loooong day for myself! I walked out the door at 7am and walked back in at 10:31pm. Beat that!

After work i went and checked out John Bristowe's presentation on Windows Workflow at the .NET User Group. We even got an extra presentation on ASP.NET Futures, Visual Studio 2008 , Dynamic data controls and a brief discussion on the DLR. Pretty cool stuff!

So I learned that a completely different crowd rides my bus late at night. It was weird... I walked to my regular stop and caught my regular bus at 9:30ish last night. The first thing I noticed when i step on, was the overwhelming smell of urine. Ugh... so i start looking down and at all the seats... where is it? I don't want to step in it, or sit in it, where is it coming from. I never found it.

Also, it was battle of the bands on the bus. I was trying to read a book, but I just couldn't. There were so many people with mp3 players all playing different types of music, and each one trying to play their music louder then everyone else. Where was I? Where did you guys come from? How come I never see you guys during the day? ... ahh... livin' in the suburban ghetto!

Have a good weekend!]]> FallenAngel]]>
Calgary has to do something about this homeless situation. Several months ago I decided to go to work early in the morning and was greeted by a homeless person sleeping in the front entrance. Being 6am in the morning there was nobody around. After 15 minutes of mustering up the courage, I woke the homeless man up and asked if he could please leave. Much to my dismay the man was very angry. I thought for sure he would attack me. After calming the man down, I gave him 3 dollars. I explained that I understood his situation. I avoided his anger by being sincere and sympathetic to his situation. I hoped that in turn he would be sympathetic my situation. I lied to the homeless man and told him that we were expecting clients to arrive for a meeting later in the morning, and therefore he could not sleep in the front of our building.

Ask questions, demand answers.]]>
So there's nothing more refreshing then to have a butt stuck into your face on the bus to wake you up. Ahh express buses!

So i just listened to an old episode of .NET Rocks, with guess Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com, where he talks about the human side of software development. The lesson I learned from the episode was that I need to stop talking like a compiler.

This won't work... you should have written it like this... this is bad... what were you thinking...

error... warning... error... warning...

Another lesson I learned this week is that, people feel uncomfortable around people with who are always complaining about something. It depresses them, so continually bringing up conversation about what you don't have or need more of, just sucks the life out of the conversation.]]>
It started raining hard last night, and hasn't stopped yet. I sure hope I don't smell like a wet dog all day! Oh well...

So this Thursday, John Bristowe will be presenting at the .NET User Group meeting on Windows Workflow Foundation. I'll be there, will you?

So Mr. JP Boodhoo, just posted an entry that wraps up some of the topics covered at his latest Nothin' but .NET boot camp. I sooooooooooo... want to attend his boot camp one day. I just can't afford it, I think he said it costs about $2000.00 per person. I think it's probably worth every single penny, but maybe some day I'll be a graduate of the boot camp. Until then... I'll keep reading!

And in other news... there is no other news, I'm just wet. Have a good day... and get BACK TO WORK!]]> Grrr... who decided to move in the middle of the night?

So over the weekend I finished reading "Agile & Iterative Development. A Manager's Guide", and thought it was fantastic. It got me really excited about the XP Process, so much that I want to continue to learn more about it. The concepts of pair programming, test driven development and working in a common area surrounded by white boards seems heavenly! (Could such a place actually exist? In Calgary?)

To follow up I know want to read:
- Test-Driven Development: By Example, by Kent Beck.
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler
- The Deming Management Method, by W. Edwards Deming]]> Umbraco, today I just read a post on the authors blog that really shook me up a bit...

Sometimes when you're so caught up in work and life you forget about the things that are most important to you... Thank you for the reminder Mr. Neils, and I hope your son is ok!

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Well the weekend was good, to short if you ask me, but good! I managed to knock off a few more things from the to do list, which is always a good feeling!

My little baby girl is growing up so fast, it's amazing to see what new things she is doing each time I see her. It seems from when I see her Monday night till when I see her again on Wednesday evening she's learned something new, or cooing a slightly different way.

And nothing makes you feel better about working hard, then when you walk through the door after a long day of work and there's a cute little face staring at you upside down as she's spinning in circles on her activity mat. It's nice to know that she remembers who her daddy is!

