Rockin' the Bandwagon

Okay, this'll be the last thing of my morning routine that I have to do before I actually start working on the last bits of the move. I thought I would quickly write down a post just to say that the plan didn't quite work out as well as I would have hoped yesterday, now it'll be a bit of a rush today to get my bed and clothes and such down to the house before I have to get to ball practice at 2pm.

I got quite a bit more stuff moved down to the house in Sunnyside... mostly kitchen stuff and some makeshift shelving. Jen seemed to have fallen in love with all the stuff Mom had made, so I think quite a bit of the stuff I've brought in will stay. I also boxed up quite a bit of stuff, most of which I might try to sell in the Langdon-wide garage sale day they have here. Everyone sets up for their own garage sale and apparently it attracts quite a bit of people. I have quite a bit of junk I wouldn't mind getting rid of if I can.

Last night, Benny and I rocked the Flames bandwagon a bit at the Wildfire. Our incessant quacking made it fun for everyone... especially since the Flames had won. It'd be no fun for anyone if we weren't around. The moment of the night though was when the Ducks scored midway through the third (for the first time) and all the bandwagon jumpers had already given up on watching the game... Benny and I roared in celebration as did half the pub. Then you could hear screams of "don't cheer... it's the wrong team." Oh, Benny and I laughed our asses off. Stupid bandwagon jumpers.

Good to see the Senators knock off the Lightning too... go Sens go!!

Anyhoo... this'll be it... didn't want to stay long. Go upstairs, refresh my cup of coffee and get started. That's the plan.

Champs!!

Atta boys! A 3-0 win over Manchester United makes the point to win the title that much sweeter!

To the lads in Blue! Congratulations!!

Procrastination Again...

Man, not a lot of desire to update of late... don't know why. Maybe the desire of writing is sort of lost on me at the moment. With all the moving and all the things on the go, I would way rather just skip the writing parts and just move on. It's kind of a lull I'm in, I suppose.

I could just let some of the pictures do the talking for me... that'd be good.

Last night was Game 4 between the Flames & Ducks... with the Ducks winning and the beer flowing, it made for a pretty good & crazy night. Right Benny?



And Joe... don't hide, man!



From the Landing in Chestermere to the Wildfire in Langdon, we made it into a pretty good and loud night. I don't think I got home until midnight or so. I almost got to drive the Hummer back from Chestermere, but the Ducks were up 2-0 after 2 periods and John wasn't gonna let a Ducks' supporter drive the Hummer back, especially if they were winning.

Today was an okay day... despite the exhaustion from the night before. I got in lunch with Barb today. We went to East Side Marios at Sunridge... what a nightmare. My hour lunch that I got was already up by the time the food showed up at the table. Luckily, that just meant I got to spend a little more time with Barb today. I even snagged a picture of Barb too while she was on the phone. Mwah ha ha...



I still can't help but fancy her... it really kinda sucks, 'cuz well... there just isn't any way that it could be, because she's so busy and even if she said that it would be possible, it would suck even more that I couldn't see her all the time. At least with moving into town, I do open myself up for a few more meetings in her late night sessions. At least I can show up and not have to worry about getting back to Langdon. Not like that was a big concern in the first place, but it is sure nice to sleep in your own bed. Especially if you're not sleeping in another's...

I was actually fairly productive at the office today... both sales guys were through the office during the day. You know it's payday when...

Brydon came in after lunch wearing this shirt...



I had made the remark of "how much did someone pay for that shirt?" I made sure not to say that until all the business at hand was done... ha ha. But that shirt is attrocious. As soon as I saw it I was bound to make some sort of remark. I mean, how can you not?

4:30pm came in a big hurry actually this afternoon... everything was caught up. Devin was still working, slowly, on some annual documents that are due for Monday when I left. I'm glad everything was done, 'cuz he hasn't been able to do a whole hell of a lot lately.

Once I was home, I played some street hockey across the street, chatted with Rob and some of the other neighbours, had some beers and basically procrastinated against taking down my room. But I have since done that tonight and my room sort of looks like this at the moment...



I should be able to get quite a bit done, if not alll, tomorrow. Jen said she was working until 5pm tomorrow, so that'll mean it'll be somewhat of a quiet move and then when she's done, we can sort out what goes where.

That's the plan... and that was the post.

An Hour Post

Good morning all... coming to you in the printed form from the new office in Forest Lawn.



The view is less than spectacular, but the weather is nice and all is well this morning. I've got my Tim Horton's coffee with me already, my laptop is still in the car and I'm countin' down the hours until the weekend.

I was a pretty exhausted wreck yesterday, who couldn't post the stats of the hockey pool online, due to some software issues, so I wasn't really in the mood to post anything on the Tales yesterday either. Let's see what day is it today?? Oh yeah... Thursday.

Tuesday then... there was still bits and pieces to move over from the old office to the new one, but fortunately for me, I didn't find myself on any road trips. There was some stuff to do in the new EDGAR room, so I stayed behind and then helped carry things in when they arrived. The e-mail system was super-slow on our end as well on Tuesday. We were getting e-mails up to 3 hours late in some instances. That really sucks when you're supposed to disseminate news releasess in a "timely fashion."

I still had my TV in the back of the Cavalier since Monday and I decided against moving it into the office. I'm sure we can get a cheap TV for the World Cup from one of these stupendous pawn shops here in Forest Lawn. Someone is bound to steal one and sell to them... so we'll wait for a good deal to arrive.

Instead, after work, I tested the drive to Sunnyside from the office and shockingly, it took about 25 minutes to get myself through traffic and go 7 or 8 km. I was choked. It really shouldn't take that long. I can make it to Langdon, which is well over 30km in 25 minutes. I have come to the conclusion that I will get a new pair of rollerblades soon and start skating to and from work. It'll take probably close to an hour to get to work, but it'll be worth it to skate it most days.

At the house, I set up the TV, DVD player, stereo and such... watched the Ottawa/Tampa Bay game and quite a bit of the Flames/Ducks game before Jen actually came home from work. I'm glad I'm getting a lot of this moving done in smaller pieces. It'll make whatever I have to do on Saturday that much easier.

I had plans to meet up with Barb down at the Stetson on McLeod for the Battle of the Bands. She had told me that she'd be finishing up around 10pm, so I thought it'd be wise to show up sometime after then. I took off from the house and drove down south.

Calgary is not that big of a city when there is no traffic on the roads. You can make it anywhere in the city in reasonable time when traffic is next to none. It's fantastic. It would almost make me wish that I did evening shifts again and that I would drive to and from work in the middle of the night. But I don't... that would just put a serious dent in the social life.

