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:: Friday, May 28, 2004 ::
Yet another long gap between postings. This time largely due to an extended May 2-4 weekend.
I took Friday off in addition to the already long weekend. The day was used to get my car to Kitchener to have the stereo replaced. While the car is no longer under warrantee, the CD player is.
The better part of the day was spent walking around the East end, enjoying the last day of sunshine before a Kansas-like storm would dump half of Lake Huron on Central Ontario. The entertainment was provided by my newest, $15 toy from Tiger Direct... an MP3 player that plays 3" discs. And for the first time in weeks, my headaches disappeared. It may not be the only reason but the unhealthy, Toronto air must be part of the problem.
When I got the car back it had a far superior radio in it. I was told over the phone that they no longer had the same model of radio in stock. Oh darn. It was a piece of crap anyway. I figured they couldn't much find one that's worse, and if they did, then I could tell them they have to give me the same model or better. Looks like it didn't matter, because I what I found was not only a nice, new stereo that better fit the look of the car, but also had far more watts-per-channel (45W vs. 15W) and sleeker interface including a volume knob.
Afterwards, I drove to Mississauga to pick up Simone and went out to dinner with Syl & Carmina. We went to a Korean/Japanese restaurant, and by the end of the night I confirmed that I am probably alergic to shrimp. Whenever I have them in a stir-fry, then I'm fine. When I eat shrimp sushi, then I usually get a scratchy feeling in the back of my throat and tongue.
We watched Van Helsing (could be a good monster-flick, but the dialogue was really cheesy at times) and drove up late to the cottage.
...and then it rained. A lot. The roads washed out and the trenches behind the cottage were overflowing. I took a bunch of photos with Simone's camera of the flooding.
Not much more to say about the weekend... beyond rough-housing with Dean and Robert a lot, and the odd political discussion usually spurred by Irshad Manji's book, The Trouble With Islam (Can someone explain why she looks almost White in the American bookcover?).
Monday was clear enough that we spent a few hours at Harrison Park in Owen Sound. Our feet were soaked from walking in the still-wet grass. Even the dirt pathways were saturated to the point that they could absorb no more water.
So, in all, not the kind of weekend where you get that great tan to start off the Summer. But I have a new radio, and that's all that matters.
....oh! and I have Bass response now! I like my new stereo.
:: Stephen 12:25 PM [+] ::
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