Moving Day

I happen to be moving houses tomorrow and I thought I'd just give a little heads up to anyone who still reads this crap-ass blog. It's nothing major in the way of relocation, we're only moving a couple of kilometres away, but still right within the city of London.

The thing that sucks is that I have to work tonight, which of course means I'll be at work until 3AM, minimum. Then I have to trek over to the new apartment and sleep there for the night, at which point I'll have to get up around 8AM to let the damned movers in.

It's going to be a rough, exhausting weekend; I've already decided that.

Am I Wrong?

Am I wrong, or does the government suck?

Recently in Canada, Parliment Hill chose not to lower the federal flags in memorium of the four Canadian soldiers that recently died in Afghanistan. They cited their reason as being that we have a day of Remembrance on Nov 11th every year, in remembrance of the end of WWI, and to honour all veterans who have died in the service of Canada. Good, I understand and wholly support Remembrance Day and I'm proud to have a day where we get to honour our veterans of past and present, however what the Government did was hold a vote to see whether they would lower the flags to half or not. The indecision made their answer seem like a slap in the face to the families of those recently deceased soldiers.

I believe that the Government should be unyielding in the upholding of the laws of state, it's the fact that they had the internal rumbling enough to have to hold the vote, like some the members of Parliament, don't know their own laws. Whenever our government is featured on the news, I'm almost embarrassed to be Canadian.

Shape up guys, or we'll ship you out.

Abstract Signature Tutorial

Spending Money is Fun

So I got paid yesterday, and of course the first thing I did was head to the mall to cash the cheque and spend as much of it as humanly possible before work this evening. I picked up a couple of shirts, a pair of shorts, and some new Reeboks to replace the falling apartness of my old sneaks. I also picked up The DaVinci Code and Robert Sawyer's Hominids, along with some assorted school supplies.

Does anyone else find it odd that a Canadian based fast food chain called Harvey's just introduced a new sandwich called the Texan Burger. I guess it lets all the dumb Americans feel right at home when they come up here for a bite to eat. I don't know, there's really not a whole lot of substance to this post, I just felt like rambling a bit.

I've been getting some demands to post up some more Photoshop Tutorials, so if anyone else would like to see some more things of that nature, please let me know with a comment or an email. And let me know what you'd like to learn how to do in Photoshop, so I can get some ideas on what subjects to post tutorials on.

Belated 420

Happy 'late' 420 everyone, sorry I haven't been around much, but work keeps me pretty busy and when I'm not working, I'm drinking. Hopefully you'll understand. Anyways, the point of this entry is just to hope that everyone had a safe and dissentful Marijuana Smoking Day. In case you're not a toker, you should know that April 20th is Marijuana Smoking Day because of the fact that the date can be read as "420", which is a common slang for the time of day kids used to smoke up after school/detention.

Unfortunately no one really knows the origin of the term exactly, but it's believed to have been derived from LA kids who would spend all day in school and not be able to puff any chronic until 4:20 in the afternoon. That's the theory anyways.



Happy smoke everyone!

Chris Slate, PSM Magazine

I recently had an encounter with the editor in chief of the publication PSM, based in California. After having been requested to make a banner to voice the concerns of one moderator over nothing being fixed around PSM's Online Discussion Forum, I put the banner into my signature. After returning to the forums the next day, I found myself banned, over calling someone a tool over the Internet. Well apparently the "Personal Attack" I made on Chris Slate, didn't sit too well with Chris Slate, and I was promptly banned without even being notified, or going through the forum's 3 strikes and you're out policy.

After some rabble rousing from my friendly forumites, I was reinstated to previous forum status the next day. Although I hold no grudge against Chris Slate personally, he needs to grow up and get a sense of humour.

Also, I'd like to thank all of the forum members that came to my defense over the unfair banning of the forum's most prominent member... me. It would take too long to list all of the names who supported me, but I want to personally thank Stephen P. Nobles IV for sticking up for me the entire time, after all, he was the one who asked for the offending banner to be made. I'd also like to personally thank Aimee (faerietalegoddess) because of her staunch words to both Steve and Chris who got a little off topic with all of their cock waving.

Once again, thanks guys, except Kgod, the biggest bitch on the forums.