I hung around the Stetson for a while, 'cuz Barb didn't actually show up until after the Flames game had finished... not that I was terribly surprised or anything. But then she finally showed up, almost an hour late, to find me sitting at a table to myself. But she stuck around for a while and we chatted in between breaks in the only band to play on Tuesday night. Shitty Battle of the Bands when you can only have one band show up. Anyways, as it turned out... it was Barb's older brother who was in the band that played. For some reason I think I've heard of them somewhere, Gunther... I don't remember why that band name is so familiar. They were actually really good... a 3-piece band which almost seemed like they were there as a classical arrangement of hard rock.

After the band had finished up, I wasn't staying too long. It was already 11:30pm and I couldn't stomach another beer that evening. Plus, sticking around like a bad odour wasn't really in my game plan anyways, so I gave her the basket that I had gotten her in Victoria, got a big hug and we made pencilled in plans to meet up for lunch on Friday (tomorrow).

Now I can't get her out of my head again. She's just there all the time... with her cute smile and all that fun & goodness in her. The good thing is that she seems a little more keen to work around her ultra-busy schedule, where she'll be working every night for the next week and a half.

Yesterday, I was somewhat exhausted getting home from the evening around midnight and staying awake thinking for a bit before passing out... 6am came around a tad too quickly in my opinion. There was a bit to do through the day, but not a great deal due for yesterday, so there wasn't any panic at all.

I had a true Forest Lawn experience yesterday at the Taco Bell next door to the office. It was quite the blend of tax brackets, family situations and ethnic diversities. It took probably about 20 minutes just to stand in line, wait for the less-than-stellar service to make up mine and everyone in front of me's order, which there were quite a few people in there waiting... for 3 chicken burritos. That's it. From the pretty boys in suits to the slower gentleman wearing a 1980's Flames jersey talking to them, to the white mother with a black eye and 3 black kids... it was like walking into a blender of culture.

By the end of the day at work, I was ready to just put my head down and fall asleep... until Kelly started e-mailing. The kicker e-mail being 'what's up after work?' Well, I knew that meant beer... and so I gave him a bell and we made plans to meet at the Bull & Finch down by his work and meet for a beer. Its great how I can perk up like that so easily. So, after work finished, I drove down to the south and met Kelly at his office in the Gunnar Furniture building, got the tour of the $9 million building. Quite the facility. Went for some beers, shot the shit a bit and then headed home. Not a bad plan if I do say so myself.

Got home just before 8pm... had a hot dog... was feeling a little tipsy. And phoned Barb to chat with her a while. Tipsy... the phone... Barb on my mind... it was bound to happen. Come on. We'll chat again today, to make plans for lunch tomorrow. I still don't think the green light is on, but it'll be good just to hang out with her a little bit more.

So, that's been the last couple days... we'll see what transpires today. I have my laptop up and running now, so I can update the playoff pool this morning. There were a few people looking for it updated yesterday... but meh... screw 'em! A little patience goes a long ways...

CDs I Bought This Year

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A Hit Like No Other...

I absolutely LOVE this hit...



This is why hockey is the greatest game in the world.

Mostly Moved

I thought I'd try my hand at a little Google Earth to illustrate the points of movement I've been undertaking for the last little while.

On the map, you'll see 4 little yellow placemarks over Calgary, all the way out to Langdon. Moving left to right on the map:
Far left (point A): the house in Sunnyside that I'll be living in with Jen.
2nd placemark (point B): where the old office in Northeast Calgary is.
3rd placemark (point C): where I am right now writing this post, in the new office in Forest Lawn.
Far right (point D): the main 4-way stop in Langdon.

So, yesterday we moved the office from point B to point C, which didn't take all that long to move. Fred and Ernest did quite a bit of the move yesterday through the day and then around 3pm, Lee and I moved our computers, some desks and other stuff over to the office. We pretty much had to get ourselves set-up before going yesterday.

And for Saturday, I should be finishing my move from point D to point A. I have moved a great deal of stuff already, including CDs, DVDs, stereo and such... most of the important things. I still need to move a bed and possibly some other furniture over, but I'm still not too sure what all I'm gonna move. Anyways, I have my TV in the car, I think I'll move that in tonight as well.

So, now my commute goes from 23 miles to 6 miles... according to Google Earth. That's not bad, eh? That route could possibly be rollerbladed some days, if its nice. I don't think it'd take me all that long to come all the way down. Especially if I took the paths along the river.



I'm really glad the office is moved now... a lot less concern now, a weight off the ol' mind, if you know what I mean.

Sore, Sore Monday

I am as sore as I thought I was going to be... and even a little bit more.

The first weekend of ball went by in a flurry, which was alright... a couple games yesterday went down a treat. It took quite a few throws to get my arm back in gear, but I eventually got there. We won our first game 10-2, I went 2 for 2, one walk (actually hit by a pitch) with 2 runs scored. A pretty decent game in the batters' box. The second game wasn't quite as good. I think I went 0 for 3, including a chance to take the lead late in the game with two outs and runners on 2nd & 3rd. I fought in there, but the strikezone was so big (according to the umpire), that I couldn't reach the low and away fastball that he was calling a strike before to strike out. That was pretty rough. I'm still kind of rusty in the field, but I've heard we're practicing on Sunday, so I'm gonna do my best to shag as many grounders at second as possible. I'm much better than the way that I played this weekend. Fortunately, I did play every inning at second, so it does seem that the job is sort of mine.

The team ended up only being 4 runs away, on differential, from being in the playoffs tonight. That was kind of shitty, but we didn't win enough and we didn't really deserve to be there in the first place. It just would have been nice to be playing on another nice day like yesterday.

Besides muscles everywhere, including my hands, being sore... I got a little too much sun on my nose and cheeks and they feel a little burnt this morning as well. It was such a nice day and being it the first day I was out all day, I never thought to do the sunscreen or anything like that. Luckily, its still April or else I would be a big red tomato I'm sure.

Last night, it was Game 2 for the Flames & Ducks... so, I met up with the lads down at the Landing, since Barb was gonna stick around work for drinks and such and she convinced me that it was sort of fruitless for me to drive all the way back into town for a while. More on that in a bit. But yeah, I went to the Landing and had a few pints, watched the last two periods there and we all played some poker on the TVs there. That was all fun & games. I didn't stay too late... I think I was home before 11:30pm, so it was a pretty good night.

