April 2006

Well the new Government of Canada page [via] certainly isn’t subtle with its emphasis on political affiliations. I guess our new motto actually is “The true north strong and free” and that the new government is “turning a new leaf”. Oh and there’s an emphasis on the fact that it really is a new government. That’s really great to see. The old website was far too staid. We need a Web 2.0 version of our government’s website and hopefully the CPC will be the ones who can get that done.

When the weather said sunny today boy did they ever mean it.  What a difference a day makes.  It’s still quite cool at the moment but it is supposed to warm up considerably which should make for a rather pleasant day.  It’s unfortunate that I still need to spend it inside at my desk but at least I have this fantastic window from which I can look outside when I want to take a break.

Today is the first anniversary of what proved to be a truly awful week here at work.  April has certainly been challening this year but nowhere near as challenging as the last week of April 2005.

This is a pretty neat American Express commercial done by Wes Anderson, director of many fine films [via].

You’d hardly think it was spring outside the way today is shaping up.  It’s going to be near-freezing tonight too so those people who have planted their new flowers might be in for a surprise tomorrow morning when the frost sets in.  Hopefully tomorrow brings some better weather.

I saw a bus today from this group.  I guess they feel that the fight isn’t over.  I should tell them that they don’t need to defend marriage on my behalf.

I realized this morning when I opened my backpack to get my breakfast that I had made a serious error in judgment.  We have some crumpets at home (boy how I love crumpets).  I put some marmalade on two of them and wrapped them in paper towels so that I could toast them once I got to work.  That was my mistake.  Crumpets are rather porous and marmalade isn’t exactly the most sticky substance (like say peanut butter).  It tends to slide around so when I opened my backpack the maramalade had oozed through the crumpets into the paper towels themselves and had potentially spread to other parts of my backpack.  It was fun to clean up and after that my fingers were quite sticky.  At least the crumpets were tasty once I finally had the chance to toast them and eat them.

Moral of the story?  Crumpets are there to be loved.

I find it amusing that someone in the office here deems it appropriate to steal things from my desk.  I know for a fact that a pack of gum was taken.  Who knows what else has gone missing.  Hopefully none of my CDs.  That would be just so very wrong.

April seems to be the month when I post the least.  April is also by far the worst month for my technology team.  Last year was particularly bad near the end of the month so I’m hoping that that doesn’t repeat itself this year.  At least the weather has been nice this week.  The cold weather was getting more depressing each day.  I even managed to get a cold on Monday but that could be more to do with the lack of sleep than anything else weather-related.  The plan is to get a bike this week so that I can go bike-riding with Marcy (she got a new bike a few weeks ago – it’s a cool retro one).  Our neighbourhood is very bike-friendly so I think it’s going to be fun.  Plus some exercise can’t hurt me either.  I’m looking forward to summer.

I can’t remember the last time I felt this tired.  I wake up in the morning and it’s like I didn’t sleep at all.  I know that I did sleep some because there are gaps of time during the night when I’m not awake.  There has been some stressful goings-on at work so that is playing heavily on my mind these days.  Today is one of the days when I wish that I could find my glasses because I know that I look tired.  I slept in until 10 minutes before my ride comes to pick me up so I had to have a rushed shower, hurriedly get dressed and then out the door before breakfast.  Having three days off this weekend will be nice because that gives me a little chance to pick up on some sleep.  I wish I could take 2 weeks of vacation right now.