So today I was biking home from work, and I got hit by a mini-van.
Well not really hit, but I did glance off the front bumper and the front tire of my bike got all bent up. I was fine fortunately but it was a close call. I was going down the hill just outside of the hospital and lady turned down a side street right in front of me. I yelled at her to stop (as I was doing about 50km/h on the bike and couldn't stop soon enough) and I hit her front bumper just as she was stopping. If she hadn't I think I would have slowed down enough to just sort of run into the side of the van and would have been unhurt but I would have dented the van pretty good.
The lady's first reaction was to jump out and give me a hug. I don't know what she would have done had I broken my leg(s) or something.
It was sort of my fault as I was on the wrong side of the road because I was heading to the grocery store to pick up a pizza and I knew my brakes weren't working that great.
Live and learn I guess.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Dentist
Yesterday I got 2 fillings put in at the dentist. They are my first 2 in my adult teeth :( But I guess this visit was the result of having gone to the dentist the other week for the first time in more than 9 years or so.
I opted not to go with the freezing, as I figured a couple of minutes of pain is not worth the hassle of a frozen mouth. To my surprise it wasn't that bad at all, fell like an electric shock sort of and not so much like pain. The dentist we use is a pretty cool guys too. Very laid back and quick, if I had to I would have him do most of my dental work I think. But hopfully these couple of filling are all I need for the next 9 years.
I opted not to go with the freezing, as I figured a couple of minutes of pain is not worth the hassle of a frozen mouth. To my surprise it wasn't that bad at all, fell like an electric shock sort of and not so much like pain. The dentist we use is a pretty cool guys too. Very laid back and quick, if I had to I would have him do most of my dental work I think. But hopfully these couple of filling are all I need for the next 9 years.
Games
I beat Syberia II last night. I think I enjoyed the first one a little more.
Here's what bugged me.
* They are in the far reaches of the north and the boat gets grounded. Fine, but its an iceflow covered in penguins. Off the shores of Siberia... This really irked me.
*Somehow a long lost civilization is using the same mechanical know-how that the main character just invented. Its never really explained.
* The ending was very unsatisfying.
So the game was an "A" until the last half hour or so of game time, then it suddenly was a "C". Oh well.
Now I need to beat Painkiller before we head west.
Here's what bugged me.
* They are in the far reaches of the north and the boat gets grounded. Fine, but its an iceflow covered in penguins. Off the shores of Siberia... This really irked me.
*Somehow a long lost civilization is using the same mechanical know-how that the main character just invented. Its never really explained.
* The ending was very unsatisfying.
So the game was an "A" until the last half hour or so of game time, then it suddenly was a "C". Oh well.
Now I need to beat Painkiller before we head west.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Wiring
After last weeks rant about the wiring, I must say that things are going much better than I thought they would. I should actually be done tomorrow.
Also, as far as work is concerned, things should be running very smoothly while I am out west. Its nice when everything falls into place.
Also, as far as work is concerned, things should be running very smoothly while I am out west. Its nice when everything falls into place.
Presents?
Anne made me a card for my first fathers day, and that was it. Its not a big deal or anything as I am sure she knows she owes me big once we have some money again :)
Did she ever say what I got her for mothers day? I think we can tell how lopsided the love around here is!
Did she ever say what I got her for mothers day? I think we can tell how lopsided the love around here is!
It still doesn't smell like a new car...
Sunday we gave the RAV a good cleaning. I think the last time that we did that it was last summer. The inside got a good vacuum and wipe-down and the outside was scrubbed down, even the tires got a clean and soon silver shiny cleaner stuff on them.
The inside is very nice to get into now, looks good and doesn't smell faintly of rotting food :) . The outside however looks about the same due to the numerous dents, scratches, and chips on it. There is only one bad scratch and the rest are just barely noticable, but enought to make the vehicle look no so new. I personally drive a vehicle like that with honor, as to me is shows that we use like a SUV should be used. Slowing down on gravel roads because stuff might get a little chipped is not an option.
