| Where am I |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|08:02 pm] |
Not on livejournal much anymore obviously.
If you have been looking here, I've been findable on Twitter (as ezterry)
Some news highlights not worthy of twitter commentary may also be found shared on my Google reader feed (lookup ezterry3) Also on Gtalk, and wave.. guess you can send email to my Google account.. but it just forwards to my mail server.
So I'm not entirely gone.. just less full length blog entries.
In other news ... can we return to summer.. (prepares for another Toronto winter.. I could do without them) |
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| What is this a porn site?? |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|09:14 pm] |
http://www.irishmist.com/
"You must be over the legal drinking age of the country you are visiting from to enter this site."
Then the pron site/dating site style enter your birthday..
In other news I found some Irish Mist at LCBO today.. been hard to find here. |
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| Crazy Drivers |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|09:46 am] |
So on my way busing northbound on Bathurst Street some car starts honking at the bus.
Now admittedly the bus was in the lane not the bus stop since a van for some contractor was parked there to repair the bus shelter. But we were stoped to allow passengers on/off
Then when we pull away this driver finally managed to pass the bus and proceeded to cut the bus off.
Now to make sure the silliness is understood do note this is one of the older buses wich could probably run flatten said car without so much as a scratch...
In other news.. the northbound bus was 13mins late on a 20min frequency schedule ... and missed the transfer 15min after when we where supposed to arrive (on a 15min schedule). |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
So ended up on an unexpected date this weekend. We bumped into each other online Friday evening, and set up to meet up at 7 west cafe (an interesting place to keep in mind).
So at I met Matthew a bit after 3 for coffee. And we ended up on log date that lasted until 1am, when we parted from a bar well after dinner.
overall one of the most nicest dates i've had in a long time. And I hope it will become something more.
Well I'll leave it there as I'm typing in T9 on the bus. |
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| 2008... |
[Mar. 8th, 2008|09:30 pm] |
on a day to day basis my life seems too much:
1) wake up
2) go to work
3) home
4) eat/sleep
Which when I don't care to discuss work here.. leave little to chat about. However when I look back, my non-work life dose continue on. Differently then it once was, but on it goes better or worse.
So here is a story of my non work life for a while:
Back in October after a stressful summer I decided to take a week off, and visit my grandparents and friends. Overall it was a very enjoyable trip even if I felt like I was traveling between locations frequently.
On this trip I visited my grandparents who at the time where living in rider wood village in silver springs MD. I knew going down that my grandpa had Alzheimer's and while able to remember the distant past was not able to remember more than a few minutes ago.
I was not however expecting to see my grandma experiencing the beginning stages of Alzheimer's herself. For someone who loved keeping track of all the family gossip, who is in relation ships, who is going to school where, ect. Forgetting some of the relation ship ties.
And was very saddened by the state both my grandparents appeared in since the last time I saw them.
During this period I was concluding a relations ship I had been in on and off during the summer was effectively over. The boy in question having done a few no shows, and vanishing from the planet for extended periods without notice. However as I concluded this when he was out of contact, this was not conveyed to him until he decided to want to meat up again in late November/early December.
Thanksgiving I was unfortunate to be stuck in work, as I used most of my vacation time left for the October trip (and there is no holiday in Canada in November). However a good porting of the family did head to my grandparents for thanksgiving (bringing the dinner with them)
From the accounts I have this was not the greatest of thanksgivings. My grandma fell and was in the hospital for the day. My grandpa who was walking (even if slowly) when I visited was now in a wheel chair. However was in the nursing home section of the facility at the time.
With everything happening around then, with the state of both my grandparents within a week after they where moved to a assisted living facility close to my uncles in northern vagina.
While listening to increasingly bad news from the DC area, I am of course here in toronto.. in more happier moments start to see someone else (Aaron). The relation ship started out very well with a interesting trip to a downtown bar in the snow.
(note apparently getting back to uptown Toronto when roads are slick is an nearly impossible feat...)
But long return trip aside was a very enjoyable evening. And followed by some other enjoyable meetings and only a little awkwardness when telling that previous person I was not interested anymore.
This left me in fairly good spirits when I went off to the New York area for the Christmas holidays.
I returned to Toronto just before the new year, As new years at home tended to be very mellow, and anyway plans for a date where made. The new years date however did not happen, without any message successfully making it to me, my plans where canceled when Aaron headed off to see his grandma when was admitted to the hospital then night before.
after that we did meet 2 or 3 times, however each time he seemed much more distant, and then came down with a flu putting contact on pause.
Now we are somewhere in the middle/late of January, and I at last have received my renewed work permit.
While i've been receiving news every week or so from my grandparents, this is when I have received news that my grandpa has essentially stopped eating or drinking.
And on Thursday Jan 29th, after the previous news everyone in the family is planning there trips into the DC area. I decide to head off early Saturday morning (as Friday Toronto was supposed to and did receive a large snow storm)
After a very distracted day (in a very distracted week at work) I was on my way home picking up food on that Thursday when my dad called with the news that my grandpa died at about 6PM.. This left me fairly busy, getting packed, getting tickets, and getting out very early Saturday morning. And was in the DC area noon an Saturday with the Funeral planned on the Monday.
