other programs as well, but mostly office. of course when the calls started coming in and all having the same issue the first thing on my mind was OH my god VIRUS and spent a whole day trying to determine if that was our issue or not. By the end of tuesday the call had been escalated to a Severity 2 call (on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 is the highest and 5 is the lowest, meaning 1 is super important to work on, and 2 is just below that and so forth). Spent over 2 hours on a conference call with all the big wigs discussing and troubleshooting this issue. Thought we had a fix, desided to come in early on Wen. morning to get working on it. become very apparent very early on that the fix we that thought we had didn't work AT all. It got escallated again. It's now a Sev 1, and a HUGE F#@k!n deal. Spend about 2.5 hours on conference calls troubleshooting again. finally find a fix. didn't take a lunch. worked 9 hours on the stupid issue... oh and did I mension after work on monday my truck broke down and it's gonna cost me 230 to get it back... plus the 130 to tow it to the dealership in the first place... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this week is going to be the end of me.. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
10:03 am	The Great Global Warming Swindle This is really interesting, a must see... but it is long... it is a documentary from the UK and it throws sand in the face of the Global Warming NUTS ( Cut the video cause it is in 8 parts ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
10:22 pm	RIP Augie So my dad called me with news that I really didn't want to hear, but I was somewhat expecting never the less. My dog, augie, passed on this morning. I guess nobody is really shocked by it. He was 14.5 years old to the best of our knowledge, but he could have been even older because we never could find anybody who knew him as anything but a grown dog. If he was 14.5, he lived 101.5 dog years, so he certainly didn't get taken from us when he was very young. He had a stroke last night and when dad when to take him to the vet this morning he had no fight left. Even a week before he was have snarled at you if you tried to pick him up, but this morning he had no arguments. He knew it was time and he took it graciously. My mom and dad are getting him cremated for me so that I can put him in the ground and know where he is. He was part of the family for far too long to give him anything less. For those of you who didn't know Augie, i suppose I should tell you a little about him. When we started looking for a dog we knew exactly what we wanted. dad wanted something along the lines of a border collie cocker spanial cross because the make such execelent companions. One morning on the way home from grandma and grandpa's house my mom heard the add for him on Tradio, an on the radio clasifieds that they have back home. She raced into dixonville to the nearest payphone and called and left a message. that night we got the call, we were the first to call and we were free to come and get him if we wanted him. We were also warned that there were 10 other people who had left messages so we should make are desision fast. We went and picked him up that night. It didn't take long and it became apparent that he was my dog. though he would attach himself to my dad when I wasn't around, he was my dog the minute I got home again. Even long after I had moved out and gone to collage the minute I walked into the house again, he was mine and he would go everywhere with me. When he was younger he had energy like nothing I had ever seen. He was fast and he loved more than anything in the world to play fetch. If you threw the ball as far as you could, he would still chase it for hours and your arm got tired long before he ever did. He was only a middle sized dog, but he was like a black bolt of lightning when it come to chasing whatever it was you were throwing for him to fetch. He loved squeakie toys, but those wore on the nerves so we moved him to mostly tennis balls not too long after we got him. But wheather it was a tennis ball, a stick ( anything from a sliver to a tree) or a frizbee, he was on top of the world when he had somebody to throw something for him to go get. Though I am told he should have been a good hunting dog, he really wasn't. He was far too loud. We tryed a couple times to take him out with us and we soon learned that if we wanted to catch something we had better leave him at home. He would jump out of the truck and before he even hit the ground he would be barking and chasing anything that moved, or anything that smelled interesting. He had unbelievable energy right up until he was about 11 or so when his age started to catch up with him. I remember when we went across canada in 2001, most of the people we come across couldn't believe that a 10 year old dog could have so much energy and most thought that we were pulling their legs that he was that old. Not too long after that trip his age started to catch up with him. Instead of 4 hours of none stop running playing fetch, it became 1 hour and than 10 minutes. He was so determined to play that game right to the end. Somedays I swore that he was going to do himself in playing the game he loved so much. In his old age he wasn't able to climb into mom and dad's trucks very easy, and in the end he needed help to get into either of their vehicals. I could always see a welcome sigh of relief when I was visiting in my car and he could get in without the help that he hated so much. I think he was really mad at me when I was up at christmas with my truck. he looked at it and than at me like... "oh man, did you have to???" He had a good long life, and he was part of my family and my best friend for almost 13 years. I hope the cartoon is right and all dogs go to heaven. and I hope that my grandpa will play fetch with him all day. To the best friend a boy could have. Thanks for helping deliver me from my youth with my sainity in tact. Rest in Peace boy. Augie Espetveidt Auguest 2002 - March 11, 2007 Current Mood: sad Current Music: i'll be missing you by puff daddy (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
