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Dead Robot and I decided to take on a challenge, we reserved a full day to visit all the different locations of Walt Disney World. We chose 40 locations that included the 4 theme parks, the 2 water parks, the 2 mini-golf locations, all the hotels on the property as well as all the different means of transportation the World offers… We were to start at our base hotel, Disney’s Art of Animation, the Lion King suites, thank you very much and planned on finished at 4pm for our appointment at the barber shop of Magic Kingdom.

Dead Robot designed a fabulous t-shirt for us to sport for the day. Part of the plan was that at every stop, a cast member would use a marker to check the particular location we were at, and then we’d pose for a picture with them before rushing to the next location.

Here is the result: (also best viewed in HD through this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyCjg9mxD0)

We just finished playing it on our big screen and it was even better than all the 15 hours I spent cutting, editing, fiddling with it on my computer… I hope you enjoy the World In One Day! We did.

Beside amazing service, good food and fun, the main reason to book a cruise with Disney’s ships is the amazing chance to spend the day on their private paradise called Castaway Cay in the Bahamas. Please enjoy the views after getting off the ship in the sun and walking to the island’s amazing beaches:

Early Morning On Castaway Cay from Sharkboy Toronto on Vimeo.

Thanks to Vimeo I was able to post the video exactly as I wanted. Middle finger in the air at youtube right now.

To view the video in full view, please click on this link: http://vimeo.com/61463382

I’m not a huge fan of Elton John… I mean I love what he stands for and what he fights for, but his music in the 80′s and 90′s weren’t really my style at the time and no one was happier to see him get back to his roots when he released “This Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore”. BUT… No one could top him in the 70′s, hits after hits after hits… And this song is by far my ultimate Elton John favourite. And what a great duo, their voices married so well together on this track…

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Last week I started with a small cough… then another… I mean I wasn’t too surprised, DeadRobot had had it for almost 3 weeks by then, tons of people at work had it too, so I knew it was just a question of time… but still… this cough is the most annoying I’ve ever had.

It’s been a week now and I’m about to call Webster’s dictionary so they can come up with a new word for it… I mean there’s cough which we all know and then there’s what I have… I wish I could put a soundbite in this post just to prove my point… Normally, it’s cough, cough and maybe cough… you might try to spit out the stuff or use a tissue or whatever… BUT this is cough, cough, cough, accccckkkk, acccckkkk, cough, cough, acccckkk, cough, cough, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK, cough, cough, COUGH, COUGH, AND CCCCCOOOOOOUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! And nothing, just dry… and get ready because when you finally catch your breath, it’s game on and you start again… Yesterday morning, I calculated that I was coughing at least 12 times per minutes… that’s 720 coughs per hours…

And nothing works to get rid of it… We tried it all… Benadryl Cough syrup, Robitussin Cough syrup, Benadryl And Robitussin cough syrup, DayQuil, NyQuil, Eucalyptus lozenges, Zinc lozenges, Halls Extra Strength, and lots and lots and lots of Aspirin Extra Strength too…. nothing, no improvement… Just sleepless nights trying to catch our breaths after coughing fits that seem to happen as soon as one of us finally falls asleep…

So yesterday, after missing work on Tuesday, I decided to go in. I lasted one hour, I was coughing like a moron and calling myself names for being such and idiot and not stay home… What I did though, was stop by the walk-in clinic on my way home. Met this young female doctor, she was very professional, checked the ears, the throat, under the tongue, the temperature, the blood pressure, listen to my breathing… all fine and normal but there was no denying this annoying cough. She said it was a viral bronchitis… Yeh, at least I now had a name for it… and she said that the only thing to do was to rest and drink liquid… I reminded her that it was the one thing I wasn’t able to do, I haven’t slept more than 30 minutes at a time since a week ago, same goes for DeadRobot… That’s when she proposed a mild dosage of codeine…

