Wes Wilson

As one would expect hospitals have dress codes. When a dress code changes there is normally a good reason. Connelly Hospital recently changed its dress code for the docs to short sleeves. They didn’t give a reason, but one can assume that its to help stop the spread of bacteria from one patient to the next. Sounds good. Sucks about my new dress shirts I bought in the summer, but I understand.

PROBLEM: the dress code change starts immediately, short sleeve white coats arrive Sept 25th. Why not implement the dress code change once the new materials arrive instead of sending hoards of stressed medical students searching the shops and getting white coats altered in a craze to meet the new requirements? Just feel like it’s one more last minute thing to stress over and I assure you there is enough of those as it is.

On the lighter side of things check out this house made of LEGO! More photos here.

I just moved into the new apartment, and needed a desk. There was only one solution, Ikea time! The Ikea here in Dublin has just opened this summer so the store was full of first timers. It was like taking kids to their first trip to a theme park, lots of bubbling smiling Irish.

I was able to pick up a decent desk (69 Euro), desk chair (39 euro), plates, cutlery, mugs, and glasses much cheaper than the malls here.

More assembly pics below.

Last night the GTA endured one of the most intense thunderstorms I’ve seen in the last 5 years.

I was out and just grabbing some gas before heading home. As I drove toward the Sunoco, the darkest cloud, which I can only assume was made up of a combination of the costumes from the matrix and lost dreams, swept over us. It didn’t take long for the lightning to start, first a few, then a few more strikes. Quickly it became strike after strike with no relenting.

The little voice on the radio informed us in a calm way that there were multiple tornado touch downs in North York. I got out of the car at the gas station, filled up, and ran inside to pay quickly. Naturally their debt was down, and for some reason I didn’t have my credit card with me. As I tried to stall while thinking of a way to pay for the 40 bucks of gas sitting in my tank that didnt belong to me yet the radio in the station started to drain out my panic.

REPORTER 1: ..and firefighters in the area are evacuating the homes.
REPORTER 2: How much damage is there already?
REPORTER 1: We don’t know. We go now to Jim who is there. Jim what do you see? How much damage is there?
REPORTER 1: JIM ARE YOU THERE? …. Jim?
REPORTER 1: We’ve lost Jim.

As I left the gas station, lightning still lighting the skies, I started wondering what happened to poor Jim. Was the storm merely blocking communications? Or was Jim scooped up by a tornado soon to venture in the land of Oz? Jim, if you’re out there, let us know.

Yesterday Jeff and I preformed at the Markham Jazz Festival. It was quite thrilling since I’m not really known for my musical talent. We played a song called 3.14159 written by Greg and based on the music from 867-5309/Jenny.

With only a week left till I return to Ireland, the count downs and crunch time have begun. Things are quickly being struck off the list of things I wanted to do this summer. No camping. No carpenter tool playing. and No film. *GASP* This will be the first summer in a long time without me and my friends creating a short film. There was just no time this summer for it. I had a 6 week break from school and spent half of that away from home (Windsor, Mexico, Spain).

Along with all the running, travelling, and working in clinics, I was able to make a dent in my personal web work. When it comes to web jobs, I always get them done. I’m pretty good at deadlines and buckling down, but when it comes to my own personal sites that don’t have deadlines or a paycheck things tend to move much slower. This site, for example, is very international space station like. Every blog post or so I also fix a CSS bug or add a some code and so on until 20 years from now it will be able to refuel ships in route to save the earth from a giant meteor, or whatever the blog equivalent is of that.

I recently added things to the site, Spain photos to my new flickr pro account, tag cloud since my categories are more than ambiguous, and also, what should be working now, support for openID commenting. Enjoy

Oh and also, AlphaCarbon Studios is offering an End of Summer sale on websites as mentioned in their newest post from the Markham Pedestrian Day.