I've been pretty stressed out lately - so spending 45 min on the elliptical today really reduced the stress level. Work has been insane.. trying to douse the fires that have been raging since the switch to Windows Media for our streaming. We do have something planned to shush all of these open source zealots.

It's my Birthday tomorrow - yay 24.

Had lunch with Amy today.

Nothing really else is new. Site redesign is (again) underway.. not happy with how this one looks.

I was planning on visiting Laura in Niagara tomorrow. However my day off was squashed in favor of putting out previously described fires. Possibly this weekend.

Blarg! So tired.

I didn't get home last night until around 4am because I was out with Mark and Damon. Had a great time though. Headed up to D'Luxe (I think thats how they spelt it). It's a lounge at the Guvernment. Then got up at 11am to head into work.

Also met up with Mark/Damon after work on Saturday for a kick ass movie. "Steamboy" was an anime style film. I really liked it! It wasn't your typical Japanimation movie. With the fighting and the screaming. It takes place in the 1800s in england. When it comes out in theaters, be sure to check it out.

Friday headed out to Johns Birthday BBQ. Good times. Great food. He can make the tastiest burger.

Work was as good as it gets on a weekend. It was nice to be able to just blare my music though. Nobody around to bug me about it. Got a lot done, which is good.

I'm debating what to do right now. I called Brian E to see if he wanted to hit up a movie.. hasn't called me back yet. Mark is still in the city working away. The rest of the gang is out doing their own thing (hockey most likely). Maybe I will just crash early.

Doctors appointment tomorrow and hopefully getting Friday off are my only two plans so far for this week. Oh yeah, and heading down to a club with Mark on my bday (but not for my bday). More on that later.

Happy B-Day to:


Sep 19th = Laura, Bryna


Sep 20 = John


Sep 23 = Derek


Sep 24 = Me!

Ahh! There was plenty of motivation at the gym tonight.. whoa nelly! Hotties bo botties everywhere. One girl who we now call "Element Hottie" (because the first day I saw her, she was wearing a cool Element T-Shirt) was right beside me for over 20 min on the eleptical. I'm getting back into the gym groove as I need to lose the 5lbs I gained when I went to California, stupid body.

Work today was good. I have been having a hard time with getting this VBScript (dont ask) and DCOM working. I keep getting a permission denied error. Even after I have set the login perms to allow "Everyone" to access the application. If anyone knows what i'm talking about and can help me, drop me a line.

Grandparents are over. Nice to see them again. They are in town because someone in my family is getting married. We are having an informal reunion of people on my moms side at the restaurant tomorrow - I plan on attending.

Wow, ok, I really need to get on the ball when it comes to updating the journal! Sheesh! I've started on a new redesign and I already hate it (as you can see, it sucks pretty bad). *sigh* I don't know what to do, i've lost all enthusiasm for web design.

On the other hand though.. I am working on a new travel site. Since travel.blakecrosby.com is defunct and broken right now.

Work is going good. Keeping my self busy. I just finished rolling out a brand new streaming network. Now all of the streams at cbc.ca are in Windows Media. I'm pretty proud of the 26 encoders that we deployed across Canada. So now i'm just doing some of the "clean up work": documentation, monitoring, bug fixing, etc.. I really hope that there is enough streaming work for me to be on it full time.

Plans for this weekend are shaky. I told "Slowpez" that I would work all day Sunday for him. I really dont want to as I want to head out of town. I will see if Arden can work that day.

I didn't hit the gym today, because I had to clean up the place in prep for my Grandparents' arrival. Mark said the gym was packed - yay Mondays! I will be hitting it up the rest of this week though.

Things to do:


- Get car emission tested (the check engine light just came on today! :()


- Renew plates