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I had a really weird morning today. I woke up really tired even though I got pretty close to the same amount of sleep I usually get each night. I did notice some interesting when I woke up. I was on my back when my alarm roused me from my sleep. Had I been sleeping on my back all night? I’m usually side sleeper so perhaps my body didn’t like me sleeping on my back. I believe I snore more when I’m on my back. I’ve also read that sleep paralysis occurs more often when one sleeps on their back. Was I having night terrors during the night? If so, I don’t remember a thing.

It was a bit of a rough morning but I was fine by lunch time, perhaps since I drank several cups of green tea today. I hope get a better night of sleep tonight.

After enjoying an extended end to summer, fall has come to reclaim its rightful place as the current season. The sun and the relative warm temperatures that it brought to the beginning of October has given way to cloudy skies and colder temperatures. The rains have not come yet but those are just days away.

I knew things had changed when a co-worker showed up to work in pants. I’d never seen him wear pants before. I even saw a guy wearing a scarf today. That might have been overkill but we’re kinda of wimps here when it comes to weather. The last several days have also brought a thick fog that blankets the city just shortly after the sun sets each night. It’s as if the fall season is reaching out with tendrils of grey and cold.

The sun and warm temperatures will not return until May at the earliest of next year. It’s time to get bundled up again.

Nearly two months ago, I predicted, with strong confidence, that Mitt Romney would win the 2012 US presidential election. Since I wrote that post, I still believe that will be outcome next month. Despite the world knowing he thinks 47% of Americans are freeloaders and despite outright lying on several major issues during the first debate, Romney is still very much in the race. In fact, if you look at this site, Romney received a huge boost after the debate. This just goes to show you the state of American politics and how woefully uninformed most Americans are. It is possible now for Americans to straight up lie on national television and not suffer any consequences for it. A candidate can just rely on the fact that most Americans are just too dumb to fact-check anything they say.

Everything is pretty much going the way I predicted it would.

As some of you might know, the National Hockey League has currently suspended the 2012-2013 season due to a labour dispute. At the heart of the matter is one group of rich people (the players) can’t agree with even richer people (the NHL team owners) on how to split up the billions of dollars that the league generates in profit. As with most things, the group that gets hurt the most, are the poorest, which is in this case, the fans.

The regular season should have started this week. A slew of pre-season games would have already been played. In Canada, this would have been a momentous week as teams would have began playing games that counted. Instead, many players have signed contracts to play in European leagues. Some casual fans might not miss watching hockey but I’m not in that group. I really like watching hockey. I just wish the two sides would just compromise and sign an agreement. I’m not rooting for one side over the other. Both groups will makes enormous sums of money that I can only dream about making myself. I’m selfish and just want to see some hockey being played.

There have been some guesses that the entire season might be lost. That would suck for the fans. Let’s hope we’ll see some hockey before the end of the year.

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and as such, I’ve given the staff here at et.com the day off on Monday. We’ll return to our regular programming on Tuesday. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

You know, I’m kinda at a loss for words right now. I just watched a certain video online featuring Hulk Hogan. I can tell you, this video was not of his epic performance in Wrestlemania IV either. The words “sex tape” and “Hulk Hogan” probably should not go together but here we are. I dunno man… I dunno.

At the risk of jinxing the whole thing, I have to say this is the warmest October I can remember for the Vancouver area. Usually by now, the rain and the grey would have taken hold in a tight grip around southwestern British Columbia. The forecast calls for sunny skies until at least Sunday with highs approaching twenty degrees Celsius. It’s been so warm and nice out that one guy at work has worn shorts since my first day. I’ve never seen the guy with pants on. Now how many times have I said that in my life?

Anyways, the weather here can be fickle and it can be sunny one day and terribly rainy the next. I will enjoy the nice weather while it lasts, no matter when the rains will eventually arrive.

In a previous post, I wrote about getting a free computer from a local gaming company that had undergone staff reductions. This computer turned out to be a beast, at least size-wise, as it came in a full-sized ATX tower, measuring over 20″ in height. I don’t see cases that large anymore as in my experience, smaller cases are more popular and easier to lug around.

In addition to being big and heavy, the computer case was also banged up. It had barely any front ports and what ports they did have were not working. If this computer had anything valuable in it, I’d have to transfer it over to my own case. It turns out there were some better components inside of it. This new computer had a quad-core processor while my existing computer only had dual cores. I had a friend help me transfer over the processor. The free computer also had 8 Gb of faster RAM than I had, whereas I had only 6 Gb. Transferring over the memory was quite easy. Last but not least, the freebie had a 7200 rpm hard drive with 750 Gb of storage. This drive is faster and larger than my current drive so I also brought that over.

Overall, I didn’t quite get a completely new computer but I certainly got some significant upgrades from what I had originally. If you factor in the price of free, I got a pretty good deal.

On Saturday evening I was in Abbotsford for a social engagement with a friend. For those who don’t know about the city of Abbotsford, it’s a city located about 75 km southeast of Vancouver. It takes about an hour to drive there from Vancouver.

The residents of Abbotsford are, for the most part, honest and decent folk but there’s a definitely a segment of their population that’s not known for their refined culture and sophistication. I saw an example of this while my friend and I were getting ready to leave and go back into the greater Vancouver area.

I saw a woman smoking in a parking lot in full view of the public. What made me surprised about the whole thing was that I am almost 100% sure she was pregnant. My friend didn’t see her so he asked me if it might have been if she was just an overweight woman smoking. I’ve seen my fair share of women: not pregnant, overweight, and pregnant. This woman was pregnant.

There she was puffing away on a cigarette as if there wasn’t a developing human being inside of her. It’s the 21st century, it’s my belief that all women understood the effects of smoking while pregnant. Now it’s possible she was smoking an electronic cigarette but it sure looked real to me. If it was one of those things, the safety of such devices has been called into question.

Poor kid, I hope he or she doesn’t have any problems in the future.