wow…its amazing how great just sitting on your ass doing nothing but watching tv is. i miss it.
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
why me?
just as we were getting ready to watch some halloween movies, i get a knock on the door. my downstairs neighbour has a leak in his ceiling. f’n great.
after some sleuthing and detective work, combined with some ripping holes into walls i tracked down the problem. the original builders has drilled the holes for the plumbing through the 2×4 studs too close to the edges. then when the drywaller came around, a drywall screw managed to hit the plumbing and finally after 14 years, it poked through.
fuck me.
ran off to home depot and managed to replace the piping but now i’ve got to deal with the water damage downstairs. arrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh………..
get it off! get it off!
i got dragged out to a farm yesterday. why? because my girlfriend thought it would be a wonderful idea to drive to the country (aka South Surrey) and visit a farm (a smelly dirty place filled with diseased animals and poo everywhere) to pick up an authentic (flash frozen imported from china) pumpkin to make jack-o-lanterns. ever see the movie the matrix and the scene where Agent Smith has Morpheus tied to a chair and talks about the stink of humankind…well that’s how i feel. blah.
at least she’s a good artist and stole my idea and made “dia de los muertos” inspired pumpkins. they actually look really cool but our house still smells like rotting gourds.
while she was busy carving away, i kept myself in the halloween spirit by watching 7 episodes of Treehouse of Horror on DVD.
are we there yet?
sheesh…its been a whirlwind 36 hour home stay. got back from the kootenays on friday night just in time to make our dinner reservation at coast. delicious as always. lobster poutine…mmmmm……
then a quick little gander around downtown to pickup the 10th anniversary edition of Wallpaper magazine. pick it up. its dope.
after a much needed sleep-in, a whirlwind trip around vancouver running various errands and catching Marie Antoinette. word of advice…rent it. even the girlfriend agrees. then off to dinner at the parents place. then back home to catchup on housework and laundry and ipod updating.
and now, a quick sleep before i head off to the okanagan again for three days. sheesh
ps. my spoiled girlfriend is getting a new macbook pro. boo-urns.
expanding ass
that’s what’s happening to me. my butt is expanding like a pancake due to hours upon hours of sitting on my ass driving, interspersed with excessive pizza and beer consumption while entertaining the masses.
right now, i’m sitting on said ass while waiting for a ferry to take me across the arrow lakes so i can get to revelstoke for another session of pizza and beer. nelson was fun though. packed the trip a little tighter which meant less down time so it seemed to go by quicker which was a bonus.
last night was the premiere for some biking video so we all adjourned to the bar afterwards for some fun. and let me be the first to say that jagerbombs suck ass.
the driving has been mellow. no snow on the passes yet but took a drive up to whitewater and it was snowing in the parking lot so the buzz is definitely happening. it was so cold i had to bust out the down jacket for the first time this season.
ps. what’s with dogs and their affinity for licking raw denim?
awol
entries will be a little sparse this month as you’ve probably noticed. not even halfway through the month and i’ve been to the okanagan, whistler and seattle. and i’ve still got a trip to the kootenays and another trip to the okanagan before the month is up. oh yeah, plus world tour and a bunch of other crapola. have you seen my fridge? its empty.
“go back to montreal you freaks!”
uhhhh…yeah. that line was heard while driving through Burlington, VT this past weekend in a rented mini-van with Quebec plates. other things to remember?
-”ohhhhhh…cock”
-tasmanian devil vomiting
-”qu’est ce que fuck? are you dead?”
-”south jersey, not north jersey”
the whole crew shut down the office and headed out east to chill for Jake’s Fall Bash.
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light…tunnel…
no…i’m not dying…i mean there’s light at the end of the tunnel in that i’m almost done my bathroom. last coat of paint goes on tomorrow morning and then i’m done.
well almost. i still have to:
-install the light housings
-change the switches
-install cover plates
-silicone the drywall/tile edges
-install the temporary cabinet
-install the sink
-source and install the custom mirror
-source and install a custom cabinet
-extend the tile over the shower curb
-source and install the shower glass
hmmm….ok, maybe the end of the tunnel is a little farther off. dammit.
news you may have missed
gotta love the media and its ability to determine what is and isn’t worthy of reporting. obviously this article is presenting one point of view but its always good to look at both sides of a story. or in this case, pointing out a story you may not have heard about.
oh and in another case of misdirection and obfuscation, we have the BBC reporting that there was indeed no link between Saddam and al-qaeda before the iraq war. oops. nice work mr. bush.
fashion don’t overload
so the PNE…i’ve never seen so many fashion don’ts concentrated in one area before. i mean if i were truly evil (i’m only partway there) i would park myself on a bench there with a 1GB memory card in my camera and just start snapping.
on another rant…the pig/duck races…grand total of about 30 seconds of action, drawn out into a 20 minute ordeal. i’m a city boy. i hate the smell of poo and i’m allergic to hay. show me the damn race and let me get the hell out.