tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59065158728654031792024-03-05T09:44:31.429-06:00Life and Times of PaulAdventure is just one mistake away.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-44148369516405272382012-02-25T17:25:00.001-06:002012-02-25T17:25:55.068-06:00I’m putting this here so they don’t find it easy lulz.<p>This is for a certain chain of questions leading across the internets, for a certain event at a certain thing happening at home (I can’t say too much so that the search engines don’t pick it up)</p> <p>@people in the competition: If you’ve made it this far, you’re BASICALLY done. </p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5crZBxUEkQL2PjmIxfCKSwq8ILRNH2exrWOwBaMFl50QxFrMhHDgRejlSiGlxXfvNKbe79vFXybZOjuhZASPBZ_Xhse_0qJtEQH6CaC0_RBb3tNYmis_A6TF0bICDsp7J_HxXCZDSICk9/s1600-h/End%25255B6%25255D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="End" border="0" alt="End" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhpZK6JXVIiLILD880-k3Jf_JeUlU8RP-6ZC92hWyLrku_hG3UUjxgveOUM-mYBkMehp3bjzPrMyvu2d0d3K39dsjQ6kTkHuxiMxn8Nt4n726sSGBzuf_b7sYOb15fAMOy944WQZn0KiI/?imgmax=800" width="244" height="71" /></a></p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-40296409948081543782012-01-15T00:42:00.001-06:002012-01-15T00:42:55.253-06:00lol last post was a year ago almost<p>I’m doing more programming. this time it’s at RIM in waterloo. They make blackberry phones. It’s pretty cool and i’m living here by myself with a bunch of pretty cool guys (not necessarily males) who don’t afraid of anything</p> <p>I’ve taken up new hobbies too, in addition to running and starcraft, which i play instead of warcraft now. I play ukulele, Knit as well as throw rocks at things</p> <p>Throwing rocks at things is a good hobby, It’s easy and fun. and it’s real cathartic</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-49615482099300813842011-11-03T00:19:00.002-05:002011-11-03T00:44:17.978-05:00Still AliveThat's me!<div><br /></div><div>I've been rather busy with school this semester. Next semester, instead of classes, I'm starting Co-op, which means that I get to be employed gainfully by a real-life company! I get to move to Waterloo, ON to work for RIM; they make Blackberries (like the phones, not the food). I'm stupendously excited!</div><div><br /></div><div>School's been busy busy busy. I'm only taking 3 courses this semester, but it still manages to eat up all of my time because I'm tutoring people at the same time, so I have to keep on top of what stuff they're learning too. </div><div><br /></div><div>As far as video games go, it's a lot of Starcraft 2, and new last week, Battlefield 3. It is fun to fly in the jet. Speaking of video games. I played a cool one this weekend last; it is called Amnesia: the Dark Descent. It is TERRIFYING. It's hard to give definite examples of why it's scary, but basically you need to know it does atmosphere, like REALLY WELL. Also, it makes a point of keeping you unarmed, so you can't hide behind a gun or sword or even a sharp stick from the monsters. You can only scream and run away.<br /><br />Amnesia leads me to a funny story. One of the things it asks you to do before you start is to make sure it's dark around you. So I waited till sundown, then i turned out all the lights and played in the dark. Then I got real scared, and tired. So at like 2 in the morning I ran upstairs screaming and went to bed. Now, at this point, because it was Saturday, my brother was still awake downstairs. So I went to bed and hid under the covers and tried not to think about the lumbering monsters that were going to chase me and probably murder me. Sometime after that, I fell asleep. But then I woke up, hearing</div><div><br />THUMP</div><div><br /></div><div>THUMP</div><div><br /></div><div>THUMP</div><div><br /></div><div>SO I woke up and tried not to freak out, because there was this silhouette looming in my room. As it stood there, I hid under the blankets there and slowly went insane. As you probably guessed, it was just my brother. BUT IT WAS SCARY. I was severely sleep deprived and freaked out from playing scary video games all night! This continued Sunday, and also Monday night as well.</div><div><br /></div><div>And that is the story of how I became afraid of the dark. Again.</div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-24999520146915682922011-08-05T09:59:00.001-05:002011-08-05T09:59:26.333-05:00I’m not dead i swear!