I’ve been told I should “Spice it Up”, and I suppose I could. The thing is I don’t really know what I should be spicing up. If anyone has suggestions feel free to tell me. The past couple days have been enjoyable. Working during the day and relaxing after that. It is nice to come home at a regular time and not have to worry about anything. The evening of May 16th was rather interesting. A fire swept threw Village RV on the east side of Regina. It gutted the building and left nothing behind its path. Luckily, nobody was hurt and a lot of the RV’s in the parking lot shouldn’t be affected. It will be a big loss since they just finished that new area maybe a couple years ago. I decided to snap a picture off on my way to work in the morning while I drove by. I always like to take pictures of things while I am driving. My favourite picture has to be the car on its room on the ringroad during a really icy day. Another one would be a picture of 6 cars in the ditch on the trans-canada just outside of Regina. My picture from today is not very good. It’s hard to make out much but you can see the front of what was the main showroom. I guess that is what I get for taking pictures on a cellphone camera driving 100km/h on the highway.

I have been working for a week so far at Sask Learning. I have been enjoying it, working on webpages all day can prove to be interesting even though the work appears dull. It’s fun finding problems and stuff with webpages and fixing them, I like to see progress. I’m also proud of myself whenever I can successfully make a webpage smaller in size while maintaining the exact same look and feel. The only thing I’ve not really enjoyed is parking. One of the main reasons people don’t like to go downtown is because parking is terrible and its way overpriced. If the city was actually concerned with revitalizing downtown they would lower parking rates and increase the amount of parkade space available. So I ended up getting a parking place for $50 a month 3 blocks away. I guess its not that far, way better than the $110 right beside my building though. I don’t think my lazieness is worth $60 a month. Lastly, I believe I will be doing a double work term now. Yay, 8 months of no school! This means I will have a lot more money for University.

The Coop program is such a great way for students to get great work experience while making money to pay for their schooling. I would highly recommend that all students who are able to be in the program, to get in. I will be graduating University next year with absolutely no student loans or debts. I will also have 16 months of work experience that will look really good on my resume. Setting up oneself for the future should be a priority and nothing something to be procrastinated on.

Everyone knows that in May it is E3 time. Everybody who enjoys gaming news and all sorts of previews for upcoming games will get their fill for the next week. This year, I am paying close attention to the Xbox360 since I own it. I am also interested to see what Sony’s vision for the future will be. As well, how will everyone reacts the the underpowered Wii. All the talk of games may seem like a lot of fun but its still a business. I have always wanted to enter this business but I don’t think I have any of the necessary skills for me to join. Maybe I could be an analyst since I like to analyze over the decisions that companies make and the consumers reactions to them.

Nick sent me a link to this picture. His interpretation meant something negative towards Wii. My interpretation was that Sony is going to be getting into copyright issues soon since Fox owns the rights to Edward Sissorhands.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/health/04soda.html

I thought that this article in the New York Times shows about a real breakthrough in the battle against childhood obesity. It is becoming sick these days seeing how many children are overweight in our society. Then, the parents of these children aren’t doing anything to stop it. With this step being taken by the schools, I think that the widespread obesity will disapear.  I hope that Canada will follow suit and the world will become a better place.  When I was in China, I saw very few people who were overweight, and it was extremely rare that saw a person who was obese.  I’m sure times are changing over there and their obesity rate is bound to rise, but maybe we should be examining more closely the food that we are eating.

Today I finally got my $50 USD rebate in the mail from Western Digital. It was for a hard drive I bought from Futureshop on boxing day. It seems like a really long time to wait for a rebate, as during the last five months I could have invested that $50 in something worthwhile.

The problem with the whole thing started when I bought the hard drive online from their boxing day ad. I purchased it as soon as the ad came online which was midnight EST. The thing was, on the invoice or receipt it said 9PM PST. So when I sent the rebate in the first time Western Digital complained back to me that the hard drive wasn’t purchased in the time period that the rebate was available. So I told futureshop the problem and they told me just to complain some more to Western Digital. This wasn’t what I would call excellent customer service. So I ended up writing a letter explaining my situation and sending that in with my rebate again, probably 2 months ago. That brings about the conclusion of the rebate.

Today at McDonalds I was in shock. They no longer have McDeals. I had a hard time to believe this since I almost always go with the McDeal of the day. I was informed they now have a Value Picks menu. This reminds me very much of what Wendy’s (Super Value Menu), or BurgerKing would have. All items on this menu are $1.39 or $3.99 for the meal. They have 9 menu items to choose from. I went with the junior chicken, since today was suppose to be McChicken Wednesdays.

Other menu items included:
Bacon Cheese Burger
Double Cheese Burger
Junior McChicken
2 Apple Pies
Coffee and a Muffin