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I had a dream Sunday morning wherein I.. no, now I'm mixing it up entirely with Wall-E . No! Ok, I was supposed to take a test or exam (yes, in my dreams I'm often back in school, make what you will of that) and I wasn't prepared. It's funny, I haven't really had many stressful situations like that since school or university. When it comes to work you just need to surround yourself with resources -- people, internet, files and numbers. Rarely do you have to memorize a bunch of stuff and be prepared to demonstrate your skills. Except maybe in interviews. Anyway, the wall-e bit was.. hmm.. there was this kind of shuffling shelf unit, like where wall-e stores things he finds interesting. Eh, I did remember more at the time but it's all gone now, to a better place outside my head. In a not so guilty way, I played several hours of Call of Duty 4 Sunday and yesterday. I was lightly upset that I had to tone down the graphics quite a bit for it to run on my machine, b...

Again sleep has managed to evade me. Not surprising, as I had slept in until 11 today and took a nap after returning from Simcoe . A tiny town, not even 20,000 people. I had confused it with Simcoe County, the community near Lake Simcoe. No, Simcoe the town is a little over an hour west of Toronto along the 403 (past Hamilton), and another half hour or so south of that, directly on the 24. I know this because I had to look it up and wrote it down -- "403, then 24". Which is not much help when you've been driving for a while and begin to wonder if you've missed your turning, an upsetting reality when you feel you might already be late to meet with your friends. We crawled between a few bars, some of us nearly literally so. I had a great time, something about being a supposed cosmopolitan individual in a quaint, remote, time-forgot-about town. That's not quite true, as some big box stores, such as Shoppers Drug Mart and Pizza Pizza and the like, have apparently rece...