Thursday, December 03, 2009

Smores Pie... jeez

I broke down and had my semi-monthly visit to the Great golden Arches....
this time for an Egg McMufin, which, as it always fortunately does, left me dissatisfied. So I doubt I'll be going back anytime soon (likely in a couple of weeks when I've rushed in to the office).

Anyway... When I was in line I spotted a poster for... 'McDonald S'Mores' pie.
I'm trying to figure out if this is the first sign of the apocalypse or not.

I've gone camping and done the whole ' smores by the campfire' thing - and yeah it's kinda nice n' all; but I respect it because it's a tradition. But McDonalds now offers that taste (or their rendition of it) in a handy, handheld pie for a buck? I dunno - seems to me if you can't build a fire and buy the ingredients yourself you likely shouldn't be able to enjoy the Smores experience.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

BIG Regina Road trip this weekend!!!!

Who's jealous?

Off to Regina to play frisbee with a bunch of folks, leaving Friday night at 8, should be back by Sunday afternoon...

Monday, September 22, 2008

How Debt Drives the Economy

Click on the title of this post and check out the video. It really cleared up my confusion on how debt is really driving our economc growth, and confirmed my personal concerns about how our economy thrives on consumerism.

I'm curious to know, after seeing this video and reading the follow up post;
- Who wants to run out and protest, or become an anarchist, or rebel?
- Who'd like to become a lender?
- Who's overwhelmed and isn't sure what to do about it?

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Must learn to keep it together

So, I work in an office. My immediate colleagues are all guys - so while it could be an 'old boys club', truth is we just, on occasion pull stupid little antics now and then...

"Oh!, he left the drawer unlocked and took the day off... fill it with packing peanuts."
"Hey, I saw something you missed, but took care of it..... bno big deal, but I'll refer to you as 'Idiot' for the next couple of days :)"

typically little things to keep us on our toes, not get too comfortable, blah blah blha.

SOmetimes - it's just too comfortable, and I gotta get it together.
Like when someone enters our workspace and says, or does something silly..... I MUST NOT LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!!!

I'm gonna be working on that... especially when the people are standing right in front of me.

... oh - If you need to know.
I did the 'poorly acted, fake cough' thing... so I KINDA got through it.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Is any innuendo really unintentional?


This is too friggin funny to be ignored.
Look at this guys grin.... he's a hero!

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Bored in Montreal... Really?

The summer has kept me rather busy.
The new job seems to be picking up steam this summer, which is really frustrating since people should be relaxing come summer. but instead they seem to have this philosophy to have me do all this work as they try aking their holidays, and long weekends. So the weather is gorgeous.. people are heading home a few minutes early each day.... sneaking out of the office around 3 or so on Friday to get a good seat at the patio and I'm unable to book more than 2 days of vacation at a time and am rushing to get to any thing I have planned on a weeknight on time.

I'm pausing so you wipe that tear from your eye.

So besides work I'm playing another season of frisbeewhich has me at practice twice a week, playing games every Monday and then travelling to tourney's nearly every other weekend. This August I have only 1 weekend without frisbee. Strange habit / hobby / addiction.

I'm also seeing someone. She happens to be a teacher who's reslishing her time off this summer. I got her a hammock for her birthday (this will have a be another blog topic.... "gift buying during that early relationship limbo") and sometimes find myself tempted to bolt from the office and steal it from under her instead of sitting at my desk staring at my monitor.

Anyway, back to my original inspiration for this post. I'm bored in Montreal!.

I flew here for work the 3rd time in 4 weeks. I can summarize the first two trips like this:

  • arrive
  • go to clients office
  • see that certain tasks can't be done because either a, b, c or d hasn't happened
  • do what I can
  • return to the airport
  • get home
  • Day starts at the Winnipeg Airport at 5 AM (5:30 flight) and finishes at Wwinnipeg Airport a bit before 23:00 (YES, I use the 24 hour clock.... FAR more efficient)

    Anyway - I'm currently in Montreal for my second night. It's a touch slower pace since my tasks I'm here for have been split up, though tomorrow wil mean me cramming in a bunch of work before I leave for home tomorrow night.

    I must be getting old (hitting 30 in a few weeks), but after going for a walk, doing a bit of shopping (bought new soes), eating dinner alone, I find I'm just looking to kill time before going to bed. Thus, my first blog post in a while. If I had more than 3 or 4 days notice before making this trip I'd try bringing someone else along. Let them go about whatever they want and then have something to look forward to. Even if I couldn't bring along a travel partner, I'd at least look at what shows or concerts I could see. At the end of this month there's a cool looking ChineseAcrobatics / dance at Place des Arts.

    Anyway, a friend has just logged on to MSN Messenger. Haven't seen her in a while. We'll see how the rest of the night goes.

    Monday, June 12, 2006

    Come & Critique




    Hello everyone, just wanted to give an informal invite for you to please critique the website.
    Revamped the site to showcase new work with a cleaner look.
    www.rodrigopradel.com
    I've been learning this thing myslef so any tips would help, get at me if you want to be on the email list for future events, hope all is well and everyone's healthy.

    Rodrigo