A few days have passed and no crazy game show schemes or restaurant ideas have come to mind so I guess that leaves you all wondering what have I done with my time? Today is Wednesday for most of you, but for me it’s New-Sunday and what’s Thursday tomorrow is my New-Monday. I spent my weekend watching Lost (I’m up to episode three on season two’such a great show), shoveling snow and getting the Jetta tinted up.

During the first of two drives back from Edmonton today I realized that I enjoy winter driving. It’s chaotic, life threatening, and probably the worst conditions you can face as a driver but I find a sick pleasure in it. When you aim your car down a path cleared for each tire, you have no idea if you’re on or over any line or close to the edge of the road’I find some humor in that. It is probably the diesel fumes or the racer inside of me dormant for the winter months that enjoys the risks but I like it. Of course when you find out that Whitemud Drive is a parking lot because of another mess on Quesnell Bridge and you don’t have to go to work today I don’t mind staying at home either.

I have eighteen days until Christmas and I haven’t done any shopping yet. While I enjoy winter driving, I dislike the holiday crowds. Good thing New-Saturday is a Tuesday so it should be a little quieter when I attempt to tackle the malls.

P.S. : For those keeping track, I watched the entire first season of Lost in less than a week; I started on November 30th and finished December 6th.

On my way home from work yesterday I saw something magical happen. You ever have those moments when you’re driving and some other driver does something so ignorant or plain stupid that you wish a police officer was there to catch them? Well yesterday my wish was answered.

I was about five minutes outside of Millet doing a healthy 105km/h when this truck pulls out from behind the row of cars and does a power pass on four vehicles. He was going pretty quick when he passed me (I was the second car in of the four he passed) and carried on his way passing the two others infront of me.

He reached the front of the line when he realized that he was passing an RCMP cruiser doing over 120km/h and on a solid line to boot. He stuck the pass and not a minute later the lights came on and he was pulled over. Pure joy I tell you.

In further adventures of Jetta and I, our luck of missing accidents seems to be going full strength. The roads were a mess, vehicles fish tailing this way and that but ‘ol gray and I were strong. I was going west bound on Whitemud but the east bound traffic had problems everywhere. There was an accident about a kilometer past Quesnell Bridge and there was another one before the bridge. You think you made it around one mess and there is another one waiting to greet you a minute later. Jetta and I had no problems on our path.

Although, I guess by having such great fortunes in the Jetta I was bound to payback sometime. I received my first rock chip in the window shortly after seeing the second accident on Whitemud Drive. Perhaps it was karma, or maybe stupid luck but the smallest of dots in my window is all I see now when I am driving.

There are three words floating around in my head right now’chocolate, banana and caffeine. Reaching a road block in programming right now and I’m not really all there. So I share this thought with you.

I filled up the Jetta this morning with diesel. I expected someone to come rushing out yelling that I was insane or my car is supposed to take gas, not diesel. Fortunately the Jetta does accept diesel and no one stopped me. I didn’t fill it right up, but got over the “F” mark on the gauge. Well, I guess in the Jetta it’s a 1/1 mark, but you know what I mean.

The diesel prices were still high, it was 96.8 or something at the Petro Canada in Millet. I didn’t take a picture of the Jetta getting it’s first fill-up, but I will take a picture of the receipt or something equally tacky.

On the way into work this morning I listened to Silverchair’s Neon Ballroom and what a trip through memory lane. Everyone loved Anthem for the Year 2000 but there were so many solid tracks on that record. I actually forgot how good the CD was. I think I’ll do that for the next few weeks. I will select a CD that I would usually skip and experience it all over again.

“chocolate, banana, caffeine”

I had plans, like so many plans. It was going to be productive today and take care of business. Play guitar, reformat computers, read a book and watch Spinal Tap. It would have been a grand day off, except, something happened.

