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Welp, looks like my plans to go see some St. Michael’s places are going to disappear.  It would cost over £ 120 to do the trip, and that doesn’t include the cost of a hotel either.  So looks like that plan is gone.  The only really feasible way to do it is wait until a [...]

Well, I’ve uploaded all my xanga posts using a script, but it screwed a bunch of them up.  A bunch of them it skipped the actual post and just did what i was listening to at the time.  Which sucks.  So now either I try and do it all using a different script (and paying [...]

Yeah that’s right.  I’m back baby.  Sweet trip from Calgary.  Sat in Toronto for a couple hours b/c of a missed flight.  But that was the worst part.  Oh yeah, and the England train system is a complete rip-off.  £ 90 from London to Blackpool.  Bastards.
Also, don’t remember writing that post below.  Just throwing that [...]

Well, yesterday I finally took the time to upload some pictures of the house to my flickr page.  So either click the link to the right, or follow http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_der  These are pictures on the day we took possession.  Since then a lot’s been painted and just plain ripped apart, so when I get back to [...]

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 [...]

Well, here it is.  The final day.  I leave my apartment in 7 hours, am on a plane in 11.  Then 13 hours later I arrive in Calgary… 2 hours before I leave.  Stupid date-line making me lose time…  oh well.
Anyways, guess I’ll catch you guys on the flip side.

In 55 hours I will be leaving on a jet plane.  Today is my last day of work.  It’s going to be a sad one.  Mainly the morning b/c that’s when all my favourite students will be there.  But after today… sweet, sweet freedom from the management and all it’s stupidity.  That’ll be a great [...]

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5 days and counting.  i’m both looking forward to leaving and getting back to calgary and all my buddies back there.  as well as my old job of landscaping, as crazy as that may sound.  the long hours, and hard work, will [...]

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, it’s a thursday night, and i’m feeling fantastic b/c tomorrow evening i take off for thailand for 8 days.  it’s going to be friggin awesome.  i land in bangkok just after midnight, where my buddy cliff is waiting for me.  then we’re going to head to phuket for the week, and then back to [...]