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		<title>A Great Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What an awesome Sunday!  Actually, it was a fantastic weekend.  Who would have thought being sick would actually make the weekend better?  As I mentioned before, I lost my voice after a very Irish St. Paddy&#8217;s day.  What I didn&#8217;t realize is that I was also getting sick.  Friday evening I started to get a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What an awesome Sunday!  Actually, it was a fantastic weekend.  Who would have thought being sick would actually make the weekend better?  As I mentioned before, I lost my voice after a very Irish St. Paddy&#8217;s day.  What I didn&#8217;t realize is that I was also getting sick.  Friday evening I started to get a pretty good cough.  So, for the first time in a long time, I was able to get to bed sober on a Friday night!  I spent all of Saturday being a lazy sloth and I caught up on some reading and video games.  I did feel bad missing a friends bday celebration, but there was no way my body was going to handle being out.  I was out cold by 11pm and I didn&#8217;t wake up until 10am on Sunday!  Anyone who has had the unfortunate pleasure of sleeping with me knows that it is rare for me to wake up so late.  I had planned to go to work as there was some work being done, and I figured I would make an appearance.  Luckily I didn&#8217;t have anything to do because that got cancelled!  So, the only thing I had left in my schedule was brunch with a friend.  After all of that I was home by 3pm and ready for a solid nap.  My evening was spent doing laundry, which may sound like a crappy way to end a weekend.  What makes doing laundry worth it?  Sleeping in a bed with clean sheets!  Call me simple but there aren&#8217;t many pleasures greater than that.  So, that completes my sober weekend.  I am now laying in bed and am ready for another busy week.  I even managed to get my lunch ready for tomorrow.  I will let you in on a little secret: the product below is just about the greatest thing that has ever happened to a sandwich!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B1rvrcBHL._AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Kraft Spicy Mayo!  I haven&#8217;t seen this in any grocery stores in Canada (I haven&#8217;t looked very hard though).  My mom picked this up for me when she was in the States.  This stuff is liquid gold.  It is the Chuck Norris of sandwich spreads.  I shit you not, this bottle has changed my life!  I have used it to jack up some boring egg salad.  I have used it as a dip for some home made french fries.  Throwing it on a turkey sandwich makes it just about the most superior thing bread has ever seen.  There is nothing this stuff can&#8217;t do.  I strongly suggest you all give it a shot.  Hmmm&#8230;now I am hungry.  Gotta go!</p>
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		<title>Gettin’ Irish</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My god, did I ever get Irish on Wednesday!  I went out to the bar with my coworkers and we cranked it up a notch.  My original plan was to have one or two pints and then head home.  Who the hell was I kidding?!  I drank like the shit was going out of style. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My god, did I ever get Irish on Wednesday!  I went out to the bar with my coworkers and we cranked it up a notch.  My original plan was to have one or two pints and then head home.  Who the hell was I kidding?!  I drank like the shit was going out of style.  Once again, I found myself sleeping somewhere random.  I really need to spend a night in my own bed someday.  Work was an absolute disaster Thursday.  During all of my drinking and yelling &#8220;spring break!&#8221; I managed to lose my voice.  I was able to have a fairly productive day though.  It&#8217;s amazing what you can get done when you don&#8217;t have to answer the phone.  I played my hockey game at night and that workout was definitely needed.  I felt much better after that.  The two beers after the game helped as well.  This weekend should be pretty relaxing.  My goal is to sleep in my own bed.  Lofty goal, I know.  Let&#8217;s see what happens.  Since I didn&#8217;t post anything else St. Paddy&#8217;s day related - here is a comic for you.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Comics/Matt/HAPPY-ST.-PATRICKS-DAY!.png" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>Things I Can’t Throw Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is one thing I am certain hasn&#8217;t changed about me - I can be absolutely cold about throwing things out.  I hold almost no sentimental value in anything.  I throw away mementos, photos, girlfriends, etc.  I do all of these with little thought or care.  I just am not the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is one thing I am certain hasn&#8217;t changed about me - I can be absolutely cold about throwing things out.  I hold almost no sentimental value in anything.  I throw away mementos, photos, girlfriends, etc.  I do all of these with little thought or care.  I just am not the kind of person who spends much time looking back.  