Points

[c9]

• This week was hellish at work. One positive on it though is that I realized this was my first set of deeply frustrating days on the job since we moved to Kitchener, whereas in Halifax I encountered them far more frequently.
  
  
• Thursday night was our 1.5 year anniversary of our wedding, and 6.5 years since we met. I was teaching in Toronto, so my train didn't get me home until 7:30, at which point I had to leave immediately for rehearsal. I finally got home around 9:15. So we decided to celebrate on Swiss Chalet Friday. We went to Northern Thai, drank some wine, and watched TV. Low key.
  
  
• Saturday we went to the Christkindle Market at Kitchener City Hall, and saw the handmade Christmas ornaments, the handwoven wool blankets, the handcarved toy train sets, and the 4000 German movies for sale.
  
  
• City Hall also has some very unusual, and very phallic art displayed on the walls. It was some kind of combination of sponge toffee, plaster, and giant cocks. I wanted to take a picture to show you, because mere words could not describe.
  
  
• But our camera is misbehaving, and possibly dead. I recharged our rechargeable batteries, and it won't turn on at all. I have no real batteries, so I can't be 100% certain yet. Our camera was more than enough for us, so it would suck to have to buy a new one and learn all the new features all over again.
  
  
• We also got a rental car, shopped for a replacement vacuum belt, browsed at Chapters, and had lunch at East Side Mario's. Nothing too exciting.
  
  
• 20 minutes before we had to leave for a party, I decided that it might be a good idea to give myself a haircut. It took a while, but I finally got results I could stand. Like most of my projects, I ended up regretting it even though it's probably fine. It was at this point that I discovered the camera problem.
  
  
• Party was a lot of fun. A birthday/Christmas shindig at some friends' place. Met some nice people, spent a good hour focused on blind taste testing of Brick Lager compared to President's Choice something-or-other beer, both of which are bottled in Waterloo. Waterloo has only one significant brewery, so you can do the math. Of the five of us, three said they were the same, one chose PC beer, and I chose Brick as better. The whole point was to validate buying PC beer with the reasoning that it was actually the same beer, and therefore enjoy the $9/case savings.
  
  
• Today I finished the trim around the cabinets and countertop in the kitchen, finally. I put the covers back on the light switches and plugs, so that makes it official. The baseboards and floor are still in the "someday" column, but at least everything else is done. (done = good enough for now, holy fuck I'm sick of that kitchen, etc)
  
  
• Starting tomorrow, I move solely into a national role inside Polar Bear, as opposed to being partly owned by Kitchener, partly by London, and partly by our COO in Halifax. Now our COO owns me entirely, and has projects for me around the merger with CDI. What projects? I learn this tomorrow, apparently.
  
  
• Right now we're watching Hot Property, the British real estate giveaway show. Vinny loves the host, and wants to be European he says.

Comments

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

You should start trying to get in on the conferences we hold for MSFT partners. I'm speaking at the Office Developer Conference in March. You should come and heckle.

[c9.livejournal.com]

You're funny. Do you know how much that sort of thing costs? Not directly, but even if it was happening in Toronto it would cost me an entire day off work, and $50 or so just to get there. Polar Bear isn't, sadly, made of money. :)