Sarcastic Bastard

...and it wasn't even an early morning.

so the story goes, i got up, got dressed, ate and left. walking toward the subway, however, i realized i had left without my subway tokens. so i backtracked a bit to the nearest bank machine to get a quick $20 to buy some more. not so horrible, cuz i'll need the tokens anyway. then i get to work, and realize i forgot my lunch, too! not thrilled that i'll have to spend money on a lunch on a day when i had prepared myself, but at the same time, now i'll get something fresher, and likely warm :)

so what have i been up to since my last post? well, friday i worked the raptors game, so was away from computers all day. the game was pretty good, with a last second raptors win. unfortunately, during the game i was asked to do a favour for one of the other dome guys, which meant having to work saturday morning. normally i wouldn't do it, but i felt bad for the guy, because his father had a stroke, and the doctors found a brain tumour. so i did the shift, and continuing with my looking at the silver lining, i made an extra hundred bucks. so it wasn't all bad, except for the fact that i had planned a really good breakfast for shawna and me, and didn't get to make it! :(

anyhoo...i had that this cold weather has come back, with a dumpload of snow for us. gee, and it's not even my birthday...bah. i started a new book this morning, after finishing "tishomingo blues" on friday. tishomingo was very cool, and now i'm excited that, as with many other elmore leonard books, it's being done as a movie. no cast has been announced except for don cheadle as the lead and director. he's the perfect choice for the role, exactly the look and persona i visualized while reading. anyway, now i'm reading "big trouble", the first novel by humour-columnist dave barry. so far it's really funny; it's sort of a parody of the kind of books elmore leonard writes. it was also turned into a movie last year (sort of an unintentional theme of the books i've been reading lately...they all have had or will have a movie version), but it was panned by critics and didn't do well in theatres. maybe i'll rent it after the book to see if it was a bad production of the book, or maybe the type of humour just didn't go over well with many people.

it's still RSP season, so things are quiet around the office. hopefully i'll have some things to do later, but right now everyone else has gone for lunch, and i'm waiting for my turn. i'm going to go play solitaire after i finish this sentence. the one i'm typing now. period.

posted by leor @ 11:24