I still care about all the things in my past, I just see no reason to keep it around.  I do make an exception for a few things in my life.  When something truly proves its worth in my life, I feel it has earned it&#8217;s place in my life.  Below are two of the longest serving items in my possession.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hhof-tshirt.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is an old Hockey Hall of Fame T-shirt that is now about 14 years old.  You can barely call it a T-shirt now.  It is too fragile to be worn.  The material is worn so thin it is pretty much transparent.  I don&#8217;t wear it because it would disintegrate into nothing if I tried to wash it.  This T-shirt managed the almost impossible feat in a dudes life.  It went from a T-shirt I could wear to school, to one that only got chillin&#8217; duty, to one that was worn to bed, to being relegated to under hockey equipment!  It survived all that to come back to being worn to bed!  A rare accomplishment that deserves praise!  Hockey Hall of Fame T-shirt, your place in my hall of fame is secure.  My mom once threatened to throw it away when I was 21 years old.  I threatened to burn the house down.  That pretty much summed up my passion for this piece of clothing.  It will spend the rest of it&#8217;s life in my closet, unless I finally decide to frame it.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pajamas.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Next up is Pajamas, my stuffed dog.  Don&#8217;t laugh, this is for real!  I have had this thing for damn near 3 decades! This is the only childhood toy I still have.  Everything else has been purged through the many moves in my life.  Somehow, through it all, Pajamas still gets a spot at the end of my bed on some days.  He spent many years guarding the top shelf of my closet but found a new purpose at the start of 2009.  My baby bulldog, Chubbs, would snuggle up to Pajamas when he was sleeping on my bed.  I assumed Chubbs would just tear eat him.  I guess he knew how to respect his elders!  Pajamas kept me safe through many bad dreams and I guess he will be around long enough to do the same if I ever have kids!</p>
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		<title>Slacking…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Friday and I am tired!  I had a late hockey game last night and didn&#8217;t get much sleep.  I tried a little experiment by downing a couple of beers before the game, assuming I would play better when drunk.  This is the strategy I use for golf.  It really doesn&#8217;t translate well to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a Friday and I am tired!  I had a late hockey game last night and didn&#8217;t get much sleep.  I tried a little experiment by downing a couple of beers before the game, assuming I would play better when drunk.  This is the strategy I use for golf.  It really doesn&#8217;t translate well to hockey.  My game continues to be in the toilet.  I scored in my first game back this season but have been snake-bitten since.  At this point I am just completely out of it.  I desperately need to bag a goal to get some confidence back.  Oh well.  One more regular season game and then the playoffs.  Thankfully I am still playing effective in the defensive zone so at least I am not costing our team goals!  I am writing this post at work, which really means I am slacking a little bit.  Speaking of slacking, here are some fun stats you might enjoy&#8230;</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/the-stats-on-slacking/"><img src="http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/the-stats-on-slacking/slacking.jpg" border="0" alt="The Stats on Slacking" width="500" /></a><br />
Via: <a href="http://www.onlineschools.org">Online Schools</a></p>
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		<title>Geeking Out On A Wednesday Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh hell yeah!  I got my geek on tonight.  I decided that it was time to mess with my awesome little aluminum MacBook that I bought last year.  I have kept things pretty stock, which is unusual for someone like me.  I figured I might as well install Windows on this bad boy.  I started [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh hell yeah!  I got my geek on tonight.  I decided that it was time to mess with my awesome little aluminum MacBook that I bought last year.  I have kept things pretty stock, which is unusual for someone like me.  I figured I might as well install Windows on this bad boy.  I started by trying to use the BootCamp assistant that is built into OS X on a Mac.  When I tried to create a 30 gig partition, it failed.  I ran the disk utility and my hard drive was kicking up some issues about inconsistent file sizes and some indexing type shit like that.  Hmmm&#8230;didn&#8217;t take me long to run into my first issue!  Here is a little tip for those of you who aren&#8217;t techies - you can boot to your OS X install disk by sticking the disk in the drive and then rebooting while holding down the &#8220;C&#8221; button.  It tries to run you through the normal install process but you can just use the utilities located at the top bar.  