I was forced to watch it last night. Absolutely, absolutely, *brutal*! I mean, not that he got all that much help defensively with the exception of the likes of McCabe and Brown, who I think wants to try and take Domi’s place after his retirement, but… still. The preseason’s half over now. More than half, actually. You’d think he’d actually start to play like an NHL goaltender by now. But, sadly, his play has gone from good to crappy in the span of a week, whereas at least Aubin is picking up where he left off, and Raycroft is actually hanging in there. The only real questionmark here is Tellqvist, but then again he’s only a questionmark in the eyes of the coaching staff… I know where he’s supposed to be. And it ain’t with the big club. He, and about half the squad that played tonight IMHO, should be on their way to the AHL arena down the road, *today*. Or, if not today, then preferably before they embarrass us against detroit on Saturday and/or Sunday. I like my leafs above .500, thankyaverymuch!
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If ever there was a reason to ditch Tellqvist…
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Medicinal merijuana – or: Why morons get elected.
There’s way too many articles circulating both online and off both for and against the supposed benefits of medicinal merijuana, if there’s even such a thing as using it strictly for medicinal purposes. A mailing list I’m on went up in arms last night and earlier this morning when it was released that our government would be cancelling a project started by the liberals for the specific purpose of medicinal merijuana research. Now, personally, I could really care less one way or the other–I don’t use it, don’t know anyone who uses it (well, not medicinally, anyway), and just generally… don’t really give a shit whether the research project stays or goes. My indifference on the subject, however, prompted some rather… surprising responses, even from those who were obviously pro-merijuana research. Some of these responses, mind you, really make me question the kinds of people we have voting for our governments of late. One in particular really made me shake my head, and ask myself what the hell people are thinking nowadays. Names shall be altered to protect the innocent and/or misguided.
Bob as I said I have a prescription for medical marijuana no longer need to take pain killers one toke lasts me 3 days and nights nothing else stops the pain and swelling from diabetic neuropathy.They offered me morphine , when I was in the hospital with a broken pelvis. I turned down all their drugs even though I was in agony came home asap grabbed a toke relaxed and slept without pain for the first time in over a week!
Okay, so extreme run-on sentences and otherwise bad punctuation aside… this smells of either stupidity, or massive stoner. I somehow don’t think it’s the latter, but I really don’t *want* to think it’s the former… the original sender of the email *usually* has a good point. But refusing morphine, which is pretty much the strongest pain killer they can give you at any hospital up here, at least–there’s a reason, after all, why it’s only available in hospitals–in favour of going home and hitting a joint instead? I don’t know. Even if I supported the idea behind merijuana research, I sure as hell wouldn’t be turning down something to at *least* take the edge off the pain, if nothing else. I mean, I know I have a high pain tolerence anyway, but still. That’s just all manner of rediculous, IMHO. I’m beginning to think the only reason she did that was for the sole purpose of just going home to smoke up. Seriously… that doesn’t do a damn thing for the pain. You’re just too looped to notice it’s still there. Not much different from morphine, if you ask me. Except that it’s regulated, and if you have problems with it, at least you’re already *in* the hospital–again, this is why it’s only given out to people who’re actually forced to stay there. Of all the reasons to be in favour of something like this, that has got to be quite possibly the worst reason I’ve ever heard. I worry for you, Canada. I really do. If this is an example of the voting public nowadays, we’re all fucked.
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Well now. Ain’t that just peachy.
Guess it was only a matter of time… we’ve already had the mandatory day or two of comment spam that must come with all blogs of any and all varieties, so it’s only fair that now, the day or two (hopefully it’s only a day or two, anyway) of trackback/ping spam begins. In the last hour, I must have junked about 30 spam trackbacks to this site. Ah well, excitement like that’s what makes the world go ’round. Maybe we’ll get lucky and a few of these people with nothing better to do will fall off.
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The longest attempt to set up an interview, *ever*…
… May very well come to fruition in about 2 weeks. That’s when the interview that’s been in the works for at least 2 months has finally, tentatively, been scheduled for. Tentatively meaning, subject to change depending on when the hell I can hitch a ride to Ottawa. Damn, with a job preparation timeline like this, the job had better damn well be guaranteed to me. Or at least hard for me to avoid getting hired for. The really sad part is, the reason it took this long to be tentatively scheduled for 2 weeks from Thursday is completely and totally out of the hands of the Ottawa office I’m hopefully going to be working for. To explain that, though I’ll need to do what I’m famous for and sidetrack a little.
Anyone who’s actually read more than 3 lines on this blog knows I’m blind, and use a screenreader. Specificly, JAWS for Windows, designed by Freedom Scientific. That lovely little piece of software, as useful as it is, comes with a nice little price tag. And they aren’t always as quick on the uptake as I think they should be when it comes to shipping. One of these days, barring lazyness, I’ll upload a demo of just what the hell I manage to do with that software installed and running. But suffice it to say, you’re reading a small part of the result of that program.
