You know too much for your own good....

I can't wait to get home and see my new sofas. They should be there already. Damn it. I want to be home. :)

I had breakfast with my little sister this morning, again. I really enjoy our mornings together, although everytime I have to leave, I find myself wishing I could spend the rest of the day with her. I just had to share that.

I can't believe people are so eager to get screwed with a crappy iPhone! It's nothing more than a poorly designed toy! My $0,02 CAD.

At work, taking phone calls but it's been pretty dead up to now.

I haven't blogged in a long long time. Not sure I really want to get back into it at the moment because I already don't have enough time to do all I want to do but I figured, what the heck, I don't have much to say but I just wanted to post something to show that I'm still alive.

Trying out Ping.fm
@m I'm trying out Ping.fm and up to now, I like it.

Mrrreow. I haven't been able to post these last couple of months, I was busy sleeping and playing with my toy mouse that daddy bought me a while back. Oh and scarfing out treats also. Recently, I've been spending alot more time sleeping on daddy. He's really comfy. He's better than a pillow. Purrrrrr. Purrrrr. I've been asking daddy to pet me alot too. Ever since daddy had me shaved. Daddy has to start brushing me more too, if he wants my fur to stay nice. Daddy's been pretty much busy with work and special projects as he likes to call them but I find that he also spends alot of time playing a weird game with me, he has this arrow thingy moving around a square box thingy and I try to catch it and bite it but that square thing is pretty hard so I just try to put my paws on it. While I chase that thing, daddy has weird images of monsters and stuff that appear in the back of the sqared thing. Daddy says that it's called Guild Meowars. Or something like that. It's really fun to play with daddy. I think I get lonely at times and that's why I sometimes cry for nothing. I wish daddy would get me a friend to play with when he's not home. That would be better.

I remember when I was in cegep. There were these, groups, like the Pro Ecologie groups or the Geeks, the jocks, etc. I was mostly part of my "MeMyselAndI Sorta kinda group", but I did identify more with the Geeks, being that I am a Linux Hacker. I used to think that the Pro Ecologie group was a total waste of energy. Bare with me here, at that time, I was about 18. There is one thing that I liked about them though, they seemed to have the most beautiful girls. The girls had this simplistic look about them yet, they had a cause, and they stood by it. I liked to stop and watch when they were talking and I especially stopped when they had free Fair Trade/Bio coffee to give out. It was the good ol'days.

Today, I think I'm even more of an EcoFreak than they were when I was in CEGEP. I support a Fair Trade/Bio association in my region, I'm a member of World Wildlife Fund. I'm actively promoting the benefits of having Fair Trade/Bio products in my environments. I will also start supporting, as soon as I have the money, Wolf Haven( I've been basicly hanging around their website for a verry long time ). Wolves are my favorite animals, along with my cat and dogs. I also like all the other animals but the list is too long to start naming them all.

Anyways, I was just thinking about that and thought I'd take 5 and write it down here.

I've been really busy these last couple of months and I think it's going to pay off now. I have successfully made my transition from Shipper to Web Programmer/Net Admin/Sys Admin/Programmer with my first evaluation done and a raise on the way. So now things should cool down a slight bit. I've made my point by learning ASP and VB.Net in about 3 days each, more or less. Although I've been spending some time to convert the VB.Net 2003 app to VB.Net 2005 and adding some agile techiques, which was a pretty good debug practice. Served me right for not doing things according to standards in the first place.

I've been spending most of my free time at home working on 3 things. First, my home server, which I've been keeping up to date. Second, I've been doing some PHP that will be used with my 2 websites. And third, I've been getting into Ruby On Rails and the more I use it, the more I like it. I received my copy of Agile Web Development With Rails and I've been reading through it and I'm now trying to apply the techniques to all my development projects.

As for my websites, My Familly's website is going to be really great. I downloaded a free design from OSWD(http://www.oswd.org) and it looks terrific. The design is pretty basic but I will be adding the PHP code to go with it in the verry near future. I'm expecting it to be pretty straight forward so I should be able to do some tomorow, during the day. As for my other website, my professional web site will also be updated at the same time but using a verry different design. It's from OSWD also but it looks more professional, yet is also verry simple. A combination that I like in a web site. Simple and clean.

Wow, I don't recall ever doing a post as long as this one. Guess I really had alot to say today. It's nice and not sunny but close enough to it today, so that probably helps alot.

Ok, so I'm still not dead, I just don't have enough time to do all that I want to do in a day. Hence, posting in my LJ has to be put aside, but I still visit. Once in a blue moon. That is, until I manage to complete one of my projects and have a bit more time for me. But enough about that for now.

