Anna-Maria arrived back in Western Canada on Friday afternoon. We spent the day shopping at Chinook Centre and decided to go back to Lethbridge rather than spend the night in Calgary. We saw Finding Nemo here in the Hat yesterday and I still give it two fins up. Although with fish movies two fins up does imply belly-up which is bad, I mean “two fins up” in the “it’s really good even the second time” way.
Anna-Maria’s brother Josh works at Kelsey’s. Last night he phoned home to let his parents know that he was “very badly burned” and would like someone to bring him some ointment and second skin to put on the burn. Well he had us pretty worried. Lana and I went to check it out and bring him the first aid. He explained that while he was pouring some hot grease from one container to another and rubbed his arm up against the pot but it turned out that while it probably hurt quite a bit, his arm seemed to be ok – just a little red; no broken skin though; not even a blister.
A long, long, time ago Gary purchased a game for our Laser Computer (Apple II Compatible) called Pirates. It never did work on that computer. Well yesterday Anna’s sisters got a game for their Xbox called Pirates of the Caribbean (Official Site) and boy is it ever cool. I mean for a single player game, boy is it ever cool. In a lot of ways it takes me back to the way gaming used to be played. It reminds me of Dragon Warrior in that you go around talking to people and completing different tasks. It also reminds me of Taipan (another classic from our Apple II gaming days). I wonder if it’s possible to exploit the loan shark high interest trick in that game? In conclusion, I must admit that while I’ve only played it for a little bit and I don’t really know all about the game, from what I did see I liked it.
I purchased my roommates Jeep this morning. I’m extremely excited about it and would like to post more but…
Anna-Maria is Flying Back From Montreal Today!
Anna is flying in to Calgary today at around 2:30pm. I am driving up to Calgary to pick her up and will probably go to visit Gary and Tracie tonight as well, perhaps take in that movie about the guy with the “underground” comics. I’m so excited to see her.
It’s the first day of classes. I just got out of Drama 1000. There are some interesting people in my class. There was a guy whom came dressed in black, had a terrible lisp and he tells us he’s a fashion designer by trade and a cross-dresser by profession. What I want to know is where do you work as a cross dresser in Lethbridge? Seems like you wouldn’t have much of a market for something like that here.
I have a break until 2:00 this afternoon. In the meantime I think I’ll find a class to “audit”. Checking out classes you are not enrolled in can be very educational. You can meet new people, decide whether you want to take that class at a later time or decide that you never want to take a class with certain professors. I’ll let you know how it turns out. I better go find one quickly.
I’ll make this brief and right to the point. Some books can be purchased only at the University bookstore. Those ones you just have to buy. To buy some of the required books, that are available elsewhere, from the University bookstore would cost me $261.84. To buy the same books from Chapters Bookstore will cost $183.27. That is a savings of $78.57. Wow.
Update on Book Buying Strategies:
The thing about ordering my books online is that I’ll have to wait for them to arrive. Now what I plan to do is buy the books that I absolutely need from the bookstore and return them before the end of the 15 day grace period. That is all.
When I woke up this morning and looked out the window I wondered what was wrong with the world. Smoke from forest fires nearby made everything tinted Matrix green. The radio announcer said it reminded them of the movie Red Dawn – like somebody dropped a bomb on us. Apparently the fires are getting worse and 3200 more people have been evacuated in Kelowna. The smoke we have here is from Cranbrook and probably won’t clear until Friday.
I came to Medicine Hat yesterday to drop off my computer at Memory Lane. It’s been acting up lately – dropping to the blue screen of death for no apparent reason (like there is ever a reason). So while I’m here I’ve also been consulting Mom and Dad about buying that Jeep. I think I’m going to do it. I need to get going now though. I have to get back to Lethbridge for work and it looks like my computer will have to stay and be fixed without me. Oh well – hopefully it will be done before school starts on Wednesday.
Today is the big “Mars Day”. Yes, the day when Mars will come its closest to Earth for 60,000 years – a mere 35 million miles away. Who cares if it still looks like a marble through the telescope – just like always. Apparently we are supposed to be able to see Mars with the “naked eye”. I can’t even see the Sun here in Lethbridge because of all the clouds and nasty smoke from the forest fires. I guess I’ll just have to wait another 60,000 years for this opportunity to pass again – hopefully there won’t be any forest fires nearby.
I visited my cousin Lydia on Sunday. While I was there Lydia and I went over to her Grandma’s house and got to talking with her Grandmother’s sister. She is from the Crowsnest Pass area. (I guess we visited with them when we went motorcycle riding there years ago). Anyway they have been asked to evacuate and that’s why they were there visiting in Welling. I can only imagine the fear that would overcome you knowing your house may burn down – of course they said that no houses were burning where they are from. The only houses that were burning are in B.C.