Did I mention we love our car, its just 3K shy of 100K (we have had it 2.5 years) and the only "work" thats ever been done is new brakes (the old ones wore out) and new summer tires (the OEM all seasons wore out as well). And believe me we a no Sunday drivers, even with Maya. I do wish it had a little more power, but maybe some day down the road I can get a couple of performance mods added to it.
The inside is very nice to get into now, looks good and doesn't smell faintly of rotting food :) . The outside however looks about the same due to the numerous dents, scratches, and chips on it. There is only one bad scratch and the rest are just barely noticable, but enought to make the vehicle look no so new. I personally drive a vehicle like that with honor, as to me is shows that we use like a SUV should be used. Slowing down on gravel roads because stuff might get a little chipped is not an option.
Did I mention we love our car, its just 3K shy of 100K (we have had it 2.5 years) and the only "work" thats ever been done is new brakes (the old ones wore out) and new summer tires (the OEM all seasons wore out as well). And believe me we a no Sunday drivers, even with Maya. I do wish it had a little more power, but maybe some day down the road I can get a couple of performance mods added to it.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Spaghetti!
A couple of weeks ago we had the Ministry of Labour do an inspection of the hospital. The guy who did it was extremely thorough (i.e. paranoid) and took 3 days to get it done. Other hospitals in the area had an inspector there for half a day so you can see that we got the cranky one.
The one area that affects me that he reported on was the wiring around the computers. He said that "it was worst mess he had ever seen in any hospital ever", which of course is a total crock. Its no worse than any other hospital that I have ever been in. But for some reason that has been taken as gospel here and its my fault and so I have to somehow "fix" all of it, and before June 28th. Granted its not real bad in most spots but there a couple of areas where its pretty bad but its that way because of the design of the rooms.
So on top of implementing our new e-mail system and getting all of the network documentation together so the hosptial doesn't fall appart while I am away for July, I now have to deal with this retardation.
Why, oh why, is north america so paranoid about crap like this. Why can't people just be responsible for themselves!? I really don't think someone is going to get hurt or get a disease from a lump of cables behind a desk.
Just had to get that off of my chest.
What do your work places do about cabling? Is it neat and tidy and organized where you are?
The one area that affects me that he reported on was the wiring around the computers. He said that "it was worst mess he had ever seen in any hospital ever", which of course is a total crock. Its no worse than any other hospital that I have ever been in. But for some reason that has been taken as gospel here and its my fault and so I have to somehow "fix" all of it, and before June 28th. Granted its not real bad in most spots but there a couple of areas where its pretty bad but its that way because of the design of the rooms.
So on top of implementing our new e-mail system and getting all of the network documentation together so the hosptial doesn't fall appart while I am away for July, I now have to deal with this retardation.
Why, oh why, is north america so paranoid about crap like this. Why can't people just be responsible for themselves!? I really don't think someone is going to get hurt or get a disease from a lump of cables behind a desk.
Just had to get that off of my chest.
What do your work places do about cabling? Is it neat and tidy and organized where you are?
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Deodorant...
Don't you hate it when you forget to put deodorant on in the morning. Especially when its hot and humid. fI just had to wash my pits out with hand soap in the bathroom. :(
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
The Rally
The Rally this weekend was a complete success. The awesomeness was only outdone by the even more awesomeness of the whole thing.
I stayed at Ian's house Thursday night with Anne who was going to her breastfeeding conference in the morning. We packed up Ian's car and left at about 10ish to pick up Chris at his fiances house in Mississauga and then we were off. The drive to Wellsboro was uneventfull except for a 1/2 hour delay at the border to get Chris's green card stamped (he's Australian). We arrived about 5:30pm at headed off to our camp site just outside of town. The camp site was very basic (and cramped) but we just needed a place to sleep so it did the job. We got set up then when back to Wellsboro and had supper at Pizza hut.
