Mmmmm....wings from Morty's. Soooo full....Must get less next time.

I don't like it when the power goes out. This weekend I went home and for some reason we had a big ice storm thingy which just happened to relieve my house of its power. Usurp it, if you will. Our society relies too much on electricity, it would be completely crippled if the supply were cut off.

Please hurry up with the warm weather, I'm cold.

April Fool's day is amusing on the Internet. I wasn't caught by anything this year though.

Tuesday is a good day for updating, so here we go.

The weekend was fun, didn't do too much but still quite enjoyable. Sunday was Liz's birthday so we (Matt and Kim and I) got a cake on Saturday night and spent some time with her and Emily and Chris. I also rented the other two DVDs of Fawlty Towers and they are quite amusing.

Yesterday I went to Morty's for the first time and got some wings. They were very good, but they were also the biggest wings I have ever seen. I had 5 medium and 5 hot and was completely stuffed afterwards. I'm going to try a suicide wing next time I go, should be interesting.

One of my fellow coop students brought me every episode of the Simpsons today...excellent...as long as I can make room on my harddrive.

I also learned some Perl today and it is not as bad as I thought it would be. Regular expressions and pattern matching are fun! Time to update my resume.

A random quotation should now appear at the top left corner of this website. I don't have too many yet, but the list should eventually get quite large. I am trying to only use quotes that make some sort of useful observation. I was wondering though: is it vain to add phrases that I think of myself? I probably will, but to be fair I guess I will also have to add quotes from people I know if I hear anything worth preserving.

This weekend was Emily's birthday so we all went to The African Restaurant which was very good. Very spicy as well which added to the tastiness in my opinion. I will have to go back there soon, it is great. We got Sega Alicha, Zignie, Zil Zil, Tsebhi Dorho and Vegetarian Alicha. They serve it all up on one big flatbread type thing called Injera and you break off pieces and scoop up the meat and vegies. The guy who runs it is also really nice, we were a bit loud but he didn't seem to mind at all.

Today I helped Kim move all her junk back to her Aunt's house and I also rented volume one of a british comedy series called "Fawlty Towers." It stars John Cleese so it should be amusing. Kim also has a job interview tomorrow with CIBC Wood Gundy which apparently does investment stuff so I hope that goes well for her.

I'm hungry, I think I will try to find some food now.

I officially signed up for all my classes and I think it will be all good for the summer. I have CS 240 and Economics 201 in the morning on Tuesday and Thursday, and then Statistics 231 (boooo) and CS 246 in the afternoon. Then on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I have Introductory Combinatorics and Opimization from 9:30-10:20. Very unbalanced, but with two programming courses I will probably need lots of free time to sit and stare at my computer.

I am wretchedly unmotivated lately. I haven't really started my work report, I haven't worked on my website at all, and I am not learning C/C++ like I had planned on doing. I can't think of a reason why this is happening other than the fact that I use a computer all day long at work so when I get home I don't feel like doing too much. Work is annoying that way. I would rather have lots of assignments and other school stuff (not coop, though, *shudder*) than have to be in one place for 8 hours every day. There isn't a lot of time at night after you make/eat supper and before you go to bed. I think that this is an issue that I will need to work out or else my post-university life will turn into a mindless mash of nothingness. Maybe if my job was more inspiring. Or perhaps I should watch "Requiem for A Dream" again, that is a good movie for putting life into some sort of perspective. Or breaking it, breaking it into tiny itty bitty pieces.

Now that I have Linux working well it is kinda boring. I mean it is a good operating system and I am happy but there is nothing left to do on it. It just works and I since I am not really doing anything on my computer currently (other than downloading of course), it isn't that interesting.

"War" has started in Iraq, although to me the word "war" should only be applied to conflicts where the outcome is uncertain. There is no question that the US will trample Iraq and claim victory even if Saddam escapes like Osama bin Laden. Now if a bunch of other countries in the region joined with Iraq and started fighting against the US it would be war. This is just an invasion. And a silly one at that.

Illness sucks.

Last night I went out to Williams with Kim, Liz, Chris, Emily and Matt, which was fun, but for the whole day I basically slept because I felt like crap. Friday wasn't much fun either. I think I am better now though, lets hear it for drugs!

Linux is now working as it is supposed to. I can watch DVDs, DivX and Xvid movies withough any special effort. Also I have anti-aliased fonts which look much nicer than the ordinary fonts. The only thing that I cannot do in Linux is compress DVDs to DivX, but I think I may look into that soon. I also can't play games, but I didn't do much of that when I was in Windows. Now if only my monitor supported high resolution and a high refresh rate.

Yay! Our heat is fixed! Now my fingers arn't falling off due to cold+typing.