Mike Pictor

The myth, the man, the monkey

Archive for October, 2007

Toronto

Posted: Saturday, October 20th, 2007 @ 10:58 am in General | No Comments »

I am off to Toronto for the weekend, and maybe a visit to Kingston on my way back.
…and I’m really looking forward to it. I took Monday off, just so I could be flexible as to when I have to be where.
Those that will be at the party tonight, see you soon.
Those that are planning […]

The mp3 experiment

Posted: Friday, October 19th, 2007 @ 7:05 am in General | No Comments »

A big crowd of people are all listening to an mp3, or a guy just giving them instructions as they move around the city. It sounds stupid, but it’s kind of funny. Totally clean, innocent fun. It amused me greatly.

Frost on every window

Posted: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 @ 1:02 pm in General | No Comments »

So anyone else have to clean frost off their car windows in the morning? The journey to winter is underway.
I need to find my ice scraper.
I need to also see if I can salvage space in the garage to fit the car again. Happiness is waking up after a night of freezing rain, knowing the […]

Google Needs

Posted: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 @ 12:27 pm in General | No Comments »

Google Needs Meme:
1. Go to Google.
2. Enter: [yourname] needs. If you have a very unusual name and receive few hits, consider a nick name or a short form version of your name
3. Note YOUR NEEEEEEDS.
Michael needs Mum
MiChAeL NeEdS a LiFe WiThOuT CoCk
yes….that’s how it was spelt
Michael needs a girlfriend
Michael needs some Juice
Michael needs […]

Golf and Hypnosis

Posted: Friday, October 12th, 2007 @ 3:05 pm in General | No Comments »

Yesterday, I golfed for the first time. My company did a company wide day at the golf range. As Helen coined it, “Golf is a waste of a good walk”, but when in rome… I did actually enjoy myself moderately. The secret is in not caring how well you do. Line up, and give the […]

4 more years

Posted: Thursday, October 11th, 2007 @ 5:31 am in General | No Comments »

Well, who expected that. The liberals picked up *more* seats than they had, they have an even bigger majority. I have no trouble with a liberal government, I am even tentatively ok with a liberal majority, but I would have liked a small humility shot by seeing them slide a little. As it is, I […]

Skates

Posted: Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 @ 2:17 pm in General | No Comments »

Well….
Custom molding is only done on top end skates, they can’t support the market on generic skates for some reason. Top end skates start at $669 for the models that qualify (at the place I called anyways)…and the custom job adds $150. In other words, more than I remember based on my past experience of […]

Phone access

Posted: Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 @ 1:55 pm in General | No Comments »

Ok…so most of the time I have not been home in the day, considering what I think of my home phone is..well…at home. So generally, Helen always got the day time calls, or the answering machine.
Now that I have the same number of my cell phone, I can be called during the day….and call they […]

Thanksgiving photos

Posted: Monday, October 8th, 2007 @ 3:14 pm in General | No Comments »

Thanksgiving photos
edit: hmm….apparently LJ is not showing my iframe, but the blog on my mikepictor.com site is. I will try and fix that later.

A trip all for nothing

Posted: Saturday, October 6th, 2007 @ 3:06 pm in General | No Comments »

I went to take my $100 gift certificate to (I can’t remember the name, Batoushka…something like that) and see what they had to offer. It’s quite a large store, lots of camping stuff, canoes, hiking material, bikes, some sports stuff. Nothing I had a burning need for, though they had some really good winter mitts, […]