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well, my last post was one of elation over the fact the penguins had advanced to the third round of the nhl playoffs against philadelphia. well, we smoked them in 5 games to advance to the finals for the first time in 16 years. we were playing detroit, who i hate b/c of [...]

so tonight bj, cliff and i went to the weaselhead pub just down the road.  and normally, it’s a fuckin dead place with nobody there.  we’re lucky if we account for only 25% of the customers.  anyways, now that school’s starting up next week, and the fact that we live really close (ie. 3 blocks [...]

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so last night bj and i went out with some of his cricket buddies. 3 brits and an aussie. it was a damn good time. one of the guys was just visiting for a couple weeks and is heading to back to the uk today. so anyways, he’s just going [...]

x92.9 is growing on me as a radio station.  some of the dj’s are just brutal to listen to, but they play some damn good tunes.  a nice mix of old-school alternative, newer hard rock stuff and indie.  i enjoy it.  plus, with a no-nickelback-guarantee how can you go wrong?  anyways, they’ve turned me onto [...]

so saturday night at the roadhouse dave busted out the sweetest line on a couple of girls. the bar was closing, the lights were on, and everyone was leaving. and dave was walking around looking for girls and drinks, and saw two girls drinking by the bar so he went up to them [...]

well, i’m back.  left my apartment wednesday afternoon at 2-ish.  got on the plane 6-ish.  had a 9 hour flight to vancouver.  sat there for 2 hours, then took a quick flight to calgary.  i didn’t sleep the whole time to try and force the jet lag thing, so i was pretty tired.  arrived 4:30-ish [...]

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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“just one more week.  just one more week.”…. that’s been the mantra of rich, hayley and i for the last 8 days.  that’s b/c last week thursday we were told that starting feb. 26 we would no longer be teaching afternoon [...]

well, i’m back from thailand.  i got back yesterday morning (the 1st) after being in thailand for 9 days.  it was pretty damn good. it ended up being more expensive than i’d hoped it would be, but meh… it’s just money.
so i left here right after school, and landed in bangkok at 1 am their [...]

well, i am now 27.  happy birthday to me i guess.  my dad got married when he was 27, so i guess that kind of puts the pressure on me…. crap.  now to find a woman…..
work today sucked.  the friggin lazy bastards were lazy and stupid about changing an ink cartridge when i asked them [...]

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Hipeponymous
By The Tragically Hip
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well, i think i’m buzzing enough to write about the bullshit i had to put up with this morning.  so i think i told you about how one morning a week we’ve got to be at school at 8:30 in the morning [...]