I did four things since my last update:
1) Eat.
2) Watch movies.
3) Play catch.
4) Sleep.

Mostly eating and sleeping. This was a good weekend.

Name dropping...

Just got back from the movies. Saw Day After Tomorrow with Victor, Sri, and James - I thought it was pretty good. Nothing special. Better than Troy, since the only two actors who could pull off the atrocious dialogue in that were Eric Bana and Peter O'Toole. Here, there were some pretty good lines... like Mexico closing it's borders, heh.

Today was EngScunt, and I did that. Mostly trivia with Lynn, although I did head out for an activity or two. It's still going on, lasts until noon Saturday. I don't think I'm likely to make it back by then, although I forgot to return something to Generation X so I'll probably be heading out tomorrow morning anyways, so there's a possibility I'll see the end.

Somewhere in there I took Mark T, Lynn, and Peter (and someone else who's name I can't recall) to Mel's, mostly since Peter had never been there - he's a frosh. I still miss the old potatoes. It also made today the first day in more than a week that I haven't had beef.

Saw Ernie's sword. Seriously, he has a sword. It's not sharp, but it's a sword, and it's Ernie's. Thankfully, he's recognized this and Ernie drinking means James gets the sword.

Met the new VPF for MathSoc, Wendy. Seems to want me to do even more when the money thing comes around for Movie Night. Nothing big, not a problem. Does mean the amount of work I have to do with it has gone up by like 1000000%. Which is just an indication of how little I had to do before, as opposed to some new burden.

"Up yours, Zoidberg. Up wherever it is your species crams things."

Forbes.com: Google, Microsoft take battle to the desktop - I don't know if I'd have called it "Puffin." I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.

Yesterday, myself, Samir, Soo, Emilie and Raymond went to St. Jacobs Farmer's Market. There, I purchased many things: apple (apple-rhubarb?) crisp, fudge (butterscotch, for those interested), apricots (healthy, but very, very good), and a T-Bone steak. It cost me about $18; it was 2.19 lbs. And I just ate it all. Then I ate some fudge. I think I'll have some of the crisp now.

Beyond that, this weekend has been barbeques. Me and Raymond were Friday, Raymond doing the preparation and me doing the grilling. And drinking. Yesterday was Daniel, celebrating his return from his month long journey through Japan. Isn't that the way the May 24 weekend should be? Defined by how much food you've eaten and how much beer you've had to drink? Actually, that's the way every weekend should be.

One more day for the long weekend. Let's get my updated resume together and send it to Google as per their request - tomorrow's a work day for them, after all.

Phil! You're DEAD, Weiner.

Arda, Phil sold you out too. Good bye, and thanks for the chocolate chips.

Yeah, I've updated this thing. The Blogback comments are gone... I can go read them, but no one else can. New template means some of my links are gone; they'll return when I get around to putting them back. No promises as to a timeframe. If you know the old URLs, they'll still work. Here's the link to the Lost Causes script, since I know that's something everyone seems to like.

Me tired.

Blogger's added some new features, like built in commenting. I have no idea how this is going to look.

I just got back from Troy. I liked it, it's a good movie. I do have three complaints, one of which is one of them spoilers so I'll decline to comment here. Number two is overwrought dialogue, which I'm okay with since many of the actors can make it work. Number three is Orlando Bloom using a bow. I saw that movie already. It's about twelve hours long. Why do it again? Other than, you know, all the piles of money that made.

Hmm. That's a good reason.

So I went home for the weekend - Mother's Day, plus I've been without my pillows and comforter. Thanks to Raymond and Ernie for the pillow and sleeping bag respectively. You'll have your stuff back on Sunday. Curtis and Catherine, I'll pay you back when you see me.

Anyways, in coming home I've allowed myself to become the Greatest WMP of all time. Stupid Future Shop. Futurama Season 3. The Last Samurai. Transformers for PS2 (i's like third person Halo. It would be the better than Halo with some multiplayer. You'd never have to argue who's driving the Warthog. As it is, I still like it better because I'm a sucker for that particular license and suck a first person shooters). New Memory Card and Dual Shock 2. Also sour jujubes, but I'm not sure they count.

I'll update the DVD list when I feel like it. Still have to add the Bond movies, too.

UPS Global Home: My first post back at school isn't a "things are going super!" missive, it's an I-hate-UPS RANT. I can't bring myself to go to sleep until I've gotten this off my chest: Fuck you, United Parcel Service.

Over the past two months, I have had three encounters with UPS. On one occasion, things went as planned. That's a 33% success rate. The first incident occured with my laptop, you'll find details of that in the Archives for March. This time around, I ordered a computer game online from Future Shop, and they chose to send it UPS. I was already dead set against UPS, I would never pick it, even when it costs me more - I've already done this, too. They attempt to deliver it on Friday. No one was home, they leave a little sticky note saying it will be delivered between 10:30 and 2:30 Monday. Fine. I have one class, it's at 8:30, that's easily doable. In addition, this class lasts twenty minutes today, since it's the first day and the prof will start lectures in earnest on Wednesday. So I'm home with plenty of time to spare. Now get this: the tracking information says "Receiver unavailable, 2nd attempt" for 11:14. Guess what: I was home all god damned day, I never heard a knock on the door, and roommate Jen was home all day as well. And aren't you supposed to leave me a note? Because I have one from Friday, but today's is NOWHERE to be seen.

Actually, there's a lie in the preceding paragraph, I did hear a knock on the door. It was the cable guy. We were having problems with our service, and he was available to fix it. The afternoon after the problems were found. The cable company had a better response rate than UPS. Rogers has given me nothing but love in the customer service department. Let THAT sink in for a second. I've heard nothing but horror stories about Rogers, but my experiences with them have always been on the good side.

School was okay, for the twenty minutes of class I had. I spent more time in transit walking. Danielle's in my class, which is nice, since the 8:30 databases class has different assignments and exams than the other two sections. Which is annoying. Yay Danielle! Sorry Alison, seems like it may not be such a great idea to go to yours... although, the over/under on how many 8:30 database classes I actually make it to is (probably liberally) set at 10, and something's better than nothing...

Wow, I've got a lot of crap.

This is a seminal post in the history of my blog - the last one from Mountain View, indicating the end of my co-op term as a Google intern. It's a weird feeling. Tomorrow at about 12:35 PDT, my flight leaves SFO. It's supposed to land in Buffalo at 9:58 after a stopover in Detroit. The airport in Detroit has wireless access, so maybe you'll get a post from me there... but probably not, since I have to pay for that.

End of the work term seemed to merit a mention. Monday morning, I have databases at 8:30, better known as 5:30 PDT. Ugh.