The New Floodgates of the Mind

Well, we finally took the plunge last night. We’re moving off of dial-up to something much faster. We don’t really need High Speed at home right now, but the 48k dial-up was just getting in the way of efficiency. Thus, we’ll be jumping to 600k and at the same time we’re killing our Bell line (and L.D. plan with Rogers) to go with Videotron’s IP Telephony.

Yes, the evil Borg of Videotron have once again managed to suck me in as clients. I hated their service and jumped to LOOK TV as soon as it became available in my area something like 10 years ago. I promised I’d never go back. In a way, I haven’t, because I’m not getting their cable or satellite service. Heck, we’re quite happy with our regular TV and Rabbit Ears. We catch what we need and that’s more than good enough.

But, lo and behold, one unfortunate event in this move is that I will be cancelling my service with ColbaNet. These guys were always great and it’s a testament to this little company that could that they managed to last all these years and have continued to grow. Had they been able to provide as affordable a package as I’m getting with VT, I would have stayed with them. So now, after… what? 10 years? more? My dear aragona at colba net account will soon be history… as will Chantale’s account that I created for her back in 98/99. Wow. Who could believe you could get nostalgic for an email account?

At any rate, now comes the almost-impossible-to-complete task of letting everyone know about the address change. They will, of course, now be savageland accounts. After all, regardless of what service providers we move to in the future, I will continue to own and operate Savage Enterprises and Savage Enterprises Publishing and thus that domain is assured 🙂

To quote one of my very earliest S.E. sigs: “Stay Cool… it’s a Jungle out there”

Really have not been sleeping well recently. Heck, last night was more a night of “naps” than true sleep. Lights out at 11pm… eyes open at 2am… eyes open at 4 am… get out of bed at 5:30am… catch 6:42am train… barely read 2 pages of “History of Freemasonry”… pass out until downtown.

bleah.

So, considering where my brain and energy is at, I thought I’d share something a friend of mine sent me a little while back (thanks Mary!). Worth a giggle and there are those out there who know whereof it speaks 😉

One of the biggest problems about not posting daily is that when you finally do get around to posting, you either have too much to say or you’ve forgotten much of what you wanted to share. Just an observation. At any rate, let’s begin.

First off, I wanted to state how much fun I’m having with Kyle these days. With Chantale working weekends and thursday/friday nights, we get to hang out a lot more than we did and do a lot of stuff together. Unfortunately, outdoor plans get a little ruined with all the recent rain, but it won’t last forever. He’ll be 10 months old on Monday and he popped his seventh tooth yesterday! He’s too funny 🙂 Ever since last week we’ve been introducing him to a lot of different foods. Heck, he even partook of my lasagna birthday supper! 🙂 Actually, I wanted to use my lasagna icon to post this news! I think I still will 🙂

The installation of the fence has been delayed due to rain. Sheesh. Now my backyard looks like a jungle. (heh. my own private Savage Land 😉 )

See? I was just interrupted and now my entire train of thought has been tossed out the window. oh well. I guess I’ll just end with this other bit of news: I had lunch with my buddy Gabriel Morrissette yesterday and he confirmed to me that Mr. Comics (Ty Templeton) will be issuing a trade edition of the current Planet of the Apes mini-series, and a SECOND mini-series HAS been confirmed. That is very good news. Let’s face it, Canada needs a Comic Publisher – one that won’t overdo it and choke on their releases.

One last thing before I go. Yesterday’s Fast Fiction piece. It was written without a twist/ surprise ending simply because: (a) too many folks keep expecting twist endings and that’s not really what an FF is supposed to be about, and (b) it was more about sharing sentiments/ feelings, than anything else. Is the “speaker” *really* dead? What do you think?

Okay, I’m off now. I’m in a much better mood, by the way. Sleep and nice chats/ cozying with my wife helps a lot 🙂