Well, if you're into Ministry of Sound, this is pretty cool: John 00 Fleming biography.

In other things, it's been a long week at work. There's essentially just two of us to do the work of 4 people. We got 3 more people to help out, but they require some training on the processes. So guess who has to train them. ME! This means not getting some work done. Oh well. As soon as they are up to speed it should be better.

The weekend is here finally! Don't really have a whole lot planned for this weekend. Maybe head over to this place called Atmosphere to see what sort of travel-weight pants they have.

I've decided to really work on a regimen to get back into shape and lose a little weight in the progress. I'm going to try to keep track of what I eat and how much. Also, if I can't cycle to work, then I'm going to use the exercise bike at home. We'll see how long I can keep this up! ;-)

Went up to the cottage last night, mainly to water some plants, but we figured that since we were up there we might as well spend the night up there. Brought the iBook up along with the Japan books in an attempt to tighten up our itinerary. I think we did alright.

Installed Blosxon and Movabletype on this machine as well. I figure I'd play around with them and see how they work out for blogging. It's not that difficult to install, but will take a little time to figure out how to customize. :-)

Ahhhhh! The weekend at last! I thought it would never come! It's just been yet another wild and crazy week at work. Sometimes I don't feel like I get much of a break in between days.

I hope to relax a bit this weekend. We'll prob go up to the cottage Saturday night. Need to water the plants, but figure it would be nice to take advantage of Dave's parents not being there. Got some ground meat out of the freezer the other day. Should be good to go for tomorrow :)

Had a discussion at lunch about just getting up and moving to another country. Abe can easily get used to the idea. He's already been in other places for extended periods for work, so it would not be a big deal for him to get up and go. For others of us, it is a bit more difficult. There's this one girl at work who took a sabbatical and went to Africa where her sister was at the time. I don't think we can take sabbaticals nowadays. You just can't guarantee that you'll come back to a job. Oh well.. maybe one day when things get better.

8-)

Well, I think I am really starting to feel old. Went to the Dave Mathews Band concert last night (free tix!). Maybe it's me, or maybe it's where we were sitting, but I found the music a bit too loud. It seems like the pumped up the volume to the point where the singer's voice was becoming distorted. I just could not make out what he was singing. Of course, not being a big DMB fan, I am at a disadvantage with regards to what the lyrics could have been!

So, today, my ears are not ringing too much, but for one reason or another, I have this stiff neck. This is too bad, because I was hoping to play softball tonight. The team won yesterday! But I don't want to aggravate this stiff neck. :-p Sux to be old.

Anyway, still counting down the days to Japan! Come the end of the week, we will have approximately 3 weeks to go!! :-D

Payday tomorrow! WOO HOO!!

Had gone over to Jardin Jasmin yesterday and came away with just dirt! Actually, that's probably a good thing. I've got to look into taking better care of the orchids I have before I think about getting any more plants! Anyway, we picked up a big bag of this stuff called hydroton. they're like these little marble-sized balls made of baked clay. In any case, we saw them used at the nursery for some plants that like a very moist environment. I figure they would be great for the orchids to sit on top of! It looks like they can stay moist for a while. Also picked up a bag of soil for cactus and a bag of soil for african violets. We need to repot one of Dave's plants and one of two plants I got from work needs more media.

I am really starting to like this little iBook. I think that with each day I use it, the more accustomed I become with it. There are prob still some things about the OS X environment I haven't discovered yet, but soon enough I will be an old hand at it. I really like doing stuff wirelessly. I don't know how I managed to compute from the PC desktop.

I don't think I will be giving up my desktop any time soon, yet, most of this weekend, I had been using the iBook. I've also set it up so that I can receive my email on this machine. Hope my PC doesn't get too lonely...

Anyways, it's exactly one month before the big trip!!! :) 1 day down, 29 more to go!!!!

Darn! Have to go back to work tomorrow. Even these long weekends just don't seem very long any more. I'm supposed to play softball tomorrow, but we got tickets (from John) for the Dave Matthews Band concert at the Bell Centre. Hrm... Oh well. I'm sure the team can handle things just fine without me! :D Well, hey! What would you choose? ;-)

Had a taste of moon cake today. I had bought a tin of them on Saturday. They're from HK. They're rather tasty but rather rich. No wonder no one ever eats a whole one in one sitting! These things can be deadly when eaten in large quantities! We stopped by John and Jessica's to pick up the concert tickets and I brought them a small care basket of some braised beef I made last night and a mooncake. I think Jessica will appreciate the moon cake. :D

Anyway, we tossed around the idea of going up to the cottage next weekend. Maybe see if john and Jessica would like to come along and spend the day there. It should be nice. I just hope the weather cooperates.

:-)