no photo today (yet)
Thursday, 17 February 2011 06:27
Matt O
So here's one of those bullet list updates that will someday win me blogger-with-vision awards because it does away with all of those unnecessary things like transitions, complete sentences and proper punctuation. I'm in Montreal where there's still like 2 feet of snow that just won't melt.
- first of all, it's supposed to go above freezing today. I haven't gone outside yet, but you can bet your ass i will as soon as I've written this update and showered. I need to get a bit of Canadian money and some breakfast.
- Went to the gym this morning after passing out on my bed at 1015pm. No alcohol, just a short night the night before.
- played a little bit of WoW yesterday - the server seems to be empty, or else everyone is doing something else. I remember playing before and having no problem finding people doing similar shit that I was doing so we could pair up. It's less fun leveling alone, but it does make it easy to not go out for a beer. I've already made back the $40 I spent on the playtime in not-bought beers.
- There's an office building across from my room, and the floor that's on my level is empty. Makes me want to get in there and shoot some photos, but A#1) I couldn't get in there and B#2) I don't know anyone in town here to shoot. Shame to waste a cool space like that. Of course, it's not a waste when you don't actually have it to begin with.
- I offended everyone on my bus yesterday when I told them that I didn't like the Beatles. Didn't know it was a prereq to working on a rock tour to love them, but now I do. (insert bitterness here.)
- Montreal looks pretty - i wish it wasn't covered in slushy blech where I have to walk.
- It's impossible to get hotel rooms cool enough so you can sleep comfortably. In the summer, I can sort of understand them setting a lower limit on the A/C but in the winter? just turn off the heat and it'll cool down, right? No, the thermostat ignores you.
- Today is wander around Montreal a bit and get some work done. My SH.com redesign is coming along swimmingly, but it's tough to work on it from the hotel. Maybe I'll also do some writing. Wouldn't that be amazing? I've actually done a bit, but not enough, this leg already.
Okay, that's enough for now. Happy Thursday. Do something fun for me today and send me a picture.
time it grows short
Thursday, 27 January 2011 11:15
Matt O
- My lemon tree is better! It was underwatered, not over, so the good drenching I gave it (and probably the additional sun from the temporary location)
- I fly to Philly in a few days. Hope there's not too much snow to land the plane.
- There's a lot of web work to do between now and then, and all I want to do is play videogames. I'm lazy.
- I haven't purchased a new wallet yet.
- I'm going racecar driving on Saturday, and camping in Joshua Tree that night. Exciting stuff.
- I'd like to get this site updated, too, but it's a big-ass deal and requires a lot of work and a redesign, too, so there's that.
- I want to make a list of things that I need to do, but it'll just depress me, I think, so I won't.
- Speaking of depressed, my car was towed last night in Hollywood. I want to open my own version of a company that makes its money on stealing people's property and selling it back to them, legally. Fuckers.
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Good morning!
Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:03
Matt O
So it's already Thursday morning. Turns out that I have to go to Denver today, not tomorrow, as I've been thinking for the last 2 weeks. I have this problem where I remember the date in question, but assume that it's another day of the week than it actually is. Stupid, I know, and a habit that i need to get out of. So yeah, Denver today.
Porn Star Karaoke was pretty full the other night - fun times. Just me and Casey and Loewen from our little group of semi-regulars, but we got free shots, so that was worth it, right? I didn't sing, but if I feel as much better next Tuesday as I did last Tuesday, I'll probably give a warble a shot - we'll see.
This morning, rather than doing the work that's piled up or replying to the emails that I owe (or starting some emails that I need to start) I started a simple-but-effective ethnic cleansing of my kitchen wherein the ethnicity defined by duplicates and unused shit in my kitchen is getting removed wholesale. It's going into boxes and getting dumped, for now, into the black hole that is the Tim Stormer Memorial Shelf in the garage.
Okay, back to it. Maybe I'll take a picture in Denver that I can post here.
into the groove
Friday, 14 January 2011 11:31
Matt O
It's tough to get back into the groove over here! I have so much to do and so little motivation to do it that it's a little stupid. I did just have a productive meeting with Carlos that may lead to more Il Punali stuff happening, but you never know. Now I have to go over to the bar to see what's happening with the computers over there, which is fine, but not exactly profitable, you know?
Casey and I did go to the zoo the other day, which is something I forgot to mention, so here's a picture of an elephant.

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