I mention this all the time You guys might not know this about me but I hate ironing. I hate it a lot.

I don’t even wear dress shirts to work anymore - I pretty much wear dress pants and golf shirts 5 days a week. That’s my style and I rock it year round (even during the Winter (because I have well insulated winter jackets (they’re warm))).

Since there are exactly zero girls at work worth impressing I find the need for formal sleeves to be non-existant. When I first joined corporate I thought that it would be all dress shirts and conference calls, but it turns out that only I got it half right and my closet is full of (still wrinkled) shirts that I never ever wear. After that first summer at the office I never did transition back to sleves and that’s been the story of my life.

The most ridiculous part about shirts is that it takes so much time time to iron them and as soon as you sit down in a car and buckle your seat belt they are instantly wrinked. Nobody has even had a chance to see what that pristine shirt looked like because you haven’t even arrived at your destination yet. Lame.

When it comes to a polo shirt though even when they’re wrinkled it’s never really looks that bad right? *nods agreeably* I mean, your body heat even manages to iron out most of those creases before lunch time right? *nods agreeably* I heard about this thing called wrinkle free fabrics too but I’m pretty sure that the technology is still unproven or probably a myth.

To my 3 friends out there all my friends out there, know that if you ever see me with long sleeves in public then it probably means that I’m trying a little harder than normal (whatever that means).

One of the few times that I don’t actually mind spending 15 minutes spraying starch on cotton and rubbing hot iron all over it is for something like a wedding. Considering how important an event like that is then it would be my pleasure to suit up for one. There’s no doubt that both the Bride and the Gods of Singledom would strike me down without mercy if I ever showed up to something like that looking like a scrub.

Congratulations guys, tomorrow will be great.

Durian cake? I guess I have to buy this.

Just watched the English dub of Howl’s Moving Castle - it was about all I could muster today. If I had a recording of me sighing then I would insert it here. It’s only Monday but it feels like a Wednesday…

And Calcifer just had to be Billy Crystal eh… Anyway, the movie’s still got it.

Swordfish victory dinner - patio styles.

I instantly regret not doing a full Titanium Backup before converting my Galaxy Nexus to yakju last night, just because I forgot to save my Angry Birds progress.

Mission: Get 3 Stars in Everything Angry Birds FAILED.

For those who care I’ve been waiting for Android 4.0.4 to get pushed out OTA to my stock Android 4.0.1 yakjuux build (aka the Canadian version of the Galaxy Nexus) for months now but it’s still nowhere in sight. Yakju is Google’s own build, so all updates & fixes to Android/Ice Cream Sandwich get pushed out to that not-manufacturer-modified device first. Otherwise, if you don’t own a Galaxy Nexus or a Nexus S (aka the plain Google devices) then the updates go through your phone manufacturers months or years later. This is because once Google releases a new version they take it and modify/customize the OS and put all their extra stuff like TouchWiz or Sense on top of it. Luckily, I’m not even qualified to say that because I’ve only ever used completely stock Android but whatever if you have the guts then it’s fairly easy to convert your Nexus over to completely stock Android of almost any build.

Since 4.0.1 is more or less the first version of Ice Cream Sandwich it is has bugs that Jon and I have both experienced from time to time. Anyway, Google officially released 4.0.4 a while ago and there were a lot of improvements and fixes but it’s taking ages to make it’s way over to yakjuux. I’ll write up a little more on this later (I guess).

Anyway, I had to wipe my device and I only really thought to backup my images and not the app data (specifically games) thinking that I was smooth enough to just play them again. But then looking back, damn, did I spend a lot of time on Angry Birds. This is a fail.

Well it’s regatta time. Swordfish has their first race of the season tomorrow but I’m not sure what to make of the whole situation. I hate to be hating (that’s a lie) but we managed to pull a noob move and registered for the completely wrong division.

Instead of racing in the the regular community mixed division (ie: normal coed dragon boat teams), we’ve been put in the community division (ie: people who just want to try the sport out and do a race). If anything this is just pretty embarrassing because it’s a bit of a lose-lose situation.

A lot of the other teams that we would normally race against will be there and it’s pretty obvious we’re not where we’re supposed to be. In fact, the races we are doing aren’t even full 500m either. I would (probably) feel bad if we won via blow out, but it would be even worse if we struggled with these teams because it would mean that we suck. I’ll admit that we’re a extremely pretty novice team this year but if we straight out lost then I would have to commit seppuku or more likely just drown my sorrows with a cheap bottle of gross sherry.

Of course I could reading this situation totally wrong but how often does that happen? HINT: pretty often.

In other news, I also have to mention that the helmet cam won’t be making an appearance tomorrow. I have none of my camera crap together and since work has been hardcore molesting me as of late I wouldn’t even have the time to throw an edit together any time soon. I also don’t know if a historical record of this fail-vent should even be taken (muah). There are also too many cobwebs on my FCPX shortcut for me to deal with too. *cough*those edits of Revelstoke and Kicking horse from 2010 will never come*cough*

Wow, summer is officially here and I officially don’t know what to do with myself.

I haven’t run 5km in a few weeks, I’m not excited about dragon boat yet and I only went riding once so far. Maybe it’s because work is kicking my ass, maybe it’s because I’ve been listening to too much Adele maybe it’s because the hot usual aerobics instructor at the Y is on vacation or maybe it’s because I just need a vacation myself - who knows.

It’s a weird kind of funk when you’re not sad or depressed but pretty much content to do nothing - just feeling lazy, hard to get motivated or even excited.

If I’ve learned anything though then this too shall pass…

Talk about phenomenal weather. I went for my first ride of the season today, right here in the middle of suburbia, and although every trail along the Credit River was jam packed with families it’s good to know that there are still a few spots left to escape to.

Enjoyed a nice quiet break laying in the grass under a tree in the middle of a meadow.

Life’s good.

One of the useful things on Android is the data usage limiter (because extra charges suck). I remember that my iPhone had a 20MB download limit to hold you back, so it did make 6GB seem like a lot to go through. All Google does is give you a stern pop up warning about it so the usage limiter may come in handy…

It also turns out that I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube on the toilet my phone this month…

Some more pics from last weekend just because I have them. We shot a lot of different types of guns that day and it’s really making me want to expand my collection. You gotta pay to play…

TGIF. What a horrible weak week.

So I ended up buying the extended 2000 mAh battery for my Galaxy Nexus and it cost me about $35 shipped. At the moment 2000 seems to be the threshold before the battery gets so huge that it makes your phone socially unacceptable requires a special back cover that bulges out awkwardly.

It still works perfectly fine with my Cruzerlite case but it definitely packs a little more weight to it now. As you can see from the pictures, the battery is taller and the replacement backing is only slightly bulkier…not that you would even really notice it.

The original battery is 1750 mAh so if my math serves me right then that’s only a ~13% increase in capacity. In theory it doesn’t seem like much but I’m going to go ahead and assume that I need it because of my experiences with the life sucking HD screen.

I let it run through about 3 charge cycles before getting that result above, so it might still be a little premature if the battery isn’t really calibrated yet. I’ll have to pop back in the stock battery to compare it but who knows when I’d ever get around to that…

Anyway, I’m guessing that having a spare battery around might come in handy…some day.