The Never Updated Blog

So, today I went on a blogtrek. I started following blog links beginning on JPTH International and prety soon I was way, way, way past six degrees of separation. And yet somehow I ended up on Santa's Blog where I learned how the jolly old elf met the missus among other things. The site is sponsored by a company called Five Star Experience based out of Toronto. I've been to Toronto countless times, I mean I only live about 100 kms away and I have actually heard about this five star thing so maybe 6 degrees of separation isn't so unreasonable. Anyway the idea of Five Star is that most people we buy Christmas gifts for already have everything. Instead of suggesting that you better spend your money by giving it to charities that will help the needy, they suggest that you give the person experiences. You can buy the person an experience or a package of experiences and then the person gets to choose from their list of experiences. With experiences such as bungee jumping a day at the spa or a private sailing lesson. Anyway, if I have a wealthy patron out there who feels like spending $850 on me so I can do the deluxe "Rennaissance Man" package then please step forward, but only if you have buckets of cash and have given a fair chunk of it to a more worthy cause first. I think my gift receiving policy is getting a little too strict. Oh well . . .

So, I got to wondering if I had coined a new term in the word BLOGTREK. It appears I am not. However, I think I may have used it in a new way. Well, that is kind of unsubstantiated. I really only clicked on the first link when I searched other blogs for the term blogtrek so I must go back and check now, please excuse me a moment . . . . . . .well, it appears the only one to use the term is the author of a blog called Finksville. He devoted an entire blog to his blogtrekking, but alas, he only ever posted a test post. . . . .Anyway, it appears that Google has heard the term a bit more than the 6 times that blogger has. In fact, Google reported 137 instances of the term blogtrek. From reading these I have come to a semi-formal definition:

blogtrek; blogtreking, blogtrekked, blogtrekker: 1. To search for blogs containing one's name as part of the title or author's name with the intention of rating their 'coolness'. 2. Frequent use of the "next blog" button with the intention of reviewing the sites visited. These searches may or may not employ the prime directive of blogtrekking. 3. To follow the blog links of your friends and their frinds until you have encounter an interesting blog. See also blogroll link-surfing.

Well, there you have it. I think I will probably begin blog trekking as the urge occurs. I'll let you know what crazy sites I end up on.

Finksville
eight-bit.com
Saint Nate's Blog
Bonus
Freebie Village Frugalities

You have to be careful using definition #2 --> I came across "Nadine's Sex Page" and had to hit the button again really quickly . . .

Anyway, good night never . . . for someone named never, you seem to be getting a lot of posts lately. Oh well, maybe I'm a little misguided, but posts seem to result in hits, so . . . .maybe it'll keep coming.

So, this one is for those two Brits and the one Malaysian that have read my oh-so-exciting blog. I'm going to perpetuate the Canadian myth that it is always cold here and snows like crazy all the time, because clearly that is the case. Ok, well maybe not, but for the end of November it is pretty typical to get a snow storm like this. Technically this isn't the first snow of the season as it did snow one day last week, but that all melted within a couple of hours and seeing how as it's -9C out right now it isn't likely to melt any time soon. We got a good 10cm of snow today but it is all lake effect snow so it will compact down if it doesn't all melt sometime next week. Anyway Kev and Jody have already started posting about such things as Christmas lights, but the only thing that comes to mind is that cat from Christmas Vacation. Poor cat, good times. I don't feel bad for the cat, I read in the credits at the end of the movie that no animals were harmed in the making of the movie, but I'm not so sure . . . .that turkey looked pretty harmed to me. Anyway it's 5am and I could sure go for a little bit of turkey harming myself right now. If this was America I would go down and raid the fridge for some unless I was one of those strange families that that have ham or roast beef at Thanksgiving . . . .Anyway, I seem to be losing the point here . . . . .ah yes . . . . .no Turkey, but soon. I can't wait until the house smells like baking and stuffing and turkey and mashed potatoes and all that other lovely stuff that Christmas brings. Yeah, I'll tell you what else Christmas brings . . .more time spent at the Y! Hmm, the Y opened 40 mins ago and I haven't gone to bed yet. goodnight, umm, morning, oh whatever, you understand what I mean. Hey first person to find the hidden link and post a comment telling me where it is gets a prize. . . . .

Andrew

So, I decided that a free webcounter would be neat for this blog, but when I looked into it, most of them wanted to put their stupid little add links underneath them and I really didn't feel it was necessary to advertise cheap pharmaceuticals, penile enhancements, free ipod scams, online college diplomas, premium watches at discount prices or any of that crap . That link is tasteless, I know. Anyway, I finally found one that wouldn't inundate you with advertising called statcounter.com. Anyway, I will look into making the stats public so that all 5 of you that have already looked at my blog so far(hurray!) will be able to look at all those lovely web stats too.

