This is a Test Post.

I recently down­loaded and installed the cur­rent Beta of Microsoft Office 2010. The upcom­ing offer­ing from Microsoft for all sorts of office needs. Apparently Word has blog integ­ra­tion, and that is where I’m typ­ing this post. I assume that when I click on the “Publish” but­ton, my post will auto­mat­ic­ally be sent to my Blog. That would be pretty neat. There may be secur­ity issues in doing this, but I don’t really have a huge read­er­ship and tonnes of enemies wait­ing to pounce on any insec­ure packet that may have my sens­it­ive inform­a­tion. Maybe one day when I’m insanely Internet fam­ous that will be an issue, but not now.

I’m also cur­rently study­ing for some Windows 7 Certifications, there’s a lot that I don’t know! That’s not really sur­pris­ing though since my job doesn’t really expose me to any Enterprise level IT. Just virus clean­ings and hard­ware installs; It’s rarely chal­len­ging, and only some­times is it par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing. I am work­ing on an internal doc­u­ment­a­tion pro­ject though, so that’s pretty cool!

Anyways, I’ll spew some more words later.


Creative Outlining.

I) Introduction
a) Meet paul at home
b) Meet Sally at home
c) Paul and Sally meet
d) Paul and Sally decide to have an adven­ture meet­ing friends along the way
e) Minor drama amongst the group ensues
f) The group over­comes dif­fi­culty to become a stronger unit.
II) Climax
a) Paul and sally get into trouble
b) Paul and sally with the help of their friends get out of trouble
c) The group finds their


Writing is hard.

Sometimes you can spend an entire morn­ing star­ing blankly at a page, unable for force out even the most bare of syl­lables. Try as you might, you can­not find the will to write. Sometimes you feel like quit­ting, other times you do quit. Mostly though, you sit and stare. The blank page is hate­ful, cruel,


Personal Space

It seems as though the people of Calgary have lost their sense of per­sonal space. At least, when it comes to pub­lic transit. There should be weight sensors in all of the trains that pre­vent the train from mov­ing if there is too much weight in any one car. Then they should set the max­imum


Over/​Under

Whelmed. I like that word but I find it strange that the com­mon Internet defin­i­tions of it often include “Overwhelmed” as a defin­i­tion. That is ques­tion­able to me. In fact, I am under­whelmed with any pos­it­ive emo­tions by that lazy defin­i­tion. See how that works?
If I am under­whelmed, then I have not yet reached a state


Sweater-​​vests

I don’t get it. Sweaters are sup­posed to keep you warm, while vests lack sleeves in order to be cooler (so I assume). Why the heck would I want a warm chest while my arms freeze. If any­thing, I’d say that my trunk can take care of itself; give me an inverse vest! That would


Happy birthday!

So I had my birth­day din­ner with Mom, Dad, and Lindsay last night. It was pretty awe­some! I am now the proud owner of a new iPod touch (thanks mom and dad!). That’s actully where i’m writ­ing this post from… Cool eh?
Actually it’s kind of a pain so I’m going to stop now ;)


Everybody jump aboard the failboat!

Well, that wouldn’t be a very good idea now would it. I’m great at mak­ing excuses, I could invent one right now. You know what for… But I won’t I’ll just pre­tend that noth­ing hap­pend and get on with this thing.
I’m mov­ing tomor­row. It’s the right time to do it for me. As much as


It’s aliiiiiive!

I’ll prob­ably write a bit more tomor­row. Today I received a gentle reminder that I like to do this. So this is what I’ll do.
Lindsay and I went for a walk today, it was nice. Now that my gout has sub­sided to neg­li­gible levels I can walk without any ser­i­ous pain. I’ve star­ted walk­ing to work.


Hungry?

I’m adding a couple of new entries to the food sec­tion of my Blogroll.Insanewiches, and This is Why You’re Fat.
The first is a blog fea­tur­ing inter­est­ing and amaz­ing sand­wiches. Everything from a Diet Débâcle Sandwich to andEast Meets Westdog. Truly an ingeni­ous web­site!
Then we have our other fas­cin­at­ing foodie foundry. The appar­ent premise behind “This