This is going to be a busy early summer for me. My brother and sister are both graduating in the next few weeks, and there’s an engagement party for my sister as well. I’m off to Washington tomorrow morning for my sister’s graduation from Med School, so that’s pretty impressive.

Hopefully when I get back I can upgrade WP and set up some comment spam filtering.

I can also change the template for the site a bit. I mean, my profile picture is a set of dice. I guess dice are okay, but do they really represent me?

#1 – I need a spam filter

#2 – Some people also think the Spence Diamonds ads are clown shoes. Sorry if your comment got deleted, I had 1000 of them to go through!

Holy shits, I intended to put this post up when I got from Mexico a full 6 weeks ago. It’s not timely at all, but I want to talk about some other stuff, and I can’t have people riding a cliffhanger about how my vacation went. Are you ready? Here goes!

I’m back from Mexico, which was a nice break. I realize my post heading is not only repeating Ludacris from my previous post, but I thought it was appropriate (if not 100% accurate) given that I spent my time lying on a beach watching some fat goddamn people walking around. Some of the guys there looked like red Grimaces.

We arrived near the end of spring break, which meant there were a lot of college girls walking around in sparkling bikinis. You’d think that would be, you know, awesome. But it was actually pretty depressing because they were all there with their boyfriends. Which reminded me of relationship ruin! Even though I’m seeing someone now! Oh my god /emoface

My brother and I managed to get sunburned on the first day, due to waiting outside at the Pizza bar at noon. The resort was all-inclusive, so there was booze and buffet for every meal. The cafeteria fare got tired pretty quick, so we ended up eating out a lot. We went to an Argentinian steakhouse a couple of nights, and I had a breaded chicken breast the size of a dinner plate (schnitzel style), and it was fucking awesome, sir. If that restaurant was in Toronto, I would be 500 pounds and deceased.

There is a really cool nightlife in Mexico, but that’s not really my scene, so I stayed in and read Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys” and the first book in the Warcraft “War of the Ancients” trilogy, “The Well of Eternity”. I also put a bunch of time into the new Castlevania DS game, “Portrait of Ruin”, which is really very good.

I also watched a bunch of late night Mexican television. Did you know that the proper pronunciation of “Hugo Boss”, if you’re Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, is “oooogoboz?” I do, thanks to foreign television. That’s not even a slag on a bad dub. That’s the way he says it. Is it correct? I don’t know, but it’s pretty funny. You have to purse your lips at the end, though.

I’m off to Mexico for a week, which is my first real vacation in 7 years. I’m a little nervous about leaving work, which is partly why this is my first vacation in 7 years. The last time I took time off work, it was to help A. renovate the basement. Yeah, I know how to show a lady a good time!

It looks like I picked the right time to take a break, as it’s now dumping ten feet of slush outside the house. That’s going to make it a little interesting to drive to the airport. Hopefully when I get back I won’t have 80 spam comments for Russian MP3 sites fucking up my blog.

Despite my best efforts, and one and a half hours of shoveling, I’ve had to call it and phone work to say I won’t be in. I now have (had? I haven’t checked outside) a pristinely snow-less driveway, yet even my best snow clearing efforts can’t get rid of the massive snow drifts on the roads around my house.

From Dinosaur Comics! And an ancient CBC news report!

This is the best picture I’ve seen in a long, long time. I don’t blame him – Jessica Biel is gorgeous – but it’s still goddamn hilarious.

Image originally from What Would Tyler Durden Do.

I’m not going to use this blog to talk much about work, since that can get you in a whole mess of trouble. I will say that I have no real content for the blog tonight because I just got home from work, and that sucks.

How about that new iPhone? I love my Motorola RAZR, but I’ve been waiting for an iPod with video since the original touchscreen rumours were circulating nearly a year ago. I just got an iPod shuffle for Christmas, which is a really convenient device, but omg that iPhone interface! It remains to be seen whether we’ll get it in any form up here in Canada, but I’ll be keeping an eye out.

In honor of the iPhone
Track of the Day: Flathead – The Fratellis

Today was spent sleeping and watching DVDs of Naruto on the couch. I’m feeling pretty awful, but work is about to get busy again so I figured taking one day off now was better than feeling awful for the next 4 days, or maybe even getting worse.
This is only the 3rd sick day I’ve used in all my 7 years at the company. Pretty crazy, huh? I don’t usually take vacations either, although I’m beginning to get to the point in my life where I would rather have the time off, rather than the extra money. I wanted to take a few days off at the end of last year, but we ended up working so hard that I totally forgot to book them.
At least the extra vacation time gets paid out, which I was going to use to buy something extravagant, but I also received notice of my upcoming house insurance today, so that’s probably out.

One of my friends from University and High School got married yesterday. I doubt he reads this blog, but congratulations anyway, B!
Track of the Day: Hunting for Witches – Bloc Party

How does one throw out a garbage can? I have this step-pedal contraption I bought for 14 dollars at Wal-Mart, and the fucking thing has never worked properly. But if I put it on the curb on garbage day, they’ll just “empty” it into the garbage truck and then put it back.

The best idea I can come up with is to buy a bigger garbage can, and put the old one inside of it.

Track of the Day: Special – Garbage