Pender’s Fabulous Journal of Random Stuff and Things!!!!

I’m thinking it may possibly have been a bad idea to ride the bike from moncton to halifax, I’m sick again. Same exact thing as last time. Possibly riding in the cold had something to do with it, I dunno. On monday I felt “strange”, tuesday I felt “sick”, today I feel “really sick”. I may have a touch of laryngitis as well, cause when I called work nothing really came out until I was talking really loud, then I just sounded horrible. I didn’t know what I would sound like though, I hadn’t spoken from the time I woke up to the time I had called. It surprised me.

I’m glad I get 10 sick days with this company. It’s weird, in the last 6 years I’ve used maybe 15 sick days, prior to this. This year I seem to be going all out.

We went to Moncton by about 6:30 on Friday, sat around having drinkies and chatting for a while. At 11:30 we tried to go to the Voodoo night club but there was a 200 person lineup outside and they weren’t letting people in, so we said “screw this” and went to the Cosmo, where there were barely any people at all. It was ladies night too, so I got cheap drinks via the ladies.

The next day we woke up early, got ready and went to Dave MacNeill’s place (where I’m storing my motorcycle). We did the oil change then Hollywood and I parted ways, she going to Saint John in the car, me going to Halifax. It was supposedly ~7 degrees, but on the bike it was more like -10. I wore 3 pairs of pants, 2 shirts under my jacket, a neck warmer and 2 pairs of gloves and it was still quite nippy. By the time I got home my knees were a friendly hue of salmon and were cold to the touch. I took a hot shower but I was still cold to the touch afterwords. I put on 3 sweaters and warmed up nicely over the next 5 hours and was toasty warm by the time I went to bed.

Thanks to ryry, diane and vanessa for letting us crash at their place friday night. :)

Funny conceptual “home computer” as seen through the eyes of someone in the year 1954. It was taken from a 1954 issue of Popular Mechanics.

The giant wheel is the funniest touch, even in 1954 they knew we’d be NAVIGATING the interweb!!!

Thanks Spyder Mug for educating me on the future’s past.

I signed up on a waiting list to get a www.googlepages.com site about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday they finally made my page for me. The editor is really, really simple. EVEN dumbasses can now make an attractive contentless website within seconds!

Visit my new super duper website that took approximately 15 seonds to create!

I’m almost over my sickies. Still got an infrequent cough (hacking up phlegm) and my nose still doesn’t feel right, but we’ve started working out at the gym again (after a 2.5 week haiatus). Everything hurts an extra amount cause we got all lazy.

We’re planning to go to Moncton, hopefully soon, to pick up the Motorcycle. Perferably this weekend. The bike registration in New Brunswick runs out on the 31th, so if it ain’t this weekend then I’ll have to go to the Service New Brunswick and get a temporary one so I can drive it back, which means I’d have to go during the week to do all this.. ugh.. Though looking at the weathers, it doesn’t look promising so far. :/ If/when we pick up the bike I’ll be riding back to Halifax and Hollywood will be continuing on to Saint John for a week. Lonely timez. :/

Moncton
Halifax

We’ve also gotta get the car tires changed sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Bored yet?

Why yes, thanks for asking!

Not bad enough to need hospitalization, just bad enough to make my life a living hell.

I’ve got some giant pills (horse pills?), an inhaler and I have to take a couple of ibuprofin every 8 hours.

Boston=Boreston

The flight from Hali to Bost wasn’t so bad except the landing sucked, very very bumpy. The airport is riiiiight next to the ocean, so as we were landing I was afraid of hitting boats, and it was like we were going to land on the water.

No anal rapes in customs, so I’m happy about that.

I should be having the time of my life like a kid in boston, but instead I’m just bored here. I work, go back to my hotel, chat with Hollywood and go to sleep. Apparently tonight we’re going to go out, play pool or something, I dunno. Should be more entertaining than the 20 channels of tv in the hotel room. The gym at the hotel is microscopic so I am missing a whole week of workouts here. I may be seeing a hockey game tomorrow (the “bruins” vs. the “thrashers”, apparently) but only if it’s cheap.

So overall it’s just like I’m working in some new location. May be more entertaining in the summer, though I doubt it. Next time I come I’ll be bringing more video games or something.