I've had to work late every night since Monday. As we're in Burnaby now, we usually have to get our OT dinners from the cafeteria. Since the cafeteria in the past has been mainly geared up to feed the sports teams on their schedules, they have no idea how to feed a game team that doesn't ship a game in September or October.
As an example of this, the dinner menu has been the same for four nights in a row. The choices are either mac and cheese or chicken and ribs. We had Boston Pizza delivered on Wednesday night but nothing on their menu looked good... except for the ribs. So while it my choice to eat ribs again on Wednesday, I've had ribs for dinner every night for four straight nights.
I can almost guarantee the menu will be the same again on Friday night.
Tonight the Vancouver Canucks played the Chicago Blackhawks in their first ice hockey match since their bruising, hard-fought second round playoff series last spring. In that contest, Vancouver goalie Bobby Lou had the performance of his career, letting in seven goals.
Going into tonight's game I fully expected the Vancouver team to lose as they had not won on the road this season and lost their previous game in Edmonton. My prediction seemed to be correct for about two-thirds of the game as the Canucks were down 2-1. Then something happened which you can see for yourself below:
After all that, the Canucks surprisingly came back to score two straight goals to win the game. I honestly hope Toews is alright since he might make a good additional to the Canadian Olympic team.
One of the things I viewed as a positive when I saw my apartment for the first time was the inclusion of basic yet stainless steel appliances of a cooking, cooling, and cleaning variety.
Now with my refrigerator, up until very recently, I just used it to cool and freeze my food. As some of you know, the large outside surface area of a refrigerator allows you to use it for other purposes, namely the posting of flat materials likes photos, crayon drawings, coupons, and report cards. When I moved in, I didn't bring any magnets with me so my fridge remained uncovered.
Then a few weeks ago, some friends I know in Australia sent me a picture of their adorable newborn son. The picture was thoughtfully constructed with a small piece flexible magnet placed on the back of the photo. After looking at the picture, I decided it should be the very first item I put on my fridge. I then placed the photo onto the freezer portion of my fridge, removed my hand, and then watched as the photo gracefully fluttered onto my kitchen floor. It was then I realized my stainless steel fridge was not friendly to magnets.
With a little bit of investigation I found out my dishwasher and stove are magnet friendly but my fridge is not. Unfortunately, it's not very practical to be putting items on your oven door and dishwasher. It was because of this I learned that some types of stainless steel are magnetic and other are not. And I learned something today.
I haven't mentioned my leaky bathroom ceiling for a while but that's not because it got fixed. In fact, my water damaged ceiling is virtually in the same condition it was two weeks ago. The reason for this is because no one was really sure what was going on upstairs in the apartment above. Rather than fix my ceiling without determining the root cause of the leak, the property management company wanted get all the facts known before proceeding. Given that my ceiling wasn't actively dripping water and that the logic seemed pretty sound, I agreed to let the property management company do some investigating.
The aforementioned investigating is now done and repairs, I have been told, have been done. I was instructed to wait at least the weekend to see if my ceiling got any worse. It did not, so the next step is to finally get a contractor to fix the ceiling once and for all. Once that's is done, you'll get my final leaky ceiling update.
A few months ago, during the early part of April I wrote a post about people trying to fool other people. I'm not sure what they call that day exactly but anyways, one of the things I mentioned was the ThinkGeek web site that offered a fake product that was advertised as real. That fake product turned out be Tauntaun sleeping bag. While fake, geeks thought the ideal was awesome (me included) and basically demanded the real product be made.
Now months afterwards, which probably included legal negotiating with Lucasfilm, ThinkGeek is ready to offer the real thing. It will retail for $100 USD which I guess is kinda pricey for a novelty sleeping bag but it still emanates awesome to me. Check out these product features:
- Classic Star Wars sleeping bag simulates the warmth of a Tauntaun carcass - Built-in embroidered Tauntaun head pillow - Great for playing pretend "Save Luke from the Wampa" games - Teach your children about the best Star Wars movie ever
I don't think anyone could disagree with the last statement.
