Miscellaneous -

-Things really hit the fan with the ebay seller. I now opened a dispute with Paypal. I think the fact that this is all online has made me more tense. I don't like the direction this new fangled world is taking us. Regardless, I have a beat on another seller of sega games in Missouri and it is an actual store and not just an ebay seller. They will ship here. I am quite excited to order some games. I think at the 5week mark, it is safe to say that the item will definitely not come.

As for my money? Well I may get it back through Paypal. I just will never use ebay again for anything. A lot of horror stories abound the forum discussions and the whole thing is incredibly stupid. Craiglist and Kijjii is where its at bc you can pick up your item yourself in your city.

-What happened to the old proud logo of the Ottawa Senators. When did they adopt that weird 3rd jersey logo of the annorexic long-faced Senator. Blasphemy! How boring that they only wear that logo in different colours. In general as I've stated to Mark many times, I hate most of what the NHL does with its merchandising and this is no exception. To force NHL teams to start wearing their away jerseys at home for permanently really bugged me. It shows how desperate franchises are for cash that they are relying on fans to now buy the road jersey (now the home jersey in effect) to attend home games.

-I don't know how much longer I can go with these old glasses. I can barely see anymore since the lenses are all scratched up.

-The extension of warm weather in November has literally given me a new lease on life. With my ratty old brown shoes (cracks in the sole with water seeping in), my light windbreaker, and my torn Dockers pants, I faithfully trudge through dog s*%# every day to get to the Lincoln Fields transit station so I can crowd onto a bus with a bunch of other sardines and hope the bus doesn't crash.

-On that note, we have the city of Ottawa trying to finalize its budget for 2009. So far this is what we know: even with a hike of 4.9%, there will need to be 35 million cut out of the budget. Of course it is the usual suspects for cutting money: OC transpo fares going up (again…), OC transpo service going down (again…), recreational user fees for hockey time and other activities going up. The stark irony that OC transpo is engaging in a huge new marketing campaign to attract new riders with benefits such as low price, "convenience" is lost in all this. I guess convenience is never getting a seat and molesting accidentally all those around you.

-I am slowly weaning down my supply to dental gum and have traded the last carton to my supervisor for 2 Dirienzo sandwiches, one of which I already received.

-I delivered some donuts to the Willy's boys yesterday and their faces lit right up. Then the garlic sauce I paid for was forgotten…Oh well. I really like delivering donuts to people. I wonder if Jesus felt the same way..

-Love that Kylie Minogue (Locomotion) song. For some reason, waking up to it on Magic fm is much better than just listening to it repeatedly on youtube.

-Saw a scary documentary on cbc website about the Disappearing Male. How births of boys have been outnumbered by girls in heavily industrialized coutries since the 1970's. Also boys are at risk for genital defects and other problems. The source? Basically every household product we use made from polycarbonates (plastics) and other chemical compounds produced by the petrochemical industry. (This is also the suspected culprit behind high cancer rates too but that wasn’t included in this documentary.) It appears that these compounds negatively effect the hormonal balance of male fetuses but not females.

-CosmoTV has a free preview until August 2009 on channel 262 with Rogers digital cable. Don't ask me how I know that..

-Baseball and biking season (I went maybe 3 times) appear to be over for this year. I had trouble rounding up the troops this year and next year will be seeking out players through platonic ads on craigslist.

-I have really neglected my computer situation and wardrobe situation. In budget talk, I have slashed spending on these items. I just hope it won't be too late to play catch up and suffer the same fate as the province of Ontario when cuts were made to nursing and doctors' spots.

-As I am a price conscious consumer I often cast places of business in a negative light when they try to appeal to all your dreams and aspirations and then say the price is ONLY this, as if they are doing you a favour. I got a brochure for Winner House Chinese food and noticed that 12 eggrolls run 12.50, while one is 1.15, hardly a volume savings for the customer. I remember no more than 10 years ago, I was able to obtain a dozen for 7.00 at Lotus.

The worst offender in this category is definitely Good Life Fitness. Only 60$ a month they say. Nuts to that. So you may make it out maybe twice a week or 8 times a month. $7.50 per workout? Yikes. I would rather get fat and unhealthy.
Charge what you will but don't be a d%?# about it and try to appeal to me about how great a deal this is for me.

-I really enjoy the newish show The Big Bang Theory. It is relatively funny and features two up and coming actors in the people who play the characters Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Penny (Kaly Cuoco). They really shine on this show.


This is the kind of vigilante justice I'm craving!

Customers grab holdup artists

Two would-be robbers were taken out after customers of an east end fast food joint wrestled them to the ground.

Police said two men walked into the Burger King at 1804 St. Laurent after 9 p.m. with their faces covered and a knife demanding money. They were told no, and on their way out were wrestled to the ground by a group of customers who confronted them.

An off-duty officer happened to be in the area and assisted. Two suspects were arrested.