Today doesn't look like it's gonna be busy on the EDGAR side of things. I think I might have to step up and finish up a filing that Devin was working on, just to make sure its done. We are starting to pack up the office today, I've already cleaned up around my desk and such. There really isn't a whole lot of stuff around here that I have to worry about. But we'll take most of our desks, all except for Devin's, I think, to the new office and then Devin will be moved over tomorrow when everyone is setup and ready to go tomorrow.

After work today, I'll go meet up with Barb, finally. She said she'd be putting around the house all day today, so after I finish up moving all my crap to the new place, I'll give her a call and go see her. No idea what we're gonna do... but I have to redeem my monthly visit sometime. I have a feeling that they don't carry over to the next month at all.

I also have to take Benny's Red Wings jersey into the cresting place sometime today. He wants to get Steve Yzerman's #19 on it. I'm hoping that they can get it done really quickly.

Tuesday... I'll probably do some more packing of all my stuff at the house. I will probably look to move the rest of what I need on Saturday, including my bed and stuff. That way, I can get some help with Mom's truck to get all the big pieces into Sunnyside, 'cuz they sure as hell won't fit in my car anywhere.

That's about all I've got at the moment... don't think there is really anything else on the go.

6 Minute Post

Only gonna manage a fairly quick post this morning...

It's bleedin' nice outside this morning. Already above 10 degrees... perfect make-up game ball weather, I tell ya. The team only played once yesterday and not against who we were scheduled to play either. We just managed to get a game in at 3pm anyways against another team who was there and ready, plus we were lucky to have umpires to call the game as well.

So, with all this extra time on my hands, I decided to move some stuff from the house down into Sunnyside yesterday. I packed up my CDs and stereo system and moved it into the house. I grabbed a whole bunch of other things, miscellaneous things, and took them down as well. Since Jen has been at the house for quite a while now, all my kitchen stuff seems irrelevant. I have come to realize that I have a lot of junk. I wish it was junk that I could easily get rid of too... but it kind of isn't. I would almost need my folks to have a garage sale for me to get rid of so much of this crap.

Anyways... Barb seemed quite keen on goin' out after her shift yesterday evening, but she, as she said, "bitched out" again on me... so we might try to watch the game together somewhere. She says she'll be done at a reasonable time, since the Smuggler's Inn doesn't have any TVs to show the Flames game tonight... which starts at 7pm. I should be finished playing ball at around 6pm, so it might just work out well. She figures she'll be out of there by 7:30pm... so, I might try and get a shower before goin' to meet her. I'm not too sure how it's all gonna work, as I'm driving Munden to and from the ball game today.

So, that'll be my post for the day... and we'll see how it all goes.

Up Somewhat Early

Surprisingly, I was in Blogger all day yesterday, but I didn't get a post on the Tales at all. I was too busy working on the playoff pool, which looks mighty good, I must say now. There are a few finished sheets out there still, which are okay by me... good, trustworthy people.

It was such a slow day in the office yesterday, that I was actually able to concentrate quite a bit of the day in the playoff pool. It's quite a bit of work setting these things up, but its so totally worth the effort in the end.

It was the first game of the First Pitch Tournament last night as well. Got to the park nice & early to warm up and had an okay first game of the season. Fast pitch is so incredibly different that actual baseball and barely comparible to slow pitch... but it was still good. In the top half of the first inning, Andrew (played third base) and I turned an opening 5-4-3 double play, which was made a little easier when the batter gave up running not long after taking off from the batters box. We'll take it though. In the five innings we played, that was pretty much the only real action I saw in the infield. At bat, I was just standing in there to get a feel for the pitching and if I could get on base, it'd be a bonus. For some reason though, I was put in the second slot in the batting order, really expecting to be closer to the bottom, which would have been preferrable. Nevertheless, I went 0 for 2, both times striking out. I probably could have left the third strike on the second at-bat alone, but I was swingin' away.

The second game goes at noon... I'll probably have to take off from the house in an hour or so. It's way the hell across town too... so, it'll take me a bit to get over there.

After the ball game, I went and met the boys at the Landing. I tried to give Barb a call, she said she was off at nine and would like to have met up. But... her phone was off. Bah! Anyways, watched the Flames beat the Ducks in overtime... the crowd in the Landing was cheering like it was Game 7 of the Finals. Long ways to go yet, lads. I could understand our table cheering loudly... Benny and I were "quacking" through most of the 3rd period... especially when the Ducks tied it up. Ha ha. Benny's Red Wings had won... so he was a happy camper. My reply to that... "FORE!!!"

Game 2 goes on Sunday night... should be a good one.

Thursday night, before I forget was pretty much just collecting all the sheets and monies for the Playoff Pool. I had gone down to Riverbend to meet up with Randy and have a couple... then to the Wildfire for a couple and pick up 8 or 10 sheets... then over to the Landing for Pepsis and another two sheets. Jeff put together his stupid little pool on Thursday night as well. It's not really a pool... just a vacuum for $20, moreso.

Everyone had the option of buying two teams, $20 a piece, winner would have the team that wins the Cup at the end of the year. Everyone has a different team. It's really dumb as there is no handicap for lesser teams... if your name got drawn for the last team to be picked, generally meaning the least favourite to win it all, you still paid $20. Plus, depending on where your name is drawn, there was no way you were gonna get the team you were cheering for in the first place, meaning that it wasn't going to be an enjoyable pool if you, let's say, didn't end up with the Detroit Red Wings, eh Benny?

Nevertheless, Jeff had to have his pool... must be a sign of uber-coolness to run one... which it isn't. It's rather nerdy, if you ask me... and I run them all the time! Fortunately, for me... I ended up with the third pick and I chose the New Jersey Devils. It might be a dumb pool, but I won't say no to $320.

Well, apparently its snowing again outside. Langdon and Calgary has been hit with some of the white stuff... this after having a +24 day outside. It's gone from this...



To this...



Errrrrr bleck! I'm hoping that ball isn't cancelled today... but ya never know. It is Calgary after all. Well, until I get a phone call... I'm still heading out to the ball park. It shouldn't be too bad... just a little cooler than normal.

Well... until tomorrow, I suppose... I'll see if I can get some more pictures then. We'll see how that goes. Catch ya later!

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Busy Weekend Ahead

Yawn!!

I didn't get home until 1am last night... and all I intended to do last night was pick up my ball uniform, I didn't think I would stick around in town for that long. I ended up having a few with Jen, Carly, Shannon and a couple of guys that they work with at Starbucks. That sorta shot the night to hell... but I'm not really complaining too much.

Well, it's gonna be a lot less busy, I think now. Devin actually finished up quite a bit that was outstanding last night. He's been working evenings for the last couple weeks, except for the couple days that I was away. The inbox has been cleaned up quite well.

