hey, i haven’t bought cds for like a week; so i bought another 10 more the last few days ;). i also checked out how much it would be to actually ship all this shit back up to toronto, and it’s like $30+ using USPS taking a month or two. UPS is another $30 on top of that. that sucks, maybe that’ll get me to stop buying?

we went down to fry’s on saturday morning, which if you don’t know is an electronics store. it was an interesting experience to say the least haha, i can’t really put the experience into words properly, you really have to check it out for yourself. anyways, fry’s is one of those big box electronics specialty stores like best buy or futureshop, except it’s huge. it’s like ikea, but for appliances, home theatre, dvds, cds, games (they let you play ddr on a a 50″ tv), cameras, camcorders, cellphones, cordless phones, normal phones, lcd monitors, lcd projectors (i played doom3 on one, cool), cd players, mp3 players, computers, computer components, mice, keyboards, motherboards, processors, computer cases, electronic grand pianos, robots, rc cars, other electronic toys, plus a million other things. you get the picture. the crazy thing is that even the most stupidest thing, like say keychain flashlights or hard drives have their own aisle. it’s like paradise for a tech geek; they even have a cafe in there (where we ate lunch at so does that make us geeks?).

on sunday, it was one of the 55 days of sunshine seattle gets per year, so we headed up to the seattle space needle. the space needle is 605 ft (whereas the cn tower is like 1800+) so it wasn’t very tall. anyways, it was actually TOO nice of a day because you couldn’t really see anything without being blinded by the sun. anyways, they had all these annoying wires in the way so it was difficult to take pictures, but i did take a few. check ’em out.

after that we went up to u district to check out the university of washington. we decided to go sooner rather than later because we figured we would be pretty depressed if we a not too bad looking campus and then had to return to waterloo. anyways, it was pretty nice in that there were a lot of grassy open areas with tall trees and vintage buildings (whether they’re real or made to look old is another question). although i’m not sure if it is a lot better than any other universities since waterloo sucks and u of t is in the city so it’s different.

we had some dinner at the cheesecake factory. it’s milestones style with um, well entrees are like $15-$20 USD so i don’t know how that compares with canadian restaurants. their menu is huge, and covers all sort of style from asian to american (steak), seafood, hamburgers, pizza, pasta, etc. basically a super restaurant. the food wasn’t half bad either, which was good because one of my roommates kept hyping it up. here’s my funny story of the night. i wanted to order the fish of the day, except the waiter came back and said they didn’t have anymore halibut left. so i ordered miso salmon, then she came back sorry no salmon left! so then i asked what fish DO they have? and well, it turns out they didn’t have ANY fish. wtf? i live on the pacific and there’s no fish? that was disappointing.

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