My Thoughts and musings.
It is Day 42 without a job, but I am still looking. As you may have noticed there has been some changes to this site as happens often when I get bored. I recently purchased LiveSaintJohn.ca I had purchased hosting from 9esolutions.com for it in January, but that did not work so now I have it mirroring frees-melvin.ca. I probably might set up a system that someone can have a @livesaintjohn.ca e-mail address that forward to your existing e-mail addresses.
Wow it finally came the last day of classes. It has been a very long and hard 13 weeks but now I am glad to be through it. I am looking forward to my exams over the next few weeks. I just got paid my first pay so now I HAVE MONEY! again (to pay bills 🙁 ) Also I had my second in-car driving lesson, I think that I am getting better at it then last time. Also today I am going to start in Radio Shack at McAllister Place for my Rogers Wireless job. I am very excited to work with the people there. Future Shop was great in regards to the people, but there was not a steady flow of customers like I think there will be in the mall. gtg to my last class MATH1853 so post later.
My Toshiba has bit the dust today half the screen died. Now I’m trying to decide what to replace it with visit my blog if you have any suggestions, please post them here in the blog.
These were used at the 2004 Kiwanis Saint John TV Auction. This was a mock-up used for the approval stage.
I have a concern I’ve noticed happening more often on buses over the past month or so. This effect is happening on the Hospital / UNB and East / West Routes. As the buses are approaching capacity there are normally about three to seven seats left in the rear of the bus, however many UNBSJ students will notice only that there are no seats in the front of the bus and will stand half-way between the front and rear doors, causing a backlog of people standing. I would suggest that the Transit Commission make it policy that all standers must stand in the back of the bus to make it clearer that there are free seats remaining. In addition, I would ask that you contact the University to send out an e-mail to students advising them of this.
After three short months at Harvey’s in Saint John, I departed tonight for the last time. It was one of the most interesting jobs I have had.
Well this week despite being the first week of classes after taking a year and a half off, was fairly uneventful. The old adage that if you don’t use it you will lose it is true. In the Math class for one it is so far covering a lot of the things from Grade 11 which for me was 5 years ago. Last time around all those years ago Ms. Chapman would explain thing very thoroughly so that even the uninterested would learn. Now I have a professor that despite English not being his first language and be slightly difficult communicate his thoughts, is definitely passionate about the course material, and it is early to tell but I think this passion is for all math in general. I also finally finished all the graphics for the new upcoming season of Too Close to Call. This season is going to be slightly different from last season, but it is sure to be more interesting. The season premier airs live next Sunday (Sept 19th) at 7-8pm on Rogers Television throughout New Brunswick. I have also been working over the past week, but there really is nothing new to say.
View a PDF version of the gala booklet that I designed for Elsie Wayne’s Retirement Gala.
View a PDF version of the fire escape plans that I designed for Client Logic in Saint John.
I haven’t had an opportunity to update this here blog entry in a while. A few weeks ago I bought freesmelvin.ca with a new hosting provider all-in-all it is working out fairly well. I am still having trouble setting up a few things in MySQL and postreSQL but that will happen in a bit. Now basically as it stands now everything has moved from frees-melvin.ca to freesmelvin.ca through a .htaccess file. As to keep all the links working. And all the mail is being forwarded but I am still using frees-melvin.ca to promote everything the new stuff show up at frees-melvin.ca². I am still working a Harvey’s, it has been seven weeks, which makes it longer than the time I worked at RMh for 6.5 weeks. I had an interview at Burger King last week, I thought it went well. I should hear something early next week if I get it. Regardless, if I get the opportunity to work at Empire Theatre, I would take it in a heart beat. On a university note, I’ve got one week to go and not as excited as my second year at St. Thomas, or as scared as my first year there was,…
After 14 years of trying I finally beat the original final fantasy game.
This is an incredibly fun and addictive flash game. It is sort of what most people do in the office place but more competitive. I found it on addictinggames.com. Synopsis:A co-worker throws paper balls at you for about 60-90 seconds and the object is that you try to catch them and throw them in the wastepaper basket for a bonus. Also, as a bonus there are flashing balls and a flying paper plane. As you throw a ball successfully into the wastepaper basket another co-worker moves it. My best score so far is 1200. As of the 2021 end of Flash, this game has been lost to time.
Once again I got another letter from festival by the Sea saying they don’t need my services this year. I wonder if it is because they have too many volunteers or that I did something in 2002 that I’m not aware of. Tomorrow I’m going to take a theater production workshop, I think it will be a lot of fun. My good friend Tony (Double T) will be coming with me. I just had this entire site hosting reset yesterday and there is a stupid bug in the form submission CGI that I just can’t figure out. All for now.
Once again another aspiring politician was not elected because I voted for them. Here is the list so far: 2004 Federal Election Bob McVicar (Defeated) 2004 Conservative Leadership Belinda Stonich (Defeated) PC/Alliance Merger Voted Against (defeated) 2003 Federal PC Party Leadership Jim Prentice (Defeated) 2004 Municipal Election Myself (Defeated) 2003 Provincial Election Mel Vincent Jr. (Defeated) 2001 Municipal Election Derek Chase (Defeated) The only exception is when I voted for Elsie Wayne in the 2000 Federal Election.
My good friends Tony, Jeff, and I went to see the fireworks display and it was one of the best displays I have seen in my life. Fort LaTour was defiantly a great vantage point for fireworks.
While I left Client Logic on the 13th after Seven and a half wonderful months. This fall I am going to be attending the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. I’m going to take Business. For some reason I seem to take courses that I can’t spell. While running for Mayor, and while posting in here’s forums many people criticized that my spelling is bad. I’ve spent the past week updating this site. You notice the new background at the top, and the navigation header. I’ve just started a wiki on the site as well frees-melvin.ca/wiki. I had to remove some pictures from the gallery because I was over my limit. I am going to switch hosting providers from webserve.ca to canadianwebhosting.com in November when my contract comes up for renewal, for about the same price I can get 500 Megs with MySQL and other features. I am also considering whether to volunteer with Festival by the Sea. CU L8R
Many people have asked me what was it like to run for Mayor of Saint John. The answer was that it was a time of a life time. I was privileged to meet everyone that I did meet. I now have a greater respect for Saint John and the issues about it. I thought that I knew a lot about Saint John from reading the news, and watching council, and working in the community. There are others that thought I would have been better off running for council, but with the total number of people running, and the fact was there where much better people who were running for council with the knowledge and ability to do this city well. To be quite honest the councillors that were elected were some of the best of the crop. Out of the 50 there was actually only about 17 that I thought were the best suited for the job and 9 of them were elected. Now back to the Mayor’s seat. Running for mayor provided me with the best exposure. I was mentioned on the Newspapers, Radio, and appeared on TV. Also, I had many people who would stop and talk to…
The last week has been very busy campaigning. But at last it comes to an end. I was planning on having a special dinner today with my Mother but she decided to leave town. Today I am going out for dinner with my aunt. Then heading into town to do Too Close to Call like I normally do every Sunday. Also I’m excited about the election tomorrow, and that I am leaving for Toronto on Wednesday.
The last three days have been very interesting. I had the opportunity to meet with many Saint Johners, and received a lot of good feed back. I was saddened to learn that I was not considered by the Fire Department, as I believe my plan would benefit the Fire Department the most out of any candidate.
As of 10:30 this morning I am now an official Mayoral Candidate for the City of Saint John. 20 Day till election day. Can you just smell the winds of change.