Archive for April, 2005
April 6, 2005 at 2:31 pm · Filed under General
So today I’m driving back to work after lunch, minding my own business as I make my way down 109st. It’s sunny and warm, and I’m enjoying myself because this is about as close as I get to some ‘outside time’ on any given day.Now I work downtown in Edmonton. Downtown is home to all types really, yuppies, DINKs, the homeless, the College crowd, artsy kids, and so much more. The best crowd of all downtown though, are the complete crazies. I love the crazies, maybe because they make me feel better about being me. I could be having the worst day ever, but if I see a crazy dude I always thing “well, at least I’m not THAT guy”.
Anyhow, with the beautiful weather back again, it would seem that so too are the crazies. I don’t know where they go in the winter, possibly Vancouver, but they’re back now. Today I saw my favorite crazy guy. If you’ve been downtown you may have seen him before.
He’s the guy walking around with a blue fishing hat, a tiny t-shirt, and speedos. But not just any speedos, these are formerly bright floral print speedos. I say formally because repeated wear has rendered them kind of grey and threadbare. But fret not for our friends lack of color because he has an assortment of BRIGHTLY COLORED THONGS that he likes to wear over top of the speedos. And why not? Isn’t this a logical outfit? Fishing hat? Check. Grizzly Adams style beard? Check. Tiny t-shirt? Check. Speedos and colorful thong? Check and check! Well, off I go to meet the Queen.
I particularly love this outfit because from the front it draws all types of attention to his crotch, as only a fluorescent cod piece can. And from the rear it offers some fine separation for his butt cheeks. I’ve been seeing this guy around for years too, so it’s not like he has a lot of variation in his wardrobe. He actually used to shop at my SaveOn, and believe me if there’s one thing weirder than seeing a man wearing speedos and a thong, it’s seeing that same man buying produce. Sir, judging from what I can see, you don’t really need more bananas, now do you?
April 5, 2005 at 12:15 pm · Filed under General
Free time and Keith, such an odd combination. I’m mostly done with my big contract, I just have a few loose ends to tie up. Then I have a little bit of back logged work to run through. I should be free by the weekend. This leaves me with some spare time. I was going to play guitar and video games, but I think that I’ll just try to pimp myself out for some more contract work instead. Eh!
Note: I am at home for lunch. Abby and Gunner are playing tug of war and Gunner is employing the Ghandi defense, where he just lays down and makes Abby pull him around the room. Hilarious.
Anyhow. I was at work yesterday trying to remember if anyone I went to school with was any good at what they do. Then I remembered this one kid, Jeff, who I didn’t really know but assumed would be terrible. As it turned out he was one of the best students in the class. His site is down right now, but what’s there instead is pretty hilarious. I highly recommend checking it our if you’re a Naploen Dynamite or Aqua Teen Hunger Force Fan. www.IamTheJeff.com
Note: There was just a loud noise outside and Gunner went running to investingate. Sadly, the screen door was closed and he ran straight into it. Hilarious.
April 4, 2005 at 8:37 am · Filed under General
I just checked several sources, so this can be taken as credible news info. My body hurts. Just in general, from head to toe, the whole thing hurts a little. Damn getting fit the millitary way. If I would have known that this would be hard I would have quit before I started. Today we’ve decided to up our fitness regime (yes, it is a regime) to include something new. Jogging, or ‘yogging’, I’m not sure if it’s a soft ‘j’, but apparently you just run. We’re going to start jogging to the gym before we work out. This could spell trouble for young Iron Keith, as I figure it’s at least 4km to the gym. That means that today I will run approximately 4km more than I have ran in the last 5 years. Combined.
Luckily I’m well rested and raring to go today. I did, after all, sleep at least 6 hours last night. One of my contract work clients was all like “hey, you know that project that you said would take a full four weeks? We need you to finish it in three.” Thusly I worked a solid 16 hours over the weekend, and possibly a little more. I didn’t really keep track, I was just ‘getting it done’. Now tonight (after the gym) I get to ‘fix all the crap I screwed up’ due to lack of sleep combined with worked feverishly.
I’m also thinking of starting to ride my bike to work, but I think I’ll wait until we move our office to the west end. That way I don’t have to ride through the river valley and get all sweaty before work. I don’t want to be the smelly kid at the office any more than I already am.
April 1, 2005 at 9:07 pm · Filed under General
Sweet day today. It was sweet. Sweet sweet sweetity sweet. I pretty much just had to drive around and take pictures of houses. Not a lot of actual ‘work’ done, but I was still getting paid. Also, it was payday. Also, my wife made a really yummy diner. Then we fooled around a tad. Now I am sleepy and content, and you are all jealous. Eh!
On a strange note I have an odd story. Today while I was at work, my wife was out with a friend of hers and they drove by our lot to see the progress on our house. Later, when I arrived home from work she said “good news, they’ve put some beams in for our house”.
I replied “Yeah, I know, I saw it on the news.”
“When, we were at the house yesterday?”
Now immediately after I said that I realized that it didn’t really make sense because I was at the lot yesterday, and there were no beams and today I hadn’t watched the news. But I was confused, because I had a really clear image in my head of me watching the news and seeing people putting in the flooring for my house. I asked, “was it engineered lumber that was lighter on the top and bottom and darker in the middle?”
she said “yes”.
My mind… it has been blown. I could swear that this memory is real, but it can’t be. I have to go to the house tomorrow to confirm that I have in fact seen it, and that I’m seemingly clairevoiant. Please send you cash or money orders, and I will tell you how the progress goes on your new home WITHOUR EVER VISITING THE SITE.
Oooooooh.
Hoo ahh!
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