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With my 35th birthday coming up on Friday and with me off for the summer from school, there has never been a better time to fill up on my Amazon wishlist and send one or more gifts to yours truly.  :)

Off for the week.

Heading to the Quebec City region first for individual meetings followed by a 2 days of team meetings with the marketing crew.

The I am off to Rimouski. Don;t turn right at Rivière-du-Loup. Keep driving for one more hour, no faster than speed limit plus 20% = 108km/hour; I have been forewarned that the Brownshirts bite back higher than that.

Back Friday to help paint the stairwell and make babies. And get ready for my 35 years...

Finally watched Steve McQueen's Bullitt in its totality. Previously had only really watched the car scene with the volume turned up on my Dolby 7.1-equipped receiver and correspondingly tricked out family room above the garage.

BTW, looks right now like we won;t be doing the in-ground pool. That leaves money to buy a DLP rear projection set later this summer. YOu know how it works, save 25K, spend 5K. Still ahead by 20K. N'est-ce pas?;)

PS: how come HCW™ doesn't like my math ?

Spent a romantic afternoon and evening with HCW™ on Friday.

Left work early-ish to go down to the Old Port to see Cirque Du Soleil's latest effort, Corteo. Beautiful afternoon and a beautiful day in general.

Visually very beautiful. Technically, some of the performers seemed to be off a bit. Maybe since it was first show of the day.

After having seen 'O'  a couple of years back though, it is hard to be blown away again.

Quiet weekend.

No taxes to do. No homework to do. No lawn to mow (there is no lawn, let along a mower to mow it with.)

The only priorities are to plow through my backlog of 4 unfinished issues of The Economist. More than ding this month's issue of The Atlantic. Maybe take a crack at last month's issue of Foreign Affairs, so as to make room for this month's.

Pay some bills. Clean up the house. Spend time with HCW™.

'nuff said.

With HCW™ away for the weekend, it incumbs upon to me entertain myself. Luckily, The Movie Network is playing Soul Plane tonight.

Before that though, I will watch the first half of Real Genius, the Val Kilmer classic featuring the guy who lives in the closet and the house that explodes with popcorn. Yummy!

Coming home from work last night, I had to make a decision.

HCW™ was away for the weekend. She had been too busy to do the groceries--her only responsibility, after all!--and so there was nothing to eat.  Driving along the 116, I faced two choices.

The first was to head home, take the dog out, and order 2 medium pepperoni pizzas from the local joint. By my calculations, this would have provided enough for 6 meals over the next 3 days: supper, breakfast, lunch, supper, breakfast, and lunch.

The second choice was to stop of at the grocery store and pick up some food with which to make a few real meals, enough to get me through the weekend. Which I did.  But that didn't stop me from picking up some jujubes on the way out.  Hehe.

A recent edition of the AIMS newsletter to which I am subscribed offers this choice morsel:

Is too much information bad for your brain? A study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard cautions that data overload gives rise to a condition called "infomania," in which a worker deluged with information experiences diminished concentration. Tests demonstrated that office workers inundated with phone calls, e-mail and other data inputs suffer a higher effective loss of IQ than marijuana smokers.

I can identify with that.

I somehow found time last night to write a cover letter as part of an application to win a bursary from the Quebec Association of MBAs. What wonderful projects one could consider with the winnings ...

I have put on 2 pounds in the last few weeks as a result of all the junk food I have been eating to keep up. The plan now is to use the remaining bit in my health balance account to buy a stationary bicycle and some free weights so I can work out from home either before or after the workday.

The meaning of having an iPod is being able to listen to Sigue Sigue Sputnik while waiting for the next subway train to pass.

Income tax done and squared away. Need to remember to pay the FCs. That's all. I am exhausted.

Spent the weekend working it plus some homework for this morning, plus some stuff from work.

Barely slept at all last night.

Found out tonight the subject for the take-home final for my history course. Plan to work on it Thursday and Friday night. Free up my weekend...