The musings of Matt Clements
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Maybe it’s the fact that I’m practically done my 2.5 month-long project or maybe it’s because the weather has been nicer and summer is almost here. Maybe it’s because I’m fantastically in love. Maybe it’s a lot of other things. But I know I’m in a good mood today.
Next week I’m going to a senior prom. Tonight we’re going to see a movie. Tomorrow we might be getting a new kitten.
I’m all over the map.
Just call me Mr. Rogers. By Rogers I mean Clements of course. It’s a great day outside today – much better than yesterday’s doom and gloom atmosphere weather-wise. I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of May already. It seems like the past few weeks have gone by in such a blur that I haven’t had much of a chance to breathe or relax.
This past weekend was very nice though. We went to Niagara-on-the-Lake (dashes are mandatory!) to celebrate our anniversary (one year on May 8th). We stayed at a bed & breakfast and toured some wineries in the area and did some shopping. Sunday we went to Niagara Falls and then on Monday we went to Canada’s Wonderland and did some gardening and assembling of our new porch swing. I wish the weekend were longer.
Work is work and hopefully I’ll be finished this large (for this company) project by the end of this week so I can move onto other exciting things. It’ll be a nice change of pace.
Well I was disappointed with the headlines in today’s newspapers around the city. I was expecting people to proclaim yesterday’s accident to be a National Tragedy. Sadly this wasn’t the case though I did get to see a picture of the Civic that caused the whole mess. The driver is being charged with reckless driving. Her car is a wreck.
In other news today’s truck accident is brought to you by a lovely truck driver in Hamilton carrying empty vodka bottles (what is it with liquor this week?). It rolled over on the Linc near the 403 spilling and breaking glass all over the road. I’m sure that will be a blast to clean up.
I received this in the mail the other day (handwritten):
Mr. Clements – Please find a copy of your receipt enclosed. Hope your mom enjoys her new cardigan. – Karen @ 702
That was really nice of the company to send that. It’s little touches like that that make people appreciate (certain) corporations.
There was an accident on the 401 today. Well I guess there are accidents there everyday but today a beer truck overturned spilling beer all over the 401 eastbound express lanes. Oh and the accident happened right where we get on the highway everyday. I woke up around 6:30 and heard a lot of sirens which is not unusual but they were rather distant-sounding and it seemed like they were on the highway. I checked the traffic cameras and saw a big backup. We left and tried to get around the accident via Wilson but that too was extremely slow and in the end I drove Marcy to Ajax and then came back again. Surprisingly enough the drive back to Toronto wasn’t as bad as I had feared; I took Kingston Road instead and it was not too congested. It’s definitely my Preferred Route when driving back from Ajax in the morning. I might be able to leave earlier than I had planned tonight (because I expected to be in later).
Update: Here are some pictures of the crash. I’d like to see a picture of that Civic. Luckily the driver is in good condition.
Sitting here at my desk I feel like I’m in a washing machine. There’s some kind of pipe with a lot of water in it sluicing around behind me in the walls. It’s very distracting. I hope it stops soon.
I work just off of Don Mills road south of Eglinton and there’s a side street that you’re not supposed to turn left onto during rush hour but you know the drill – everyone does anyway. It frustrates me as a pedestrian because trying to cross the street there can be a challenge and if you have cars turning it disrupts the flow of traffic. It’s even worse as a driver because these cars need to get through and so they’ll push their way through your lanes of traffic until they get to their destination. I’ve said on numerous occasions that what they need is a police officer there everyday enforcing the rules – the city would get a lot of revenue and it might teach people to obey the signs.
Today I got my wish. There were two police officers pulling in people quicker than they were turning. It was quite the sight. I chortled in the shuttle van even. I bet those people will think twice of turning left there again.
At my last job we had a joke that SSIA stood for Source Safe Is Atrocious. After the last two weeks here at work I have a replacement meaning. SQL Server Is Atrocious. I hate it. I can’t wait to move to something else.
Having your own co-ops is hard work – my mouth is dry from talking so much this afternoon!
Is it bad of me to have nefarious plans for my own co-ops? I have two and there’s only so much nefariousness that can be accomplished with two.
Weird spam
May 17, 2005 in Comment spam by matt | No comments
I’ve received strange spam before but I think this one takes the cake in terms of bizarreness factors and nicheness.
My guess is that they got my email address from the IEEE. Stupid harvesters!