tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37446933217678241192011-07-30T16:04:39.979-06:00Keeping Friends and Family InformedDan Lokhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977727226830153230noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744693321767824119.post-27677981341126259602010-10-15T22:10:00.000-06:002010-10-15T22:10:11.694-06:00

You may have noticed that I haven't been updating my blog here for the past month. Well, I've been working on another project, and that's another blog! Certainly Motivated! A Blog about comics, culture, and my random thoughts. This blog here will pretty much be abandoned, but everything interesting that I was doing with it will move over to Certainly Motivated. I'll still have pictures and

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August has gone by so fast that I've forgotten to post about it. Sorry for the lack of updates. I watched Scott Pilgrim a second time, this time with friends. It was just as enjoyable the second viewing, and I'm glad I avoided watching trailers for this movie. Two of my favourite gags would have been ruined by a trailer that featured half of a scene. I hate how trailers do that. Over the last two

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I'll just start you off with an amazing webseries that I recently discovered: How to, Batman!There's a whole lot of these things, and their each brilliant in their simplicity. I watched Scott Pilgrim vs the World on one of my rain days this week, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was bizzare, funny, and spastic. Even though I wasn't a fan of the books, I loved this movie. Have you ever enjoyed a

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I dropped the atomic clock that I bought in Georgia a few years back. It broke. All of the numbers stopped working but the eerie green back light is on permanently. Or at least until it runs out of atoms. Fortunately, none of the atoms leaked out so I didn't have to notify Environment Canada. I'll miss that clock. It's been with me through good times and bad, and it also told the temperature.

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Last week I had to take a chair back to Ikea. At Ikea you take a number for service at the Exchanges and Returns desk. I had number ten and had been waiting about fifteen minutes, when suddenly both return desks changes numbers at the same time, fizzled for a moment, and skipped over ten. Dude! Not really knowing procedure, I just walked over and frantically yelped “my number was skipped” to

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We've been getting a lot of rain in town, but fortunately for me it's been mostly late afternoons and nights. Last week We went to treat a yard that had overgrown with weeds and... lettuce? The customer was there to show us around, and she had let her lettuce plants go to seed, so there was lettuce sprouting all over he lawn. She picked most of it, then said that I could have the rest. Hey, free,

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Another week of summer work. I had a rain day on Monday and I managed to get a few chores done. It was pretty warm out this week. I had a few days at work where I was treating all the public schools in Sherwood Park, so I was wearing the spray-backpack. These things aren't designed with ANY sort of human comfort in mind, and when I got home after a day of wearing it I looked in the mirror and saw

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Happy Canada Day and America day to all! I had a pretty good week. Unexpectedly, everyone at work got Friday through Sunday off, so I was able to stay up late on Canada Day. I had the weekend to shop for furniture and decorate my room. I can't find a good computer chair (lumbar support messes up my back. Yeah, I know), but I did manage to find a decent rug to put under my computer desk. Went to a

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June has been making up for May's rain with my having an average of 11 hour days all week. Today was my longest day yet at 12.25 hours. Theo and I have been working together doing commercial vegetation control. I don't miss wearing the full body coveralls, especially in this weather. Last weekend I went up to Fort McMurray for Father's Day and had a great time with the whole family. Unbeatable

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So over the last three weeks I've been moving on Sunday, working on Sunday, and Blogger.com was down on Sunday, so I haven't really updated. Fortunately, nothing much has happened since then. I'm back at summer job from last year doing vegetation control. I've been doing a lot of training for industrial sites, and that means sitting through a dozen different refinery orientations. I've managed to

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We officially have a new house to move into! We've got the stuff signed and we're moving in next Thursday. I'm looking forward to throwing away a lit of stuff. Moving is a very cleansing process. The landlord agreed to let us move in a few days early if we mowed the lawn. Tuck and I went to the new house to clean up the yard on Saturday. We bought a new lawnmower and trimmer to work on it, and

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Sorry about the lack of updates, but I'm completely beat by the time Sunday night rolls around. Work has gone into full swing, and I'm consistently getting to bed by 9:30 and getting up at 5:00. I'm doing a lot more industrial work this year, so that means more boring orientation videos. We've almost finalized the paperwork for our new house. It's a great place, but the location is far too south.

