things i learned today

today i learned that my hero of the day is kardinal offishall. i've never bought one of his albums and am not a fan (he just doesn't do the type of music i appreciate) but i read an interview with him where he said he'd never attend another juno awards again and gave the reasons why. read it. it's good.

i decided to work from home today - it's the best thing about working giving you a laptop. however, while working at home i've discovered that either the wireless router is beginning to cack out (which i don't think is the case) or that the outlet i've plugged the thing into isn't great. several times it turned itself off on it's own. so annoying to have to get up, unplug it, wait a few moments, plug it back in, turn the modem off and wait for the whole works to reboot itself. *whine* technology will be the death of us. or at least of me. i'd hate to speak for you.

what else did i learn today? that when lightening hits right above your house - that also plays havoc with the router.

i learned that the downstairs neighbour has reddish-brownish hair. he knocked on the door and gave me an envelope with money in it. not randomly or anything - he's paying for the use of the storage shed in the back. it's a really cute brick building that was once a homing pigeon loft (coop? covey? dovecote?) and in more recent years, a car garage. the house my apartment is in was built in 1905. more than 100 years old... i don't know enough about renovating older homes, but i think that through the years, the people renovating either kept original elements (fireplace mantle, wooden doors with skeleton key locks, mouldings and trim) or did a good job at restoring things.

i learned that 5 cups of coffee keep me in the bathroom most of the day. actually, i didn't just learn that - i've known it for quite sometime now!

i learned that there are ignorant people out there. (knew this too, but still). some idiots with nothing better to do decided to knock over more than 200 hundred tombstones in a cemetery in toronto's west end. the images on the news are really quite disturubing. why would someone do this?

and i also learned that the ttc monthly metropass is going up again. city council approved the hike last week and wasting no time, the ttc put it into play this past weekend. just in time for my april pass to be more money. lovely. it now costs 99.75 for a monthly pass. wow. still cheaper than a car - but i don't see the service getting any better!

i hope that i learn less tomorrow. *wink*

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