Treeplanting . . . not so much

Hey All

Well. Here I am. At an internet cafe in Chapleau. Which is a small town in the middle of nowhere. It is treeplanters day off. I will not be returning to camp with everyone else tonight. I am staying here in a hotel and catching a train towards home tomorrow. Let's just say that my adventures in treeplanting-dom did not go as planned. I am going to be a pussy and I am not going to stick it out. While I feel bad that I couldn't tough it out I am glad for my experiences here and the people I have met. But I will not be at all sorry to walk into my home in Guelph. God I love home. I want to bake and sleep in a bed and not wake up at the crack of dawn and use a flush toilet. Call me crazy. I will tell of my crazy times in the bush later. And let me tell you . . . it gets crazy. Just watch out when you hang out with a bunch of drunk treeplanters. Things get retarded. More to come.

Songs I Love

Hey Everyone!!

Since I will soon be gone to the boons to live in a tent, commune with bears and eat tree bark, I want to get your fave songs so I can download them and put them on my new (PINK!) MuVo mp3 player (which, btw I LOVE!!). And I want to share with you my current loves - song wise.

Jimmy Eat World - For Me This Is Heaven
-absolutely gorgeous, awesome lyrics, I can't stop listening to it. Especially the chorus "when the time we have now ends, when the big hand goes 'round, again. Can you still feel the butterflies? Can you still hear the last goodbyes?" And then when he goes "If I don't let myself be happy now, then when? If not now, when?" I think it's about the demise of a relationship. Lovely. Beautiful piano and instrumentation. Just trust me.

Something Corporate - Konstantine
-checked for the lyrics online, and there are 50 (50!!) pages of people talking about the meaning of the song and talking about how it made them pull over and cry for hours (btw it didn't make me cry, maybe I'm heartless). Again with the gorgeous piano (I am such a sucker for piano). Some ppl recomend a live version, which is good but I like the recorded one too. I say, get them both. Again I think this is about a relationship that might be ending. And I generally love SoCo, ever since they opened for Good Charlotte. Check out Fall, Forget December, I Woke Up In A Car, etc.

Postal Service - Nothing Better
-my cousin Nathan has introduced me to this fantastic band. They have their own sound and I love how they have some songs (like this one) which is a kind of conversation. This is a really sweet song about a guy who doesn't want to give up on being with his ex-girlfriend. The demise of a relationship. . .again. Is this a theme for me or something?? Anyway, it's really simple and really awesome. It's kind of trippy-rave-techno-ish which I generally don't like but I dig it in this song. In this band really. Check it out check it out check it out . . .

MxPx - Quit Your Life
-don't know if it actually is MxPx, but that is who I found it under in Kazaa. It's just a cute song with a catchy chorus. Makes me smile. Not much else to say. Except - who doesn't love MxPx? Even though I thought they sold out I sort of changed my mind. Maybe they just grew up. And they are FANTASTIC live.

Eve 6 - Promise
-kind of cute, although with an odd message. Sort of about the things that can go wrong in a relationship and how to know what to do about them. Like "I promise not to mind if you go your way and I go mine". Warning, does have a swear word, but it is almost always censored. Love Eve 6. Here's To The Night, anyone?

Dashboard Confessional - Plain Morning
-love love LOVE it!! Sad but cute, most of us already know this one. I love the harmony and simplicity and general sadness in this song. Just listen.

I could go on for hours, music is huge for me. Oh, one last plug for Low by Kelly Clarkson. So good. Anyhow. Let me know what I should hook myself up with all! Thanks.

Grrr . . . anger at technical support!!

Hey

So I am going to rant here for a bit. I have this computer that I adore (yeah that's right, I said I adore my computer, and it's hot too, what with it's blue-y purple-ish lights and all, the lights are when made me attracted to it) and I lucked out because when I bought it new I got this really awesome deal where if I paid like $75 I could get this hp all in one printer/scanner/fax thing, plus I got a rebate for it. So you know sweet deal, rock on. And I had no problems with it up until last week. For a long time we had no black ink (millions of papers at college have a way of doing that to your ink), so we went to this island ink place and got it refilled for like $17 which I was quite happy about b/c as you know a new cartridge is like $50. Then I needed to print something for my dad. But it would work. So today I thought I'd try the troubleshooting bs to see if that would work. And after like 3 times through that, uninstalling and re-installing my printer, still no go. So I was like AHA! I'll call hp customer service. Of course it was like $34.99 or $60 something for any kind of help. Great. Thanks a lot. So the lady on the phone was like, well, go to the website and someone will help you over a messenger service. So that's great, but I make the mistake of telling this guy that I had my ink cartridge refilled. And he goes on to tell me that HP does not support the refilling of ink cartridges b/c different formulations might mess up the printer blah blah blah. And I'm like ok but it's too late for that, I don't think that that's the problem. And then he asks if the problems started since I refilled the ink, and I say yeah it was at the same time. And then he goes YET AGAIN into the friggin "HP doesn't support having cartridges refilled, and it isn't under warranty, blah blah blah". As if I can change that now. And as if they don't pay him to say that because he works for HP and they want to rape me with their excessive cartridge fees. Grrrr. And guess what? My printer still isn't fixed. BAH!! Good for nothing support people . . . you pay like $2000 for their products and what do the give you? Bullshit and no help. GAH!