Let the games begin

The new NHL season will begin tomorrow for the Ottawa Senators and my bro and I will be there! Wooo

Confidence

On my way to my 1pm class (Database Management Systems) as the 96 was turning out of Bayshore and onto the 417 I was thinking about confidence and a way of putting into words and here is my rendition…

When you aren’t confident in yourself and the things you do I think what happens is this. In your head you’ve decided on a plan, a course of action. You are going for it. Your arms are moving towards the goal and your legs make sure you get there, but deep inside you don’t believe in yourself. Well hey, if you’re going to put forward the effort to go for it you might as well believe in yourself. Worse come to worse it doesn’t work out but at least you put 100% of yourself into it.

Just a thought

God doesn’t limp

Hmmm, its been 5 days since I made an update? Wow time flies when you’re doing nothing busy.

So here is the scoop.

• For one, the COOP process is under way. I’ve gone to my coop pre-placement interview and I was suggested to make a web page showing off my projects. For that task I needed a CMS (content management system), so I went out looking and found that Joomla fit the bill quite well. Once it’s completed I’ll let you see it.

• Apparently my summer work place overpaid me on my last cheque and now I have to send them back a check of $454.25, great. I should sue for the inconvenience…

• Last weekend (Sunday) I was at the gym, bench pressing as usual when my mind drifted, which in turn messed up my breathing and fucked me over. I got a killer headache that started in the back of my head. I’ve had this happen to me once before when I was a kid. The pain went away after 15 minutes and I managed to forget about the incident. Come Wednesday of this past week, I went to the gym again. Everything was good but I completely forgot about the incident I had on Sunday. So I started my routine with a simple chin-up warm up. On my last rep I got a strong pain in the back of my head .. AGAIN. Suddenly I realized that I forgot about what had happened and that I definitely should not have come to the gym today. Shit. The headache spread and lasted for the rest of the day and right through my pre-placement interview. I got home exhausted from the pain, took two pills and took off the headache. The next day my head was still sensitive so I got concerned. I went on google to do a little research about what I had experienced. I found a message from a fellow weightlifter in one of the groups. He had the same problem and he explained what the doctors told him.
  “I also got an explanation of what happened, and what could have
  happened.  You are correct about the breathing being the cause.  When
  you hold your breath while straining on a hard lift, you cause the blood
  pressure to increase in your skull (also known as the valsalva maneuver,
  which fighter pilots use to prevent blacking out during high g-force
  turns).  The increased blood pressure causes the wall of some blood
  vessels in the head to stretch and this irritates the blood vessel
  lining.  Since these blood vessels are surrounded by a sheath of neural
  cells, this sheath also gets stretched and irritated (hence the
  headaches).  This irritation presents itself in a form of inflammation,
  which takes several weeks to heal.  In a few (less than 5%) of the
  cases, the blood vessel may rupture slightly, which can be extremely
  dangerous, or even fatal.  Hence the need for a CT scan and a lumbar
  puncture to detect any blood in the cerebro-spinal fluid.

  I was not allowed to return to the gym, or do any exercise, until I had
  two weeks headache-free.  The headaches are not expected to return as
  long as I continue to breath properly while lifting.“ – Link
  So all that means no working out for at least a week. That goes for any and all physical activity which raises blood pressure. Yeah that sucks big time. But I won’t let my mind wander again…

• I didn’t last very long with reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and I stopped around the same place as everybody else. Edmond was just jailed. To make up for my laziness I downloaded borrowed the movie. I recommend you watch the movie and skip the 1000 page monster.

Anyways that’s the low down right there. Oh and did I mention that I dislike my class schedule and I’ve started skipping classes?

“God doesn’t limp” – House MD, Season 3, Episode 2

World Trade Centers

Remember Remember the 11th of September

It’s 7:51pm and I was watching a video released today by Bob and Bri of what they filmed on that day 5 years ago. You know to this day it’s surreal and unbelievable. The video quality is quite high so you might want to check it out for yourself. The thing that strikes me most is how you hear the fire trucks honking their way through traffic, people screaming, debris falling off of the towers. I keep trying to put myself in their position, try to understand what they felt what ran through their minds. It’s scary, it’s unpredictable but oh so real.

Bri (the women filming) says “it was a military plane”…
Was it really those “terrorists”? Will we ever know the truth?

Then when the first tower falls, you hear the women crying … I’m left speechless.

I will never forget September 11, 2001

Video

Minority Groups

I don’t get it. Why can’t a person of a minority group be an idiot? I don’t care if you’re homosexual, or your skin is puprle poka-dots, if you’re going to whine and moan about being accepted in society then accept this:

You too can be an idiot!