Technologic
With style - no "is"
Bam!
You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business that's why they call it business socks
If you havent read Tinglez submission on this weekend, read it first here.
To be continued...
Saturday. Business time.
Since Friday was a relatively early evening, our affairs began somewhat earlier than the norm. The entire squad was ready to drop at a moments notice. The plan was to get downtown, acquire transportation, and spend some bills.
With winter setting in, and my teammates and I just being lazy, the decision that free bussing to downtown is a good option. I check the schedule. *Fuck!* Not that I have a fear of busses, but as it turns out, the ‘next bus’ is in about 2 or 3 minutes; usually not enough time. I inform Lmack & Tinglez that our ETA is 30 minutes, and begin to chill. Though intense interrogation, Lmack discovers that there is a bus within the next ‘now,’ and pushes on, like any true Spartan. We put the tactic to a vote, and it passes.
Code red! We have to move, and it needs to be done 10 minutes ago. We rush like a banshee out of the T & R, gathering the required equipment and suiting up in our MJOLNIR armor (that would be jackets and scarves for you non-Halo fans). We bust out of our Barracks and make a made dash to the nearest bus terminal. As we run up the hill, we see some civilians standing there. *Whew* Either all is well, or they suck for giving us all hope, and we all missed it. We move swiftly across the roadway and no more than 2 minutes pass and our transport appears over the horizon.
We board and rest, we drop in about 10 minutes, at the “high school down the street.” We walk down to
Things are looking good. The weekend has been cheerful thus far, looked at some nifty gadgets, and just barely made it to the bus. We walked down King & crossed
For those of you wondering; no there is no God, other people are just getting on and off.
As squad leader, I give the order to triple time it and take off running to catch the transport. I and my teammates make the dash with no troubles at all, and in fact had to wait to get on. As useless at running was, it did fortify our chances of getting a ride.
Four minutes later we get off the bus and are now downtown
-Devil Duck bath mat
-An extended rainbow or semi-permanent hair colouring, including purple
We headed back towards the car, while making a stop along the way at a comic book store. We browsed the shelves, and I left with a copy of “Halo Uprising,” and interesting mini story (1 out of 4) the fills in the gaps between Halo 2 & 3.
We make it to the car & head to the mall. But! Tinglez requires coffee, so we quickly pull into Tim Horton’s Drive through. I pay for her beverage and wait. No drink in my hand. I notice people in the back finishing other orders and still nothing for me. After what feels like 2 or 3 minutes of nothing, the super happy Timmy’s girl pops her head out the window and asks “What are you waiting for?” as though I enjoy burning gasoline, doing dickall in the drive though holding other people up.
“A coffee” I reply as nice as possible.
“Oh…” she replies with a look on her face that would make a deer caught in headlights look seem like Albert Einstein.
She the looks beside the window, sees a coffee & hands it to me. Frustrated, I take it & drive off as we discuss the air headedness of this woman. According to Lmack, I should have told her I was waiting for my order in an angry, almost outraged tone. Tinglez called her a “pirate skank.’ It was all good commentary.
Once at the mall, shopping begins. We go into Winners looking for shoes for myself, and maybe Tinglez. Everything in my size sucks hair balls, so I say fuck it. Were about to leave when we happen to notice a pair of size 9 (Lmacks foot size) Heelies, marked down to under $40. We investigate further to find they have no wheels.
Lmack really wants these cheap, awesome shoes. Some quick improvising from Tinglez, and wheels magically appear from another pair of shoes. After the purchase is lunch. Chinese for Tinglez, two mozza burgers for Lmack and myself. I get a side of O rings and couldn’t be happier or fuller.
We cruise the mall more, looking for protective footwear for Tinglez, and (after a lot of browsing and poor Wolfgang treating is wound from lunch) find a nice pair in the Boathouse. Also note that shoelaces are on sale, 3 for $15. It takes my squad mates 20 minutes, but they convince me to also get laces, even though I didn’t get new shoes.
After the mall, we return our drop ship at my sisters residence and bus it back to Tinglez place to pick up a blanket for Lmack, so he doesn’t have to sleep in my housecoat. We’re about to walk to the next bus when Tinglez roommate wants to procrastinate & gives us a ride back to HQ. Score, it seems as though luck is our friend today.
Once back, the shoelace party begins. Interested lace patterns & laces are tried out until we are all satisfied with our footwear. Some video games are played (I think) before breaking out the booze.
