Bringing in 2007!
Hey all happy new year. Please check out my blog here for all the huge changes that are happening in my life.

update

Just updating this to checkout the new features (the real blogging is still happening on my blogger account).

check the link in the post below 

It has been a long time coming
Well I have decided to move my blog to

Here

I am doing it for alot of reasons. One is that i would like a fresh start with a different type of blog and another is that the community on tripod is nonexistant, plus the html code they use is messsy and hard to customize.

This place is still a great archive of my messy little life I have had it for many years.

Cheers
Aaron aka czarcub

Riots on whyte ave? I think not.
Had a hella busy weekend. Partied like I was 18 on Friday for Erin and Allison's birthday party. We hung out at o'byrns this great pub on whyte ave. The oilers/san Jose game was on on Friday as well. So of course by 6'O'Clock all of whyte ave was packed. I walked into O'byrns and was shocked because it wasn't so bad. Strutting through the first half of the bar I couldn?t believe my luck, there were spots everywhere. But then I noticed something was not right. Looking around I realized there were no TV's that?s why it was so empty. Frantically I made my way to the rear desperately searching for the hockey game. As I approached the secondary bar area in the back (which is about 1/4 the size of the rest of the bar) I was greeted by a throng of people. Everyone was crammed into the back half watching the game on this 30 inch TV. Needless to say that it was totally packed in the back end. Hmmm totally packed in the back end sounds like a dirty gay song. Luckily as my hobbit like form easily slipped through the inebriated throng I found Erin and Jorge had reserved a huge table in the back for us wooo me! We shared the table of course met some interesting folk (with even more interesting moustaches) from buffalo.

Now you may have heard reports about rioting on whyte ave after the oilers won (woooo oilers btw). I walked up and down that street and while it was packed with joyous drunken revelry (and about a billion hot cops mmmmmmmm something about a man in uniform) there was no riot atmosphere. Everyone was so happy and friendly even the cops were smiling and in good moods (which is exceedingly rare on whyte).

Yes 2 guys got stabbed just off whyte that night. When you think about it though considering there was over 10 thousand people in the streets and those were the only injuries its amazing how controlled the crowd was. Now don?t get me wrong there was some stupididity but in any crowd you are going to get a couple of meathead douchebags who want to do something stupid. Given how those retards are usually on whyte ave anyway on a Friday night I am amazed that there wasn't anything worse than two possible gangbangers poking each other with sharp things.

The media portrayal of whyte after the game was totally blown out of proportion, please do not believe anything you heard from the news media it was 90% sensationalist trash. I was there I know.

Saturday I went to the roost with Vanessa for her birthday. It was her first time there and she seemed to have fun. I had an OK time. Apparently tho boys don't hit on me because I put off a "vibe" (so says Vanessa and Ev) which is true and which I'm OK with because when I go to the bar I don't go to pick up, I go to dance and have fun. I must admit however the vain little bastard in me would love to have a drink bought for him just once by a guy who was interested, hell I would settle for a wink or you know a vigorous gangbang in the bathroom.... well maybe not the last one.

Is there a school I can go to learn how to bar flirt? Even if there was I bet the bathrooms there would be filthy!

Ok so maybe th sky isnt falling.
So i have pretty much recovered from my colossal freak out last week. The world isn't going to end just because Henry is resigning. It's kinda cool on Friday I Finlay felt like i was head of a department helping make decisions and guide the management strategy.

I know this is weird but i guess i actually learned things at school. While my game plan has been changed by fate, I am fairly certain i am going to excel at this job.

I'm still getting assraped (and not in the good way) by this cold its totally brutal trying to sleep while coughing all night.

Spent 45 bucks on 2 Cd's's yesterday. No wonder the music industry is in decline 45 DOLLARS!! Had my cold not been assraping me at the time I'm sure the music store would have been "all up in my junk".
(If you guys only knew how long i have been waiting to say that phrase.)

The Cd's's themselves were pretty good actually. The first one was The Lovely Feathers Hind Hind Legs. Ev and I saw them live when they opened for metric and they were a total blast. The Cd's is OK however i think it's missing something, like one really stellar song. It is however exceptional for a debut album.

The second disc was Witching Hour by Ladytron (pretty site). It too was OK, the beats and the instrumentals are all stellar however the band does not seem confidant with the vocals so its like half the songs might as well not have anyone singing in them.

So thats what its ike to have the rug pulled out from under you.
So yesterday we have this really quick meeting at 3. I'll assumed the meeting was going to be about how the transition was going with me taking over Derrick's position.

Turns out our CEO is resigning at the end of the month so that we can afford to hire a full time VP or marketing. I'll almost fell out of my chair.

1. Our soon to be former CEO was the one the did a lot of the pushing to get me hired on full time. He was the one that saw that u had potential to be more than just web/tech support and he was the one that convinced the manager and president that I'll had what it takes to eventually assume an upper management position in the company once I'll got some experience. Without him there I'll have lost one of my biggest supporters. Not only that but we had a great rapport and understood where were coming from.

2. Our president comes from an academic background and as such needs someon to prod him along (because you can not run a business like a research program). Our CEO did that and has accomplished more in the last year since he took over than we had in 3 years previous. Without him I'll m betting things are going to return to they way they used to be.

3. This new guy thats coming in was hand picked by the president (not a good sign). He is in real estate (cuz we all know that that qualifies someone to put together marketing campaigns)(bad sign number 2).

