It takes 15 minutes to walk from one side of the resort to the other. It is one of the best resorts on this island. It is utterly fantastic. 12 restaurants, im going to visit the island of samoa tomorrow on a catamaran, and go snorkeling. Oddly enough, I have the least sunburn in the group.

Wee. I´m moving here.

Perfect

It really is. Every building, every pool, the rooms, the food. I had a buffet today that had well over 100 types of food. And the 15 plus things I tried were incredible. This is worth the $20 per hour.

Dave

I'm Legal.

So my passport is on schedule! I picked it up today, and I leave my house for the airport in 18 hours. Life is good. I am pumped beyond belief. But I have so much to wrap up at work it is not funny. See you all in awhile. I might post from Dom.

My salvation lies....

The Dominican Republic. Sometimes you go your whole life wondering what something will be like. You have an idea of what could happen if you were "that person", or you were standing "right there", or you had "that job", or maybe if you had been to "that place". I'm going on a tropical vacation. And it's exciting. I've never left North America, and am far too excited. I'm bringing my crappy acoustic guitar (which was purchased to be an expendable campfire guitar), and I'm going to relax, and most of all make this a spiritual vacation. And it will be good.


Listen to it, it's oddly incredible:
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky

Someone get a bucket

Well, Jack Johnson's new album "In Between Dream" has purportedly leaked. I've heard it's and excellent album, in much the same vein as On and On, and just good song writing. Another great chillout albumn. ... What was that? ... Of course I don't have a favorite track yet ... What are you saying? ...

Bumbling idiot...

In what may be the biggest blunder in blogging history, I realized today that Delirious was not listed in my favorite bands of all time listing. Most people are rather blasé to Delirious at this point, but they are hands down one of the most talented and influential bands of the last decade. They continue to put out excellent albums, and I honestly can't say that I didn't like one of their albums. Mezzamorphis, Glo, King Of Fools and the Cutting Edge stuff is without a doubt my favorite (in that order, best to least). If you haven't ever listened to Delirious, think they are a "worship band" and write them off appropriately, or are a mega-fan, get your hands on some D: and enjoy it for me.

A Company Competes With... Itself?

So I want to tell you all a little story. A couple years ago, a company called Konica and a company called Minolta merged and formed a company called... you guessed it: Konica Minolta. Now this little company still produces two lines of copiers, its Konica line is sold through dealerships across Canada and its Minolta line is sold through branches across Canada. We dealt with a Minolta salesman for five years right up until about a year ago. He left Minolta and went to work for a Konica branch. A year later, I'm saddled with the photocopier purchases and he's on my phone, wanting to sell me a Konica copier. Soon Minolta gets in touch with me (out of the blue) and, BAM, they want to sell me a copier too. A bidding war ensues. At one point they were pushing a $55,000 deal on me. But the question your should be asking yourself is: Why are two people who (albeit indirectly) work for the same company corporately, and contribute to that bottom line competing with each other? It's just so, so stupid.

I made the safer choice, stuck with the larger corporate entity (the branch, Minolta), and slightly not as great product, but for a better price. And there you have it. My first experience with the world of sales. What a bunch of .

Draaaagons

I have discovered the heart of neurosis. Pure evil works in this building. There is no other way to describe it. Her presence is the sound of a million fingernails scratching the chalkboard, and a billion squealing car brakes in my brain. Combine that with two rabid competing photocopier salesmen, and my brain is running a trillion miles per minute. What Am I Doing?

Many people exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus do not show symptoms of the disease, but carry the virus and can transmit it to others. This is especially true in children, in whom infection seldom causes more than a very mild illness which often goes undiagnosed.

Ampicillin and amoxicillin should also be avoided, since they cause an allergic-like rash in 90% of mono patients.

I got a rash from amoxicillin as a kid. Let's hope that means i'm immune to mono.

Yikes

"Cell-phone chatterers be warned: The publisher of Human Factors claims cell-phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States each year. "If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver who is not using a cell phone," said a researcher behind a study published in the journal. "It's like instantly aging a large number of drivers." The study found that drivers talking on cell phones were 18 percent slower to react to brake lights; previous studies by the same group contended even hands-free cell-phone use distracted drivers, and that chatty motorists are less adept than drunken drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding 0.08 percent. Yikes."