In this blog, i will go through a few different things that really bother me. They may not bother you at all, but it's not about you.
Remember a few years ago everyone and their dog wanted their kids to have a tickle me elmo? What was with that? paying hundreads of dollars for a stuffed animal that shakes. Why not just get a regular elmo doll, cut it open, put your cell phone in there set on vibrate, and call it everytime you want it to vibrate.
We as a society are all about short forming things. And normally i agree, why write out television, when you could just put tv. But one short form that's really getting on my nerves is High Def. Please never say "high def". If you must shortform high defenition, pleas just say HD. If ever anyone starts to talk to me about high def...i know instantly that they know nothing of what they are talking about.
Ok, here's another thing/people that really bothers me. PETA. No, i'm not bothered by the accronymn that stands for "People for Ethical Treatment of Animals". The short form is fine, who'd want to say that title more than once. I'm bothered by the members of this group. Their ethical compass is way off. Someone should notify them that their are actually HUMANS who are starving, being tortured, being abused, and killed. Did they not get that memo? Because they are more woried that i'm feeding my dog the cheap dogfood with less protein. And for that i should be thrown in jail. It is sickening to me that they get so much media coverage too. You know how we could cure these people...ok, so cut off every members left hand...then see how much they care about rex's protein level.
Have you ever tried to use a 3-hole punch on like 15 papers at the same time? If you haven't, let me explain to you what happens, because i have vast experiance with such matters. It doesn't work. Then you spend the next 15 minutes trying to get your papers unstuck from the devil machine without ripping the holes. Because we all know that there is nothing worse that a binder with that one paper that just doesn't sit right because some knob ripped the hole. After 15 minutes your papers are still stuck, and you say "to heck with it!" and ripp them all out. They you spend the next 15 minutes using scotch tape to repair the damaged papers. I hate 3- hole punches.
You ever have a progam on your computer freeze? And you have to hit ctrl+alt+delete. Brings up the task manager, and you have to manualy "end task" on that program? Well it happens to me everyday. After stalling your computer for like 5 minutes and it finally shuts down the program. Then a pop-up comes and asks you if you'd like to send this error report. I have a question. Where does this report go? Does anyone actually check these things? Does microsoft really care that my mindsweeper game shut down just as i was going to complete expert!? NO. Then why ask me to send the report?
-chuck out
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Just crusing
I had never been on a cruise before...until last week. Now let me just say that my parents have been on a few, and i've seen all the pictures. I would look at them and think " yeah that's a big boat" but nothing would prepare me for seeing the size of this ship in real life. Our ship was absolutly MASSIVE! To give you a bit of perspective, let me list some of the things that were on our ship:
-3 pools
-5 hot tubs
-countless clubs/bars/lounges all playing different styles of live music.
- all of these clubs have like 2-3 bars in them
- a large casino
- shopping center
- minigolf
-45' climbing wall
- skating rink (with much seating for ice shows)
- a large theater for live productions
- a movie theater
- basketball court
-a masive 3 story dining room (with the staircase like titanic)
Now remember...this is a boat...i couldn't belive it.
I now love cruises! Best vacation i've ever had. But let me start where a good story always starts...at the beginning...
It started last year at julia's gruduation party. I suprised her with a cruise. Well, i tried to suprise her. The fact is that after i had started looking for a cruise...SHE started looking. She would get fairly ticked because i refused to look with her, or even entertain the idea of going on a cruise. (as i had already booked one). We would have the same argument every couple nights for 2 weeks. "Rob, come and look at this cruise i found" "Julia, where are we going to get money for a cruise?" "Rob, just come and look, it's not that expensive." "Why don't we talk about this in a few months...maybe we can save some money for it" "Rob we should look now.." "NO, i'm not lloking now" ect.ect.
So a rough couple of weeks for me to have to keep my secret. Anyway i gave it to her for her graduaton from waterloo. She was happy. I was happy. Everything ran soomthly in the Dueckman household.