Man, it's gonna be busy outside of work though... tonight will be collecting sheets for the playoff pool. I'm heading down to the Riverbend Station to meet up with Gout and hopefully Kelly for a beer or two before heading back to the Flower in Langdon to meet up with the rest of the guys tonight.

Friday night, the first game of the season for ball... the First Pitch Tournament up at Shouldice Park should be good. I'm getting quite anxious to start playing... am a little worried about standing in the batters box trying to keep up with the faster pitches, but a few at-bats should calm my nerves a bit. I really wish I got into the batting cage to see some pitches, but I think I'll be alright. Just gotta flash some leather on the field and all will be well.

Saturday, I have 3 games in the tournament. Noon, 3pm and 6pm... talk about getting my fill right away. I'm sure I'm gonna be pretty sore by the end of it all.

I'm almost glad that the Canucks didn't make the playoffs... well, no I'm not, but I do have a reason for saying it... I will have little to no concern about the first few rounds of the playoffs and missing out on any ball to watch the games. I know my dedication would have put me in some serious binds.

Sunday, depending on whether or not I will be invited to go play with the Hooligans in their Slow Pitch game or whether we play again in the tournament, I might try and move some more stuff into Jen's place.

Monday, work will start to pack up to move offices to start Tuesday morning in Forest Lawn. The stop sign on the right is on the corner of where the building is located in Forest Lawn. For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of it.

Once the office is all moved, I think I'll feel quite a bit more comfortable to finish moving all of my stuff into the house in Sunnyside. That'll be so nice to have done and get settled down there.

Damn, having this long stop sign pic is making me write quite a bit more so I don't have it stretching down below all my text. I think I'll post some new links that I've done myself or found whilst surfing.

I have posted more photos from the Victoria weekend on my MSN Space...

Another MSN Space from my buddy Warren... he's blogging now as well. I don't really get much time to chat with him online, so this will be a good way to keep up with him. Despite the fact he quotes Dr. Phil... ha ha.

MSN Space is catching on quite quickly by the looks of things... it's so easy to use since its attached to everyone's MSN Messenger.

Jeff has his Destination Unknown... and his rather unusual stories. That guy makes me shake my head in disbelief sometimes.

MeLoDRaMa'S WoRLD is from my best net friend, Melanie... she doesn't really update it very often, but she does post quite a few pics when she has them.

Well, I've made it past the sign in the post... so it should have cleared in the actual Blog. So, I think I'll kill it for now. I might come back later this afternoon and talk music or something. Who knows?

An Abridged Trip

Wow... have I been busy. It's been even too busy to sit and Blog at all. Gladly though, I have found myself some time to sit down and do a little.



You know, I don't really have a lot to go on about Victoria, to be honest. It was somewhat uneventful, as a whole... but Tegan and I did spend a lot of quality time together, which is the important part.

I finally got into Victoria on Thursday night just after 9pm. The rain and darkness was not the most welcoming weather in the world, but I did make it in one piece, sans any fines of the traffic sort. The drive was actually pretty good, clocking almost 1,100 kilometres in the process. I was travelling for 14 hours, including a mix-up in Surrey, trying to find the right road to get to the Ferry Terminal. I think I blew a half hour waiting in traffic because of that one. All round though, the drive was pretty good.



A large theme in the weekend with Tegan was movie watching... I think we ended up watching eight movies altogether on the weekend.

Thursday: Anchorman
Friday: Wedding Crashers & A History of Violence
Saturday: Thank You For Smoking, 40 Year Old Virgin, Madagascar & The Smartest Men at the Table
Sunday: Waiting

A few of those, I had already seen before, but we went to the theatre to see Smoking and rented A History of Violence. Both flicks were pretty good. I really thought A History of Violence was as good as the art-house hype led it up to be.



Tegan showed me around Victoria quite a bit... the places she's lived, the places she's worked and a few other places in and around town. All was quite interesting. Victoria is such a small place as a whole, I was quite surprised. I didn't really have any idea.



Before too long though, it was time to go. Monday came in a big hurry and I was off to complete the 2,200 km trip all round. The way home was a bit faster, on the road for only about 13 hours, including a stop in Kelowna to visit Grandma & Aunt Kathi and had lunch with Louise. All made the stop in Kelowna worth while.

I finished the trip, partially, in Chestermere where I caught a bit of the Flames and Ducks game with the guys at the Landing. Didn't stay long as I was pretty exhausted. And that, in short form, is my trip to Victoria.

No Real Update Yet

Man, you leave work for a couple days and the whole thing goes to hell. Well, sort of.

It does look like a giant mess... didn't think it'd really be this bad, I guess it is though. It might be a little while yet until I post some of the updates from the weekend though. I will try and look at all the hockey pool stuff as well this afternoon... last night of the regular season tonight.

I will, however, leave a picture from the drive yesterday for you guys... the least I can do.



I do also have a piece on my Canucks started as well... wouldn't mind finishing that sometime soon too. Ah well... until then...

From Victoria

Good Saturday morning from Victoria.

Tegan is still asleep, although she should be getting up for her Physio appointment rather soon, me thinks. She has buried her computer well behind the desk, so I don't think I'll be able to get much for pictures on here unless I go down to the car and grab my USB cable when she heads for her appointment.

It's been really good so far this weekend... the drive was pretty good all day Thursday and yesterday, Tegan and I hung out in town for the gist of the day and then vegged at home with some flicks last night.

I am really sort of debating how many details I want to include on this entry, just 'cuz I won't have any pictures and maybe on Tuesday I'll give the whole load of the weekend in one big chunk. Still sort of debating.

I could really go for a coffee right about now, but the silly girl doesn't have anything for coffee in her place. Yesterday wasn't a big deal... but we did a bit of drinking last night and some coffee would be a treat this morning. I should go find her keys and go for a quick walk down the block. That would be super! Maybe I will...

Busy Day at the Office

Okay... maybe it isn't the busiest day in the office. So far today, Lee has done roughly five new releases and/or filings and I have done one new one.

One.

I have filed a couple things for Devin that he did last night, one I did yesterday and did two small exhibits for a filing thats supposedly due for tomorrow, but that's it. A grand total of like 20 minutes worth of work.

I got here about 7:40am... stupid ticket... and its almost 1:20pm... and I've done 20 minutes worth of work. So, I thought I would capture the moment on digital disk space, although its kinda blurry, and make improper use of my time.

