according to the conference call on the oilers website, his wife is actually ok with the city and doesn't mind coming here because she's familiar with what she's getting in the city.

Those numbers were about $1M per year less than I was expecting. I guess both sides were settling on this one. Given that I heard about the signing and then heard the terms, I'm not disappointed. (I mean, it's less than they offered Nylander.)

Still waiting for a first-line to magically appear. It's still going to be a long year (especially if he repeats that -28 from last year).

My favourite part of all this is the one sentence post at CinO: "He's divorced, right?"

(We've been suckered into these 5-year defenceman contracts before...)

Paras - I knew you were going to say that. I'm trying!!!!! I knew I was in trouble when the printer troubleshooting started suggesting that I just turn everything off, then back on, and seeing if that helped. My solution: use the printer at work.

Alison - I would be very very surprised if Telus didn't provide that service in your area. Matt got it at his old place in Parkallen. I think we just got ours right away because they were a week late connecting us in the first place, disconnected the phone number when they promised to keep a voicemail account on it, and billed us for 10 days of phone that we didn't get. And because Matt had given them hell about it. But you should call them if it's already been 5 days. So far, the only people worse than Telus has been EPCOR. Don't even get me started on EPCOR.

Something good in Oil country Let's wait to see the #'s before we judge though...

Update, sportsnet says 5 years 27million.

wait, YOU have internet even though you didn't get your phone until two days ago?? what the hell? if Telus has sold me a service they don't even provide to this area, I'm going to go ballistic. It'll be a week tomorrow since I got my phone, but still, no internet... (just "free" wireless)

Jess, I thought you were going to learn how to fix printers. We had a deal.

How long have you had the phone, Al?

And why won't my f-ing printer print???? The computer recognizes it and says that it is 'Ready'. Grrrrrr.

But our computers, internet, and router all finally work. And I got my little mini-tackroom started - yay! :) And I filled my freezer with free wild meat from my Dad's freezer - free and yummy. I think I'm going to take a break from swearing at my printer, go make popcorn and listen to Harry Potter on tape (this really excellent British guy reads - he's great).

Hope y'all had a good night.

Al, what went wrong with your phone? You had a sweet phone.

But Telus sourced out and contracted the phone. It shouldn't be the buyers full responsibility to insure that a product works absoultely perfectly. If the phone or product is faulty then the company you purchased it from should help you with your problem. They should either repair it or replace it not leave it up to the consumer. That being said the phone may be faulty one of those things you can't avoid in manufacturing products (they were made by humans weren't they? We aren't perfect so why do we expect the products we make to be perfect?) but how is a consumer suppose to determine this? All the internet reviews give this phone a very high rating for dependability and durability. The only complaint I could find was for battery life. All the people I know who own this phone also give a favourable impression of this product. That being said the only entity you can blame guilt free is Telus.

And yes I have too much free time.

The problem is not telus, but the phone. Someone bought a crap ass phone!!