Today at work I received a bonus. Roberto, one of the core employees who has been there for years, calls it the “garbage” bonus. It’s 4% of your earnings from the past three months minus $6 per hour missed. The subtractions quickly add up and he told me he’s had negative balances numerous times (just [...]

Matt Good played in Kitchener tonight. I didn’t go since I had no one to go with. Le sigh. This is his last such tour, too, apparently.
I finished Choke today at work. It was just so damn good.
Clarence, the 63 year-old man with a grey-white mullet and a Blackberry honestly believes that Canada has a [...]

Spent most of today building desks with 163 pound tops made of some stone/concrete compound. With all the moving and drilling done to the things for hours on end, I was rather exhausted by the time I got home.
Especially since I took a long bike ride after work to get out to the Ministry of [...]

Shawn and Mike have paid off their student loans now. I filled out and mailed my forms today to determine my repayment plan and such. ~$50 000 in debt. Yeah, that weighs nicely on me.
On the weekend I had this dream where Shawn knocked on the hall window (which is also an emergency exit) to [...]

I’ve always found a good night’s sleep helps you be more able to deal with life. Unfortunately, the mere 3 hours I received last night didn’t quite do the trick.
I was manning the drill press again today. It’s boring work and a bit frustrating since the bit is so dull and the tops I was [...]

Laura and I tried watching TV this morning, but of course, it’s God day. Instead, we watched ‘Tank Girl’ and had a healthy breakfast of Poptarts, French Toast Crunch, Reese’s Pieces and Gushers. A rehash of our snacks from the night before, really. Lunch was much later on and was Taco Bell + KFC for [...]

Laura decided to help me out by writing a portion of today out for me (from my perspective, again):
We woke up at around noon, which was way too early for me so Laura fed me Poptarts and then tried to convince me to get in the shower for about an hour ending in a wrestling [...]

Leisurely afternoon. After work I picked up lunch from Subway and ate it at the bus terminal while I waited for my bus. I could have caught the earlier one to Toronto but Laura had stuff to do before meeting me so I read and watched people for a while in Kitchener.
When I met up [...]

Woke up an hour late this morning. I was having weird dreams where I was raiding with my guild and we had this new strategy where I had to be really big. Somehow my alarm getting louder helped that but it was annoying me so I dropped group and decided to just sleep. I figure [...]

At work we were building these hardcore desks for a private school in Michigan which were all connected in a series circuit of power outlets. The other employees were wary of actually connecting it, so Jeff (one of my three main bosses) and I put the circuit together. It was pretty straightforward to do but [...]