A few months ago at work, I was at a meeting when Dan, a co-worker of mine, sat down in front of me at the table. I noticed his fly was down. Before more people showed up, I leaned over the whispered to him that his barn door was open. He looked down and quickly zipped up. Dan thanked me for that.

Fast forward to tonight. I had just finished eating dinner and returned to my desk. Dan came over to discuss a few things. He had his head peeking over one of my cubicle walls. We were chatting when, I leaned back in my chair.

"Erwin, your fly is down."

I looked down. So it was. There I was, airing out my crotchetal region. I zipped up and thanked Dan for noticing. We're now even.

And in completely other news, I know he'll love getting his name attached to a post associated with male crotches but congrats to my good buddy Tyson Brust. Tyson is now the owner of tysonbrust.com. He joins the large group of individuals who have registered domains under the template of firstnamelastname.com. His e-mail account is already running. To prevent spam, I won't list his address here but I'm pretty sure you can guess it. If you know Tyson, send him a quick hello!

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A little over a year ago, my sister moved back in with my parents. About five months ago I did the same. At the time, I thought we were probably in the minority. According to an article published today in the Vancouver Sun, it turns out I might be wrong.

The article is based on a study by Stats Canada. Here's an excerpt from the piece:

"In fact, nearly half of Vancouver-area parents with children in their 20s and 30s -- 46 per cent -- have at least one kid still living under their roof.

That's well above the national average of 32 per cent and just behind Toronto at 54 per cent."

In both Vancouver and Toronto, half the parents in those cities still have an adult child living at home. That stat is amazing because I just don't know that many people who are in the same situation as I am. Granted, I know a lot of grad students, so by definition, they've travelled to Vancouver for school. I can only think of one other person who lives at home still. Where are all these people? And is there a support group for us?

The article also tries to explain why kids are staying at home. One reason is the high cost of housing in Vancouver. As many of you know, it costs an arm and a leg to even buy the crappiest of houses in East Van. The second reason given is cultural:

"Indeed, Turcotte's study found parents born in Asia were three times more likely to have adult children living at home than parents born in Canada were.

Of those parents who immigrated from Asia since 1981, 82 per cent had at least one adult child living at home."

One stat that speaks to my sister and I specifically is that 25 percent of parents have "boomerang" kids. These are children who have left, only to return after whatever reason, eg. failed marriage, bankruptcy, WoW addiction, etc. I did not realize a quarter of all parents now have at least one these kids. That again, is amazing.

Here's one last quote from the article and this is perhaps the most eye-opening one:

"The Statistics Canada study found income and education levels appear to have no impact on the likelihood of an adult child sticking around."

Really? You're telling me that if a child makes $35K a year or $70K a year, that won't factor into the person's decision to stay at home. Hmmm... I dunno... that's the only reason I'm sticking around. Well, if I were making $70K a year, I might stick around for a few months to save up but nothing long term.

Alright, the stats don't lie. I know you people are out there. Don't lie to me! Who else still lives with their parents? And don't give some crap about not cooking with cheese.

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Not ten minutes ago, I was in the kitchen to get a drink after eating some chicken and sausage gumbo. It was tasty but I needed something to wash it down. I would have preferred a small quantity of non-caffeinated Coke but we were out. I had to settle for a glass bottle of Sun-Rype orange juice.

The OJ usually has sediment that settles on the bottom so I was twisting the bottle in my hand, much like those painter mixers do at the paint store. I'm not sure how it happened but the bottle flew out of my hand. I didn't just drop it, the bottle was flung out of hand. As my brain tried to process what had happened, two things were clear: I wasn't going to be able to catch the bottle and it was going to shatter into a million pieces on the linoleum.

One outta two ain't bad. The bottle landed on the linoleum with a loud and solid thud that usually is reserved for things made out of metal. It was intact. I quickly bent down to grab the bottle. I inspected for damage. It took some effort but I saw a tiny hairline crack near the bottom of bottle. Otherwise, it was fine. I was amazed.

Not wanting to take any chances, I poured all the juice into a glass. The amazing little bottle then went into the recyling bin. I then remembered to look at the linoleum tile on the floor. There was a one inch long dent in the tile. It looked like the linoleum had liquified for a split second and parted where the bottle edge had made contact. And the tile wasn't exactly soft either. Crazy. I wonder if anyone will notice?

And that's my post about dropping a bottle of orange juice on the floor.

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The TV execs have spoken and I've been renewed for a sixth season! I'll be going long on the cheezy sit-com gimmicks this year. Look for me to adopt an adorable child from Ethiopia to drive up the ratings.

But seriously folks, my registar answered my request for support. Apparently, they "pushed" my domain renewal through and all is good for another year. The question remains whether or not they charged my credit card. Renewals don't cost that much, so it's not a big deal either way.

Speaking of renewals and domains, I'd like to direct everyone's attention to a friend's site. Good old Garrett Knights and I have been friends since my tester days at EA. Garrett's had a site for many years now but he previously only used it to showcase his talents as an artist. Recently, GK has revamped his site into an easily digestible blog form. I invite you to visit garrettknights.com and tell him I sent ya!

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I tried to renew my domain tonight so that I can continue this little dog and pony show for another year. After I entered all my credit card info, it came back with an error message. Apparently, the server which handles all this renewing business was down.

I'm going to try it again tomorrow morning when I get to work. Hopefully, the server will be back up by then. I have until Friday to renew my domain. If I don't, interesting things will happen.

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