We had decided that since we were catching a deathly early flight on saturday, that we would stay overnight in detroit. So on friday after worked we packed the car, headed out...our destination was the howard johnson by the airport. We checked in and went to the room. It was a decent room...not a dump, but not the hilton either...no real big complaints about it. My complaint came at 4:00 in the morning. We woke up, both expecting to shower and head to the airport. Well when we turned on the hot water...it came only freezing cold. So we let it run...and run..and run hopeing that the hot water would eventually come....but after 10 mintues of cold...we couldn't wait anymore. We had to leave for the airport. So we went to the front desk to check out, and i told the guy about our lack of hotwater. He siad "you just need to let it run" I informed him nicely that we had let it run for 10 minutes, and still no heat. He then proceeded to let me know that the reason there was no hot water was because i didn't know how to work it. And that there were no other complaints, so there must not be a problem.
2 things were clear to me at this point:
1. I was talking to a genius. I mean obviously we was smarter than me...after all he knew how to turn on a hot water tap (something i clearly didn't know). And also he had gotten no other complaints...because most people are trying to shower at 4:00 in the morning.
2. I was getting no discount on my room.
So fine we left...i didn't have time to argue with him. And we were off to Florida.
I'll skip ahead to bore you of the details of how cheap spirit airlines is.
Our cruise's first 2 days were at sea. So julia and I kept ourselves very busy with various activities like rock climbing, touring the entire ship, eating too much, and going to a really sweet comidieans/shows in the live theater.
*side note*
These shows were spectacular! Throughout the entire cruise i didn't hear a single wrong note by any of the singer, or musicians. The sound was spectacular, as was the lighting. I'm not suprised because the guy in charge of sound was named "magic". One time a singer came in louder than the sound guy anticipated, and i cuaght a tiny hint of feedback...so slight julia didn't even notice. I glanced back at the soundboard...all of them had their jaws dropped, and couldn't believe was just happened. Needless to say they were on top of things.
We also watched the superbowl in the ice theater. They had tacken the ice out, and there were a bunch of tv's and a big screen in the middle. Where the ice had been they had hotdogs, wings, nachos ect.
*side note*
Best superbowl in a long time! Thankyou Eli for shutting up all the critics back in NY. Also thankyou to all of the cocky New England fans who were wearing "19-0" shirts. You make me laugh. Also thanks to tyree who made the most amazing catch ever.
Our second day was a stop at jamaica. Jamaica felt bitter sweet to me. We had a lot of fun...got to climb up dunn's river falls, which is a pretty sweet thing. A winding waterfall that streches like 2 football finds long. It was cool. We went to a bunch of shops, and walked around the town. The bad part of jamaica was that you couldn't make eye contact with anyone because if you did, you would end up being hounded for 10 mintues about buying some trinket, or going on a taxi tour. I must have said "no-thankyou" over 100 times. Oh, we also saw a cultrual show with fire eating..dancing...that sort of thing. It was pretty alright.
Next day was Grand cayman. I love grandcayman! Everything was really clean and well taken care of. The people were freindly and didn't bagger you for anything. We walked around the town all morning, then we went snorkeling. We went to a shipwreck, and then a reef. There were many colourfull fish. Probably the best snorkeling i've ever done. Grand cayman is awsome. Much better than Jamica.
The next day was another day at sea. We again definetly were not bored. We went skating, sat by the pool, and i entered a speed climbing competition. I suprisinly finished 2nd. I lost to a chinese guy.
*side note*
I was not at all disapointed for losing to a chinese guy! Have you ever seen a jackie chan movie where he's like climbing up buildings and punching and kicking like 50 nijas at a time!? Jackie chan is chinese...need i say more?
All in all this cruise was the best thing ever. If you've never been you need to go! Tommorow!
-chuck out
-3 pools
-5 hot tubs
-countless clubs/bars/lounges all playing different styles of live music.
- all of these clubs have like 2-3 bars in them
- a large casino
- shopping center
- minigolf
-45' climbing wall
- skating rink (with much seating for ice shows)
- a large theater for live productions
- a movie theater
- basketball court
-a masive 3 story dining room (with the staircase like titanic)
Now remember...this is a boat...i couldn't belive it.
I now love cruises! Best vacation i've ever had. But let me start where a good story always starts...at the beginning...
