phil: dude, i so did not want to see driven.
so i've read some books now. the three by the author of fight club. the movie is better than any of them, sadly. or not so sadly. i found it odd that i wanted them to be different, even though i liked the movie.
so i could type some stuff about the montreal trip since i am feeling all typing-like.
anyway so the post gnome 1.4 mini-vacation to montreal started out in an interesting manner. there was a websaver to ottawa, but non to montreal. so it would be $300 (US, i think) more to fly to montreal. so we somehow convinced shaver and phil to meet us in ottawa and we'd ride the bus together.
so we were actually almost maybe late to the airport, but we did make it on time. there are some funny things about that that i am actually embarassed about, so i'll skip them for now.
so nat finds on his blackberry that we are to meet phil and mike at a bar in ottawa. we get off the plane, and go to the customs thing. they start asking me where i'm going, to which i reply montreal, and then of course they want to know why i'm going through ottawa rather than to montreal so i say how i am all cheap and what not. then he wants to know how i know the people i'm going to see... i decided "through the people i came here with" is better than "i met them on the internet," so i go with the former.
so then we go to get a taxi and phil and mike come running out, and they decided it would be cheaper to rent a car than for us all to take the bus. unfortunately, they require some things of the people they rent cars to, and it blah blahs.
so they finally give us a car and we head to montreal, where we played some virtua tennis.
the next day shaver has a mean cookout at his place, with tons of different meats and what not. lots of people then went out, and i think i might have played virtua tennis. oh, and i finally met mkp.
the next day we played some virtua tennis and watched some hockey and went to see driven, which i didn't want to see. it was pretty bad. phil said the worst he'd seen since coyote ugly. unfortunately, i cannot make that comparison since nat didn't let me see that. i had a funny email i sent about it, but i can't find it.
anyway after that i forget what we did.
then yesterday we ate a a burger/fries place and then tried to find ottawa. that took a long time and we missed our flight by 2 hours. ottawa is unlike new york in that they don't have boston flights every two hours. so we had to get a hotel and take a 7 am flight the next day. whee.
so we walked around ottawa and i made nat and joe mad at me.
blah blah, flew home, blah blah, built some packages, blah blah.