Rick Mercer, I love you
Dear Rick,
I love you. Let’s hug.
Stacey
http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/5/22-Days-of-Snow-Days
Dear Rick,
I love you. Let’s hug.
Stacey
http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/5/22-Days-of-Snow-Days
One of the things I have learned in the last 10 years is that anyone who posts comments on the Internet is a jerk.
I know that’s a strong comment, but I stand by it. Remove the constraints of accountability, and even the nicest people – the grandmas next door, the mother with the adorable kid, the straight A student – will spout off, insult people, and act like a complete ass.
Sometimes, I think the sound that goes with the old dial up modem shouldn’t be the screech of electronically transmitted data, but the bray of a donkey.
What prompts me to write these bitter, frustrated comments? My job. I love my job, to be honest, but every once in a while (daily), it makes me shake my head and wonder at people.
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Fan-fiction time. This is set on Shadow Council, an RP server in World of Warcraft. I run an RP-guild named Pox on the Horde side, and my character, Shryn’Dael, is suffering from post-partum, the loss of her husband, and a crying baby boy with magical powers.
God, I’m such a drama llama.
I haven’t been updating this blog as often as I should, and now I have not just an update-post to write, but an update-book. A lot has happened to me in the last almost-year since my car accident, so below the cut there’s a long, long post that shares my recent story.
I’m now working for Northern Life, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life.
I had my first ever car accident, totalling out my brand-new car. I hit a rock cut twice and just missed hitting a transport. Needless to say, it was one of the scarier experiences in my entire life, one I never, ever want to repeat. It’s also the last thing I really chronicle on my blog, so I suppose I don’t need to go into it.
Bell Mobility, along with partner-rival Telus, are entering the modern cellular age by upgrading its networks to HSPA.
For years, Bell and Telus have been parading their antiquated CDMA technology as state-of-the-art and robust and powerful, never to be replaced. The two companies praised how CDMA phones do not require SIM cards, therefore making them harder to steal and re-use.
Whatever. Within hours of switching on their HSPA network, Bell’s mobility website is offering the iPhone, trying to make up for years of being behind the curve.
HSPA is a higher speed upgrade to GSM technology, and has been long used by rivals Rogers and Fido. Rogers-Fido unveiled their HSPA networks in the Golden Horseshoe in 2007, and have continued to expand the network since then. Rogers also shut down its older, similar-to-CDMA TDMA network.
Rogers-Fido’s use of the HSPA network have allowed them to sell cutting-edge cell phones from companies such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, and of course, Apple’s iPhone.
Bell and Telus haven’t been able to offer the latest and best technological options because of their old and out-dated network. It has also proved to be a hindrance to Bell consumers who want to roam, as very few other countries use CDMA technology.
It’s yet to be seen if Bell’s rural coverage will continue to beat the stuffing out of Rogers, however. The one thing that has kept me a loyal Bell Mobility customer all these years is that I can get coverage in areas where Rogers doesn’t cover. Rogers praises how they cover the most people, and it’s true if you live in a big city. Bell has a lot of rural coverage, so while they might get less people, all those people can use their phones in places Rogers can’t.
And hopefully Bell will avoid the 3G problems Rogers had.
It has now officially been one year since my cousin Teresa was killed in a car accident. The accident was the fault of the other driver, who was also killed. My two cousins, Teresa’s sisters, were both hurt and one needed to stay in the hospital for weeks. I should spend today mourning, but instead, I spend it in a day of celebration – tinged with sadness. Teresa was beautiful, wonderful – I celebrate her life, I do not mourn it. And I am grateful to the lessons she has left us all to ponder.
Well, it is official. Vincent Li has been found Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) for the death of Tim McLean. For those of you who live under a rock, Tim McLean was a young man on his way home from his job at a carnival. He was taking a greyhound out towards Alberta, if I recall that point right, and was asleep with a pair of headphones on.
Vincent Li stabbed him to death and cut up his body.
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Last July, Vince Li randomly and brutally stabbed a sleeping Tim McLean to death on a Greyhound bus. After everyone fled the bus and trapped him inside, he methodically cut McLean apart and ate some of his bodyparts. Li was captured after he tried to get out of the bus by a window.
The man is obviously mentally disturbed. Apparently, he now claims not guilty by insanity. I can’t help but curl my lip in derision at the defence, but it’s been clear since the beginning that this man is not entirely there.
“God made me do it.”
I start off today with thirty minutes until my shift begins, reading the news. Three more Canadian soldiers have been killed in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan, by yet another damned IED. Of the 111 soldiers and three non-coms (two aid workers and a diplomat) killed since Canada joined the engagement in Afghanistan, over half have been killed by roadside bombs.
I have had friends serve overseas before. I have had them serve in Kuwait and in Somalia. Afghanistan. But none of them have ever had me so worried as I am right now for a friend in Iraq. Hell, I used to to date the one who’s over in Afghanistan, and I don’t worry about him as much as I do this other friend. I guess it’s just my ‘tour is almost over’ fear – the closer the tour is to ending, the more bad shit happens.
Maybe it’s just that I actually talk to my friend in Iraq more than I do/did the others; the simple fact he is off base for two days on a mission has my stomach knotted with worry. On the positive note, him warning me woke me up since the messages went through msn to my cell phone. I had forgotten to set my alarm.
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