<p>I’ve just been real busy. In the aeons that have passed since I last posted, I’ve been hard at work, making an <a href="http://www.sportsboards2d.com/" target="_blank">Android App</a>. It’s good work, not boring, but not impossibly hard at the same time. Now the summer is almost over and I’m almost done here. Currently, I’m at home alone, because my family went on a road trip without me, I would have gone, but I have an exam for my summer course this Saturday. I’m hoping it goes well, but I’m confident I know my stuff. </p> <p>Other things I’ve been doing include video games, lots of video games. I’ve been playing Spiral Knights on Steam, which is fun because it’s free and a good way to kill some time. I’ve also been playing Minecraft, as always. I’ll have to post some pictures of my creations here soon. And there’s the always addictive World of Warcraft. Also I’ve been running a lot more this summer. I’m proud to say that I stayed on my training for the entire summer (more or less.)</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-82888980584668136372011-04-19T22:07:00.001-05:002011-04-19T22:07:23.592-05:00EXAMS OMG<p>I didn’t post in a month and a half because i’ve been stupidly busy with the end of school. Between frantically finishing my assignments and frantically study for exams i haven’t really had a minute to get a post in edgewise :S </p> <p>I’ve also been playing a lot of video games. Mainly the –crafts (Mine and war) but Portal 2 came out today! I don’t have it yet, but i am definitely going to get it. I’m super pumped to play it. I’ve also been playing Magicka, which is a silly game.</p> <p>I’ve written one of my exams already and i have another in a week. Then i start my summer job, and hopefully i get to go on a vacation to Vancouver for a bit! *IF* i do get time off, I’d probably go around May long weekend.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-32330754665802500852011-03-09T16:18:00.001-06:002011-03-09T16:18:05.295-06:00Barbra Streisand<p>It’s been a busy week(2 weeks? I don’t even know) since i’ve posted. I went to CS games in Montreal on the weekend, it was great! i did all sorts of fun stuff and there were nerds everywhere! There was also all kinds of employers there, none of which i talked to :/</p> <p>On a more random note, my cat just stood up on his hind legs and sniffed my elbow… second time today a cat has stood up next to me like that, it’s weird.</p> <p>Luckily exams are over now, and all the winter sports are starting to wind down, so it’s going to be a little less hectic for a bit. at least until more exams come :P</p> <p>To get back to the title, which i put there so i wouldn’t forget about it, it’s from the song “Barbra Streisand” by Duck sauce. We sang it a lot at CS games because the cs games president’s name is sandy woo.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-74094281861480445172011-02-24T21:28:00.001-06:002011-02-24T21:28:45.864-06:00ZOMG WAT<p>THAT’S RIGHT. NEW POST.</p> <p>You all probably thought i fell off a bridge into lava and was promptly set upon by the lava piranha eels or something. WELL THAT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE. AND I’M MUCH BETTER AND WISER NOW.</p> <p>It’s reading week, which means i have slightly less time to myself than i normally do. (That’s a lie. I have time to myself all day erryday. I just don’t use it prudently.) Lots of super exciting and fun stuff has happened since i last posted, which is to be expected in a month and a half :P. First, as i already mentioned, it’s reading week! The only bad part is i got a shiny new assignment in all of my classes which i promptly threw into the corner while i played video games for <strike>2</strike> 3 days. During that time, there was a grand fishing tourney in WoW. We caught like a zillion fish, and i ALMOST WON. but i had to leave right at the end to get a certain brother of mine from work, so i got second :/</p> <p>Another fun thing that is happening is the CS Games, it’s this big competition based around computer science, it’s in Montreal this year. When i say “big” I actually mean “HUGENORMUNGANTIC”. There’s going to be people from big companies like Google and Microsoft there! We shot a video this week to introduce our team. It’s funny, all the nerds are like “we’re going to act gangster, and it’ll be so cool!” and then none of us actually know how. It’s sad, we stood there awkwardly wondering what actual gangstas look like.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-41266641875201145912011-01-13T21:19:00.001-06:002011-01-13T21:20:24.060-06:00Super busy<p>SO, as you may or may not have guessed, I have been very busy this past month. I meant to post over the break sometime, but i ended up being occupied by this or distracted by that or something to that effect. After the break, it got even crazier. My grandfather passed away, so between the funeral and seeing my extended family all in town, i was totally occupied again! It’s kind of funny, having any amount of my family members in the same place really sets them against each other. Someone put it best “Nothing pulls a family apart like a funeral”. Personally i think it’s because everyone deals with grief and loss differently. With me, I like to distract myself with other things, while other family members prefer to not leave their beds or try to take charge of everything… </p> <p>My new courses are all interesting to say the least. Lots of work!