The drinking starts and I prepared a surprise for my guests. Three gummy worms soaking in vodka, peach schnapps, and tequila awaited us in my firdge. After a drink, Tinglez is the first to try a worm (not by choice, mind you). She puts it in her mouth, and everything seems ok so far. The taste of the tequila sets in and she gags. She stays string and tries 2 more times, but gives up before throwing up. Next up is Lmack. He takes it like a man, although has difficulty chewing it. My turn. It went fine for me as well, although I couldn’t sink my teeth into it to save my life. I finally show the worm who’s boss & begin to put him away, however by now the tequila has warmed up & becomes bitter in my mouth. Next up is the juices the worms were soaking in. Tinglez opted out but after the worm we didn’t blame her. The juice went down like a 2 cent whore. Just tasted like gummy vodka, what more could we want?
In-between vanilla vodka shots, were some disturbing videos, seen below. WARNING: If you have a weak stomach, or a strong one for that matter, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Next on the menu was a berry flavoured liquor I got from my aunt from
We cab it downtown & find our objective. Lmack impression of his female friends isn’t a highly rated one, and Tinglez knows one of them as the Fishnet Girls from her class. We part ways as the girls can’t drink because of work tomorrow, and walk to Phil’s.
Tinglez nor Lmack have been before. This is my home away form the bottle in the Loo. I proudly escort my team down the stairs past cover, coat check & to the bar. The place isn’t too busy just yet. I am shock to discover that drink have gone up in price from $1.75 to $2.25, but one thing remains: Drunk happens.
We get some drinks and end up meeting Binks female friends there anyway. Soon after we grab a couch as the place begins to fill, and actually get waited on. The booze is flowing, people are mingling, and all is merry. That is until, Wolfgang decides to spice up the night with something very different, and it put a devastating twist onto the mission…
To be continued...
Wolfgang 3: Finish the Post
Now, to pick things up where my blog left off…
X-mas was good, btw.
January
Things with Teo seem to be getting better (I think I mentioned that just before x-mas we weren’t doing too well). Oh how wrong I was. Things were getting better until the end of the month when she came to visit me in
That’s about all I can remember from January. School was just okay, but most of my life revolved around either feeling like shit about my relationship or…. No, that’s about it.
February
First, a little background for everyone who forgot (aka everyone). Teo & I have almost been together for 2 years. I absolutely love her & would do anything for her. Even though things are shitty right now, I can easily see us spending the rest of our lives together.
5th: Teo and I get in a big fight, and she leaves me. Doesn’t really hit me too hard yet.
6th & 7th: I begin to get really upset over
8th: I find out Teo is now seen some new dude. I think I can sufficiently say I am not impressed.
The coming 6 weeks are possible the worst 6 weeks of my entire life. While making countless pathetic attempts, begging her to take me back, I become very depressed, spending most nights sobbing myself to sleep. I bomb my C&O (introduction to combonatorics) math class midterm with an awesome 26%, and begin to feel like my world is coming to an end.
(spoiler alert, I pass the C&O with a 52%. Huge improvement, & enough to never have to see any of it again)
18th: What would have been our 2 years. This day sucked.
March
By the end of the 6 weeks, Im slowly starting to feel better.
8th:I finally convince myself I need to go talk to someone about how I am feeling, seek help. My appointment was made about a week in advance, so this was a while coming. Being the very withdrawn individual that I am/was, I had a hard time with this. But I forge my way through it.
I leave his office, feeling a lot better (not completely, but what felt like light years ahead of where I was). I get home & begin doing some homework for once. I take a break & hop on the ol’ facebook. I decide I’m going to try & find Maranatha’s old roommate the Hurley double. “It would be nice to have some more people on
Incase you are wondering a, wtf does this have to do with anything, & b, why do I care, I’ll tell you. First of all, there is a lot of fucking girls with that name at this school. As I am trying to find her, I see a picture of a girl that looks familiar for some reason. I click it. Profile says her hometown is
Latter in the evening, the mystery girl messages me back & we get to talking. Apparently she has been at major events in my life (major is a relative term here, ie. SOAD concert in
After some more talking, we decide to hang out, as I feel like shit & think meeting someone new is a hell of a lot better than writing a baby compiler. Things go swimmingly well & we talk into the wee hours of the morning. It is around 7-9 am that I decide that we both go independently pass out.
Within 2 weeks, this girl, Tinglez, and I are dating. I am a little hard to get along with at first, as I had just managed to crawl out of hell in one piece, but needless to say, here we are today (going on 8 months together, for our mathematically challenged friends…. Or lazy asses).
