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| Friday, March 16th, 2012 | | 11:31 am |
poor bunny
just saw an article in the newspaper this morning that a bunny without ears was born in germany, but an idiot photographer stepped on him :-( First knut dies, now a bunny dies :-( | | Thursday, March 15th, 2012 | | 11:22 pm |
Long time no writey
sorry, been a long time since i've written. lots has happened! g-bear has been meeting all kinds of nice girls and some have come over, too! he really likes one named 'cat' from Japan and I think she's a Harajuku girl too :-) they've been playing games on their iPads for a few weeks now and she lives in the same building too. one girl from china came over to meet me and hold me. she's cute and friendly, but has cold hands. g-bear got a new job! he no longer works really far away so he can sometimes even come home for lunch. hooray! he's much happier now because he no longer has to work with a really horrible person, gets more money, spends less money on travel, works with friendly people, and they listen to him. i haven't been to the office yet, but i've seen pictures. Domo and AOL-Bear have been there, though and they say it's nice but they don't have free food and drinks like the last place. we got a new friend to talk to!  he's another No Frills Bear from about 1987, so we have FIVE now. New No Frills Bear was found on eBay and just arrived from New York City! He has so many stories to tell! No luck finding any other bears like me, though. I guess I need to change my name to Rare Bear g-bear is hiring a girl to do a Facebook page for his web site. She started it and will teach him how to keep it going to get more customers, etc. g-bear has so many projects in the works! there's one for the company in Montreal, one for his real-estate agent, one for a guy who likes QR codes, one for a social networking company, and now cat-bear wants an app done. there's a new building being built not far from here. my job is to aim a video camera at the site every day and record the construction crew and the tractors working. we make a time-lapse video every week from what we record. we saw a crane get raised last week, and now they're building something. we don't think the building will block our excellent view of the city. we were told it will be only half the height of the building we're in. all day long we get to look out the window at the world being built. so nice! sometimes we see g-bear down on the ground way below waving at us. | | Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | | 10:29 pm |
2011
2011 is almost gone. I think it's been a good year. G-bear has been working all year and managed to save enough money to buy a condo! Yay, we have our own place! It's not paid for, yet. The bank owns most of it but every time G-bear earns $500 we consider that another square foot of this place being OURS. I personally saved about $319 during the year from working odd jobs but one square foot is all a bear needs, right? G-bear makes his first real mortgage payment in a few days. Exciting! Our web site has been doing ok but not as good as last year in terms of sales. We made $1000 less than last year. Hmmm. We've had 601 sales since it started, though! We recently had Christmas. G-bear's family normally has a big party but this year, they went to two other parties for food, drinks, and fun. I didn't get to go to either of them, but G-bear said the first place was a small house and he was given a nice crystal bowl for ice, plus some little bottles of wine and vodka to serve in it. The second place was a large house where they had catered food but apparently the food was terrible. Oh well! For Christmas this year, G-bear got some maple syrup in really interesting bottles, some wine, some XBox games, some clothes, a small bottle of liquid porcelain to fix the bath tub, gift certificates for the Apple store and iTunes, and some curtains for our bedroom so it's really dark and quiet at night now. He gave people gift certificates for a balloon ride, an exotic car ride, tickets to TIFF, an HP Touchpad, a cool watch, and a really cool lamp that is too cool to describe. G-bear recently met a nice girl named Doris and she came over here for dinner one day. She likes bears, too! G-bear went to a mall to meet her again and she gave us something! Check out our new friend, a solid crystal teddy bear!  I want to get something for Doris-bear now :-) For New Years Eve, I'm not sure what we're doing. We might go to Montreal for the weekend but we really need to get some work done around here plus I'd rather go to Montreal when it's warm. | | Sunday, December 11th, 2011 | | 3:59 pm |
| | Saturday, October 8th, 2011 | | 10:33 pm |
A Saturday outing with G-Bear
