Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Just so you all know
Life back in Summerside is good.
I could use some more piss jugs though.
I could use some more piss jugs though.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Cora's it is
Just to let you all know it's Cora's on Friday at 10. Thanks to Jeff for phoning coras and making sure they will be open. If you're reading this you are invited.
Anyone want to go for Breakfast
How about a breakfast for those of us in Fredericton before I go home Friday morning? 10 o'clock 'ish? Lemme know if you're in. The Diplomat will probably be open if Cora's isn't.
p.s. boys boys I actually do wish I was going to trivia with you thursday night. I know normally I'm not up for that stuff but that time I would be.
p.s. boys boys I actually do wish I was going to trivia with you thursday night. I know normally I'm not up for that stuff but that time I would be.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Another Blast from the Past
Hey all. I just came to the big realization I have five more nights in Fredsuckston before my last exam... and I don't plan to stick around after. Here's another story from 8G.
"The Big Storm"
Derrick Neil and I had all gone home to Summerside in the winter of first year. I think maybe it was the monday after midterm break? Anyhow it had stormed like a bastard all day Sunday. In the morning my dad didn't have work because of the storm and all the PEI schools were closed but UPEI remained silent as to wether or not it would opperate. My dad volunteered to drive us down to Charlottetown so the other two got a ride from Neil's dad Mike into my house, then on spring street three doors up from Schaef's old stompin' ground.
We drove to Charlottetown (once when we were on the lower Malpeque road the rear "trunk" hatch/door on our jeep popped open and our kitbags almost fell out because it hadn't been closed all the way) and went to our first class with old Rabiseur but after about ten minutes he clued in that no one was there and dismissed the students of first year chemistry. We went back to 8G.
I was bored so I put it upon myself to shoven out our front yard. I was high on the fact that I could shovel our walkway before the landlord got around to it. I dunno why but it made me feel really good about myself. So I started and decided on a path straight from our door out to the street which was in pretty bad shape already - it had probably a foot of snow in some spots. I shoveled all the snow off the lawn onto the road.
Later that day Neil and I were looking out the window from my upstairs room (probably saying "Mwa" a lot to each other) and we saw that all the cars coming into Brown's court were having serious trouble with the snow, especially where I had shoveled the extra stuff onto it. We saw one little car get stuck solid and when the driver got out to shovel at his tires I yelled out "Ha ha. You're Stuck!" and the guy gave a very pissed off look in our direction. Compasion has never been my strong suit.
I think I also shoveled the complete walkway all the way to the stoplight on another occasion.
"The Big Storm"
Derrick Neil and I had all gone home to Summerside in the winter of first year. I think maybe it was the monday after midterm break? Anyhow it had stormed like a bastard all day Sunday. In the morning my dad didn't have work because of the storm and all the PEI schools were closed but UPEI remained silent as to wether or not it would opperate. My dad volunteered to drive us down to Charlottetown so the other two got a ride from Neil's dad Mike into my house, then on spring street three doors up from Schaef's old stompin' ground.
We drove to Charlottetown (once when we were on the lower Malpeque road the rear "trunk" hatch/door on our jeep popped open and our kitbags almost fell out because it hadn't been closed all the way) and went to our first class with old Rabiseur but after about ten minutes he clued in that no one was there and dismissed the students of first year chemistry. We went back to 8G.
I was bored so I put it upon myself to shoven out our front yard. I was high on the fact that I could shovel our walkway before the landlord got around to it. I dunno why but it made me feel really good about myself. So I started and decided on a path straight from our door out to the street which was in pretty bad shape already - it had probably a foot of snow in some spots. I shoveled all the snow off the lawn onto the road.
Later that day Neil and I were looking out the window from my upstairs room (probably saying "Mwa" a lot to each other) and we saw that all the cars coming into Brown's court were having serious trouble with the snow, especially where I had shoveled the extra stuff onto it. We saw one little car get stuck solid and when the driver got out to shovel at his tires I yelled out "Ha ha. You're Stuck!" and the guy gave a very pissed off look in our direction. Compasion has never been my strong suit.
I think I also shoveled the complete walkway all the way to the stoplight on another occasion.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Oh for the good old days
This post comes as per special request by Neil "Fruitcake" Moore. I will be doing a series of short stories about the golden age of my university career when I was attending UPEI taking my engineering Diploma. At that time i lived with the abovementioned and Derrick Desroche in 8G Brown's court.
The first tale I care to share is about our phone.
One day our phone mysteriously stopped working. We couldn't get a dial tone and we didn't recieve any incoming calls (which was odd as I'm sure my mom must've still been calling every day at that point.) We took our phone itself over to Mark Montgomery's place next door and plugged it in to his phone jack and it worked perfectly so we could rule out the idea that the phone's battery was just totally toast. Mark let us use his phone to call Aliant and tell them our phone outlet wasn't working. They said they could make a service call but if it turned out to be a problem with our phone unit (which Derrick owned) we would have to pay for the service fee. Knowing that we had just tested our phone at Mark's and that it worked fine I had no problem telling them to come on over for a service call.