</p> <p>Yesterday, I got to see the premier of The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen. It’s a cool movie. I think it was really well done, for a Seth Rogen movie, which i am not the biggest fan of. On that note, it’s pretty typical of a Seth Rogen movie in terms of humour, and also on par with superhero movies in terms of plot and special effects and all the other film stuff you can think of. I recommend seeing it. I specifically put this review here, the day before it actually comes out so i can get some mad hits ^_^</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-49077313632931385412010-12-08T19:19:00.001-06:002010-12-08T19:20:48.757-06:00World War in the World of Warcraft<p>The new WoW expansion came out on Monday. For you girls and other people who don’t know what that means, it means there is new stuff for me to do in my favourite video game! This is very good/bad news. Good because YAY NEW STUFF</p> <p>I went to the midnight launch at the mall, it was really exciting, i’ve never done that for anything before! I got all sorts of free stuff, like a mouse pad and trading cards and a poster!</p> <p>Bad because exams are right around the corner. I’m conflicted between my responsibilities and my non-responsibilities. I studied diligently leading up to Monday, then on Monday i finished off all my assignments and on Tuesday i played WoW! It was super cool! Though there were a lot of people everywhere. It was kind of annoying because there weren’t enough monsters for everyone to kill so everybody was fighting over them. I played enough Tuesday that i got ahead of most of the masses, but i missed supper, so i was sleepy by morning. Then i slept for a little and the rest of people caught up a little. Now i’m still ahead of most people, by the time i’ve almost finished with a place there’s a huge crowd of people that come into it, it makes it rather stressful. I play a priest, and they don’t wear lots of armor so i get killed by other players a lot if they all come and get me. It makes me really sad. Maybe i should relax and do exam stuff to make me less stressed. How ironic…</p> <p>My exams shouldn’t be too terribad. I studied all weekend so i’m really prepared, and they’re close together so i can just hunker down and focus for ONE WEEKEND and then i’ll be pretty much in the clear.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-86574926275200470322010-11-21T00:43:00.001-06:002010-11-21T00:43:44.996-06:00Doldrums of insanity<p>The Doldrums is a place in the ocean where there’s no current, just calm.</p> <p>Which is why i’m posting here and now! It may be quarter to one, but that’s okay, because now’s the best time to post.</p> <p>It snowed here! A lot! It snowed for days, and then it was cold and blowing snow everywhere. Today it was just cold. It’s pretty exciting too, it’s like real life winter! </p> <img title="Fun" alt="This is more or less what it looked like." src="http://belleinthenorth.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/blizzard.jpg" width="300" /> <p>And it was busy too. The new <acronym title="World of Warcraft">WoW</acronym> (stop that. This is my blog and i will write about what i want. Now keep reading.) is coming out in like 2 weeks, and i’m super excited! ALSO exams are coming out in 3 weeks and i’m considerably less excited. So, basically i’ve been trying to do as much school work as possible and play as many video games as possible at the same time. Not EXACTLY the same time though, otherwise you go crazy.</p> <p>Also, my ankle is pretty much better! I think i wrote that in the last post too, but now it’s better all the way. I don’t have to go to athletic therapy anymore. Though it hurts today because i was running around catching buses in the cold, and jeans, and sneakers, and snow yesterday. LIKE ALL DAY. </p> <p>This week i had 4 assignments and a midterm. I also explored the entire world in wow, just to see it before it gets broken. It was pretty fun, although i didn’t sleep much. Three thirty is a <acronym title="VERY MUCH">tad</acronym> ridiculous to go to bed.</p> <p>I’ve also been playing with HTML tags, see if you can find some in the post!</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-76948077980986154362010-11-05T20:34:00.001-05:002010-11-05T20:34:03.508-05:00I really did mean to post!