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.

I think I’m done with TV

Well not completely done with it, I will still watch the news and other types of informational programming; however, I will not go out of my way to watch entertainment type programming. From now on I will wait for people to tell me a show is good, and then I may watch the “DVD”.

Oh yes, and yesterday the neighbours came over, to look at the house; we are thinking of moving and so are they. I really don’t want to move at this time, but moving downtown may be better for us, financially.

First Tooth gone, Three more to go

Last week I had my first wisdom tooth removed, and it was not as bad as a thought. Well the removal was not too bad, however, a few hours later I was in real pain, and the pain lasted for the next 6 days. This was the first time in my life, were I let myself take some drugs so that I could get relief.

Even thou the removal of the tooth was not that bad, it took my dentist, around 20 minuets to remove it, (when it should have taken 5 minuets). He was scared that my tooth was going to brake, and that would have been bad. lucky for the both of us, it came out all in one piece. He told me that he waited keep my tooth and show it to his students, because my roots were pointed out to the side, and not strait up, and he was surprised that he got it out without braking it, (lucky for me). However, to me it just looks like a normal tooth, what do you think?

My next appointment is in February and I’m not looking forward to it.

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Just Stuff

The last few days have been long, but things are going well, however I did miss going to the gym (which is not good)
 

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
This past Friday, Rod, Hethos, and I went to see, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. It was not a bad movie; however I was a bit disappointed. I don’t want to give anything away, but I felt that the end was a big letdown. And there was less action in this one, then the second, I feel. As usual the effects were amazing, and the pace was good, however I was expecting a bigger action scene at the end. Oh well on to the next summer movie

  5.5/10 it’s just ok
 
Saturday, was a busy day. We first went over to my parent’s house at 9am just to say hi. Then we were off to see co-workers of Dan’s; she was nice. After that we ran home so that I can meet up with Jim; he was coming over (with his dog) to help me wire up the house (I really did not know what to do, and I did not want to make a mess of things).
Frodo was not happy that the other dog was in the house, and he did not behave well at all. Jim and I managed to get one of the room wired, however we still have to do my office. Later, we had a small BBQ; the stakes were really good.

Oh, and on Sunday, I finally got back to decorating my office. I put up some posters, which brought me back to my childhood.

Flooring is done

Yesterday, they finally completed changing the upstairs carpet, we now have new carpet and hardwood on the upstairs level, and I think that is looks good. Now we have a lot of cleaning to do, on top of the general spring cleaning that has to be done. We have to clean the back yard, replace some trees, clean the basement, and now clean all the sawdust that is in the house (god how I hate Spring, bring on summer). 

Now, my task for next month is to redesign my office, but I don’t know where to start.

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Games, Games, Games

This weekend was gaming weekend for me. A friend of mine let me their XBOX 360 (he just got a new PS3, and is loving playing with it), I also played a lot of PC games, and won at poker (well not really won, just got my money back before the end of the night, sorry Rod, heheh).

Well, I started to play Supreme Commander once again. Last time, I was vary disappointed with it, but thought that I would give it another try, before I delete the demo. After working with the graphic settings again, and getting them to a point were I can play the game (it’s still not grate, but a lot better), I’m now having some fun with the demo, and I think I will get the full version now, and try and finish the game.

I love the Def-Jam series of fighting games, and have completed them all, even though I suck at video game (my list of completed games is small). So I down loaded the Demo for the new, Def-Jam ICONS, and all I have to say, is that I hate this game, I mean I really hate this game. And it’s really too bad, but that is why I love playing demos, I don’t have to waste money on a game that sucks. Also on the XBOX side of things, I’m finding that there are not too many games that I like. The only games I found fun to play were Dead or Alive 4, and 99 Nights, both are Japanese game, I don’t know what that means. So I wanted to know if my old copy of Def-Jam fight for YN for the old xBox would work for 360; and guess what, it does not work. Hmm.. I think I’m starting to look at the PS3, as my next game system, we will see. (I’m playing GOD of WAR 1 on my PS2 right now, it is so much fun, and it works on the PS3, just saying)

Onto on line games; witch is not my cup of tea, however something somewhere got me thinking about EVE-Online again, so I downloaded the 14 day trial to try.  I did that three weeks ago, and I’m still playing, it’s not the best game, and it’s a slow game, but for some reason I want to keep getting a bigger and bigger ship, so I’m still playing. Some people online have tried to talk to me, but I’m not ready to play with others yet, and I just don’t think I have the time to play with other people. When I play by myself, I can stop playing any time, I don’t think I can do that, with other people, with out pissing some people off.

So the games I’m playing right now are (or going to play):

Supreme Commander

God of War I & II

EVE Online

I’m going to look at Command and Conquer next, people are saying that it is good

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Long Time No blog Entry

Long time no blog entry

I have been negligent in my Blogging duties, among other things. A lot has transpired since my last entry; we got the new carpet put in, and new hard wood; had the family over for Easter; lost the last game in volleyball; saw a few movies, and other things

Where do I start? Well this is going to be a short blog entry, and I’m only going to touch on a few things.

My Diet; well it is going well, today I found myself at 163.7lbs. I started to slow down losing but it is still coming off which is nice, and I’m soon going to have to get a new wardrobe.

Easter was fun, and it was nice having the whole family over. My younger brother brought over his xBox 360, and the whole family (even my mother) was playing it.

We just had our last game in volleyball, against the #1 team, and lost, they were just better than us. Oh well there is always next year.

The work we are doing on our house, in the upstairs is still not done, and now it is feeling like this is taking way to long, but we are getting a good price so we are not pushing it. It’s looking really good right now, and I can’t wait until it is done. When it is done, I will start to work on my office, and come up will a new look for it, even thou I don’t know what to do with it.

I will talk about the Movies I saw in my next few blog entries.

Ok that is it for now. I will talk to you, (really, myself) later.

Here I go again, another Blog

Well I’m trying out another blog, VOX, and I’m liking this one. Hethos told me that this site, was made by the people that created LiveJournal, and I’m finding this kick at the can much better.

That is all I have to say for today, nothing new is happening; gym work home, and TV. Blah.