something for mah bebe

say wha?

ok so I found out today that it will cost these guys somewhere between $6000 and 12,000 to buy me off my contracting company and take me on full time. Talk about putting me at the bottom of the prospective hire pile!! I don't know that I'm THAT good a techie. I solved the mystery we were having with the playstation 3 development kits YAY! and now I'm full bore deploying them out to our users. still having fun at work too which is awesome.

I'm trying to get some more time in to photoshop lately and start developing some of the skills I think could make some side cash as well as give me my own artistic out. This would rock.

Kate's ETSY store is rocking. She found a company the puts her imagery on shirts n such for her and ships as well. It's really neat and she gets $5 for every thing they sell of hers.

Tonight is crafting night for Kate and Corey and I am here with the S man. We're having a good time horsing around and playing with the farm set.. listening to bluegrass. He's currently drumming on the ball we use for a chair at the desk and swinging my DJ headphones around.... I'll just take those....

When do I get a wombat tree?

We got the S Man about $200 worth of Little People toys for $35 today at a garage sale. Sweet Deal there. There was some cop stuff going down around the corner from the sale. Someone did something that warranted about 4 cars and a tow truck to take a vehicle in question.

He's having a lot of fun with all of it but he did just put a chicken inside my computer. hmm.

Well anyway, it's been a really fun week at work. Everyone is super laid back and even the stressed people are less stressed than I am used to. So I applied for a job with them. One of the people I am working with wants to go to another of their locations here in town and the hope is I could get hired and switch with her. That all depends on whether I get hired or not though. So that's been a blast. I also was offered a job at Future Shop / Best Buy that I turned down. It was with their securities department and would have been a great starting point to get in to their business and also to begin to learn internet securities and Data wharehousing. but. I said no. I want to pursue the options here and even if nothing comes from this. If I get nothing but a month of work with these guys. It was totally worth it.

Luckily amazing girl supports me on this and is inline with me......

J&R cames by last night to discuss the money we still owe them. We didn't actually know we owed them anything but... J wrote Kate to say "bitch when we gettin' our money" and Kate was all like "Mention it once and you can have it dumbass." So they came by and we gave em a cheque and that's that. Done. It was a nice evening and had they left somewhere like 2 hours earlier than they did it would have been perfect. It just got awkward. However it was nice to see them all the same.

Original taste

Well I got a cool new toy this week by giving up a cool toy. I sold my B&O Stereo and bought a 1GB flash drive watch with a mp3/wma player built in. Super sweet. Looks cool too.

I also started working a new contract. It's also super cool. I am really enjoying this place, it makes me want to work because it's so comfortable here. The average person is in skate shoes, shorts and a t-shirt and there are nerf fights daily. It's basically everything that you would love work to be. I'm trying to find a way to stay, if I can't everything will be pretty bland by comparison after this.

ho ya.

Peep tha ride. What is up my dog?

arr thar's sabeetaage afoot

Holy carp. I got a new font.

So we got a virus on our PC this week. Some old virus too. like two years old or some shit. The thing is see... I hadn't put anti-virus on the ole pc thar, cuz I thought I was super cool. I really had just been putting it off. None the less we got this virus that downloaded more virus buddies and soon they were having a party and one of them was passed out on the couch... but it got violent. Some slurs were uttered and a few bottles got tossed around, but soon.... it was over. As windows bit the dust in a blaze of glory, all it's blue screen guns a blazin' our PC fell victim and was no more.

Well, the laptop we have started working under tight scrutiny from the both of us. It had been dead to the world and we almost threw it out a number of times except we really watned the data from it. So when the Burni4tor bit the dust the laptop came out in a wave of 'nointernetiousis' and just worked right off the bat... and has continued to work even though it was moved a few feet to the left and some magazines were removed from underneath. It's enough to make me believe..... .. . in something or other. possibly the sketchy-like quality of me and electronics together. Anyways it's now been dedicated to the desk of Kate and she is going to use it to pump out her new business, idyllia.

The Kid 'S' has been a crazy little f*&%$R this week. Screaming, Tearing about, jump jump jumping and terrorizing. It's really cute. He's been learning a lot of stuff and his vernacular [that's for you bebe] has been getting much bigger. Kate taught him to say please and thank you very well this week and his sign language as well as his speech have become much clearer and defined. Not that we know what's he's on about most of the time but at least we get some of it. Other than that he's been having a blast with me on temporary vacation it has been naught but fun 'round here as we have been going out to parks and pools and the mountains and the playground and and and.... you get the idea. So lots of fun.

The man has a point

"The second source of happiness come from our material facilities. Sometimes when I wake up in the early morning, if my mood is not very good, then when I look at my watch I feel uncomfortable because of my mood. Then on other days, due perhaps to the previous days experience, when I wake up my mood is pleasant and peaceful. At that time , when I look at my watch I see it as extraordinarily beautiful. Yet it is the same watch, isn't it? The difference comes from mental attitude. Whether our use of our material facilities provides genuine satisfaction or not depends on our mental attitude."

We are creating. I feel happy.

Balancing Pennies

Well well. Another month has gone by so time to write again.

Kate you already know what's happening.

We took off to Alberta for a month on a company expensed trip for my work with HSBC. It was a lot of fun, we stayed with my parents in Edmonton and then had a great hotel in Calgary. We got to see all the grandparents and our old friends.

The trip was almost 3 weeks long and was a little stress filled with all the changes in sleeping / eating habits going on around Seb and I think he suffered a little because of it. He did have a great time at the Zoo's and with Taran though.

My parents decided that we needed reliable transportation and thus allowed us to choose a vehicle and they financed it for us. This was like the most amazing thing that has happened to us in a long time. If feels great sitting behind the wheel of a new car that isn't rented and doesn't have to go back to someone in a few days. It's giving me a great feeling of security and comfortability that I have not felt in a long time. It's weird to think a Car can do that to me but at the same time the knowledge that I an my family are safe in there is like a warm blanket.

We got a Kia Spectra 5 in blue and just love it.

Work ends tomorrow and I have a bunch of small project dates ahead of me for RBC and Scotiabank that should provide a little extra cash money. We decided that I should take soem time off and be with Seb and Kate can go work somewhere and get some social time in with other Adults. I think this is going to be one of the hardest things I will ever experience but I really think she needs this more than I, so I am willing. EI plus her job plus some extra projects from Kelly should allow us to continue living.

up comes the new.