The phone guy made a quick stop in the service room at the end of the appartment and then knocked on our door to tell us to try our phone again. This time it worked fine. He said "ya I thought so. Somehow it just came unplugged in the service room. Since it wasn't in your appartment the service call is free"
I wondered how it could have come unplugged and then I remembered. Brown's court appartments come with phone jacks in every room except the bathrooms, probably because they don't want you trying to install a phone line yourself and end up punching holes in the wall in the process. Well in my room first year (the medium sized room, which I remained in all three years) the phone jack was there but it was only the wires, they hadn't bothered connecting them to the female phone jack end you plug your phone into. I noticed the wire had a little slack in it and that you could wiggle it in and out of the wall about an inch and a half or so.
The wires were right beside my bed and when I would lye in bed at night I would always move them in and out of the wall for fun. I don't know why it was fun, it just was. Well the night before our phone stopped working I had pulled the wire extra hard and about a foot or so of it came out of the wall. Come to think about it there was a satisfying "click" type of feeling right before it released.
When I explained what had happened to Neil he told me to not do it again.
The first tale I care to share is about our phone.
One day our phone mysteriously stopped working. We couldn't get a dial tone and we didn't recieve any incoming calls (which was odd as I'm sure my mom must've still been calling every day at that point.) We took our phone itself over to Mark Montgomery's place next door and plugged it in to his phone jack and it worked perfectly so we could rule out the idea that the phone's battery was just totally toast. Mark let us use his phone to call Aliant and tell them our phone outlet wasn't working. They said they could make a service call but if it turned out to be a problem with our phone unit (which Derrick owned) we would have to pay for the service fee. Knowing that we had just tested our phone at Mark's and that it worked fine I had no problem telling them to come on over for a service call.
The phone guy made a quick stop in the service room at the end of the appartment and then knocked on our door to tell us to try our phone again. This time it worked fine. He said "ya I thought so. Somehow it just came unplugged in the service room. Since it wasn't in your appartment the service call is free"
I wondered how it could have come unplugged and then I remembered. Brown's court appartments come with phone jacks in every room except the bathrooms, probably because they don't want you trying to install a phone line yourself and end up punching holes in the wall in the process. Well in my room first year (the medium sized room, which I remained in all three years) the phone jack was there but it was only the wires, they hadn't bothered connecting them to the female phone jack end you plug your phone into. I noticed the wire had a little slack in it and that you could wiggle it in and out of the wall about an inch and a half or so.
The wires were right beside my bed and when I would lye in bed at night I would always move them in and out of the wall for fun. I don't know why it was fun, it just was. Well the night before our phone stopped working I had pulled the wire extra hard and about a foot or so of it came out of the wall. Come to think about it there was a satisfying "click" type of feeling right before it released.
When I explained what had happened to Neil he told me to not do it again.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
A very fulfilling Iron Ring Ceremony
It's nice to have a night like this after all the b.s. we go through to get there. Congratulations to all who got their Iron Rings. It's a pleasure of mine to be of the same Calling as you.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Tomorrow night after Iron Ring
This has been three long years coming ladies and gentlemen.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
A lazy Saturday
Hey all. This morning I woke up and didn't feel like doing any work so I went for a walk outside. I ended up walking to Odell Park and then going on the walking trails through the woods all the way to the top of the hill, almost to prospet street. They have some really nice nature trails through the woods. Something worth seeing before you leave Fredericton IMHO. It reminded me of hiking through the woods at Riverdale when we were in Scouts.
Last night I had a great little meal over across the bridge at a place called cannon cross. It's a restaurant under the same ownership as the Snooty Fox and it was much the same idea. I had this HUGE hamburger with fries and it was only 6.95. I highly recommend it for big burger fans. And their pop is free refills which is nice because it washes the salty fries down so good.
Iron Ring in about 49 hours. I was reading about it on the internet this morning and I was just thinking how us UPEI people it probably means more to us than to some of the people from UNB because it's been talked up for us a lot more.
Last night I had a great little meal over across the bridge at a place called cannon cross. It's a restaurant under the same ownership as the Snooty Fox and it was much the same idea. I had this HUGE hamburger with fries and it was only 6.95. I highly recommend it for big burger fans. And their pop is free refills which is nice because it washes the salty fries down so good.
Iron Ring in about 49 hours. I was reading about it on the internet this morning and I was just thinking how us UPEI people it probably means more to us than to some of the people from UNB because it's been talked up for us a lot more.
