Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
I'll have to supersize that...
So yeah, I've been hired at McDonalds... Not sure what job that I'm going to be doing, but as a university student who is getting married in the summer I needed to get a job thing going to get some money in that wedding fund.
Not sure how I'm feeling about working for a big terrible corporation. Feeling potentially a little dirty... will update you soon.
On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if all the things I learned about McDonalds in Sociology class. If nothing else I've always wanted to work in fast food a little bit and at a 7-11 a little bit.
So that's that, not sure how I feel! Later~
dREW~
So yeah, I've been hired at McDonalds... Not sure what job that I'm going to be doing, but as a university student who is getting married in the summer I needed to get a job thing going to get some money in that wedding fund.
Not sure how I'm feeling about working for a big terrible corporation. Feeling potentially a little dirty... will update you soon.
On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if all the things I learned about McDonalds in Sociology class. If nothing else I've always wanted to work in fast food a little bit and at a 7-11 a little bit.
So that's that, not sure how I feel! Later~
dREW~
Monday, January 21, 2008
I guess that I forgot to post on this topic. I'm actually engaged! :) It happened on January 12 at about 1:30 on a ski hill near where Pamela and I live. It maked the 2 years anniversary from the very first day that PAmela and I had ever hung out and it was the first time she had taken me snowboarding so it worked out well!
But yeah figured I'd put it out here for posterity! dREW~
But yeah figured I'd put it out here for posterity! dREW~
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
a day in the life of a dREW~
Sometimes i just think it's neat to hear exactly all the things that went on in a persons life in one day. Here's my current day.
Slept in toll about 10:00 because I don't have school on Wednesdays.
Showered and got ready to take on the world.
Worked on wedding guest list stuff, engagement announcement pdf, and figureing out how to bus down to the chiropractor.
Sent out engagement pdf.
Talked with my buddy Tobin about some stuff.
Hopped on a bus to the university.
Hopped on a bus to the city centre.
Walked to the Chiropractors office.
Chatted with a native guy d-town waiting for the Chiro to open.
Went to Leister's music and played a mini-djembe for 15 minutes.
Walked back to Chiro they were open now and got adjusted.
Walked to City Centre to hop a bus to the university.
Waiting at the university right know to catch a bus at 3:47
will go home, read like a mad man until having to leave for 7:15 reservations at Dionysius for Rodger's b-day party.
Will come home, play WOW with the boys for a while OR go to Pamela's house for a bit to cuddle and discuss wedding stuff.
Come home, write in my journal, sleep.
So yeah that's a day in the life of the Newly engaged dREW~
Slept in toll about 10:00 because I don't have school on Wednesdays.
Showered and got ready to take on the world.
Worked on wedding guest list stuff, engagement announcement pdf, and figureing out how to bus down to the chiropractor.
Sent out engagement pdf.
Talked with my buddy Tobin about some stuff.
Hopped on a bus to the university.
Hopped on a bus to the city centre.
Walked to the Chiropractors office.
Chatted with a native guy d-town waiting for the Chiro to open.
Went to Leister's music and played a mini-djembe for 15 minutes.
Walked back to Chiro they were open now and got adjusted.
Walked to City Centre to hop a bus to the university.
Waiting at the university right know to catch a bus at 3:47
will go home, read like a mad man until having to leave for 7:15 reservations at Dionysius for Rodger's b-day party.
Will come home, play WOW with the boys for a while OR go to Pamela's house for a bit to cuddle and discuss wedding stuff.
Come home, write in my journal, sleep.
So yeah that's a day in the life of the Newly engaged dREW~
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Being tired and trying to figure out the philosophy of mind is not a good idea! But basically this is what I've gleaned from Jaegwon Kim's "Philosophy of Mind" Second edition.
Theres basically two ways to look at it and most other things fall under these. Physicalism which says that all mental processes happen in the physical (Has mass, effected by gravity, exists in time) realm. Then theres this Dualism thing, which I'm getting Mr. Kim isn't a fan of, which says that mentality exists seperately from physicality.
So for Physicality we have this:
if X has a Mental Property (which we'll call M) and if X also has P (which is a physical property) Then it stands to reason that if X has P (physical property) then P has M (which is the mental property) So all Mental properties seem to emerge from physical properties, and the closer physical properties are together the closer then the mental properties of those physical objects will be. Whew - and believe me that's the simplified version.
When it comes to the Dualism part... I can't really say that I get it quite yet, although I feel like I agree with it more than I agree with Physicalism. I think it's probably b/c of my theological background that I'd like to think theres more than just this physical realm. But I'll keep ya'll updated if I discover some truth about Dualism
Aside from that I'm just ridiculous tired right know, pretty stressed out about school, and ready for some sleep!
dREW~
Theres basically two ways to look at it and most other things fall under these. Physicalism which says that all mental processes happen in the physical (Has mass, effected by gravity, exists in time) realm. Then theres this Dualism thing, which I'm getting Mr. Kim isn't a fan of, which says that mentality exists seperately from physicality.
