The official Anti-Valentine’s Day Music Video and Making of Videos can now be found at Shuesty’s webpage.

They’re awesome.

So I’m back in Guelph now. Another reading week, over.

The Greyhound bus got busted on the way back to Guelph. Right off of the 401, the engine started smoking and steaming. More on that sometime soon.

The library did a huge overhaul of its computer areas: now, (to my knowledge) all of the computers (except the CCS lab) have been changed to desktop Dells with DVD-ROM’s and 17″ (or are they 19″?) flat panel monitors. It’s about time! The areas are so much quieter now, since the computer fans in Dells are so quiet, and this makes doing work at the library a whole lot more appealing. More space on the desks also.

Sweet.

There are some amazing music websites/videos that I’ve come across lately, and I want to share them with you. Some of them are a bit long, so they aren’t for low-bandwidth users or those who want to brush by. This is sit back and stare and gawk for a while.

POD’s new website and behind-the-scenes footage of the recording sessions of their new CD: www.payableondeath.com. There is a video right when the page loads up, and right now, that’s the second in a series of videos. The first one can be found in the “Movies” part of the website.

Phil Keaggy, Muriel Anderson, and Laurence Juber in a video of their awesome performance at some folk all-star guitar evening can be found at Old Town School. I found the link through Charis Guitars, which is a guitar company that is a Christian dude making high-quality guitars. They ultrasound their guitars before they go to the customer for perfect laminate thickness! In the video, they do some absolutely amazing stuff. Phil Keaggy even breaks out the loop pedal in his performance.

In a side note, I got a new winter jacket!! I’m quite excited, because the last time I got a jacket was about 4-5 years ago. My mom bought it for me as a gift kind of, because it’s a bit expensive, even though it was reduced 50%. We went to my Sporting Life Bikes and Boards store and were looking for shift-of-season stock. I originally wanted to buy a cycling jacket, but my ex-co-worker buddy Randall suggested that I just get a snowboard jacket, since it fits the function and more. Here’s the website detailing the jacket: Burton System Jacket. I don’t want to talk about it too much, but I’m really happy about it.

Here’s a really interesting take on different religions: CBC Montreal. They take the main 5-6 religions and essentially do a crash course on each of them, in an easy to understand manner.

I read the one on Christianity, and it seems quite accurate to me. Perhaps I didn’t realize that they missed something, but it seemed so normal and cheery and believable. When so many people seem to have a problem with Christianity these days, it’s hard to think that at its core, my beliefs are actually quite simple. Maybe the beliefs are simple, but the implications are huge. Unfortunately too huge to make anyone bother to think twice about them. I sure hope not.

I’ve been spending most of my time at home. I’m not covered by insurance, so it’s not good for me to just take the car and go out. Been watching too much TV actually, and I know it. Yes, I’m still sick, but I’m better to the point where I can be somewhat productive without it hurting my head. My parents forced me (and I didn’t resist) going to the family doctor, Dr. V. Rachlis. Apparently the last time he prescribed me an antibiotic was in 1997. That’s quite a while ago now, even though that number doesn’t seem so far off. That’s been 8 years! My goodness!!

So now my intense job-searching has begun. A job in Calgary or Montreal. Hopefully by the end of reading week (yeah right, but I guess God can work through any circumstance, even my apathy, if He chooses to). Actually I’m looking for a work term anywhere, since it will be hard enough to find a meteorology-related job anywhere, let alone those two cities.

My mom and sister and I went to IKEA. I went to pick up some closet-organizer things for $3.99 a pop. We totally skipped the demonstration rooms and went straight to the warehouse/merchandise stock area, since it was in the evening and there wasn’t much time to be wasted. But dilly-dally we did! That place is made to confuse/distract you into staying. It’s not as bad as a casino, where they play sounds of clinging money to make you feel like you’re constantly winning, but IKEA doesn’t have clocks, windows, or easy exits. But after buying a few more things than we had intended on leaving with, I sure felt like a winner still! How did I win? I got out of IKEA in less than an hour, and I didn’t leave my heart lying on the grey-metal coloured loft-bed, or on the tempered glass computer desk, or the other magnificent-looking but cheaply made products of Swedish origin.

And just to prove that IKEA is like a casino, they even have shuttle buses that run from the subway station. Now that kind of convenience means they really want you in their building!