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I know that daylight saving time can cause problems for some people but it’s quite nice to get home while it’s still light outside. For the last two days, it’s been so weird to get on the bus home while the sky is still blue. It’s still blue when I go through the front door. It feels like I have more time in the evening to do stuff… like to go to Wal-Mart.

The high is supposed to be 15 degree Celsius tomorrow. If this keeps up, I may have to retire my winter coat for the season. Old Ethel may be heading to the closet soon. The good weather also makes me want to play ball again. I know a few of the boys at work have gloves. Maybe I can convince them to toss the ball around during lunch.

Today for lunch, I had hamburger steak, peas, sauteed onions, fries, and gravy. It did not sit well. We’ll leave it at that.

I was in the shower tonight thinking of what to write for this evening’s post. All my ideas were too lame or weak to carry a good post by itself. So I’ve decided to shove ’em all together in the hopes they’ll become one large, bad post.

Hey, if you know me, you’ll know that I love pho. If I’ve shared a good bowl of pho with you, that wasn’t just a regular meal we had… that was almost a religious experience. Anyways, in a previous post, I lamented the lack of pho joints downtown. Well, someone heard my call. I was on a bus the other day going north along Granville when I spotted a pho place on Davie. It’s called Pho N Rolls I think. I barely saw the purple neon sign in time. The next time I’m downtown and need lunch or dinner or a snack, I’m going to try it out. Who wants to join me?

In other news, in a sure sign that I’m getting old, I’m forgetting names. Sure some people, no matter what age, always have problems remembering names. That was never me though. I used to hang onto names years after I last talked to or saw a person. After university, I could probably rattle off nearly every person I went to elementary school with. Times are different though. Don’t tell anyone this but I forgot the name of an SJC resident I used to see quite frequently last year. This person was always at dinner at my table and this person used to attend the same SJC events that I did. I saw this same person over the weekend and I didn’t know their name. Because I’m sauve and deboner, I handled the situation deftly but a lesser man would have choked at the social awkwardness.

I strived for days to remember this person’s name using sheer will but it would not come to me. I took a class once where we briefly discussed how humans encode and store info and why we can’t remember. There are two theories. The first is that the info gets corrupted or lost somehow, so when we try to remember it’s gone. The second is that the info is still tucked away in our brain somewhere, pristine in condition, yet somehow, we cannot get to it again.

Where was I? Oh yeah, so I broke down and scoured my e-mail archives because I remember this person’s name was on a few e-mails that got sent out a few months ago. So mystery solved. Tyson Brust, I will never forget your name again. Ha ha ha… I’m a funny guy.

And I’ll leave you with a story about man who got his penis bitten by a hooker.

After a long hiatus, the erwintang.com interviews return with a new installment. Our focus this time around is the lovely Sarah Kidd. I would like to thank Sarah for taking the time out to participate. You may read her interview here.

My hair ain’t looking so good right. I tried to book an appointment with my hair cutter lady for Friday. She was all booked up. I had to settle for Monday. That is all.

I’ve got little time to dispense nuggets of wisdom, so I’ll tell ya what I had for dinner tonight. Butter chicken, chicken korma, and naan bread.

I sent in my tax return online tonight. This is the earliest I have ever filed my return. It seems that for the better part of my tax filing life, I’m too busy until the end of April (the end of the school year) to worry about taxes.

This is, however, year one of my post-grad school life so my previous worries are gone. I suppose if I had to pay taxes this year, I’d delay filing until the end of April. Fortunately, I have a pretty hefty refund coming to me. Unfortunately, all that money will go towards a student load. Yeah, it’s not the most fun way to blow a few grand but people keep telling me it’s the responsible thing to do.

Ok, man what a boring post. I hope the one below thing makes up for it.

Video removed by youtube.com. 🙁

Here’s a clip from Family Guy where Peter and Lois do some role playing during sex. Oh so funny and safe for work too!

It would be interesting if I reported that another person I know registered their own domain but that didn’t happen today. What did happen today was that it was a beautiful day and we went out for lunch down at Granville Island. We wound up at Sammy J. Peppers. I had a steak sandwich, medium rare. It was tasty.

Back at office, there was a tiny bit of drama. A hot water heater broke above one of the bathrooms causing water to cascade down from the ceiling. It flooded a large area of the office. Some people had to move their computers and stuff. The firemen had to come shut the water off for us but that took nearly an hour from the time the leak was discovered.

Shortly before 6pm, some water restoration and damage guys showed up to pump out all the water and generally clean up the place. I stayed a bit later today so I could hear them working. One guy called his girlfriend or something while he was working.

“You’ll never guess where I am right now. I’m at this graphic design place and their all have Nintendo DSes on their desks. It’s pretty cool!”

I silently sighed. No, we’re not exactly a graphic design place. We make video games. I didn’t feel like correcting him.

In other news, I’ve lost about ten pounds of weight in about three weeks! You can too! Ask me how!

In my last post, I mentioned how Tyson now has his own web domain. Over the weekend, I helped him set up a simple blog. Though I am glad he’s entered the world of blogging, we all know his focus should be on writing his thesis. Nonetheless, head on over to tysonbrust.com to give him some support.

Never wanting to be out done, joelmacmull.com went live on Saturday night. For a very reasonable fee, I helped Joel register his domain, buy hosting, and set up his e-mail. You can probably guess Joel’s new e-mail address. With his hosting account, J-Rod gets 501 e-mail accounts. He even gave me one. Guess who has erwin at joelmacmull dot com as an e-mail address now? Though there’s no home page yet, Joel’s hosting package has a plethora of fancy applications he can install onto his web server. For example, there’s magnetic poetry. Unfortunately, it only works in Internet Explorer. I’ve been told a blog will be forthcoming soon, so we’ll all have to stay tuned for that.

Who else will register their own domain now? It could be you next!

A few months ago at work, I was at a meeting when Dan, a co-worker of mine, sat down in front of me at the table. I noticed his fly was down. Before more people showed up, I leaned over the whispered to him that his barn door was open. He looked down and quickly zipped up. Dan thanked me for that.

Fast forward to tonight. I had just finished eating dinner and returned to my desk. Dan came over to discuss a few things. He had his head peeking over one of my cubicle walls. We were chatting when, I leaned back in my chair.

“Erwin, your fly is down.”

I looked down. So it was. There I was, airing out my crotchetal region. I zipped up and thanked Dan for noticing. We’re now even.

And in completely other news, I know he’ll love getting his name attached to a post associated with male crotches but congrats to my good buddy Tyson Brust. Tyson is now the owner of tysonbrust.com. He joins the large group of individuals who have registered domains under the template of firstnamelastname.com. His e-mail account is already running. To prevent spam, I won’t list his address here but I’m pretty sure you can guess it. If you know Tyson, send him a quick hello!