I was able to repair my disk errors this way and I got back to creating my Windows partition.  Now, BootCamp assumed I wanted to install XP or Vista on my Mac.  What!?  We rock Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit up in here, son!  Anyways, I threw in my Windows disk and restarted.  It booted to the Windows disk and started the install.  I ran into another problem when the Windows install program didn&#8217;t want to install on the partition BootCamp created for it because apparently the file system wasn&#8217;t NTFS.  Weird.  Oh well, they give you a handy-dandy option to format right there.  I went ahead and did that and I was good to go!  The install went reasonably quickly and when the computer restarted I was taken to the Windows 7 setup stuff.  Success!  Now I ran into the issue of how to boot back to my OS X install.  I want Windows on here, but I want OS X to by my default OS.  No problem.  Just hold down the &#8220;option&#8221; key when rebooting and you can pick which install you want to run.  In OS X you can go to system pref -&gt; startup disk and select to have your OS X install be the default boot partition.  Alright, that problem is now solved!  Now, some things are a little funky on my Windows 7 install and I am thinking some proper drivers would be nice.  So, I pop in the OS X install disk and it should install BootCamp on my Windows install and give me the ability to install the proper drivers.  No such luck!  The install disk is pissed about me running a 64 bit operating system.  Well fuck them right in the ass!  Easy solution.  Manually navigate to the drivers folder and find the BootCamp64.msi file and run that bad boy.  Things will get funky on you while the proper drivers install.  You will be prompted if some shit is OK to install, your screen my flicker and you will probably lose your wireless network connection.  Once all is done just reboot and you will be good to go.  At that point you can just run Windows Update and you should be ready to rock.  My first suggestion is to install some anti-virus software.  Remember - you aren&#8217;t running OS X right now!  Ah, the joys of being a geek.  I hope you all enjoyed your Wednesday as much as I did.</p>
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		<title>A Reunion Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of posting frequency.  Once again, I find myself extremely busy.  Between work and my social schedule I don&#8217;t get home until around midnight every night.  Tough life, I know.  This Saturday was an event so amazing that I really felt was something to blog about.  An old friend of mine threw [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lack of posting frequency.  Once again, I find myself extremely busy.  Between work and my social schedule I don&#8217;t get home until around midnight every night.  Tough life, I know.  This Saturday was an event so amazing that I really felt was something to blog about.  An old friend of mine threw up a party invite on Facebook that caught me off guard.  It turns out this was his going-away party as he is headed from Toronto to Vancouver.  He is part of a group of friends I have from way back in elementary school.  Seriously, I remember being out for recess with this gang!  We somehow stayed close through our teens and even into our 20&#8217;s.  We were even groomsmen at one of the guys weddings.  As the years went on, we drifted.  It isn&#8217;t like we had a problem with each other - we just seemed to fade.  The phone calls dropped off.  We stopped trying to make plans.  Our own lives just kept us busy.  It&#8217;s amazing how life can come around through the strangest of events though.  Late in 2009 we lost one of our friends to an illness.  That was a serious slap to all of us.  Life can happen without any warning.  It&#8217;s important to make time.  Last night was just such an opportunity.  A party to celebrate a friend and wish him well in his new adventure!  Walking through the door of the apartment was a shocking experience.  A blast from the past.  Faces that got older but still looked so familiar.  Things got a little emotional as the hugs went around.  I won&#8217;t admit that men were crying, that would be a violation of the bro code.  I will say that I noticed some clear, non-alcoholic fluid flowing from some of our eyes.  The best part about the whole night was that we all just picked up right where we left off.  We had a quick little catch up session and then got right back into complaining about our favorite sports teams and making fun of each other.  I couldn&#8217;t have designed a more perfect evening.  We all have very different lives and are in very different places.  But once in a while we can have a beer and be exactly the same as when we were young.  We just get to enjoy timeless friendships.  Awesome!</p>
<p> <img class="alignnone" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/oldfriends.jpg" alt="" width="585" height="347" /></p>
<p>This pic is from about 10 years ago.  George is on the left and is headed to Vancouver.  James is in the red shirt and lives in Brampton.  Big John in back is living in Kitchener with his wife and kid.  Ben is on the right and is no longer with us.  Yours truly is in the middle.  Hopefully I can get some pics from last night and show you all of us in 2010.</p>