So for Physicality we have this:
if X has a Mental Property (which we'll call M) and if X also has P (which is a physical property) Then it stands to reason that if X has P (physical property) then P has M (which is the mental property) So all Mental properties seem to emerge from physical properties, and the closer physical properties are together the closer then the mental properties of those physical objects will be. Whew - and believe me that's the simplified version.
When it comes to the Dualism part... I can't really say that I get it quite yet, although I feel like I agree with it more than I agree with Physicalism. I think it's probably b/c of my theological background that I'd like to think theres more than just this physical realm. But I'll keep ya'll updated if I discover some truth about Dualism
Aside from that I'm just ridiculous tired right know, pretty stressed out about school, and ready for some sleep!
dREW~
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Pawn shops are such a rip off.
So I go into a few music stores in lethbridge here today, and it turns out that none of them buy brass instruments. Which is sad b/c in an effort to help clean out my parents basement of their children's things I took my old Trombone from high school and figured I'd sell it. Someone may as well be using it right? So I ask my mum about what we payed for it and she figured somewhere between 400 and 600 so I'm thinking to myself o.k. so if I get like 200 bucks I'm doing fine.
But as i said before no one seemed to be willing to buy it so I ended up at King of Trade of have their 'were sort of a music store but mostly a pawn shop' ideals and I figured I'd see what I could get for it. I get up to the counter and theres this young guy at the counter and I'm going huh... this might be a bad idea. So I present the case to the guy and watch in pain as he fails to open it on the first try, attempts to pry the horn out of the case w/o undoing the latches and can't figure out how to open the storage for the slide grease. Then he's like 'well, we don't usually buy these but I'll look it up in the book'. Let's look at that statement - we don't USUALLY do this... but we've got a book that will tell us the price... huh.
O.k. so after he manages to find the trombone section he says to me this "we need to send away all instruments for cleaning at st.johns (music store in town) and that costs $40.00 and the closes one I can find to yours we buy for about $100.00 so I can give you $60.00. I'll admit I was caught a little bit off guard, I expected something lowball like 100 or 150 but... 60 bucks? So I said to the guy "I was looking at the trombones that you are selling over there that are like mine and they are going for $300.00 so can't you give me like 100 bucks for it? You'd still be making 160 on it right?" and his reply "well no if we are going to make a profit we can't go higher than $60.00 because we have to pay for it to get cleaned, have to drive up to Calgary (no idea what that was about), pay for the utilities in this place, pay my salary, and blah blah blah" - finally I just said "that's fine, I'll just put it on kijiji - or freecycle I'd feel less ripped off" and left.
So if I were to take this lesson literally what does it mean? It means that the pawn shop business must be TERRIBLE to get ahead in. If you purchase something for 60 bucks and sell it for 300 making 240 dollars you will 'apparently' JUST barely make a profit - You know b/c of all the trips to calgary and utilities...?! But then i saw that on that street there were 6 pawn shops and thought to myself oh wait... there just a rip off and that's all there is to it.
But as i said before no one seemed to be willing to buy it so I ended up at King of Trade of have their 'were sort of a music store but mostly a pawn shop' ideals and I figured I'd see what I could get for it. I get up to the counter and theres this young guy at the counter and I'm going huh... this might be a bad idea. So I present the case to the guy and watch in pain as he fails to open it on the first try, attempts to pry the horn out of the case w/o undoing the latches and can't figure out how to open the storage for the slide grease. Then he's like 'well, we don't usually buy these but I'll look it up in the book'. Let's look at that statement - we don't USUALLY do this... but we've got a book that will tell us the price... huh.
O.k. so after he manages to find the trombone section he says to me this "we need to send away all instruments for cleaning at st.johns (music store in town) and that costs $40.00 and the closes one I can find to yours we buy for about $100.00 so I can give you $60.00. I'll admit I was caught a little bit off guard, I expected something lowball like 100 or 150 but... 60 bucks? So I said to the guy "I was looking at the trombones that you are selling over there that are like mine and they are going for $300.00 so can't you give me like 100 bucks for it? You'd still be making 160 on it right?" and his reply "well no if we are going to make a profit we can't go higher than $60.00 because we have to pay for it to get cleaned, have to drive up to Calgary (no idea what that was about), pay for the utilities in this place, pay my salary, and blah blah blah" - finally I just said "that's fine, I'll just put it on kijiji - or freecycle I'd feel less ripped off" and left.
So if I were to take this lesson literally what does it mean? It means that the pawn shop business must be TERRIBLE to get ahead in. If you purchase something for 60 bucks and sell it for 300 making 240 dollars you will 'apparently' JUST barely make a profit - You know b/c of all the trips to calgary and utilities...?! But then i saw that on that street there were 6 pawn shops and thought to myself oh wait... there just a rip off and that's all there is to it.
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