maverick's truth

Should be back fully online tomorrow ... supposedly.

So ... I'm moving.

No really. I'm moving.

As in Saturday.

J calls and says "So, my dad got a truck."
"Good, when"

"Saturday"
"Uh.... okay....."

It's a good thing that I packed all last weekend and was basically ready to go "anytime". So yes. Saturday.

On the plus side, we have lots of help. J's roommates are all going to help, and she's got some people from the barn as well as some relatives on hand if need be. So that's covered. Utilities, etc. were all moved over when we took possession July 1. I've put in a request for the phone, internet, etc. to be moved over (we're keeping my number), but have yet to find out if they will be able to make the transition on such short notice. Basically, if you can't get a hold of me Saturday (or later) and need to, keep trying, because eventually, the phone will be at the right place. Until then J and I will both have our cell phones on and ready at all times, so if there's emergencies, just use those. For that matter, I'm not sure how much I will be around even on Friday, since we are going to spend most of the day moving boxes, etc. so that there's only the big stuff left for Saturday. Hopefully. So, as of tomorrow... if you need me, email me. Or call my cell. Tonight will be last minute (not quite frantic but close) packing of dishes and the like, and then "let the good times roll".

Oy.

It's gonna be a crazy weekend.

On a completely unrelated side-note, starting next Tuesday, I will be starting a 6 week course in the Western Martial Arts discipline of the German Long Sword (basically, a course in medieval swordsmanship). I'm looking forward to it; should be fun. But it also means you can't get a hold of me Tuesday nights, either! ;-)

Finally, I was able to register in another class for the winter semester. "Research Methodologies in Religious Studies". Sounds exciting, no?

The official press release:

12:32 PM EDT, 07/13/2005
NHL, NHLPA reach agreement in principle on new CBA

NEW YORK/TORONTO (July 13, 2005) - The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association have reached an agreement in principle on the terms of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Details of the new Agreement will not be made available publicly pending the formal ratification process by the NHLPA Members and the NHL Board of Governors.

It is anticipated that the ratification process will be completed next week, at which time the parties will be prepared to discuss the details of the Agreement and plans for next season. No further comment will be made until then.

I generally hate online quizzes, but this one is actually pretty fun. http://bluepyramid.org/ia/1q.htm Answer 6 questions, and find out which of the following books you are...

1. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
   
2. A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
   
3. The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman)
   
4. Roots (Alex Haley)
   
5. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
   
6. The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
   
7. The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
   
8. The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
   
9. Ulysses (James Joyce)
   
10. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
    
11. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
    
12. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
    
13. Confessions (Augustine)
    
14. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
    
15. The Dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
    
16. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
    
17. A Theory of Justice (John Rawls)
    
18. Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Robert Nozick)
    
19. Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
    
20. Compassion Fatigue (Susan Moeller)
    
21. Dune (Frank Herbert)
    
22. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
    
23. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
    
24. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
    
25. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
    
26. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
    
27. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
    
28. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
    
29. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
    
30. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
    
31. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
    
32. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
    
33. Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee)
    
34. "Master Harold"... and the Boys (Athol Fugard)
    
35. Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
    
36. Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
    
37. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
    
38. Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)
    
39. Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
    
40. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
    
41. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
    
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
    
43. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
    
44. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
    
45. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
    
46. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
    
47. Prufrock and Other Observations (T.S. Eliot)
    
48. Loosely Based (Storey Clayton)
    
49. Babar the King (Jean de Brunhoff)
    
50. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
    
51. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
    
52. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
    
53. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
    
54. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
    
55. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
    
56. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
    
57. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
    
58. 1984 (George Orwell)
    
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
    
60. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
    
61. Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
    
62. Night (Elie Wiesel)
    
63. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
    
64. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
    

I am "The Catcher in the Rye" which, according to the site means...

"You are surrounded by phonies, and boy are you sick of them! In an ongoing struggle to search for a land without phonies, you end up running away from everything, from school to consequences. In this process, you reveal that many people in your life have suffered torments and all you really want to do is catch them as they fall. Perhaps using a baseball mitt. Your biggest fans are infamous psychotics."

Whatever.

Got my marks for the spring semester. A+ in Eastern Religions and A in Nature of Religion. Personally, I thought for sure it'd be the other way around. Keep in mind that an A in this department falls in the 90-95% range and an A+ in the 96-100% range. So even an A isn't too bad... but like I said, I thought for sure it'd be the other way around.

In related news, I've registered for another course for the coming year; this one in the Winter semester: "Introduction to Judaism". Now, this is only a placeholder course for now, in case I can't get into anything else. Just being able to register in it was a bit lucky, though. It has been full for weeks, but I checked one day and there was one seat available. Someone must have dropped the course, and I managed to catch that one spot. So things are *finally* coming together.

And finally, it's officially here. First day of the Calgary Stampede. <sarcasm> Yahoo </sarcasm>.