You've Got to Be Kidding
Snow on April 12th - Front View, Originally uploaded by iChris.
Yesterday I was laughing at Crystal & Wade in Moose Jaw - today, nobody is laughing.
April 12, 2007
April 2, 2007
iTrip - Moving Sale
First/best offer takes it - a Griffin iTrip. Out of warranty, worked fine the last time it was connected.
Samsung A660 - Moving Sale
First/best offer takes it - a Samsung A660 used on Sasktel's network. Out of warranty, worked fine the last time it was connected.
Sold to bidder #2023 from Moose Jaw!
March 16, 2007
I Love Stuff
We're starting to pack up our stuff. If we have stuff that isn't our stuff but is actually your stuff, let us know as we're prone to forget and miss stuff that isn't actually our stuff but think it is our stuff.
The less stuff we have to move the better - cause then we can go buy more new stuff to replace that stuff.
Mark - I've got your speakers and 2 folding chairs for you sometime.
January 10, 2007
The Great Blizzard of '07
We got hit bad today by the worst blizzard of my memory. The buses were rumoured to be shutting down around 2pm and so the University slowly shut down as well. I finally caught a bus around 3:15pm (the bus driver pulled up in front of Place Riel and announced "I'm heading as far east as I can get." and so a bunch of people piled in) and didn't get home until 6:30pm. Normally that takes me 20 minutes on a busy traffic day. It was kind of fun for the first couple hours on the bus - people were chatty and talkative and I played kaiser with some girls sitting around me. But by the third hour people were getting antsy and needing a bathroom/etc. Some people just got off on College Dr to try walking on their own. Eventually they got another bus and split the people up into 2 different areas of destitination.
Lots of cars in ditches and many more just abandoned in drifts right in the middle of the road. Crazy day. Hopefully it stays bad enough so that no one has to go to work tomorrow. :)
December 18, 2006
June, 2007
Borrowed from Matthew. :)
If you fast forward the video below to around the 2:55 point you can catch the Jr High kids/staff reaction to the announcement.
October 4, 2006
Stay Away From My Blog..
I've got a cold and I'm not afraid to use it!
July 31, 2006
Schmap Photo
Schmap Photo, Originally uploaded by iChris.
My photo of Sue at Che Cora in Montreal finds it's way into Schamp's map. Thanks to Matthew for sending me an image of it.
July 29, 2006
Ordering Breakfast at Chez Cora's
Ordering Breakfast at Chez Cora's, Originally uploaded by iChris.
I've been published! (sorta)
Schmap, a virtual tour guide, wanted to use this photo in their Montreal guide. I can't download the guide yet as they currently only support Windows (boo!) but Mac support is coming in November. (yah!) Any Windows users want to download the Montreal guide and let me know how my picture looks?
July 24, 2006
Gone for 10 Days...
Away for 10 days from phone, internet, TV and newspapers:
- 440 new emails - I'm guessing 20 of those are actual 'important' emails
- 930 unread items in Netnewswire. I'll probably skim/skip most of those
- 1 message on our answering machine.
- 1 bottle of PH balancing solution in our mailbox. We have no idea where this came from.
- Bills and assorted other boring 'real' mail.
- A couple of pre-made meals and two bags of buns from parents of youth - awesome!
- 1 cold (nearly beaten!)
- 2 hours of video footage to be edited.
- 252 digital pictures.
All in all, an amazing week up in Pierceland with our annual Splash trip. Each time I do something like this, it makes it harder and harder to go back to the selfish, money driven world of my 'real' job. Good thing I took an extra day off to decompress. :) Now, back to those emails.
July 5, 2006
House Dreaming...
Sadly, the house we'd been dreaming about in the back of our minds for the last couple months has been taken off the market. It was a really neat looking older house (built in 1912) that was too expensive for us - hence the dreaming part. Besides the nice house itself, it had a seperate studio/garage that looked like it would've been a great place to setup a audio/video recording studio/jam space. Ah well.. we'll keep looking and dreaming.
July 4, 2006
Still Alive in the Summer...
Carcassone on the Deck at Waskesiu
Originally uploaded by iChris.
I'm still around 'n kickin. Summer has finally kicked in here in the 'Great White North' and so it's time to grab as much sun as we can while it's out. We were up at Waskesiu for an extended long weekend (more pics here) and now we're house sitting for Bruce and Lisa. Mmm.. lots of BBQing and sitting on the deck, and riding the lawn mower around.