Have a good day, now GET TO WORK!]]>
So... when I pulled up to the front door today, I noticed a wheel chair sitting in front of the door next to our office. Next to the wheel chair was a man laying on the ground sleeping, covered in an old tattered sheet that he was using for a blanket.

This kind of got to me, everyone has there own stories about how they got to where they are in their lives. It always bugs me when people say that homeless people should just get a job, as if they're all in the same boat. We all have our own stories and reasons for being whom and where we are in our lives.

I wonder what his story was, but I hope it ends peacefully!]]> Jenn]]>
Nice to see you writing again.

I agree, everyone is on the street for different reasons.

Did you ever see the Will Smith movie.........it came out last year, I can't remember what it's called. Anyway it was about him being homeless. It was a great movie.

Jenn]]> mO been... long story short, I've been busy!

So i was so relieved to hear that the transit strike was called off yesterday. Of course I didn't hear it first hand, because I'm cable less. Which implicitly means that I have no idea what's happening in this city.

I had an interesting ride on the bus this morning, I managed to sneak a seat in the back which is always nice. I don't know if anyone else goes through this, but every morning when I wait for the bus I wonder .... "hmm.... mO who do you think is going to be driving the bus today?"

Today it was little-loud-shout-a-lot-lady! Yay... she's one of my favorite, she yelled all through the 45 minute bus ride. "Move to the back...", "Double up in the lanes... pretend it's speed dating!" are some of my favorite quotes. (Thank you Natalie for filling me in on some of the other words that I couldn't hear from the back!)

But... I am not complaining, I'm just glad to see the that bus showed up, and didn't break down half way to work, and pull over to the side of the road, and kick everyone off and make them wait and watch all the other express buses, which are already full, drive by! (a story for another day... I really should have posted that day!)

Today, is Friday! Friday is a good day...]]>
You identify yourself with a unique URI. To log in to a Open ID site you enter your Uri. The website should then re-direct you to your Open ID provider, where you provide your log in credentials to verify that it's actually you trying to claim to use this Open ID.

Here's a good screen cast on the topic Open ID screen cast.

There are several libraries written in different languages available to developers for use on their Open ID affiliate sites. Found here...

The one I tinkered with was Nerdbanks Open ID web control, which references JanRains Open ID library. The control was very simple to use and start using... the full source is available and released under a LGPL license.

I ran the Nerdbanks assembly against FxCop and found several things that could be improved on. Personally, I would want to fix a lot of these issues before using this myself, but it's nice to have a starting point to begin working with. The Nerdbanks assembly also contains a lot of extra code all bundled into a single assembly, again my personal preference would be to probably break out the "tools" from the "web controls" into separate assembly's.

Open ID seems like a pretty cool concept and it's nice to have libraries available to start with... anyways this just skims the surface of what Open ID is... but hopefully it's a good primer!

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The first one is Plumbers at Work... which is a podcast and all things .NET. It's hosted by John Bristoe who's a self proclaimed Calgarian. You've probably seen him present at the different .NET event around Calgary, the most recent being the 2007 Technet tour. He's a pretty funny guy, and 2 of the 10 podcasts i've listened to so far have been pretty good.

I also discovered the Calgary Code camp. There is one scheduled for later this month, which happens to also be my birthday. Saturday, April 28th.

If you don't already listen to it, you should check out the Security Now pod cast. I've learned so much from listening to Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. (So now i can pretend to know what I'm talking about around the office, a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous!)]]>
A statement like the following actually constructs 3 different instances of strings.

string myString = "Hello" + "Mo";

Strings seem to be smarter in C#, because of the intern table. The string intern table manages references to all strings. If an instance of "Mo" has already been created, when using the same literal the same instance is referenced from the intern table. If either variable referencing the instance of "Mo" is changed then a copy is made and only the changed string is effected.

Coming from a C background you would think that if two pointers are referencing the same area in memory, that when one one pointer alters the value at the location in memory then the value is changed for both pointers because they are both referencing the same area in memory. C# seems to manage this quite nicely!

String.Empty vs ""

"" actually constructs an instance of a string object. String.Empty does not, although the overhead is probably quite small it's something to be aware of. I prefer String.Empty, just because the sight of quotation marks kind of makes me weary. (Move it to a const or #Define is what the C in my says!)

