I'm done with work! I said goodbye to everybody. I'm going to miss the stray cats I befriended most though. We fed them so much food the last couple days :lol: I also got the reference letter I asked from my boss. It's rather short... First paragraph, it says I was trained in earthwork and concrete testing. Second paragraph, it says I was 'skilled' and 'pleasant' and that's it.

A lady at work introduced me to Sudoku recently. It was kind of fun the first couple I did but then it started getting tiresome. I find it to be kind of droneous requiring little imagination and a lot of mental labour. Plus correcting a mistake is a bitch. I'll stick with my crosswords thank you.

Monday, I'm going to head down to Six Flags Darien Lake in Buffalo for some R&R. Hotels were booked solid so we got a campsite on park grounds. It will be fun!

Then oh my, school starts. You know what? I'm kind of excited about school since we are getting into the meaty parts of civil engineering. Hopefully, I can keep my marks up for some scholarship money to roll in.

So Hojo, when are you going to get your own blog ;)

Went to Dave and Busters with a couple buddies from my old workpalce. I can't believe I played Formula 1 racing 5 times. Used up about half of my credit :lol: Also played soccer as usual on Sunday. But man, all the Indian guys didn't show up :mad: Well, we made the best of it.

My monotomous life continues. I did tell my boss I plan on leaving on the 26th *yay*. I am finding myself trying to squirm from assignments. I want it to be over!!!!!

Sights and no sounds during my travels at work:

State Farm Operation Center earlier in Summer


State Farm now


Making culvert head wall footing in Brampton


150 million dollar Hydro One transformer station in Markham

Bah, I had the unfortunate job of failing a concrete load today. It was the third time I dealt with this particular concrete company and each time the concrete had gotten progressively worst. What made it hard for me was this was for a wheelchair ramp meaning you're not going to be driving a truck over it but the contractor pays me to make sure concrete is as specified in the design and it sure ain't today.

On my way back to the office, I stopped for gas. I went inside to pay but this nice chinese lady behind the counter thought I wanted to buy cigarettes so she asked me for my ID :lol: I asked her how old she thought I was and she said 19. I said I was almost 23. She looked at me, shooked her head and said no :lol:

Weekend was pretty fun. On Sunday, I was suppose to go to Dave and Busters with two of my friends from my old workplace but one of them canceled so instead, me and the other guy went to the golf driving range instead. Now I'm scratching my head because I asked for a 9-iron but I was carrying the ball maybe 160 yards which is similiar to what a PGA player might get with that iron (I checked) :lol: So I'm thinking the rental girl (she was hot) must of mistaken the 6-iron for the 9. Anyhoo, pardon the pun but I think i'm hooked now! I want to try the driver now!



Afterwards, I went to play soccer as usual. Took a shot off my face. Initially, I didn't think much of it but when I got home, I found out I couldn't chew food. I must of pulled some ligaments in the jaw. It's a bit better now :0

Boy, it's getting close to school time eh? Time to start shopping for school supplies, get a haircut and get things in order. There's also a few tasks I want to complete before the summer is over. One, get my name sorted out at Ryerson. They still have my chinese name on file. I don't get it. I have gone by Brian since 8 or so up to even at U of T but Ryerson is the only school that remains braindead in that regard. Another thing I have to do is go down to Darien Lake or take a trip [i]somewhere[/i].

I was surfing around the net and found a few animated GIFs that I found funny. Enjoy:

I came home early today and was flipping through the channels when I saw a breaking news report on CNN about the Air France jet that crash landed at Pearson Airport. Immediately, my thoughts were on my colleagues working there at that time. Thankfully, the crash occured on the West end of the airport a distance away from where they were working and the news media is reporting there are no casualties on the flight.

Having gone to Pearson Airport myself several times and standing on the tarmac watching planes repeatedly land on the same runway as today's crash flawlessly, I can only imagine what the people standing in the same spot today felt when they saw the giant plane roll off the end of the runway and burst into flames.

One interesting thing I noticed when I was at the airport one time was that engineers designed obstacles that would prevent out of control planes from travelling unimpeded past the end of the runway and crashing into buildings or highways. For example, for one of the runway taking off over highway 401, there's an engineered hill at the end. However, for the runway where the accident occured today, there aren't any man-made obstacles. This leads me to believe engineers intended the valley where the plane ended up today to serve as a natural obstacle for out of control planes. It worked in stopping the plane but the difficulty the emergency services faced reaching the plane may raise some questions on whether there are better solutions and cause engineers to rethink future designs.