<p>like 2 weeks ago! But instead i decided to have a “WOW WEEKEND”. I made that term up by the by. It’s a weekend where  one sits in a room all weekend and levels a character the last little way to 80! except it wasn’t the last little way, it was like 5 levels in 3 days. That was pretty exciting. Then there were midterms, and Halloween. Halloween is gone, but the memory is still here, because the ghosts killed a lot of people ._. Midterms are gone too, and now i can breathe. Also, i hurt my Achilles a couple of weeks ago. it’s been interesting. i’ve been going to athletic therapy, and getting better, slowly. the first time i went they sat me in the warm tub. It’s like a hot tub but not really. Then they tested how flexible and strong my foot was. Then they gave me a massage, then they did an ultrasound on it, to loosen up the muscles. After that they did “soft tissue”, which is where they move my leg around like walking for me. They also did “stim”, which is where they hook two electrodes up to you and run a current through your skin to make it feel weird. It felt like my foot was asleep, and i’m sort of sure it was twitching. The next time we did some stretching and exercises instead of ultrasound and stim. then they gave me ice. Today was the third time, my foot was hurting a lot today, so we only did a few exercises, then stretched and stim and ice. It’s getting a lot better though! I can walk and do stairs and run without limping!</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-79108367205856093932010-10-15T23:57:00.001-05:002010-10-15T23:57:05.457-05:00*SINGING NOISES*<p>So i really can’t sing to save my life. But that’s beside the point.</p> <p>Instead, i’ve been seeing people who CAN sing do so. A little while ago i saw Arcade Fire, with my friend Sarah. It was good. they had a lot of drums and instruments. Then they were singing about cars.</p> <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GEZockGkEyY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GEZockGkEyY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Today i saw Lights (!) I don't really listen to her ever. But my brother is a fan, and he needed a ride and his friend bailed on him, so i got to go for free! It was good too. There was a LOT of girls there, who were like 12 years old. She sang some songs, and then she played the keytar. It was pretty good. I'm listening to her on youtube right now, and she was a lot better live. She was all "HAY GUISE, I HAVE THIS <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuHcK2guDnM">NEW SONG</a> FOR YOU TO LISTEN TO LOLS" and it's been out since tuesday, and it's only available in canada right now! Wheeee... I've also got a lot of homework, so i've been <a href="worldofwarcraft.com">trying</a> <a href="minecraft.net">not</a> to be distracted :/ IT'S GOING POORLY. Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-85288365124292857572010-10-09T00:41:00.001-05:002010-10-09T00:41:20.832-05:00I had a pretty good system going…<p>Except for when i forgot to include all the stuff that people i know would do to ruin my schedule! It was seriously a great schedule, do homework ALL weekend, and then during the week i wouldn’t have to worry about any of it until friday. BUT then some things happened and some stuff. That’s all in the past now, so it doesn’t merit a real mention here. Since i last blogged, i did a lot. You probably could have figured that out though, because i didn’t blog for a while. I seriously meant to though! I was like “OKAY. Later i am going to write a bloggity blog” and then i was like “i’ll do it later. After this thing.”</p> <p>I started doing all sorts of things too, Winter stuff is starting already, like skating. I also started yoga! It’s quite fun, and i feel really good afterwards. And i’m almost free from warcraft again! I’m at level 72, and once i get to 80, i’ve promised myself i’m stopping. At least until the next expansion comes out in december. In the mean time there’s all sorts of fun diversions to do. I could study, or play other games, or run or hang out with chums or do any number of things. One of them is going to be Minecraft, for sure. Minecraft is a sweet game, that normally involves bad decisions, which have hilarious repercussions</p> <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LnjSWPxJxNs?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LnjSWPxJxNs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> <p>That’s basically why i want to play. The game isn’t even done yet, and it’s already made $5 million. Which is a very large amount considering that’s been split between probably like 5 people.</p> <p>I also got “elected” to the computer science student association! Well, not really. I put my name in, and there were 6 people running for 5 positions, and i was the only 2nd year, so i didn’t even have to run. Everyone got in anyways, cause 4 of them are leaving in january for co op.</p> <p>That’s about all i can think of right now. I have a big pile of homework to do over the next couple weeks, but i’ll try to stay regular in posting.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-75755849135642183742010-09-17T20:54:00.001-05:002010-09-17T20:54:29.066-05:00This one isn’t about what i did.