Author Archives: Rob MacD

I pretty much drink one coffee a day. An extra-large-double-double.  Sometimes I’ll go for a second one.  I buy my coffee at Robin’s Donuts, mostly.  Sometimes at Timothy’s.
The following has happened to me four times so far:  Robins Girl, when filling my cup, empties a pot of coffee. My cup will be, roughly, 3/4 or 4/5 full.  Rather than getting a new pot, she asks me if i want it topped up, or if that’s enough.
I honestly don’t understand the question.  It’s not the extra-large cup that I’m interested in purchasing.  It’s the coffee that goes into it.  I don’t want a “large” amount of coffee in an extra-large cup.  I want an extra-large amount of coffee.

So, yes, I want it topped up.

What’s this all about, then?

Apparently, last night the Smoker’s Helpline television campaign started to air on the local CBC.  It’s the campaign where I portray a 7 foot tall cigarette.
I know it started yesterday because today I received (so far) 4 separate comments from people (3 of them relative strangers) saying they saw it last night.  That’s the power of advertising, right there.

While I do like the ads, like what I do in them, and enjoy the comments, I do have an apprehension about them due to my experiences after a certain series of Peter Pan ads aired almost 2 decades ago.  Even now, I still get the occasional comment from people reminding me that I was in fact the guy in those Peter Pan ads.

Yesterday, I managed to procure a Nintendo Wii for our home.  My son was wanting one for Christmas, but because of lack of availability we made arrangements to put that off until they were a bit easier to come by.  Even though they’re still rather hard to get, I was fortunate to have Albert at Microplay put one away for me when the next shipment came in.  That was yesterday.

Set it up last night.  Set up is ridiculously easy.  I had been anticipating that first moment when the Wiimote would become active, and had prepared myself to be impressed with the feel of the wireless point and click device.  Well, when I tried it, it was so impressive!  I was like a little fan-boy.  Very cool.
We only have the bundled Wii-Sports game, but played that for about 4 hours last night.  While the game-play is somewhat limited, it easily contains enough fun and skill-requirement to be a blast.  Through the Sports game, you get a really good idea of the vast potential for this new way to play video games.
I’m looking forward to getting the Madden for Wii game (I hear it’s pretty good), and, if the rather simple (but fun) golf game on Wii-Sports is any indication, the Tiger Woods game for Wii should be rock on solid.

Can’t wait to get home from work and play some more.  Also looking forward to the day when we get a wireless router for our internet connection and get to sample the online component of the Wii too.

I can only assume that weather forecasting is so boring that meteorologists are forced to come up with new exciting terminology for weather events that we’ve already experienced.
I know what a “weather bomb” likely is, but seriously, what the hell are they doing using a phrase like “weather bomb”?

Yeah, I made up Thunder Farts.  What new weather terminology can you come up with?

Hey, the PEI Revue hits the stage this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Jan.18-20) at the Carrefour Theatre at 8pm each night.
Tickets are $22.00 tax included.  Well worth the money.

If you like to laugh, and like to see/hear jokes/sketches about this province called Prince Edward Island, you should check it out.  Sketch comedy, songs and Lorne Elliot stand-up.  A great way to spend a night in the dead of winter.

Website:  www.peirevue.com

I made it to 9 minutes and 20 seconds into Little Mosque on the Prairie before I decided it wasn’t for me.

Seeing other blogs getting tagged by the “5 things we don’t know about you” game of blog-tag that’s been going around, and not being tagged myself, made me so very depressed.  Not because I wasn’t getting tagged, but because I knew I ultimately would be tagged, and then I’d have to choose whether to go along with it and join in, or ignore it.  Well, I was tagged and now the question is:  will I or won’t I?

Well, here’s my answer:

1) I am bothered by that Brita television ad.  You know the one: There’s a glass of water on a table in an apartment (or house?).  We hear a toilet flush, and see the water in the glass lower and then rise up, as if it was a toilet.  The woman comes out of the bathroom, sits down at the table, and goes to drink the glass of water.  The text comes up and says something like:  The same water that goes to your toilet goes to your kitchen tap”.  I get bugged when I see that ad because I don’t like the way it manipulates people.  It implies that the water from your tap is dirty because it’s from the same source that goes to your toilet.  So what if the same water goes to your toilet and to your tap?  As long as the water isn’t going from your toilet to your tap, then no worries about the toilet, right?.  That bugs me.  (And don’t even get me going on those forest-shitting bears who wipe their hairy asses with toilet paper!)

2) In the entirety of my life to date, there hasn’t been a lot of death in my family, or even my extended family.  Now, though, many of my relatives (parents, aunts, uncles, brothers) are getting up there in age.  For the past few years, I’ve been preparing myself for an onslaught of death to people I love and the emotional mess that this will cause me.  Any time a phone rings at home, at an unusual hour, I expect and prepare for it to be a call telling me so-and-so just died.  I’ve got death on my mind.

3) There are a few words I continually mis-type, every time I type them.  For instance, I always type it “Charlottetwon”.  Not as bad as Rod, the guy I work with.  He always types “discount” as “discocunt”.

4) I just turned down what may have been pretty easy money on a potentially long-term, periodic acting gig because I wasn’t very impressed with the material or the .  I am torn between feeling good for having standards and feeling bad for not taking the easy money.  I will probably hate myself when the project succeeds and improves, and I am left with nothing.

5) I rarely arrive late to things. While this is often a good thing, sometimes I take measures too far to ensure I arrive on time or earlier.  I have begun to allow myself not to be on time if doing so causes me too much agitation.  I have begun to be more selfish.

So, I’ve done the first part of the assignment.  I will not, however, forward the request to others.  This arm of the 5 Things Meme ends right here.