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k, so it's just after the 1st period, game one stanley cup final round Edmonton vs the Hurlacanes.
fucking don cherry is hilarious tonight!  he and ron mclean are on the ice while the players are doing their pregame crowd skate thing and he's yelling cause it's loud and gets clipped and he's all "holy shit!"  and my dad and i are laughin our asses off cause before the lockout the CBC had introduced this 7 second delay thing so they could censor him on coaches corner.
carolina crowd = fucking weak.  what is it with american crowds?  it's like they dont know theyre supposed to cheer.  it's like they are unaware that you should use your national anthem to pump everyone up, not lull them to sleep.  holy fuck.  the chick singing couldnt hit any of the notes hardly, sang way to quietly, and the whole crowd was dead.  im glad there were canadians in the crowd cause at least THEY were making noise.
so, we're up 1-0 after one period.  teams look pretty well even.  carolina's taken like three more penalties than the Oil so far.
we have the best penalty kill of the playoffs, they have the number one power play.  so far our number one penalty kill has turned them into the not so number one power play.

so....you know when people tell you to make sure you stop to look around and shit when youre all excited about something so you dont maybe miss out on some crucial detail that just might be pretty important to things?
yes well....
if you know anyone who wants a ticket to game two in Carolina in row 15 behind the goal....instead of the game four in edmonton....yeah well...you get the picture.

my sister and my grandpa are back from china after air canada fucked them over for two days in beijing and didnt do fuck all about it...know what they get for being stuck there without their luggage cause fucking AC wouldnt give it back?  a $200 travel voucher.  they were in china for two weeks.  somehow that doesnt seem to add up.  so i called the website assistance number and politely/angrily/demanded the phone number for complaints that they DONT have up on the website and got that.  fuckers.  real good job putting your company back together assholes, you waste how many millions having a special get together with celine dion for your workers and then you continue to screw over your customers.  yeah, great goddamn business values.
wayne and i got yelled at by one of the coahces from Bev Facey which is the high school right next to the athletic park.  we're finally turning on the irrigation which means major repairs and we have to check for leaks and Short Angry Gym Coach just happened to be on one of the fields when the water came on.  so they go to the field over, and the water comes on, so they go across the parking lot to the field i was working on til the line painter choked.  but i left some marking stuff there so they start heading to the field next to THAAAAt one which is closed indefinitely and wayne and i drive over and are like "nononon! this field is closed!" and buddy fucking starts screaming at us about having to move over a few fields.  not our problem.  even after we said "hey look all we have to do is take that rope and those pegs away and you can use that field" he's still all "YOU FUCKING TOLD ME I COULDNT DO THIS AND THIS and yadda yadda yadda."  ok,  Mr. Gym teacher guy, look, i know it must be hard to tell your students to go on the field and kick a ball around, so if that gives you that much stress and anger, maybe you should be an art teacher or something ok?  i bet you could do a nice patiche painting and call it "My Napolean Complex". only a gym teacher...
Carolina beat Buffalo in the East.  i didnt want edmonton to play carolina.  i want a ticket to one of the games here.  i have someone trying to get me one, and as soon as i find out when the hell theyre going on sale finally im gonna try too, but most likely i'll be watching on a tv.
i kind of want pudding right now...

I just saw a piece on The Hour about this new game called Second Life.  they had the creator saying that it was a really good idea for people to encompass themselves without hesitation into a completely virtual world that is in essence a second life.
maybe he didnt hear about the guy in Korea that died from playing multiplayer games for 56 hours straight?  or how kids are being neglected by parents because of games like WoW and Everquest?
he also said that theres no need to worry about the dichotomy of play and work because you can make real money playing this game by trading game money for real money.  to me all this does is signal a very addictive game that will undoubtedly ruin a lot of lives.
the guy who made it should go read some Sherry Turkle and then maybe he'd realize that MUDs arent a new thing and that maybe they arent the best thing in the world to be involved in.
Living in virtuality and living in parallel with it are two things that are getting harder to do and still maintain any sort of grasp on the real world.  if you happen to know anyone who starts to play it, keep an eye on them because a game of this scope will most likely have a visible impact on their real world social life.

today was kind of one of those days where it feels like life up and kicked you in the teeth but instead of falling down you just let it hurt and try to get past it which isnt always the easiest thing in the world.  definietly on the low end working back up right now.

uploaded another audio file i did.  called Live Free.  finished it last night.
im going through all my lego cause i want to know how many LEGO guys i have then i might watch a movie and built a sweet ass space ship.

i uploaded two more audio files.  one is a remix i did of Only by NIN, and then other i came up with this morning that i thusly dubbed Stricken.  i ran it through two, then four, then five speaker...sounds best through four when you cut out the center channel if you happen to have surround sound.
i took a picture of a bee today.  i actually walked up under it and tried to zoom in as close as i could.  then i think it didnt like that and just about flew into my face and my mom laughed at me.
meh.
gonna watch the oilers not shit the bed tonight.

i uploaded a new instrumental...'Wander'.
i got my hands on the RCHP discography, minus Stadium Arcadium, but that's easy to fix.
I went to see X3 today.  7 out of 10.
i turned my being bored into fucking around on the guitar today.
my dad and i were going to go down to the red deer valley tomorrow to go prospecting, but it's gonna be crappy weather down there, so we're waiting til it's warmer and drier.
so now i have to find something to do tomorrow.  oh well.
there are two things that happen in shitty weather, one that i like, one that i dont.
I dont like that rainy weather makes more mosquitos show up.
i do like that rainy weather keeps the bees and wasps away.  not a big fan of bees and wasps.  never have been.  never been stung, have no intention of ever getting stung.  running away is simpler.  and at work people would laugh when i would do that, but then theyd do the same thing so HAH!
i feel like im getting in a better mood as the night shall wear on, so hopefully this will keep going and tomorrow i'll be right happy and smiley!

