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Jul. 31st, 2011 11:32 amSeeing how LJ is working at the moment, let's see if it lets me post!
First an update...
Took Friday off and since Monday is a holiday here, I have an extra long weekend. Pity about all the rain yesterday, though. It's an event weekend with lots of stuff going on in the area to celebrate the city's birthday but it was all flooded out yesterday. There are fireworks rescheduled for tonight and I might take those in. They're planning to fire off a waterfall effect off the harbour bridge, something i've only seen once before and they don't do it every year so I'd like to give that a go. There's usually a bridge walk where they close that bridge and allow people to walk but i think that's tomorrow afternoon with a parade in the morning. Doubt i'll get up and going in time in the morning to see that but you never know. I should make the effort since i missed the Pride parade last weekend due to feeling rotten.
I am feeling better now though still have the cold around the edges.
Work was very quiet this week as it's now prime vacation season.
I started a painting yesterday. I haven't done one in a couple of years. Partly because, since i don't really do anything with them when i finish, i kind of felt like i was wasting my time. It isn't really, i know that, as it's a hobby and i do sometimes gift paintings but now that i look back on the ones i've done, i'm thinking they aren't really as good as i thought they were after all. I don't know why i think that. They're done by an amateur and they look it but then you can look at paintings that sell for hundreds and they don't look like they're that skilled either, some of them and some of them are so superb that you want to burn all your brushes! Anyway, this one is going to be for a coworker who is retiring next year. He went to Ireland last year and one of the photos he took, with his wife and daughter sitting on the rocks at Giant's Causeway, made me think it would make a good painting. I'm going to do the scenery bits and Graham is going to do the figures because i have no talent for that and he does. I did most of it yesterday but i want to pick at it a bit more, make some adjustments to the sky and maybe the rocks.
The rotten balcony saga continues. They've put up barriers on all the buildings now and we got a letter yesterday with the schedule for the demolition and reconstruction. As i suspected, they won't be complete until December!!! My building is scheduled to be done in October so i have no access to the balcony until the end of Oct. It's not that i use it a lot but, on one hand it seems a bit pointless to barrier up all the buildings if they aren't going to rebuild for another couple of months. On the other hand, I suppose they have the equipment rented for now that lifts them up to the balconies to put up the barriers. Anyway, I'm just glad we were able to leave the inside door open to let air in. They're supposed to be reducing the rent by 30$ each month we are blocked in. I'll be checking next week when August's rent comes out.
People are starting to use the new Google Plus thingy. I'm on there too as well as twitter but i'm not overly active on either. I post a bit and maybe with G+ it will get a bit more as more people i know are on there. Twitter is not bad, like Facebook used to be with a running status update. I have picked up on links to interesting things via that so it's been worthwhile but I'm not one of those people that tweet my every waking thought and indeed when i've had people on my feed that have, i've dropped them. Spamming is spamming. I've got a separate twitter feed for my Canadian Coronation Street blog to increase the traffic there by feeding my blog posts to it.
Anyway, enough of that..
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liz_lowlife
5 less common likes and five less common dislikes. (although some of my friends do feel the same as I do)
Many of my friends seem to like these but I don't:
1) Running
2) Vacations on the beach/resorts
3) Tim Hortons' coffee
4) Gardening
5) Reality tv shows
Many of my friends seem to dislike these but I don't:
1) Metal/Industrial music
2) Reading about History
3) Live Journal/blogging
4) Old movies
5) (can't think of anything else right now)
First an update...
Took Friday off and since Monday is a holiday here, I have an extra long weekend. Pity about all the rain yesterday, though. It's an event weekend with lots of stuff going on in the area to celebrate the city's birthday but it was all flooded out yesterday. There are fireworks rescheduled for tonight and I might take those in. They're planning to fire off a waterfall effect off the harbour bridge, something i've only seen once before and they don't do it every year so I'd like to give that a go. There's usually a bridge walk where they close that bridge and allow people to walk but i think that's tomorrow afternoon with a parade in the morning. Doubt i'll get up and going in time in the morning to see that but you never know. I should make the effort since i missed the Pride parade last weekend due to feeling rotten.
I am feeling better now though still have the cold around the edges.
Work was very quiet this week as it's now prime vacation season.
I started a painting yesterday. I haven't done one in a couple of years. Partly because, since i don't really do anything with them when i finish, i kind of felt like i was wasting my time. It isn't really, i know that, as it's a hobby and i do sometimes gift paintings but now that i look back on the ones i've done, i'm thinking they aren't really as good as i thought they were after all. I don't know why i think that. They're done by an amateur and they look it but then you can look at paintings that sell for hundreds and they don't look like they're that skilled either, some of them and some of them are so superb that you want to burn all your brushes! Anyway, this one is going to be for a coworker who is retiring next year. He went to Ireland last year and one of the photos he took, with his wife and daughter sitting on the rocks at Giant's Causeway, made me think it would make a good painting. I'm going to do the scenery bits and Graham is going to do the figures because i have no talent for that and he does. I did most of it yesterday but i want to pick at it a bit more, make some adjustments to the sky and maybe the rocks.
The rotten balcony saga continues. They've put up barriers on all the buildings now and we got a letter yesterday with the schedule for the demolition and reconstruction. As i suspected, they won't be complete until December!!! My building is scheduled to be done in October so i have no access to the balcony until the end of Oct. It's not that i use it a lot but, on one hand it seems a bit pointless to barrier up all the buildings if they aren't going to rebuild for another couple of months. On the other hand, I suppose they have the equipment rented for now that lifts them up to the balconies to put up the barriers. Anyway, I'm just glad we were able to leave the inside door open to let air in. They're supposed to be reducing the rent by 30$ each month we are blocked in. I'll be checking next week when August's rent comes out.
People are starting to use the new Google Plus thingy. I'm on there too as well as twitter but i'm not overly active on either. I post a bit and maybe with G+ it will get a bit more as more people i know are on there. Twitter is not bad, like Facebook used to be with a running status update. I have picked up on links to interesting things via that so it's been worthwhile but I'm not one of those people that tweet my every waking thought and indeed when i've had people on my feed that have, i've dropped them. Spamming is spamming. I've got a separate twitter feed for my Canadian Coronation Street blog to increase the traffic there by feeding my blog posts to it.
Anyway, enough of that..
and a meme gacked from
liz_lowlife5 less common likes and five less common dislikes. (although some of my friends do feel the same as I do)
Many of my friends seem to like these but I don't:
1) Running
2) Vacations on the beach/resorts
3) Tim Hortons' coffee
4) Gardening
5) Reality tv shows
Many of my friends seem to dislike these but I don't:
1) Metal/Industrial music
2) Reading about History
3) Live Journal/blogging
4) Old movies
5) (can't think of anything else right now)
