Month: May 2006

In what is probably the biggest news of today (other than my bus fiasco), Lucasfilm is releasing the original versions of Star Wars on DVD this September for a limited time.

Man, this has been a long time coming.

Something tells me you’ll be hearing about this everywhere from Entertainment Tonight, to CNN, to the Northern Times.

6:04 AM – Wake up to the sound of Mike going to the washroom. Man, I would be livid if my body woke me up before my usual 6:45 AM wake time to go to the washroom.

6:10 AM – My alarm goes off.

6:11 – 6:45 – I do my regular thing. Get into the car.

6:46 AM – Decide to take Mike’s advice and drive all the way to Place D’Orleans’ park and ride instead of the Trim Road one.

6:58 AM – Get to the Park and Ride. Park the car. Notice that AChannel and Majic100 are here giving out T-Shirts and coffee mugs. I promptly ignore them to go look at the bus schedule.

7:02 AM – Am waiting for the 7:05 bus which awesomely enough will be bring me right to work’s door. No transfers for me! Driving to Place D’Orleans has its perks!

7:02:30 AM – Realize I forgot my bus pass along with my security pass at home.

7:04 AM – Back on the road back home. Grumbling all the way since I’m 4 kms away from home as opposed to the 1 km I usually am if I went to the other Park and Ride.

7:15 AM – Get back to the house, grab the pass, get back on the road. Please keep in mind that I’m usually at work at 7:30 AM.

7:16 AM – Realize that traffic is just plain dumb if I take the highway so I decide to take the side streets there. Surprisingly enough, no traffic encountered. As Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan would say “Excellent!”

7:25 AM – Get back to the Park and Ride at Place D’Orleans.

7:28 AM – Get onto the packed bus which coincidentally does NOT have an empty seat for my ride downtown. Automatic deduction in Mike’s theory of driving to Place D’Orleans. I was trying to explain to him why I didn’t go to Place D’Orleans to take the bus and I couldn’t put my finger on the reason. This was the reason! Everytime I go there I had to stand up on the bus, whereas if I go to Trim Road, it’s the first stop on the line so I have the pick of the litter in terms of bus seats.

8:00 AM – I get to work. Now I have to stay until 4:00 which in itself is not too bad considering I have class tonight anyhow so I have to kill some time.

Oddly enough, I have discovered the following facts that actually made the trip worthwhile:

• If I take the 95x bus from Trim Road, it takes me usually between 45-50 minutes.
• Even though I had to stand up on the 27 bus from Place D’Orleans, it managed to only take 30 minutes to get to my work. That was a surprise.
• Usually, the 27 bus is a double decker long bus so they would have room.

Verdict: I’ll give the Place D’Orleans one a shot again. I can’t hold the forgetting of the bus pass against Mike. I can hold the fact that I had to stand up on the bus against him. But that was at 7:30 in the morning. Perhaps if my original plan went through and I got on around 7:00, there would have been a seat.

Plus, when I get to the mall, I can just get into my car and drive home. Sometimes I have to wait for the 95x to bring me home which can take up to 15 minutes. Sure, I may use a little extra gas and mileage but the difference is 6 kms a day. Sure that adds up, but at some point you have to find a balance between environment and convenience. Ha! I’m laughing at that statement considering the environment posting below which is all about being inconvenient but necessary. This morning, I am a walking contradiction.

The metal Gods doth shine on thee.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=51111

Courtesy of Duffman.

http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060417fege09

Please take the 10 minutes and read this article on 50 ways you can help the environment (and yourselves!)

I challenge all my faithful readers to do 15 of the things on the list at a minimum. It may be a pain at first, but it will become second nature in time.

Case in point – When I was younger, I used to let the water run while brushing my teeth. Then I heard that that’s a waste of energy. It took some getting used to, but it’s now second nature to me to reach for the tap to turn it off while I brush my teeth.

• If you haven’t picked up the new Tool album do so just for the album packaging. I’ve never seen anything like it.
• Also, pick up the new Pearl Jam album.
• I read Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity. It was amazing. My first foray into Asimov was not a disappointment.
• I biked down Trim Road towards Navan on Monday. It was fraught full of traffic and smells of manure from the farm. Something tells me I should head towards the Ottawa River next time.
• Alias is back on TV and it’s getting good. Too bad it always gets good near the end of the season and then is kaput. This time around, it’s really gone as in the series is ending.
• Mission Impossible III is out…tomorrow? Sometime this week…I will definitely want to go see it for the sole reason that J.J. Abrams (of Alias and Lost fame) is helming this one.
• I started my new class last night – Theories of Communications. My professor’s name is Doctor Strangelove, and yes, he changed his name to that. I think I will enjoy his class as he seems to have an unorthodox style of teaching in him considering I entered the class and he was playing a music video for Alice Cooper – Poison and then through on a Rammstein DVD. Then he was talking about how we’ll take a look at some cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants and talk about Anti-Americanism in the world. It’s two nights a week for 6 weeks so that will be rough, but I don’t think I will be bored. The classroom setup blows though.
• I got an A- in my English class. Why didn’t I get marks like that when I actually went to school?
• The Canadian dollar is at an all time high. Is it time to make a trip across the border to buy some merchandise before we need barcodes tattooed to our skin to get across?
• I had to kill some ants sprouting up around my house yesterday. I bought some powder to do the trick. This morning I saw a few roaming around. Don’t know if that’s a bad sign or not.