Okay, with that explanation or sorry attempt at one out of the way, back to the original point of this entry. So, the majority of the delay was a waiting game on everyone’s part. The HR person I’ve been talking to has pretty much been running circles between their IT department, their financial department, and presumeably the company linked above who makes the screenreader, trying to put things in place so I can actually do the computer things their interview requires. I can only imagine how much of a pain in the ass it is trying to justify that kind of a price tag just for the sake of an interview. Someone either really likes my resume or has lost their freakin mind. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. Then, it was all about the waiting for the screenreader to get from the developers to the office it’ll actually be used in. And, in someone’s infinite wisdom, it was getting here by way of Texas. So that meant waiting until they got around to shipping it to Texas, then waiting until whoever picked it up in Texas to get around to shipping it to Ottawa. And all the while, the HR person’s calling me every so often with the all too familiar “I’m still waiting on it, but your resume hasn’t moved”. So apparently, he’s been calling for a couple hours, trying to get a hold of me today, and I just finally actually got on the phone with him about half an hour ago–I do believe he sounded more relieved that it was over and done with than I’d originally expected. So now, I arange transportation, let him know when I’ll be showing up, and finally actually get this interview out of the way so they can tell me to take my qualifications and shove ’em up my ass. Or hire me. Whichever. So, 2 weeks from now, rather than sitting in front of a computer looking for work and randomly dropping opinions on this thing, I’ll hopefully be sitting in front of a computer, giving them a reason to hire me, and maybe if they feel like being nice dropping an opinion or two on this thing. But probably not. I’m gonna miss being an unemployed, lazy sod… but at least I’ll be doing something! -
It’s not a trial, it’s a mockery.
Unfortunately, the blame for making it that way lies on both sides of the issue, and starts off with the chief judge getting pissy and tossing Hussein out of the courtroom. Of course, he did ask to leave, after pretty much saying the justice system was out to get him–well, duh. Of course, why they hold the trial in Iraq anyway is way the hell beyond me. You probably aren’t going to find anyone there who’s not biased either for, or against, Hussein or anything he did. Plus it’s still being supervised by the US so it may as well be in the US.
Well, at least this judge is starting to do what Hussein asks… I wonder if that means he’ll have his other request granted. Probably not, but quacks like that *are* why I think people should be shot. And he’d make a fine public example. -
And now, cat alergies are no excuse.
For the modest price of somewhere in the neighbourhood of $4000, you too can have a cute, cuddly kitten, minus sneezing. Of course, for that price, it’d better be trained to clean its own litterbox, too.
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I wonder if the conservatives are getting the message yet.
Ten years is *way* too long to take to start arming Canada’s border guards. Not to mention it’s not going to help them any time soon, in situations wherein the RCMP get word that an armed killer is probably going to make a run for the border between Washington and British Columbia. And you just know he’s only making a run for the border because he knows they can’t, or won’t, stop him. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be working there after getting a warning like that, considering he’s probably got a gun and by law I wouldn’t be allowed to. And the US border guards probably won’t do a damn thing, because it’s on the *Canadian* crossing side of the border, and so doesn’t really effect them. Stupid lazy american border guards. I’ve ranted before, though not on here, about the rediculousness that is the US constitutional right to carry a gun, which I still think is both stupid and the exact reason why there are so many freakin’ gun related deaths in the US, and why it’s so damn easy to slip guns across the border–there’s really nothing the Canadian guards can do about it, short of turning them around, *if* they have reason to believe they’re being brought across the border to be sold, but with the average joe being able to pick one up in the US, that in itself is going to be hard to prove, I’d think. At least up here, they’re trying… kind of. Even though the gun registry is poorly implemented and should probably be redone. But… I’m getting off track, again. Anyway, yes, the right to carry a gun is rediculous. I’ve said it before. At the same time, though, the right to be able to defend yourself is to be expected. And if, for border guards, that means being armed, then for crying out freakin’ loud arm the poor bastards. If they’re expected to keep the rejects of the US out of Canada, they’re more than likely gonna need it. And in less than ten years.
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There’s only one thing I despise about Ottawa. Their damned hockey team.
Especially when they end up outplaying my team, as was the case last night. And after they’d been doing so well, too… 8 shots in the third period? What the fuck? And where in the name of all that is good was our defense? I mean, yeah the big names were watching the game instead of playing, but jesus. These kids are supposed to be trying for a spot on the major league roster. They didn’t even seem to be trying last night, for anything. With the exception of maybe 2 people, but even they kind of fizzled out after the first period. What. The. FUCK? Okay, I’m done. Until Wednesday. Then we do it all over again. And we’d better damn well do it right.
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I am lazy, and lazy is me.
There is absolutely nothing planned for the day, except to just sit around, watch a little TV, and just… generally do nothing. I approve of this. After doing fifty thousand things through the course of the last week or so, and still having fifty thousand more to do this coming week, it’s a unanimous decision that today shall officially be slackers day. There’s a nice breeze going on outside, which… is probably where I should be right now, but I think instead, I’m going to haull my lazy self downstairs, and pick a little at the guitar my uncle loaned me until I decide whether or not I’m sticking with the lessons enough that I actually go put the money down on my own. I keep threatening to do that at some point, but… yeah. That’d require free time. Maybe if I just tack it onto the bottom of my to do list… right under finding a job. No, wait, then it’ll never get done. Ah well. I’ll work on something resembling a schedule or something later. Lazy is today.
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That’s 3. In a row. Hell yeah.
And 2 of the 3 were against the Canadians. Even better. It isn’t even October 4th yet and I’m excited. Already it looks like it’s gonna at the least be a faster game than last season. Speed demons is right.