spoiled chinese girl

Or drivers who are asleep at the wheel.

Drove me nuts today.  I’m turning left into a street, while another car was turning right coming from the opposite direction.  So we’re hitting the same street going in the same direction.  Which is fine. There’s 3 lanes on that street so I took the inside lane, they took the outside lane.

Then the jackoff decided it would be a good idea to start merging into the middle lane.  And there were no cars there, and that’s fine.  Let’s for a moment ignore the fact this driver has not bothered to signal, and it’s about 6:45 in the morning and pitch black outside save for our headlights and very minimal street-lighting.

Then while continuing in his drift, he’s drifting into the inside lane, the lane that I am in, trying to occupy the space I am currently occupying.  It’s not like I was in his blind spot.  I am convinced I was clearly visible the entire time either out of the corner of his eye, or in his rearview.  In fact, when he was very close to hitting me, I was just in FRONT of him and his front end would have smashed into the back end of my car.

Did I mention he still hasn’t bothered signaling?  And this was one smooth movement that he was drifting between three lanes?

So I lay in on my horn, pissed off that he came very close to hitting me while trying to now sneak in behind me.  And I noticed he jerked his (I’m saying he even though I’m not sure of the gender of the person) car back into the middle lane.  And I was turning left on the next street, and he kept going.

I’m convinced the jerkoff was sleeping at the wheel, since he had no need to be in the lane I was in, and was able to continue in the middle lane.  Gotdamnit.

(and Matt York, but I didn’t get to see him… which sucks)

Anyways, they all did a show at the Lost Lounge in Mississauga two weekends ago, and it was bloody well fantastic. The Lost Lounge used to be called Sound Lounge when it was just a big room filled with tables, couches and an open area that was called a stage. But when we walked in, it was massive.  They re-did the whole place which included a full stage that was a good 4 feet off the ground, lighting, sound equipment hanging from the ceilings… impressive.
Chisai started the set, and I know most of his songs easily enough to recognize them.  I taped the show too so I could listen to it later and give him a copy of it as well.  Took a bunch of pictures, most of them are a bit darker than I imagined since I’m trying to lessen the flash on my camera by covering it with tape.  IT works to an extent but there needs more photoshop involved now.  But I really liked everything I heard and it was a good night.

Tim Tibbitts I’d never heard before.  He was second that night, and was a part of “The Four Voices” tour that Chisai was also a part of.  (Matt York was another of the 4some as was Mandipal Jandu… who’s name I’m totally butchering the spelling of)

While my friend Brandon went to talk shop with Chisai, I stayed and listened to Tim.  He sings and writes very… I guess sort of predictable love songs. He admitted to writing most of the songs about his wife, and they’re cute, and gushy, and shows how much he loves the women in his life.  (There’s also a song he introduced as being written for his mother, and one written about his car… why cars are Female I’ll never know)

But I adored the set, the music, and Brandon somehow scored me a copy of the CD at the end of the night.  I’m planning on adding it to my growing pile of my little project I’ve got going.

I have pictures of Chisai, but for some reason I’ve been too busy to put them up.  They’ll go up one day, I promise.

Okay, I have Google adsense ads on my off-IAM blog, but really I put them there because I thought it made my blog look better. (Go figure eh?) Anyways, I just put them on my music blog as well, and needed new codes, and checked, and somehow I have like a total networth with Google of $26 something. Good lord. Another 4 years and I might see money out of them If they don't cancel my account first because they like doing that (right when you hit the 98 dollar mark is the magical number)

It’s just starting to bug me.  I mean sure we were told to not surf the internet while we were at work, and that everything on our computers were monitored.  Like our e-mail, and our “turbo notes” (it’s the company messaging system, it sucks hardcore) and this that and the other.  Our phone messages are tapped too if anyone’s wondering.

So I don’t know, I would go online if I wanted to surf the company website because I ran out of work (it happens quite often ) and sometimes I would go online if I needed to look up a city when I’m trying to price all the trucking companies that we have to deal with.  Because say Ajax… they get charged for Toronto’s rate because it’s close.  But someone who doesn’t know Ajax wouldn’t know that.  And since we ship things all across Canada there’s a lot of cities that I don’t know so I would have to look up.  And other than that, I can count TWO times I’ve used the internet and were on non-business sites.  One to print a copy of the pledge form for my Polar Bear Dip, and once to show my coworker the website of the old company I worked for.
And last week we got this e-mail.  The dude who like runs IT I guess, he’s installed some software to monitor our internet. And to monitor our internet, we need a login.  And to get a login we have to ask for one.  And all of our logins will only allow us to access the company website and nothing else.  And if we need something else unlocked we have to send him the website address, and why we need it unlocked.  He will then DECIDE whether or not it’s a business necessity and decide whether or not to unlock it.

I mean that’s pretty shitty.  It’s not like anyone is going to say “Hey can you unlock Hotmail?” or “Hey can you unlock this porn site?” for obvious reasons, so why must there be a decision to be made that includes a detailed description of why we need these sites?  “Hi I need the UPS site unlocked”  Is it not obvious that it’s because that person handles shipping, and therefore uses the UPS site??

Even better.  I replied to the e-mail the day I got it, saying I needed my login, and that I needed google maps unlocked because I use it to help people with their invoices and various accounts payable duties.  And I heard nothing back.

And in that time my boss asked me to check out the company site because someone messed something up and he’s hoping I can fix it (I’m not sure if I know how, but whatever) and since I have no login I can’t check it.

So a week after I sent my first e-mail, I sent a second one going “Hey, I still need my login, I don’t care if you don’t unlock the google site, but the owner of the company wants me to check something so I at least need access to THAT” and what a freaking surprise, I got my login within like… an hour.

I hate business that runs that way.  And I hate pulling or going over rank on people like that.  Reminds me of that promotions company that kept trying to avoid my e-mails until I would e-mail everyone I could in the company saying “Hey I haven’t heard from this person and she said she would get back to me.  Do you know where she is?”

ARRGH!

Well when I first came up with the idea for this post it was my urging need to figure out after my first week what I was supposed to do.  Classes individually cost 17 bucks.  No I was not going to do drop-in classes, especally since my introductory week was 20 dollars for an unlimited number of classes for the week.

Then a 5 class pass was $75.  10 classes was $140.  20 classes is $260 and 50 classes was $550.

I also had the option of 1 month unlimited for $150, 3 months for $380.  6 months for $700 and a year for $1200.

After talking to one of the owners of the moksha studio I’m going to, we talked about my goals and what I planned on accomplishing.  My goals were to attend AT LEAST 2 classes per week, average 3 classes, occassionally attend 4 classes a week, and attempt a 30 day challenge at some point.

(A 30 day challenge is… basically that.  30 days straight of hot yoga.  It’s more of a Bikrams yoga thing I think but I figured it would translate well.)

So this past Monday I signed up for the year.  I pay on a monthly basis, and it’s making me excited.

As soon as I finished with my membership, and class, the next night I went out to get a new yoga top since I can’t keep wearing my swimsuit top. (There’s a decorative bow/knot that’s on the front that always digs into my sternum when I lay on my front, not to mention there’s no support, and all the weight hangs off my neck making it uncomfortable)

I wore it on Wednesday, and it’s a great difference.  Next, to find yoga pants I can wear in a hot yoga studio.  I may have to hit up Lulu Lemon, even though my non-yoga friends doth protest.