My ebay mistake and my damn car !

I did something stupid this week on ebay. I was looking to buy a PSP game, used one was at 22$ (instead of 39$ news), with 4$ shipping it was a good deal. But some stuff came in my office, when I got back on the bid, it was 40 sec left, I was in a hurry and rather than bidding now, i did a buy now. 36$ (for a used game) instead of like 25$. I was pretty pissed off. But the seller was cool and we concluded a 30$ deal.

And bad news for my car insurrance, since I got an accident in fev 2004, My insurrance will go from 2,000$ to 2800-3000$. She is looking for the best, but it's going to be painful to pay that next year :/

On good news, poker tonight at home ! ;)

End of job - June 2 !

That's it, following the evaluation, all the job stuff, etc. I got a letter that I'm leaving for the 2 june. I get a montant of compensation and a montant for the vacation, which is not bad at all. This leave me 10 weeks to keep looking for a new job and If I don't find anything, I'm still available for unemployment check, so it's pretty ok. I guess, the followings months might be more stressful, but right now i'm feeling like no stress, well 10 weeks is not bad since I was already looking for a new job and I'm already doing interviews.

Big news, who know what will happen !

Weekend of activities !

My friday afternoon started with a job interview at Nurun. The interview overall was good, the problem is the guys wanted to see me because I had a good resume, since I did a lots stuff overall. He wanted to meet me, he said the company was doing a restructure and there was a lots of changes. Good, but no job there.

After that, I did pick up Vero downtown, we went to a restorant called Krussman (or something on BeaverHall), they have a speciality of Pig Knuckle. This is not a usual traditional meat for here, but it was different. Then we went at the FIFA to see
Don Quichotte (58 min.). It was a story about the author and the book, it was decent but I was SO tired I did slept like 5-10 minutes, so I missed like from 35-45 minutes.

The next morning (Saturday), We went to the Biodome, It was exactly the same as I saw last autumn, so not much new from me, but Vero was quite happy to see the pinguin ;) (I personally prefer the bats cave part). The bad part, the beavers were sleeping (I saw him at work last time), the cougars was sleeping and the outer was sleeping. I guess I was lucky the first time. Good experience overall, next visit should be the Botanic Garden.

We wanted to go at the Starcity to see a movie after, but only french movies there (we would have saved 10$ on the parking). Finally we moved downtown at the Paramount (my favorite theater). We went to see V for Vendetta and it was really good. A good entertainment. During the movie, the projector did stop, like 2 minutes (my guess, lamp burn / end of life). I went to the bathroom so it was a good timing, a guys came to say we would get compensated. We did get 2 free tickets for another movie... Quite good for a 2 minutes break ! Really nice. We did the grocery after, we wanted to watch a movie that night but my speakers don't work well anymore. So I did spent like 2 hours trying to fix them, the problem is the center control (logitech z560). From what I saw on the internet a LOTS of peoples has this problem, that's suck not sure what I will do with that.

Sunday we went at the "Cabane à sucre", like planned, it was not bad, food was decent, even thought I liked the last year place better. I hate like a pig as usual, we were feeling sick most of the day. So the rest of sunday was pretty must watching TV and movies.

The week should be pretty relax too, I have to call my car dealer for a maintenance. I am due and I had some problems minor recently. Except that friday or saturday poker time, I should sent an email today or tomorow to fix the date that exactly. I think we will split the cash 45/25/10 rather than 55/25 like last time. We will see, depend of the peoples ;)

Oh it's spring today at 1h30, finally !

Stuff coming soon !

Not much to post, but Vero want me to ! Some random stuff

We did our first pie this week, it was VERY good. cheese pie thing with peaches on it. I moved the computer in a new spot close to the TV, much better and thats will be better for movies too.

I bought some spice rack today.

Tonight, brother is going to see some Flamenco show, not sure we will go. Poker got canceled too.

We probably go see a movie tomorow at the FIFA if there is place left.

Friday - I have an interview for a job in the afternoon

Saturday, we will probably stop at the biodome like I said before

Sunday - "Cabane à sucre" ! Should be good to eat like pigs

Monday - Vero is going to register at the "center" next home for some activities

Next friday - Probably poker at home, gotta pratice for the QPT #2 !

Im too lazy to post pictures ! That's it.