On to the real reason of my post. On the 31st, I was at a party at a friends place. Now, the party was really cool and alot of people showed up. Hell, even my trainer from an old job showed up. All in all, fun was had and conversations were enjoyed. That is until about 1 or 2 in the morning when another of my friend turned a bit freaky on me. He started to talk to me about this book he had read. The book was supposedly the reason why he felt at ease with the world. What the book is mostly saying is that life is a big test. In other words, every situations you're in happens for a reason and if you don't succeed it (ie: learn what you have to learn from it, the first time), it repeats itself until you finally succeed. Now, I've known this for a long time. Having read alot about paganism and also being stuck in one of those loops at the present. And coming from that friend, it sounded kind of weird cause I had never imagined him as somebody that was into this sort of thing.

That's my post for now.

BTW, Happy Holidays to all, even if I'm late.

These last couple of months, I've been having alot more problems controlling my temper. Don't ask me why, I have no darn clue. I think, the more I try to control it, the more it tends to overwhelm me. How's that possible. I've also noticed that my mood seems to shift in the blink of an eye. At least, that's what happened tonight. Seeing that I had to vent, after snaping at my parents, I opted to go for a ride. A ride that took me to the cinema. I didn't really have anything special to go see, since I had promise my sister we'd go see Harry Potter together. So naturally, that's what I decided to watch.

Even after sleeping on it, I still can't seem to figure out what caused my temper to go haywire. I guess, I'll find out some other time as I don't really have time for that now. I have to get ready to go to work.

I think that when your work place assigns you a phone and allows you to take internal support calls, it officially means that I will not be a shipper anymore. At least, that's what I think. Some people might think differently. Only time can tell... :) But none the less, I'm still enjoying my IT position, so it's officially all good. :) Been up to a great deal in the last couple of months, hence my not so good posting average. But it's all for the best. So I guess, what I'm saying is that all is good and well at the present. Let's hope it lasts the night... (if you've seen LOTR, you'll get this one).

My ceramics painting is getting better and better. I'm actually making a name for myself in that field too. They say that to be the master, you must look to the master, learn from the master, become the master and eventually overcome the master. Well I'm at the become the master part. Or so I have been told recently by my teachers. I personally don't think so but who am I to argue with them?

Recently, I've been in a sort of slump. I feel tired all the time, I've lost alot of energy that I used to have. Guess I'll have to start working out again. It's a matter of getting yourself started. Once you are started, it's a matter of keeping yourself motivated but that's what I lack, motivation.

As for my personnal life, it's pretty standard, nothing really happening there. I mostly spend my time between seeing my friends as much as I can, tweaking my small home network, playing GuildWars, Painting, Listening to http://www.icebergradio.com/radio/progpower/ . That's about it.

I won't promise anything this time. If I update, so be it, if I don't, well, I don't.

I've basically been so busy that I've been having some problems keeping up with things. Not to mention that I had planned to be able to update a bit more but unfortunately, due to my now more than busy schedule, I can't seem to update as much as I want. I tend to fall asleep real quickly these days. On days, where sleep doesn't come, my big boy( my cat Tiger ), comes and sleeps on his daddy while he purrs in my ear, I fall asleep and then he goes sleep on my computer chair, his good old bed.

Anyhow, I've been trying to catch up on alot of things lately, the first of which is getting up to date on what's been happening with the people I have in my friends list. I'm really trying hard to make time to update more but I unfortunately don't have that much time on my hands. My job is keeping me really busy. I'm shifting between two posts now. 1) being a shipper and 2) being an IT guy. So that usually keeps me pretty busy. The days go by faster. :)

Anyhow, for all the lurkers out there, hello again. :) I hope I still have some people lurking in here. If so, drop me a comment, just say Hi. :)

Well, my little cousin/god child was born yesterday at 8h41am. She's really cute. Her birth got me thinking about alot of things. For instance, every path we choose in life has alot of consequences even the most boring paths have repercussions. Maybe it's just the old pagan in me. Yes, for those who didn't know, I am a pagan. I don't practice much but I follow some of their beliefs as some of them are logical.

Anyways, I've said all that I have for now. I'll post more later. :)

A long time ago, I think it's something along the lines of 15 years ago, I thought that me and a certain person were going to end up together in life. Everything was pointing in that direction. Everybody was saying that it would be that way. 15 years later, you look back at that situation and what came out of it and realise that life is weird. One wrong turn somewhere can break so many paths. It's weird how the way you navigate through the paths influence the way your life will end up. Sometimes, the paths are good, sometimes the paths are bad. Tonight I was watching My So Called Life(reruns of course) and it just got me thinking back to those times. That show had a way to get your brain into thinking mode. Odd, but that's one of the reason I used to watch that show.

I know, I haven't posted in a verry long time. What can I say, I've been pretty busy. I should be able to start posting again in a few weeks.

