ONWARD and UPWARD

So I rented a U haul and if you have ever rented a u haul you know some of the most important people in this country are running that company.   so after dealing with sketchy people with half as many teeth as who are reading this.   It took us 2 hours to be able to actually LEAVE with the trailer. AFTER paper work.  Parked the Trailer for the night at my place Thursday and then took my pool table …away …   

We went to my Friend Scotts and …dealt with the situation.   yea we burned it. it was amazing.    enjoyed a good time with scott for a couple hours and said good bye 

Friday morning i got up early and started packing.  How i lifted everything myself i don't know but i was not about to use my roommate for help.  Pete Kept offering but i just kept denying.  and he just kept getting in the way  .  So glad i don't have to deal with his stupidity anymore :)  

so i finally got it all packed .   But because we had left the trailer at my place and unhooked it from the truck for the day.   when keenan came over we realized we could no longer lift up the hitch to get it on the truck .  U'haul doesn't give you a crank wheel. or any type of hoist so we had a bit of a delay .  Had to use a car jack and a brick. but we got it on . and to my surprise no injuries :D  

On the road we went through toronto with no problems.  we got almost to kingston and had police escorts slowing traffic so people wouldn't drive off the road we saw about 7 cars in the ditch in about 4 or 5 km .   so you can assume the conditions were bad, but you would be assuming wrong. The roads were clear, the temperature was warm, and there was good visibility.  The reason people were driving in the ditch,  stupidity i believe is what they were calling for in the forecast .   

once we got through the escorted areas we made it to montreal and to my place by 1030 at night only 2 hours behind what we had estimated. By midnight we had completely unpacked and were getting ready to go to a party. we never went partying. we were exhausted. 

my room is nice , its smaller than my last room but somehow everything manages to fit 

Saturday we had a relaxer day .   just chilled until the party at  night my friend maxime came over and hung out for a few hours.  We were invited for dinner at my friend AJ's house where his girlfriend prepared an amazing lasagna for all of us . we brought wine and we all had a blast.  After dinner we went to a bar called The vinyl (en francais = le vinyl) Which was an interesting bar.  they charged us five dollars and it looked like it would collapse at any moment. the only good thing about this bar was the company. So many skateboarders and friends came out to welcome me.  It was a lot of fun .   Even my new boss (ian ) came out which really meant a lot to me and some of my new coworkers. so that was really cool to me .  

we switched bars and had some food. stayed up till easily 4 am. getting up the stairs to my apartment is a stretch.  they are spiral stairs. with short steps and carpet on them which the snow loves to get into and create ice :D ive already fallen down once. and it was right after making a smart ass comment. about falling down the stairs. KARMA …yea. 

Sunday

I bought breakfast for keenan , dim and kale,  now it is time to head back to barrie, go snowboard tomorrow, then visit my family :) fantastic. 

apples have come a lot further than just laws of gravity

Things are going good about 60% of my stuff is packed. Going to get my passport this week . and also excited to see the dentist :D 

nothing new except this story below
K$

I went to the apple store.

I had never been.

So I've been building boards for a year and a half now and in the past several months i have been saving money like crazy from board building in hopes of buying a mac book.  finally i had the money . 

i drove down to Toronto and as im walking around with a breast pocket full of 1500$ my face is red.  

Thats right I payed cash for it. So all i can think as i walk through the mall is "EVERYONE IS GOING TO MUG ME ohhhh myyy godddddd " .  It wasn't till much later I realized that in yorkdale mall I probably had the least money compared to everyone else.  

I went in and found an apple associate.  his name was iRonny    ... ok just Ronny   

"hey Ronny i wanna buy a macbook pro"
Ronny  -" ok ." 

me and him stood there for 20 minutes and chatted about how his business card is a real chick magnet  "oh my gosh you work for apple tee hee "   is pretty much how he described it.

Finally i asked "so am i getting a mac book? "   and almost before i could finish the sentence .  a man who had just walked out from the back of the store walked straight over to us and said "Hey ronny this is for you " and hands him exactly what i asked for.  

He then rang me through. in a store with no cash registers and im paying cash . This is where it gets intense  .  you see ronny was doing everything from an ipod touch the whole time. the ipod touch scanned the computer box, gave me a $ total and so i said "ok but im paying cash and im alittle nervous cause there are alot of people in the mall staring around. "

so we move to the opposite end of the table.  For me . this made no sense till i paid him . I pulled out the amount i needed and handed it to Ronny .  he entered the cash value into his ipod touch when WA-PAW!  

A cash drawer pops out from under a table we are standing at in the middle of the store .   

Turns out he took me to the closest cash drawer. the table even printed receipts it was ridiculous ! 

it looked like a normal table...

what ive learned... no matter what you do. steve jobs is always one up on you .... oh and hes a magician 

The Beginning...halfway through

So! its 2011. were off to a good start. lots of big plans ahead, and lots of things behind me.  Moving to montreal in T -15 days .  So excited for the new jobs, and all the friends I've made / will be making.   I'm sure this will all be one wild ride.  

Today i gave my 2 weeks notice.  my boss didnt really get it at first. Less of a reaction than I anticipated.   Thats ok I'm going to be hearing all about it for the next two weeks.  

I started packing early last week. Been getting rid of Everything not needed.  Selling lots of stuff to avoid having to ship it with me. which has been awesome cause it has been keeping my money situation in a good spot too!

Trying to use up the last of my materials for board building so i dont have to Lug that as well.

On top of everything I have been trying to return anything I have borrowed from anyone or told them they could have.

So for the next two weeks I am MR. carpenter/delivery guy/ mechanic/ moving guy/chef.

and somehow in there im also supposed to be fitting in partying with the guys before i leave HAH .


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