Hey everyone!
I have Internet.....finally and only sort of....
For this term, our house decided to get a third party DSL provider, "The Higher Technology", cause roger's was crap last term. Well this one is even crappier. It makes even surfing difficult and ICQ doesn't work properly all the time :( We are currently looking into changing it...hopeful this problem will be rectified soon.
I ended the summer, which seem so long ago, with quite a bit of golfing actually. One of the GTAA's clients took a whole bunch of GTAA employees to play one day. And lucky me, i was included :) So i had the family car and drove all the way out to brampton. My boss received the wrong directions, which passed onto me and i just arrived there in time... A cell phone would have been really really useful that day, cause i ended up at a gas station consulting a map. BTW, i did finally get one. I opted for an expensive one, the motorola V60. It's a good phone, but that hurt the wallet! but i like it so much..... as jo says, i'm a phone ho. anyway, i got a really good plan, $20 for unlimited weekend&weeknights + 150 daytime mins. Plus i got all the extra goodies... if you can't tell already, i went to a chinese place all the way out in markham to get it, but it was well worth it. It was just a room w/ some computers in it on the 2nd floor of some chinese plaza. A quirky thing they had there was washroom keychains that were empty phone shells. And the place was absolutely packed w/ chinese people. But on second thought, after looking at the bill, the nokia 8390 probably would have been fine, but i like this one much better... it's a very masculine phone, unlike the vast majority of phones out there.
Anyway, back to my golfing story, the result of not having a phone to get the proper directions meant i couldn't order a full lunch. And since we were being taken out be this other company, everything was free! And trust me, i took advantage of that. Oh man, everytime the beverage cart came over i was ready to order something. So i got free alcholic drinks (only had one since i was driving), a free lunch (which consisted for two sausages cause i didn't have enough time b4 my tee time), free snacks for 4-5 hours (candy bars, chips, sports drinks etc), free use of a golf cart, free golf balls, a free dinner, a hat, a yoyo and a pen. And of course the golfing was free. Overall a very good day. On a side note, my golf game blows....really badly. Man, it was pretty ugly. oh well, no one was serious on the golf course, which is the way it should be. I ended up at softball practice after and i must say golf had totally exhausted me. You may think it's a low impact sport, but it's actually pretty tiring. After the softball practice we went to someone's home for some DDR and just hanging out. i was completely exhausted at this point and had trouble keeping awake. So really, golf can be an exhausting sport, b/c you're constantly moving around for like 5 hours.
I also went to another golf course the next week with Whanger and Dave Clement, where i also sucked. The highlight was definitely whanger almost hitting someone... let's just say it was a very close call and it wasn't much appreciated by the other golfer. Besides that, it was fun, but i think i've decided to retire from the game of golf at the age of 21....i am just that bad at it. I might pick it up again later if i can get some proper instruction and improve.
The 72 oz steak challenge i will describe in bloody detail next time...
But for this weekend i went back to toronto on the fed bus, which is only the second time i've ever had to take. usually i'm able to find a ride. The FED bus is a cheese wagon, and those r no fun over long distances. So when i got back, i went out for dinner w/ my parents, met up with jo, di and matt at demetres, went to pac mall and dinner with Kitty the next day and started absolutely no school work. Oh well that's what i get for going home. i got to drive my new Accord around though, which was fun :) (2002 special edition, for those who cared). Such a snap decision by my family to buy it, but we got a really good deal on it, so everyone's happy.
This week promises to be full of labs (3 alone this week!) and work.... although i am going to the dimensions dance on wed and kitty and i r going to try to join Social Dance at the Columbia Icefields on thursdays, which should be fun :)
Till next time, which i hope is soon, Lates,
--Nels
