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Guh… I think the suck is finally over.

This week has been nothing but stress. Let’s see… so far this week the breaks in the van failed while my wife was driving it. Luckily they failed but then started to work again so she’s okay. So the van went back to Canadian Tire so we could yell at them because they put the new break pads on in December. So apparently what happened is the emergency break line snapped and caught something which caused the regular breaks to fail. But according to the dealership, Canadian Tire probably opened and adjusted something that they shouldn’t have which caused the emergency breaks to do what they did. We where going to confront them on it but our dealership told us that their is no proof that Canadian Tire did anything wrong because it is possible for something like this to happen… just highly unlikely. Oh and the best part was when the guy at Canadian Tire told us that your emerg break line can snap if not used enough. We told him we use ours to which he then said, “it can also snap if used too much”.

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So yeah… fuck you Canadian Tire and the $500 you cost me for your screw up.

Let’s see… next we got a huge amount of rain in my area and a super quick thaw. No… you don’t understand. We pretty much lost all our snow in the course of one day or so. Add that to my basement and you get another flood. “But, Joe” you say “don’t you have a sump pump?”. Yup… but it died. When I don’t know. I think it’s been dead for about a year. See the hole that the sump pump sits in is crazy deep, so I’m guessing that during the other parts of the year there isn’t enough water collected in the hole to flood anything. So yeah, had to go buy a new sump pump with money from my brother in law’s pay check. Frig…

Mix that up with arguments with my wife on my birthday AND the next day too and it all adds up to a suck ass week.

I hope it’s done now because I know I am. I hope you all have been having a better week then me. Not that that’s hard to do at this point.

The suck can seriously stop any time now. It’s late and I’m tired… I’ll let you all in what’s been happening tomorrow.

good night.

What’s the worst birthday you ever had?

32 years ago today, at Belleville General Hospital in Ontario Canada, I was born. It was also a year today that I started my self imposed challenge to make a post every day for a year.  Or at least on the days that I could make a post, because I knew there where going to be times when I just when I just wouldn’t be able to.  Does anyone remember the reason for me doing this?  Well, let’s refresh.

I’m am very much terrified of death, and when I was around 6 I never thought that I would live past 31.  Probably because to a 6 year old 31 seems crazy old.  Like, need a cane to walk and stuff kind of old.  But as that age of 31 grew close I began to get nervous.  Maybe I saw forward and predicted my own end.  Things like that do happen from time to time.  So I decided to post every day so that if I did die, you all would know it since the posts would stop.  But they never did.  Was this all hog wash on my part?  Probably, but in the end of it all I’m actually able to look back on this year and have a pretty good written journal on what I did or discovered.  And you all came along for the ride.

So what are the memorable posts made over the last year?  Do you have a favorite?  Some of mine where the point blank question ones.  Like “what did you have for dinner”  and such.  I’ve loved reading the answers to them. ^_^  I think I say that my total favorite though was a response to the second post.  It was “You have the kind of kick ass birthday I’d give 10 years of my life for.”  It really made me think about what I have and how lucky I am to have it.  Out of all that was written last year, this was it for me and I’ll never forget it.

Let’s see what else.  Ummm…  oh, I’ve started working on commissions again.  I really must apologize for having them fall so far behind.  If you’ve messaged me about current ones or asking about me taking yours on and I haven’t replied, I am truly sorry.  I for one am horrible for responding to emails and such and I don’t mean to be a dick.  But as I said, they’re back on the menu and here’s hoping that they all go over smoothly.

I guess that’s about it.  Oh, I went and looked up things that happened on Feb in history to see if there was anything cool.  I didn’t find too much except…

1822 – Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers.

and others thanks to Wikipedia.  Meh, nothing to exciting.

Oh, I did want to thank Andy bunny for the picture he made for me.  It’s awesome and so is he.  Thanks Andy!  You rock ^_^

32 years ago today, at Belleville General Hospital in Ontario Canada, I was born. It was also a year today that I started my self imposed challenge to make a post every day for a year.  Or at least on the days that I could make a post, because I knew there where going to be times when I just when I just wouldn’t be able to.  Does anyone remember the reason for me doing this?  Well, let’s refresh.

I’m am very much terrified of death, and when I was around 6 I never thought that I would live past 31.  Probably because to a 6 year old 31 seems crazy old.  Like, need a cane to walk and stuff kind of old.  But as that age of 31 grew close I began to get nervous.  Maybe I saw forward and predicted my own end.  Things like that do happen from time to time.  So I decided to post every day so that if I did die, you all would know it since the posts would stop.  But they never did.  Was this all hog wash on my part?  Probably, but in the end of it all I’m actually able to look back on this year and have a pretty good written journal on what I did or discovered.  And you all came along for the ride.

So what are the memorable posts made over the last year?  Do you have a favorite?  Some of mine where the point blank question ones.  Like “what did you have for dinner”  and such.  I’ve loved reading the answers to them. ^_^  I think I say that my total favorite though was a response to the second post.  It was “You have the kind of kick ass birthday I’d give 10 years of my life for.”  It really made me think about what I have and how lucky I am to have it.  Out of all that was written last year, this was it for me and I’ll never forget it.

Let’s see what else.  Ummm…  oh, I’ve started working on commissions again.  I really must apologize for having them fall so far behind.  If you’ve messaged me about current ones or asking about me taking yours on and I haven’t replied, I am truly sorry.  I for one am horrible for responding to emails and such and I don’t mean to be a dick.  But as I said, they’re back on the menu and here’s hoping that they all go over smoothly.

I guess that’s about it.  Oh, I went and looked up things that happened on Feb in history to see if there was anything cool.  I didn’t find too much except…

1822 – Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers.

and others thanks to Wikipedia.  Meh, nothing to exciting.

Oh, I did want to thank Andy bunny for the picture he made for me.  It’s awesome and so is he.  Thanks Andy!  You rock ^_^

Yay! Tomorrow is my birthday! The line will start to the left and the table in side is for gifts. ^_^

I’ll refrain from getting all talky now and save it for tomorrow. Dang… that means I’ll have to write a great post for tomorrow. I better start thinking about it now. I’ll have a lot to cover. It should be fun. Is there anything people out there would like to hear about?