Internal Mono(b)log

Mocha has crossed over. Please visit the memorial page at:

http://www.internalmonoblog.com/?page_id=40

Isn’t it funny how sometimes you have time on your hands to ponder your navel and come up with amusing thoughts to share and at other times you’re run so ragged that you seem to just go from 1 task to another with no time to think about anything.

Lately, I’ve been running in the latter mode. June, July and August are going to be *crazy*. A wedding the 1st week of June with the attached rehearsal, Stag & Doe and reception. A week of camping at RE:Union in June. 2 long weekends in July and another long weekend music event at the house in August (at least we’re hoping the house event comes together). The event schedule combined with work, commuting, trying to run (although lately that’s been not so successful), being social, being at home, getting stuff done around the house, showings, etc. ACK! Calgon take me away!

I know there are provocative thoughts running around in my brain somewhere… it’s just trying to get them out in a manner that makes sense.

To Whatever Energy is Tuned to This Frequency:

ENOUGH ALREADY!

Just because I take my Anubis masks out of the closet and wander around in them for 10 minutes and because Kim brings her Ganesh shrine from out of her closet and *temporarily* puts it on the mantel, does not mean that the Yazwinski University of Pagan Studies (YUPS) is open for business and taking students.

Really! It doesn’t!
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I’m *SO* glad that finally we’ll get to stop hearing about how hard done by the hockey players are and how greedy the owners are (or vise-versa). The season’s officially dead! Thank the Gods!

A couple of things that really struck me today:

* the press was calling the strike a “labour action”. Lets get this straight. These guys *play* hockey for a living. It’s a *game*. It may be their jobs but I can tell you that the Jr. teams would have *played* in their place for *significantly* less money.
* someone interviewed on the radio today asked if hockey had been a habit or a passion for themselves and had concluded that it was a habit that they didn’t miss now that it was gone.
* movie stars make a lot of money to star in a movie, but, the movie also makes a lot of money with theatre runs, dvd cuttings, etc. Unlike hockey, movies are run as businesses. Who’d have thunk?

It’s time for the NHL to smarten up. Bring up the Jr teams and fire the current “professional” teams. Pay the Jr players a reasonable salary and drop the prices to attend the events. The events will be well attended because they’ll be affordable. Those who make money from the services at the events will be better off. Everybody (except the babies who currently staff the NHL teams) wins!

Show me any self-respecting geek who wouldn’t want this:

I have no idea what I’d make it do… probably nothing. Just having it on your desk would be empowering, don’t you think!

With thanks to Engadget.

I just can’t resist hopping on the “Oh my gawd you american’s are so F#2KING stupid for re-electing this bozo” bandwagon.

I think that Pete’s blog summarized it the best here.

Last night we attended one of the 8th Anniversary parties for The Guvernment, a nightclub in Toronto. Playing at the party was perhaps one of the worlds best psytrance musicians, Infected Mushroom.

Now, I’m not a huge fan of the club scene – too crouded, people with poor attitudes, etc., but(!) the music was GREAT. Especially Infected Mushroom’s set from midnight to 1:30am. These guys really know how to put music together and play a crowd.

Kim, Dave and I had a very very good time. A big thanks to Susan who gave us the tickets for my birthday. Yay Susan, you rock! Hopefully next time you can come out and play too.

Yesterday, while at home nursing my cold,
Dave sent me an
article about a new Ontario Department of Health regulation that would require freezing and subsequent thawing of raw fish for things like sushi.

I sprung into action. Emailing Jim Chan, Toronto’s manager of public health and the Hon Mr. George Smitherman, and suggesting to
Kelly the idea to start a public protest on her blog. She was good enough to do
so (here).

Today we hear that the Ontario Ministry of Health is backing down from it’s initial stance.

Now if only democracy had a way for us to inject into the beginning of the process, rather than the end after the monies and meetings have been wasted.