Friday Night Poker

We did another Friday Night poker. It was great as usual (*cough*) hehe. It's always interresting, Bernard won the first game with Jeff second, the second was won by Benoit and I finished second. Maybe we should do 3 winners next time. We splitted 80$ into 55/25, maybe we should do 45/25/10 next time. 10$ less for the winner but the 3rd one get his buy-in back. We had the pleasure to eat tornwordo salsa, which was very good. He didn't got too much luck thought even if he looked like a solid player. I didn't liked much Paco and Mathieu comments all night long thought. Except the one were Paco was saying that poker is like 80% luck. He sure was lucky, but he sure won't win that way. It was great overall. A bit bad for my new guest (torn) which had to leave early. I was a bit tired too, the mood was not perfect ;)

I did my taxes last night, very long and boring. I have to mail that during lunch. I also have to post a check for the QPT #2, 150$ ouch but such a tournament.

I still have not bought Winning Eleven 9 for the PSP, I lack time and money, I still check ebay often thought to get a nice deal.

Next weekend, friend emailed for a "Cabane à sucre" breakfast. I'm looking forward to it to show that to Veronica. I think we should go to the biodome the saturday too. We trying to find more activities to do together, but we have a lots of different hobbies.

I have another interview this friday, but I was hoping to get positive news from the first one. I have to go to the dealer with my car too. It got some problems to fix.

2 job interviews

Yesterday I did 2 interviews. First one, is a nice small place (Clair de lune). They doing stuff like candles, pedetals, etc. They have 68 stores in Canada. (Mostly Quebec and Ontario). They dont have any IT guys there, they using consultants. Everything was pretty smooth, my profile fit perfectly with what they look. Im looking forwarf a second interview / a position answer. Who know.

Second one was at Serti Informatique, they have internal staff (like 100) and they also place peoples. I did tell my resume to the guys then he took a picture. Some blah blah, was not terrible. I also did a bad bad test. The questions were all fucking old useless stuff, that I didnt remember. Like "modem are asking to receive a file, what signal does it send, TRS, RTS, XTR, TRX) You know the kind of thing nobody care like or How many pins has a scsi-2 cable, they couldnt use a ultra wide 2 scsi cable or something new, no they have to ask old stuff like. How many bits this ISA slot has, or what is the fastest bus, the cpu bus, scsi bus... Kind of questions you guest not bad, sometime you have no ideas. I don't remember everything, but it was useless and hard for nothing.

That's it, waiting for news now !

And I might have a contact with Nurun, waiting next monday, the guy say he will contact me.

QPT Tournament photos !

They posted photos this week of the tournament I have been, take a looks of me ;)
All pictures are available on www.quebecpokertour.com

I also added 2 links on the right, in case peoples want to do poker promotions, just click on them to refer me. I get 10$ for everyone that register ;) (the 75$ is free, so it cost nobody nothing).

Instant Bankroll (Give you 75$ to play on party poker, I did it).
Poker source online I got my Nevada jacks poker chips there (worth 200$US), you have to deposit 100$ thought. Not easy to do but, I did it fine.


This is a view of the places, you can see at the left there was some tables for massages (12 hours of poker can hurt your back I guess if you play good).


Photos of my table and a good view of the places with all the peoples (Im there with the blue cap and black thing (2 stripes).



Me from another angle and my table of course.






The first place trophy.








My table again ! :)








Picture of the place before the tounament.






The final table setup and you can see in the back there was a projector for the blinds and the timer.

I know I know !

I still havent talk about the job evaluation thing. I have posted almost nothing about Mexico, I was hoping to do a nice travel post in like 10 part with each cities and stuff we saw.

Quickie time:
- Im looking for a network admin job right now.
- Going at Saguenay for the weekend
- Next friday or saturday we playing poker at my place
- I have too much debt, I need to do money
- I did put 100$ on Pokerstars, starting to play there
- I need to do my taxes this weekend (REER (RSVP?) will give me a good ammount to pay some debt, but I have to start paying my REER so).
- I don't like working with the new guy here, I think it's the lack of knowledge (or the questions he ask).
- I will buy Winning Eleven 9 for my PSP, checking on ebay right now.
- I love my copag cards I got, they work so great.
- I need to get myself a card protector, I found a online store with a tons of them, I will check later (link to follow later).
- Next QPT tournament is in April, but there is a Quebec Poker Open and a WSOP satellite in march, I was wondering if I should do them (100$ and 150$ is a lots for me).
- I need to get an haircut tomorow before leaving for the saguenay (vero too).
- Im trying to find a good "vol au vent" recipe, but will ask mother this weekend
- I need to clean the poker room downstair, all the stuff still there, it bug me a little bit, but well the dinner room work fine for now.

That's it !