It started last year at julia's gruduation party. I suprised her with a cruise. Well, i tried to suprise her. The fact is that after i had started looking for a cruise...SHE started looking. She would get fairly ticked because i refused to look with her, or even entertain the idea of going on a cruise. (as i had already booked one). We would have the same argument every couple nights for 2 weeks. "Rob, come and look at this cruise i found" "Julia, where are we going to get money for a cruise?" "Rob, just come and look, it's not that expensive." "Why don't we talk about this in a few months...maybe we can save some money for it" "Rob we should look now.." "NO, i'm not lloking now" ect.ect.
So a rough couple of weeks for me to have to keep my secret. Anyway i gave it to her for her graduaton from waterloo. She was happy. I was happy. Everything ran soomthly in the Dueckman household.
We had decided that since we were catching a deathly early flight on saturday, that we would stay overnight in detroit. So on friday after worked we packed the car, headed out...our destination was the howard johnson by the airport. We checked in and went to the room. It was a decent room...not a dump, but not the hilton either...no real big complaints about it. My complaint came at 4:00 in the morning. We woke up, both expecting to shower and head to the airport. Well when we turned on the hot water...it came only freezing cold. So we let it run...and run..and run hopeing that the hot water would eventually come....but after 10 mintues of cold...we couldn't wait anymore. We had to leave for the airport. So we went to the front desk to check out, and i told the guy about our lack of hotwater. He siad "you just need to let it run" I informed him nicely that we had let it run for 10 minutes, and still no heat. He then proceeded to let me know that the reason there was no hot water was because i didn't know how to work it. And that there were no other complaints, so there must not be a problem.
2 things were clear to me at this point:
1. I was talking to a genius. I mean obviously we was smarter than me...after all he knew how to turn on a hot water tap (something i clearly didn't know). And also he had gotten no other complaints...because most people are trying to shower at 4:00 in the morning.
2. I was getting no discount on my room.
So fine we left...i didn't have time to argue with him. And we were off to Florida.
I'll skip ahead to bore you of the details of how cheap spirit airlines is.
Our cruise's first 2 days were at sea. So julia and I kept ourselves very busy with various activities like rock climbing, touring the entire ship, eating too much, and going to a really sweet comidieans/shows in the live theater.
*side note*
These shows were spectacular! Throughout the entire cruise i didn't hear a single wrong note by any of the singer, or musicians. The sound was spectacular, as was the lighting. I'm not suprised because the guy in charge of sound was named "magic". One time a singer came in louder than the sound guy anticipated, and i cuaght a tiny hint of feedback...so slight julia didn't even notice. I glanced back at the soundboard...all of them had their jaws dropped, and couldn't believe was just happened. Needless to say they were on top of things.
We also watched the superbowl in the ice theater. They had tacken the ice out, and there were a bunch of tv's and a big screen in the middle. Where the ice had been they had hotdogs, wings, nachos ect.
*side note*
Best superbowl in a long time! Thankyou Eli for shutting up all the critics back in NY. Also thankyou to all of the cocky New England fans who were wearing "19-0" shirts. You make me laugh. Also thanks to tyree who made the most amazing catch ever.
Our second day was a stop at jamaica. Jamaica felt bitter sweet to me. We had a lot of fun...got to climb up dunn's river falls, which is a pretty sweet thing. A winding waterfall that streches like 2 football finds long. It was cool. We went to a bunch of shops, and walked around the town. The bad part of jamaica was that you couldn't make eye contact with anyone because if you did, you would end up being hounded for 10 mintues about buying some trinket, or going on a taxi tour. I must have said "no-thankyou" over 100 times. Oh, we also saw a cultrual show with fire eating..dancing...that sort of thing. It was pretty alright.
Next day was Grand cayman. I love grandcayman! Everything was really clean and well taken care of. The people were freindly and didn't bagger you for anything. We walked around the town all morning, then we went snorkeling. We went to a shipwreck, and then a reef. There were many colourfull fish. Probably the best snorkeling i've ever done. Grand cayman is awsome. Much better than Jamica.
The next day was another day at sea. We again definetly were not bored. We went skating, sat by the pool, and i entered a speed climbing competition. I suprisinly finished 2nd. I lost to a chinese guy.
*side note*
I was not at all disapointed for losing to a chinese guy! Have you ever seen a jackie chan movie where he's like climbing up buildings and punching and kicking like 50 nijas at a time!? Jackie chan is chinese...need i say more?
All in all this cruise was the best thing ever. If you've never been you need to go! Tommorow!
-chuck out
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