Surfergeeks

Ok, I’m fucking cold right now.

Normally, I’d be at work right now, but last night our furnace stopped working. The pilot light is out and Rob wasn’t able to get it back on. When we woke up this morning, the temperature was sitting at 62 degrees in the house. I’m sure it’s colder by now. And the space heater we have is only bringing the tempurature up a couple of degrees.

We’ve called Union Energy and they are able to check it today. It’s just that I’m the lucky one who gets to stay at home to wait for them. I don’t lose a days pay by doing so. I’m almost to the point that I’d rather be at work.

EDIT: Furnace fixed! Yay!

So for the last week, Rob has been tearing the house apart looking for his cellphone. He thought he had lost it. And, since he lost it when the battery was dead and it was turned off, he couldn’t call the phone to find it. He looked everywhere. It even got to the point that he was concerned it might have been stolen.

So yesterday, he was talking on the our home phone to his mom, telling her about his cellphone. We were both in the living room watching TV at the time. I then heard Rob tell his mom where he had looked and all he could figure that was left was it was hiding under a book or thrown out with some of the junk mail.

When I heard that, I looked at the coffee table. On it was a couple of books and on those were the weekly grocery fliers that we hadn’t gone through yet. I picked up the flyers and moved the books and lo and behold, there was Rob’s cellphone! It was hilarious. He had been looking for a week to a week and a half and I find it in one try. Of course he swears he already looked there, but it must not have been a good look, if I found it that easy.

So Rob now has his cellphone back. If you’ve been trying to call him on it and couldn’t reach him now you know why.

Ok, I admit it, I love the english language. It’s no longer possible to hide it. Seeing as below will be my third or fourth link to a webpage about words. This one is about lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases.

So, in it you will find words like metrosexual, google bombing, and so much more. Modern words that were created to deal with our evolving society.

Here’s the link.

Okay, I don’t know how many of you are listening to the radio at 7:45 in the morning (god knows I wish I wasn’t!) but if you were listening to FM96 this morning you probably heard one of the best moments on radio! If you weren’t…read on…I will attempt to do it justice.

So Gordo The Wonder Boy is down at Covent Market giving away some Sum41 tix. NewPL’s New Day also happens to be outside doing a cooking segment. Someone decides it’s a great idea to get Gord on the tube so he’s trying to weasle his way into frame. At some point he’s talking to the studio via cell and gets disconnected. Big D calls him up and he answers promptly, “Yeah”
Big D, without telling him he’s on the air, replies “Get in the shot”
He replies, “I can’t. The security guard keeps telling me to fuck off.”
There was a stunned silence for about one second then the mics go off for about 5 seconds. They come back and promptly go to commercial.

By this time we were at work so I’m not sure if they ever actually commented on the incident but Nikki and I almost pissed ourselves laughing.

I sent an email of support to BigD, Mindy, and Gord and have gotten a couple responses back, thanking me for my support. I tell ya, it was great!

[02/05/05] UPDATE: I’ve had a couple emails from the main culprit, Gord, himself. His second email told me that the really interesting/funny part of the whole story is that the station has not received a SINGLE complaint about the incident but has received about 50 phone calls and 20 emails of support (or 50 emails and 20 calls – I can’t remember which).

Maybe London isn’t as prudish and conservatively tight-assed as I initially thought…