The Mriswith's Cave

I will be back in Kingston because my company's Kingston office is having their Christmas party. Let me know if people are around that weekend and want to do something as I'm pretty sure I won't want to spend the entire weekend with my parents.

In other news, my Monoprice order of cables showed up letting me rewire where some stuff is. No longer do I have some coaxial cable functioning as a trip wire to those trying to sneak into my living room via the bathroom. Now the only thing missing is my component cable for the Wii. Once that is in place, I can start bundling up the wires and making that part of the room neater. The second room is still in its disaster zone state. I wanted to tidy it up today, but not just seemed so much easier. Perhaps tomorrow.

In short, I don't have any, which is something I can't allow. I mean, I'm in the Toronto area now! I can't just stay home! Anyway, if anyone has suggestions or is willing to let me tag along, let me know.

I'm sure everyone has seen I'm On A Boat by The Lonely Island



So I'm planning to go as some version of T-Pain from the video. Depends on time and how creative I feel, but it will probably the tuxedo version since I have a black suit (without tails though) that I never wear anymore and a black top hat. Thing is, I don't have dreadlocks wig. Anyone have one I can borrow or know where I can get one relatively cheap?

Posting from the comfort of a sleeping bag on the floor of my new apartment using my BlackBerry. My belongings arrive tomorrow afternoon. Yay!

is where I'll be living starting October 1! That's right. My recent trip to the GTA concluded in me renting a two-bedroom basement apartment in Vaughan. I'm very excited about the place and the only foreseeable downside is that I don't have a doorbell so people will need to call me on cell phone or be punctual. However, the upsides are numerous - immaculate, potlights, storage area, laundry, cable, more counter space than I have now, double basin kitchen sink, and more.

Contemplating getting my 2010 season pass now since it's only $60 and will get me one free admission for the current season.

So I'm calling places to check out apartments tomorrow and one of the places I'm interested in is this place. I noticed that in the description they list "Christian home" but I didn't think too much of it. So I call and the woman doesn't want to rent to me because eleryth aren't married. She said that she taught her kids and her kids are teaching their kids that first you get married and then you live together and having a couple living there that was not married would go against those teachings. I'm not bothered by this, I politely said thankyou and ended the call, but I am confused. I thought you couldn't discriminate tenants on things like marital status or religion. Ah well, back to the phones.

Yesterday was my negative first wedding anniversary! Finding it hard to believe there is less than a year until the wedding.

How am I sick in AUGUST?!

So I've been avoiding this subject because other stuff was going on that I didn't want to detract from, but I think now is a good. The short version is that I'll be moving to the GTA by October for my new job.

The long version is that my company is launching a new initiative based in the Richmond Hill office. Don't want to talk about specifics on the internet, but It's pretty cool so ask me about it in person. Anyway, while the upper level people were planning it out way back, my name came up as being someone they wanted involved. Some time after that they asked if I was interested in the project, to which I said yes. I was also told that I shouldn't talk about this until stuff became more concrete. There was weeks of lull after that while logistics were being figured out. Then while Erica was here, I got the actual letter of offer. Then there was the standard negotiation period over the offer and all that. That went on for a while, during which I still couldn't talk about it, until finally a week ago papers were signed. But with Erica's going away and sariannastar's birthday, I didn't want to say anything.

Anyway, I've already given notice on my apartment. Need to be out of here by the end of September. Haven't quite tracked down a new place to live, that comes next. Cool part is that work will pay to relocate me and will cover two nights' stay for the purpose of locating a new place. Plus I get to transition out of my current job during the month of September by spending part of the week here and part in Richmond Hill -- expenses covered.

But yeah, end of era, beginning of a new one.

I Survived a Japanese Game Show -- Is it really necessary to blur out the butt of a sumo wrestler when their wearing the fundoshi? ABC seems to think so.

Hell's Kitchen -- How does getting in a fight with Chef Ramsay help you win the show?

SYTYCD - Tonight's bottom four was one short of my beginning of the season predictions for the top 4. I was so sure the girl who was let go would make it to the finale.

Less than 2.5 days to go!