I should be billing one of our clients for the hell they put us through on deadline day, but I can't get a hold of my sales guy, Brydon, to go over the details with him. I talked to him once, but never got passed back to him. Ah well... I just gotta make sure I chat with him before the day is out.

I've done loads of Blog surfing... watched a few movie trailers and film clips... read the sporting news... should look more into my trip for tomorrow... and find out if Kelly wants to beer tonight.

Devin will be here anytime now... which will mean I will half to split the nothing that I am getting in my inbox in half. Okay, half of the potential of what is coming into my inbox. Man, I'd so rather the whole thing... but it's only for 3 more hours.

How To Ruin Potential

I thought it was gonna be a nice morning... the sun was shining, there was still a fresh touch of frost on some cars and the promise that this was my Friday. I was really impressed with the potential the day had.

And then I got to thinking what I'll be getting up to after work... Barb never got around to giving me a call yesterday as she said she might be free today, so she'll lose out this afternoon as I might go for a beer with Kelly. I continued thinking... well, I shouldn't have too many... don't want to get caught (that would just ruin everything) and I have quite a bit of laundry to finish up and get the car ready for the road tonight.

I passed by the car that was in front of me and went down the stretch until...

Yup, I got caught going a touch too fast on the road out to the TransCanada Highway. 'Aw fuck...' I exclaimed to myself. What a load of crap.

The worst thing about that is that it was a clear, clean day on a 7km straight stretch of road. I wasn't drag racing, but there wasn't anything about the driving that was unsafe, per say. The road was fairly quiet at 7am this morning and a patrol car with no lights on the roof passed by me and that was that. What a way to ruin the potential of a good morning.

It did get me thinking though... unless it was on a generally unsafe spot on a highway (ie. lots of fatal crashes or regular crashes, for that matter) or unsafe driving conditions and people were speeding, that's when enforcement of these limits should be in place. A clear, paved, straight road... with a fairly low speed limit... just seems like a cash grab opportunity to me. A way to take advantage of drivers who are confident enough not to look at the speedometer as to keep a check on the way that they're driving.

If there are people who are in the school of thought that there should be speed limits on every road, which there are these people, because there are limits on EVERY road in Canada... then it should be made that cars of electronic governors in their vehicles (all vehicles, no exceptions) to not allow people to travel in excess of posted speed limits. All speed limit signs would have electronic transmitters to change said limits in the car's governors.

Until that happens, having the freedom to break said laws seems rather greedy. Again, controlling unsafe situations is what should be done... a little bit more discretion could be used in these situations, if you ask me.

And I would be up to debate any angle of this situation, if I'm not busy, on MSN. belial74@hotmail.com

Yeah, that got me pretty riled up this morning... it's almost tough to concentrate on other things. But I'll try...

Last night after work, I dropped off my DVD player and a load of my DVDs over at the Sunnyside house for Jen. She didn't have a DVD player in her place, so I brought mine down early since I wasn't using it at all. I hung around there for a while last night... get used to the surroundings a bit more.

I grabbed a couple pics of Jen's animals that she has in the house...

On the left, her hairless dog, Costas... and the right, Maggie, the talking cat. Costas has to be one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen... he's 13 years old and when Jen is around, he bounces around like a little puppy. It's pretty creepy. Maggie, doesn't actually talk words-wise... but she meows and such all the time. I came into the house and said hi to the cat... it meowed straight back.

That was pretty much my night... was home just after 10pm... threw some laundry into the machines before bed and called'er a night.

So yeah, it doesn't look too busy here at the office quite yet. A couple more exhibits to a filing that should be done for tomorrow. I'm hoping that the rest of it comes in today, so I don't leave Devin with a whole load of work. His performance all-round has been less than stellar and is really making everyone think.

Countdowns on the go at the moment...
19.5 hours until I take off for Victoria...
6 days until the NHL regular season ends...
9 days until the playoffs start...
10 days until the 1 year anniversary of starting the Tales...
12 days until we move the office into Forest Lawn...
17 days (tenatively) until I move into Sunnyside.

It's kind of an exciting month. I'm not too sure, but I'll try to make a post tonight. I think the long weekend will prove to have no posts at all, unless I can sit down at the computer at Teg's place and get something done. We'll see though. Have a good weekend, if I don't post before hand.

A Small English Lesson

Someone from Orlando, Florida searched Yahoo.com for the following phrase:

"are sandals exceptable for a interview?"

Exceptable is not acceptable. Thank goodness, in the search result (which I came number 2 on), the word 'exceptable' did not appear in the content, rather the sandals and interview did. Not in the same sentence, mind you.

I couldn't believe how many time exceptable was used in other webpages and blogs. The Encarta dictionary confirmed my belief that exceptable isn't even a word. How tragic.

This event has saddened me a little... the English as a First Language classes are somewhat failing our system, by the looks of things.

Tuesday Morning Pics

Rain, rain... it's nice to see you again.

I don't personally mind the rain, to be honest. It does clear up the air nicely... and its one of the sexiest smells in the world. There's just something about the smell of rain... wahhh!

It's so great to have a camera again...


You can tell Lee is excited too, to have a camera around...

It turned out to be a super-early night for me, last night... I was in bed before 8pm. I just couldn't keep my eyes open to listen to the Canucks/Ducks game on the internet radio... I just fell into bed and that was that.

I'll probably make another post sometime later today... but right now, I should finish up a test filing for a possible new client. This one should be in the bag, if you ask me.

My Camera Arrived

Hooray!! It's here! It's here! Now my Tales can be colourful again with my pictures... not to mention my colourful stories. Victoria is gonna be great!

Reasonable Weekend

Not a bad weekend, I must say... I'm less than hungover tihs morning, but a tad athletically sore after a ball practice yezterday. All is well though... keepin' up the good fight.

Friday night... Flames vs. Wild down at the Wildfire.

Saturday... McDonalds in Strathmore with Benny, seeing Chris, Dale & Graham, feeling rather ill from Friday night, was supposed to help Joe with building his deck.

Saturday night... Canucks vs. Flames again at the Wildfire, Benny & Jeff doing 100 beer shots, Munden telling me about ball practice for Sunday, left reasonably early, night paid for by bets on the Canucks.

Sunday... Ball practice, went and saw Jen, met some of her friends & neighbours... home by 11:30pm.

That's sort of the abridged version of my weekend. So, if you're only here for 30 seconds, that should pretty much cover everything. I'll continue putting some minor details below... you know, what I can remember.