11:05 pm	Jasper So my little sister managed to convince me that I should go out to jasper to go skiing with her since she was in the mountains. And than, she mananged to convince me to back her a Black Forest Cake for her birthday. So My day out in jasper started with me leaving calgary at 5 in the morning. After the sun came up it was actually a really good drive, though I would have never made it with my car. On highway 93 when I was passing the columbia icefields, I had to plow through a snow drift that was about 4 feet tall. It would have bent my poor old car... bad... but with my big pretty truck, I just pushed right on through... Got out there at 9:30 instead of 9 because of the weather around the icefields... so I had to try to find my sister... at marmit basin... on a saturday... when it is above zero and stupidly busy... didn't end up finding her til lunch, but I found a friend of mines younger brother while I was looking for her... which kinda blew my mind... :P So snowboarding was good, snow was OK most of the day. the drive back to calgary SUCKED. It snowed from jasper all the way to canmore, and on the way past the icefields, it was blowing snow so back the only reason I knew where I was on the road was the rumble strip down the middle... it was a long and slow drive back to calgary... like 6 hours instead of 4... what I think I blew my mind the most was the amount of snow there was in some spots on the drive... in some spots there was anywhere from 5 to 12 feet of snow in the snowbanks pushed off the side of the road, and some places it was 12 feet tall and you could see where it had got pushed back loaders a couple of times... Anyways, made it home safe and sound... though extreemly sore.... what a long day... (Comment on this)
Monday, March 5th, 2007
10:46 pm	my week is going to be fun... 4 days + 17 locations all over the city + 183 Thin clients to patch + 200 KM = One f'in busy week at work. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
8:14 pm	scary thought so I just woke up from a dream that my concious mind had never really considered quite like this before... you know the movie cheaper by the dozen... if an extrodinary set of circumstances happened, that could be my life... over the last few years I have been asked if traggity should happen, if I would be the legal guardian of their kids... well... if everybody who asked happened to die tommarow, I know it is a morbid thought, but this is the only way I would end up with what I had in my dream, i would have around 9 kids to take care of... 5 girl, 4 boys ranging from ages 2 to 17... I can't imagine what my life would be like if that ever happened... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
7:42 pm	Age is so hard to gauge... well last night was ... interesting... Definately not how I would have liked to spend Valentines Day... but it was okay... I ended up going to a Plentyoffish.com event... it was Karoke at a place called Kabana. It was okay, but when we first got there there were so many people there... the place must have been pushing capacity just with the POF people there... I felt kinda young there, but I guess that isn't exactly there worst thing... Anyways, there was this girl there, and she caught my attension right off the bat... She is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Cute... anyways, long story short... she looks like she is 21 or 22ish... turns out she is 34............ I don't know if I made much of an impression... hopefully it wasn't a bad impression anyways... If nothing else she seems really nice and would be nice to have as a friend... I may just have to go to more POF functions... they happen all the time in calgary and it may be a good way to meet some more peeps... especially if there are more people like Emelie (Babeinthewood). Anyways... hope you all had a great V-Day... (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
8:45 pm	So, I don't know if it is just me, but over time I have come to assosiate certain songs with certain people. For better or worse those songs will always be be assosiated with those people. Well, there is now a new one that I don't think I wlil ever beable to listen to without thinking of a certain somebody. I don't know if any of you have heard the song "ellsworth" by: rascal flatts. Well, before my grandma left us, she was starting to loose her memories... but she never ever lost the memory of my grandpa. The song came on while I was driving home today... and I couldn't believe how badly I broke down. I was crying as hard as the day we laid her in the ground with grandpa... when me and my cousin nels read her ulegee( I know my spelling sucks).... Funny, I wlll never beable to hear that song again without thinking of her... I suppose the only legaccy anybody ever really has is in the memories of those they leave behind... I hope you know how much I love you grandma... for thsoe who haven't heard the song, the lyrics are: "Ellsworth" Grandma burned the biscuits Nearly took the house down with her. Now she's in assisted livin' We all knew that day would come. We knew she was to gone to drive The day she parked on I-65. Found her on the shoulder cryin' She didn't know where she was. Its like her mind just quit. Oh but bring up grandpa- its like someone flipped a switch. A front porch light and a blue Desota, Couple a straws and a coca cola: You can see it all goin' down. A handsome boy in army green A tear on his face- down on a knee, Shaky voice- a diamond ring should put you in that town. Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today, But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas, 1948. She takes out his medals, A cigar box of letters. Sits and scatters pictures, Black and whites of days gone by. We started losin' her when she lost him, But to hear her carry on you'd swear she's seventeen again Football games and leaves a'cracklin' Walkin' her home in his letter jacket, You can see it all goin' down. A perfect night on a front porch glider, Saying goodnight for the next 3 hours. Her tired eyes glow wild and bright When she talks about that town. Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today, But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948. While the world is fading all around her Sharin' a sundae at the counter He's goin' on and on about her But she's right there right now Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948 (2 Comments |Comment on this)