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Name: Andy
Birthday: 12/27/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Weight lifting, Cooking, Spinning, Clubbing, Photography, Music, Debt.
Expertise: Computer Engineering Hardware Stream @ Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Business
Interior/Exterior Commercial/Residential painting.
Ladder's, Fall Arrest setup.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
12/16/2002
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| Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
I've finally found the time to update this, now that I'm back in Kingston after an extended weekend stay in Hamilton.
School is out for the summer boys and girls and I am just working full time until I leave for Europe with my Eurofriends. Exciting ain't it.
Everything is pretty much ready and final preparations and decisions have to be made before we embark on our journey to see what this whole "Europe" business is all about. I am REALLY looking forward to Loveparade2006. The lineup includes Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Blank&Jones and a thousand other DJ's. I hear they have a massive lighting and sound system setup at in the centre podium along with brand spanking new trucks for the fifty odd floats. !!!
Anyway, my lovely stay in Hamilton included heading back to the hammer after work on Friday night, hungover from the massive partying done on Thursday, the night after my exams. The following morning, I woke up to tutor my sister in math for her final exams, which were coming up the next week. This ate of most of my Saturday, after which I worked out and watched a movie with the kids and called it a day.
Come Sunday, I decided to splurge and go shopping. I ended up purchasing a new pair of jeans and three pretty damn pimping dress shirts. Oh, don't forget about the pink boxers  . Because of father's day, I decided to cook my whole family a big steak dinner. My aunt, sister and cousin's each got a big portion of well done T-bone cuts, while I made a medium rare massive AAA Angus Beef Cut steak for my uncle. The sides included grilled green and red bell peppers, asparagus, marinated chicken wings and cheese filled sausages. We celebrated father's day with a bottle of wine afterwards and called it a night.
Monday, included calling up my Eurofriend Alex and randomly getting him to drive to Hamilton. We went to the mall, had coffee and then watched a movie together. What a date it was! Nacho Libre was pretty damn funny. Later I randomly decided to drive to Waterloo with him to meet up with my wife Maggie and our other Eurofriend Chris. We arrived at around 9:30pm in the 'loo and watched Edmonton lose, while enjoying lively conversation and pizza. It was an excellent bonding experience with my fellow Eurofriends.
Tuesday, oh Tuesday. I woke up early to complete the "real" reason why I was in Hamilton. To help my aunt fix up her house -_-. Putting on a beater and shorts, I head out to the Hamilton Contractors & Building Supplies depot and bought myself a 5 gallon pail of concrete sealer and an anti-slip additive. When I got back, I power washed the driveway and backyard and grabbed breakfast while it dried. Afterwards, I spent most of the morning resealing the concrete with the anti-slip additive and put up a perimeter of tape so numbskulls wouldn't trample over my work.
Shortly after that was finished, I restained the backyard shed, again, with a semi-transparent stain. I did this because in order to fully restore the shed to it's original colour, I had to put a base solid stain coat (I had done this a few weeks back) to cover up discoloured portions of wood. The semistain I put on this time gives the cedar look back into the wood. Next up, is a clear coat of laquer to give it that shiny, glossy sheen. THAT took me till the late afternoon but the work was not finished yet because I had to re-mulch all the the landscaping around the house (which I had helped build) and cut the grass AND repaint most of the house. THAT took me till around 9/10pm... Had a shower and then we all went out to Crabby Joes for some wings and beer. What a hard day of work. I have a super nice beater tan now too. Wicked awesome! Plus I love this line of work, I should just drop my computer engineering and economics degree and go straight into construction. Start my own roofing/painting/construction company or something.
Wednesday included waking up super early to wish my sister good luck on her exams and head back to Kingston, where I had to start work at 3pm. Now here I am, after a big dinner with Veb (rum and chicken) and bubble tea with all those crazy asian people here in Kingston. Good times.
So I have a dental appointment tommorow morning then work. Oh.