Friday night, I had parked the car at the house and walked down to the pub. I didn't wear my Wild jersey as the game didn't really mean a great deal to me and I thought I would save my energy for the Canucks game the next night. It was a little bit of a gong show as I remember. But as much as Benny and I had to drink, I still left fairly early from the bar. There were quite a few people about, including Anitra and Jessica... who know one I know actually likes. Anitra is a loud, loud, loud large lady who has gotten herself a pretty rotten reputation and has taken a few people down with her. She doesn't have much for redeeming qualities, if any, at all. Jessica, Benny's wife (ha ha), is the loudest, most irritable person I have ever met... and she's large and unappealing to boot. Ugh! The louder the soundsystem got, the louder they got... no one can win. It very well coulda been the fact that those two were hanging around that made me drink a little more than I had planned. I didn't spend too much in there, but I did manage to get pretty bombed. Thank goodness I left there relatively early... not without incident though.

Anitra, being her pushy, annoying self... was hanging around us guys and making comments about her and Benny or something... it just wasn't pretty. But she said something to the idea that 'no, I'm not THAT easy.' Well, knowing what goes on in that pub with a lot of the regulars, including herself (hell, its a small town... you'll hear about it, even if you don't want to), I lost it. I laughed my ass off... almost to the point of laughing and pointing at her... but I don't think I did any pointing. I did laugh... and laugh... and laugh. Probably for a good five minutes. I didn't spare any moment there... I don't really like her and what she does and well, that was how I showed it. It was almost like saying 'fuck off' without actually saying it. At one point, Benny came over to me and said, 'knock it off, man... she's starting to cry.' Don't really know why he said that, he probably took as much pleasure in the whole thing as I did.

After said incident, I took off for home... walking of course. As I walked by Jeff's place, Jay was walking around front and waved me in. So, I sat with them for an hour or so... just enough for one beer, I think. Jeff and Jay were just sitting in the backyard around the firepit having a drink. Most that part of the evening was pretty fuzzy since I was pretty hammered when I got there. I even forgot to tell Jeff about the good burning laugh session I had on Anitra. Ha ha.

Getting up on Saturday wasn't too bad. It wasn't great either... but I've hurt a lot more than I did that morning. I thought I'd cut the hangover off at the pass when I decided to go get some McDonalds and Benny was right behind me on that one. I quickly cleaned out my car and grabbed Benson and we headed to Strathmore for a little grease to soak up the night before. Unfortunately, I found myself cleaning up the car again as when we left McDonalds, I had my fries in between my legs on the seat and in the motion of touching the brakes in the car, I lost the grip on my fries and they went flying towards my feet. D'oh! I'll tell ya... fries cool down in a hurry when they're on the floor of your car.

Between the TV, the bird and the Bradley's coming over early in the afternoon, a recovery nap was somewhat out of the question... although I may have nodded off for a half hour. I think there was still enough alcohol in my system to make me pass out for a bit and lose my memory a little again.

I also wanted to get down to the Wildfire on Saturday to drop off a few more playoff pool forms to a few of the guys who might actually show up to chat a little bit of hockey. Unfortunately, it was only Reese and AJ who had shown up, but I got them up to speed on the pool sheet and they'll be in for sure. Dad and I had a couple beers and a couple games of pool while we were there and man, did we play terribly. We quickly gave up and headed home.

I didn't stay at home long... rather not at all... so, I went over to Joe's house to see how the deck was coming along. There were plans to build his deck and install his hot tub then watch the Flames and Canucks at his house. When I pulled up to his house... no one was there and nothing was being done. So, I called up Benny and him, John & Jeff were looking at trucks all afternoon 'cuz Joe was nowhere to be seen or contacted. Oh well... so I went home and watched some hockey with the folks at home.

The phone call came from Benny that we'd be going back to the "Wildflower" to watch the Canucks/Flames game... and I said I'd meet him after the Hotstove was done in the first game between the Flyers & Leafs.

I got there... Benny got there... Jeff showed up... and we were ready to go for the evening. John said he'd be about... but wasn't sure when. I started off with a beer, but the night before and the early afternoon two didn't let the new ones taste that great... so I switched up to vodka & coke and that made drinking a whole lot easier. Benny & Jeff thought it would be a good idea to play a drinking game with the hockey game and beer shots... drinking one every minute that went by and when the whistle went in the game. Good plan, guys... by the end of the first period, they had switched from drinking because of the game to just drinking for every turn of a minute that they could see. Their goal... 100 shots of beer each.

The game on the other hand was quite good. The return of Ed Jovanovski to the line-up injected a breath of fresh-air to the team and the play from everyone was stepped up a notch or two. The Canucks jumping out to their 2-0 lead in the first and successfully holding on for 2 periods. The Flames' comeback in the third period was a little stressful... two quick comeback goals from Iginla (credited to Giordano) and Ritchie made the heartbeat a little faster and caused Greg to start giving me shit about the whole thing. Dunno why... they had only tied it up. The shame of it all was that the game eventually made it into overtime and the Flames with their point clinched their playoff place. Thankfully, Jovanovski scored in OT to secure the much-needed second point for the Canucks and the bets placed paid for my 6 drinks at the bar.

How did Jeff and Benny make out, you ask? Pretty well... they made their 100 shots each. At about 70, Benny was looking rather green, repeating that he didn't think he was gonna make it and then looking at his watch to shout 'DRINK!' for their next shot. Oh, that was a hurting-type game... glad I had no part in it.

That Munden (that's allegedly his first name, poor bastard) came in and told me that he had lost my number and thats why he never got around to calling me about the ball practices. He had told me that there was another one on Sunday and that I should come out. He gave me his number and I was to give him a call in the morning.

The rain came down Saturday night... so when I was all said and done, again, fairly early... I grabbed Benny's keys and took his car home. I knew he wouldn't be needing them and I didn't really want to get my Canucks jersey soaked. Benny then called me at 3am when he was leaving the bar, making sure I had his keys and his car. He couldn't really remember... ha ha ha. Poor guy, he got wasted. Jeff was probably in a state too.

Sunday morning, I was up and at 'em nice & early... gave Benny a call, dropped his car off at his place. Saw the state he was in... which wasn't awful... walked home, got my stuff ready for ball, filled the car up with gas and met Munden at about quarter to one at the gas station to head into town.

The practice was being held in the West Soccer Centre, almost out of the city limits in the Northwest... clear across the North end of Calgary from Langdon. It was quite the drive. Totally worth it though. I met the coach and a few of the guys and it turned out to be quite the good practice for me. The throwing arm felt really good, the glove was well practiced from floor hockey and my ankle felt really good running and jogging on. I think I impressed enough to get quite a few games in with these guys. I should be able to get some play in at second base, which I absolutely love. I'm still gonna need some practice... but I'm quite confident in playing with these guys.

