Notices by Puzzlemint (puzzlemint), page 12

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary Well that was an interesting day. When we went to go to the car this morning, the door to the garage was somehow locked. How, no one knows. Neither of us had keys for it, so it could only be locked from the inside. And, neither of us were inside. But the car was inside the garage, and the garage door opener was inside the car. So I had to take a hammer to it and belt the entire doorknob off. Combine that with all the fun of moving, and my arms are going to be sore for a week. And the garage door opener no longer stays inside the car. || Went to the old house to do more cleaning and packing, then headed over to a friend's place for turkey dinner. Just got home and finished unloading the car, now. I still have homework to finish. To say nothing of housework.

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!calgary Internet finally kicked in. We're mostly moved in. Still got a bunch of stuff to haul next weekend, but everything important is here. Needless to say, I'm not going to make it to the meetup. Still have a good chunk of homework that I haven't even started on. And because my COMP teacher is a crackhead, some of that homework is due on Monday. As in, statutory holiday thanksgiving monday when there's no school, but since all the assignments for COMP are turned in online anyways, that doesn't affect the deadlines. Crackhead.

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!calgary Wellp, nothing left to do but pack up my computer (later) and wait 'til tomorrow.

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary Well, we have a place. It's not the place we wanted, and I'm horrendously disappointed about that, but it's a place. We move in on thanksgiving weekend, so if there's a meetup scheduled I don't know if I'll be able to make it. Won't be coming this weekend, either -- my cold has entered the phase where it's mostly constant sinus headache and excessive air pressure in my ears, so.. yeah. Also, my external hard drive appears to be slowly dying. It has all my pony stuff on it, so, this is not good. I may need to go shopping for a new internal.

Puzzlemint The Tech Ponies

God damn it Firefox I am so sick of your papayas. You do NOT need to increment the full version number for every minor addon-breaking patch! !techponies

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary Well, we're back in Didsbury again, until such a time as we're no longer in Didsbury. Still haven't heard back about that one place we really really wanted.

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So, early in the summer, the Studio B website revealed that it was animating 22 episodes for MLPFIM season 2. This conflicted with other sources saying there would be 24 new episodes. I think it was #DanielIngram who cleared it up, saying that there were 24 episodes, but 2 of them (obviously, The Return of Harmony), had been animated at the end of last season. Since animation is generally the last step in production, I think it's probably safe to say that Return of Harmony was originally meant to serve as a series finale in case the show wasn't renewed. Since it WAS renewed, it became part of season 2 instead. || Now in season 2, the EI logo is conspicuously absent, meaning the show is no longer classed as "edutainment". Since one of the major reasons for that classification was Twilight's moral-of-the-week letters, and those letters have served their purpose story-wise in Return of Harmony, I'm wondering if we've seen the last of "Dear Princess Celestia.."

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary So on the way back from Didsbury we decided to see how long it would take for us to drive from our (old) house to the Crowfoot C-Train station. It took slightly less than 50 minutes. || The C-Train from Crowfoot to SAIT is about 25-30 minutes. So my total commute time (for the coming week and a half) actually only increased by about 20 minutes. || I reiterate: despite having to drive in from 45 minutes out of town, my commute has only increased by 20 minutes. And THAT is why I hate taking the bus. Glad I only have to do it for two more days.

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary In other news, it turns out that even if we get the place, we are going to be going back to Didsbury for the first week of October. Mom works in the finance department for a big company, and the first week of October is quarter-end, so she's really not going to have time to move into a new house from a different town; but the following weekend is the Thanksgiving long weekend, which gives us plenty of time to get everything taken care of. || The main point is, for that one week, we're going to have to commute from Didsbury, which is a pain in the apples. It also means we're each stuck with eachother's schedule. So for Monday the 3rd, not only will I be three hours early for class, I'll also be stuck sitting around doing nothing for hours AFTER class, because mom has things to do around town until, like, 9. So, uh, if anyone has nothing better to do on the 3rd and wants to hang out or something, I'd appreciate the company. (On a vaguely-related note, the 4th is my birthday. #yay)

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary MPC here, too. || Just got back from seeing potential houses #s 4 and 5. Mom and I both agree that if the landlord will have us, #5 is the one. It's down in Palliser, which is still a long transit trip, but it's just so much nicer than all of the other places we've been.

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary #cont unit in order to store everything. The one we're going to go look at tomorrow morning is the one mom's really excited about. Personally, I'm too busy being excited about ponies. WHO'S READY FOR SOME MORE MOTHERFLANKING JOHN DE LANCIE!?

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary Just got back from checking out potential new homes #s 2 and 3. 2 was pretty much a bust. Aside from generally looking unkept, the kitchen was too small, the garage was WAY too small, there's a giant crabapple tree constantly littering the back yard with crabapples that -I- would have to clean up, and it's generally just not worth the price they're asking. And the worst part is, I can't remember which Final Fantasy game the landlord's ringtone is from, so I've had THAT bugging me for the last 2 and a half hours. #3 was possibly the best one we've seen so far, but there are two significant issues: the first being that it's way the frig down in Cedarbrae -- granted, it's only a short bus ride to the C-Train, but then it's a LONG C-Train ride (which is still better than the long bus ride to a short train ride I'm dealing with now). The bigger issue, though, is the lack of storage space. There's just not enough room for all our stuff, so we'd have to rent another storage#charlimit

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!calgary Schedule's been swapped around. We're not doing the "moving crap from town to town" thing until Sunday, so I'll definitely be able to make the meetup. Though, with my wonderful new throat infection, I don't know how long I'll be able to stay, and I'll probably be doing the whole hanging-in-the-back-not-saying-anything thing even more than usual. || @thetundraterror re: the DS. Unless it's a DS Lite, I'll probably be needing the charger, too. Probably goes without saying, but better safe than sorry. || In other news, we went to look at our first potential new home this evening. It's a decent-sized duplex with good neighbours. Rent's a little high, but the big selling point is that it's only 4 blocks from SAIT, which effectively reduces my travel time to and from school to 0. That'll come in real handy when I have to start juggling homework and a part-time job. Still looking into other alternatives, though. We'll be touring some tomorrow morning (after ponies, obviously). chrlmt

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And on top of everything else, I am now sick as a dog. Also, my second monitor has just randomly decided to stop working. || The good news is, we're going to look at a potential apartment at 7:00. Which gives me about 2 hours to finish my homework.

Puzzlemint calgarybronies

!calgary I don't suppose anypony has a spare Nintendo DS laying around they'd be willing to let me borrow.. uh.. indefinitely? Pretty bummed about my own being a write-off, and it's looking increasingly likely that for the next while, my only free time is going to be the breaks between classes. || Also I have like half a dozen DS games that I've only ever been able to play on an emulator. It'd be pretty cool to play them on an actual DS someday.

Puzzlemint Video Game Ponies!

!vgp In other other news, I took my DS to a shop today to see if they could repair it -- turns out the damage was.. well, the worst-case scenario that I had considered. The ribbon cable for the top screen is physically damaged and needs to be replaced. And at the price it would cost to get a new ribbon cable -- if I even HAD that much money to spare -- I may as well just get a new DS. Hell, I saw one on Amazon that was $6 cheaper.

Puzzlemint Bronies at College/University

!college In other news, I made an OR gate out of switches and wires in Elec lab today. If I could figure out how to cobble together a NOT gate to go with it, I could make.. well, anything, theoretically.