Runaway Future

A plethora of random things to go over:

First off this gym thing is something else. My personal trainer dude is pretty cool and I’m going to be going back for various sessions and things on Saturday, twice on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Add in curling on Tuesday and I’m one wild and crazy guy. I really hope that I can stick with it and make it worthwhile, this could be very good for me.

Meanwhile, what’s with the weather? It’s really warm out and they’re calling for temperatures in the mid-teens by the time the weekend rolls around. Curious.
Ok, so today was like music day at work. It all started when Chris sent me this link. Type in a song or an artist and you can build a playlist and play it. Awesome.
That program actually runs off of this website. Similar idea, but it also adds in other songs from the album or related songs.
Speaking of similar songs, this website is an online radio that allows you to start with an artist and then grow a radio station tailored to your musical tastes.
They’re all extremely cool. And that’s why I didn’t do any work today.

So we were talking around the office and Doug Sparks, a Halifax Regional School Board representative is definitely the early candidate for douche of the year. This incident is the second time he’s taken an issue for the school board and turned it into a “race issue”. The School Board is unable to do their work, because Sparks somehow feels he’s being slighted.
You know it’s bad when ATV interviews a leader in the African-Nova Scotian community and even he’s annoyed by Sparks’ antics. Just because of the role Sparks fills on the School Board, doesn’t mean anything that happens that affects him is due to his race.

I had a fairly cool conversation with mom today. On a whim, I called her after I got back from the gym and then we just kinda talked about things. I told her basically about everything that’s been going on and so on. It was just…really nice.
We talked quite a bit about the election and who she’s voting for and so on. It’s only been recently, as party platforms are released and explained further, that I have second thoughts about my vote. Ah well, see how it goes.

I’ve had two very interesting political chats with some friends across Canada (one in Ontario and one in Alberta) since the election was announced. It’s a change to hear the opinions of people in other places, and how they vote.

Chris sent me a picture of myself today. It’s from the summer and I look…quite…bad. Anyway, I don’t have pictures of myself and I like to look at myself. So if you have a picture of me on your computer, send it my way.

Sidney Crosby got two “letters” (or steps if you want to call it that) last weekend for diving, so a warning letter then a $1000 fine (assuming he hadn’t gotten a letter in the past, in which case it was $3000). Then it goes $5000 and then one-game suspension.
Dare I say….punk?
At least he has that A on his sweater and is a “leader”?

I want to see a load of movies that are currently in theatre. I’d like to see The Ringer, Syriana, King Kong and Munich. Unfortunately, two are already solely in Bayer’s Lake and Syriana is going to be done at Park Lane by tommorrow. Grumble…
There’s also like five movies that I’ve missed that are now out on DVD that I want to see. Hrmph.

Finally, cheers to a a former Shelburne crown prosecutor. Judge Burrill gave the 17 year-old kid who ran down a teacher’s assistant here in Halifax a fair, adult sentence. It still might not be enough, but the family is satisfied. Fair to say that the Youth Criminal Justice Act needs help? Christ, I said that when I did a project on it wayyyy back in Law 12, when it was first coming out.
Maybe make it an election issue…