Apartment shopping

Today is the first time where I actually cared when I have gone apartment shopping. It's only the second time in my life. It went well I think, but more tomorrow. The first place we looked at was wonderful. If it wasn't the first place, we might have just stopped there. There was one place that we had an appointment for tomorrow but we're going to cancel. It's mostly 'cause I know a guy that lives there with a few complaints about them.

In case this didn't really come out before, but I am moving out with Laura. I'm very excited about this. It'll let us see so much more of each other. This means no more less having fallen asleep in someone else's house and being woken and sent home at 3 am. It means being happy more. And I think it also means having grown up some too. But that doesn't mean I'll start acting like an adult! That sure would be silly... ;-)

Listening to: The Tragically Hip - Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man

Names matter

It can be pretty funny what people call classes when they get frustrated. I found this one with autocompleate today. hee hee... and it's an interface too! So people have to implement it. Too funny...

Listening to: Puddle Of Mudd - Out Of My Head

Code converter

I just came across an interesting tool for publishing code on the web. I have not tried to play around with it too much, but I'll try it next time I am showing code. I figure that it would be better than using <pre> tags.

Listening to: P.O.D. - Celestial

Plans change

Well after some discussion, it looks like I will be moving out. (Everything on good terms, no worries). It's probably way past the time when I should have, but I wasn't in any rush. I think that it will be a great experience and I'll be able do more "downtown" things and not have the long commute home. I'll actually be able to take a bus or cab home. Of course this depends on where we'll actually end up, but right now we're considering some places, one of which being this one (2nd one). And yes, I said "we" 'cause I have a roommate lined up. :-D

Now, my question 'cause I have not really looked at apartments before is does anyone have any special advice or "make sure you check out for xxx because I didn't and I got screwed" kind of thing? I've got a couple already like: make sure there's laundry in the building; and make sure the kayak fits in the elevator. We'll, I don't know about the second one.

My dad's advice is to not install a phone land line, but share a plan with 2 phones (with free evenings and weekends...). I'll have to look at this more, but it sounds like good starting advice. Now it's your turn.

Listening to: Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse - Dirt Off Your Shoulder

Movies on Sparks not on Sparks

I had thought that the movies they they showed on Sparks St. were always on Sparks. I was mistaken. It's really "Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival". They have a schedule posted. It's "free" to go and see movies... they just pass around a donation box to try and collect money to pay for the costs. It looks like this year we'll be sitting on the grass which actually might be a lot better compared to being on Sparks where people are walking by all the time and getting in the way.

We just have to figure out what movies we are going to watch now... maybe a horror one, I don't know. Laura didn't think that was scary idea, but I did.

Listening to: Barenaked Ladies - Life in a Nutshell

New Look

Yes, I am really lazy. I have started to use the plain blue style. I didn't even bother to play around with it at all. I'll see how I like it. It's pretty close to what I had before, but *shrug*.

Heather had sent me an image with some colour suggestions. I'll have to play around and see if I can make something like that. Personally, I like sites with lighter colours rather than ones with really dark ones... just personal preference I guess.

Listening to: Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps

Oh happy day!

Something great happened today. My co-worker said "guess what? I'm writting the tests for class abc". I went "so?" to which he responds "I have not started the class yet".

YAY!

One of my fears is getting to a point where it's too hard to add automated tests and having to do everything manually... *whew* Baby steps, but we're getting there. ;-)

Listening to: Great Big Sea - How Did We Get From Saying I Love You