interesting.

alright, lesson learned. no more serious posts from now on. that is, unless I decide to do another one, then yeah...there'll be another serious post won't there?

but truthishly (it's a word today, so you can forget trying to correct me. I don't care), there hasn't been too much going on lately. page design kicked my ass today, as I created/erased no fewer than 4 different page layouts before I found one with which I was satisfied. had to sweep under the table when I was done because of all the eraser bones. so there that is.

oh, and did you know that when typing something in CP style, you don't put two spaces at the end of a sentence? do you have any idea how hard it is to type a sentence, hit the '.' and only hit the spacebar once? when you've been typing essays (essaies?) since grade 9 with two spaces, it's pretty damn hard to limit yourself to just one. of course, in this blog it's practically an orgy of spaces 'cause I can put in however many I want. that was three, for example.

I know what you're thinking...








I am that cool.

edit: apparently blogger auto formats spacing after sentences to just the one...those dinks.

getting a little serious here...

Precious Yutangco
Staff Reporter

Motorists are in for a shock as the price of regular gasoline in the GTA is expected to rise at least 12.9 cents per litre at midnight tonight, according to Liberal MP Dan McTeague

The veteran gas-price watcher says the price hike will bring the average cost of fuelling up in the GTA to an all-time high of $1.36.6 cents per litre.

McTeague predicts similar increases for Ottawa, Calgary and Kelowna, B.C., while he expects prices in Montreal to go up nine cents.

Another gas price watcher, Jason Toews of GasBuddy.com, isn't making predictions.

But he says fear over the damage that hurricane Ike could cause to refineries in Texas may have a ripple effect in Canada – U.S. gasoline wholesale prices jumped to unprecedented levels today.

The last time gas increased in anticipation of weather was when Category 5 Hurricane Katrina hit and gas jumped to 1.25.

Forecasters said today that Hurricane Ike was likely to come ashore in Texas late Friday or early Saturday as a Category 3, with winds up to 210 km/k.

-with files from The Canadian Press

this article is from the Toronto Star tonight. (emphasis mine)

let me get this straight...gas prices are going to go up because a hurricane might cause some damage in the gulf of mexico on its way to texas. nevermind that the oil that made this gas was bought at a lower price and that the companies are going to make a killing by jacking up the prices when there's no justification.

honestly though, shouldn't this be illegal?

F U or A Letter to Rogers

god. where to start. well, I guess at the beginning would make the most sense wouldn't it...

so yeah...as some of you are aware (though of the three people that I know read this thing, perhaps only Marcus is unaware of my move to toronto...so Marcus, I now live in toronto if you didn't know), I now live in toronto. this past weekend was my crazy move in day. and by crazy, I mean 3 trips between st. catharines and toronto in less than 24 hours with a grand total of 2 (that's 2, including yours truly) people moving all my stuff.

I'm here for school. journalism to be exact, hence my resurrection of this long forgotten and much maligned blog...

anyway, none of this really matters except to say that I had to order phone, cable (because seriously, I can't live without tv), and internet. having delt with Rogers in the past, I decided to go with them again. not entirely sure why now, but we'll get to that soon enough. being the clever and effecient guy that I am -insert sarcastic response here- I set up all my stuff last week while staying at my aunt and uncle's. dude on the phone was actually really friendly (and not in India!) and gave me a good price on all three services, and told me that on monday the 8th there'd be a dude at my place between 230-5pm to set everything up for me.

fast forward to monday 8 september...

dude showed up at around 430 ('cause i'm pretty sure it's against the law for a tech dude to arrive at the beginning of a service window), and proceeded to set up my tv and phone. then he told me he was finished. the detective in me noticed one glaring omission in my apartment. that is, no cable modem for the internet. I asked the guy about it and he proceeded to tell me (in broken english obviously) that he didn't have any modems with him and that he'd be back on tuesday "hopefully" with a modem so that I could get online.

fast forward to tuesday 9 september ~530pm...

I call rogers to make sure that A)they have modems and, B)the tech guy was planning on stopping by to drop it off so that I can get online. Lady at Rogers just sits (I assume she was sitting) there silently for a solid 30 seconds before she says something along the lines of, 'um, I'm sorry sir, but it says here that you aren't signed up for internet service with Rogers and that no one is scheduled to make a service call to your address.'

*silence*

willsy: "um, okay...but I set everything up last week and was supposed to have all three services installed yesterday afternoon. the only reason that didn't happen is because the dude didn't have any modems. he told me he'd be back today..."

rogers chick gave me the run around but it eventually ended in me signing up for highspeed lite for the second time and then being told that they couldn't get anyone to come by until the 15th. I was annoyed but went along with it.

to my surprize though, the tech dude did actually show up and give me my modem, but nothing worked. so I called rogers again. this was at 615pm.

by 830pm I was still on the phone holding after 4 previous transfers. at 845 I finally got through to someone who could help me and it took all of 5 minutes to get my internet activated.

go figure.

f u rogers for wasting my entire evening.

(the story is actually a lot longer than that but I realize that most of you probably lost interest after the second paragraph. that and I'm lazy. lazy as hell.)

9 months is nothing.

prof. today told us we should all blog to get those creative juices flowing. I thought to myself, "hey, that's a good idea. I should create a blog." then I thought, "wait a minute...don't I have a blog that I've abandoned no fewer than 3 times already?" then I thought, "yup. I sure do."

so here I am. it's pretty exciting, I know.

so let's have a bit of an update then shall we?

uh, where to start...not a butcher anymore, quit that last august. pretty much spent the last year retired (hard to retire without a career they all told me...) and loafing around the house with my roomies (read: parents). they didn't like it. I didn't like it. we all decided I needed to do something with my life. went to the career counselor who mentioned journalism in passing and now I'm back in school for exactly that. 2 years from now I'll be (rich and famous(is there no strike-through option on blogger?)) working (hopefully) in a career I enjoy.

clearly I did more in 9 months, but that's really all I have to say for now. maybe I'll stick with this if for no other reason than it gives me somewhere to practice writing.

though I'm really just talking to myself.