My trip for the funeral, and visiting my grandma some lasted until wen Feb6th. Where I got to enjoy the almost spring weather in the DC area. See my grandma's state appearing worse. But also noting very little reaction to the death of her husband from her. And hearing during this that her brother (who has been suffering from cancer for a long while now) cannot handle more chemo so while currently in high spirits (better than I can say my grandma has been in my recent memory) is likely nearing the end either from the cancer of the chemo. {and thus is the sad news from the family front}
To Toronto I have since returned, and Aaron still feeling ill. (and I'm starting to feel it will not go anywhere) when to make things wore due to an issue at home Aaron is suddenly moving well away to his grandmothers place. Where contact drops from frequent IMs to nearly nothing.
Now Aaron is actually back in town, (as of middle of this week). He has indicated he would like to get together. But appears to be letting me make plans.. and I've been debating most of the week if I care to make any.
The reality is he probably could have gained interest from me for life if he had managed to be around some near the time my grandpa died. However while I'm not strictly against seeing if a relation ship can be re-built The zombie I last saw and the long absence dose not leave much I care to chase after.
This emphasized by this lonely snowy day. Where I wish I had a boyfriend over.. but I'm not really visualizing him as the boyfriend. |
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| A Post!!! pre-thanksgiving plans? |
[Oct. 18th, 2006|11:08 pm] |
A Post!!! pre-thanksgiving plans?
So I promise I have not died. However I spent most of September with colds and a sore throat :(
However the lack of posts has more to do with the fact that most of what I do is work.. and either I don't want to post it freely on the web. Or (more often then not) I just don't want to post as I deal with too much work without talking about it here.
So big news is I'm taking the week of US thanksgiving off, (which should do a good job getting me out of doing anything for a production release :)
This means it is very possible for me to visit the Boston and/or Amherst area on the weekend of Nov 18/19 if plans are made a little in advance. Let me know if anyone is available, and can offer crash space. |
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| sigh |
[Mar. 25th, 2006|06:25 pm] |
So in work from 9:30 till almost 5 today.. and they ended up not needing me. So basically I was there all day working on stuff that I would have been doing monday had I not been in and enjoying my weekend instead.
Guess it is good that what they were working on worked though without some large unexpected problem.
Now at a cafe enjoying some tea waiting for a sandwich. which is expected to be good, at least they haven't disappointed me yet |
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| Work Work Work |
[Mar. 24th, 2006|07:07 pm] |
Well I've been a bit too busy at work.. and to help things out I've been asked to come in tomorrow to support siebel (ie. if anything happens that is incorrect I get to tell them why.. and most likely in this case it will be garbage in/garbage out)
I did at last head over to the US consult to get my passport. as with the rules becoming more strict I will need it. and it will help in the meantime as well. I should expect it within the next two weeks.
I'm also hoping that over the next month or so, I start having some free time to travel into the states and say hi to friends and family. (I'll keep people posted)
Last I'm hoping to meet someone I've been chatting with online this weekend (sunday, was Saturday but it looks like something has come up suddenly for both of us now) |
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| .. god forbid someone wanted to eat in this house |
[Jan. 24th, 2006|09:48 pm] |
Ignoring the mess in the kitchen that seems to get worse, not better.. (I think I've concluded that this is just how it is with room mates)
One of my room mates, (and the one who owes quite a lot to many people, my self only indirectly included) seems to eat all of the food here.. I know last night there was a package of sausages that they presumably cooked, and I had leftover Chinese .. nether seem to be in the fridge tonight.. god forbid I wanted to eat something like my *OWN* leftovers.. Also I seem to be short a frozen dinner.. meaning after all this food has been eaten, as I am not going to wait for chicken to cook at this hour.. I get pizza on the corner.. (I should give up, not share food, and eat everything out.. it would be cheaper, then sharing food and eating most things out) .. that or buy materials for that days meal on my way home if I feel like cooking.
Ok rant on roommates done, onto idiot on bike
So walking the two blocks home, someone rode into me (I just can't wait for the black and blue my leg will be tomorrow). I just stepped into a side street, maybe as far out as a parked car would be.. the bicyclist coming towards me on the main road, seeming to slowly change his mind from what seemed like going forward to turning.. so I stopped as he didn't seem to be paying much attention in my direction.. however he seemed unintentionally? aim for me.. apologies aside.. eyes front stupid.... and if you are going to make a right turn fine.. but stay on the right *HALF* of the road you are turning on...
and now that I've ranted.. time to find food... somewhere... |
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| Holidays |
[Dec. 31st, 2005|07:04 pm] |
Wow I haven't updated in a while. I guess I'll post one last post this year.
Well as I have mentioned I am here in toronto. (successfully got back in after visiting my family for Christmas). Was nice seeing everyone for a little while during the holiday.
This last week has been quite slow since with both monday and tuesday off, most people went on vacation for the 3 day week. (I do however expect things to pick up on tuesday next week..
I've ordered some ram for zidane earlier this week, but as UPS failed miserably I don't have it yet. (wen - they try to deliver to my apartment, as it was imported there is a COD $32.44CAD for brokerage and taxes thus leave a note, thurs I had them bring it to the office saying I'd be in between 10AM and 5PM... they leave a voice mail message on my work phone that they arrived at 9:20.. friday the driver couldn't find the building.) With luck I'll see it on tuesday... with out I'll be screaming at UPS
Latter this evening I'll be at my apartment at my house mates new years eve party. Hope all goes well.. I have determined that neither of my room mates are not good drunks.. so if we are just around the apartment this isn't a problem.. but they seem to like going out AFTER getting drunk at the apartment.. if they do this I may not follow as any humor in the situations that follow disappear when they make it obvious you are with them.. |
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