We went for a walk with G-bear today to get a burrito. Fooh Bear almost jumped over the glass at Chipotle!  On the way back, we saw a memorial outside the Apple store for Steve Jobs. We had to get our picture taken while briefly sitting amongst the well-wishes.  | | Monday, September 19th, 2011 | | 7:57 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | | 5:36 pm |
Double-sneeze
Trying the iPad app for the first time to tell the world that for the first time in my life, I did a double-sneeze! This is when you sneeze once normally then sneeze again about a second later! Fun! Posted via LiveJournal app for iPad. | | Sunday, June 26th, 2011 | | 12:00 am |
Bite-sized chunks of big news
Oops, been bad... couldn't update the site for a while because g-bear hasn't been leaving the computer on for us at night. He just got home and fell asleep, so left computer on tonight His job is going well, so that's good. His probationary time is over and the company wants to keep him. The search for a new home has taken big strides forward. We all put our money together and g-bear made an offer on a really nice condo a month ago. After a bit of negotiation, it was accepted and he got approved for a loan, too! We might move in at the end of July if all goes well. Scary! Tonight, g-bear went on a date with a human girl from Hong Kong. She's a fashion designer, and a university graduate so she's smart and works hard unlike Billie-bear from Australia who never really went to school and never had a decent job during the time we knew her from 1994 to 2002. Snuggle Bear knew her a lot longer, though, from about 1989 he thinks. Anyway, I'll let you know later if G-bear finally has a GF. I wonder what she will think if she comes here and sees about 40 bears scattered around the house! Snowflake (a wolf from Allie-bear of Brazil) is still here and doing well though sometimes lonely (no other wolves or dogs here). | | Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | | 10:15 pm |
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| | Sunday, April 10th, 2011 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 | | 10:14 pm |
Saw Stevie Nicks again :-)
Fooh-bear and I got to see Stevie Nicks again last night. G-bear had some room in his bear carrier for us, so he took us along for a few photos. We couldn't get up to the front to shake her hand, but we'll try next time. Here's a screen grab of a video of me with Stevie Nicks in the background. We were in the 7th row on the right.  Rod Stewart also performed but we didn't care about him. He was ok, though. | | Friday, March 25th, 2011 | | 7:29 pm |
Got iPad2 but G-Bear sick
G-Bear got us an iPad2 today! Hooray! The excitement has been dampened, however by the scary possibility that G-Bear is now sick. He thinks (from past experience) it might be a "common cold". Whatever the reason, it's our job to spring into action and help him. This is our chance to prove our worthiness and loyalty, so we're going to be taking his temperature every hour and feeding him healthy foods such as Chicken Noodle Soup and veggies. Which hole should use to check his temperature? Rare-bear is off to the grocery store right now getting the goods while I tell the world of our new-found toys and tribulations with a sick human to attend to. If you don't hear from us in a long time, call 9-11 but we'll post his vital stats here if he lets us. -Rooh | | Sunday, March 20th, 2011 | | 11:07 pm |
Poor Knut
Just saw the last video of living Knut, the polar bear in Berlin. Very sad. R.I.P, Knut Bear! | | Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 | | 11:30 pm |
Been hibernating
Hello everyone. I've been lazy lately probably because I'm a bear, it's winter, and my body wants to hibernate. Sorry Just wanted to tell you a story about G-Bear. He went out Saturday night to meet a human girl. It was snowing, just like it was during Christmas. I saw him walk down the street into the distance. When he got back, he told me that on the way there, he sent text messages to the girl explaining where he was and when he would arrive. When almost there, on a busy street but almost deserted of cars because of the snow, he saw someone out of the corner of his eye in the doorway of a store. I know eyes don't have corners because they are round, but it's just a silly human expression G-Bear likes to use. Anyway, this person was writing graffiti! G-Bear and I think it's the most vile, stupid, and annoying thing around. It's not art. It's a stupid, territorial thing. It's the equivalent of a dog peeing on something to mark his territory. And, its destructive. It costs money to clean up and will last for years if not cleaned up. G-Bear caught someone actually doing this crazy scribbling with spray paint and he got mad. He didn't say anything, but he called 9-11 and reported the tagger to the cops as he followed a safe distance behind. G-Bear said the 9-11 operator was very nice and relayed details of where