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We helped Tyra move on Thursday, and I finally ended my eight month battle with Tyra's window screen. You see, about eight month's ago Dave and I were at Tyra's and she asked if we could help put her kitchen window screen back in. She managed to get it out some how, but it wasn't going back in. We spent a few minutes trying to pry it back in, but in the end we just left the screen braced outside,

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My finals went by decently enough. Ten minutes into my Project Lead final I had a massive hayfever attack and could barely focus my eyes for two of the three hours I was doing the final. So my classes are over, but it will be a few weeks before I know my final marks. On Thursday Jamie, Blae and myself went to the Airport Museum to volunteer for the Read-A-Reader fundraiser. We moved boxes of

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It's the last week of classes for me and as of Tuesday four of five of my major projects will be handed in. My HTML project isn't due until exam week, so I've got a bit of buffer there. On Thursday the weather started out fine, so I wore short sleeves and no jacket to school in the AM. By the time I left school to my my folks in South Common it was snowing, and I went right from South Common to

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Sorry about the lack up updates. Sunday night just isn't a good night to write. I think I'll move to a Friday update schedule. Over the last two weeks I saw How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans. Dragon was pretty good. I would say it's Dreamwork's second best animated feature to date. The first being Antz. Antz rocked. Clash was... decent. You must turn your brain off and turn it off

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Hey Superman, how did your laser vision correction surgery go?Oh dear. On my last trip to the dentist it was determined that I require a mouth guard. Getting fitted for one is a fairly terrible process, because you pretty much have a giant wad of plaster of paris in your mouth for ten minutes. Try not to swallow! Ick. But I got my mouth guard on Monday, so hopefully I won't grind my molars into

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I went in for my laser surgery on Friday. The procedure itself only takes about ten minutes. They numb your eye, prop it open, cut a little layer loose and then zap it. It's not particularly comfortable, but you can't see or feel the laser. You can, however, smell the layer of flesh that's being burnt away by the laser. That's... unsettling. I'm taking four kinds of eye drops a day until

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Or as most non-students call it, reading week. I went for a laser eye surgery evaluation on Tuesday. In the waiting room they had cookies and drinks to take. What followed is actually a fairly accurate snapshot of my decision making process:Hmm. I've been waiting here for about ten minutes now. I've already had two cookies. I really want some more, but I don't want to open and close that cookie

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I had a song go through my head the other day. It was played on the modern rock station a lot last summer. It was really catchy and had a funky bass line, but the only thing I can remember about it is that the chorus went “I'm still in love, yeah I'm still in love with you.” Have you ever tried to find a song based on those lyrics? Egad. Every R&B song ever written has those lyrics. Went out to

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I'm sure that's Photoshopped, but I love that picture.Volunteered at the Future of Story conference at MacEwan on Friday and Saturday. That was a lot of fun. Attended a panel by comic book writer Andre Foley and BioWare game designer, Michael Laidlaw. Pretty cool. HTML class is going well. It's quickly becoming my favourite class. I know enough about HTML to feel smug, but I'm learning enough to

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On Wednesday I spent four hours in the library trying to finish a project for Thursday. It was particularly frustrated while working on it because half of the things in the assignment sheet I couldn't remember going over in class, so I just looked them up in the textbook. When I got to class the next day it turns out it wasn't due for another three weeks. And on that same day I spent the only

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Not much to report this week. I got a nail in my tire and got it fixed at Costco. I finished the box of Dutch Chocolate sprinkles.In our project leadership class we had an exercise where we make resumes and hand them into the teacher. From those resumes the teacher chooses six team leaders, and those team leaders take the rest of the resumes and chooses their teams. These resumes don't have our

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I am back from my Festivus Hiat-ivus. Hiatus. Whatever. Basically I haven't updated a family letter for three or so weeks because I've either been sitting around doing nothing all day or playing violent video games. Wait, those are the same thing! Except for the fact that playing BioShock for four hours increases my testosterone and makes me feel very violent. Doing *absolutely* nothing for four

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This term, at least. My presentation and my final exam were on Monday, and they both went swimmingly. I installed a solid state hard drive on my computer and put Windows 7 on it. Wow. SSDs are amazing. They're eerily silent. The only thing I hear from my computer is the fan running. Because I am temporarily without responsibilities, I finally took Jamie up on his offer of going to Bo'diddley's

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How cold was it?It was so cold that when I drove to school, Morgan Freeman narrated my entire commute!*rimshot*Word on the street is that the Edmonton International Airport recorded a -59 degrees Celsius (with windchill) this week. Second coldest place on Earth, apparently. Nice. Real nice. And my car still starts through it. Good girl, Hoth. And on an unrelated note:Handed in and completed

