In Your Eye Imperial Oil!!

So yesterday I'm at work and doing my thing when I get a request from a radio station in Calgary for the current Imperial Oil (aka ESSO) creative.  Long story short, guess who  managed to single handedly LOSE the ENTIRE mp3 library...yes the same library that contains EVERY SINGLE radio spot produced thus far this year for all our clients.  Yup.  It was I.  After 7 minutes in a cold sweat I discovered that I had accidentally moved the mp3 library to a different file...my technological ineptness is really getting the better of me these days
 
Ollie...*barf* I know, but that's what my dad calls him
Olivier was very bad yesterday and that made me sad :(  We took him to Ranjan Bappa's place and he was so good, he would come when we called him etc etc, but he attacked me in the car!!!!  He's so small he doesn't know how to bark or growl, so on our way home he decided to try out growling AND biting...OoOoOoOo he felt my wrath, let's just say he won't be doing that again.  LOL Ammi got so scared of him she refused to go near him the entire evening b/c she thought he'd attack her and Thathi wanted to give him lumps (which I would never let him do!)  He was sad yesterday b/c Aiya has gone camping to Algonquin with K-OS and company and there was no one at home for him to give kisses to or take out for a midnight leak!
 
Comrade D...?
If I weren't a Christian I think I'd be a communist...well maybe not a hard core Chairman Mao communist but maybe a socialist (which contrary to popular belief I am not, *cough* yes Gloria I do believe in open markets lol).  Actually come to think of it, probably a much more watered down version, and let's play it safe here and say NDP , I think I could give Olivia Chow AND Jack Layton a run for their money ;) Although it sometimes feels like I'm the only lefty drowning in a sea of right wing family members mumsy reminded me this morning of some key facts.  Apparently grand-uncles on both sides of my family were commies!  And not just commies either, but card carrying involved commies.  Go figure, I guess it skips a generation, (like diabetes supposedly does).  Speaking of communists, I saw a guy today outside at Nathan Phillips Square wearing a red KGB T-shirt complete with sickle.  He was like 13, and probably doesn't have a clue as to what the significance of the KGB is...to add to the irony of it all there were little Polish girls and boys dancing on the mainstage!
 
On the topic of lefties and right wingers...Thanks to Roshan I have discovered an American conservative magazine that doesn't make me want to shove PaperMate pens in my eyes b/c of irritation.  Say hello to the National Review.  My preferred source of American politics is still Harpers but National Review is a decent alternative.  (Although David Frum is a contributor *shudder* [Fanners and I had a BAD experience with him during a taping of Studio 2 he RUINED the discussion and talked out of his arse for most of the evening])  The other day I read an article called Sleepless in Suburbia  which made me laugh because it was so true...even though the author is right wing ;)  Here's an excerpt, but whenever the author says Lefty, or left replace it with right winger or right:

"Lefty friends. There are a number of people I am very fond of, who are Left. For reasons I don't completely understand, this troubles me. I suppose it is the tension between liking them as people, and thinking their opinions are silly. Short of converting them to my point of view, or vice versa neither of which, of course, ever happens  there is no way to resolve this tension in their presence, so I take it to bed with me and it pops out at 3 A.M. like a hernia."
 
*sigh* I couldn't have put it better myself!!  This one's for you Gloria, Roshan, Warren and pretty much everyone else I went to High School with ;)  But don't fret, I don't lose any sleep over you guys.  You just irritate me.  Sometimes.  No.  Most of the time.  I LOVE YOU.

PS:
Lotsa interesting tid-bits of news  floating around today.
Prime Minister Martin has selected his cabinet members 
Philippine President pulls out her soldiers from Iraq 
It's the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Lunar Landing 
The UN wants Isreal to scrap its version of the Berlin Wall