Canadian Dollar breaks 90 cents US

It's 7:30 a.m. MNT, and the Canadian Dollar has once again surpassed the 90 cent US mark. Let's see if it can stay above that level....

Dell Canada Deals

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• Inspiron 6400 notebook $899 with Windows Vista Home Premium
  
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• Inspiron 1501 notebook $599 with Windows Vista Home Basic.

Studying

I'm studying right now for my last finals of university -- ever. I've got a 3-day comprehensive exam from Monday to Wednesday, and then my licensing exam on Thursday. Although I'm very happy to be done everything, my motivation is quite low to study all of the material -- and there's a lot of it!

My abdominal circumference appears to be getting larger. It's kind of grossing me out. I'm going to have to do some exercise when all of this is over. I realized how out of shape I really was when I couldn't move after playing 4 games of hockey. It literally hurt to roll out of bed.

Anyone catch The Office last night? It was awesome as per usual. I wish it were an hour long. It's that good. I have the theme song as my cell phone ring tone. Awesomeness.

TSN.ca has started offering a service that sends free updates to your cell phone via text messaging. It's pretty cool. And it's free. I love free.

Amanda and I wanted to go to the Keg last Saturday (with 4 other people mind you.) We got there at about 7:45 p.m. Wait time -- 75 minutes! Needless to say we didn't wait. There's just way too many people in this city with too much money to spend.

All right, this was fun, but I guess I should get back to studying!

Smyth coming back to Edmonton?

Ryan Smyth coming back to Edmonton? That's the big rumour of the day:

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=7152

Latest Dell Canada coupons

Here are the latest Dell.ca coupons:


Save an additional $100 on select systems when you spend over $1199 with coupon code CQPB$5?XFCG?S6

Inspiron 6400 notebook $899 with Windows Vista Home Premium

Travel deal from Edmonton to New York

Northwest Airlines has an awesome fare to New York right now...I think it's good until the end of June...only $293 CAD including tax for a return flight from Edmonton to New York. Book at www.nwa.com.

Update

The Canadian dollar closed over 89 cents today. It's just in time for our US vacation that's coming up right away!

I have one more week to study before our 3 day comprehensive final and then the Canadian licensing exam. It'll be four straight days of fun!

We have our annual interphase hockey tournament this weekend. We have a game tonight at 11p.m. and 2 tomorrow back to back during the day. We won the tournament last year, but we'll be a little shorthanded this year with only 11 players including the goalie.

We're renting one of our rooms in our new house in Calgary. If you're interested, send me an email~

Where's all the news?

Where has all the major news gone? No 9-11, no wars, no major disasters, no major events. I'm sick of watching CNN and hearing about Anna Nicole Smith. Boring.

We need some news. Someone go and create some.

New townhouse

Amanda and I bought a townhouse-style condo in Calgary on Monday. We saw 20 different places and decided to make a bid on this one. There was one competing offer, which was nerve-wracking, but it all worked out. Hopefully the housing market doesn't crash! I'm going down again on Monday for the house inspection, so I'll take some pictures then, but until then, you can check out the new place here:

http://abmls.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=499726007&s=ALB&t=ALB

We take possession sometime between July 1 and July 15, so if anyone wants to take a journey to Calgary and help us move, that'd be great! There's lots of room to crash + free booze and food.

Oregon Trail for FREE

Who loved Oregon Trail and Number Munchers when they were a kid? I sure did! It's what got me through elementary school. Well, you can play them for free here:

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
It's awesome.

Passport arrives

My passport arrived on Monday, after my very angry blog post last week. We're still waiting for Amanda's to arrive. Mine came 9 weeks and 5 days after the passport office received my application. Perhaps they should increase their capacity, because I can't see a decreasing demand for passports anytime soon. And, hey, the unemployment rate in Quebec is still quite high compared to the rest of Canada...they should be able to hire some more workers there!

House Hunting

Hi everyone,

Amanda and I finally got our mortgage arranged, so we're heading down to Calgary on Monday to view some listings. Hopefully we can find something, but I won't be too worried if we don't find something on the first day of viewings. I guess if you're going to live there for five years, you better be really happy with what you're buying!