Hallowe'en!

Hello Blog Fans,

Did you think I was dead? I have just been too busy lately to do a blog entry. But since today is the end of daylight savings season, I figure I have an extra hour in which to write some stuff.

This weekend Purdy's parents came to town. So on Friday, rather than do the usual thing (head down to the Market) we decided to check out this place in Westboro called "Trio Lounge." This place is incredible! It is very small, and it was pretty busy at 8pm on the Friday...but with some smooth talking from Roscoe, these two nice ladies shifted down and let us have their table.

After muchos vinos and a fine meal of a sicillian sangwich, we decided to do some shots of jagermeister. That really got the night amped up.

We stayed there until around 1am then headed down to Whispers to check out the band that was playing. Unfortunately, Whispers closes at 1am on Fridays...which is interesting....unless they took a good look at us and decided that we looked like trouble. Not to be deterred, we hailed down some cabs and went off to the place where everyone knows your name...that's right, the Carleton Tavern.

We had good luck, as Third Wave was on stage belting out such classics as "Highway to Hell". The place was pretty busy and we managed to get the last table in the main room. We had a great time, staying right up until the last waitress went home...and locked the doors behind us. The Carleton cemented itself as the best bar in Ottawa, bar none.

Purdy and I found out that there was a Hallowe'en party at the Carleton on Saturday night, and had big plans of dressing up like a ladybug and a pumpkin, but we did not make it out unfortunately.

Maybe next year!

Oct 1

Hello Mechanicsville, Hintonburg and our troops overseas!

It has been a pretty quiet week here. Last weekend was the first annual fishing derby up at my cottage in Denhom, PQ. The winner of the derby was Medium Farva as he caught 2 bass and stayed the minimum two nights. There were no prizes given out, as we want to keep our amateur status.

Yesterday I woke up early, and headed down to Cosy's Restaurant in Hintonburg. It was incredible! The cost was low, and the food was fantastic. I think I will be switching my regular breakfast to this place. I used to go to John's up in Wellington Village, but after I got ripped off there last weekend, I will not go back. Also, having John stare at you during the entire meal sort of takes the enjoyment out of eating there.

Rant of the Week:
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This week's enemy: Telus Mobility.

I finally came to my senses and got a new phone plan through my work with Bell Mobility. It is a great deal that will probably cost me around $37 a month for quite a few features. I was using Telus, and was paying around $60 a month for less minutes than the new Bell plan. Anyway, I called up to cancel my plan with Telus (I had already signed in the dotted line with Bell), and they asked why I was leaving etc etc.

I said "I have a new plan that has way more benefits that what you offered me". She said, "Well, what are they offering?" I listed off what I was getting, and then she said "Well, we could have offered you all that stuff".

My rant to her was, if you 'could' have offered me all that stuff, then why didnt you? It is ridiculous...they just keep ripping you off from month to month until you threaten to leave I guess. So my advice is this: If you want a better rate on your phone plan, just tell them you want to leave them...and they'll give you whatever you want.