Journal – Page 14

Mar 14 2012

Two things most people should learn

I’m going there, so be ready! Below are the two things that drive me nuts and I have observed them mostly from men. That being said I can’t blame them completely, women are known to be guilty of both as well.

1. Opening the oven door while something is cooking, even though they have nothing to do with the cooking process.

Let me break this down for you. You are in the kitchen cooking up a storm for your family or guests. You have stuff going in every which direction, but you know exactly what is happening in every stage. Then out of know where a random walks in. I call these people randoms because they are pointless to the cooking process and have nothing to do with it. So they walk in and sick their nose around the room and then fling the door to the oven wide open to check out what is cooking inside.

I don’t know your oven works, but mine cooks food by heating up a confined area sealed on all sides. You break that seal, heat escapes. It just disappeared out that opening leaving cooler air behind. Think of a house in the winter, you have doors and windows sealing in the heat coming from the furnace, but when you open the front door the heat escapes and leaves you house cooler.

Why this is an issue in the kitchen is because food needs to cook at a constant heat. You open the door, it doesn’t. Sure not all food needs too, but I want to eat on time.

So the next time you go wondering in a kitchen where someone else is cook, don’t touch the oven. Don’t even think about it. If of course you have to, you the oven light, that is what they are for.

2. This one is the biggy. Put down the lid on the toilet seat!

I will open with an example of another situation: When you take the peanut butter out of the cupboard, you take the lid off. You then smear peanut butter on your bread and eat. Once you are done you put the lid back on the peanut butter jar and put it away.

See what happens there, the lid, which isn’t even attached to the jar, goes back on the jar. It is a rather amazing series of events, which is why it boggles me that the lid, which is attached to the toilet, is never put back down.

Now ladies I’m sure you can relate in terms of the toilet seat, but I would like to point out most of you are bad for not putting the lid down either. The shoe is on the other foot now.

So the next time you visiting the throne, do it right thing and put the LID back down on the toilet. It is less effort then having to screw the lid on a peanut butter jar, so I’m not sure what the issue is here.

These are my two rants and as I’m sure you are wondering, yes, I do have OCD tendencies. But seriously, this makes sense.

Mar 13 2012

My morning routine this week

I have always been one to like routines. I like my mornings to be planned and uninterrupted – not to say I’d freak out of it changed. I just like to have a plan, so I know when I’ll be ready for the day.

It did not occur to me how meticulous I was being until talking about it at my office. I was referred to as Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory. I have never even made the connection until then, but now I can see it.

So here has been my morning routine this week.

5:45am – 5:50am – Awake up/Get up
5:50am – 6:25am – Run on treadmill
6:25am – 6:30am – Cool down period
6:30am – 6:35am – Shower
6:35am – 6:45am – Get out of shower/Get dressed
6:45am – 7:00am – Make and eat breakfast
7:00am – 7:30am – Check news, blogs, social media
7:30am – 7:40am – Start Jeep and gather lunch
7:40am – 7:50am – Drive downtown to work
7:50am – 7:55am – Walk from Jeep to office
7:55am – At office

It seems a little said that it is that planned out and I am so not kidding. While this is happening I’m always checking the clock as if I’m going to miss something or be late somewhere. To make that even worse sounding, I go into work 35 minutes before I actually need to.

Mar 11 2012

I was in the BC Peace Region Time Zone

It has been almost two months since I have been back in Yellowknife, NT and the Mountain Standard Time Zone. Since moving back I have not thought much about the time, because up until last night at 2am MST and the BC Peace Region was the same time (they don’t change their clocks ever, it is rather nice). This has now changed, we here in the MST are an hour ahead of them and they are aligned with the rest of British Columbia once again.

The catch being I had all my computers and phone setup so they wouldn’t change during Daylight Saving. This caused me some confusion when waking this morning, as I believed my phone had in fact sprung ahead an hour. Well it didn’t, so as I entered the rest of the hour I instantly lost an hour. Like I said on Twitter, it was mildly depressing.

Now I have to find all the devices I had set like that and change them to MST.

Feb 29 2012

Now a message about Pink Shirt Day and Anti-bullying from a year ago

I got sentimental last year during Anti-Bullying day, or Pink Shirt Day. I even made a video. Of course I watch it now and think I’m being cheesy, I’m just being another person who is making their childhood sound worse than it was in order to appeal like I have risen above it.

My childhood wasn’t that bad, but there were moments and days where it was. Maybe that is why I’m so determined to succeed professionally.

Feb 22 2012

An Arctic Wind Farm

About a month into working at Motion Media out of Fort St. John, I got the chance to photograph the Dokie Ridge Wind Farm. The wind farm is located outside of Chetwynd, BC and stretches a long way along a ridge.

Of course, I don’t have those picture anymore to prove it, but I do have this video.

Dokie Ridge Wind Farm Construction — Photo by: Andrew Tylosky

The farm was nearing completion of its build. There were numerous wind turbines standing over 100m tall and when you would stand beside them, you were nothing.

When I was driving back to Yellowknife, from Fort St. John, I saw the same turbines being trucked north. I had no idea what they were for at the time. I half jokingly said they are probably going to a mine, apparently I was right.

I guess the news broke a while ago, but the local Yellowknife paper did a piece on what and how the turbines will be used. They will be heading to Diavik Diamond Mine and will help power the mine. THIS IS BRILLIANT.

I can imagine how amazing it will look. In the middle of nowhere, literally in the arctic, a mine and giant free-standing windmills. Epic.

Back when I was working with Motion Media I wanted to get up in a helicopter and shoot the Dokie Ridge Wind Farm again, but that never came around. Maybe I can get in somehow to shoot this them, when they are built. 😉 Wouldn’t that be something.

It’ll be interesting to watch the project come together.