xmas
Wow, in a month it will all be over, Boxing Day and all. It amazes me how much faster this season creeps up on me every year.
Been busy burning CD's and DVD's to give as extra gifts this year, and making t-shirt designs. Would go into detail, but that would give away the surprise to those who are receiving said items.
I have a job interview next week. Yep, possibly back into the college AV field with a part-time AV desk clerk gig at Medicine Hat College. I'm quite looking forward to it, if only to be active and structured in some way for the first time since I got here. People..contact..something to do..all good things.
If the January offer from All Star goes through to help pull cable at the Esplanade during the installation process, I'll try to work both of them at the same time. The only drawback will be if the total money works out to less than I get on EI, it wouldn't make much sense to try and work 7 days a week and take home less than I do now. But we'll see.
slacker
Yeah, I know, lack of posts lately. Was in Edmonton for a few days visiting family. Never had a chance to call many friends, but seeing as I saw just about everybody a few weeks ago, I figured they'd all understand.
Not a lot else going on..'scuse me while I go try to think of something to write about.
what if
What if in addition to Luke and Leia being brother and sister, their parents were , too?
movies seen
Mean Girls- Not a bad teen flick, didn't live up to the hype, I thought. Favourite moment..Tim Meadows as the irate principal, addressing the students ater a riot.
"I will keep you here ALL NIGHT if I have to..."
Other teacher/admin person "We an only keep them until four..."
"I will keep you here until four."
The Incredibles- Pretty darn good. I thought aspects of it would be really annoying, but I didn't find that at all. I'm thankful there was no singing.
Walking Tall- Not bad, better than I expected. Hokey, but to be expected. The first half was better, kind of went dumb near the end, but you know, what do you want, high art from beginning to end?
Napoleon Dynamite- Finally got to see it..pretty good, some prety damn funy parts. Not quite up to the hype, maybe it's just me, but some parts are sublty really funny.
Jersey Girl- Liked what Kevin Smith was trying to do here, but I think Ben affleck was wrong for this one. or maybe he just gets on my nerves. Movie was lacking, too. Kevin, you can do better.
Sorry, no links. I'm lazy. Go find'em your damn selves.
remembrance day
Yes, November 11 is Remembrance Day. I always observed the moment of silence growing up, and yes, I was always happy for the day off.
I don't really know anyone else whose father actually served in World War II. My dad is 84 this year. He served in the Canadian Navy during the war. I remember finding out that he was claustrophobic as I was growing up. He didn't like doors to be closed behind him, and amusement park submarine rides were definitely among his least favourite things (although I do remember him taking me on at least one. Goes to show that thoug he hated it, he put up with it for me.) He did a lot for me, come to think of it, from the rides, to the movies (I'm sure he saw Star Wars about a dozen more times than he ever wanted to, and many other movies that were just plain bad), to driving all over the city looking for that one Star Wars vehicle or acton figure I just had to have at the time.
The only thing I can think of that he hated more than the enclosed spaces was the TV show Bewitched, and maybe I Dream of Jeannie. but that's another story. I digress.
So, where was I? Claustrophobic from the subs in the navy.
My dad just went into the hospital for assesment of several issues. I happened to be in Edmonton on the day he was admitted, so I went with my mom to give her a hand. I found out something that I never knew.
At least part of my dad's time in the navy was on a minesweeper. I knew that he was in the cook's department, and that he had the fear of enclosed spaces, and that he either assisted, pefrormed, or just watched, the piercing of sailor's ears with a piece of gut when the crossed the International Date Line while sailing, but I never knew anything else about his time there.
I found out that day that his minesweeper was not expected to come back.
That's a little jarring. "not expected to come back". Not expected to survive.
I'm glad he did. Otherwise, he would have never met my mom, or had me or my brothers and sisters.
Remembrance Day has a little more meaning for me this year knowing that.
november
I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone..already into the second week in November. A month from now, we'll be well into the Christmas rush, stressing over who gets what, and trying to squeeze in all the visiting that's required. Two months from now, it'll be all over, New Year's and all, and real life will be trying to resume itself. And I'll be a few weeks away from thirty-crappin-five years old.
I'm second guessing the whole travel counsellor thing, now. I know, I sounded pretty excited about it, but the gov't pogram I wanted to fund it doesn't sound too optimistic anymore, some of the places I contacted to fulfil the "research questionaire" haven't bothered to get back to me, and I just can't see any big opportunities in Medicine Hat once I'm done. There may be jobs, but the pay is so low that I can't really justify it.
So, I'm back to square one. If we'll be paying for my education myself, I really want to be sure it's the right thing. I would like to get a degree..have wanted to do that for a few years. I am not sure about the next four years as a full-time student, though. That money thing. Maybe if I find a decent job in the meantime, I can still go for it on a part-time basis. A BA with a major in film studies or film production, perhaps?
If that's the case, I need to work now. Stay in AV? Becoming a possibility, but again, the whole living-in-Medicine-Hat thing might be a problem. Unless I use the few contacts I do have here (and there aren't that many) to really push for something in the private sector. I think I'd like to expand my almost-zero-knowledge in video conferencing, seems to be a huge part of advanced AV jobs anywhere in Canada.
I found some awesome jobs to apply for in Toronto, but that doesn't really go with the current plan. nor would said jobs pay enough to keep us in our current lifestyle as homeowners. Nah, we're not going anywhere quite yet, so I must find a way to make it work here for the next few years at least.
I did apply for a part-time AV job at the Medicine Hat College library. Just enough hours to get me out of the house, and I'll take it, at this point, if they'll have me. And, keeping with the networking, beter to have something that gives me access to people, and investigate everything else for the future.
I also will soon meet with the folks from All Star Show Industries, who will be doing the Esplanade AV installation. hat would also serve to get me out of the house, and add installaton/pulling cable to my resume.
If, down the road, I could say I have a degree, nearly ten years of experience at the college, some video conferencing experience, and some installation work, maybe I could land the type of AV position that would make me happy, and allow a move to different locale, pending wifely approval, of course.
Too soon to plot that kind of road map, I think the next six months will just see me winging it, but with something along those lines as an eventual goal.
i am such a child
heh heh..make computer say bad words.
omg
This had me in tears, and I've never even played The Sims. I think I must begin.
windy
Crap, it's windy here today.
From The Weather Network at 3:58 PM today.
WIND W 57 km/h
GUSTS 78 km/h
It always does this after garbage day, when there's an opportunity to blow the cans down the alley and make me go after them. Luckily, they hadn't gone anywhere yet.
saw
Saw Saw last night..saw saw, ha ha.
What a piece of crap. Save your money. It wasn't intense. It wasn't innovative. It wasn't scary. It wasn't any of the things I'd heard about it.
It licked my nuts.
stupid dog
Have you ever seen anything more pathetic than a dog trying to get into a bed two sizes too small?
the trip
Had a good time this weekend. It was great too see the people I saw at Alex's wedding, and especially good to see Mike again after four months of living in separate cities.
We even made it to an old co-worker's Halloween party afterwards..after a quick stop at an open-late Shoppers Drug Mart, we even arrived costumed, more-or-less. Mike had the Elvis look going for him, while I chose the adult Eddie Munster style. In this one, with our gracious host for the evening, Mike looks more like Silvio from the Sopranos.
'twas a fun weekend.