im tired and sore.  and schmeh.  all day ive felt schmeh.  i sat down with the intention of coming up with another song, but i got about 5 bars into the drum line and just couldnt get into it.  i know what i want it to sound like, but i cant seem to get it to sound like how i want just yet.
oilers lost 6-3.  theyre up 3-1 in the series.  they'll win.  then off to the cup finals.  one more win and theyre there.
i want to sleep but i dont think i can.  it feels like a tossing and turning night ahead.  i could always hit my head real hard and knock myself out...

i need a hair cut...it is encroaching into my field of vision...
oilers are up 3-2 in the series.
it is sunny and warm.
i can bust out my pseudo shit fashion not cowboy cowboy hat.
my sister is gong to china for two weeks on wednesday.
i sunburned my nose a bit and it makes me want to sneeze a lot.

fuck...come on oilers what the fuck was that?

its my dad's birthday today.  it's smelly danielly's birthday today. its one of the dj's on The Bear's birthday today.  happy birthday y'all.
i bought the Stabilo cd today.  its good.
whats not so good is the 2-1 loss that the oilers had in San Jose.
we'll pick it up.
um...and why the fuck is Mark Crawford one of the commentators on TSN right now talking about this game?  Sorry, didnt you get fired cause youre team didnt make it?
i want some new shades.  i dont need any, but it'll give me an excuse to go to a Buffalo store to see if they have any.

wooooooooooooooooo!!!!! ok, so edmonton played fucking shitty hockey for the first two periods.  more than made up for it in the third. and i bet all those people in detroit who bought second round tickets are real happy right now.
BRING ON THE FLAMES!!! CALGARY SUCKS!!!

my sister convinced me to go play tennis with her tonight.
i must begrudgingly concede to having enjoyed it.
i may have to play again.

ok, im all unpacked again.  only a whole province away from vancouver. for four months.  no ocean for pat for the summer.

ive got this one song from DDR stuck in my head cause its been playing almost constantly throughout the course of this video project.
in the last three days ive been in this lab...prett close to 40 hours so far.
i havent died nor gone crazy nor thrown anything yet.
we have to have it done today.
other people in my group want to go out and get more footage today.
...
whatever...ive put like 18 hours worth of solid editing into it so far. they all know im working my ass off on it.
tomorrow morning i have my only exam which i havent had much chance to study for because of the video.
we'll see how that goes.
then i pack up whats left in my room, and go stay in north van for a few days then head home.
hokay, back to the grind.

so, today the duress has begun.  im gonna go abso-fucking-lutely nuts in the next week.
im betting that by my kinesiology exam next thursday i'll be so fucking high strung you wont want to come near me.
my dad gets here on monday.  him and my uncle are moving a bunch of my shit over to my aunt and uncles on tuesday.
we're supposed to have a mini screening of our DDR project for my kids culture class on thursday after my exam is over.  think i'll ask if they want to head up and watch.
my dad always wonders exactly what kinds of projects i do, so i might as well show him the most fun one so far.
apparently we're ordring like pizza and beer for the screening.  i hope the beer is free. after that fucking kines exam, i dont care if it'll only be 11:30 in the morning, im gonna need a fuckin beer.
i smell cookies...i must investigate...

so im not sure why at this point near the end of the semester im not pulling my hair out.
i was the other day but not the last few days.  i should be.  im going to hit a wall of busy soon and i know this but im all calm.

i uploaded a new song i did yesterday.  junker.  check it out.

i started packing today.  im not leaving til next week, but i'll be busy enough that i wont have much time to anyway so im gonna get it out of the way.

I'm fucking sick of the little beasties we call germs.  or viruses.  of bacteria.  or whatever else they get called.  i would rather enjoy it if they left me the hell alone.
so last week im all "yay! no more germs!"
and this week im like "fuuuuuuuuck"
it hasnt done anything to help with getting assignments done.  monday i went on a writing binge for 12 hours and got one of my final essay sout of the way.  then tuesday i wake up and it sucks.  then yesterday i didnt even get up to go to class.  and when i did get up, i didnt really feel tired, but the whole sensation of the world jusy sort of existing on a fucking spinning teeter totter really sucked.  try walking around campus to drop stuff off and trying not to look like youre drunk at 11am when all you really want to do is curl up in a ball somewhere and hope that something falls on your head and renders you unconcious.  now it's settled in my throat.  which sucks cause when i get a sore throat i have trouble sleeping.  i think ive been averaging 3 to 4 hours of real sleep in the last four days.the rest is that tossy turny shit that does no good.
i think before i move back home for the summer im going to try something.  im going to get rid of lots of material goods in my room that really have no function.  i think this is like...my degree brainwashing me...but whatever.  what's a DVD? its a disc in a plastic case.  thats all.  its really not that functional when you think about it.
ok...i have to drag my sorry as to class...whic i may cut and run from early to come back and sleep more and then do some more work that needs doing.

my eyes hurt.  maybe i should have majored in visual arts, at least that way by now instead of doing essays every weekend i could be throwing paint at a wall or something.  not that i couldnt do that anyway, but i dont think i get much credit for it.