he was and what direction he was going. G-Bear lost the perp for a few minutes because he went down an alley, and the operator said not to follow. As proof that taggers are not too bright, the tagger actually back-tracked and walked right past G-Bear while he was on the phone so G-Bear continued following. It took about 10 minutes for a cop to arrive, but when one did, it must have been exciting! G-Bear told the cop where the perp was, so the cop parked the car and ran up to him. Upon site of the cop car, the bad guy threw his paint over a fence and started walking away as if nothing was wrong but the cop grabbed him by the shoulders and arrested him! yay! It was just a stupid kid, maybe 17 or 18. The city is a cleaner place, now. I hate seeing graffiti in bathrooms, or anywhere I go. It's so dumb, so we both feel good that someone got caught. G-Bear had to stick around for about 30 minutes to give a statement and wait for photos. It made him late for his date, so he just sent text messages to her that something exciting happened and he'd be there soon. When he finally got to the bar, they wouldn't let him in because it was full. He had to wait outside with the icky smokers for some people to leave. Eventually, enough people left and the band inside was almost done, so the bouncer let him in for free (a savings of $12.00!). He met the girl and was going to get a beer but the bartender was incredibly slow so he gave up (a savings of maybe $6!) and went to enjoy the band which sucked. G-Bear wanted to give the girl a rose, but it was snowing that night. Roses were nowhere to be found, so he gave her a snowball. She put it down her shirt for a while then threw it into the crowd :-) When the horrible music was over, they left the bar and went to another one. He apologized for being late and explained how he caught a graffiti tagger and the cops kept him forever to take a statement and take pictures. G-Bear said he didn't like the girl much anyway, but things really turned bad when she said she used to be a tagger and that she's into self expression and all that crap. She said she tagged buildings of rich people, called G-Bear a vigilante and pulled out a cigarette. Normal people would just say 'good bye' at that point, but G-Bear is too nice so he stuck around until about 2:00am talking about crap and what else they don't have in common :-) Meanwhile, I'm sitting at home worried about him. I wonder if she would let G-Bear write graffiti on her brand new Mini Cooper. If it's ok in her eyes to writing graffiti on building worth a million dollars, it should be ok to write graffiti on a car worth $20,000, right? Also, she's a vegetarian that smokes. How ironic can you get! You avoid meat for a healthy diet, yet you smoke?! I'm no expert of the human body but I think it gets more goodies from a hamburger than a breath of smoke! Anyway, I think G-bear did a good thing and it's sad that some people don't recognize it. He told me tonight that he bought her a beer that night, and she didn't even thank him. It was only $3.00, though. A savings of $3.00! | | Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 | | 10:57 pm |
Cold out side.... Brrrr!
I hear howling winds It's cold outside I want everyone to pause for the poor bears outside in the snow Read these numbers one at a time and use the time to think of the poor bears who don't have a home like we do. ten nine eight seven six five four three two one G-bear has been working a lot but getting a lot done. He seems happy but there's SO much to do, but not enough time. We want to write a Mac app and a GoogleTV app and do all kinds of neat things but there's no time! The day job takes up all his time but he needs it to pay for this apartment and all the other things here. | | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 | | 11:48 am |
Not a lot happening here. G-bear is always at work. Starting to snow here. We sit by the window and watch snow fall but it doesn't stick. We're not sure where it goes. Help me understand something about humans... when they have a cold, they say their noses are stuffed. My nose is stuffed all the time and I think it's fine! It's stuffed with bear fluff. G-bear met a girl from south Asia and has visited her a few times at a store downtown but I don't know what's happening. Another girl he met called V (who was really depressed a few weeks ago) has left her boyfriend and is moving away. She said the cops were called. Apparently he hit some 15-year-old punk kids who were being stupid, but you should never hit a kid. She was here a few days ago to leave supplies for the web site. She's nice but I hope G-bear doesn't let her stay here because there's not enough room. Christmas is coming. Allie-bear from Brazil bought us a wolf! We have paperwork coming in the mail and maybe some pictures too. I wonder what I