Future Shop, Borat, Apocalypse and Lego Mario.

So here is some more things in my life that has happened that I remembered that I didn't mention before and stuff that is new and other things you all should read. So here we go. First.


IS THERE A FUTURE FOR ME AT FUTURE SHOP?! **Update**

Well the answer to this question is still not answered. But I'll tell you what they told me and you can come to your own conclusion. I was looking good or handsome or striking or hunky, (pick one and that was me), anywho, and I head on into Best Western where they are holding the interviews. I'm asked to sit in a room and fill out my availability. Now in this room they have a less than 3 minute trailer playing promoting their company. Lets just say that thing got old quick. I felt like I was being brain washed cuz it didn't take long to fill out "Available: Anytime, Everyday" so that sure was the only thing to pay attention to for a good 15 minutes whilst I waited. Anywho, I get called into the other room for my interview. Things went so well that half way through, she scheduled me for a second interview with another guy. After we finished up, back to the brain wash room for more "re-education" Another 15 minutes of that and the second interview calls me in. We talk for a bit so he can get to know my "character". Thing like my good qualities and bad qualities are discussed, as is my future within the company and in my life. And then it comes to the end of the interview and this is how the guy summed it up. He said "Everything I've heard sounds great and I think you'd be great for the company and here's where I'm going to be honest with you, if I can?" Um, sure?! "Even though you seem really good for us, it seems like you are a person who knows what he wants, sees the light at the end of the road. However, in order for you to get to that light, you often will take the side roads to get there. You take the long route. So I'm not saying for sure that you've got the job but I like what I've heard and if things go well then you'll hear from us next week. And if you don't get a call, don't fret cuz sometimes things don't work with the ones we do hire so you still might here from us." That was the gist of it. So he liked what we discussed but what was with the light/road analysis? Does that mean he wants to hire but questions my decision to join the company. I don't know. You be the judge!
**Update**
After I wrote most of this blog I didn't finish it before I posted it and before I came back to it, I got a call from Future Shop. I've got the job! Not 100% sure of all the details, but it's full time and it'll get the bills paid. So aparently I do have a Future with them.


NEXT: MORE BORAT

So I'm sure most of you may not care about Borat but I stumbled across some "Best of Borat" There is a bunch of hilarious scenes especially at his manners class near the end of video. Now I'll warn you it's about 25 minutes but it's funny shit.
Here it is for you.
Best of Borat


AND THEN THERE WAS THE APOCALYPSE!!! AND THEN IT WAS GONE! AND THEN IT WAS BACK! BUT NOT COMPLETELY! AND THEN IT WAS BACK IN FULL FORCE! *play Star Wars Empire song* bum bum bum bumpa bum bumpa bum (that's the sound of immanent chaos and destruction and evil)

Sorry for the long title. But it's Apocalypse he deserves it. Anywho, it all started back I think in April. I was bummed out and Lauren (my sweet sexy girlfriend) ordered a Wolverine action figure online and had it delivered to me. And it cheered me up all right, cuz I'm a big nerdy kid after all. So as I'm opening my present, in the package is this big leg of another figure, which turns out to be Apocalypse. Which is a villian in the X-men Comics that is basically all powerful. Not the best character but still cool. So now I'm intrigued to get the rest of the parts. As weeks went by I picked up a few of the other action figure that contained his other parts. The rest were then givin to me as birthday presents. Again thanks to my lovely G/F Lauren. Anywho, after a week of farting around with him, I went to pose him on my computer desk and SNAP! His friggin leg snapped off. I couldn't believe it. I was pissed, cuz this happened about 20 minutes after getting a call from Midas Muffler taht I needed to get $1400 in car repairs. So that was the icing on the cake. Now you might be thinking well, just go buy a replacement. Well that's not that easy because where it broke prevented me from doing such a simple repair. So I sent an email to the company customer service. Their response was to send the whole thing to them and they will replace him.
Done and done, off with the postal service it went. Few weeks later a letter arrives. It states that it will take 4-6 weeks to get my figure back but since parts were out of stock it was possible it would take longer than 6 weeks. Okay whatever. This was Mid June. Late Aug is rolling around and at this point I'm in the process of moving back home. I write the company a forwarding address if they haven't sent it yet. Ironically, an hour after sending the email Apocalypse is returned to me. Talk about speed of service. I open the box and he's all disassembled again. I start to put him together again but there's a problem. The hole in his leg to join to his hip joint is way too big. So I send them another email to disregard the last email but tell them that now I can't put him together cuz of his leg problem. I receive a couple of response to both of the emails that state the exact same thing, showing that he didn't even really read the second one but whatever I'll deal with it in the sault. No less than a week at my new place here in the sault and at 8:30 in the bloody morning after a night of drinking, mail man has a new parcel for me with the replacement parts. Horray! I put him all back together and he's ready to destory the earth again.