<p>I feel obliged to make a post now, because there’s nothing really better to do. I am about to go do some things and some stuff. THEN I will go to sleep, and tomorrow i will do more things and different stuff. After that, i’ll do some stuff, along with acivities. Then I will probably look at these activities and think some thoughts, and hear some sounds and look at some objects. Then i’ll go to a place, until a time, when i’ll do something. Not too sure what though. I just know there’s a race tomorrow I am going to do. Then a party after it. Then there’s another race i’m supposed to marshal the next day. It is very far away, and very early. But i am supposed to do it, so i can be on the track team, and that will give me something to do while i go to school, and learn some knowledge and gain some skills. Then one day i will have a job in which i will use that knowledge and those skills to make something to change the world a little bit so that other people can use their skills and knowledge to do other stuff. And things.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-23505505499831164642010-09-04T23:32:00.001-05:002010-09-04T23:32:52.595-05:00Last post of summer<p>Well, not *technically*. I didn’t update earlier in the week because my friend left for BC on thursday so we were chilling and hanging and shooting the breeze. It was good fun. I also had another two days off in a row. I worked today at a new pool, way far away, and there was seriously no kids. I sat next to a pool for 8 hours and got paid for it. On my weekend that i got from the rain i had a skype party with friends Andy and Natasha. It was cool and awesome. ALSO, it was my sister’s birthday on tuesday. She didn’t know what she wanted for a present, so i didn’t get her one.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-24456644502321802972010-08-17T13:08:00.001-05:002010-08-17T13:08:28.750-05:00long weekend is looooooooooooong!<p>So, this weekend it was all rainy and cold out. Sucks right? Except for when i don’t work in the rain and cold! Basically i’m at the end of a 4 day weekend right now. It’s pretty awesome. I went to the beach yesterday. Probably not the best beach day ever, but it was alright. We had the entire beach to ourselves at least. The only problem was it was super windy which made it not that warm. I made a killer sand castle though. And i’m now exfoliated in places i didn’t even know needed exfoliation! Today i got a haircut. That is all we are going to say on the matter. </p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-82529716489205395192010-08-13T22:26:00.001-05:002010-08-13T22:26:42.848-05:00Attention girl-types<p>AND anyone who’s ever said something to the effect “lol boys are messy.”.</p> <p>you have clearly NEVER cleaned a public restroom ever in your life. I mean seriously! At my pool, there are 2 (two) one stall bathrooms. That means a toilet, a sink, a paper towel dispenser, a hand dryer, a bench for changing, and a garbage can. Every day i have to mop out both of the bathrooms so they aren’t a festering pool of filth the next day, and i don’t have to worry about people hurting themselves by drowning in poo or anything gross. At the end of the day, it takes me 2 minutes to clean the boy’s bathroom. That means 2 minutes to mop the floor, clean all the water sprayed everywhere from the sink, flush the toilet and make sure there’s the right kinds of paper in the right places. After that i do the girl’s bathroom. This takes me AT LEAST 10 minutes. That should mean 10 minutes to do everything that i do in the guys bathroom right? AAAAAND to pick up all the paper towels and garbage all over the floor, sweep out the food garbage, clean up the massive pool of water on the floor, rinse all the soap out of the sink, clean the chalk (no, srsly) off the walls, and unlock the stall, which someone locked and then slithered underneath the door.</p> <p>Also, on monday i went to the beach. It was fun. I made a big sand castle. Then some girls were like “tee hee, we like you’re sand castle. it’s like sooo cool and you’re like soo handsome.”. That’s definitely how it happened. Anyone who says otherwise wasn’t there, they don’t even know. Then on tuesday it was alex’s birthday. He got some nice things and some stuff. I got him a nice thing and gave helpful suggestions on everything else he got it seems.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-75119611724341703082010-08-04T23:19:00.001-05:002010-08-04T23:19:03.229-05:00More summer adventures*<p>I’ve been busy once again, summer is on the way out now. technically. It’s definitely August now, Alex’s birthday is in less than a week, School starts in 4-ish weeks. All sorts of fun stuff. Work has been good. I get paid a lot. Kids are kids are kids who are bad. </p> <p>Also i’ve been playing warcraft! It’s lots of fun. I "recruited” alex, meaning i got him his own account so we can play together. It’s more fun when you’re actually sitting next to someone and playing together, instead of over the internet. I’ve also had some really good ideas for stories or comic books, and they’ll probably stay good ideas until i decide to do something about them. Which will be in a while.