Jay’s Life

Bell speaks the truth. Their new radio add talks about bundling your services to save money. You may have heard it, kid explains to younger sibling that he’ll get rid of 1 monster in the closet for $1 and 3 for $2.50, takes care of the 3 monsters then says 3 down 1 to go?
Funny. That is EXACTLY how bell works. If you want everything, you’re gonna end up paying the whole $3.50. Way to go Bell.

Forbes list of billionaires came out today. J.K Rowling made the list. Guess there is still money in wizards and dragons. Who says kids watch too much TV?

Apparently my site is 73% good. Which makes me much more Saintly than Ray and Mark All this thanks to Gematriculator for the calculation. Granted when you enter in a site, it returns the calculation based on what the current main page looks like. Since that changes every time I post a new entry, my Good and Evil will flow back and forth as it rightly should.

So I was always a fan of Legend of the Red Dragon, which I used to play on BBS’s back in the old day. Today, Ray wrote about Legend of the Green Dragon. A remake of that wonderful game, but completely browser based. With some quick reading, it turns out that the game is free, and now available on SDF1. So enjoy!

Play Legend of the Green Dragon

Well, we’re back home. Today we slept in a bit, Mark and Sarah where up earlier, wandering around Ottawa. We all went down to the Rideau Canal to look a the ice and snow sculptures.
Mark, Sonya and I went skating on the canal. I’ve always wanted to do that. We also had Beaver tails on the canal. A very canadian day.

In the later afternoon, we went on a tour of the Mint. Really cool. We got to hold a gold brick. Surprisingly heavy and worth $220,000 it was a rare and cool thing to do. The Mint in Ottawa creates specialty coins as well as currency for 64 other nations. They are a smaller scale production facility, producing about 10,000 coins in a 8 hour shift. The main production of canadian currency is in Winnipeg. Winnipeg produces 15,000,000 coins in a 24 hour shift. All the paper money is printed in the Bank of Canada. No tours there, and no photos in the Mint. Too bad.
The Parliament buildings where having an open house too. So we got to see the House of Commons and the Senate. Staysea and I went up the bell tower. It has Canada’s first incline elevator, that replaces the original 2 elevators that where used in series to get to the observation deck before.

Today was awesome! Tremblant is beautiful. The top of the run was actually up inside the cloud cover. Plus there must have been thousands of people there, but none of the lifts where ever that busy no more than a 5 minute wait at the bottom.

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We arrived in Ottawa last night. We’re just sitting in the Lobby waiting for John to show up so we can head out to Tremblant for some snowboarding and skiing for Sarah. It started snowing last night and still is here. I’m looking forward to a lot of snow on the hill and a decent run. I havn’t been on anything close to a real mountain yet.

Cheers.

My XBox started malfunctioning last night. It’s flashing red and green lights instead of happily serving up Grand Theft Auto. It was a very sad day.
Today there is new hope, in that a number of people have offered very seemingly good advice as to what may be the problem. I will investigate these issues further.
On the up side, I did do a backup of one crucial piece of information just the other day. I backed up the hard drive password. This at least, should allow me to put the drive in my PC and unlock it to recover my saved games and such. Hope does spring eternal that I can find a solution.
She’s not dead, just deaf, blind and dumb. I’ve seen worse. I hope for the best.

Staysea, Spencer and I went to see The Butterfly Effect. I know you’re groaning and thinking, uhg, Ashton Kutcher. But it was a phenomenal movie! I’m saying this to my brother and friends, because a lot of them are pretty big movie buffs. It is worth seeing in the theatre.
I think this role for Ashton is the same type of role WIll Smith was given in Six Degrees of Separation. It will change the way casting agents look at Ashton.

Hey Everyone,
For my Lodging class I have to run a simulation of a hotel for a couple of months online. Its up and running now (at least for the moment) and I would totally love it if you guys would go to the site, log in and check out my hotel. I get marks for how many ‘private visits’ my hotel gets. If you’re interested you can…..
1) go to www.buildyourownbar.ca
2) enter the site and select “log-in as a guest”
3) it’ll put you onto a beach, in the bottom left corner is a box thats called the ‘island transporter’ you want to go to Glacier Lake 123.147, thats my address. You’ll automatically appear in my lobby.
On the right hand side of the screen is an orange tab, you can pull that out to read and vote on my press release, menus, sign my guest book etc. I get marks for you doing that too. My hotel is called CJ Bogarities, after my dogs of course. Come take a look!

Thanks so much everyone for helping me out with this project.

The whole thing is very slow, its not your computer breaking its just the site.