Well, that was... interesting...

[lance_sibley]

Bizarre night tonight at bowling: 187, 192, 115. I'm extremely pleased with those first two games, but I have no idea what happened in the third; whether the oil on the lanes was breaking down by that point and I wasn't making the proper adjustments, or if I was getting tired because of the hectic pace of the first two games, or if I was just sucking (quite possible, since I was getting so many strikes in the first two games - I think I had eight or nine - that I hadn't had many opportunities to practice my spares, so when the strikes dried up, so did my score), or what. I think Brent was pissed off that I still did better than he did overall, though. *grin*

Tonight was also a little bizarre because at least half of the league didn't show up. It's been snowing heavily since before I woke up this morning. According to what I heard on the radio while I was getting ready for work, they were predicting an average of an inch per hour (2.5 cm for my non-North American friends :) ), and I'd say that was pretty accurate. Randy called me around 3 this afternoon to let me know that he, Mario and h8torun were all going to stay home tonight. I could have sworn he said that Bridgette was also going to skip it, but she showed up tonight. She said, "Did he think I was afraid to drive in this weather? I drive for a living!" (If memory serves, she works for one of the big courier companies.)

Because we were missing three bowlers, and the league rules only allow a team to use a maximum of two dummy scores, we were down over 200 pins per game before we even started. So there was no way we were going to take a single point this evening. Still, it was fun - people were more relaxed than usual, it seemed.

Poor Spencer, though - everyone on his team (and most of their opponents) showed up, so when nearly everyone was finished, they were only just finishing their second game. (No wonder he was drinking. When I said goodnight, I couldn't understand a word he said in response.)

The rest of the day was fairly productive despite the fact that I was working from home. Not because of distractions, but because the connection to my office computer is so freaking slow. I could make a code change, rebuild the project, go make a sandwich, come back and the build still wouldn't have been finished. (Or it's possible that it had finished, and I just hadn't gotten the notification yet.) By the time I'd reloaded the page to test my change, I'd have eaten the sandwich. Grrrr. But I got a new page for the website completed - employers can now store interview questions that are specific to the applicant type (teachers or administrative) and job type (internal, external or both). I didn't have time to get back into the PHP stuff that I was doing last week, though. Apparently there are some low-priority bugs to be dealt with. Maybe I'll log in for a few hours tomorrow and see if I can fix a couple of them, since technically I still owe them an hour or so as I have to leave my apartment by 5:30 to be sure of getting to the bowling alley by 6:30. (Could be worse... when I'm at the office, I have to leave by 4:30 to get there by 6:45.)

I'd like to go out tonight, but... ick. Looking out the window makes me think that's not such a good idea.

Oh, and here's a little tidbit I meant to post earlier this week... overheard on the bus home a couple of nights ago, from the mouth of a teenage girl:

"Don't you think it's superficial that she won't date him, just because he's a dirtbag?"

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[elizard100.livejournal.com]

Young girls scare me. Overheard in the bathroom today at work were two young girls whose every second word was "yo" to begin with and then their conversation encompassed "wiping practices". And yes, I mean that kind of wiping. Ewwwwwww.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwww indeed. :(

Tonight, on the way home from Woody's, I overheard: "We're not white, you bitches! We're not afraid to take the fight to you!"

As I passed them, they had just caught up to the group they were shouting at. I didn't stick around, but as I was getting close to Yonge Street, I turned around and they were still jawing at each other. I predict (insofar as it happened an hour ago) that many nails were torn. ;)

[kairi-kiss.livejournal.com]

lol

heh

i overheard some girls talking about how another one of their friends does not use proper laundry technique with her underpants

why they are looking in each others underpants i am not sure

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

What would "proper laundry technique" entail? I just toss mine in with the rest of the whites. (Or darks, in the case of the grey undies.)

Though come to think of it, I've heard that women who wear fancier styles of underwear should wash them in a mesh bag to protect them from damage. I wonder if that's what they were referring to.

[kairi-kiss.livejournal.com]

no they were refering to not washing them at all dear

[mountebank.livejournal.com]

I thought you guys up in the Great White North were all about centimetres and litres...

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

We are for most things, though many of us still use Imperial for things like height and weight. For instance, I'll ask for half a kilo of ground beef, but I weigh 170 pounds. It's 40 kilometres to work, but I'm six feet tall. (I know, it doesn't make sense.)

I learned both in school - I think I was about nine or ten when we officially went metric. I kind of remember getting my first ruler in school that had centimetres on one side and inches on the other.

So it's actually still easier for me to think "we got eight inches of snow" than "we got 20 centimetres." Temperature, OTOH, I think of in Celcius.

[mountebank.livejournal.com]

You're that way with the language. Sometimes you're Limey (braces, porridge, tap) and sometimes you're Yankee (truck, elevator, apartment.) What's the last letter of the alphabet, "zee" or "zed"? Ah Canada, non-commital and always appeasing!

I admit our Imperial system of weights and measurements is awkward, cumbersome and at times, senseless, and the Metric system is simple and easy, but Fahrenheit is still more accurate to measure from degree to degree (and by that, I mean 50 is 10C, and 51 is still 10C [10.55C]) and considering that highway driving gives you 60 miles in 60 minutes, sometimes it's easier to think miles. And although you have two and a half centimetres to just one inch, we have three feet (more or less) to just one metre.

Come to think of it, I guess I'm pretty Canadian when it comes to chosing what suits me best. :P

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

You're that way with the language. Sometimes you're Limey (braces, porridge, tap) and sometimes you're Yankee (truck, elevator, apartment.)

"Braces" are for correcting overbites. :P We call them "suspenders". At least, I do, and everyone who's ever commented on the pair I have (but haven't worn in several years) did as well.

We also do sometimes use the words "oatmeal" and "faucet" for "porridge" and "tap", though to me, oatmeal and porridge are subtly different things. (Oatmeal tends to be chunkier; porridge is stuff like Cream of Wheat.)

What's the last letter of the alphabet, "zee" or "zed"? Ah Canada, non-commital and always appeasing!

99% of us still say "zed", though I've heard "zee" creep into a few places.

but Fahrenheit is still more accurate to measure from degree to degree (and by that, I mean 50 is 10C, and 51 is still 10C [10.55C])

True, but for the most part, it doesn't make that big a difference - can you tell the difference between 50F and 51F?

and considering that highway driving gives you 60 miles in 60 minutes, sometimes it's easier to think miles.

Ah, but here it's 100 kilometres in 60 minutes, which isn't too tough to remember.

And although you have two and a half centimetres to just one inch, we have three feet (more or less) to just one metre.

Close enough, though I think a metre is closer to 39 inches, which is about 8% longer than a yard. But who the heck measures things in yards, anyway?

Come to think of it, I guess I'm pretty Canadian when it comes to chosing what suits me best. :P

Nothing wrong with that. It explains why you and hoskie are such a good fit. :)

Y'know, it's not right that you have Canadian-themed icons and I don't. (Unless you count my Leafs icons.) I'll have to Google some images of Captain Canuck and see what I can make.