wow, i did some REAL work at work today! i spent the whole day battling with ms access queries (those things are SUCH a pain to make up!), and then learned how to make a pivot table in excel. those are actually quite cool, and i spent most of my afternoon using that to generate a whole bunch of reports. i made so many reports that i was starting to feel bad about wasting all that paper...but hey, i've gotta come up with some useful info so i can present it to the bigboss to prove that i haven't wasted a month's worth of time chasing imaginary dots on maps...

after work, walked thru rideau, then went to the loblaws on rideau st. to pick up my pictures!! woohoo!! tried to pick up some guitar strings at steve's, but it was closed when i got there. grr... in case you're wondering why i of all people am looking for guitar strings, apparently elixir strings are about $50CDN / set in sweden..... thought i could find them cheaper over here and send them over, hehe. i walked back down to chapters and tried to find a bday present for my sister... chapters has what i'm looking for - online. so i just came home and ordered it and i'm just gonna have it shipped straight to her, may as well! better than me having to wait for it and then ship it myself...considering her bday is oh...tomorrow (technically today!). oh well, she's in montreal til friday anyway, so it's not like she'll get it in time either way!!

it was a nice evening, so i just walked home from chapters. (man, that was a lot of walking today) i had a gorgeous walk along the canal! came home and icqed (as usual) and talked on gphone (i love internet phone...this thing is gonna save me a fortune!).
it was cool icqing johan! say hi to johan, everyone!! for those that don't know (or haven't noticed...), johan is from norway! he is a regular commenter on my blog (YAAAAY for johan!), and he is this summer's cocm intern! he's staying at dick's house right now...in the room on the right at the top of the stairs....that's the best room! the window's the coolest and the bed is nice and big and comfy! johan didn't seem to believe me when i said EVERYone's stayed in that room!! LoL (except sonja, who got gypped and got the small room!). hey johan, how tall are you? did you know that it's an unspoken requirement that cocm interns have to be short?? REALLY short?? i've met 4 previous interns, and tiz is the tallest by far (no offence to kalun, bert, or aju if you're reading this...)!! alright, that was my johan-plug of the day. he said he liked being mentioned in my blog. is this enough?? : )

and aside from talking to tiz on gphone for the rest of the night, that's about all i did. well, i managed to do a lot of work while on the phone too, cuz tiz was also doing work. well, i guess we werent' really talking then, huh? hehe...well, we were keeping each other company. i sent a mass email to kcf ppl, i bought my sister's bday present online, and i tracked her down in montreal. the internet is a great way to stalk (and it's not like hotel phone numbers aren't public...). so i called her at midnight to wish her a happy bday. on that note, happy 29+1 birthday to my sister...she doesn't know about my blog, so she'll never see that. LoL!! *gasp* i can't believe she's THAT old now...eek! hehe, well, SOMEone has to rub it in, and who better to rub it in than lil' me?? : ) gak....that's 1.33333 of a century!!