Good News:
The package from TigerDirect has finally shown up on the UPS tracking website :D YAY!

Bad News:
Those damn Easter Weekend Slackers at UPS have not put up any info about where or even IF the package has been picked up and/or is in transit to ME ... grrrrr

Soso News:
I worked out my arms yesterday ... boy am I sore!

I didn't get it today!?!?! ... though I honestly didn't expect it today either ...

What's really bugging me is the fact that the damn UPS tracking number isn't working, grrrrr. I want my toyyyyyyyyyy, or at least I want to know WHEN I'll get my toy.

Oh, and I also worked out for the first time in 3 weeks ... oh boy is this week gonna be funnnnn.

Quick quiz, what's 24x24x24mm, has an OLED screen, 1GB of USB2.0 Flash memory, plays mp3/wma files, has an FM radio + voice recorder, a built in Lithium Ion battery that's charged via USB, necklace style earphones ... and tons of other stuff???

the mobiBLU DHA-1500i Cube MP3 Player of course!

Hehe, I got it from Tigerdirect ... and it should be delivered any day now :D

So it was the 'Good' Friday looooong weekend here in sunny Canada. I put Good in quotes because when the stores are closed, it's usually quite boring ... not 'Good'.

So the loooong weekend started off with a trip to the Home Show at the CNE, that was fun ... even if I was dead from all the walking done in only 2 hours, and we didn't even get to see half of the exhibits. Ah well Que Será, Será. I then spent the rest of the day in a planning session for the event I'll be co-MCing on April 30th.

Alas, mine eye is lost!
Adrift atop a roiling sea.
Nothing for protection but a small raft.
The spray of the waves crashing upon my insignificant craft a constant ache;
stinging my already weary mind's eye.

Ok, it took me a while to get to this post, but I needed the included map to better explain how 'difficult' it was to get out of New York. As you can see, there are two routes: the one we were supposed to take through Manhattan (desired) and the walkabout that we ended up traveling (actual).

They say a picture is worth a thousand words ... this one is worth a thousand laughs. A lot of people have asked me how I managed to remember the crazy route we ended up taking; I just used maps.google.com in satellite and map mode to jog my memory (Google Maps Rock!).

All in all, I'm just glad I didn't hit a pedestrian ... those idiots in New York just keep freaking walking unless you honk!!! They're insane!

Ok, this is going to be my last post in NY for this mini-vacation. Ahmed and Aamir are gone right now to return the movie we rented yesterday, so I've got some time to kill.

Quick recap of what we did today:

Ok, so it's a nice sunny day outside in NY right now ... the rain yesterday was annoying.

Ok, So I'm in New York right now typing this post on Ahmed's laptop.

So Aamir and I got in ~8pm last night and Ahmed, Aamir, and I proceeded to go out to an indian resturant in Manhattan where I had some nice Aloo Paratha. Then we all walked through Times Square ... which was crazy busy. I got a bunch of photos and video that I'll be posting when I get back on Monday. Oh, and we also checked out the gigantic Toys'R'Us at Times Square ... which has a ferris wheel *inside* it. So we were all pretty tired ~12am and headed back to base to sleep for tomorrow...