Lost and not found

When I dropped my car off, I thought I was just leaving it there for a couple weeks to get repaired, so, I didn't bother taking everything out of it. Well, it was declared a write off and apparently they moved it and finally told me where a month later. Was a buissance to have to drive out of town for that, but, the more upsetting thing was that some of my stuff was gone. Some things were still there, but others were gone. Nothing with too high of a monetary value, maybe $100 total, but more upset to lose something personally valuable, a souvenir from a trip 10 years ago. The strangest thing for them to have lost is the license plate, how do you lose something bolted on to the vehicle? So far, basically everyone just shrugs their shoulders. Just another failure of theirs in my opinion.

Solo living

I'm getting a roommate soon, it will be a little odd to live with someone again. She had mentioned at one point that she had never really lived by herself in the past anyway, having gone from family to various roommates in different places. Another friend in Waterloo mentioned that he'd pretty much always lived with people, except for a few months one summer. When I started thinking about it, I realized that although I had always considered my situation of living alone to be rather normal, it seems like it's actually a rather unusual situation. Having reviewed most of my friends, most either lived with family until they got married, or, had roommates for the whole time in between family and marriage.

Just thought it was interesting.

Partly it's for financial reasons, since about 2006 or so home ownership costs started becoming crippling. But prior to that it wasn't bad. And some people even now are financially quite capable, yet still prefer to live with parents or have roommates. (living with parents is an odd social phenomenon, for some groups it being quite accepted while for others it being completely disrespected).

I wonder if it means that although I've had concern that sharing a living space with a stranger may be less comfortable, by all examples it seems that I should psychologically be better off than before? Lets hope so.

Lost and found

You know what's a crappy feeling? Reaching the summit of a hike, and then discovering that a pocket on your backpack is open, the pocket that you put your phone and wallet in, and the wallet is no longer there.

You know what's a crappier feeling? Reaching the bottom of the hike before discovering it.

Luckily, I only experienced the first. So, I just kept my eyes open wide on the way down, prepared to backtrack over the wide/multiple paths sections, etc. Luckily, I found it only about several minutes down from the top, and could relax for the rest of the descent. It was where I suspected, where I had tripped and fallen, the jolt and strange angle must have ejected the wallet.

And no wildlife had lifted any cash from it.

Safety rules

I'm trying a new phone. Luckily I read the safety rules, as there are several that I was bound to violate, such as:

"Turn your phone OFF when in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere."
"Make sure that no sharp-edged items such as animals teeth come in contact with the battery."
"Never place your phone in a microwave oven."
"Placing a battery in your mouth may cause serious injury."
and lastly
"Do not use the phone in areas where its use is prohibited."

TD Meloche Monnex

Still basically nothing happening with regards to the collision that was 5 weeks ago. I called 8 times, always just get the adjuster's voice mail, and no calls returned. Getting really sick of it. Though last year, it was around 5 months to take care of the hail damage, so I suppose this current issue is still in its infancy right? Maybe once this is over it's time for a different insurance company, even if it costs more. Though who knows, maybe this is industry standard.

Hindu IT

For some reason, I was noticing some Hindu deities, and thinking how good they would be in IT or programming. I mean, Dilbert cartoon already proposes that monkeys will surpass us by using their prehensile tail to control the mouse. Imagine deities, with additional arms or other appendages. Wow. I hope the cosmic economy doesn't take a dive and force them to come down here looking for work.

Work schedule

Keeps changing... so who knows.
Everyone is frustrated.
This project better be really lucrative, otherwise why the heck are we making ourselves suffer so much to do business with a country like Indonesia?!