Life

Ahh life you take one day and kick me in the pants another... Why do you attack me so?

Things go so well one day and you seem to punish me for it the next. If I have a good day at work the night with the wife is doomed, if i have a bad day at work, the home life is doomed.... *Insert storm clouds here*

At least the snow is melting- except for the flooding in my yard and leaking on my roof....Dammit!

Training

So I just spent the past week in another city doing training to one day be more than "just a locksmith". One of the reasons I became a locksmith in the first place is that I was not good at school.... This past week was an exercise in trying to pay attention. I went into a bunch of classes that were waaaay over my head and with people who had been doing this substantially longer than me. That being said I have a good feeling I may have actually passed.

Despite invites to get drunk and go whoring most nights I went back to my hotel room like a good boy and studied....How boring...yet strangely fulfilling. I did have fun one night when after splashing back a half dozen pints I decided that rather than send out some E-mails I would regret to parties that likely know who they are I would go swimming in the waterpark at my hotel. FUN! I went in the hot tubs, sauna, swam laps in the pool and as it was 8:30 at night I had the entire place to myself - not even a lifeguard around (sadly no bikini vixens either) but overall it kept me from making any bigger messes of my life.

I spent a whole 5 days doing classes from 7am to 6 pm.... and now find myself craving more of this "schoolin" I even caught myself at work today surfing the faculty of extension site for classes in my other life's passion - photography. I may go and take another class in the new year depending on my work schedule.

The next set of classes I can attend for work will likely be in Ontario, but luckily (?) for you the reader they say nothing to the tune of "what happens in Ontario stays in Ontario" I am sure that only applies for Vegas....and Calgary.

What a day

So the other day this customer of mine comes into buy a part for one of her key machines as I have access to parts and all. She has bought cutting wheels from me before but has very little grasp of the english language, so when she says" I need wheel like last time" I assume she means like the last 10 times she bought one....Turns out she has bought a new and different machine since then - so when she gets the wheel back to her shop, and despite the fact it looks nothing like the wheel she claims she "wanted" she uses it for 3 days. She then comes in and freeeaks out demanding we overnight one in for her. So we do - then hold it hostage until she pays the $150 air freight that she assumed we would pay because she only speaks English when it is convenient.... What a day.

First Post

I have never blogged before - first time for everything I guess.... What to write about? I suppose hopes, crushed dreams, the usual.