should call him/her... W-bear? Snow-Wolf? Whoof? G-bear has done some shopping but not enough. I wonder what he got us! Hopefully something that will let us use an iPad. Web site sales are good but disappointing. We thought they would be double that of last year, but they're only about 10% higher than last year at this time. G-Bear has been downloading movies and tutorial videos all weekend... about 30GB so far! Right now the PS3 is working on a Folding@Home packet, downloading some game demos and episodes of The Tester. We keep hearing banging from somewhere in the building. We think it's a glass door downstairs that's not closing properly. We thought it was the neighbour first, but not anymore. We sometimes hear a dog yelping/crying in another apartment. Sometimes we hear a springy bed squeaking next door and we almost always hear an elevator going up and down. We probably should have rented a corner space but then we would have to deal with car honking, fire engines, etc. ----------- update: G-Bear got us a new Domo friend!  update2: Andy-bear from our old home town in Grass Valley sent us a Christmas gift too! PS3 Sack people and cookies! We're keeping this LJ entry short, so we can get to know Domo, Sack Boy and Sack Girl. Apparently Sack Boy & Girl needed to eat 3 of the cookies in the box they came in, but it's ok... there were plenty of sugar-coated cookies left over and some with coconut too.  | | Thursday, November 25th, 2010 | | 10:23 pm |
Life is fragile
We've been watching an episode of Six Feet Under every night for a month now. It's a great show. Lots of lessons about life and love and the world in it. I hope G-bear lives a long time because we see videos sometimes of how life can end when you least expect it. We have all 5 seasons of The Sopranos to watch now plus a bunch of other movies and shows. Hooray for big hard drives! G-bear may have made a bad mistake on Tuesday. He was offered a job for much more money but he turned it down. He seems sad now. He said he turned it down mostly so he wouldn't have to change again. Some stability is good, I suppose but I like money. His current job seems to be going fine. Stress is high. The people paying the company he works at are idiots. They keep changing stuff which breaks the whole system the complain that the system is broken. Sales on the web site have been slow. Even with a giant selection of items on sale at really great prices, sales are rather slow. They'll probably pick up next week though if last year is any indication. G-bear submitted an app to the iPhone App store but it got rejected because it didn't play video properly, and Apple didn't like the screen shots. Allie-bear is probably on a beach right now. Here's a photo of us on a beach in Florida in 2005. Enjoy!  | | Sunday, November 21st, 2010 | | 4:54 pm |
We met Loreena McKennit!
We are lucky bears... we've been all over the world, had our pictures taken in front of lots of famous places (everything from Fry's Electronics to the big Jesus statue in Brazil), but we never met anyone famous until today. We finally got a picture of us with a famous person... Loreena McKennit! She's a Canadian singer and musician of New Age/folk/ambient music. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreena_mckennit for more info. She has a new CD out of Celtic music and was at a book store today to promote it and talk to fans, etc. We really wanted to go, and G-bear said we could. We waited in line for a while and talked to her for a couple minutes about music and stuff. She wanted to hold us and was very gentle. Her hands are soft and smell like piano keys and harp strings.  I told her about all my travels to Brazil, Hong Kong, France, and Japan. She told me we have to check out Ireland and Scotland next. Ok, we will! | | Thursday, November 18th, 2010 | | 10:48 pm |
Two months of updates
wow... long time no hear from me! sorry! lots of news to report. Biggest news is that we are in Toronto now. G-bear got a job and we all moved here as one happy family. Punky the big pumpkin is here too and happy with us. Everything is out of storage now and here with us. All the electronic goodies are hooked up again and drinking electric juice. Samsung TV is happily playing movies for us again. Yellow couch is here and still comfortable but needs a little cleaning. We have DSL internet that is fast and pre-paid for a year. G-bear is happily downloading movies for us to watch but we are watching an episode of Six Feet Under per day first. We are currently at season 3, disc 3. G-bear got a job in Toronto and used a train to get there from Hamilton for a few weeks. He was unhappy with the time it took to get there, was unhappy while there, and was tired and unhappy when he came home. Even with us along once, he was unhappy. He left that job and got a new one a few days later (his 2nd