My Epic Return

Song of the day: “Don’t Trust Me” by 3oh3

Moron of the day: Today’s moron is Nicole, for declaring that she doesn’t want to call me because she doesn’t know when I’ll be home....WTF? Has she not heard of the answering machine? Fabulous invention. I recommend everybody gets one, maybe of those nice digital ones like I don’t have :(

Guess who’s back?

Yes, it has been a very long time since my last entry and no, I never intended on quitting. I took a little bit of a, how you say, summer break from blogging but I’m back and I have some big plans.

Work has been SWEET! I worked our big outdoor weekend and I got to see such old school bands like the Doobie Brothers, Trooper, CCR, Lighthouse, Mountain and the Turtles. During this weekend some dude asked me to look after his drunk wife for a while while he stepped out and slipped me a twenty very discreetly. Naturally I believe my job is worth more than twenty bucks so I asked an employee that was watching the concert what I should do. She believed that the money was simply for a taxi....Yeah right. So I took the issue to an senior employee who knew exactly what the fuck was going on and when the guy came back, his money was returned with a brief explanation on how it’s not our responsibility to look after your intoxicated spouse. So he goes and sits back down and what does he do? He starts pumping more beer into his wife. Classy fellow right there. That was, besides watching all the bands, was the most exciting part of the weekend. The rest of my shifts that weekend were spent guarding a door. Super exciting XD

So some of you may be wondering why I am using a new format to write this blog and the answer is simple: I GOT A NEW IMAC! For months I sat by watching my brother receive electric guitar after electric guitar along wit sending me to replace his indestructible bullet cables five times. My mom promised that she would even the scales by buying me a super awesome thing of my choosing and my answer was simple: Mac. I was getting irritated of my little brother constantly bugging me and my family to get on my Gateway notebook, which by the way, he cracked the screen and snapped the charger. I had customized a 24” iMac on the Apple site the way I wanted it and it came to about $2329. She was blown away by the price and told me she would prefer if I purchased it in a store, so off we went Future Shop. I would like to point out that I didn’t buy the Mac at Future shop due to many bad stories about Future shop and computers, I just wanted to show my mom the floor model. She thought it looked beautiful. We decided to take our business to Best Buy. Their model, without any modifications came to $1399 but thanks to comparing on the Apple Canadian site, the price was reduced to $1100. Then came the customizing :) This is basically what I did in terms of modifications:

Bumped the hard drive up to 1 TB
Bumped the memory up to 4 GB
had iWork 09 included
It can boot camp to Vista so I can play Grand Chase
A 4 year warranty

The Geek Squad also gave me the original hard drive because it was laptop based instead of desktop based inside a Rocket Fish, which I payed for separately. It came to a little more than my Apple Site Mac because of the Boot Camp. So I go and get it and end up taking it back because iLife, the PRE-INSTALLED software wasn’t present, there were marks on the inside of the screen from the work on the hard drive and memory and it couldn’t connect to the internet. So I pick it up AGAIN and they are just getting to cleaning the screen. It takes 40 minutes to install iLife with me sitting in a stool while my mom goes home to cook steaks. I stay and learn the ever important hotkey to bootcamp into vista. We take it home and SURPRISE! It still can’t connect to the internet. I end up spending hours on the phone with Best Buy and the Geek Squad, who tells me to call Cogeco, Who tells me to call D-Link, Who tells me to call Best Buy. By the end of the night I had a wired connection on my Mac but lost internet on the laptop. I end up, the next day while talking to D-Link about my router, crashing the internet on both the iMac and the Gateway. Joy. This leads me to spending over $300 on my grandma’s visa (SHE WAS THERE!! I DIDN’T PUNK HER VISA!!!) for a Geek Squad member to come here, figure out that the issue was the router, replace it with a Linksys one and restore internet on both computers. I am now satisfied and am now using the Mac to the fullest extent.

Last Saturday I saw “Julie and Julia” with Jeannine and Johnny. It was a good movie filled with stuff I never thought people from the forties said (ex: “These Cannolies are as hard as a stiff cock!” - Julia Child, played by Meryl Streep) The night also lead to Johnny’s mom telling me next time we want to watch Spankwire, don’t put it on youtube. Well, at least I know someone’s watching my videos. Thanks Mrs. L! But the real thing I got a out of that movie was an idea for my blog. In the movie the theme of Julie Power’s Blog is about how she cooks her way through Julia Child’s cookbook. Well, for those of you who know I play bass, I have decided to play through album after album and blog about it. Plus it’s a good way to link my youtube and my blog together. More info in the future!

Well as much as I would like to blog each day, nothing exciting will probably happen till the beginning of school. So expect good stuff then!!!!!