Network Down

Yah I had no network all morning. I couldn't access files or the net for a while... so i just sat and doodled in paint. This guy is the only one who got colored though, so I thought I'd share lol.

Yet another sig

And it's only been a couple days with the dang bird! =)

Oh well, I know I'll still use my beloved bunny sigs!

Meet Griff

So yup we officially have a budgie now. Anywho, our little half-griffin was a free flying resident in Moose Jaw. My grandmother had a budgie she kept in a cage while she had coffee out on her porch every morning. She took her budgie (caged) out with her for company. For the past month or so this Blue budgie (Griff) has been landing on the cage and just happy as can be. Now that it's starting to get cool in the evenings, she's been getting worried about the bird (and not wanting another bird) asked if I would catch and keep him. So I agreed to. He is very very talkative- I swear he mimics 20 wild birds- but hasn't been finger trained (or chose to forget it ;D)

So I guess he's my new project. I'm just going to get him used to hands in his cage for a while. He actually could care less until I stick a finger out and tell him "Up". Then he jumps to a different perch, and back again. If you stick your face close to the cage, he'll jump right to ya to get a better look. I can kiss him on the beak and the most he'd do is gently nibble back, sometimes he just sits there curious to what I'm doing.

My favorite thing is watching him go bizerk in the mirror though, it's comical and cute.

Noob is on my parents farm at the moment. His year of terror has come to a close on our appartment, and it smells a lot nicer ;D. If Griff is a good bird he'll be getting a new cage for Christmas. I still have to go out and buy him some proper food and toys. Should be fun times ^^.


Cheers!

Bad Drivers

I participate in a carpool. By participate I mean sleep 3/4 of the month when it isn't my turn to drive the rest of my coworkers to work.

Well I woke up in a relatively energetic/good mood last day. So I thought I'd save my neck and stay awake for the 35min car ride to work at 6:15 am. Because I'm usually asleep I really didn't realize how bad of a driver one of them was.

Turning right at a red light, she was inches away from creaming a guy on a bike. Enough to make the 2 half asleep men in the back shout out WOAH! She apologizes and keeps driving. The whole way to work she stays in the passing lane, lets cars pass her, and then she passes them 5 min later....but never switches back and ends up slowing down again, forcing people to pass in the wrong lane.

*Work*

On the way home, there is heavy traffic leaving the plant. Looking both ways before turning onto the highway, she forgot another valuable place to look... forward. Again, waking the passengers from their sleepy bliss to shout STOP!! She giggles and says "sorry, I'm a scary driver." (I agree silently) Now to any other driver on the highway, her driving definatly was worrying. She was swerving across the lanes, onto the rumblestrip, back the other way, etc. because she was texting on her cell phone the entire trip back. Fun times. I thought we'd get pulled over for what appeared to be drunk driving =P. Well we get back into town and she pulls up to a light. We intend to turn left and she misses the arrow due to traffic, no worries, we'll go when it's yellow right? Well she pulls halfway into the intersection, like one should, but when the light turns yellow...then red. She doesn't turn! Now the other cars are trying to go around her... she says " I guess I'm a bit far out" and starts backing up. Why didn't she just finish the turn!? That's legal. Backing up is not! It's a pet peeve of mine heh. Well she makes the turn next time (wide at that...all her turns usually end up in the other lane, even though she has a tiny car. I find it amusing when cars in the oncoming lane have to stop because she on their side...) and stops at the first house to drop one guy off. In the middle of the road she stops dead. This road has traffic too. She drops the rest of us off again, in the middle of the road... I had to wait because cars were coming lol. I was scared I was going to get hit! It's not like there aren't places to pull over, both streets are always empty of cars, she just chooses to not pull up.

There are some other stories, but I think you gathered the jist of my rant.

L2Drive people! No one is perfect but... my god.

More Paint Guys

This one was for a card. My coworker had a baby so I themed my picture as such =)

The next one is Seymore, my raid leader's dog heheh.

Not much new. Had a Big Bike Race for the Heart and Stroke foundation at work today. We raised $38,500 so that's cool =). I only have another week left of work and then I'm done. School starts soon and I can barely contain myself with excitement (warning:may have contained some sarcasm). A few days to myself will be nice, and school (the first 2 weeks) is always a welcome change.