</p> <p>Work is actually pretty sweet. I finished a 1000 page book in less than a week, reading only at work and on the bus. I never thought i’d run out of the big stack of books i get from christmas, and my birthday, but i seriously went through it in a month! :S Now i’ve got to go to the library or something.</p> <p>*Of questionable legality</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-43929214318155142052010-07-21T23:31:00.001-05:002010-07-21T23:31:49.533-05:00a great many of the humblest apologies…<p>because i haven’t been posting in a while. I’ve been super busy, what with that job and also with playing video games and sleeping and stuff. It’s quite busy actually. I sleep in (ish) in the mornings, and leave at about 9:30, then i get home at about 6:30, leave again at 7:30 or so, and don’t get back till after midnight. Then i go to sleep and wake up again the next day. I also really should be doing more running… Not exactly sure when i’ll be doing that though. Recently i went to a comic book workshop. i learned a plethora of things about comics, but not what i went in expecting to learn, which was a little bit of a downer. ALSO, i got moved to a new pool, away from the pool with the really good kids who always came with their parents. I got moved to a far away pool, in a slightly sketchy neighbourhood, with kids who always come with their parents and probably don’t realise i exist. Which is good. They also moved my partner from my other pool, which sucks because he was a pretty cool guy. My NEW partner is quite a bit younger. He gives me quite a window on “Kids These Days”. who apparently do not know how to use a broom or mop. </p> <p>I still haven’t registered for university classes yet. I’ve picked all mine out though! I’m taking all kinds of comp sci, a couple linguistics, and a math and a stats and philosophy!</p> <p>I went to the Fringe Festival on Monday. I saw two shows, “The Macabre Show of Horror and Macabre-ness” and “The First Five Minutes are Slow” I liked both of them, the first was super funny, and the second was a little silly, but still enjoyable. For some reason they kind of skipped out on a scene or something at the end though, because it was like the climax of the play, then the end, with no real explaining as to what happened. :( I would recommend the shows, but as the first one’s name suggests, it’s kind of grotesque, and like i said for the second, it’s quite silly. But if you like vulgar sorts of things, or improv, you should check out these shows.</p> <p>And now, i must away! for it is fast approaching bedtime, and there is much nonsense to do before then!</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-145317687645836772010-07-03T15:15:00.001-05:002010-07-03T15:15:02.398-05:00Busy as a bee, doing whatever it is that makes them so busy.<p>I’m busy, so i haven’t had time to actually blog lately. I’ve started my new job, as a wading pool supervisor! (Not a lifeguard, i’m not actually certified as one :/) It’s pretty cool, if you don’t mind hoards of children splashing you constantly with water. Today was my first day, and let me tell you, cleaning broken glass out of the pool for an hour and a half before you can fill it is no fun at all. My pool is kind of in a ghetto…</p> <p>Also i’ve been playing video games. World of Warcraft, again, as well as this steam game called Super Laser Racer. Yes. it is exactly as cool as it sounds. It’s like Mario Kart meets Space Invaders at some crazy rave, and they do some things that are awesome, and questionably legal.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-70028637864142871462010-06-20T14:13:00.001-05:002010-06-20T14:13:30.750-05:00Tiredddd….<p>I finished the half marathon! It was really hot, it was like 18 when we started, at 7 in the morning. It just kept getting hotter, until it was at least 25 when i finished, in 1:32:31. I haven’t checked my friend’s times yet because the site is really really slow, because everyone is looking for their results. I got 68th overall. Next year i think i’m going to run the full marathon, cause i’m wacky and crazy like that.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-81699242713228261942010-06-15T10:03:00.001-05:002010-06-15T10:04:04.739-05:00<p>I was going to write about some big adventure i had on the weekend, but wouldn’t you know it, i forgot! Yesterday i had an adventure though, so it’s ok, i’ll write about that.