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A smile was drawn on my face when I got approval for my unpaid vacation for next week. (I was also playing with a pen, but it’s not the reason why my smile was drawn.)

Today was the first day in the year that I didn’t wear my winter only coat. The warthm of spring is here: 20 degrees outside. I was so excited yesterday that I finished three projects at work, without bugs (I think), and I was so impatient to leave, that I left the responsability to my team manager to punch out for me.

I’m free! Back downtown, life was back on the streets, and in the market. Everyone’s happy. That’s great! I’m happy too, so I’m getting along very well. My grandmother’s heart operation also went well, and she’s happy too. See? Everything was good yesterday.

I’m leaving with my friend this afternoon, after Japanese class, for Toronto. We’ll stay there until Tuesday. It’s the national Japanese speech contest there tomorrow. I’m not participating, but my classmate who won 1^st prize will, so we’ll be there to support him. To go with the everything-Japanese, we’ll be staying at a Japanese owned bed & breakfast. May I mention that my friend and I never went in Toronto? The blind leading the blind…

After that, I’m not sure. We’ll probably just fool around. I checked the weather forecast, and it’s unclear whether there’s be sun, rain, or snow! So, I guess I’ll be stuck at bringing my baggy winter coat. (Sigh…)

I’m proud to reveal that I was borned on the same day than the French Canadian porn actress Judy Star!

I wish to respond to the other Rémi’s threat by presenting him one of my sidekicks: Hygienic Pedro!

The other Rémi loves attention and is dangerous. He can hurt you. With a baseball bat. Like one of those he gave me as a present once.

Who gives a crap about that day. Really.

Besides, why should I care? I’m stealing a muffin from my friend who made them for her husband.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/septcandy/e/b088c5a741c2dc4315bc5ee175b26f37

Crap! Oh no! She’s coming after me!! I’m getting out of here!

Imagine a living room where the carpet is entirely soaked and water flows everywhere in the apartment. That’s what would have happened to ours if nobody would have been at home.

So, it was a good thing that I called in sick. A maintenance guy is replacing a toilet and cleaning up the mess now. What good service!

It’s just the smell, though… Ew…

I also started using my Tim Horton’s gift certificates I got for Christmas. In total, $30. Hurray, I feel rich! Thanks NoMez!

Quand c’est mon tour de passé, tu fermes t’as gueule pis tu me laisse faire.

Aujourd’hui, après l’ouvrage, je marchais dans le Marché By pour me rendre chez-nous. Mais, ben sûr, présence de niaiseux oblige, il y a eu encore un conducteur qui ne semblait pas vouloir arrêter son char pendant que je traversais la rue. Il était sur la traverse de piéton et avançait lentement.

Je marche devant, avec doute, et lui criant “When in the fuck are you going to stop?” Il me regardait d’un air bête. Tant mieux.

Il devrait juste se compter chanceux que j’étais pas Hulk pis que je m’enragerais pas. Soit ça ou je lui aurait pris un poteau de stationnement puis je lui aurait fourrer dans son trou de cul.

En d’autre mots, j’étais pas content.

I’ve been trying out Drupal 4.7 Beta 4 since yesterday. Drupal is the system that empowers most of my sites at the moment. The new version in the making is quite promising!

Free tagging, client-side resizable text fields, better user registration system (especially the password reset part), collapsible option groups, great 3rd-party module to create custom views of nodes (views.module), taxonomy can now be restricted (using taxonomy_access.module, now without patches!), and a lot more.

Rémino v24 will be powered by Drupal 4.7 for sure!

(Note: Version numbers of Rémino follow my age.)
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Well, no wonder many programs, including MySQL, and Thunderbird, stoped working:

$ df -hT -x squashfs -x iso9660 -x tmpfs
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3     ext3     15G   14G     0 100% /
/dev/hda1     ext2    958M  9.2M  900M   2% /boot
/dev/hda7     ext3     89G   83G  2.0G  98% /home
/dev/hda5     ext3    4.7G  3.9G  633M  87% /home/kawamura
/dev/hda6     ext3     38G   34G  1.9G  95% /home/kawamura/vault

I guess I’ll need to put my blank double-layer DVD-ROM’s into good use!

I’ve tried Skype 2.0 this week and its pretty good. Though, I didn’t have change to try its new video feature. Too bad they didn’t port that functionality to Mac OS X and Linux yet.

The new feature I like is call forwarding. If you have a credit with Skype, not only can you use it to call any phone number in the world, but anyone who tries to call you when you can’t answer or when your offline from Skype will be forwarded to any phone number you give to it. You will pay the incoming call at the same rate you pay for doing outgoing calls to a standard phone with Skype, but it’s still cheap and pretty convienient.

Of course, the privacy settings let you specify who can call you. In my case, my friends who are on my Skype contact list can now call me at anytime, even if I’m off the Skype network.