What I Do at Work

(and probably shouldn't be) EDIT:- added one from today, da piggy!-

They just gave me photoshop to edit some Potash core pictures. But. I'm done that now. Wouldn't want photoshop to go to waste! =)

Kinda Creepy

Work is kinda creepy. Especially Cluster checks. Each building has a doorknob with grease, bird shit, something usually nasty on it. Not only that, is that some really really need to be grasped hard and forced open, so not only do my hands get nasty, my shoulder/side does too lol. Okay, we're in the poorly lit building now, most are over 80 decibles (require ear plugs). I walk through about 3-5 spider webs, and birds fly past me out the door. If I have to check the "basement" I usually spot a mouse or two. These pipes all leak a certain amount, leaving crusty crystal formations, mud, and a generally salty musty humid smell. I use my clipboard to fend myself from the cobwebs, although some get past my ingenious defenses.

Sorting out which pipe goes where through the hot dingy musty humid loud and usually dark buildings is not as fun as it sounds ;D.

I also forgot to mention that the floors are just... thin bars, can't remember the wording for it, but you can see the nastiness below you as you walk around too ^^.

Just thought I'd share my insight. =D

HARRRRRRRrrr

My pinky is infected and hurts. No more capitals or p's and such k? It's annoying. kk implementing painless typing, now.

i woke u today to a sore jaw, i must have been grinding my teeth or something strange. not really sure. no gutter jokes, but its been buggin me all week. cra i cant hit enter either. i am so ready for the weekend, i have ssc, free time, and then going to the jaw to get drunk with me folks and watch fireworks. hoefully my new comuter comes on monday or tuesday, im retty umed about it. it has 360 gb harddrive, 7200geforce video card, 2gb ram and dual core roccessor. right now i have 80gb harddrive, some radeon iece of shit card, 1.5 gb ram, and an intel celeron. not to mention that it comes with a 19 inch widescreen flat moniter. woot. anyways thought id let you guys know whats new and such. here is a ic of me wanting to go home.

GUI targets

No I lied, this is not about gui or targets.... Guitars. Perry aquired one from his family over the weekend and is teaching himself to play. So sexy =).

I have to tell stories though. Perry and his cousins went to the after grad party and got pretty sloshed. I watched movies with the folks and we drank at home. I was fast asleep in the armchair when he got back around 6AM. He stumbled to the camper, stripped to his PJ's, couldn't find me so wandered to the house and fell asleep on the rocking chair near me. I awoke to Perry pulling my blanket away from me. I'm like perry, you are sitting on a blanket, this is my blanket, we can't share across the room etc. Since he was so insistant I gave it to him, which promptly fell off when he let go. I took it back and tugged his blanket out from under his bum. He set the folded blanket on his lap and nodded off. I awoke again to perry sitting on the bottom of the reclining chair (which closes it). He promptly fell on his bum and fell asleep on the floor.

I thought it was pretty funny, he obviously doesn't remember, but I recognize sleep-walking when I see it lol. I have never seem him move, just talk in his sleep.

Sorry for going backwards with this post, but on the way to his cousin's grad, we bottomed out my car, knocking both belts off. My car also aquired a nail, rendering it flat. Fun times.

Waiting on the weekend

Hello again! Not much new around these here parts. Work is just as slow as usual, even had time to throw in an inside joke for scorp on the forums.

Aunt Flo came to visit this week and I must say the pain is annoying. I've drugged myself up as much as possible, but i still get back pain, and even my leg muscles cease up. This coupled with a break out every month is just annoying. I wish I had one of them fancy danglin things.

Sorry to be graphic.

I saved all of this weeks work for today. Probably amounted to a good 5 or 6 hours of work (/9) so that's cool. The day went by a lot quicker when i had stuff to do. I have one task left but didn't want to start with only 40 min left in the day.

I got some bad news last night too, my grandmother has cancer and isn't doing so hot, and my brother lost his job and needs a new place to stay/ look for work.

Seriously... if he could do the dishes and clean up after noob, he could live with us for free ><. Regina has to have more job oppertunites than Rosetown.

Another less shitty but still shitty news item is that Perry asked to not work closing shifts for the pure fact he'd literally NEVER see me. Since I go to work before any sane person should be awake, and come home at 5:30pm, he leaves midday and comes home just as I want to go to bed. That's a whole 30min- 1 hour I could see him face to face in a day. Plus if I wanted to quest/ instance with him its pretty much out of the question.