May 28, 2006
Cleaning Out the Closet
We were cleaning out a closet in our place and found a legit/complete copy of Office 2000 Premium that I'm not using anymore since it's a Windows version and I'm now a Mac guy. I've put it up on eBay if you're interested. An oldie but a goodie. :)
May 25, 2006
My New Two Wheeled Ride
I picked up a new bike on the weekend from City Park Cycle. It's a Jamis Cross Country 2.0 '06 (bike nerds click here for more details). A much smoother ride than my previous Canadian Tire special. Now I just have to get my butt back in shape. It's rained 1 of the 2 days since getting it and it's threatening again but it's good to have a bike again.
I'd recommend anyone looking at getting a bit better bike go and chat with the guys at City Park Cycle. They know their stuff and are super friendly and more than willing to let you take a bike out for a spin or an hour if you want to try it out before you buy. They don't sell the cheap bikes, but they do sell good bikes.
My New Two Wheeled Ride
I picked up a new bike on the weekend from City Park Cycle. It's a Jamis Cross Country 2.0 '06 (bike nerds click here for more details). A much smoother ride than my previous Canadian Tire special. Now I just have to get my butt back in shape. It's rained 1 of the 2 days since getting it and it's threatening again but it's good to have a bike again.
I'd recommend anyone looking at getting a bit better bike go and chat with the guys at City Park Cycle. They know their stuff and are super friendly and more than willing to let you take a bike out for a spin or an hour if you want to try it out before you buy. They don't sell the cheap bikes, but they do sell good bikes.
December 12, 2005
Little Sunfire Is Gone to a Better Place
Over the weekend we had to give our '95 Pontiac Sunfire up for adoption. Or rather, we had to sell it to a 18 year old girl who'd gone through one car already. It feels a bit like we've sold a child into slavery - but the extra cash in our bank account sure makes those feelings disappear pretty quickly.
Sadly, I don't even have any pictures of our car. At least not in digital form.
Goodbye Sunfire... we hardly knew ye.
November 3, 2005
Been A Long Time...
Well things have changed a bit since I last posted. Tomorrow (Friday) begins a period of me working 1 less day a week. I've felt for a long time that I could be a better pastor's spouse by helping Sue out more with her job, but always felt exhausted/tired/sick of talking come Friday - which is when Sue is gearing up for Jr High. I was trying to come down from work and relax when she was trying to get ready to go for her busiest night of the week. I'd always gone back and forth on the idea of asking to go to a reduced schedule at work (am I being lazy? Is it stupid of me to give up 20% of my wage? Will my coworkers hate me?) but we really felt that we needed to test this out.
It will be interesting to see where this takes us. It really is only an extra 8 hours of my week that will probably get filled up pretty quickly with 'stuff' (see the next entry, doh!) before I realize it. The challenge will be to not become so busy that we're right back where we started, only with less money to show for it. :)
September 21, 2005
Subway Club Cards, Why?
It turns out that fraud was the main reason for discontinuing the Subway Club card program. It's not really that surprising. I am surprised that people were selling the stamps on Ebay. That seems a bit extreme for a sub.
September 20, 2005
Hang On to Your Hotel Electronic Keys
Some hotels keep your personal info, including your credit card number/expiry date, on the electronic keys. I'm not sure why exactly they would do this but it's really nothing to get all that worried about, so long as you destroy the card when you're done and don't lose it while you're staying at the hotel - just like you wouldn't want to lose your credit card.
The idea that the employees of the hotel have access to this information because it's on your hotel key is not really something to worry about - if the employee wanted to he/she would steal your credit card info long before it hits the electronic key.
September 19, 2005
Definitions
Risk:
- The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.
- A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard: “the usual risks of the desert: rattlesnakes, the heat, and lack of water” (Frank Clancy).
- The danger or probability of loss to an insurer.
- The amount that an insurance company stands to lose.
- The variability of returns from an investment.
- The chance of nonpayment of a debt.
- One considered with respect to the possibility of loss: a poor risk.
- Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
- Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See Synonyms at belief. See Synonyms at trust.
- Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters.
often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will. - The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.
- A set of principles or beliefs.
September 17, 2005
Happy Birthday Slurpee
The slurpee is 40 years old. Wow, I didn't think it looked a day over 25. I didn't realize it, but we celebrated the slurpee's birthday last night with a really good one coke slurpee - thanks to Heather!
August 30, 2005
In the Rough
Chris Has a Tough Lie
Originally uploaded by iChris.
