Omg I locked my keys in the car again!!! Calling CAA

Ok, I’m stilll sore from volleyball, but I thought that I would try it this new social networking tool I found “ping.fm”

Over a year of looking

I know it has been a long time since my last post, so why not start with this bit of news.

But before I get to the news, I just wanted to say that this social internet thing is really starting to suck. I find I just can’t keep up with all the new social services out there. Don’t get me wrong, I think that a variety of web sites are good; however it would be nice to have one place to go to see all my friends online. I have Twitter, Facebook, MSN Live, LinkedIn, Blogs (4 of them … LJ, MSN Spaces, Google Blogger and WordPress). Right now I’m using FaceBook a lot, and sometime Twitter (but eventual I will drop it; it’s a fad). Blogging is becoming a chore, but I sometime get the itch say something (Like now) .  Anyways I’m going to try and Blog more, from now on, and see how that goes. Apple is coming out with their 3.0 update to the iPhone, and I have downloaded an App that will let me post to all my Blogs, so that should help.  Anyways… let me get to my news…

Last year, we started to thinking about moving back into the city, so we started to look at some houses, around the March time frame. Our neighbors were also looking to move, and even came over to our home to see if they wanted to buy it. Well they did find a home, sold their house sometime in May (for over asking).  We were still looking, and could not find anything. By the end of June the housing market started to drop, and there was just crap on the market. We were hoping to sell our house for $530k in the spring, but the housing market was slowly dropping by the end of Summer  we were thinking that we could get maybe $480k (if we were lucky). Then we found out that another neighbor was trying to sell their home, it was bigger, had better and more upgrades then ours, and back onto a park, and they could only get $460k . Things were bad. Then the economy; well we all know about the economy, I don’t have to go into that. However we were still looking for a home. We thought that all homes are going down so it did not matter that we could not get much for our home.

Well last week our agent found a home that was put on MLS that morning, we ran to see it a lunch time and put in an offer, that afternoon (we did not want anyone else to see the home, because the market was starting to pickup), they accepted. Now we had to sell our house, so we spent the weekend cleaning, and this Monday afternoon we put our home on MLS.  4pm that same day I got a call; someone wanted to view the home. So I had to rush home, and take our Dog over to my parents’ house (I did not think we would get a viewing request so fast). The Next day, I was getting calls all day for viewing, and we could not go home until after 10pm. The next day our agent said that he will stop all viewing after 8pm (by then we had two offers on the house). At the end of the day we had 8 offers, and buy 12am we had sold our home, above asking; more then what we thought we get last year. WOW, it all happened in less then a week (I think the Market is starting to pickup).

Trip to the dental Office

I missed my dental appointment yesterday, and had to run to the dentist this morning. I think I’m the only person I know that likes to go to the dentist. Dr Kotzer has been my dentist for ever (since I have gotten my first tooth).

Well I got into the dental office an hour early, so they took me at that time. however the lady that was cleaning my teeth, had to point out that she was missing her morning coffee; blah, blah, she was new…. heheh. they did not have to take me, I could have waited (I was having fun with my iPhone).

after she was done with me, Dr Kotzer comes in and double checks the cleaning. There is one thing about Dr Kotzer, that people will not like, he does not use gloves when he checking your mouth.  I know I know, but he is good, and I don’t want to try and find another Dentist. (Now when he is doing heavy cleaning, or anything else, he puts on some gloves).  And he did not charge me for missing yesterdays appointment.

This was a standard appointment, but got something extra this time. I got the standard tooth brush, but then Dr Kotzer asked me if I use lip bom. I said sometimes, so he gave me one.  I just wanted to know if that is the thing to give now?

Finding it hard to Focus

I’m really having a hard time focusing on my work, this week and last week. We just come back from a cruise, and I still have not gotten back into the swing of things. I have to catch up on my school work, house work, and just work.

In other news, my mother got a new camera, (just one of the gifts she got when she retied ), but she does not know how to use it. So she gave it to me to play with until she needs it. The funny thing is that I don’t know how to use it as well, but it is fun to try. So you will be see a butch of bad pictures from me. You can go to my Flickr account and see some of them. This one is of the evil rabbit that has been making a big mess in out backyard.

The picture is a bit dark, but I’m still learning.

Should I buy songs from iTunes

Now that I have a iPhone, and I’m using Last.fm to find new music, I find myself in a dilemma.

Should I  buy a song from iTunes; a song that I can only play on a iPod?

I just can’t do it

Moving Back to Toronto

For the last 3 months, we have been looking to move back into the city, but now that we are ready to do so, the bottom is falling out from under the US economy. Perfect timing on our part. For now, we are going to wait until next year, and hope that things get better.

Not much else is going on with us, things are good, and we are spending more time with the family, witch is always fun.

Don’t have too much to say today, hope to have more next time.

I Can’t take it any more!!

OMG, they are giving away free hamburgers at work today, and I can’t have any; this really sucks!! I’m trying to eat right, and I need to save my weekends for the bad food. I really need to find foods that are good for me that I really like, and do not take any time to make.

Oh ya, long time no blog. I was at a dinner party on the weekend, and someone mentioned that I have not blogged anything in months, so this is just a short blog to get me started, and back in the mode.

Ok I’m off to eat my crappy lunch, while others have their burgers

This is what I have to say about that. (Black-Focused Schools)

I don’t like to talk about controversial issues on this blog, however I have been asked a number of times, what is my opinion regarding Black-Focused Schools. When I tell them what I think, I do manage to make them see my point of view, and I find that they do agree with me.

For those of you not living in Toronto, here is the issue: Some areas of the city that have schools with high a population of black students are finding that there are high drop out rates, and the student are scoring lower academically. Some people feel that the school system is not looking at the needs of the black students, because they do not understand were they are coming from, and that a Black-Focused school may address this problem. This is just my opinion of the issue as I see it, and I know that there is a lot more to it then that.

Now what do I think? Yes there is a problem, and yes the school system is not doing what they need to do to fix it, and yes we do need Black-Focused schools. However I don’t think that a government run black-focused school will help the problem.
First off; I did not support giving government money to Faith-Based School, (that issue made me change my vote from the PC’s to the Liberals) so giving money to have a Black-Focused school is the same thing.
Second; the school system needs fixing, and doing this will just put a new problem inside a broken system, fix the entire system first.
What needs to be done is have Black-Focused schools, that are created from the community, run by the community, with community money, and these schools must be run out side of the public system (but also complement that system). Now I know this is something that would be harder to get off the ground. The black community in Canada does not have the level of funds that they do in the States, however unless we as black people start to look at the problem within and stop pointing the finger at others, we will not move forward as a community. Yes there are problem from the out side, but in Canada, those problems can be fix with education, and a strong family, and we are starting to waver on both fronts. 

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Windy Morning

I guess I will start up this blogging thing again. Long time no blog. Not a good first month for 2008. New Years Eve, was sick, and could not get out of bed for two weeks, then my first night of volleyball, I sprained my ankle, and it will take 4 to 6 weeks to heal; and just last weekend, first poker night of the year, I lost big time (my first lost in a long time). And to top it off, yesterday I locked my keys in the car. Here’s looking forward to February.

Woke up to a lot of nose out side, and did not know what it was, it was a strange sound. I was not too concerned, because the dog was not barking, so I did not care. Then Just before Dan left for work, he told me to look out the window; that gave me my answer to the noise in the early morning:

Green and Blue recycle bin’s all over the street, and no garbage in them (oh god, I bet all the neighbours garbage is at the side of our house. People don’t heed the News; they did say that it was going to be very windy today.) Oh god, let this month be done with.