Kathy and I left on our trip to London on Thursday. We arrived there just as it was getting dark and almost immediately I did the dumbest thing, walked away from the bus stop that I knew would take us to Western. Accoding to the maps fron London Transit it appeared that there was a bus terminal downtown and I though it’d be a good idea to get to it so we can get some transit maps and make sure we were going where we wanted to. We wandered, got lost and I got very annoyed. It was so humid as well, all I wanted to do was sit down and have some ice cream. We wandered over by the river behind a museum but we didn’t stay there long, I was eager to find the damn bus again. We did find it eventually after figuring out that we were not at a walking distance to Western. The bus ride was OK, we did get off on the wrong stop since in the afternoon the bus takes a different course through the school. Western doesn’t have maps around campus showing where you are relative to other buildings, WLU has many of them and it is on one block, I only saw two at Western.

The campus was nice, not as big as I was expecting and it has a lot of neat stuff like $4 movies at their cinema. On Friday we wandered around campus trying to figure out where stuff was and some other prep investigation stuff for kathy, she should have fun there, enough building have cold A/C so it should be good. Saturday we went to the malls of the city and walked from a park back to Western, that was quite a trip. The river looked pretty and there were plenty of people fishing.

We switched our tickets early to get out of London since we were kind of done with the city and didn’t want to carry a full backpack throughout it.

We stayed at the Western Hotel which seemed to be the only hotel at that part of the city. We stayed in an apt style res and actually had to stay with two other people, which kind of sucked. It was so hot I wish I could have strolled around nude in there. Damn old people, I don’t know why they were staying there, we didn’t really talk to them. The building was made in 99 and kind of sucked, it looked very student housing except for the kitchen. The stuff they provided in the hotel was pretty ghetto, a bed that felt like it was a plastic egg or something, if you got near the edge it felt like you were going to just roll off. It made sleep pretty uncomfortable. The shower curtain wasn’t as big as the opening of the shower so we couldn’t get very wet and wild. The cabinet under the sink has the insulation exposed and later in the trip we believe the mouse that was in the bathroom came from there.

Kitty missed me, he meowed a lot. Last night he slept right beside my chest, I think he wanted to make sure Trixie wasn’t coming back and to make sure I was still here. Poor little guy. Tom hissed at him all weekend, he has had nothing but hissing cats for over 2 weeks now. Henry played with him though.

I’m sleepy now, I wonder if Kitty will continue to sleep by me or if he will go by my feet.

It couldn’t have been more exciting unless I found a three chambered peanut.

I played a bit of Batlion Wars for Gamecube, it is loosely based on Advanced Wars, it is a little awkward to control or to tell troops to retreat.

Kathy and I took the inflatable raft out on the Grand River for a trip, after a few missteps we got out there. One of the missteps included me falling into the river. The raft is a real pain in the ass to row with two oars at once. We did make some good time when we each picked a paddle and a side but we never did travel too far. When we started getting out in the open more closer to the hospital the wind began to pick up and we couldn’t keep going forward so we let the current take us back. There was some cute baby ducks swimming about just following mama when she stopped to eat they went under the water. Also saw a weasel running along the shore. It was pretty. There was also a couple of fishies that jumped in the air during our trip. We also got to see a furry log, but that might have been something else. The people at the rowing club in Cambridge can really move.

Overall the trip wasn’t the greatest, the raft which said it can hold 4 people really can only hold two so there wasn’t really room to carry anything or have space to stretch out. It also wasn’t set up well to row, the bits that the oars go through are too far forward and were constantly hitting my knees. We ended up taking it home and cleaning it up and drying it off and returning it. The picture on the box showed 4 people and everything on it, oh well.

Trixie is still having a hard time adjusting to living here, she doesn’t like kitty and growls and hisses whenever she comes close. She also doesn’t seem to want to walk past him. I had to bring her litter upstairs again so there is a greater chance she can get some privacy to use it. She did pee beside the bed the other day and I discovered today that she pooped in the corner in the main room. There was also a small spot in the middle of the floor as well as a bigger spot on my parent’s white sofa that is the fancy kind that you can’t sit on. According to her poop in the corner and her litter box it is a bit on the leaky side. : /

I picked up Kitty and placed him on the bed near Trixie she growled but didn’t do much else eventually she lied down but wasn’t happy about it. Anytime I or Kitty moved she would look and growl a bit.

Oh well my day off work was enjoyable, I hope I didn’t miss much. The place across from BK had some really big fireworks, I can’t find any pictues though. My last set was neat though.

At least I didn’t get burnt by the sun.

The house looks pretty much the same, just matter of moving some papers around and clearing out the main hallway. Trixie gets to visit, poor old kitty I hope the ride over for her won’t be too rough, I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to pick her up, her whole body is usually sore and aches and it may hurt. Right now instead of buying ice I am freezing some pop bottles full of water intending to crack them open later and use them for ice. I’m so cheap.