Afterwards, I headed into Sunnyside to meet up with my future roomie Jen and her friend Carly (sp?) and neighbour downstairs, Chris. We hung out for the rest of the afternoon and quite a ways into the evening. A trip into the core for an art showing, a drink and some nibblys at Vicious Circle, then a trip to Tubby Dog on 17th Ave for a beer and a hot dog, then grabbed Jen's co-worker, Shannon, a case of beer each and back to the house where we sat and chatted and watched Jen's ugly dog, Costas, run around like a maniac. All in all, it was a pretty good night.

That Carly though... she's a wee bit of a little minx and a looker to boot. The Ontario-born 20 year-old has quite a bit goin' for her. Quite the outgoing personality and she was quite a bit of fun... sadly, taken though. Oh well, apparently, she's over at the house often. That's not too bad then.

Chris, really nice guy... a little bit older than Jen and I... but we got along really well. A lot of laughs at Jen's expense... but really good nonetheless. It should be a fun place to live, me thinks.

Happy Birthday Teg!!

My little sister is 23 today... doesn't quite have the pigtails anymore, but I'd bet she still has that shirt. Ha ha ha. Happy Birthday Tegan... see ya next weekend!!

'Tis Friday, It Is

A dreary Friday morning in Calgary... still sort of warm though. The rain has been coming down for a couple days, which isn't terrible... I don't mind the rain. The roads haven't been icy, just wet and the windshield wipers needed a good workout this week again... and they got it. I've heard rumblings that its supposed to be super-warm today, so I've worn my orange hawaiian shirt, shorts and sandals. Here's hoping!

Don't think its gonna get very busy here at the office today. Devin is gonna start a later shift, so I won't see him until 1pm today. That's alright. He does test my nerves sometimes. Some... or a lot... haven't quite decided yet.

I've got one filing to continue this morning... I don't think it'll take too long, as this client is adding a couple exhibits to a filing I did for them earlier this week. The exhibits should only be a couple pages each... so that'll be easy today. I've got to check and see what Devin has left for me in regards to his filings. I am wondering if there is much to get done on his side this morning.

Yesterday, I had a phone call with a potential client who was a bit of a hardass. I suppose work is work, but I hope I don't have to deal with him on a regular basis. It sounds like his biggest documents don't stretch over 100 pages, so that won't be too bad.

I also confirmed all the information that I needed to for my digital camera to come from BestBuy.ca yesterday. It should be shipped today, which I have it couriered to the office, so it shouldn't take too long to get here. I'm hoping for a Monday or Tuesday arrival... that way I can have a couple days with it before I take it with me to Victoria. Oh, I can't wait!!

Probably gonna meet up with Kelly after work today... go for a beer or two. I don't have much for plans otherwise and I don't really want to make many more plans to be honest. Tomorrow night's game between Calgary and Vancouver will be the big night this weekend. I think I'll keep it that way.

Oddly, I didn't hear from Benny at all yesterday... his phone just went straight to voicemail when I called him yesterday after work. I wonder if he's having more problems with his phone. He didn't answer any MSN messages either... abducted by aliens?? Possibly.

And well... that's pretty much that for the day. Let's see how it pans out, eh??

Coffee Isn't Working

Oh, this hangover is gonna really suck today... that's for damn sure.

Ended up not driving last night, so I ended up drinking quite a bit. I am beginning to feel it now, that's for sure.

Flames won, made everyone else happy. Sharks won... which made me unhappy.

Barb didn't show up... but ended up texting her all night. I was giving her a hard time about not showing up amongst other things. Benny was on to me, but I didn't let on to him... in fact, I sorta lied to get out of the shit storm. Ha ha. I know when to pick my fights... certainly not at a table of jackals.

$100+ night last night.... $60 at the Landing and another $40+ at the Wildfire. Crikey... really gotta lay off... until Saturday.

I have my dates for Victoria confirmed... gonna take off a week from today and drive back the Monday. The Friday being the holiday of course.

I have 3 people now for the hockey pool, including myself, paid and ready to go. It's a $30 pot with lots of potential for more.

I just wanna nap and be done with it for the moment. Maybe I will... until someone gets in.

Just When I Thought...

Oh, for fuck sakes... since the folks disconnected the home phone with their new cell phones, Best Buy can't complete my order. I totally forgot... how crappy is that? I would change all my details, but I didn't carry my credit card with me today. Shit, shit, shit. It'll have to be something that I'll deal with tonight.

Crap.

Well, I will have to sort this out in a friggin' hurry... or just go to the Best Buy in Sunridge and see if they have them in.

I've updated the hockey pool this morning after the four games last night... the Sherpa's Yaks have been done for a while. No hope there at all... oh well. The Playoff Pool goes live today... I've pushed it forward, 'cuz I'll be seeing Kelly tonight before he goes out on the road again for a while. So, I should get him into the pool... he's a pretty big hockey fan. I'm hoping to have quite a few people in this one... makes for a pretty big pot. I'm gonna make the finishing touches to it before I get started here at work this morning.

Barb texted me last night... I tried my best to not be in a hurry to text her back. But who was I kidding? Since when is liking girls so difficult. As it goes, we didn't text for very long... just a few back and forth... I invited her out to the Landing to watch the game with me and the fellas, she might take me up on it. I'll give her a bell after work.

Gotta ask Fred about taking a couple extra days for the Easter weekend today... confirm when I can take off. I wouldn't mind taking off the Thursday and coming back the Monday now. That would be pretty awesome. Teg is getting pretty excited that I'm coming down. Can someone remind me to bring her some chocolate when I go down? Thanks.

Right... gonna finish up the hockey stuff and then buckle down and get some of this lingering crap out of the way.

Almost Photgraphic Again...

Yeah, man!! I got the camera that I wanted on BestBuy.ca just now. Oh yeah... check it out here... CLICK ME!

Oh yeah... that bad boy is mine. It's quite cool. Benny and I saw it on Saturday... it's pretty sweet. I got it couriered to me at work too... so it shouldn't take too long to arrive. It should arrive in good time for me to see Tegan in Victoria.

Finally, I'll be back in the picture-taking business. The Blog will be somewhat animated again. Woo hoo!

At work, I'm pretty well caught up now... just a few nagging filings to deal with tomorrow and whatever new comes in. Today, I did most of my major billing for the last little while. I'll tell ya, there was quite a bit made over the deadline period. Everyone was in such a rush to get their large documents out, we did pretty well.

