So I got my digital camera and I'm quite happy with it. It's the Canon Powershot A80, and I managed to get a pretty good deal on it. I had to go to the store twice though because the first time there was no camera in the box when I got home!! Crazy! But they were cool and replaced the whole thing when I went back. I should have asked for free stuff for my trouble.

Here are two random pictures taken in my apartment here in Toronto. They were taken within minutes of each other, under the same lighting conditions and the objects are about a half a metre from each other, but they look very different because I did "something" with the camera, not sure what though. Pretty cool.

The utensil holder of the dish rack in the sink with my supper dishes in it

An arched candle holder in front of the sink

The thing I like about digital cameras is that taking a picture costs nothing (other than battery life), so you are free to take random shots of stuff without worrying about film or developing fees.

This weekend was pretty cool. Kim came to visit and we just did a bunch of stuff without having any real purposes or goals for the weekend.

She came in on the bus at 4:40 and I picked her up at the bus station, but I wasn't quite done work for the week so I then had to go back to work for an hour after dropping her off at my house. When I got home we had frozen pizza for supper and just hung out a bit. On Saturday we went to the Eatons Centre to look around (which can last quite a long time) and we also went to BMV where I got six books. We then went to the St. Lawrence Market and got some really good strawberries which we ate later that evening. After all the shopping we saw Million Dollar Baby which we both really enjoyed.

Today I took Kim to the bus station for the 10:30am bus and now I plan on doing a whole bunch of nothing for the rest of the day.

Tonight I went to see Apocalyptica in concert at the Opera House way out on Queen East near Broadview. It was freaking amazing!!

In case you haven't heard of them, Apocalyptica is a hard-core cello group that plays metal-inspired music with a classical bent. The members all have prestigious classical training but are also metal-heads. The music is really quite amazing, very very powerful but also quite musically valid (it's not just a bunch of noise). To watch them play cellos like they did was incredible, I didn't really think someone could play a cello over their head while head-banging with the music -- cellos are kinda big, you know.

They played a bunch of their old stuff (including covers of some Metallica, their own version of Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King and a whole bunch of their original works) and they also played some of their new album which just came out in January. Unfortunately they weren't selling it at the concert or I definitely would have picked up a copy. The encore was really good too, amazing cover of Enter Sandman by Metallica.

I'm really tired now though so I think I'll go to sleep. Still have to work tomorrow.

This weekend a whole bunch of people (including myself) helped Chris move into his new place in Toronto. It only took half an hour due to the number of people so we got to spend a lot of time sitting around, drinking beer and playing board games. It was fun! And the new apartment is sweet.

I also went out for supper with Matt and Adrienne and we walked past the Ferrari dealership in Toronto on the way. So sweet. We also saw the Rolls Royce dealership which was alright, but I prefer to drive nice cars rather than just be a passenger in one. We had supper at Crepes a GoGo which is this tiny little French place near the ROM. It was very very small and very yummy. And the staff was super nice, the one lady gave hugs!

Someone showed me a cool site today about the service tunnels at the University of Waterloo. I liked it because I enjoy finding ways around campus through tunnels and things. If only I could get service access!

I did my taxes online for the first time on Monday...and I get money back! This is completely unexpected because I did contract work last year which meant that I didn't pay any taxes. I still get $292 so I am quite pleased. Unless of course I made a mistake, and then things will be fairly interesting.

Tonight was *wing* night, and I went with Brad, Jeff, Chris and Jen to some Irish pub near my house. It was pretty good.

I'm a March entry to get rid of the thinger that says "No entries for March, 2005"