I’m very unaware when it comes to drugs, I didn’t even know until I picked up my prescription that codeine was a narcotic and I had to sign up a release for it… so of course it scared me… the pharmacist said 5 or 10 ml once at bed time only and he said that there was enough for 8 nights if I did the 5ml… The whole thing made me nervous… I didn’t know what this would do, how I’d react to it, I don’t do drugs, never done drugs, probably never will do drugs… but this coughing is so annoying that I thought I have to give it a shot…

Now I know that a teaspoon is pretty much 5ml, so last night when I went to bed at 9:00, I took the codeine syrup bottle and a teaspoon with me and took my dosage… I don’t know what was suppose to happen, but nothing happened… I didn’t see stars, I didn’t fall asleep, and the coughing continued… in fact, it seemed that I was coughing more than ever, and louder, and longer… So from 10ish until 3:30am, I would finally fall asleep only to wake up in a coughing fit pretty much every 15 minutes and me swearing something else about this fucking codeine… I went through all the insults i could think of about this codeine… I guess I had built up my hopes to high that one teaspoon of syrup would cure everything… I just didn’t think it would make it the worst night to date… So from 3:30am until 5ish, I was on my iPad, coughing and reading and coughing… and then I finally fell asleep and didn’t wake up for 90 minutes… and I woke up all drenched, I had broken a fever or something AND I wasn’t coughing every time I took a breath… Coincidence or codeine???

All I know is that I’m still coughing, but my head doesn’t want to explode everytime now… and that my coughing has been reduced by 50% or so… Much happier…

Tonight, DeadRobot is taking his 5ml of codeine if I have anything to say about it….

I usually start my work day in a good mood. I mean, I plan on it. I get to work early, read my book for awhile, drink my coffee and relax. It helps when you know you’ll have a busy day with tons of different things thrown at you.

So, regardless of what happened the day before, I usually start my work day in a good mood…

This morning was particularly retarded though, it was like the flood gates of Idiotville opened up and were set on our office… and I don’t mind silly questions as long as I don’t start thinking that the person is having me on, I’ll continue to answer… but I draw the line when people start getting more personal, like, say my French accent.

This morning, after the first 2 clients who were full of “what if” questions, I called this angry man who was already mad for getting tickets, was mad that he got caught in the rain waiting for the doors to open and was mad that “I called his number too quickly”… yeah… I’m like you guys, whatevs, right?

After trying to diffuse the situation and trying to lighten up the mood a little, he suddenly went:

Angry Guy: “You speak French?”
Me: “Yes”
Angry Guy: “Yeah, I can tell” and then made this sound like it was all funny
Me: (without missing a beat) “Do you smoke?”
Angry Guy: “Yeah”
Me: “Yeah, I can tell” and didn’t make any sounds

He looked up to see if I was making a joke or not, and my face must have said it was best to not to pursue this…

I don’t know why I get sensitive when I feel people make fun of the way I speak English. Honestly, I don’t hear an accent but it must be there as enough people notice it. I just don’t get why it becomes the subject of jokes when more than 50% of the people in this city speak with a foreign accent to begin with… Maybe I live in the funniest place on Earth and I just don’t know it…. Sale Windows 7 Ultimate
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Another temperature record broken in Toronto today…
It’s very hot, it’s very humid… A LOT of air conditioning is needed to help make the work day better… Unfortunately, air conditioning is not what my office is known for… Don’t get me wrong, there is cool air in there but mostly at the opposite end of the building from where my work station is… Some people in my office have to wear a sweater and some, like me, end up with a sweat trail down the back of their shirt…

So… It’s hot where my counter is…

Not only is it hot, but it seems the heat is bringing out all the people with bad habits… Or, again, maybe it’s the heat that makes me more susceptible to their bad habits…

Me: Only court date available is in November
Hag: Are you sure?
Me: Yes, extremely sure
Hag: I was hoping for December…. Are you sure there’s nothing for December
Me: Only court date available is in November
Hag: But what about December
Me: Let me make this clear, just in case… The only court date available is in November. Not December, nor October, nothing in September, nothing in January next year… I have nothing for February either… And August this year is also full. So, to recap, the only court date available is in October. So I’ll go ahead and print your new letter…

