Overtime Live!

I've got one eye on the keyboard and the other on customers as all the two are busy at the moment. As you can read, we are a little short staffed at the moment (and I'm not referring to my height), and we are in the process of hiring a temporary employee for six weeks. I was going to offer the job to Josh, but he got himself hired as a layout tech/manager at a T-Shirt factory. Yes, I thought the same thing, sounds pretty fun. Charlotte, AKA "Le Dead Thing", has managed to get hired at the shoe store across the street from Shannon's shoe store. In fact, both stores are owned by the same company and Charlotte is being sent across the street from time to time as Shannon's store is short staffed too.

Ninjas have struck, I must go!

Box Wars! Fight or be Recycled!

On Saturday Josh and i and the one now know as "The Dead thing" attend a lovely little gathering called "Box Wars!", Box Rac edtion. The object was for a crowd of people to go to Edinbrughs famous Arthur's seat, in Holyrod park and watch a smaller group of people ride Cardboard creations down a steep hill. The term getting there is half the fun has never been more true. Parading the Corrragated wonders from their birth place to the fields of dissmemberment took almost an hour and gethered a large following. The tourists were confused and the locals loved it.

As we arrived at Aurthers seat the park service swarmed in with jeeps and told us we did not have the correct permissions to perform such brutal acts on recycling in a protected park. We pointed out thet thir jeeps has just chewed up the very same protected landscape just to inform us that we were harming the enviroment, but it was to no avail. Evidently packing tape is not match for red tape.

Talk of revolution and arrest floated in the air until we decided to switch to a park that was thought to be un-pratroled by our enviromentaly challenged park wardens. The entire crowd trekked over to Calton Hill (45 more mins) and then the festivites commenced! Gravity, Potatos and People, oh my!

I was going to wait until I had time to reveal the full story, but "somebody" has tipped my hand as it were.

Yes, Josh is here. He showed up on Friday night with no Warning what-so-ever.

Details to follow, hopefully before someone tells Leah about my trip to Aber....

I did it again, I fixed yet another hostel's internet connection. Guess what I got in return? More free internet. I already work in a dam 'net cafe, there are kids in Alabama with not even a sniff of a dial-up connection and yet people are throwing broad band at me like it grows on trees. I feel like using theta saying non-nerds use when mocking technically inclined persons: "Mega-bytes!".

Other then fending off bandwidth all week, we have been out on a pub crawl or two and hence met another Canadian called Rory. In fact in the last week Canadians have invaded the city. Tons have come into work, lots have been staying at the Hostel. Budget backpackers even hired a Canadian last week.

The weather has even been dry over the last few days. Dry weather means dry roads, and dry roads means Longboarding! If you think people in Canada look at you funny when riding a over sized skateboard, try riding one through the Capital of Scotland at lunch time. Besides the rain, Scotland has a little extra obstacle that is almost as bad as Urban polar Bears (retired drivers) cobble stones! Iiiiitttttsssss aaa llliitttlllleee bumpy. On my way to work, I bombed (as in road) Edinburgh's north bridge two days in a row. The Bus lanes are my friend. With a little careful observation of Edinburgh's public transport network and by following those roads blocked by road construction, I can ride almost all to way to work on my board.

I'm running low on my free internet minutes so I have just enough time to mention we saw "V for Vendetta" tonight, and it was not too bad.