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		<title>I Did “The Stuntman”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I went out to a bar with my new co-workers.  This was an exciting thing for me, as I almost never got to do that at previous jobs.  So, we all went out to a pub that is their regular spot.  It turned out to be one helluva evening.  Things definitely cranked up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Friday I went out to a bar with my new co-workers.  This was an exciting thing for me, as I almost never got to do that at previous jobs.  So, we all went out to a pub that is their regular spot.  It turned out to be one helluva evening.  Things definitely cranked up when a &#8220;stuntman&#8221; challenge was issued to me.  Apparently this is part of my initiation into this company.  Now, I agreed to this with absolutely no idea as to what a stuntman is.  A couple of people demonstrated this shot for me and my first reaction was to tell them to go fuck themselves and walk out the door.  I reconsidered and decided to give it a go.  Below is what it involves.  It starts with a standard tequila shot.  Things get crazy after that.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01364/salt_1364790c.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Step 1:  Setup a line of salt and snort it.  That&#8217;s right.  Don&#8217;t lick.  SNORT.  Right up in your nose.  Sounds nuts?  It is!  It burns through your sinuses as if it was drain cleaner.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://oregonsunshine.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tequila_shot153231442_std1.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Step 2:  TEQUILA!  This part is pretty straight forward.  You down your shot of tequila.  This was the only standard part of this operation.  Having just snorted the salt, you lose all sense of smell.  So it actually makes the shot pretty painless.  Things go downhill from here.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.euvs.org/img/tools/ingredients/lemon-wedge.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Step 3: Now, this is where your average alcoholic would bite that lemon wedge to kill that tequila taste.  Your average stuntman has another way of dealing with it.  You squeeze that piece of citrus fruit right into your eye!  I shit you not.  Right into your damn eye!  After doing that, you almost completely forget about having had anything to drink.  All you have is a burning eye and a hole in your sinuses.</p>
<p>**Optional 4th step involves either getting slapped in the face by your waitress or having someone punch you.  I&#8217;m not even kidding about that.  Seriously, look at steps 1 and 3, are you surprised?</p>
<p>So there you have it.  The Stuntman.  I can say very proudly that I survived it.  Not only survived, I thrived!  I went on to drink more pints than I can count and I barely remember the end of the night.  I crashed at someones place that night and woke up without much memory.  Thankfully, I remember the stuntman.  My only regret is that we weren&#8217;t able to get a shot of me doing it.  Since I am a glutton for punishment, I am sure that opportunity will present itself in the near future.</p>
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		<title>Mike Comrie and Hilary Duff Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[These pics have been making there way around the interwebs recently.  It isn&#8217;t unusual to catch celebrity couples around town.  Sometimes, these shots catch someone wearing a new engagement ring.  It is rare to actually catch the moment when a celebrity couple gets engaged.  That&#8217;s exactly what happened recently for NHL hockey player Mike Comrie [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These pics have been making there way around the interwebs recently.  It isn&#8217;t unusual to catch celebrity couples around town.  Sometimes, these shots catch someone wearing a new engagement ring.  It is rare to actually catch the moment when a celebrity couple gets engaged.  That&#8217;s exactly what happened recently for NHL hockey player Mike Comrie and superstar Hilary Duff.  We really get to see the three major points of this event.  Let&#8217;s run through the play by play&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1405" title="hilaryduff1" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff1.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="319" /></a></p>
<p>The Moment:  This is where all preparation and training pay off.  Mike gets down on one knee and asks Hilary Duff to marry him.  Mike is a pro athlete, so he isn&#8217;t afraid to get down and dirty (neither is Hilary, as you will soon see).  His old school approach seems to work as Hilary looks pretty excited.</p>
<p><a href="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1406" title="hilaryduff2" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff2.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="302" /></a></p>
