WE ALL LOVE CATS!

Ok maybe one more post for the weekend.

Here are some pictures of my cats!

This is Annie. I got her as a kitten in 2000 when she was 6 weeks old.

This is Annie the day before I had to put her down in March of 2008. She had liver problems, there was nothing we could do. You can see the weight loss in her, she was just withering away. It killed me, and I still miss her.

 This is Marty. I posted a picture of him in an earlier post as a baby, here he is as a baby. I got him as a kitten in September of 2005. Such a character.

This is Annie and Marty next to their Vancouver 2010 mascot counterparts!

This is Lulu. We got her and her brother in May of 09 from a friend I was staying with while I was at school. They are 2 of a litter of 3, and we had her picked. When I left the people I was staying with, no one had claimed her brother, so I had to take him home too. Couldn't leave that little guy there.

There he is. We named him Basil. Basil was the name I had chosen for Annie when I thought she was male!

Here is Lulu now, she's a strange girl. Likes to make out with people. Kinda acts like a stoner.

This is Basil now. He's huge. He has giant paws and loves his scratching post as you can see.

Saturday Evening Post

What's in the news today? Nothing of note. No job postings really going up on the weekend so I'm taking it upon myself to relax. Cleaned the place today, went a got a few groceries (what I could afford to get, staple stuff really) and am chilling watching the BC Lions game with some Keystone (thank god for this stuff, nice n cheap).

Last nights hockey game was good, had 2 goals, but way too many chances to call the night a success. Had a few pops, chilled with the guys after and bs'd about life, past NHL drafts and players, and hit the road. Love my Fridays...

Hope your weekend is going great, constant readers... See you on Monday.

Shoutouts, And A Fitting Tune

GARTH BROOKS - FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES



The last post of the day is a shoutout, and a fitting song to go with it.

To my good friend kmad, this is totally for you, too fitting a song for us huh? And no, nothing else you will bombard me with will work better.
To all my followers, all 60 or so of you, thank you, this is a hell of a lot of fun.
To my hockey buddies, I'll see you tonight, keep your head up.
To my cats, woozhy woozhy woozhy wuzzle.
To the Canucks, just fucking win the Cup this year ok?
To the people of TP.... hello.
Last but not least, to my woman :D You're keeping me at least partially sane through all of this.

Slowest Day Yet

Today has easily been the slowest this week in terms of job ads. Jobbank has only a couple of new ones up today and they're not even related to my field. Craigslist has a couple that were close, but not exactly my thing unfortunately. I also have still yet to receive a call back on the interview I had last week Thursday, which I understood was supposed to come this week regardless of whether I'd gotten the position or not. Not sure what to think on that one.

Well fuck it, it's Friday, I got my game tonight, and the rest of the weekend to relax. Get myself back into the job hunting mindset on Monday. Here's to the weekend folks, hope yours is a good one.

Piccies Piccies Piccies

For happy times, I thought I'd share with my followers some pictures I've taken over the years. I'm by no means a photographer, but I enjoy doing it. Here are a few that turned out nicely.

 This is a picture I took at a ranch about 30 minutes past 100 Mile House in BC. We were up there for a wedding, and I just liked the way the clouds looked especially.

This was taken just off the main highway outside of 100 Mile House. Some beautiful scenery up there for sure.

These 3 were taken from a whale watching boat off the coast of BC in 2008. We were out watching Killer Whales.

And here are 3 pictures of the orcas themselves.

Survived Another Week

Welcome to Friday everyone. We made it. Barely. Fridays are always a kickass day for me, even while unemployed. It's the one time a week I get to play hockey, with a great group of guys I've been playing pick-up with for around 7 years now. Beers, hockey, and bsing. Can't get much better than that. Look forward to it every week. Especially nice during the summer when (or if) you're working outside, and it's hot as all hell, then later on you get to go hang at the ice rink. And have beer. Nice! Today will be a good day.

 As for the job front, what is there to say? I am still holding out hope that the interview I had last Thursday will come through for me. She said she'd call back next week (whether I'd gotten the position or not), and this is next week. The END of next week in fact. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, having to wait this long. We'll see I suppose.

It was interesting to browse craigslist jobs this morning. It seems a company posted an ad for Commercial Transport Mechanics, and clearly stated at the end of their ad "NO APPRENTICES NEED APPLY." There was a bit of backlash from people, who posted about how silly it is to deny themselves the opportunity to employ one. Nice to see, since that is the exact position I'm in.

Damn They Got Me On Video

Police hunt supermarket bottom sniffer

Police are hunting a man who carried out what they describe as 'bizarre' sexual assaults after he repeatedly knelt behind a shelf stacker to smell his behind.

The man was caught on CCTV creeping up on the unsuspecting worker at least 20 times as he stacked shelves at a Co-op store in Plymouth, Devon. The footage shows him casually pretending to chose items from shelves before suddenly crouching down behind the employee.

The man's odd behaviour to the employee was spotted on at least two occasions. The offences only came to light when the employee became suspicious and informed his manager who checked the in-store security video.

The victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said: "I had no idea what was going on. I thought it was all a bit strange. I was shocked and I couldn't believe he was in the aisle for that long."
Police say they are treating it as sexual assault.
DC Steve White of Plymouth police, said: "We are treating this incident very seriously and we would appeal to the public's help in tracking down this man.
"It is a bizarre incident and the shop was full of people. Someone must have seen the man and could well help us identify him."
The man is white, clean shaven and of medium to large build.
During the first incident he was wearing a brown T-shirt with jeans and black shoes and glasses and in the second a blue shirt with jeans.