Last night Jenna and I had a movie date along with Kelly and Gord, hosted in his basement. The movie was a favorite of the three, but it was in my honor that we watched Moulin Rouge (which was quite entertaining) but shortly after the movie the discussion turned to Lost. I haven’t seen a single episode of this but everyone who has seen it, loves it. So Gord hooked me up with the first twelve episodes. Just for me to get a taste. Just a small taste to get a feel for it. Perhaps watch the first twelve slowly. Take your time Sean, pace yourself and enjoy the ride.

I thought What could it hurt? if I started on the first few episodes without Jenna. Twelve hours later and I have watched eleven episodes. That is nearly eight hours of Lost time and I’m thirsty for more. I did watch Spinal Tap, only because I wanted to check one thing off my list for the day. Gord even joined me on IM for episode four, Walkabout, to chat and get my reactions to things. He came online again later, and I was still at it.

I have one episode left on the disc and then I’m out of my stash. Just like a good dealer, Gord will have me coming back for more as I need to know what happens next. It’s like a drug. Yes, this is my TV IV and it’s running wide open to help my fix.

Update: It’s Thursday morning’and I just finished the last episode on the DVD”

CurlTV is taking over the airwaves. CurlTV is the brain child of my work, Statusfirm (the new Statusfirm site should be up within a week or so) and have spent most of my time working on CurlTV related tasks. With former CTV news guru Peter Akman (or as he is affectionately known: Pakman) taking controls of the program tune in to Sportsnet and see what this on demand Internet sports channel is all about.

Did I do anything for this TV show or the website? Short answer: No. Long and technical answer: Yes, but nothing you would be able to see anyway. You only know that my role exists when there is a problem. Say you’re unable to view a video, in a few weeks time that will be my sole responsibility. When the live scores are updated for the CurlTV.com broadcasted game, I created the update pages’so, I guess back to the short answer: No. But I am still going to promote all of this craziness. Check it out and tell your friends you saw me on the teevee’or probably not, but maybe

As you may have noticed the amount of posting on here has dropped a fair bit in the last few days. Let’s recap that then. On Tuesday I was unable to be intoxicated before the sunset, because the sun decided to make a run for the horizon earlier than expected, I mean it was dark at 5:30PM! So I was a few hours behind schedule but I like to think I was close enough. To make up for it I was awake before sunrise on Wednesday morning to drive Gord into work.

Poor guy, he has to work after a night of drinking and running on little sleep. It was worth it as it was a great time with Gord, we drank, ate pizza and played Star Wars: BF2 on XBOX Live for a few hours and it was such an awesome game. I pretty much enjoy any Star Wars game and once I got the controls figured out on this one I was able to fend for myself. Being able to whoop ass with Vader, Emperor and Obi-Wan made it so much better. Gord enjoyed his time as Emperor when he unleashed his own version of Hell with his Force Lightning. Hey, did this post get really geeky all of a sudden? I think so, let’s change gears then.

The Jetta also arrived in town as well. I picked it up on Wednesday and each time I get behind the wheel I love it a little bit more as I find a few more neat things about it. What good is my description if you can’t see the car? Well have a gander below and click on them for the larger images. I have enjoyed the thrill of having my seat heated while I drive to work. Now that is luxury!

In an effort to maintain Internet harmony, I am hanging with Gord tonight. We will sit around a table in a dark smoke-filled room and discuss world politics, the economy and the price of tea in Guatemala. By sitting down together we will ensure that the Internet will survive a few more days thanks to our efforts.

In reality we’re going to eat poorly and drink. It will start off with my first trip to Garage Burger Bar, and then we will take our mighty team of two to Sherwood Park and try to be intoxicated before the sun dips below the horizon. Little Caesers and their $5 hot “n readies will fuel our hunger and we will kick it old school with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle emulator on Gord’s pimped out XBOX. It’s a Tuesday, and for no better reason than it being a Tuesday we’re going to paint the town blue or maybe even yellow.

We also need some time to prepare for Boys Night “05, because it’s been eleven months since the last time we have done this we may be a little rusty so this is kind of like our Olympic Trials for next month’s big event.