Jet Plane Leaving without me...

According to my plane ticket, I would be boarding a plane home to Calgary today (May 22 at 9am local time) I would have needed to fly from London to Dublin, to start my trip in Dublin and fly back to London, then back to Calgary. A lot of wasted time indeed.

But instead of sitting in a cramped space for 12 hours and camping in the airport, I was in the office, working away in front of my computer at work. Luckily, I remembered my departure date, so yesterday I called in and changed it to a later date as well as dump my Dublin to London route. Since I have no idea when I'm returning, I changed it to the latest date possible, January 10, 2007. If I decide to come back earlier than I'll just change it again. At $200 CAN per change, it's still better than purchasing a new ticket, but I shouldn't change my mind too much.

Bo on the other hand is not as lucky. His ticket was non-changeable, so he will need to purchase another ticket. However, we will still need to pack... for our Switzerland trip that's coming up this Thursday, May 25 2006. I need to brush up on my German. Guten Tag. Wie Geht es Ihnen? Ich bin sehr gut.

My plane...

It just went crashing down. More specifically, the plane that Bo bought from Ebay did a crash and burn. It didn't even get a chance to call mayday! It lasted about a whole second in the air. That was when I gave it full throttle and Bo tossed it, but it did a nose dive and came right down. Both the front and back wings split, and we lost the landing gear. Well, better luck next time!

The Da Vinci Code...

I've never read a novel that has small letters and over 500 pages in 2 days. As a matter of fact, I don't remember ever reading or finishing a book of this size. This book was amazingly interesting. I guess not having TV is a good thing. The movie is coming out soon, I think i'm going to go and see it. If it's anything like the book, its going to be awesome.

I decided, to pick up reading. So today, I went and picked up another novel. One by Micheal Chichton called Timeline. I like the idea of time travel. Then after the first few chapters, I realized that i've already seen the movie. I remember the movie cause Paul Walker was in it and I liked the movie that he was in previously, Fast and Furious. I don't think i'll finish reading this one.

Last weekend, we found a nice place to hike. Ivinghoe Beacon is only 10 minutes from us. We hike a nice trail up to the highest peak. There was a flock of sheep grazing the land. I tried to take a picture of them, but they would always move away from me. Then I had one that was staring at me and I stared back. We had a staring contest going there for a while.

Two weekends ago, my Canadian friend took us to Tring Park. It's nothing like a park, I think they just call it a park. The park is huge and the trail is endless. A bunch of cows seems to live there. When we walk close to them, they walk away. They don't mind having humans around, just not close up.

Finally got paid...

After working close to 5 month now, I finally got paid! (Partially anyways) Then I got screwed by taxes cause the UK tax year ends on April 3rd. I didn't know this before but the earnings are taxed based on when you get paid, not when you actually did the work. So the work that I did from December to April of last years tax year will be taxed this year, along with my this years income. Blah. Then I got screwed again by the accounting firm cause they processed my pay incorrectly, they thought that I made that much in a month, resulting in a huge tax rate. I felt like I was back at the U taking a finance class, reading up on UK tax, but if I really wanted to do that, why would I hire these 'professional' accountants.

Then they forgot to process my expenses, even after calling them up about it. Before this, they lost the timesheet that I faxed in and took over a week to get back to me after I've mailed a 'have you received my timesheet' email. And no, that is not all that they messed up on. With just a click on the 'forward' button, the Jr accountant that manages my account sent a string of private conversations between me and the accounting company to the employer (I was furious, imagine that, me being furious. That doesn't happen much. Does it?) Then there's more... And these guys are suppose to be professionals, but so far, they are doing a piss poor job!