Free stuff is cool
Woke up this morning with a bit of a headache. Yesterday we had a bit of a breakthrough at work, so I went over to my coworker's house last night and we had a few beers. I've known the guy since we were in first grade, and amazingly that was the first time that we got somewhat drunk together. Anyway, we ran out of beers at around 1:00AM, so I was fine to drive by 3:30, which is when I came home.Got to bed at 4, and woke up at 11 to go to the west side of the city. Me and Nadu went to West Edmonton Mall for some lunch at a cheap Chinese food place that we always go to. They have very tasty chicken balls. If you ever go to the mall, I recommend that place if you like cheap food like me. Its called Szechwan, its in the main food court by the big replica Christoper Columbus ship. It's always fun to go to that place, just to watch the owner there. He's always so cheap - I saw someone ask for a little cup of water and he charged $1. And they never listen to me when I say I want a lot of sauce on my chicken balls. If it wasnt so tasty and cheap, I wouldn't go there. But today it must have been the guy's birthday or something - he had a big smile on his face, was making jokes with customers...and some guy asked for a toothpick, and he gave one to the guy for free! Wacky.Then we went and got a free tent. Yeah, thats right, a free frickin tent. I was looking around on the Edmonton newsgroup yesterday and found this guy that was getting rid of a bunch of stuff, and one of the items was a tent. So we went over there, and I was expecting it to be a piece of crap, but to our suprise, it looked almost brand new. So we grabbed it along with some foam mats he gave us to sleep on. Now we have a tent to go camping with. Only have to buy a sleeping bag now and we're set. Oh yeah, and we need the snow to melt and the weather to get much better. Maybe we can test it out in May.The driving around the city wasn't done yet. We next went over to Toys R Us to find a present for Nadu's cousin's son, who is about a year old. We ended up walking around there for like an hour and a half looking at everything like little kids. There was this really cool globe that had a pen, and when you touch the pen to a country it will tell you info about it, like the capital and population. Well, I thought it was cool anyway. Were was this kind of stuff when I was a kid? For her nephew Nadu got a Mr. Potato Head. Classic.