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Oh man, the good weather apparently brings out the city in Ottawa. I got to Bayview station last night, discovered I had 25 minutes to wait for the O-Train, so decided to just walk up Preston to Pub Italia. There were all sorts of characters doing strange things on the sidewalk... yelling up to apartments, randomly getting picked up, arguing about cigarettes, etc. It also turns out there's a comedy club down there now, a banquest/conference centre place built into a new plaza (where a wedding seemed to be happening), a Little Italy mural filling the underside of the 417 overpass, and various other cool looking places. Adobe also apparently moving into the new business/retail park, which I had assumed was yet more condos. Yay intensification!
I came home not all that late (probably around 1), to discover two guys passed out in the hallway to my apartment, sound alseep. I stepped right by their heads, no reaction. It kind of sounded like the party might still be going on inside... so I don't THINK they just forgot their keys, but who knows? Add this to our recent home invasion... and I really need to move out of this place. Ha. And by home invasion I mean a bunch of guys walking into our apartment, dancing with our female friends, and walking out with ~$200 cash, credit cards, and a purse. Said guys proceeded to stab somebody in the lobby, and throw them through the front lobby window. So glad I was too drunk and tired and emotional to be partying by this point, and had barricaded myself in my room with my phone and old CDs. Still a little unnerving. Lock those doors, people! Especially if you're cranking the reggae vibes!
There were more fun sketchy dudes hanging out on Elgin today. Eventually this somewhat out of it guy in the ATM started asking me questions about the envelopes... I thought he was going to ask about the new 'no licking' folding ones that TD Canada Trust got, but he was more confused about how to get the envelope door to open. They seem to have added more steps, so I walked him through it. He did helpfully point out that someone had set the ATM lobby on fire a week ago, which is why it was under construction again like a month after they replaced the machines. I guess someone didn't like the new multilingual service!
And I'm off to parents dinner, but not my parents, without the daughter. We'll see how this goes.
I came home not all that late (probably around 1), to discover two guys passed out in the hallway to my apartment, sound alseep. I stepped right by their heads, no reaction. It kind of sounded like the party might still be going on inside... so I don't THINK they just forgot their keys, but who knows? Add this to our recent home invasion... and I really need to move out of this place. Ha. And by home invasion I mean a bunch of guys walking into our apartment, dancing with our female friends, and walking out with ~$200 cash, credit cards, and a purse. Said guys proceeded to stab somebody in the lobby, and throw them through the front lobby window. So glad I was too drunk and tired and emotional to be partying by this point, and had barricaded myself in my room with my phone and old CDs. Still a little unnerving. Lock those doors, people! Especially if you're cranking the reggae vibes!
There were more fun sketchy dudes hanging out on Elgin today. Eventually this somewhat out of it guy in the ATM started asking me questions about the envelopes... I thought he was going to ask about the new 'no licking' folding ones that TD Canada Trust got, but he was more confused about how to get the envelope door to open. They seem to have added more steps, so I walked him through it. He did helpfully point out that someone had set the ATM lobby on fire a week ago, which is why it was under construction again like a month after they replaced the machines. I guess someone didn't like the new multilingual service!
And I'm off to parents dinner, but not my parents, without the daughter. We'll see how this goes.