I had Bell TV Satellite for a little over 2 years and when I really wanted to watch satellite such as in the winter months when it was snowing or raining really hard the satellite would be down. If snow accumulates on the Bell receiver then you loose the satellite signal. I called them tons of times to complain about this and they just said to go clean the receiver. Well my receiver was up about 40 feet in the air. Who in their right mind is going to pull out a ladder in the middle of a snow storm to clean their satellite receiver? Just a wee bit dangerous isn’t it, jackasses. Also when it rains hard it sometimes it has the same problem, no satellite signal. And it tends to rain here in Vancouver, especially in the winter, DOH.

Anyways enough was enough. So we switched over to Shaw Digital Cable, less bullsh*t, and now everything is bundled together (digital phone, Internet & digital cable). Bada Bing.

I’m taking it easy today, so no bike riding to the coffee shop. Yesterday I was sick and did jack all day long, I slept and laid on the couch. Today I am feeling better but I don’t it’s a smart move to go full force.  Not sure if it was the pizza I ordered on Saturday night or not but either way I am not ordering pizza again.

Seriously WTF is the point in eating out, or ordering in? Have you ever calculated how much you spend on eating out? It’s insane if you break it down. People have no idea how much healthier they would be and how much they would save if they ate their meals at home EVERY DAY.  I bet if people cut out eating out they would easily drop their weight, it’s basically a fact.

I am no angel when it comes to eating out I used to go to Wendy’s every week (since it’s like 8 blocks away from). I do go out to Tim Hortons 3 times a week and a buy a coffee 5 times a week at the coffee shop on Kingsways. I cutback on eating out for 2 reasons, waste of cash and gaining weight.  The problem with people in our society me included, we want everything right now. Not only do we want it now, but we don’t think about the end result, wasting money, getting fat, blah, blah, blah.

No one wants to sacrifice anything.  We are all spoiled kids, ipods, Internet, eat out, DVDs, cell phones and so on. Compared to our parents we have way more to keep us distracted from life. This is why there are so many people walking around 50 lbs overweight. They can’t say no to that Big Mac, or that pizza. We would all be better off if we just said no to the voices inside our heads telling us to order that pizza. Do you really need to order a pizza at 9 pm, after you already ate dinner?

All little bit off topic:

I want you to ask yourself, do you need a cell phone if you have a home phone as well? Are your credit cards getting paid in full every month? Are you renting a more expensive place than is necessary? Just random questions, think about it. Find out where you send you cash and ask yourself if you can cut back in that department.

Autism is something most people don’t think about, but the fact is that it is a frightening and huge problem. When my wife had out first child, the day we were scheduled to go in to get immunization shots for our daughter we decided to postpone it before we did some research online. I am glad that we postponed so we could do research, what we came up with scared the sh*t out of both of us. All the research we read came up to the same conclusion, the immunization shots that 1 year old babies receive from doctors are a major reason that Autism exists. Needless to say we never got our daughter or our son immunized.  Immunization is a business plain and simple. It makes drug companies money, regardless of it destroys babies or not.

I can go on and on about the negative effects of getting immunized, but I personally know 2 people who have healthy babies until the age of one. After they received immunization shots it all changed. Now both families have to live through hell because of what? Getting shots for polio, chicken pox and other diseases. You can think what you want, but remember this if your child is healthy why fuck it up by giving them unneeded shots and drugs? Think for yourself, don’t let your doctor think for you.

My friend Franco (a great guy) is doing the “Walk For Autism” tomorrow at Swanguard Stadium in Burnaby, for his son who has Autism. I hope he raises allot of money. I already sent a donation online, hopefully the money raised can help them and families like theirs.

I don’t trust the government (American in particular), look at the world. Is the government doing things in your best interest? Very unlikely. Do you think they care about your health? Hmm….. I highly doubt it very, very much. Take control of your own life, don’t let people control it for you.

Think independently!!

I wish all you assh*les with the blog comment spamming software would get lost. It’s completely useless to spam this blog or any Word Press blog as they have built spam detection. That is my rant for today.

So today is officially Labor Day across North America (not sure about the rest of the world). Seeing that I work for myself holidays don’t mean too much, however I usually take them off and chill. It’s also the last day of the PNE here in Vancouver. I will be heading out to the Pacific National Exhibition with my family this afternoon (even though it’s freezing could out today!).

My Duracell 4GB flash drive died today, it kept saying that I had to format it but when I tried it wouldn’t do it.

I had some data on the Duracall USB drive but luckily I upload my data information to a web server every day, so no big deal. Anywho I bought a new Kingston 8 GB for $20 from Future Shop this morning. I hope this USB flash drive lasts longer than the Durcacell flash drive.

That’s about it, have a good one….

C.V.

2 shots taken at Renfew school

confused & dazed at Renfrew school

So yesterday was my basic day get up then bike ride to the coffee shop, come back, eat dinner blah, blah, blah. Last night I get home and notice the alarm was acting funny, the yellow “trouble” was on. The last time the  “trouble” light came on was when we got back from Mexico to notice our home had been broken into. Last night was a different reason………

I looked around and everything was secured (no forced entry), so that was cool. I asked the neighbour if she had power, nope. Apparently there was a big B-A-N-G around 3:35 PM and then the power faded into the sunset. Personally I think a transformer blew and that is the big bang that sounded like World War 3.

Anyways……

I was like “sh*t now what am I going to do?”. I figured I would be a good husband, since the power was out and clean up, I would vacuum the floors. Um, vacuums need electricity you cluck. OK I guess no vacuuming for me then.

Actually anything that I wanted to do I needed electricity:

1. Pour myself a glass of cold filtered water, electricity is needed to power the fridge that has the water purifier built into it. Doh!
2. Check my email, um yeah obviously electricity is needed once again.
3. Weed eat the back yard since I can’t do the above, oops you need electrical power again bud!

Anywho the list went on of all the things I thought I couldn’t do. I figured I would call BC Hydro (on my cell phone, cause my land line is DEAD) and see what the hell was going on. I got an automated response on the phone with BC Hydro with a message stating they “are aware of the situation and power would be back at 7 PM”.

I get off the phone with BC Hydro and my wife calls asking if I want a precooked BBQ chicken from Superstore. Little did she know that we had no way to cook food and actually the food in the freezer was slowly defrosting. So yeah I want the precooked bird!!

Long story short, I kinda forgot how much we ALL rely on power. It’s pretty scary how life would be without it. Personally I think I have would started rioting on Rupert Street, here in East Vancouver and looting the 7-11 if the power wasn’t on by 11 PM . Oh and the power estimate was off a little, the power came back at 10:15 PM.

Let me tell you how boring it is to have candles lit up, no TV, and watch precious daylight disappear only to be surrounded by dead silence and blackness. Yuck! BC Hydro, you bastards owe me a Friday night!

** PS: We went to the mall to keep ourselves occupied until the power was supposed to come back on.

Brentwood mall