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It's December!People have been saying that my blogs are hard to read, and that's probably because I've got so many videos linked. I'm going to switch to the format where it only posts the first paragraph on the main page, so that will mean more clicking for some people. Let's see if that fixes things up. Sorry about the lack of update last week. I'm barely getting this one out as it is. All of my

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Sigh. Twilight beat Dark Knight for Friday opening and single day sales. You win this round, women, but the nerds will have their comeuppance. On Monday my group in the documentary class filmed our interviews. Our premise is that we're ghost hunters asking people if they feel safe at the school. I'm editing it, and that's fun, because right now it's the only project that I'm working on that

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Nothing major to report this week. I did go to Old Navy to buy clothes all by myself. No sister or anything. I was standing by the racks holding two shirts together for about twenty minutes. I just kept staring at them, trying to figure out if they “match” or not. All I could see in my mind was Janice giving a dissaproving glare and saying “Danny, really?” Fortunately I caught her on Skype and

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It just had to be one of my busiest weeks that my computer finally decides to stop playing nice. I had to reinstall Windows Vista just to get the stupid thing to start working again. Fortunately I back-up a lot, and I use Google Docs for all of my homework now. So I lost half a day for homework time, and I'm starting to feel swamped. I went to the annual family chocolate dipping reunion. This is

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Had our Halloween FHE tonight. I was the first person there to wear a costume and that was AWK-WARD at first, but by the end of the night there were about 10 people with costumes on. There was pizza and caramel apples, so I took a piece of pizza to the caramel apples station and made a caramel pizza. Because I can't eat raw apples. I really should have taken a picture of it. My costume was pretty

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Windows 7 releases this week! Did you attend a Windows 7 release party? Did you eat an official Windows 7 seven patty whopper?Me neither.On Monday night I was at the Whyte Ave Chapel and I saw a guy I knew from my mission. He was from Spanish Fork, and it's not unheard of for us to get visitors/students from Idaho/Utah. So I notice him, he notices me, and we exchange a big old grin. I look

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Weird Crap of the week: You know how some music sounds like screeching parrots? Good people of Earth, there is a death metal band whose lead singer is, I kid you not, a parrot. And they have a myspace page. I present to you, Hatebeak. Oh yes, this is a joke. But I'm not sure if they themselves know that they're a joke. EVEN MORE weird crap: I never thought that I could find a product that

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The first Edmonton snowfall was this week. So goodbye to being outside without a jacket and not having to brush off your car every time you want to go someplace. Saw Blue Man Group with dad on Friday night. That was a pretty good experience. It was at Rexhall place, which is normally a hockey rink. Our seats were along the wider side of the oval, so we were sitting perpendicular to the stage. We

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Oh my gosh! Layout change! Hopefully this will fix those chopping problems it's been having. I'll colour it better later. A rather eventful week. I forgot to mention last week that the college that I attend has been upgraded to university status. That's correct! I have moved up a rung on the educational achievement scale. Grant MacEwan College is now MacEwan University. Now I can select “

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Whoops, looks like I forgot to post last week. Nothing much is going on around here, but classes are going well. I've been working on a pitch for my documentary project and I've come up with diddly squat. When you are a nerd with absolutely no social conscience it's hard to think of a gripping documentary outline. In fact, I'm working on five projects for five classes and right now I've got the

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My first three classes went well this week. In each of them there is no final exam (yay!) but they all consist of large projects that we begin immediately (holy snorks!). My other two classes would have started on Monday, but that's Labor Day-bor. So they'll star tomorrow. I also spent a good portion of the week fuming at Edmonton Transit. I thought I had a perfect bus route figured out, as the

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Summer work has come to a close. I finished my last full week and have successfully registered in classes at Grant MacEwan. Well, the dumb WebAdvisor says I don't have the prerequisites for one course but I totally do, so whatever. It took about four hours but I finally finished my registration. As for work, I've got Tuesday's without school, so I'll be working one day a week until work runs out

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Fairly straightforward, uneventful week. Of interest was the company baseball game on Saturday. We played against Kentucky Blue Grass, our biggest customer. I played catcher, which is a fairly low-pressure position to play in slow pitch. It involved very little running, which is a good thing for me. I finally bought my netbook, which I plan to use for school. I'm always paranoid when I make big

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I'm back from my spectacular voyage across the Americas! Well, one of the Americas. And two time zones. It was a really awesome trip, but I don't want to Blog about it until I can do it real justice, so you'll have to wait for the multimedia presentation that I'm preparing. Besides my trip and the 10 pounds I gained, life has returned to normal. On Friday we were rained out of work, so I had a

