May 20, 2008

  • Dad's birthday celebrated, happy birthday dad (May 23rd)!

    Worked all day in the Gift Shop - started off slow, really slow, then picked up to a super-busy super-tiring day.  Nour's last day in the GS before she goes away for the summer;  Anna opened, I got there 945 b/c i wasn't sure if I was starting 945 or 1045 (after also having time to return my "Shoot 'Em Up" DVD rental to Rogers), found out i was starting 1045, went to White Spot for coffee and a cookie (White Spot's last day before their 3-week renovation).  Nour and Elissa started at 1145.  Rest of the day was non-stop busy, craaazy busy.  And understaffed.  Shari called in the early afternoon while I was at work - she wanted to hang out at metro for an hour while she picked up some stuff, but unfortunately I was working so I told her I'd call her back later.

    Showed Tina the tetra tops... alas, in the process, my purple icosahedron fell onto the concrete floor and broke, leaving me with only my green cuboctahedron, my white tetrahedron, and my yellow bipyramid... Tina said she'd try to reimburse me or something if she got the chance, or get the shop guys to glue it back together.  Hopefully she'll order them.  Maybe I'll order another few sets from Thinkgeek.

    After dinner, went to dinner with family - Milestones at Park Royal for Dad's birthday.  I ordered the Shanghai Stirfry Noodles and a side of mushrooms.  They were really good.  The appetizers dad and Karen ordered weren't all that great.  They picked up a sugarfree chocolate cheesecake for dad's cake.  It was also really good.

    Went to Karen's after where she gave me one of her new stainless steel water bottles to take home and try out, and this new Jet Li movie dvd she got called "the Warlord" that she'd done watching.

    Got home, gave Shari a call, she wasn't at her phone.  Read the news online... it's sad what's happening in china, really sad... they say they're expecting another possible quake sometime in the next day or so in Sichuan in the range of 8.0 on the Richter scale, and that people there were flooding into the streets into public spaces crowding together in the open away from buildings.  It's very sad, so many tens of thousands hurt and killed, even rescuers.  Msn'd Linda, she said she and Simon weren't going to be passing through that area on their trip so they should be okay.  Shari called back, we set up to meet up and see Indy IV at Guildford this Friday night after we both get off work, for the 7:30 show or so.