Almost Again

Ever since I cancelled my dalefurutani.net domain my playlist has been down (though I don’t know who other than Chad listens to it) so I threw together a quick one tonight and stored the files on fileden.  It’s a playlist of what I’ve been listening to lately, and thus this one is sorta all over the place, with everything from good-mood indy to downright metal.  Enjoy!

1. State Shirt – Cassettes
2. Hercules And Love Affair – Time Will
3. Metric – Gold Guns Girls
4. Dredg – I Don’t Know
5. Muse – Starlight
6. Linkin Park – New Divide
7. Dredg – Information
8. Metric – Blindness
9. Nine Inch Nails – Me, I’m Not (Pawn Project Remix)
10. Devin Townsend Project – Heaven Send
11. Strapping Young Lad – Almost Again
12. Amorphis – Sampo
13. Amorphis – Silver Bride
14. Devin Townsend Project – Ki
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Maintenance

Thursday was a rainy day, and on the way to work I turned my headlights on.  “Don’t forget to turn them off!”  I thought to myself…  I forgot.

After work, sure enough, the battery was dead.  “No big deal,” I thought “I’ll just go back upstairs and see if someone in the office has jumper cables.”  That someone ended up being Brian.  But after 15 minutes we could not get my car running, even with a third passerby helping us.  My car was dead!

Nathan was nice enough to give me a ride home, but I was now stressed out.  I kind of need a car.  I live almost out of town, making it hard to get anywhere to get anything without a car, not to mention have a social life and get to work.  I’ve been thinking of getting a new car, but that was maybe a year down the road, it’s not a realistic option quite yet.  So this sucked, and I was stressing out.

The next day I caught a ride to work with Bill.  My car was still dead in the parking lot.  At lunch Nathan gave me a ride to PartSource and I bought some jumper cables and some fuses.  I’d burnt a fuse a while ago and figured maybe that was why we couldn’t jump start the car.  After replacing the fuse we tried jumpstarting the car, and it worked!  Thank God.  Put me in a great mood.  And on the way back up to the office some strippers from the strip club across the street were putting up some signs dressed in almost nothing and came and talked me up for 10 minutes.  That put me in an even greater mood!

Not having a car, even for one day, made me realize how much that would suck.  I figured I should probably take care of the one I have, so on the drive home I stopped my Mr. Lube and got an oil-change, engine sealant, etc.  My rear driver’s side turning signal had just died so I bought a replacement light for that too.  I then went back to PartSource and bought a new air filter and changed that too.  I have to get my car safetied for Alberta soon too.

It was actually pretty fun getting my hands dirty under the hood of a car, even if it was only minor repairs that anyone could do.  But I’m still a tech-geek, and as proof, screenshots of my new theme for my jailbroken iPhone!

Andi’s Visit!

Andi came through Edmonton!  She was heading to Winnipeg to visit family and friends, and passed through Edmonton on the way.  It was just for a night.  Sadly she was planning on coming in at around 4:00 PM but the trip took longer than expected and she didn’t get in until around 10:00.  We only got to hang out for a few hours, which is a shame cause I was hoping to introduce her to some of my friends and show her our regular pub, Next Act.  Melissa in particular was really hoping to meet her.  Next time.

It was great to see her again.  Last time we hung out was on my visit to Winnipeg at Xmas.  It was bizarre too, in that we were both now out on our own, chasing our dreams and making lives for ourselves.  Everyone was growing up.

It was also just like old times though, sitting in the Honda and chatting, sharing a cigar, etc.  I miss her, and it was good to see her again.  I’ll definitely have to visit her on the next major road trip!

Jailbreak!

Devon convinced me to jailbreak my iPhone, and it is awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happenings

First of all, you may have noticed my blog is no longer at dalefurutani.net.  I haven’t been interested in photography as a career in some time, so it just didn’t make sense to keep paying for the domain name anymore.  One downside of this is the playlist on the right doesn’t work at the moment, since the songs were all stored on that domain.  I’ll migrate the mp3s to some free file-storage site some day, but until then playlist is down.

  Anyway, few new things going on.  First of all, I can’t remember if I wrote this, Bill and Tia bought some kittens!  First they bought Isabella, a 1 year old cat, very vocal and friendly…  To people.  Then Tia bought 2 new kittens, maybe 2 months old.  They’re super cute and love each other, but Isabella hates them, lol.  It’s been entertaining watching the cat politics as they establish dominance and alliances.

I ordered some blucigs.  I loved smoking, but the health risks and financial costs made it a bad idea.  These get around both of those.  $60 for a starter kit will get me enough to last 3 months, then 20$ will refill me for another 3 months.  There’s no carcinogens in them, so no cancer!  That’s a plus!  No stinky smell, no second hand smoke, I can smoke indoors (including at my computer in the office), and plus the tech-geek side of me thinks they’re so neat!  They light up blue instead of red when you puff!  I’ve talked to a few friends who have tried them at different times, and they said they’re actually quite cool.  So that should be interesting.

Back to work tomorrow, and I’ll get to file some more design bugs.  I honestly can’t wait to get back to work tomorrow.  What a life.

Another Dragon Age Comic!

Canada Day Dilemma

Hung out with Dann, Melissa, Colin, Renee and Jo last night.  Played some fun drinking games, ordered pizza, had an apartment nerf war.  It was good times.  I broke my glasses though (simply taking them off, not from drunken rough-housing, even though there was plenty), and that sucks because that’s like $400 at least, which I don’t have.  They’re still wearable, and the break is hardly noticeable, so for now I’ll get by.

Today is Canada Day.  The office has bear-bones staff in today, but the consoles team were told they could come in if they wanted, which I took advantage of.  Making time and a half.  And we get free Boston Pizza for lunch.

Not sure what I’m going to do tonight.  Dann is hanging out with Brian at a bar, which I’m invited to, but I’m broke.  Melissa works, Nathan is out of town (Vegas!), etc.  Supposedly every Canada Day Edmonton has an amazing fireworks display downtown, with a giant WATERFALL off a bridge.  Sounds amazing.  Canada Day was always a big deal in Winnipeg with my friends and I feel like I should go out tonight, but at the same time I’ve been burning the candle at both ends lately.  Being very ambitious at work, my Mom was in town so entertained her for the weekend (don’t get me wrong, it was great to see her), and then drunken fun last night…  I could really go for a relaxing night at home.  So I might just pick up a case of beer and play some videogames all night with Chad, we’ll see.

Regardless, hope everyone has a great Canada Day!