choice). He took the first one because of the location but I think we both learned that location is not always the most important thing. We have a place in a super tall building downtown. I read about how this whole area used to be a poor part of town with pig and cow slaughter houses, warehouses and industrial companies that make household stuff like dishwashers. Now all that stuff is done elsewhere (probably China) so this area is now becoming a hip residential area. Our apartment is brand new. This whole building is brand new. It's not even done yet. Lots of walls are unpainted. We hear construction people every morning. There's dust and dirt everywhere outside. The top floors are empty. G-Bear took me up there for a tour once. Fun! I want G-bear to save his money for unit 1010. It's large and has a nice view but won't be ready for 6 months. This is the 3rd or 4th brand new place we've had but our favourite was the yellow house in Grass Valley because it matched the yellow couch. G-bear hurt his finger tonight looking for something. Red blood came out... I hope he doesn't die! I heard that if enough red blood leaks out of a human, they die but I don't know how much is too much. I'm full of bear fluff and know that if I lose too much bear fluff, I'm in big trouble. G-Bear has met a couple of human girls lately. One is named V who is nice and brings things for his web site that she finds. She's currently going through a sad phase. She's sad or depressed about something, possibly even nothing. She has a son and a boyfriend. Their job should be to help her but I guess they are not doing their job. Another human girl is named Mel but I don't think they're right for each other. She's from Germany, is blonde, and has a really cool accent. She reminds me of Coco from Grass Valley. The girl from London named Anne won't be around either. Sad! I liked the last two but I might meet a famous girl on Saturday. She's a singer and is blonde and probably very rich. She writes music and will be in Toronto to meet people. I asked G-bear if she will meet bears too but he said "I'm not sure... let's find out!". Hopefully I'll get a picture with her. I helped get an app on the iPhone app store! G-Bear and I converted a Flash-based web site to an iPhone app and submitted it to the app store on Monday. It's in review right now but it might get rejected because video doesn't play properly on the iPad. I'd like to get my own iPad but I don't have enough money and my bear-fluff-filled body isn't recognized by the iPad. I think I'll go to the Apple store and complain. Maybe it'll work if I wear gloves. Our 2nd trip to Brazil still hasn't happened. I have no idea when it will but hopefully soon. The problem is either a lack or money or a lack of time. Right now, it's a lack of time. We have the privacy to go but we need the time. A few weeks ago, we won a court case against one of the people who owe us money. She hasn't made a payment in a year and apparently has a lawyer telling her to ignore us. That's fine because we went to court and convinced a judge pretty easily of what needs to be paid. You should have been there... I was in the court room listening.. I could have sold tickets to the drama. Fur was flying! G-bear was really impressive! I would hate to get in an argument with him. I want to be a lawyer now! I wonder if teddy bears can be lawyers. I know we can be doctors especially if someone needs stitches! Get it? Sales on our web site this month have been OK but only half what October was. Sales will probably start screaming soon, though. I'm helping G-bear write a newsletter that will go to 350 people registered on the web site. We're going to use MailChimp.com because it's free and looks really well done. Winter is coming. It is getting colder and I saw snow once. I wonder if anyone make downhill skis for bears! Today G-bear got a job offer in another city not too far from here. He might take it if he can start a month from now. He's only been at the current job for a month. He could take the new job without moving but it would be hard. I know he likes the walk home at night. The new job is too far to walk. Hard decision! Our blue mountain bike got stolen! It was stolen a month ago but we got a red one just as good. We went shopping to a famous store in Toronto called Honest Ed's. It looks like an amusement park outside but it's really crappy inside. It's full of cheap crap. They have 50 copies of The Blair Witch Project on VHS if you want one... when we came out, the bike was gone. It was locked up with a chain. During the walk home, G-bear didn't say a thing until someone asked for money. He screamed "NO!" which came out a lot louder than he wanted. I guess he was mad. I have to go. Will try and get some pictures of me at famous places here. |
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