We tried out the new minigolf out at Wilson's. It uses 'real grass' instead of the fake stuff that most minigolf places cheap out with. They also take 'real money', to the tune of $7/person per round instead of the lower quality $3-4 most mini golf places charge.
I had a tough game and finished in the bottom half. Strong winds on the back nine took me off my game and I couldn't keep up with my dad who took home the 'W'.
July 27, 2005
Heard In Shock and Exclamation
Someone said this to me on the phone in response to how long something was going to take:
Lord love a duck!
Well, I hope He does. Probably many ducks. All of them in fact. But not pigeons. Pigeons are of the devil.
July 14, 2005
Too hot to post
It's been too nice out to post anything of interest on here. Lots of BBQing, biking, beach volleyball. Pretty much anything that starts with a 'B' works.
The wind this morning was brutal biking in to work - I felt like I was peddling in molasses. There are two things that suck in Saskatchewan in summer... wind and mosquitos. The wind helps get rid of mosquitos, but if we didn't have the mosquitos we wouldn't need the wind.
Someone is going to win a whole bunch of iPods and songs if they happen to be the 500 millionth iTunes music store customer.
June 27, 2005
Real Life Reaches Out and Slaps You In the Face
Dwayne Harms is a pastor in the city who is one of the few pastors I've met who honestly cares about each person he comes in contact with - you can feel it when he looks at you. He's someone who's not afraid to ask the deep questions of faith and life without knowing where the answers will take him.
We got word last week that he had been disagnosed with serious liver and lung cancer and that it's not looking too good. When he first found out he decided to set up a blog to write and document his journey and battle with cancer. You can read it here but be prepared for a heavy dose of reality, not the usual selfish drivel that fills up most blogs (mine included) these days.
If you're the praying kind, send up a prayer for him and his family as you read.
Sometimes you get locked into a cycle of getting up, going to work, coming home, doing stuff, dreaming about getting stuff, going to sleep.. repeat. I got out of that cycle when we went to Australia but it's very easy to fall back into it as I have in the months since returning home. Reading his blog is one of those moments that slaps you back to reality.
June 18, 2005
Driving the new Outback
Driving the new Outback
Originally uploaded by iChris.
Woohoo.. it's finally ours! :)
June 16, 2005
Proud Subaru Outback Parents
Well we did it. It still hasn't sunk in that anything has happened, but we put a deposit down to hold a 2000 Subaru Outback. It had a lot less km than the '98 model we'd looked at earlier and it's got a lot of the things we were looking for in a Outback that the other one didn't. We made them an offer that we didn't really think they'd take but it was all we could afford and they took it - so now we've bought ourselves a car! The only problem is we think it's the same color scheme as Troy and Heather's car - so hopefully we can still be friends when they get back from tree planting this summer.
We won't actually get it until next week sometime but I'm really looking forward to it. It won't really sink in until the car is in our garage I think. Time to set up my Subaru owners blog.
June 15, 2005
Vehicle Shopping
We've started (again) looking at getting a newer vehicle. It's hard to get the motivation to look around because I really don't like kicking the proverbial tires on vehicles and there really isn't anything wrong with our Sunfire.
Here's our current shopping list of vehicles we've looked at - feel free to give me your feedback either in the comments here or on flickr. [Update: Deleted the pics since we purchased something] There's still a Subaru Outback we want to take a look at. I'm really partial to the Pathfinder/Xterra type vehicle - that's probably the country-hick living deep inside me coming out.
June 2, 2005
Why Be Caffeine-Free?
www.teeccino.com - from a maker of herbal, caffeine free coffee of course so take it with a grain of salt... or a cup of coffee. [Ba Dum-Bum-Ching]
May 30, 2005
Subaru Tribeca
I don't imagine these will be anywhere near my price range. My price range being whatever a '95 Sunfire and a couple grand can get you.
May 13, 2005
Lofty Living
Someone is renovating the former downtown Bay building to house a bunch of lofts - and they're trying to sell them. The ad I saw said prices started at $90k but everything seems to be $138k and up. I've always wanted to live in a loft for some reason - but I don't think I could justify this.
As a bonus, a underground parking spot is only $10k!
January 31, 2005
Behind the Times
I'm usually behind by a few months on most 'cool' trends. I like to wait and see how things shake out before I commit fully to being a raving mad lunatic fan of something/someone.
So it is with my recent purchase of The Killer's latest album as well as the CTV comedy, Corner Gas.
