Weekly update ! :) (long one it's for all week)

Yeah thats more like it. Anyway what's up in my world ? Hmmmm
- Simon is coming back friday (I wanted to do a poker game that day but I cancelled the project), thats also mean we not going to be alone anymore at home. I have no idea how long he will stay in montréal thought. We shall see !

- Date of the wedding: Thursday 29 june, 1h30pm. We are waiting the documentations on that part to know "how it worK".

- Been working at the QPT #3 this weekend, well saturday. Interesting experience, funny to be on the "other side" and see peoples lose / win getting bad beats. I was giving the name tag at the entrance then after I was a "runner". I go at a table when there is an all-in called. Then I take the tag and the position of the table when someone die. It's pretty easy, but it's a LONG day. Been there at 9h30am, left around 1h15-1h30am. I was also answering rules question when asked. But some situations are pretty tough. (guys turned a card too fast, then burned an extra one).
I will probably do it again in 3 week (17 june) at Gatineau if the organisation still need my help.

- Still looking on ebay for a gamecube, been shopping for a long time. I might buy a very big system fiday it will depend of the price (one has 26 games, boongo, dance floor mat, 7 controllers, etc.).

- 3 days of work remaining here, Im still looking for a job unfortunatly. I still apply a lots, no interview thought this week since last week was pretty dead. Did 2 applications yesterday, looked good. Im getting a lots of feedback at least so far. Hopefully I get something quick.

- We went to see Da vinci code last friday at the Paramount downtown, there was SO many peoples, first time I see that much there. 5 theaters for Da vinci, 5 for x-men 3. We got there I think at 9h45pm for the 10h00 or something representation of da vinci. The women in front say "x-men 3 full until 12h45am". You get the idea, on the 3rd floor there was like 7 huge line-up. None for Da vinci which was good. The movie itself not bad but a bit boring. Looked like some lack of actions or hmmm a bit too long I dont know which part. Didn't really got out excited about it.

- Me and Vero played Tennis for the first time, well that was her first time too playing tennis. I think she find it more difficult than planned ;) We still have a lots of work to do. Im not a good teacher, that doesn't help. We have to go play Golf next and maybe Badminton, Roller Blade would be cool too. We did renew her subscription to aerobie, pilates too.

- I was thinking about summer plan (hopefully I will have a job by then to pay everything), La ronde once at least, firework start 17 june, golf, lots of beach, jazz festival, sports ?, more pokers (hehe), some show, St-jean soon, Canada day after. Hopefully will be an enjoyable time !

- Theater next friday (we going to see a comical piece)

- I forgot to post a video of my camera (Sony T9) still, but it's really good quality

- I need someone to paypal me 10,000$ at carl.olsen@gmail.com so I wouldn't have to work all summer and I could pay everything I need to pay. Wouldn't life be so easy that way ?

My daily update !

Of course daily could be interpreted differently :)

Ok this say, I really have to rechange my picture on the right, it's way too dark and boring. I want to put a new one I got, but I have been lazy. It's the same for the BBQ pictures I got this saturday, been lazy putting them on the web for friends.
I should post 2-3 here, It was a fun BBQ, with small rain but still !

Sunday, I went to brother place. he rant a "container" to throw away a lots of stuff. He did a lots on friday and saturday, so sunday was relax, we finished to destroy the garage inside (the floor mostly) and we were putting the stuff in the big container. We stopped like an hour when the sun got "out" to do a ride of his new Harley Davidson. Pretty cool !

Monday was more relax, we went to the grocery, biggest grocery I have ever did (not impressive but still 220$). Not to mention there was only 2 items over 10$ (garbage bags and toilet paper) I have to post a picture of the receipt!

I had an interview yesterday at TD Meloche Monnex, pretty impressive for the IT, they have 350 peoples only for that (like 4000 users). It's big, I have no idea if I did good or not. I usually have a good feeling, now im clueless.

Else I have been looking for a gamecube on ebay for the last 2 weeks. I'm not in a rush. First I wanted to buy a gamecube with 3-4 games and everything for like 60$US. Pretty cheap, then I realised some rare auction have gamecube with 20games+ sell like 100-120$ US. let say 15 games at 5$ is 75$, pretty cheap if you ask me for original games. Only game I will have to find/buy is Mario Kart:Double Dash, some Mario Party and RE4. but later.

I only have 7 days of work left or so. Today, tomorow, friday I finish at 11h00, then next week. Right now I have to focus on listing what I have left on my task list. Cleaning my laptop, backuping my stuff, syncronizing my address book, etc.

New blog open !