LASTLY LEGO MARIO

K I'm a nerd but I think this guy takes the cake for a few reasons. And here they are. 1. He has legos. (easy, easy. I know legos are cool) 2. He figure out how to design mario out of them. 3. He has the entire first level of mario 3 memorized or figured out. 4. He's animated a lego mario doing the entire first level of super mario 3 using stop motion animation and CGI.
Anywho, it looks neat. Check it out.
Lego Mario

Randomness and other useless things for you to read!!

Since my bizarro rant in my last blog, I sure have been busy. So busy (or lazy depending on how you look at it) that I haven't wrote a new blog in awhile. During this "break" thing have happened that I wish to forward on to you. Hopefully I can remember everything. So without further adieu...

MOVING BACK TO THE SAULT

So the first question I'm normally asked is "So how do you like living back in the sault?" Well the answer is, Engh! (that's the sound of a grunted shoulder shrug that is as neutral an answer you can get.) The soo is nice cuz it cheaper to live here, and my friends and family are here, not to mention the g/f is here too. But the Toronto thing had it's plus's too, for instance, if you wanted to do basically anything, you could just get up and do it. Here in the sault, you'd have to drive atleast 3 hours to possibly hit a city that may or may not have said activity available to you. I'm currently living in a the basement of a friends house with all utilities but phone included. Which is a pretty sweet deal. I'm back at my old position at The Block. I sure fell right back into the groove but now I have some financial issues. Here's is my prediciment. Blockbuster Head Office decided to cut 16 available hours for scheduling. Thus, leaving my boss Annalee stuggling to give everyone a necessary amount of hours. Thus, giving me only about 18-24 hours a week. Which is about half of what I was use to. Oh and on a side note, one of the other reason for coming home is to save money for potential tuition for Sept 07. So since this is a "cut" in pay, I now have to consider a second job. Which brings us to my next topic.

THE FUTURE SHOP ONLINE APPLICATION

Oh my god, that thing is hilarious. If you have about 20 minutes of your life to waste and you want to laugh at some ludicrous questions fill it out. Basically it starts out with you filling out basic info about yourself but then you get into "Stage 2". Now "Stage 2" is a bunch of questions that you are to answer as best you can. There is probably about 50 or so questions that basically are asking you if you are:
a) a thief
b) a wannabe thief
c) disgruntled at society
d) a goody two shoes
e) someone likes to watch others steal
f) a brawler
g) all of the above

An example of the application: "Customers are just out to get you" with your possible answers of Definitely Yes/Probably Yes/ Probably No/ Definitely No
Now I'm think to myself on this one "Is this a statement or a question"
Another question "Have you always told the truth?" Possible answers: Yes/No. Now this is a trap of a question cuz unless you're Mother Teresa or Jesus Christ himself then you can't possibly answer yes. If you answer Yes then you are lying and therefore haven't answered the truth and therefore classified a liar and won't be hired. Then if you answer no, then you are telling the truth but you are a liar that doesn't deserve to be hired but are probably thanked for the honesty. These are some of the more basic questions. I can't remember anymore at the moment but Lauren and I were friggen dying reading them. Speaking of dying, I totally could've caused a horrible car accident, which brings us to segment 3

THE CAR ACCIDENT THAT I CAUSED BUT WASN'T INVOLVED IN

Okay, so it wasn't an awesome tire squealing, cars flipping, gas tanks exploding accident. Actually it was just enough of an accident to have be qualified as one. Here's the story, I hope you enjoy. As a motorist, there are many a times when you do the good samaritan act of letting another motorist pull out of a parking lot by stopping early at an intersection. Well that was one of those days and one of those acts. I had stopped early to let an older gentleman pull out. Now this fellow was wanting to head in the opposite direction that I was, so as he was continuing his approach he was looking to make sure he could merge into his appropriate lane. As he was doing so, I noticed yet another motorist in my rear view mirror speeding down the centre of the road to make a left turn at the intersection. Here's the problem, the old man wasn't looking in my direction anymore, therefore, he's not noticing the speeding motorist heading towards his merging zone. Now it's also quite apparent that Speedy Gonzalez doesn't notice Old Man Driver. Sure enough before I could even finish honking my horn the old man clipped the whole side of Speedy's car destroying the whole side of it and only doing minimal damage to his own. I felt kinda bad cuz if I was a total dick and just block the old man in, there wouldn't have even been an accident. So as the light turned green, i just simply drove around the traffic blemish and continued on with my day. Speaking of day, it 430 in the morning as I reach this point in my blog and I'm going to bed. I think I had more to write but my brain stopped working back at the word bizzaro, the rest was written on auto pilot or sugar from the multiple handful of jelly belly jelly beans. MMMMMMM jelly belly's...oh bleh...buttered popcorn. To be continued? Definitely Yes/Probably Yes/Probably No/Definitely No