I swear this almost made me pee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig

Poor Planner - Meant to post this days ago, but crazy work schedule got in the way. I'll be seeing Transformers 2 today at the Scotiabank Theatre Toronto Imax for the 5:20 pm showing. Probably be doing something after for dinner. All who want to show up are welcome.

Bailer - In an attempt to save money, I think I'll be passing on Polaris this year. Sucky considering Michael Hogan is going to be there but possibly necessary. New cars and weddings are expensive.

Hero - So I saved a baby on Thursday. I was on the bench for that specific inning of our company softball team and I was entertaining the one year old kid in his stroller with my back to the field. Suddenly I hear someone call out "Sunil, look out!" I turned at saw everyone looking towards me. I looked around but couldn't see where the ball had gone so I assumed the worst and shielded the stroller. Good thing too. Based on where I got hit in the back, had I not been there, the kid would have taken it in the face. Got a free beer out of the deal.

Legend of the Seeker is put forth as the television adaptation of the novel series Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. Were one who has read the books to watch the entire series as I have would understand what a truly generous statement that sentence is. I can only believe that the writers based the episodes on the book jacket given the divergence from pretty much anything that happened in the books. However, all of that aside, being different from the books is not a bad thing if the end product is good. I'm sure the title of my post indicates how I feel about the show. Seriously, the last episode ended with time travel! TIME TRAVEL!!! And finally to make matters worse, there will be a season 2.

The television adaptation of Song of Ice and Fire better not suck is all I can say.

That's my age now! Friday night outing and Saturday night party were each a blast. My friends are awesome. As was the Duck of Doom card cake (picture soon). Works well to counter the lows May has dished out to me like the car and Eleryth's placement woes.

What are people's long weekend plans? Mine have changed significantly putting me in Kingston. If people are around, we should Last Night on Earth. It accommodates 2 to 6 players so let me know.

Shocking but true, I'm posting for a second time in under a week. However, this is warranted. The Malibu is unusable because the timing belt is shot. This upsets me since my plan only required the car to make it another year and a bit. Once Eleryth was graduated, we would know where we were going to live. If it was nearby, then I could purchase our next vehicle here. If it was far away, I would wait until I moved out there before purchasing a vehicle.

Instead I'm left with the following options:

1. Pay the $1500 to replace the belt.
2. Buy a dirt cheap beater car.
3. Invest in a good used car.
4. Snap and buy a brand new car.
5. Bus pass for a year.

The problem with solution 1 is that the price above does not include other parts of the engine that may have been damaged because of the timing belt going. Solutions 3 and 4 will require a hard decision in the case that we do end up far away. And while solutions 2 and 5 are cheap, they would probably be detrimental to my mental health.

Anyone out there have an opinion?

Not sure when it happened but I've managed to lose pretty much all sense of time. Each day seems to blur into the next. As a result, I only recently really realized that my birthday is in a week and a half (and that I should really do my taxes). Anyway, with the 13th being a Wednesday and the weekend following it being the long weekend, next weekend becomes the most viable time. Thus what little semblance of a plan I have is:

• Friday, May 8: go to some places in downtown Kingston and get some drink on with whoever is around.
• Saturday, May 9: have people over to my apartment around 7:00 in standard fashion for movies and video games.

Yes, I realize these plans are weak and late but what can you do. I'm too used to Erica taking care of things like this. Let me know if you're interested in coming to either or both. If you'd like to crash at my place, I have the space so there's no problem there.

So I returned from Japan and was given little time to rest before going off to Brampton to look at possible reception venues with my dad. Was that ever fun. Then it was back to work for one day before heading back to Toronto for four days of Java programming training. I'm only now getting back into a normal routine and cleaning up stuff that should have been taken care of long ago (like the dead poinsettia and Christmas tree).

Also, Watchmen comes out Friday. The trailers really make me want to see it in an IMAX. This would require visiting the GTA though which might be a far drive for just a movie. But it would awesome.

( 2008 Questionnaire )

( 2009 Resolutions )

List the first ten series that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each series that they think resemble the most. (Remember this is who I'm most like, NOT who my favorite is) You don't have to explain why I'm that character either.

1. Heroes
2. Rome
3. Xmen
4. Naruto
5. Song of Ice and Fire
6. Arrested Development
7. Family Guy
8. Firefly/Serenity
9. Star Wars
10. Justice League

And apparently...