OR

Crazed-Out-Lady-With-80′s-Hair: (in one breath) So, it’s like this, I was arrested on DUI when going through a divorce and I had a miscarriage and they gave me this ticket and my lawyer took it to court and they changed it to careless driving which is stupid because the police said I blew 77 in a 80 and when I was in jail they gave me that paper and then the sergeant in chief released me and because he didn’t like me he decided to make it stick so I have a ton of money I don’t care about money and I’ll pay everything but I want my license back and I’m going to sue the entire police because I blew 77 in a 80 and that’s not fair that I was arrested when I had a miscarriage… I’m sorry if I seem nervous but you have to admit that it’s not fair. These laws are stupid and the cops don’t give a shit what happens to me and I have a letter from my doctor that says I’m ok to drive, so I will be driving… (and then I tuned out for a bit because Talk Talk was on the radio and it brought me back to my early 20′s when I was enjoying dancing in smoky bars with all the other fun Montreal alternative boys at The Garage…)

Or

Guy: I got this letter, I want to pay the fine
Me: (looking up info)
Guy: How many tickets do I have? Can you tell me if my license is suspended? How much money do I owe?
Me: (head slowly starting to spin) It’s $215
Guy: (handing a stash of $20) There you go
Me: (trying to count the money)
Guy: So can you tell me what the ticket was for? How many more tickets do I have? Can you tell me if I have court dates coming up?
Me: (trying to count the money a 2nd time)
Guy: Can I see all my tickets? Do you know if I have parking tickets? Did you see if I owe any more money?
Me: (trying to count the money a 3rd time) DUDE! IF YOU ASK ME ONE MORE QUESTION, I’M JUST GOING TO WALK AWAY…
Guy: oh…
Me: (finishing transaction in silence and giving him his receipt) There… good lord man… what’s your next question now… I can only do one thing at a time, I can answer all your question but you have to calm down a bit… What do you want to know first.
Guy: (silence)
Me: So… what’s your next question?
Guy: Where’s my change?

And so it went for most of the day until 4pm finally came. I couldn’t have been happier to have seen the end of that working day…

I made this little video to get my sister excited about our upcoming Disney cruise aboard the Dream since I couldn’t find something fun on youtube recently… I realized I had all these pictures from our last trip and decided to make a little montage.

Of course because I’m using copyrighted music, youtube won’t let me syndicate it for iPhones or iPad… oh well… still, since it’s in HD, go ahead an press the full screen button…

Today at lunch time, just as I was exiting one of my fave haunts, The Wolrd’s Biggest Bookstore, I heard one of the cashier finishing a transaction by saying: “Thank you sir” to a woman… Oh lawd… OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH LLLLLLAAAAAWWWWWDDDDDDD!!!! Of course, I couldn’t just leave…

Clerk: Thank you sir
Woman: Sir?? I’m a woman (her voice was high and shrilly)
Clerk: I’m SO sorry, I really meant to say Miss (super apologetic, like he absolutely meant it… he looked petrified)
Woman: I don’t like being insulted like this. Especially after spending all this money… (and then the finger when all pointy at the guy’s face)
Clerk: I apologize, I really am sorry… (looking down)
Woman: You better be… I’m not a man…

(Hu-hum!)

Me: And apparently no lady either, he’s apologized enough for a silly little mistake

(KABOOM!!!)

Woman: Why don’t you mind your own business
Me: I was until you started yelling
Woman: This is none of your business

(should I do it??? should I??)
(yes… here it comes..)

Me: Yes sir!

And I took my leave on that note…

ahaha.. fucking twat not letting a person apologize for a simple little slip of the tongue… Of course he knew you weren’t a man, mistakes like this happens, deal with it…