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Falling and Gambling

The last 2 days or so I've been quite active outside. Yesterday, due to the nice weather, I decided to get a few things done. I stayed home long enough to get through to the tax enquiry line to find out what my unused 2004 RRSP deduction limit is. I know, last minute like usual. We have until May 2nd but the telefile is pretty easy so I'm not worried. My brother had gone to pick up his keys from Oakville (he is moving out of course) and since he usually isn't proactive enough to get certain things done, I decided to exchange his monitor for him. I had a few packages to send out to Japan as well. I was lucky, there was an older man working today at the Post Office at Woodside Square. He saw what I was trying to do (ship re-using the Chapters box containers) and he suggested a way to save me money. I think he saved me about $10 and I managed to get all the books into one package. I really appreciate retailers who are willing to help their customers out and I think he deserves special notice.

There's a Staples near where Alison lives, down by Sheppard Ave. and McCowan Road. I called before hand to make sure they had the Samsung 930B in stock. It was a little ackward roller blading with the LCD monitor (in a box) in one hand but since it really wasn't far this was the best way for me to get there. The exchange went well, except the new box was missing a DVI cable (for the digital connection). When my brother got back in, he set it up right away with just the D-Sub cable and told me this one did not seem to have any dead pixels. I called the shop and arranged to pick one up from the package I had returned. By the time that I left and returned, my brother had gone through one game of UT 2004.

I met up with Horace, De, and Carol just after. They had invited me along with some friends to roller blade at Milliken park. I was looking for something similar to this, who would have thought it was so close to me. I enjoyed my day roller blading, and coupled with the running I did the previous day I was actually feeling a bit of it in my legs by the end of the day. Looking forward to going again though, I like roller blading near the water, and at least there's a little pond in the park. Oh, and I was the only one to fall... like 3 times. Not that I'm clumsy per se, I just try to experiment more to move out of my intermediate stage of roller blading. I warned a kid in the park to always use protection.

We had another poker night at Judy's house that night. It has been a long time, but this time Simon and Calvin brought poker chips. The feeling is so much better instead of playing with cash. I managed to win just a little bit this time (I think overall I'm still at a loss) but there was a little tension centered around money. This is the first time this has come up, but I'm not sure how I should have dealt with it. Judy mentioned that my brother still owed money for a snowboarding trip we took. I thought at that time it was all settled so I think I've nearly forgotten about it now. In this case I know Judy and Kenny are good people and would not try to intentionally cheat me so I can only have faith in their statement. Though for some reason I thought it was all solved before and that feeling is hard to shake. We had adjusted the payment scheme to make it more reasonable. I believe when we went Simon had owed me money and my brother owed Kenny money. Since I see my brother all the time and the cost of the tickets are the same then I remember saying that Simon should owe Kenny and my brother can owe me instead. At least, that is what I feel really happened. Poker is fun with friends, but maybe mixing money in isn't such a good idea. But technically I was up coming out of the day so I can at least be happy about that!

posted by Tempest7 @ 20:27