The folks over at u2log yakked about The Killer's album awhile ago but I didn't pay them any attention, figuring it was something only Europeans would understand. But then Carlos started talking about them as well, and wouldn't shaddup, so I figured I'd give the tune (All These Things That I've Done) he threw in my drop box a listen and later that morning I bought the album on iTunes. Very much liking it, though I'm kind of apprehensive about all the synth use on the album.
January 12, 2005
Baby It's Cold Outside
Man is it ever cold out there.
Sue's making soup and I'm trying to fight off a cold.
Ever have one of those days where the thoughts in your head don't sound nearly as intelligent when you let them out of your mouth?
The recently announced Mac mini puts all other 'small form factor' computers to shame. Like a lot of Apple product, I have no direct use for it but I still desperately want one.
November 8, 2004
Conquered TO
We came, we saw.. I forgot the camera to capture the evidence but it's pretty fair to say Toronto won't be the same after this weekend.
We had the best and worst presentations ever made to people sitting in chairs in the history of mankind. I cannot believe in this day and age that companies that make real money pay real dollars to people who cannot even present their product without just reading off the powerpoint slides.
'Oh boy, was this ever a disaster. Complete nightmare. But it's a great product.'
I have no idea what that means - I think it means I'm really tired and wiped from a weekend of planes, sitting in conferences and not having a day off. At least this week is a short week. I won $15,000 at blackjack** on Saturday night.
I've got my ears on a copy of U2's new album that's making the day go a little smoother. It's going ot be a great album and tour.
**It should read 'I won $15,000 at blackjack on Saturday night playing with fake money' but that doesn't sound nearly as good.
November 3, 2004
Free Java
My Tim Horton's rep (aka the lady who remembers what I always get every morning) gave me a free lg english toffee today. That made my day after a crappy night of helping a guy figure out how to get pictures off his digital camera that just doesn't really want to function properly with WinME.
I think I'm going to switch to being strictly a Mac support. Stupid Windows.
October 6, 2004
Retreating Pastors
We would have some amazing photos from our two day retreat up north at Christopher Lake, but Sue decided it would be a good idea to leave the camera at home in case someone broke in to our place and wanted to leave us a picture of what they took.
Or something like that.
I'm feeling very disjointed right now. The Store has slowed down a bit, but one of my co-workers has left and so there's some extra work for everyone. A plus to it is that now I'm the 'official' Apple guy. Until we hire someone new, all it really means is that there's more work to go around - but hopefully once things settle down I'll be able to focus on work that I enjoy a little more.
HoW band practice tonight and a FGCC practice tomorrow night and somehow I've got to come up with a concept/design for a video/slideshow for Sunday a.m. I love the stuff I get to do, I just wish I had more time for all of it.
September 20, 2004
Find Yourself Another Fool
I'm still in denial that summer is over. It just doesn't feel like we ever actually got it, ya know? With all the craziness of back to school it feels like it's still the end of August... like I'm stuck in a time warp or something.
Further proof that I've sold my soul (besides all your email addresses) to flickr in the next couple of posts.
Currently grooving on Ben Harper's Diamonds on the Inside. Sometimes the right songs come on iTunes and fits exactly my mood. Usually I go with quick fixes (U2, DMB, Jars, Radiohead) or guilty pleasures (Timberlake... uhm... help me out here). But this Harper album is just what I needed to hear tonight.
September 10, 2004
Yup
I'm still alive. Watched Supersize Me last night and am on my required 1 week avoidance of McD's. Truth be told I haven't eaten there in quite awhile, and only rarely will I hit up A&W in a moment of desperation on campus. The only fast food joint I have no will to say no to is Wendy's. I don't know if it's red haired girls or square burgers, but something about that place keeps me coming back.
It's crazy nutsy busy time at the U these days. All the retarded first years running around with their gut hanging out of their two sizes too small shirt stopping at the top of the stairs to talk about how "like, I totally couldn't even understand my teacher today... and where do I, like, get my books?" Free pizza from IBM and a bunch of freebies from Sasktel have helped to nurse the rage building inside me.
August 20, 2004
Birthday Roundup
I've got the week off as we hang out with Sue's family and prepare for her sister's wedding next weekend. I've got a lot of other stuff I'm helping out with (a couple of videos for next Sunday, a website that was supposed to be done a month ago and something else I'm forgetting) plus we move out of our place into Sue's parent's place next weekend to allow for Jan's fiance's fam to use our place. All in all it should be a fun week - but it'll be a crazy one as well.