In other news, the SLC opens to all students tomorrow . . .er . . . today(it's late) . . . . .on Nov. 23rd. Pretty soon(as early as the begginning of next month) Foot Patrol will be operating out of their new office. One Card access for 24hr access to the student lounge etc is in the works and I'll let you all know when it will be working as soon as possible.

For those of you who do not go Laurier, the SLC is the brand new building that the Wilfrid Laurier Univerty Students' Union(WLUSU) has just recently built. The building has three floors and includes: two student lounges, council chambers(a large board room), committee offices, bookable meeting rooms, multi-purpose programming space(think pub nights or dances and such), a coffee shop(soon), a computer lab, quiet study space, storage, and all this in the basement and ground floors. Upstairs we are renting space out to Student Services and Health Services with space for staff offices, counseling and medical examination rooms, distance ed. and special needs exam rooms etc. The SLC is so exciting because up until now all of WLUSU Brantford has operated out of a single office about the size of about 8 phone booths. That is easily 200 volunteers all trying to work out of a tiny space with practically no storage. So, a lot of people's bedrooms will become a lot less clutterred as they will be able to store the supplies used by their committee or club in the SLC. But probably not my room. I can clutter mine quite well on my own thanks. Anyway, I am going to be giving tours for a while tomorrow between 10-11:30am, feel free come by and visit.

If you hadn't noticed yet, I figured out how to hyperlink stuff and I'm keeping myself quite amused by linking to just about everything possible. Anyway, don't feel you have to follow every link I give you, often they will just be background info about something or something funny (if you have gotten this far and haven't clicked on the crap link, I would suggest against it). I promise never to put a link to tubgirl on here.

Anyway, back to the essay madness

Andrew

Just look at all those windows and that snappy looking desk configuration!!

Me and Jess straight thuggin' in the Services Hallway.

The first meeting of the Management Committee in the Council Chamber. We used it before Council. teehee

Opening day sweetnes.

Committe Office should really say Management Committee Office i.e. MINE!!! ok, and Morgan Josh and Ruth's . .

My desk is the one on the right hand side at the back. I have a window view and a door view. Sweet.

Foot Patrol

Foot Patrol Office

Mike pretending to work. . . I mean showing that chair who's boss!

Oh Greg . . . . we wouldn't let you get tossed out on the street.

So, today was opening day, or more accurately, today was move-in day, officially the Student Life Centre(SLC) opens to students on Wednesday. The Management Committee and Campus Council will be on site throughout the day to give people tours as they trickle in. I't very exciting. Especially seeing how as either the MC office or the Commish's office are both easily larger than the office that all of WLUSU Brantford has operated out of for the last four years. I've spent a lot of time in that office over the course of my university career so I'm kind of sad to see it go. I remember the Sputnik meetings with Nick, Steph and the gang, hanging out late nights with Foot Patrol, office hours and such with Elections, hiring and marking applications ALL NIGHT . . . . .ah good times. But then, I look at that picture of my office and realize that I don't have to share one computer with a bazillion other people, I'll have administrator priveleges again, windows in my office so I can tell what general time of day it is. Anyway, it's time to get crackin on essays.

Night All

Andrew

Come one, come all!!! Read my blog . . . . or not. Or not?!?!?!? What kind of a pesimistic way is that to start your first blog entry?? Eh? Oh wait, this is a replacement for my MSN Space which I clearly left for months at a time without ever updating and therefore lost my readership. It is surprising though how many people were actually reading what I had to say. A lot of my friends would say they checked it on a regular basis for updates(clearly they have too much time on theor hands) - and then there were lots of random comments from people I don't know . . . . or more likely my friends under pseudonyms. If you're interested in reading my old entries, they are available here. If you like nonsense, random rants, the world of makebelieve and a tree frog background, then that's the place you ought to go. Grrr Micro$oft and its limited editing features. In other, yet somehow strangely related news, I downloaded the latest Mepis live cd a week or so ago and have been running my computer from the live cd about 50% of the time since then. I plan make my machine a dual boot system as soon as I get a larger hard drive. There isn't enough space to repartition my hard drive and install the OS. I only have 40 gigs. Yes, I know, I just placed myself securely in the realm of geekdom, but, hey I'm the popular jock of the realm of geekdom. All the other geeks look up to me 'cause I'm the coolest. That's right, geeko numero uno right baby. Wow, it's late, and I have a tonne of stuff to do tomorrow . . . .and tomorrow starts in less than five hours.
Goodnight world.
Goodnight moon.
Goodnight fork.
Goodnight spoon.
Goodnight work.
Goodnight room.
Goodnight me.
Goodnight you.

Rember when if you check the time this was published it is defintely closer to 5am than 4? The Y has opened for the day and I haven't gone to bed yet. I'm tired, and I get silly when I'm tired or sometimes I get mean when I'm tired. Anyway, this post is getting kind of long and silly.

'night

Andrew