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So on Monday I took my writing aptitude test to see if I can get back into my old Communications program at MacEwan. Unfortunately I won't know if I passed for another week, and then I won't know if I'm admitted for another week after that because their admissions person comes in every two weeks. Unfortunately the test wasn't in an enclosed room, but in one of those open sections behind the

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Well it's been a couple of odd weeks. The week previous to this one I had a mad “Southern Alberta Public School Roundup Tour 2009” wherein I visited several small towns within an hour of Edmonton, and taking pictures with their monuments. Here are some highlights:The Giant Egg in VegrevilleThe Giant Sausage in MundareThere were also two large ducks in some other town, but they really weren't that

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Had a fairly rainy week. It's strange going from two months and getting rained out twice to having four days off in a week. It's unfortunate that the weather has been mostly damp and cold, because 7-11 just put out to most spectacular slurpee flavour I've ever tasted: Cherry Dr Pepper. I've also found a new love in the form of 7-11 $2.99 smokies. Ever since I discovered that you can put anything

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Got off work a couple of hours on Tuesday to wash my car. I learned that the Mr Clean brush that I bought really stinks, because it's such a flat surface and any place there's a curve on my car it won't clean it very well. Bah! Still, I had forgotten what colour my car was, as it was revealed to be a sharp gray instead of a dull tan. I learned that the Chocolate Explosion Blizzard in Canada is

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Had another orientation this week, this time at Epcor. By far one of the better orientations I've been through this year, as it had the least amount of stupid questions in the quiz portion. I am so sick of questions that go along the lines of:12 – Before you enter a work site, who must review the Safe Work Permit?a. The crew leader.b. The other employees.c. The shift supervisor.d. a and ce. all

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Wow, just when you think they've done it all, Marvel is bringing back the clone saga. The Clone Saga is a punch line. It's the industry staple for terrible shifts in a franchise's existence. It's the benchmark. They say, "Well it was bad, but was it 'Clone Saga' bad?" What's the motivation behind this? Bleh. Friday I had the day off. And what did I accomplish? WHAT!?! A few things, actually. I

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On Wednesday I was having a really crappy day because I forgot my lunch at the shop and we had some very long a frustrating sites. By the end of the day I was fuming about never having time to myself, and then Dave offered me Friday off! So I took it, yay! And then Thursday night dad was in town so we had dinner at Fargo's. He had a jalapeño burger and I had a seafood thingy. Both awesome.

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I wear a hardhat, blue Nomex coveralls, and a gas monitor to work. Now I am a real man! We've been doing industrial vegitation control at PetroCan for the last few weeks. Working at the refinery is... interesting. Because there are so many different companies and people moving around, you need to get a “safe work permit” before you can go to your section of the plant to start working. That

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Sorry about the lack of update last week. I've been getting ten to twelve hour days at work, which means good money. Did my first industrial sites last week. What that means is that I went to PetroCan and took a safety orientation. So instead of spending most of my day driving around to different sites, I go to the tank farm at PetroCan and walk in slow lines for hours on end. The weather has

Dan Lokhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977727226830153230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744693321767824119.post-5823784149197239142009-05-19T20:18:00.002-06:002009-05-19T20:34:13.282-06:00

Wow, last week I completely forgot to mention that Janice took me out to dinner for my birthday and we watched the Bourne Ultimatum. Good times, thanks Jan! And thanks to everyone that sent a birthday card. I feel special! Yay!This last week my job beat the stuffing outta me. My arms are getting pretty sore using the aerator machine, but fortunately last Friday the last day for aerations. On

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Work has gone fairly well this week. On Friday I was entrusted with taking a new guy out to do aerations all by ourselves! Driving a standard, no less! Well, slightly more new than me. I started two weeks ago and he started four days ago. The day started out great, with me only stalling once when I was going to stop the truck anyway. From 7:00 to 12:00 we were flying through our invoices and

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It's the first week of my new job at Green Oasis. So far I like it enough. Right now we're only doing aeration (putting those holes in grass to help them absorb water and stuff) and it's fairly straightforward work. Not necessarily easy, but straightforward. I think the machines weigh in the neighborhood of 120-150lbs, but fortunately each truck comes with a ramp attached. On the invoices that we

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Sorry about the lack of update last week. I spent my entire evening trying to edit and upload a new mission movie, but then Facebook spazzed out at me. And then I moved successfully. More on that.Last Sunday we all got up early to go to the restaurant to try out the new menu items. Indeed, they are all awesome. Of note is the new dessert item: s'mores! Yes, a big fancy restaurant like earl's

Dan Lokhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977727226830153230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744693321767824119.post-6690463632938809552009-04-13T00:14:00.002-06:002009-04-13T00:17:41.065-06:00

Is it just me......or does that look like a chapter heading in some sort of serial killer handbook?