We then went for a walk. Because the rally was going to start in the morning and there were 59 cars entered they were all over town. WE took some pics and looked inside the cars and compared setups etc..
It rained most of the night and all of Saturday morning. This made the rally very hard apparently because the roads are all primarily clay and gravely so it made things very slippery.
After looking at a few more cars Saturday morning we decided to head out the "Subaru Splash" morning spectator area, which was one of 3 to choose from. We were almost late getting there because we got some bad directions from a fellow Canadian. This sort of caused us to get a not so great spot for what turned out to be kind of a crappy spectator stage. The stage ended right in the middle of the splash so they really didn't have any reason to try and get through it to fast and the people looking after it were not doing a good job. It was alright to see the cars all steaming and stuff but it wasn't very exciting. Next year we will pick a different one for sure. Win some lose some I guess.
It did lower our expectations for the next spectator area we chose which turned out to be very VERY good.We got there quite early and so had to wait around for 5 hours or so but it was worth every second. Take a look at this clip i took with my camera. This is what we saw about 40 some cars do and then some 30 do at night, in the dark. Two cars in the night pass had mishaps in front of us. One just about hit the officials and other crew after missing the turn and sliding about 40 feet and the other tried too hard after the second turn and went up on the embankment. Both recovered okay.
We recorded most of the cars on a DV camcorder which I will have a DVD of soon. Lots of funny stuff on that as well so if you are over here some time I will show it too you.
We are already looking forward to the Rally of the Tall Pines in November as well as next years SPATTER.
I will hopfully have a gallery up some time soon, but I didn't get that many great pics, the video is just soo good it kind of makes the pictures pointless.
I stayed at Ian's house Thursday night with Anne who was going to her breastfeeding conference in the morning. We packed up Ian's car and left at about 10ish to pick up Chris at his fiances house in Mississauga and then we were off. The drive to Wellsboro was uneventfull except for a 1/2 hour delay at the border to get Chris's green card stamped (he's Australian). We arrived about 5:30pm at headed off to our camp site just outside of town. The camp site was very basic (and cramped) but we just needed a place to sleep so it did the job. We got set up then when back to Wellsboro and had supper at Pizza hut.
We then went for a walk. Because the rally was going to start in the morning and there were 59 cars entered they were all over town. WE took some pics and looked inside the cars and compared setups etc..
It rained most of the night and all of Saturday morning. This made the rally very hard apparently because the roads are all primarily clay and gravely so it made things very slippery.
After looking at a few more cars Saturday morning we decided to head out the "Subaru Splash" morning spectator area, which was one of 3 to choose from. We were almost late getting there because we got some bad directions from a fellow Canadian. This sort of caused us to get a not so great spot for what turned out to be kind of a crappy spectator stage. The stage ended right in the middle of the splash so they really didn't have any reason to try and get through it to fast and the people looking after it were not doing a good job. It was alright to see the cars all steaming and stuff but it wasn't very exciting. Next year we will pick a different one for sure. Win some lose some I guess.
It did lower our expectations for the next spectator area we chose which turned out to be very VERY good.We got there quite early and so had to wait around for 5 hours or so but it was worth every second. Take a look at this clip i took with my camera. This is what we saw about 40 some cars do and then some 30 do at night, in the dark. Two cars in the night pass had mishaps in front of us. One just about hit the officials and other crew after missing the turn and sliding about 40 feet and the other tried too hard after the second turn and went up on the embankment. Both recovered okay.
We recorded most of the cars on a DV camcorder which I will have a DVD of soon. Lots of funny stuff on that as well so if you are over here some time I will show it too you.
We are already looking forward to the Rally of the Tall Pines in November as well as next years SPATTER.
I will hopfully have a gallery up some time soon, but I didn't get that many great pics, the video is just soo good it kind of makes the pictures pointless.
Monday, June 07, 2004
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