Oddly enough...i had a busy weekend. I was thinking I would have the whole weekend free to do work and stuff but low and behold, it's 10pm on sunday night and i'm about to START working. spent a few hours walking around downtown toronto yesterday with klaus after getting coveralls for f!rosh week. got some interesting badges though like a sad face with the words "I'm Sorry" written on it b/c apparently it epitomizes me like nobody's business. :) Also got a patch saying "Kiss My Patch" which I'm thinking about appending to the rear end of my get up ... Today, I went trapezing around Fairview and Ikea with loquax (lol -- yes, we really DO keep hitting the same places when we go out!) I gots some stuff though (wallet's empty) so I have clothes for work/skool (dang that stuff is expensive). After a hunt for cutlery at Ikea, we both walked out with less than $3 worth of dishes (this is the _combined value_ of our purchases). The good news is that we have similar tastes. The bad news is that loquax and I will have NO idea whose dishes are whose next year. *sigh* :)

One of the other highlights of the weekend though? a great party thrown by my dudes -- chris and ken. I want to say more about this party but I might end up keeping it shorter than it deserves. Let me just say though that it was one of the best parties I've been to. Definitely good friends and good times. It really made realize how much I'm going to miss these guys -- all of ya. (and no, it wasn't just the alcohol that made me think that) :) I've met a LOT of great people here at IBM and I took it for granted. :( They're amazing brilliant and funny and I know that some of them will stay with me forever -- you kids know who you are!

Now, since Xeo already took the picture I was going to post here, I'm going to post some others. Viewer discretion is advised :)


Not my idea! These are NOT my balloons....haha despite they're being tied to my belt for the whole night..! :)


hehe Chris and Vivian fighting with balloons. (It looks like Chris is getting his butt kicked) ;-) Go, viv, go!


We were trying to play GT3 (i think it was?) and there's dale...dancing in front of the TV. *SIGH* hehe DOOF! :D


While Ken's hanging himself with a 'Good Riddance, nerds!' balloon, dale's all down with it. :)


lol -- the balloon DID say "toronto rules"....but it got defaced..somehow...and...uhmm...enough said.