<p>The Brag:  Success!  She definitely said yes.  It certainly helped Mike&#8217;s cause that he was able to afford a million dollar ring to put on her finger.  Now this is where Hilary gets into the play.  She has been waiting for this moment for a long time.  Now she has to show off to her crowd of family and friends by taking a pic of the ring and texting it over to everyone.</p>
<p><a href="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1407" title="hilaryduff3" src="http://onebrownguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hilaryduff3.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="297" /></a></p>
<p>The Reward:  When Mike scored a big goal in hockey, he had the crowd rise to it&#8217;s feet and the coach would give him a pat on the back.  Call me crazy, I think this reward might be a little better.  Hilary proves she isn&#8217;t afraid to get down and dirty (told you!) as she rewards Mike for his solid play.  Judging by Mike&#8217;s expression, he couldn&#8217;t be happier with the result!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank god Friday is here!  This has been my first week back in reality and I am desperate for the weekend.  I need to make this clear - I love my new job!  My co-workers are awesome and the work itself is fun.  It has just been tough adjusting to a normal schedule.  I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank god Friday is here!  This has been my first week back in reality and I am desperate for the weekend.  I need to make this clear - I love my new job!  My co-workers are awesome and the work itself is fun.  It has just been tough adjusting to a normal schedule.  I have also been very busy with my social life.  Big problem, I know!  I need some &#8220;Mike&#8221; time.  A day that I dedicate to relaxing.  Maybe next week.  Tonight I had a hockey game.  Hockey has been a frustrating experience for quite a while.  I was never great at it.  As a younger man, my greatest skill came with my ability to hit people in open ice.  I would consider that a skill as it takes some serious timing.  Before I took a couple of years off, I was the kind of guy who scored goals.  I knew that if I got the puck that there was a good chance it was going in the net.  I was so confident in my abilities.  These days I have crawled into some kind of shell that I just can&#8217;t bust out of.  I seem to get more hesitant with each game.  I am so screwed up that my body just freaks out when I am near the puck.  I know I need to just slow things down and take the puck and take my time and look for opportunities.  Knowing and doing and very different things.  Amazing what confidence can do!  I have it in all other aspects of my life.  None on the ice anymore.  I am thinking I should get drunk before my next game.  I am always a little more ballsy when I have had a few.  Let&#8217;s see what happens!  Happy Friday everyone.  If you are in Canada then I know what you will be watching tonight <img src='http://onebrownguy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  As usual, here is an <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/">SMBC</a> comic that has nothing to do with anything.</p>
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		<title>Back To Being Employed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day in and I already miss life as a bum.  For the first time since December of 2008, I am back in the ranks of the working class.  I actually had an excellent day at the office.  Everyone was very nice and it seems like it will be a fun group to be around. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One day in and I already miss life as a bum.  For the first time since December of 2008, I am back in the ranks of the working class.  I actually had an excellent day at the office.  Everyone was very nice and it seems like it will be a fun group to be around.  I will get to satisfy my geeky nature while I continue to pursue my ultimate goal of being a firefighter.  It really is the perfect situation.  Hell, my new boss even bought me lunch today!  Not bad at all.  Everything was great right up until 5:30 when I left the office.  In case you don&#8217;t live in Toronto, we got hit with a bit of a snow storm.  This wasn&#8217;t exactly unexpected, it was on pretty much every weather report you could find.  Somehow this managed to cripple the commute home.  my hour long drive took 2.5 hours to get home!  I needed over an hour and a half just to get to the highway.  On my drive I saw people in ditches, people who had smashed into each other and people who almost ran over pedestrians.  Seriously, we live in freakin&#8217; Canada.  This is freakin&#8217; February.  Why the fuck are we so unprepared for this?!?!?!  It&#8217;s snow.  You have seen it before!  Make your dumb ass familiar with it&#8217;s properties and it&#8217;s affect on your vehicle.  This will come up again in the near future.  Unless you have the memory retention of an eggplant this knowledge will be applicable repeatedly.  Just a tip from your favorite smart-ass!  Now, as is tradition, a web comic that has nothing to do with anything I just talked about.  This is just about how awesome engineers are.  Enjoy!</p>
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