Remind me to avoid the intersection of Yonge and Kennedy in future.
Yay, LJ's back! :)
The four and a half months I've been working at Cantech have been fairly uneventful. Yesterday, however, I was sitting at my desk around 3pm, working away, when I heard a screech, followed by a thud and a crunch from outside. I went to the window overlooking Yonge Street, and saw a car facing east in the westbound lane of Kennedy Avenue (about 50 feet north of the building I work in), having been T-boned by a westbound car. I looked at it for a moment, and when nothing exciting seemed to be happening (though one of the cars seemed to be leaking a trail of gasoline), I went back to my desk.
Today, around 3pm, I was again at my desk when I heard another screech, thud and crunch. I went to the window again, and in the exact same spot, another car had been T-boned. This time, the passenger side appeared to be crushed, and a few minutes later, a fire truck and an ambulance showed up.
I think I'll be avoiding going north for lunch for the next little while.
Today was a pretty good day, though. I finally got a response from the third-party vendor I'd emailed about a week and a half ago about a problem I was having using their software - they had just put out a new release on Friday, and suggested that I download the new version to see if it fixed my problem. Lo and behold, our Supporting Documents (reference letters, pastoral references, teachers' college transcripts, etc.) will now correctly display a thumbnail image of the first page of any documents uploaded as PDFs. Yay! (Previously, only jpegs, bitmaps, and other images of the documents could be uploaded; I had put the code in to allow PDFs to be uploaded a few weeks ago, but the thumbnails weren't displaying. I've been working on this on-and-off for about three weeks now; I think the main reason it wasn't working before was that the previous version didn't include the character maps that are supposed to be copied to the root folder of the site - I don't know why, since the documentation said they were supposed to be included. The new release had them.)
Oh, and I also made a change to allow applicants to be recommended or approved for occasional teaching at either the elementary or secondary levels separately; previously, they could be recommended or approved for both, but removing them from one would also remove them from the other. So overall, it was a productive day.
Also, I got home to find a message on my answering machine from Bay/Bloor Radio - my stereo is repaired. ($160. Ouch.) I can't get it until the weekend, though, because they close before I can get there on weeknights. Then I have to figure out how to move my speakers so that they're further away from the TV - it seems that gurudata was right about the magnetic fields from the speakers possibly causing my colour problems. Last week, suddenly, the colour on my TV went back to normal. It's nice to be able to watch TV and not have everyone's face be greenish. It looks like there's room on top of my bookcases, but I don't know if the cables are long enough.
Oh, and I talked to Ambrose tonight, too. :) He's working at the Orfus Road location this week (his last week before starting as the assistant manager at Yonge and Eglinton), so he's pretty tired - they don't get many customers over there, but the store is the size of three regular stores, so he's been doing a lot of walking so far this week. (Orfus Road is the location of many huge outlet and warehouse stores - I only know of it because they always have huge Boxing Day sales. If you want a leather jacket, go to Orfus Road on Boxing Day. I think that's also where the Queer As Folk prop-and-costume sale was after the show ended.) So it looks like we'll be getting together Saturday afternoon - he suggested we have a "stereo pickup party". I guess the 21-day curse is broken, since Sunday marked a month since we met. *grin*
Edited to add: the blooper reel for the Toronto Trek-versus-Polaris skits has been uploaded to Youtube. Behold:
The four and a half months I've been working at Cantech have been fairly uneventful. Yesterday, however, I was sitting at my desk around 3pm, working away, when I heard a screech, followed by a thud and a crunch from outside. I went to the window overlooking Yonge Street, and saw a car facing east in the westbound lane of Kennedy Avenue (about 50 feet north of the building I work in), having been T-boned by a westbound car. I looked at it for a moment, and when nothing exciting seemed to be happening (though one of the cars seemed to be leaking a trail of gasoline), I went back to my desk.
Today, around 3pm, I was again at my desk when I heard another screech, thud and crunch. I went to the window again, and in the exact same spot, another car had been T-boned. This time, the passenger side appeared to be crushed, and a few minutes later, a fire truck and an ambulance showed up.
I think I'll be avoiding going north for lunch for the next little while.
Today was a pretty good day, though. I finally got a response from the third-party vendor I'd emailed about a week and a half ago about a problem I was having using their software - they had just put out a new release on Friday, and suggested that I download the new version to see if it fixed my problem. Lo and behold, our Supporting Documents (reference letters, pastoral references, teachers' college transcripts, etc.) will now correctly display a thumbnail image of the first page of any documents uploaded as PDFs. Yay! (Previously, only jpegs, bitmaps, and other images of the documents could be uploaded; I had put the code in to allow PDFs to be uploaded a few weeks ago, but the thumbnails weren't displaying. I've been working on this on-and-off for about three weeks now; I think the main reason it wasn't working before was that the previous version didn't include the character maps that are supposed to be copied to the root folder of the site - I don't know why, since the documentation said they were supposed to be included. The new release had them.)
Oh, and I also made a change to allow applicants to be recommended or approved for occasional teaching at either the elementary or secondary levels separately; previously, they could be recommended or approved for both, but removing them from one would also remove them from the other. So overall, it was a productive day.
Also, I got home to find a message on my answering machine from Bay/Bloor Radio - my stereo is repaired. ($160. Ouch.) I can't get it until the weekend, though, because they close before I can get there on weeknights. Then I have to figure out how to move my speakers so that they're further away from the TV - it seems that gurudata was right about the magnetic fields from the speakers possibly causing my colour problems. Last week, suddenly, the colour on my TV went back to normal. It's nice to be able to watch TV and not have everyone's face be greenish. It looks like there's room on top of my bookcases, but I don't know if the cables are long enough.
Oh, and I talked to Ambrose tonight, too. :) He's working at the Orfus Road location this week (his last week before starting as the assistant manager at Yonge and Eglinton), so he's pretty tired - they don't get many customers over there, but the store is the size of three regular stores, so he's been doing a lot of walking so far this week. (Orfus Road is the location of many huge outlet and warehouse stores - I only know of it because they always have huge Boxing Day sales. If you want a leather jacket, go to Orfus Road on Boxing Day. I think that's also where the Queer As Folk prop-and-costume sale was after the show ended.) So it looks like we'll be getting together Saturday afternoon - he suggested we have a "stereo pickup party". I guess the 21-day curse is broken, since Sunday marked a month since we met. *grin*
Edited to add: the blooper reel for the Toronto Trek-versus-Polaris skits has been uploaded to Youtube. Behold:
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