August 14, 2004
CD's Are A Thing of the Past
I finally did it. I got rid of all my jewel cases for my CD's. We bought 2 120 CD binders - but it wasn't quite enough. Ugh. It took me almost 4 hrs to go through and pull the CD's out (along with whatever insert would fit) and put them in and I still didn't finish completely. There's about 30 more CD's to go that will have to go in another binder.
On the one hand it was really good to get rid of 2 garbage bags worth of jewel cases that had been taking up space in our place - but on the other hand that's a lot of CDs that I don't really listen to. I've ripped anything that I might even possible listen to into iTunes - that gave me 2709 songs, or 7.9 days worth of music played back to back, or 12.98GB of music encoded in AAC at 160kbps - but there's still a lot of CD's that I probably won't ever pull out to play.
I went out with Mark to the Yard last night for cheap beer and an ok chicken caesar wrap. I still haven't found a replacement for the Odeon's wrap that seemed to lift up my day and light up my night. Anyway. Trav bought the Megaman collection so we hit that up for a bit in a Megaman 2 kinda way. I wonder how many hours have been spent on games like that - where you play the original when you're a kid, and then play it all over again when they come out with a 'retro' version that you pick up as an adult?
August 12, 2004
Bachelor Number 1
Sue's gone to the 'Peg to pick up her sisters and bro-in-law (also named Chris - the fun never stops at family get togethers) so I'll be partying it up this weekend, livin the single life again just like I used to before I got hitched up... ya know, ball and chain like.
Which really means I'll be in bed by 10 on Friday after exhausting myself watching tv and trying to figure out whether a bag of smarties or a box of mini-wheats would make for a better meal. Party on! Woo!
July 27, 2004
Life is Life
Reports of me leaving work have been greatly exaggerated. I think it's just that time off always seems to do my head in. Does everyone feel like they should be doing something else if they've been away from their job for a week or two?
It's a short week as I'm off again next week - this time we're headed down to North Carolina. Anyone got any good 'to-do's' down in the south besides hitting up Dolly World?
June 27, 2004
Movin On Up
We're looking after some friend's (Bruce & Lisa's) place for the next couple of weeks - so now we have our city home and our country home.
If the blogging is a little less frequent in the next while it's cause the internet isn't available in the hot tub yet.
June 23, 2004
Colder Than It Seems
13/14 degrees seemed kinda nice - nice enough to go for a bike ride over lunch anyways. What I failed to notice was the 30km/h winds that were blowing at -10 degrees. Frig. And it's supposed to go below 0 tonight.
Summer's beginning to look waaaaay too similair to that other season we have that starts with a 'W'!
June 13, 2004
BBQ In The Rain
A little rain can't stop us from enjoying some fine BBQ'd kabobs. It's starting to feel a little like BC here with the constant drizzle/rain we've been getting. I think we're happy to put up with it though because the alternative is dry, dusty Saskatchewan. It should make for a much greener summer!
May 10, 2004
Give 'Em Something
Lots happened this past weekend. We celebrated our 5 year anniversary, Sue got me a BBQ, I got her an iBook (it's a win, win situation really) and we took off to Edmonton Saturday morning and came back Sunday afternoon. 1000k in two days. We realized that driving is the perfect time to watch those DVD extras you never have time to actually sit down and watch. So the drive home went much quicker as we watched 3 hours of LoTR: Two Towers extras. Sue held her laptop and we plugged it into the car stereo.
We watched the finale to Survivor: All Stars and weren't really surprised by the outcome. It was going to be either Rob or Amber. The marriage proposal wasn't totally shocking either - and allowing us, the viewer, to vote on which over-exposed, celebrity hungry survivor gets a million dollars isn't worthy of all the hype they had - and I think Jeff knew it. Head to cbs.com and vote for Rupert. If you want to see something creepy, watch the video plea by Susan where she wishes death on a desert island where all you're left with is your teeth if you don't vote for her.
Yech. That's 30 seconds of my life I can't get back.
April 5, 2004
Busy Week
Got a busy week - at least on paper - ahead of me but it'll be good once it's over. I'm playing guitar and running a few videos in the two Tenebrae services (one on Monday at 8pm and another on Friday at 7:30pm) and also playing guitar for the Easter musical performances on Sunday. But there's no Jr High Friday night and we also get Friday off from work so there's plenty more time to relax than usual.
Pretty much everyone who's anyone has picked up a copy of Battlefield: Vietnam here at work so we're gonna have to get some multi-player hurtin going on pretty quick. So Ryan, if you were debating - now's the time to get in on the action. Staples has it for $39.95, cheapest in town!
