Seven days down

Well, today marks a full week that I have been in Calgary.

Today I have a lunch shift at Ric's. Should be interesting to see just how many people come in. Of course, it's also still frickin' freezing, so that might affect it just un peu.

The last two days I had off. I was free! Free as a bird! And did I stay in the apartment as a sensible person would? Nah. Both days I ventured out into -30 weather.

The first day, Rokaya and I went to Second Cup and looked through the paper for apartment listings. We didn't find anything nearby that was still available, so we decided to take a second look at that $700 place---I made an appointment for the following day. Then, Rokaya went of to be evaluated for table fitness, and I went back to the apartment to take a nap in her bed.

In the evening, we developed a craving for Chinese, which morphed into pizza as hunger mounted. Chris and some guy were playing xbox in the living room. They were very helpful in giving us non-existant numbers for the pizza place. Rokaya had to drop something off at Second Cup (where she works) anyways, so we headed out into the cold.

Just across from the Second Cup resides an enterprising business know as the Jerky King. The Jerky King sells a wide variety of jerky, all made on site, including strawberry beef jerky. He also sells Chinese food, although not quite so wide a variety of it. As a special bonus, though, he throws in two stick of beef jerky for free! His front room was so cold, the pop in the cooler out front had exploded. The food, however, was not bad.

The second day, I rolled out of bed and headed of to meet Rokaya to take a second look at that apartment. On the way, I stopped at Ric's to check my schedule, and had a chat with Jenny, who was working as a hostess (she had previously trained me in table running my first shift). I learned that when Jenny is not multi-tasking at Ric's, she works as a dealer at a casino.

Well, Rokaya and I took another look at the apartment. It was still as nice as ever, but I was still not that keen on living with them, plus, they had someone else interested in it who was coming to look at it that evening, and who was willing to pay more. This may have been a lie designed to bring up my offer, but if so, it backfired. I wished them luck, and was on my way.

We bused on down to the grocery store, then, where after buying food we spent a fun filled 45 minutes waiting for a cab.

In the evening, we went out to a smoke filled pub to watch the hockey game with some of Chris's buddies from work. The appropriate team won, apparently. Chris's buddies, two guys most recently from Texas, were quite funny. It wasn't a bad way to spend an evening. Eventually, Andrea, the girlfriend of one of them, showed up---she works with me at Ric's.

My neck was hurting, so I decided to try the floor last night. Had an excellent nights sleep.