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Did my first two closing shifts at work. I don't mind working a long shift, but walking past the bars by the Bourbon Street exit at midnight is pretty gross. As I walked to my car I saw some woman crouching by a car that was parked next to mine. I couldn't really make out any details accounting to my bad eyesight and that my glasses are all smudged up after eight hours of washing dishes/standing

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Facebook Apps. Every time I think I find one that may actually be usefull I'm quickly punished for my naivete. Check the middle one. Probably not on his father's side.Update: Clicked on the "learn more" part and it turns out it's and April Fools prank put out by FamilyLink. I just didn't check my notices until today. Clevah.

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Highlights from this week include my shift that I spent training on the appetizer section of the kitchen at work. One of the neatest things was learning how to make shrimp sushi rolls. I know that sushi purists cringe when they're called that because there's some sort of technical term for them. I just call them “sushi” because that's the mental image I want to invoke. Like how a person starts a

Dan Lokhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977727226830153230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744693321767824119.post-35026758763816240752009-03-29T21:50:00.003-06:002009-03-29T22:04:11.574-06:00

I had a week which was pretty full for work. I'm working 5PM to 10PM shifts (or later, if they let me stay). I had my first time training in the kitchen, which mostly had me fetching things and trying to memorize the ingredients to several different salads. But the time flew by. Wow, lately my posts are getting lamer and lamer and lamer. Honestly, *nothing* interesting is happening, or I just

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Had Bethany's “Save the Redheads” moral fund raiser. Mom sent Beth an article about the possibility of redhead extinction (which was debunked by three seconds of Google-ing, but I didn't want to ruin everybody's fun). It doubled as a St Patrick's Day party. We ate green food and drank green Kool-Aid. I made green icing, but I couldn't get it dark enough so I added almost a whole bottle of food

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This week was mom's birthday! She is currently >12 years old, and my only present for her was going over to Janice's house to help her paint Janice's bedroom. I hope Janice likes mom's present that I got her. I don't know what this “feature wall” nonsense is but I know I'll have none of it when I have a house! Unless the wall features Autobots. I'm down with that. My search for a second job

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Just found this on Vimeo. I ROFFLED. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

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Sorry about the lack of update last week. I've hit a serious writing slump that I just can't seem to shake.Within the last two weeks I started, and finished, the RPG “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.” Bought it before my mission but didn't have a computer that could run it until now. My computer renders the in game graphics better than the pre-rendered cut-scenes, oddly enough. That's what

Dan Lokhorsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977727226830153230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744693321767824119.post-49729752796262952052009-02-23T12:36:00.002-07:002009-02-23T12:39:51.723-07:00

I try to do these things Sunday night, but last night we re-did our wireless Internet and couldn't find the roommate that had the password for it. Bah, whatever.Work is still going well. Besides the fact that I'm discovering strange cuts and small burns on my hands that I don't notice until a few hours after my shifts are finished. They guys that have been working the “recruit area” (dish pit)

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Fairly eventful week, for a change. Dad and I went car shopping, and we, after painstaking research which involved a colour coordinated spreadsheet, decided to go with the Mazda3. The price was right, and the colour was “Galaxy Grey.” Pfft, forget that noise. I've seen this colour and it is GUNMETAL grey, punks. Now all I need is money to actually buy gas to drive it.On Thursday Mom and dad came

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This week I saw "Slumdog Millionaire" with Janice. It is, in fact, avery good movie. But it is, however, NOT a movie that you eat snacksthrough. The outhouse scene at the beginning made it difficult toenjoy my popcorn. One thing I liked about the movie was how it wastold in flashbacks. Now this is cool, but it makes it difficult tonotice when the movie theatre places a roll of film incorrectly.

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As far as uneventful weeks go, this one was uneventastic. Still no job or any call-backs from the places I've applied.On Wednesday I went to WEM to buy a man purse (re: messenger bag). Found one that was almost exactly like the one I had to abandon on the mission. Good price, too. Also while I was there I was walking by the kiosks on the way to Zellers/Bay and a lady asked me if I had a minute to

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