AND THE SUMMER PUMP SESSIONS!!!
My hard work:
See all the landscaping, driveway shine and paint work? ALL ME. ALL ME. Click for super high resolution pictures!
Before (Garage door one tone beige)
After (Three tone colour set)
Before
After stage 1: Full sand and solid stain
After Stage 2: Semi-transparent stain
Stage 3: Clear laquer finish for shiny and high gloss sheen stage to come!
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| Good evening.
So, the weekend was quite fun filled. Friday after work I cleaned up the house and called it an early night cause I had been up till 3/4 the previous night.
Come Saturday, I woke up and went to work again. It was a long day, consisting of online jigsaw puzzles and record mp3 sampling on Beatport. I chit chatted with the local bum outside of Canada Computers and he gave me the downlow on IBM outsourcing and how he is going to apply for a degree at Queen's. I also found out that he makes about $120 on a good day in Kingston, imagine the amount of flow beggers get in Toronto. I know I have a monthly budget for bum's too so I'm not surprised they make that much.
Later that night, I had dinner with the Queen's Hydra's and congradulated them on winning. Kevbo and Nick both gave me cheques and now I'm $500 richer. Afterwards, Nick and I watched Old School and just caught up. Shortly after, we proceeded to a small house party with all the dragonboat people and went to Elixer for a JAM. Needless to say I dropped close to a bill and went WILD! Nick was more wasted than I've ever seen him. Good time's.
The following morning, I woke up really early and proceeded to meet my co-workers at Kingston Computer Planet (KCP) to participate in the first KCP VS Canada Computer's PAINTBALL game! It was a long one and a half hour drive to some place north of Belleville called "The Bunker" and played a series of grueling games. I was wearing my College Pro manager T-shirt and "designer jeans" and was a sitting duck cause of my white shirt. I decided to be more stealthy so I got some dirt and rubbed it all over myself and broke a couple of small branches with leaves and stuck them into the headband of my facemask. It was a funny sight, but that combined with my crawling along the forest bed made the best stealth approaches to their base. I got shot a couple times in the stomach, arm and hands and now they're bruised but the pain was well worth the fun! I'd like to further describe my wonderful weekend but I have to start doing my assignment that's due tommorow and study for my two exams that are next week.
CIAO!
P.S. July 15th, The Love is back!
 
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| This is what makes Andy ridonculously cool.
I start assignments that are due the next morning at 12 in the morning and I always manage to get by. This is why I am still up.
I also showed my midterm who was boss by tearing a 90% hole in it.
On the flip side, my other midterm wasn't that stellar. I guess I should not have only studied the 3hrs the morning of. Meh, I still manage!
ANYWAY, the past weekend was definately crazy. I'm sure there are going to be many more weekends like so to come! Time to catch some Z's. Have a good one and enjoy the beautiful weather!
EUROFRIENDS2K6@Alfies 05.26.06
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| MASSIVE:
Bob Sinclar Feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Children Of The Sky) 12" Remixes
You will be hearing this tune EVERYWHERE in the coming year or so.
Just like Massive Attack - Teardrop. Not many people know the name but when it plays you'll recognize the tune.
TUNE PARTY PEOPLE!
and OH!
Love Parade 2006 BERLIN 10YEAR is on July 15th!!! Guess where I'll be? BERLIN.
1.5MILLION party goer's packed into downtown Berlin. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want a brief intro to the party?
http://www.2camels.com/destination11.php3
I AM SO EXCITED!!! !!! !!! !!!
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| So. I'm pretty hammed right now.
I don't know how to explain this feeling.
It's a sense of, happiness.
I'm happy for someone.
It's never happened before!
Excuse me, while I savour this quadrouple gin and tonic.
Mmm.
But yeah, I'm sitting here, listening to my JxL. New album by the way.
And....
I feel ecstatic for the person.
CRAZY ain't it.
I sure believe so.
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