Hey seem like Vero was motivate enough yesterday, she started her own blog to talk about her life here in Montreal !

http://smallv-mex.blogspot.com

Of course it's brand new, but more to come for sure !

Going to change my profile picture again, I was testing yesteday for a new one and got bored. That one is too dark

Pictures fever !

Note: I didn't post the 30 sec video yet I had of the tamtam and blogger reduced all the picture to 1024x681 something like that. They are usually way bigger ;)

Mont-royal pictures at dawn, I was doing test with the night mode on my camera

Then we went back 2 weeks after I think, it was a sunday of tamtam, there was so many peoples there, it was crazy. There was a lots of peoples at the tamtam and a medival game thing, lots of peoples on the road going up too. It was a nice sunday for sure.

Renovation ! We changed the door outside (I was drinking beers). Still missing the paint and the sandblast(?) But it look quite better now.

Then we did the stairs inside, quite a work, it was way longer than expected. It's missing a lots of pictures here:
A picture of the top stairs finished
We have to finish the basement now. As you can see the old one, it's going to be quite a good upgrade ;)

My brother got his harley davidson saturday ! It's missing some customization but still look great:
Vero modeling !
Me testing out the suspension:

The dogs, lola and malcolm:

My poker table (I had to fit it somewhere):

The flowers we got for outside, we went shopping at the Canadian tire !

The last picture is my friends at last saturday poker tournament, I finished 35 on 107 players, I did play good for 3 hours, then pushed on a great hand to double up, I had a lots of possiblities, but I really didn't got lucky. They were playing a side game while waiting for me to finish.

It's coming tonight !

I have a big updates coming up, all the stuff from this weekend, last weekend. Lots of pictures I wanted to post for a while.

On a side note, interview today was "nothing", finally they were not offering a good salary (he didn't even wanted to tell me the $, I think it was very low). I hate when we cannot know a range before the interview.

I know i know !

I didn't post any picutres yet (even if Vero took a tons) and no videos either.
Soon (tm) !.

What else, hmm

Been at brother place this weekend, we built 2 doors and installed one for going outside. I didn't worked much thought on the outside installation.

We will probably go sign papers at the justice building friday for the civil mariage (take like 40-45 days after she told me on the phone).

I was checking on ebay to get a gamecube, I saw some very cheap combo like 1GC, 2 controllers, 1 memory card, 6 games around 50$CAD, not too bad imo.

Poker tournament saturday will be very cool I hope.

Interview tomorow for a technical job, really not my kind but it was based a lots of administrative stuff. I just fear what salary he might offer vs a real admin job. I have to go there and check since I couldn't get any info off the phone.

I plan to go at brother place thursday night or friday night / sunday to keep working on his stairs and various stuff. He has free beers from his company. He is actually testing budweiser products. They got like 2000 beers to test, test done we drink ! It's funny because the beers don't have sticker or anything.

Vero has been working in the back of the house, I think grass would be nice and putting some flowers. To continue...

Blog Interest

Things changed a lots, first I was writing stuff I was checking on the web, my passions, etc. Now I changed for stuff I do that will probably interest the peoples that visit me (the 5-6 of you !). Of course it's often similar, but sometime it's more like "oh geek stuff nobody will care, let's skip". Maybe that's why I don't blog that much anymore, less stuff to say. It's probably because I'm lazy thought. I have a lots of pictures from my Camera at home I wanted to post and a video that I converted and everything. Still I lack of time and motivation on these things.

Hmm whats new ?
- 13 may (next saturday) I have a small poker tounament, I hope I will perform very good.
- Tonight I will go play a 10$ game.
- This weekend there is a satelitte (25$+5$) to win a place for QPT #3, I might try it
- I don't have much planned this weekend
- Vero went for her passport renewal yesterday, she is going to get her new one tomorow
- Immigration is so complex, we will probably get married soon at the townhall (234$), then will be easier to make an application here.
- Job search is getting quiet, there is not much on jobboom for a network admin recently. I finish here the 2 june
- The Nintendo 64 emulator is going very good on the PSP, I hope in the next month we will have a good numbers of games playable. It's nice to be able N64 games on a PSP. so Cool
- The spice must flow !

This week !

I will post some pictures and videos of my T9 camera, I were totally lazy. We went to the Mont-Royal yesterday, there was SO many peoples. I took videos and pictures of the crowd. There was a lots of tamtam, medieval fights, etc.

Except that not much to report. Poker was bad friday, I didn't lasted long because I took 2 big risk (could have doubled up my stack thought).

Quebec Poker Tour got some pictures out of the last tournament !
Jeff at left was there !


I look bad on that one:


I look better with my water ;)