Brave New Face

Hi.  Sorry about that.

Okay.  So, I’m moving to a new apartment in a month.  That should be pretty sweet… gas stove, big kitchen and even closer to where I work.

We went to Oregon on the weekend and saw two concerts.  On Saturday there was Mates of State (meh), The Decemberists (holyfuckthey’resogoodyoushouldtotallyseethemnow!), and Death Cab for Cutie (too cold and wet to stay for the whole show).  Yeah, it was an ourdoor venue and the weather wasn’t really cooperating.  We got drenched and then frozen, but The Decemberists fucking ruled, so that’s okay.

Sunday was The Breeders (again, meh), The National (great) and Modest Mouse (Super Great).  We came prepared this time with brand new wool socks and giant fleece blankets.  Much more comfortable!

Monday was a very long drive home in an attempt to catch a late afternoon ferry.  I also had to play at the open stage that night, so it ended up being a very very long and tiring day.  Two guys from Cirque de Solei  showed up and played some sweet sax and drums with a few local powerhouse musicians.  It was a good time, but a little daunting to go up and play afterwards. There was about 25 of the Cirque people at the bar, all hanging out and drinking.  Man, there’s a lot of short, french-speaking, musclebound guys in that outfit.

Last night we decided to finally check out Iron Man.  Very solid movie.  I was impressed with the story and acting.  One of the better comic book movies.  During the previews, they showed a newer trailer for The Dark Knight.  Oh man, I love me some Batman!

Tonight will be a short two set stint, so I should actually be able to get to bed at a semi-reasonable time.  I think some of the french muscle men might show up to check out the show tonight.  I’m considering trying to score a couple of tickets for their show on Thursday night.  Hopefully I don’t have to do anything too humiliating to get them.

My elbows hurt from playing drums this week.

I really hope my mountain bike arrives soon, and I also hope my tax return shows up this week.

I went to the Canada revenue site and looked at the status of it.  They claimed it was processed and mailed on May 8th, 2008.  At that time, that would be two days into the future.  If the Canadian Revenue branch has access to fully functioning time machines, why does it take them so fucking long to do anything?

I got her a Digital Rebel for her birthday.

I believe she has a great gift of sight and perception and was being limited by the tools at her disposal.

Plus, it’s great to see her so happy, and I’ll soon have some new pictures to hang on my wall.

Someone decided that my work is going to “have” a font.  So, there will be this one font that everyone is supposed to use for everything hotel-related.

A fine thought in theory, but that same someone decided it wasn’t going to be something simple, like “Arial”, or “Tahoma”.  Oh no.  They had to go out and find a custom font that requires actual purchase and installation.

Now, I shall be spending my week installing this font on to every computer in the building, configuring all the various Microsoft products to use that font as the default, and rising/repeating for each of the 60+ users.

Fan-smegging-tastic.