March 29, 2004
I scream for blah blah
We've found a mutual addiction in our love for Coffee Toffee Crunch ice cream. The mere mention of it's name causes me to froth at the mouth. Actually just typing it now has forced me to wipe my bottom lip. We've actually managed to make a single carton last over 3 different sittings - no small feat since when we originally discovered this stuff it was gone before the previews were over in a movie. We're attempting to exercise restraint but I have to wonder if eating a carton in a single night or spreading it over 3 nights is really doing anything except save us a few bucks. The stuff costs around $6/spoon so it's not cheap - but we have a savings plan set up for our ice cream purchases so we've got it covered.
In killing for hire news, I'd forgotten how much fun Desert Combat was. It's insane that someone went through all this work to make a mod for a game and it's free. It's better than what I've seen of most of the official $39 add-on packs. You're riding along in your M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle and you can hear the A-10 WartHogs flying overhead while you set your sights on a Scud missile launcher. I think I need to go watch Apocalypse Now.
March 26, 2004
Foul, Foul Temptress
Remember what I said a few days ago?:
"Spring is finally coming and hopefully the snow is actually going to stay gone this time. We've been tempted and teased so many times by spring this year (foul temptress that she is) that it's a little hard to believe it's actually going to stick this time. But this week is supposed to be above 0 all week - that's celsius for our American friends."
Well, winter came back and beat up on spring again. We got dumped on yesterday so we're back into the snow and slush for the weekend. Now we're being tempted by +18 next week. Rest assured that as soon as I pull my bike out to go for a ride the ground will be covered in snow before I get out of the garage. Grrrr... When I see this, this or this it makes me think that maybe we should try our fortunes elsewhere for awhile.
March 10, 2004
Free Coffee!
Well I finally got a winner from Timmy Ho's. It's not the plasma TV but it will do for now. Just a free coffee.
Hopefully this is only the beginning of my winning streak at Tim's.
March 8, 2004
Tim Horton's Conspiracy
I'm testing out a client based blogging program called ecto. It's by the same guy that made the iTunes recently played list I'm using on the right hand side of my blog. Currently it's a OS X only program but they are working on a Windows version apparently.
I think I'm going to have to start a Roll Up the Rim counter like I remember some blogger doing last time they had this contest. I'm up to at least 10 cups of java purchased and still no win. I'm thinking they see me coming and pull out all the duds. I just know that some guy right before me is going to win a plasma tv and someone after me will win the truck and I'll get a "Please Play Again" cup. Grrrr.
August 10, 2002
The weather's here, wish you were beautiful...
Well Waskesiu was a very relaxing time and we definitly wish we could have stayed longer... especially when the first really warm day we got was the day we were leaving. My family's starting to call it the Curse of Waskesiu as it seems everytime we go there it's always crappy weather right up until the day we leave. It wasn't all bad - we did manage to get in a bike/roller blade trip and a few walks to get ice cream (we highly recommend getting a Big Olaf while there - mmmmmm Big Olaf).
When we got home we were so rejuvanted that we decided to start painting our basement. So far we've got the laundry room done which took us non-painting inclined folk about 4 hours - so I'd say we've got a good 10-12 hours left of painting to be done. Ugh.
Hey I finally got myself a bike (check out 'Slick' near the bottom). Nothing special, just a Canadian Tire bike that will get me too and from work but it felt good to finally do it after talking about getting one for the last couple of months.
We watched 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' last night which I found was actually a better movie than 'Snatch', but not as funny. They're both pretty similair but from what I remember of Snatch, it was more violent graphically than Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. But that could just be my memory.
Have a great day - nothing else from me to say.
August 2, 2002
The long weekend
Updates may be few and far between for the next little while. I'm off work and we're also taking off to Waskesiu for part of it.
Hope everybody has a good (and safe) long weekend! Much respect and big ups to ya'll!
June 5, 2002
About me.. about you... what else do i have to do?
Well, I finished up a bit of an about me page. Pretty much self-explanatory.
Other than that, not much new to report. We got a few drops of rain today, but obviously still not enough to make any sort of difference for the crops or for the forest fires raging up north.
May 28, 2002
The weather's here, wish you were beautiful...
we've finally managed to get some summer here (27 degrees!) this week. I'm quite happy to be working on the University campus where I can go for slush runs through the bowl when it's so nice out, and can walk through the tunnel when it's howling in winter.