Mike Pictor

The myth, the man, the monkey

Archive for January, 2008

swim

Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2008 @ 10:19 am in General | No Comments »

I went swimming yesterday, something I haven’t done in a while.
Lap swimming…something I haven’t done in years.
What did I learn?
1. Despite getting to the gym at least twice, usually 3 times, and on rare occasion 4 times a week…swimming is a whole different type of exertion, one which I am *not* used to.
2. If I […]

thud

Posted: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 @ 3:51 pm in General | No Comments »

I have…for me, a bad headache. By this I mean, it’s mildy distracting. I don’t tend to get headaches, and even the slightest twinge is something to remark on for me. For some reason, I have one today, enough so that it’s kind of distracting me at work, and making me wish I could go […]

MSN

Posted: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 @ 2:19 pm in General | No Comments »

I accidentally created some confusion by creating a new MSN messenger id. ansfrid@hotmail.com was never an address I used for email, and some people accidentally sent email to it from time to time. I created it at a time I thought a hotmail address was required for MSN messenger. I have now adopted an MSN […]

Cheeseburger in a Can

Posted: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 @ 2:39 pm in General | No Comments »

I present….cheeseburger in a can

is this the pinnacle of fast food? Have we peaked?

Work

Posted: Monday, January 28th, 2008 @ 11:40 am in General | No Comments »

My company frequently has various open positions, but as my friends are largely of the techie variety, it’s worth noting we are looking for a senior network administrator (green_ogre….you want to be working in Kanata again?).
See all positions here. If you wish to follow up on any of them, please note you learned about them […]

work party

Posted: Thursday, January 24th, 2008 @ 7:53 pm in General | No Comments »

Unusually, I am not rehearsing this Sunday. Helen is not working this Sunday. We therefore are planning a get-the-house-ready-for-sale….or-make-a-heck-of-good-start party.
This is largely a move stuff around kind of thing. We may box up some stuff for the Sally Ann, throw some stuff out, but mostly it’s a get things organized day, move stuff out into […]

cleaning

Posted: Thursday, January 24th, 2008 @ 5:24 pm in General | No Comments »

Click here to get your monitor cleaned off.
(yes, it’s safe)

More painless than I thought

Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 @ 2:17 pm in General | No Comments »

New bank card was easy.
New credit card on its way now that I finally got through to them
New driver’s license cost $10, but all they needed was my birth certificate.
New health card (with photo this time) was super easy, hardly any line up, and they took my temporary driver’s license, birth cert. and my bank […]

I am ID-less

Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 @ 10:02 am in General | No Comments »

Nice how all these pieces of ID, require *other* pieces of ID in order to replace.
I have a small chance, in that I never carried everything in my wallet (to keep it slim). I think my birth certificate is in the car for example, not in the wallet….but I am not sure I can get […]

but where did the wallet go?

Posted: Monday, January 21st, 2008 @ 7:56 pm in General | No Comments »

My wallet….it is gone.
I went to goodlife to workout…and had it when checking in (my membership card therein). The jacket pocket it sits in is the inside pocket….not a pocket that lends itself to spilling contents, it’s quite snug. My coat was hung up on a hanger in my locker, nice and upright, and the […]