Devin is starting to really drive me nuts now... I'm not really big on sharing space all day with someone. We both use the room to work, listen to tunes, eat lunch and so on... it's way too much for me. I did put a concern into Fred on Monday about it... and we'll see what happens. The new office will be a telling tale... if he makes it that long.

Last night's adventure to Joe's house was pretty good... except for the result in the Canucks game. Oh yeah... I think I told you about it last night. Meh... I'll re-iterate again then.

Sat at the pub for a few... Mom & Dad came in, I bought... along with pizza for dinner. Almost time for bed for me. Don't need to stay up at all.

I'm sure once I'm back in the picture game, the posts will be longer again. Just haven't had the time at the office or the energy at home to do really long posts. With work being so busy... I haven't had many new stories to tell.

Pow! Right in the Kisser!

The Canucks are breakin' my heart, man...

I caught the second half of the game over at Joe's, after watching the Flames lose to the Red Wings... and was privvy to another lacklustre performance again from the Orcas. I'm beginning to return to the "don't deserve the playoffs" mentality, although I'm trying my damndest to keep my faith.

Oh, believe me, I will.

Man, is it tough though.

It was quite the interesting night though... Joe's friend/co-worker, Glen... he was quite the uber-racist. Okay, that might have been a bit far... but a fashionable racist, possibly trying to impress the redneck Alberta crowd that he assumed was sitting in there with him. Now, I'll be honest and say that I'm the biggest fan of the civil rights movement and all the animosity it generated, now and then... but I also don't think that name-calling and mindless-hating is the answer either. Granted, much like the rest of the world, this Glen fella was a tad hypocritical at times with his racial comments, which made me believe he was a fashionable racist... meaning he'd only do it when the time was right. He did have positive things to say about Jarome Iginla and Anson Carter at times. But it turn swing the conversation a little... the group was a little taken by it, but adjisted accordingly.

Man, I drank 7 beers @ Joe's place tonight... I took my 8th home... and have cracked it already.

For the record... I was supposed to give Jen a call when I finished work today to see what she was up to. Granted, I knew full well, I wasn't gonna miss the hockey at all, but I did try to call her and all I got was her voice mail. She did try calling back during the end of the Canucks game, but I wasn't in a position to take it.

Ya see, Jen isn't really a hockey fan... which she may or may not run into some personality conflicts with me. I, personally, can't wait for the summer. When I move in with her, sure we're gonna hang out a bit... but I think she might run into some disappointment when hockey season starts again... or even through the playoffs when I move in. It's a pretty reasonable prediction.

Actually, now that I sort of remember... I think I may have had the burn of the night. I won't go into too much detail, but I will give the jist of the moment...

Glen had been complaining about how cold it was in Joe's place all night, practically. Joe had some windows and doors open, since a few of them were smoking in there. Glen would remark that 'you could hang meat in here,' anytime he had a chill. Well, John went to the bathroom and Glen made the remark again. John replied that it was too warm in the bathroom to hang meat... and I jumped on it.
"Well, I know someone who did hang meat in that bathroom."

Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser!

Sorry, that episode of Family Guy was on last night.

And that was that, really... got quite a bit of work to do tomorrow. Should be pretty steady.

Yay!

Just Before Bed...

I thought I would do a quick post before bed tonight...

Things that were done this weekend:
Friday night... ended up watching some hockey at the bar with Benny... it was the best place to go after such a long deadline day at work. It was another quiet night in the pub though... John and I shut the place down whilst chatting about quite a number of things through the night.

Saturday... after getting up somewhat later or actually, rather the usual time, Benny and I went into town and cruised the malls during the day. Benny was in search of a Red Wings jersey, while I was sort of looking at digital cameras, so I can replace my lost one. He got his jersey in Sunridge... this after going to Southcentre and Chinook malls here in town before hand. I had found my ideal camera, but all places in town are sold out of them at the moment. A nice & slim Sony Cybershot... looks awesome. If I can find one, I'll probably pick it up... want one before visiting Tegan in Victoria.

Saturday night... went to the Landing in Chestermere with John, Joe & Benny for the Flames/Oliers game. Not very busy in there and then after the game, we picked up some beers in Forest Lawn and went back to Joe's for some poker... until I left at 3:30am.

Today... finally went into work around 10:45am (after the forward time change). Spent a few hours sorting out the last of the big filings, for the most part... trying to solve some computer problems, listened to the Canucks get drubbed by the Ducks... headed home for a couple beers... didn't feel like going out to Greg's birthday do in town. Watched X-Men 2 tonight... and now writing this post before bed.

For the most part, I did behave myself... except for the drunk text message and Blog entries on Friday night, I was still pretty good. Still kicking myself a bit for them... but meh... it's all part of the experience.

Might have my work cut out for me in the morning... could be a bit of a rush to finish that last filing. Got lots of tables to work on. And that's that.

The Coolest Person I've Met...

I had just sort of come up with this as I laid myself to bed, after writing my Text Message of the Night. I wrote a comment on another Blog of one of my favourite people of all time and thought... 'cool people... that's what I should Blog about.' Unfortunately, listing a whole lot of people was daunting, so I want to choose one.

And then my mind raced a bit. My favourite person, or coolest person is someone who I think is an inidividual for the sake of themselves wanting to be an individual. That actually says more than you may think, 'cuz I think there are a lot of people out there who try to define themselves through the repitition of other's actions, for the sake of doing it.

People will always do the same thing that other people have done or are doing, past or present, but to give the idea that they are doing it for themselves and projecting those ideals, makes them cool to me... rather than those people who are sticking to something, often loosely, because they understand it to be an element of cool.

My favourite person and why...

Jen T... I have to admit, she is the coolest gal I've ever met. Serious. Hands down, majority vote... the coolest. She is the epitomy of what I think is cool in this world. She left for SE Asia not too long before I left for England, which made for a good parting as I quit the company that we both worked for... her in Vancouver and myself in Calgary. But from the moment I first got the chance of talking with her on the phone, I knew I had to meet her eventually and when I did, she just blew me away. There was absolutely no part of her that was negative to me... just absolute cool. She is still in Taiwan... and all the luck to her in her travels. I miss her to bits... would love to travel to where she is and visit.

Bar none... the coolest person I've ever met.

Text Message of the Night

"Don't predict the unpredictable. The ass will be bitten and the heart will be smitten. This message brought to you by BEER."

To guess who...

This was actually one of the moments where I knew it was wrong... absolutely knew... but sent it anyways.

Why?

BEER! My good conscious had nothing to do with it.

Should it?

Maybe. But it seemed like a good idea minutes ago. This is my entry for early this morning.