Kathy and I didn’t go canoeing on Saturday since we really would have no clue on how to get back in if it flipped in the middle of the river. So Sunday we were going to get up early and go fish but Kathy needed some sleep, her sister was actually online so she spent some time late at night talking with her. I didn’t have the heart to wake her. We travelled around a bit looking for something to keep kitty in the yard so he doesn’t go out any more on midnight adventures. The only solutions were kind of expensive, especially since he can squeeze through a lot. Chicken wire was the most economical way but very ugly. Finished touring the Sam’s Club and well it kind of sucks, the best deal I saw was a 6 pack of chilli for 8 or 9 dollars. Next was cheese except that amount of cheese would have gone bad on us. It is kind of funny, the chilli was Stagg’s Chilli and than for the part that they say what flavour it is, they call it private reserve. So classy I know, nothing like having your very own mass produced and cheaply sold private reserve, I bet it is made with primates. I found the selection really limited and bland.

Afterwards we went to Staples and than Canadian Tire. We parked at Staples and than walked towards the Canadian Tire which was way across the power centre. We got a 10 dollar card from there on Saturday so we went and wanted to be good consumers and use the 10$. It turns out that there is date restrictions so it will be a little bit until we can use it, we did get a raft though. Some lady took another one that looked a little bit more interesting but oh well. So we walked with the raft in a tiny half cart all they way across back to the car, I felt guilty driving to Staples already from across the street.

We drove around during the day to the other Canadian Tire to see if they had a better selection, they didn’t but they had mini model tents, they were pretty cute. The Fish and chips place was closed for lunch so we got cheese at Camissio’s and ran into Dave’s brother, it took me a bit to figure out who he was, I never did see or talk to him much when I spent a lot of time with Dave and it has been about 2 or 3 years I guess. We stopped by the canoe launch on the Grand by the GTO gas bar and than at the other one I guess that is River Bluffs, just to scout the area so we’d know what we were getting ourselves into. While at home getting lunch we realized we didn’t have a pump for the raft. I was thinking another 60 or so would have to be thrown down for a portable one, luckily Kathy remembered that I had the pump for the air mattress and wondered about the price for those car starter things since they come with plugs to use. My pump was house powered, from there we remembered the power inverters. I got the cheap one and than quickly realized that it wouldn’t fit into my cigarette lighter because of how mine is molded into the car. Good thing I tried it out before leaving, so we got an extention for it.

Went off to get Kathy’s fishing license renewed and found out that place closed at 2, went to the boat place and got everything plugged together and than I turned on the power, it lasted about a second. I found out that the thing didn’t fit in the dash originally because I was going to plug it all together there to see if it would work. I didn’t try that when I actually could in the parking lot of the store, So back I went, got a more powerful one which did work. Unfortunately by this time I was just tired and frustrated and very cranky. There was still enough light but it just didn’t seem meant to be. We are going to try and do this Friday on my day off. Yesterday it showed no rain in the forcast, todayy there is rain clouds for every day that it is forecasted. Sigh.

Twice yesterday he ran from behind me to get outside, fucking cat. The second time was around 10 at night so I was out there trying to get him in with a flashlight and a hose. The neighbours were watching me from their upstairs window thinking I was a prowler. Kathy went to bed way later than me, poor sleepy head. We didn’t go canoeing since Kathy brought up a very good point, we have no idea how to get back in if we fall out in the middle of the river. We might get an inflatable raft instead and try that instead.

At some point I ahve to check around for some sort of wires and such to block up any kind of escape for the cat to keep him in the yard. I got a temp membership at Sam’s Club to see what it is all about, so far I didn’t go through the whole place but I don’t see the appeal. A third of the store has pet food and a lot of weird odds and ends. I guess the food section is suppose to be better, we only got a little through it but I didn’t see anything that great yet. I don’t get how they can say they sell in bulk when most of the stuff is in single servings, they sell stereos and such one at a time, same with their very shitty and limited selection of music and movies. The laundry soap wasn’t in a packaging too much bigger than what you can normally get. The chips look impressive but that is it, they are way more than half full of air. Quick tip a chip weighs a gram, now you know how many chips are in a bag. The BBQ they sell in ones and were bloody expensive. The Home Depot looked pretty fancy and had a full Harvey’s. Oh well.

I did a whole lot of nothing today and it was good. I did mow the lawn today, just the front though. It didn’t look any different at all since it was somewhat underwatered so it never really grew. Oh yeah there are two special editions of The Princess Bride on DVD now, one is the dead pirate edition and the back describes it through the action in the movie, the other version is the Buttercup edition and the back of the packagaing describes the mushy side of the movie. Both have different colour schemes as well.

I never did call my dad today, well I did call but the phone was busy. I’m bad at laundry it takes me about 12 hours to do 3 loads. I’m afraid to shave, when I was at the docks I got my head pretty burnt so I don’t want to shave and have a big white chin and sideburns. I should have shaved my head again, some spots are a bit uneven.

So yeah I stayed in and played Starcraft a bit during the last few days. Nothing really to write about.