The Good, The Better, And The Most Awesome

I've seen them twice now, these two elderly gentlemen that walk around Elm picking up garbage.  They carry in tow a bag for their garbage, and a pair of kitchen tongs to do the grabbing.  Hopefully they are an extra pair.  It just warms my heart to see that sort of voluntary contribution to...city beautification?  When I was commuting from home to U of T I used to think about doing a clean up along the tracks.  I can't remember if it was right before or right after the gardens, there were these slopes of grass down from the main road, almost completely covered in litter.  Not a nice thing to see on a daily basis.  Or in my case three times a week.  I was a cheeky scheduler.

We have a new person at work!  One of the boss' sons has come to work with us.  I feel like I already know him, since he's been talked about a lot.  But I will have to build an actual rapport, and not rely on a fake one.  He's already won my favour.  We were quoting really lame sayings we have accumulated from emails or email signatures, and he jumped in with: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."  Lol.

My major clean up kind of came to a halt after I posted, but the fire crew is coming in next week so I need to get it all finished up today.  I ended up getting the the absolute cheapest shoe rack from IKEA, but it turns out to have been the best choice.  The one I really wanted wasn't even in stock, so that helped my decision.  I've assembled the shoe rack and moved the arena bench into my living room.  Once I get everything in order and tidied up I'll post a photo.  I did do one other thing as well.  I went to Walmart and picked up some faux window frosting film, and threw that up onto my tv stand.    I was tired of looking through the glass and seeing an unorganized display of boxes.  Not that they could have been tidied any further, they were just ugggly to look at.  I'm fairly pleased with the results.

I was about a mm short on one of the panels, but it's barely visible if you are looking in passing.  It's also on the side that you can't see in this photo, so don't bother zooming in.  I would have just scrapped it and started again, but I wanted to pass on what was left of the roll to Nikki so she could frost her exposed shower window.  I wish I would have thought of this back in my bunghole of an apartment in Calgary.  That was an outwardly facing window.  And since all windows are, by that I mean it was facing onto another apt building where all tenants would have visual access.  Hers faces a building that's two feet away with only one other window if you crank your head to look out.  Either way, I'm excited to hear if that has worked out for her.

We had a funny email at work the other day.  Someone was requesting a spec document be in cms, and one of the Americans wrote back, "What is this unit of measure you refer to as "cm"??  Signed, An American.  And the best part was that people actually responded to him to explain it.  Gold.

I have a gift certificate for a yarn store burning a hole in my pocket.  I'm almost afraid to go back because I ordered some wool like 5 months ago.  They never called me so I never went to go back to buy it.  Errrr.  Kind of made me think they didn't order it?  Either way I'll find out soon enough.  And I'm thinking of using the cert to buy a yarn winder.  Not that I'm really actively crafting, but....I have no justification.  I just kind of want it.  Maybe I'll get yarn instead, and just wind it on a paper towel roll or something?

I finished rewatching Dexter.  Now that I know I can plug my passport into the tv and watch, my life has been changed.  Thanks to Sim and Spence for previewing their film on my tv and sharing this knowledge.  Me: "But I don't have a mouse or keyboard???"  Spence: "You use your remote."  OhhhhHHHhhhhh.  Brilliant.  I missed a few episodes as I just had it running pretty much non-stop in the background.  It's such an amazing series.  And knowing what's going to happen next lets you really focus on all the forecasting they do.  The entire script is just so solid.  The ending made me weepy.  Not the very end, but leading up to it.  I'm really tired of crying at tv.  Make it stop.

I just did a grocery shop.  If I can't get there before 8am, I don't really like going.  Plus if you go early, their freshly baked bagels are to die for.  It's like bread that melts in your mouth.  It's how bread should always be, but almost never is.  I think I'll toast one of those up and get started on sorting my bookshelf.  I'm about 2-3 hours away from having this place spotless.  If you don't go into my bedroom.  That would be maybe another hour.

Peace oot.