Ok, so half this post will be in english and half will be in french. Sorry for those it may offend but french is my main language. :) I was thinking, not so long ago about the last day of high school for me and my friends and I keep on being amazed at what we've become. None of us have followed the plans we had made. Most of us have reached goals, but not our ultimate goals. Many of us, have changed them. I for one, have changed my plans drastically. I went from wanting to be a capitalist freak, to a being an Open Source supporter and a fair trade supporter. What happened is quite simple. I started off changing my views on the world, that also brought me to changing OS on my computer. From their, I became a Linux hacker and started supporting different causes in the FLOSS world. Then my best friend introduce me to fair trade coffee/chocolate/etc. And I got a degree as a Network Administrator. I became a Linux specialist and work mostly out of it. Funny how it turned out.

And now, for the french part / Et maintenant, en grande première, un message en français. :)

Alors, pour ceux qui regarde mon journal et qui aime la musique, je vous conseille fortement l'album des Pourris De Talent. Pourquoi vous me demanderez. Eh bien, la réponse est simple, Pascale Picard ainsi que Erik Mongrain. Qui sont ces deux là? Pascale Picard est une jolie demoiselle originaire de Québec, et qui est dotté d'une voie des plus intéressante, m'enfin, c'est ce que moi j'en penses. Erik Mongrain, de son côté est résident de Montréal. Apparemment, il est possible de le voir parfois dehors en train de jouer au grand public Montrealais. Mais il y a des centaines de musicien partout dans les rues de Montreal, vous me direz?! Oui, c'est vrai mais, Il n'arrive pas souvent que l'on peut voir un guitariste qui joue du lap-slap. ie: lap-slap signifie que la guitare est jouer à plât sur les jambes et on se sert de sa guitare comme drum en même temps que l'on joue. :) Si vous vous promenez à Montréal et que vous entendez une musique qui ne vous dit rien, allez voir et écoutez, il y a de grande chance que ce soit Erik Mongrain. Sur l'album des Pourris De Talent, ils ont chacun deux chanson. Et le CD vaut bien sont prix grâce à ces quatres chansons. Sans compter un autre groupe de la relève nommé "UN", qui lui aussi compte au moins une chanson intéressante.

Well the title says it all. Last saturday, a friend of mine had a private launch for his new CD. The thing is, I hadn't seen him in about four years. We talked once in a blue moon on ICQ. Anyhow, suffice it to say that he invited me and I had a chance to talk with alot of people that I had wanted to get back in touch with. Especially Marie, Alex, John and Tanya. John is the one was doing the launch. After his show, I stayed a while to talk with him and some of the other guests and then I wanted to leave but I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Mary that saw me putting my coat on and she headed over to talk as we didn't have time all night. We chatted a while and it go me thinking that I really had to be there. These were the people that were missing in my life. ie: Those were the friends that I had to let go because of my ex-girlfriend. And now, things are on the way to recovery. Or at least, that's how it looks to me. :)

On another note, I have been thinking a lot more these last couple of weeks. Alot of new and exciting things are happening in my suroundings and it's all good. :)

I haven't posted in almost a month. Wow, and I had said that I would try to post more. Guess that's not working for me. The only thing new are my ceramic painting courses. Both I and my little sister are taking the courses. It's our little time alone with each other, every saturday for 12 weeks. They may last longuer and we might take an advanced course after this one. Oh and even if I don't post much, I still lurk around when I have a chance. So don't worry. I read only a couple of journals now and then and the owners of these journals know who they are. I don't see the need to divulge any more info.

It's official, I am going to be the Godfather for my ant's little baby girl. ;) Other than that, well, I'm pretty busy with having been named President of the GULSE last wednesday, and my normal job. ) I'll post more when I have more time. ;)

Seriously, I've never been a huge fan of religion. To be quite frank, I think all religions should be banished from the world. That would solve a good deal of problems. Not all of them but... Anyways, I don't have long because I've got another party today so, basicly, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! all the best. Let's all join in and hope that dillweed BUSH won't bring a war upon us in the new years. Ok, so other than that, my life is going well, I mostly work and sleep. Tiger is well and sleeping. He's been getting a bit of turkey and ham so he's mostly in a purring mood. I suspect he'll want to post soon.


Anyways, off to shower and away I go to my little sister's party. :)

I haven't been up to update my journal before now. I had a big post planed out. I was going to post about how I thought that the american elections were probably rigged up after hearing so many american people pissed off about Bush and his actions. But then, I had plenty of chances to get this out already so I won't bore you to death with that. Then, I had planned on doing a post about old thoughts that had been running in my head for a verry long time, about old friends, about my old dog, about life in general, about my phylosophie et al. But then, I just decided not to. Don't ask me why I'm updating I have no clue. There haven't been any significant changes in my life, at the moment. Except for the fact that I've found myself a job and am working 9h00 to 5h00 all week. Other than that, things are normal. I don't have time to complete this entry but I will finish it later. If I have a chance.