Skip to content Skip to navigation

April 2001

Somebody turned over the Death card.

Mon, 2001/04/30 - 5:38pm

Everything is changing. Tomorrow at 8am I start the new job (well, it is a six month contract, but that's just picking nits), also tomorrow my divorce is final and that chapter of my life is over, and I got some rather disappointing news from Ivana. She has decided to move to Kelowna. Now I'm very glad I went out and celebrated last night, because now I am bummed, to put it mildly. I can't argue with any of her reasons for wanting to move, in fact I agree with all of them. *shrug* What can I do?


Still working

Sun, 2001/04/29 - 11:09am

I didn't get as far as I wanted yesterday and something is screwy with my accounting software. Grrr.

Here's today's comic. I love this one. It's eight years old but it is still bang-on.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/13992.html


Lots to do

Sat, 2001/04/28 - 2:22pm

This is going to be one busy weekend. I think I really could use this (today's comic). I spent yesterday afternoon lollygagging about downtown, it's going to be the last time I get to do that on a weekday afternoon for quite a while.


"Born with a horseshoe up my ass"

Fri, 2001/04/27 - 12:35am

There is only one way to put this with the correct emphasis:

Holy Fuck! Fucking good fucking day, for fuck's sake! I mean, shit, fucking-A!

OK, as of yesterday I'm fielding phone calls from the Canada student loan people for the payment I missed this month and wondering how to keep my ass out of jail because I there was no way I could pay my taxes. I was questioning if I was maybe barking up the wrong tree romantically and there was still the seemingly inescapable detail of still being married to a lesbian.


Damn! This is funny.

Wed, 2001/04/25 - 2:17pm

Well, I got off on one of my little information collection tangents, looking up some information on the area my father's family comes from. He told me long ago that the area, which is now part of the Ukraine was controlled by the Austro-Hungarian empire at the point his four grandparents emigrated. Looking up the overlap that places the village in the eastern part of Galicia. Why is that funny? Because this area was the western extent of the Goths at the point where the tribe/kingdom split in the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. That puts me on the Visigoth side.


Experiment

Tue, 2001/04/24 - 9:53pm

Comment on this. Don't ask why, just do it. Any old nonsense will do, just make a comment.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/12894.html


The irony!

Tue, 2001/04/24 - 3:05pm

I spelled "etymology" wrong in my interest list.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/12731.html


National Film Board

Tue, 2001/04/24 - 12:39pm

A friend of mine is applying for a job with the NFB and told me she has to go write an exam today as part of the application. It got me to thinking... what sort of questions would be on an NFB exam...?

Are you Canadian enough to work for the NFB?


Just as I suspected

Tue, 2001/04/24 - 11:42am

After taking the fashionable quiz du jour at MentalHealth.com my diagnosis came out as follows:

DISORDERS DIAGNOSED:

* Uncomplicated Bereavement

DISORDERS RULED OUT:

everything else


This is disturbing

Mon, 2001/04/23 - 6:02pm

It bothers me that something this short and apparently meaningless could render such apparently accurate results. (My comments in italics)

Your view on yourself

Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener; they'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.


Pages