April/May
Finally, the term concludes and life is somewhat normal again. I begin my new job as a programmer analyst at Schaeffler
Other exciting events include me joining the FAG dragon boat team “Bearing Arms” (an extremely well constructed name). It was actually my cousin that made me interested in this sport the previous year, but it was Tinglez and her family who live for the sole purpose of paddling, that actually got me into it. Now, paddling with Tinglez, her dad the ‘Coach’, & her mom
July & Random Bits from Summer
Finally, my job has meaning! I get to work on something relevant now, am put in charge on another co-op, & begin cracking skulls on my new project. This occupies me for the remainder of my work term, which has no major complaints.
Something that totally shocked me was some news from Teo. Apparently now engaged to her new boy. That’s all I have to say about that….
The rest of the summer is filled with beach outings, quality time with Tinglez, Halo parties, a plethora of tasty wings from the Boar’s Head, and a few drunk times. The dragon boating thing serves me well, as a few medals are won as dragon filled adrenalin paddles its way through my veins. Tinglez & I get to see the White Stripes in
August
I buy some toys! I decide (after much contemplation) to indulge myself in some high tech goodies. First on the list, 24” Dell LCD for my computer. Yes, it is as nice as it sounds. Next up is an Xbox 360. This console is intended for one purpose, which turns out to be awesome. The last toy I buy is an IBM Thinkpad notebook to use in classes. I end up with an awesome deal through work and almost die waiting the 6 weeks for it.
As the end of summer came about, Maranatha expected to be leaving out west, I decide a party of mass consumption is in order. The party goes well, minus the spreading viral infection resulting in below normal foot temperatures causing Maranatha to not move (no complaints, however). The end of summer also marks the end of my work term, and my review turns out awesome, and I am going back (with a catch).
September
After a full hearted goodbye from my comrade, moving back to school kinda sucked. Everything goes well until I get to my new place (a university townhouse). Its dirty, awkward, and broken. Things get better as I get settled, but it was a shitty first time experience. This term I get to be an RCC (residence computer consultant) and help people connect god damn vista to the improved, yet still shitty for new reasons, resnet. I wouldn’t normally do something that bugges me so much, but I get paid & receive free food & gadets, so I feel for it… Oh what a fool I was.
Only 3 weeks into classes, its time for Tinglez & I to be together for 6 months. On this day, we join Maranatha, Marsh & Play Gurl to
The new album kicks total ass and their spins of oldies rock even harder than before. Although it was a short show, it was awesome.
Around this point, you must be thinking “boy, you must really be enjoying your Thinkpad, Wolfgang.” You’re wrong. On the 6th week, I call to see when I can be expecting this dream machine. My stomach sinks & face runs pale as the next words as said to me; “Lenovo doesn’t carry the parts of the model you ordered, so they cannout build your laptop.”
Fudge Knuckles.
6 god dam weeks to tell me THAT?! I’m furious & tell Mr. salesman what I think of that. (keep in mind I already received & paid for the 2nd battery I bought). The next 2 weeks are spent trying to get some sort of deal out of Lenovo, but to no avail. I return the battery at no cost to me, & begin looking for a new notebook.
I waste countless hours searching for the perfect match for me. Yet, misfortune finds me again. I thought I got paid every 2 weeks during the summer. As it turns out, it was twice a month. That miscalculation is about 3 paychecks a year, or one per summer; also known as the amount I was spending on a notebook. Flash forward to today where I am waiting until next work term to buy one.
Some good does cheer me up though. Remember that Xbox 360? Well its purpose has arrived.
Halo 3.
School work interrupts Maranatha coming down early to play with me, but things even out early October and, well, go read his summary of it.
October
I totally bomb my CS245 midterm & drop the class.
27th Tinglez throws me a kickass surprise party, with awesome Halo 21 cake, big pizza, various drinks resulting in pleasant intoxication, and vague memories of pita pit. The Sunday following I stupidly drink OJ, throw up, & then go to my family shindig back home.
31st I turn 21.
That my friends bring us to current day November, where not much exciting is happening. I swear, I’m going to try to stay on this blogging thing better then I recently have. This post is bigger than my last work report (1897 words)!
I hope this was enjoyable to read or at least, informative. More exciting things to come, stay tuned.
Wolfgang, over & out.
PS. I had a really cleaver title, but it was lost in time.
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