End of the Weekend

Canada's Turkey Day is coming to an end tonight. A nice, quiet dinner with the works on the table... Mom did a super-job at dinner.

In to bed, I climb to recap the day... not a lot went on today. I managed to catch up on my sleep which was superb this morning. I didn't drag my ass out of bed until after 10am. Quite refreshing, I feel like I can take on the big bad world again.

This morning was kinda funny... while I was still in sleep mode at roughly 4am, I woke up in time to catch a power outage in the house. I was half-awake when my alarm clock went out, my subwoofer for my stereo turned off and the white noise from the furnace & vents shut down... only for a moment and then turn itself back on. Then I fell back asleep... I thought that was rather odd. Not really odd enough to make me jump out of bed, but I did remember it when I looked at my clock when I finally got up.

The best thing about holiday Monday's in October... early afternoon hockey on the tube. With the free view of NHL Centre Ice, I was in my element, so to speak. An early game between the Rangers and Capitals was left on in the background, while the Islanders & Panthers were flipped on late in the third. Fantastic. Then it was Thanksgiving CFL football... I didn't watch the Edmonton/Toronto game, rather the BC/Winnipeg blowout by the Bombers. A couple hours were free for dinner and such before the Canucks/Red Wings game (Go Canucks!) and then more hockey with the Flames getting the crap kicked out of them in Colorado... and finally, watched the Angels beat the Yankees tonight as well. I certainly got my fill of sports this weekend, eh??

I only had a couple beers this afternoon... still wasn't quite in the mood for a good drink session, but I might have a couple tomorrow. I have to drop off some updated hockey pool standings at the Wildfire tomorrow night... I thought I would do it today, but I knew if I did I would be pretty screwed come the rest of the day. HA!

I'm still hoping to see some updated stats on NHL Game Notes so I can update the rest of my pools properly. I worked out a lot of the programming this afternoon amongst all the TV watching... a little bit of multi-tasking was goin' on.

I'm supposing this week should be a quiet one... with more hockey on TV, I can pretty much count myself into staying at home for the evenings. That doesn't bother me too much. I can grab a six-pack or something and watch a game or two. No skin of my nose.

Rob called me about 15 minutes ago... he had just gotten home from his weekend up in Edmonton. He was asking if I had seen his cat... which I hadn't. He left the garage door open for the cat on Friday, but when I went to check on him, he wasn't there. Nor was the cat about Saturday or Sunday... or today for that matter. He is a tad worried. Granted, there is a slight chance that there could have been a little revenge taken upon Rob by another neighbour. There was a cat that pissed all over the neighbourhood, on windows & decks and such... it really stirred up the general population of the neighbourhood, from Doug to Ron to Cory to Ma & Pa. So, one day, Rob caught this said cat in his garage and drove out miles away and dropped it off. It wouldn't surprise me a great deal if the same sort of thing happened to Rob's cat... the walls in this neighbouthood have ears... and if it wasn't the walls, the kids probably overheard something of the sorts.

I should properly set my alarm clock properly so I can get up in the morning... tomorrow is a new start to a four day week! Meathead won't be in until 9am tomorrow, so I should have a little extra time to myself tomorrow morning, so that'll be alright. I'm hoping for payday on Friday, although the 15th is on Saturday, I'm hoping that we'll get paid before the weekend. I didn't really do any of my bill paying today... so I'll worry about that tomorrow.

I should work on that whole girlfriend thing... I know what I was saying last night about I couldn't really be bothered, but I have now remembered that I have said to the boss that I'll be myself "plus one" to the X-mas party in the Kananaskis Country in about a month's time. How's that for a new girlfriend, eh? A great night out at a hotel out there on the company... and she'll get a free trip to the spa. Hey, do I have any takers now?? Not to mention, I can do my interviewing process when Matt Good comes to town on November 1st. I really should be working on this... but I will procrastinate and it will all be my fault. It's not that I'm looking for pity here... I do lie in the bed that I make and regret in these regards slips away like rain dries up on a hot day. You wouldn't even know it was there in the first place.

I had a phone call from Lars as I was finishing dinner tonight... it sounded like the gang got out of the Bloc Party concert in Portsmouth tonight. I sorta forgot about that... since I didn't have the ticket in hand, I will generally forget. Lars said it was a pretty good show... I'm sure it was. I would have loved to have seen them... especially to still be there in England. I'm hoping there will be some great pictures from them on Dirty Hairy Mouth.

Anyhoo... I'm gonna shoot off. This'll make for a good half hour of writing before bed. Mom slipped some ice cream onto my pie plate and made some collar that I should have it. Her explanation sort of tailed off when she walked away and I didn't ask her to repeat... so, I should be able to sleep tonight, especially with the weights of thought kinda cleared off my mind, granted, I'm sure I'll find something else to think about.

Right... good night.