</p> <p>First i went and biked around in the morning, then i played on the computer all morning. Then aidan came over and we went and got slurpees. then we ripped on alex’s PSP go (lol, what a noob) and how it’s vastly inferior to a DS, which costs half of what a psp does. Then we watched Auto Tune the News, cause it’s awesome. Then Safeway called and was like “HEY MAN, WHAT R U DOOIN TONITE? WANT 2 COM WERK?” and i was like “uhhh k?” and then i realised: My work uniform was 5 miles away, and i only had a bike to get to it! so i raced across town to get my uniform, and the car, and then i drove to safeway. Then i worked, and it was not horrible. Also, the marathon is on the weekend! I’m excited! I have to get up early friday to go set up though :/ </p> <p>Also, you should all watch The Guild. It’s a web show about these MMO-addicts, it is hilarious.</p> <p>Pff… Stupid live writer having a fit about me not putting a title. what a joke</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-35211039926863212782010-06-04T17:40:00.001-05:002010-06-04T17:40:31.003-05:00Tablet Post<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglpEpwBIJs831itVdQZL0xFoStEkTwhcDw2EGJrudIT_9sG0-VGqUwqYgPbYG_ovMdT-pN2j54ZAHzRcxIBPvBGBzLPSJbdSsGL8FvED-yQ22jEFQkwZpcKw3Cx2XYT8FzhB9WfTQQ0oe_/s1600-h/blog%5B3%5D.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pASmc3MeNXodam5EUNAgcCvcNrlAl2t2DjkSqGNbE8Vfh-MRn2KVaOWmdudg-VofhhiNnrKF30aIa5gY3HFcbNrQH107ZbyzIXYyUh_7zSsmuyIQDUtjgH_78HaccYmUuw6xmyXbc16S/s1600-h/blog%5B10%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="blog" border="0" alt="blog" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9ODDtPWyYWYxGuqwiV3rHXrNPyvCjCHEPa_gSPYh_Pym2r5crvUvjtsf8hkPT2eKNk09ht-8ShDQGvAB967tKO1-4MqVK2EO7ZHDZBy2-NUpIAgsO7IXMYlDKO-zb_6xnjdQ57gMfg8m/?imgmax=800" width="410" height="251" /></a>It's also got a cool writing function. I'm using it right now, and you  can't even tell! Neat, huh? l'll post more once I've played with it more,</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-32853929373499925152010-05-29T19:21:00.001-05:002010-05-29T19:23:20.804-05:00Feel the spice of life… mine is salt.<p>Because salt is the most boring spice i can think of. Today it was raining in the morning, and thundering and lightning-ing. Just like yesterday morning. That all blew over rather quickly, by like 10 it was done. Then it was overcast and humid all day. I went to the mall and watched people. Then i took out my clipboard and drew. Then i made notes on it and glared at people. After that i went to the Apple store (zomg!) yes, me, yes, the apple store. I looked at the iPads. I was just as disappointed with them even with my low expectations. It’s quite literally, a big iPod touch. It’s not even as big as i though it’d be, I thought it would be like the size of a sheet of paper, but it’s smaller. And the whole “gestures” thing doesn’t even work half the time. AND i sent my friend an email from it, and it didn’t even go! when i got back home, i had an email from the mail server saying “what the crap are you doing, you can’t send emails like that.” The only cool thing about the iPad is that they all had Plants vs. Zombies on it. except you can buy that game for the computer and it’s better.</p> <p>THEN I went to the food court, and i ordered french fries. Then i wandered around the mall eating french fries and then i left. Then i went for a run in the park, but because of the thunderstorms, that turned into a different adventure. It was really muggy and green everywhere, kind of like the jungle, and there was a big tree that fell over and i had to climb over it! And then there were big puddles and golf carts everywhere(for the teddy bear picnic). Then i saw some of my friends biking the other way too. After all that, i got tired, so i went back home, then it started to rain. again. In fact, it’s STILL raining! It’s just about to stop though, which is good.</p> <p>Also, i started using Google Chrome, instead of Firefox! It’s kind of exciting, except i haven’t figured out how to block all the ads yet, which is a hassle. instead i spent an hour-ish trying to find a good theme to use.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906515872865403179.post-53818533383986660782010-05-24T00:35:00.001-05:002010-05-24T00:35:55.681-05:00all work and no play makes Paul a dull boy.<p>Well, at least it would if i ever tried that. Something along the lines of “A little hard work never killed anyone, but why take the risk?” Strictly speaking, smelling like cold cuts at the end of the day is not the worst thing that you can smell like. Also, the whole job isn’t TOO too hard :) It’s hard to do it fast though, and they want you to be fast.</p> <p>To be honest, it’s more of a “all play and no work makes Paul very bored” sort of thing actually. all i do these days is hang around and shoot the breeze.</p> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985156541725010984noreply@blogger.com1