4. This guy is not only taking what was going to be my job from me (marketing) but he is also taking away my ability to move ahead in the company as our CEO planned. I'll was looking at being upper level within 4 years, now with him ahead of me and being on the president's side im lucky if I'll make it there in 10.

All this leads to me thinking that I'll really have to reconsider my plans for world domination. I'll will see how things go with this new guy maybe we will get along great maybe he wont be the huge douchebag he sounds like, maybe I'll'll learn something.
Or maybe im just fucked.

Side note: use the word shlong in a conversation with someone today! Its a funny word use it more!

I have never seen so many men hugging at the urinals.
SO i pretty much had the best day yesterday! Started it out by moving into my new office. I was in all my OCD glory getting things organized and cleaned up from who was there before. It looks pretty good and now i have a better view out the window.

I am beginning to worry that i have bitten off more than i can chew with this job. There is so much to learn.

Halfway through the day Lucas calls me to inform me that he had managed to get 4 tickets to the hockey game from his boss. I almost shat myself and soiled my new office i was so excited. (for those of you that don't follow hockey the oilers were on the cusp of eliminating the best team in the league on home ice, this hasn't happened on home ice in a very long time and the last time we made it to the second round of the playoffs "no fear" t shirts were cool). Tickets for the game were being scalped for like 500 bucks at least, and here we were me Lucas,Tim and Lucas's dad mister P sitting ins some amazing seats watching the oilers most important game in almost 8 years.

The energy in the building was incredible. It's like we all knew that this time things would be different and that change was possible. It was such an insane natural high. It actually looked like we were going to lose until the 3rd when the oilers hard work started to pay off. We won it in the last few minute's. I don't think i have seen a better or more exciting game of hockey in my whole life and to be there was total magic. The whole place went crazy! Afterwords in the washroom the urinals were all lined up 3 deep and guys were high fiving and hugging. It was the strangest thing i have ever seen in my life (I'm not used to seeing men talk in the can never mind hugging and high 5ing, and that includes the bathrooms at the gay bars I have been too). While i was peeing a guy tapped me on the back and yelled go oilers and encouraged me to pee faster.... so strange, definitely not the place for those that are pee shy.

After the game me Tim and Mister P caught the train to go back downtown. Mister P is a great guy however he doesn't speak much English and without Lucas there he was kinda lost. We tried to ask him where he was parked but he was to busy high fiving people. We get downtown when he realizes that he hopped the train going in the wrong direction (considering Edmonton's train only has 1 track that goes north/south its usually pretty hard to get on the wrong train). It was pretty funny me and Tim trying to explain that he was going the wrong way.

I hooted and yelled and clapped so much my hands and throat are so sore today. Up and down the streets downtown people were yelling dancing and honking (totally nuts!).

To top it all off i passed my accounting class with a 59.8 woo i so thought i was going to fail, I also did pretty well in my other classes.

Done like dinner
Wrote my last ever (hopefully) accounting exam yesterday. It tottaly destroyed me. Then we went and hung out at the RATT and then julios. Had a pretty laid back fun time and then got accosted by a drunk hooker who smelled like she bathed in a vat of "cheap french whore perfume" (in a fine wal mart near you!).
Whyte ave is so special.

Took over the IT department at work today only to find that i have a billion things to do. It woudl almost be easier to start from scratch lol.

Now im off to have coffee with a boy :O scandalous.

So this is it.
It's funny in an annoying way to know what you want but not have any clue as to how to get it.

Im siting here eating a bag of salt and pepper lays that i dont even want for no reason other than im stressed. I have been in this room studying way too much the last two weeks and its not helping my OCD at all. I feel shut in and cut off. Stuck here I know I can't keep waiting for my life to start happening. Too much time sitting here looking a guys profiles reading blogs.

I know things will be better soon once accounting is over on wednesday. In related news I am so doomed for accounting. I get like this whenever I spend to much time at my desk this feeling that the rut i am in is engulfing me whole.

In reality I know its not that bad. There are only two things I want to change in my life right now.

1. My overall physical health and well being. I am at the point where my body is at it's most pathetic state that it has ever been. My eating habits are horrific and i cant seem to controle my stress eating. After wednesday I am starting new I have the ability to do this I just have to stick to it.

2. Seeing all the happy couples online is really starting to make me wish I had someone to share this humble little life with. I know I probably do not have the time for something uber commited and to be quiet honest i have'nt been looking. Part of me wants to pull off all my online profiles and delete my msn list. This all relates to the first thing I said in my post, the details of which I am keeping to myself until i figure out what to do about it.

Next stop nostalgia city
So having another quiet night here at home. I didn't get as much studying done as i wanted to. My accounting exam on Wednesday is looming ever more ominously. I may be screwed.

Phil text messaged me Friday night mostly to tell me that the guys in Ft Mac were all hot. It was odd hearing from him. We have been pretty much incommunicado for a while now unless we had to talk about administrative stuff for the just another epic fable web domain.

Weird is all i have to say.

Currently watching the karate Kid on TV. Now you have to understand when I was younger Karate Kid was my all time VHS. I would watch it religiously to the point where I pretty much wore out the tape. It began my love affair with martial arts which like many things form my youth has slipped away. It is pretty insane when i think about how much the movie influenced my life. I just realized how sad that sounds but it could be worse I could be talking about the breakfast club. Still I haven't seen this movie in forever I'm getting that warm tingly nostalgia feeling watching it.

The 80's were a magical time of big hair and short short shorts!

As a side note I want to have an old time beach party like they have at the of the movie. Blankets a roaring fire and roasting marsh mellows! I have never done it and I want to really badly for some reason!