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Monday Sep 1, 2008
It’s actually a dull day for me since I have absolutely no motivation at all. Could be due to the fact that I might have a mild hangover too. I enjoyed finishing off the last 10 cans of Keith’s that I didn’t manage to finish off Saturday night.
Today I’m basically just laying around flipping through TV Stations. There’s never anything good on TV During the day either. No good movies to watch. Talk about a boring day! I would go out for a walk, but I just can’t seem to motivate myself to do even that.
I took a stroll over to the FREX (Carnival) just to be told that it’s going to cost me $7 to go through the gate just to walk around. Screw that! So I went around back of the racetrack and went through the stables and slipped through the draft horses exhibit and then through the exhibits inside the ice rink building and then proceeded to let myself out onto the midway grounds. So I walked around for free in the end.
I took some video. And not to my surprise, it was just as shitty as it was last year. And can you believe this… they didn’t have the bumper cars!!?? What’s a carnival without bumper cars?? It also seems like the rides are getting smaller and smaller too.
I can remember a time when going to the FREX was actually fun. It was always crowded and there was always something new as far as rides went, every year. It now seems that most of the rides have had a name change and a reduction in size.
I’m just glad I didn’t fork out the $7 for the short time I spent there. I feel sorry for the folks that go there with their large families. They’ll need to drop an arm and a leg just to get past the gates. I would hate to think what they would spend to go on the rides and play the games.
I have to admit, that the only thing I was entertained by was the petting zoo.
I’m all rested up now, thanks to the Labour day long weekend. I never had the chance to have holidays off when I worked at the other job. I am so thankful to have landed this job that I’m doing now. To enjoy the holidays and weekends off all the time really lets you have the chance to rest up.
Happy Labour Day Everybody, and Happy Labor Day to you guys south of the border.
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Friday May 2, 2008
Well I did a lot of walking around town today (May1st) and I actually enjoyed it. I will have to do that more often because I felt really good and full of energy when I got home. So good I decided to grab 8 cans of Keiths Beer.
While in town, I got to the bank as it was one of two main reasons to walk into town today. The bank was closed due to the flooding, but fortunately the ATM’s were working. I had to make a deposit so I could pay rent. But that’s to boring to get into.
The second reason for walking the streets was to take some pictures and video of the flooded areas of the city. I believe there are 35 pictures that I took and another 5 1/2 minutes of video, which you can watch here.
I used Google Earth to make an aerial view if what I witnessed to be flooded. Now there is probably flooding in a lot of other places, but I just marked in what I saw. Maybe Corey can add to the image if he feels like it.
Click on the image to open it up in flickr so you can see the large image.
Sorry for posting this so late, but I had to watch my Favorite TV Shows. CSI, Survivor, and LOST were on and I watch these shows ritualistically. I have to say I’m more LOST with LOST now BTW.
When I went into work Wednesday, they decided it was do dangerous to leave the power on in the city in the parts the flooding is the worst, so the clubs were shut down and it was pretty quiet at work. But I guess it was pretty busy in the day since most of the restaurants in the center of town were shut down.
The water started to flood the basement of the restaurant by coming up through the sewer pump that pumps the water from the sinks out. They have to have it because it’s below the water table, hence the flood water coming up through the floor.
The power was off all day Thursday in the flood zones, and apparently will be until the water recedes. They even had to boot all the folks out of one of the Hotels in the Flood Zone. I bet a lot of vacationers were pissed off.
There was Media all over the place. I had a hard time staying out of the camera view. It was crazy watching them every place trying to milk every possible disastrous moment they could.
This actually happens every year, but unfortunately it hasn’t been this bad since 1973.
They’re saying it will peak tonight, but that can change at any hour, so you really don’t know what to expect.
A lot of folks down river from me are probably going to have it worse since they drop a bit lower to sea level and are in the major flood plains. Just hope mom and Dad do alright. Mom was saying that the water is actually right at the back steps of one of my brother’s place. And if it peaks tonight, he will probably need his hip waders for sure.
I took the airplane up and took some video so it’s available if you have 30 or so extra minutes to watch video of the City of Fredericton Flood Areas, or you can skip through it too if you want to watch certain spots. No I didn’t actually take the video in the airplane, just kidding, it’s from the City Web Site.
I don’t know if you know, but I’m a Canadian that can’t wait for spring. I am the one who looks forward to the good Looking ladies ( and yes all the ladies that read this post are good looking as always, otherwise they wouldn’t be attracted to such a handsome guy.) shedding off their outer layers and sporting them new fashions of summer wear.
I took a bit of time and took a walk to the park on a nice sunny day. I threw this together too.
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Tuesday Feb 5, 2008
How many of you have wasted several hours, if not at least half your day watching all those Super Bowl ads on the internet if you actually missed them while the game was on TV? As my previous post on the talking E-Trades Baby post, these things just seem to get better and better every single year.
One of the most popular ones it seems is the one with Justin Timberlake.
I had a good laugh at that one. I especially like the ending when the HDTV whacks him in the head. LOL, I know, That’s harsh, but seriously though, it was funny. Just because I’m not really a big fan of your favorite JT song doesn’t mean he’s all that bad really. He talented, but his style of music just doesn’t fit my tastes.
If it interests you at all, then all the JT Fans might like to get some Justin Timberlake Ringtones for their cell phones which are being snatched up like wildfire over at Playphone.com. There are a few other features on that site that might interest the cell phone users that like to hear their favorite artists play when somebody calls them.
I’m going to see if I can snatch up a few of them Super Bowl ads that have some better quality on them and post theme here when I get the chance. There are so many to snoop through, it’s kind of hard to choose what ones I want to show off.
What are you favorite ads that you have seen so far?
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Thursday Jan 3, 2008
We’re really getting walloped here with all these snow storms. I took a couple of pictures and some video to share. I also snagged a few shots from the web cams from around the city. Unfortunately I wasn’t as lucky as these people though.
The following can also be viewed on my Web Cam Page.
The Fredericton Light House {click to embiggen it}
Here we are in front of the Fredericton City Hall. {click to embiggen it}
This is Officers square. {click to embiggen it}
Now we have my place. This is the snow up past my window. {click to embiggen it}
….and this is a close up of the window snow. {click to embiggen it}
And finally here is some video I shot out of the window last night while the snow plow was trying to push the snow to a better place. The snow was so deep it piled up in front of my window and now I have to look out through the highest part of the window now to see out. You’ll see what I mean when you watch the video. Unfortunately you can’t really see how hard the snow is falling because of the lighting. You can see it every now and aging when the truck’s lights shine into the window.
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