Bounceback

Last Wednesday, the power went out. Not just a quick thing, or something, no. It didn’t come back until today. Sunday. That’s 5 days, if you don’t want to count them.

I’d like you to sit back and think for a moment on how much I use electronics, and how my life revolves around them. Hell, even when reading a book, I need light, and light = electricity!

I was very nearly unable to do anything at all over those days. Slept upstairs by the fireplace on the floor for some of them, and on a crappy old mattress for the others. Why? Freezing cold downstairs in my room.

So, to recap: Couldn’t eat, I was still recovering from oral surgery–as a quick note, I’m fully healed now. :D I can eat pizza! Yay! Pizza!–and now I had no power, so I couldn’t fill my time with anything else. To top it all off, when I could finally kind of eat on Friday, the plumbing in the house decided to stop working. Yeah. No power, I can finally eat, but now I can’t put the waste anywhere.

Anyway, on Saturday me and my mom went to visit my Uncle George–why did I capitalize Uncle? Is it an official title…?–and we stayed at his place for the day. Well, I went out and saw a few movies to pass the time, but mostly I just sat and relaxed while watching TV with my “Aunt” Kathy.

The movies I saw were “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.“, and “Stranger Than Fiction.” They were both pretty awesome, though personally I think Borat is over-rated.

I then went home, met my mom, George, and Kathy, and it turned out my dad had come to visit. We ordered pizza from a place in New Westminster–which I highly recommend–called Bob & Al’s. We went to bed, and in the morning I found out my dad had left at 3 AM to go gambling. Luckily he won some cash, so we were all set for the rest of the day.

Me, my mom, George, and Kathy all went to the International House of Pancakes and had breakfast. I had what I always get, and as usual, it was awesome. From there we headed back to George’s apartment, grabbed our stuff, and me and my mom headed out. Before catching the 5:20 PM Ferry, we stopped by the Brentwood Shopping Centre to pick up a book at Coles. After that we headed to the FutureShop at the Park Royal Shopping Centre in West Vancouver and got a USB Flash Drive and Final Fantasy XII. Then we headed to the ferry, caught it, ate dinner, and finally got home.

When we got home, we were eccstatic to see that the power was finally back on. And after a few hours of tinkering, I got my new Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic working in Mjolnir. Other than that, I haven’t done much of anything. But I’mm’a go to bed now. I’ve got my German class tomorrow morning, and I’m finally heading back to school after a week of missing it. =\

There’s only one thing I can say about my life right now:
Bounceback.

November 19, 2006 · Filed Under Announcements, Journal, Mjolnir, Projects, School

Comments

3 Responses to “Bounceback”

  1. Borat Sagdiyev on November 22nd, 2006 8:36 pm

    Not Brokeback?

  2. sp on November 24th, 2006 7:19 am

    Canada has power outages? weird.

  3. Testing on November 24th, 2006 8:33 am

    Captcha errors?

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