A static method that i think is under used is String.IsNullOrEmpty(). Instead of checking to see if an instance of a string is equal to "" use the static method I just mentioned.

Kind of sloppy code...
if( myString != "" ){...

Better code...
if( null != myString && myString.Length > 0 ){...

My preferred version...
if( !String.IsNullOrEmpty( myString ) ){ ...

Carriage return, new lines like the following... "\r\n" should be replaced by Environment.Newline; This allows you to write environment agnostic code. In Unix environments, I believe the new line character is "\n", however on Non-Unix it seems to be "\r\n". As the .NET platform moves to Linux and Mac, this can come in quite handy. (Maybe some day... got Mono!?)

Our good friend String literals... FxCop always screams at the sight of string literals in code. A great tool for re factoring literals into a resource file is the "Resource Refactoring Tool" which can be found on CodePlex... check it out!

But I am still unsure as to when string literals should be re factored to a resource file and when it is OK to keep them. One thing I can say is this... please be aware that if you have hard coded string literals, this is also hard coded in the MSIL. So hard coded user names and passwords are definitely a bad idea.... (Especially since anyone with access to your assembly, can disassemble it back to IL.)

All I really know about strings is that they are tricky, some people say use StringBuilder versus concatenating strings. Some say StringBuilder is more efficient when concatenating strings in loops, other say it's only more efficient if a certain number of concatenations are performed. Some say string literals are more efficient then string constants because of the string intern table. FxCop says that string literals should be re factored to resource files, which makes sense for localization and strings that appear on UI.

But all this kind of makes my head spin... It seems there is no one concrete answer to all solutions when it comes to strings. Being aware of how strings work is probably the most efficient way to use strings! My 2 cents...

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Yes, I've been MIA (that's a little acronym I like to use that stands for Missing In Action, yes using acronyms is fun!) for a little while, but I got an itch and decided to post, after a co-worker re-sparked an interest... I recently started a new job at ThirdAngle, and one of my co-workers, Mr. Adam, began reading posts from my blog. (kinda creepy, but trust me, he's pretty normal. I think!) He learned quite a bit about me, and it's kind of funny that someone could know so much about me without me actually having to tell my life story.

I just spent a little time sifting through some old posts that kind of made me laugh, and I decided I had to get back at it... although this time around I'm going to try and change the focus of my blog.

Lately, I've invested a lot of time in learning .NET, more specifically C# (Otherwise known as C++++ or C += 2). My goal is to use this blog as a way to share the things I'm learning and get feedback on newer and better constructs of doing things... I'm sure I will make mistakes, and from time to time someone smarter then me will probably come along and correct the mistakes in my entries. (Developers are so mean... *sniff*)

I believe that making mistakes in a public forum will only make me a better developer. So I'm going to use this site as my public code review... where we are constantly reviewing my code. (By the way I like putting curly braces on the end or the line not on a new one. Deal with it!)

Let's get started. I have come to become a big fan of the ternary operator... It's quite useful for replacing simple if-else statements.

Ternary operator template:
( true/false expression to evaluate ) ? (true evaluation) : (false evaluation) ;

E.g.
        Boolean IsMoCool = false;
        String s = (IsMoCool) ? "Mo is cool" : "Mo is not cool";
        Console.WriteLine(s);

Can you predict the result? This should print "Mo is not cool" to the console window. This happens for 2 reasons, the first is the "IsMoCool" value is initialized as false. So when the statement ( IsMoCool ) evaluated it yeilds a false value and executes the false condition. The 2nd reason this works is because mO is not cool!

Here is maybe a better usage of the ternary operator...

Let's say I have the following code...

public class TernaryDemo{
    private object _myObject;
 
    public object MyObject {
        get {
            if( null == _myObject ) {
                _myObject = new object();
            }
            return _myObject;
        }
    }
}

This could be re-written as....

public class TernaryDemo{
    private object _myObject;
 
    public object MyObject {
        // if _myObject hasn't been constructed yet then create an instance,
        // otherwise return the constructed instance.
        get{ return ( null == _myObject ) ? _myObject = new object() : _myObject; }
    }
}

Recently I was reading an article from an MSDN blog... (I'm sorry I didn't save the link... I will have to look it up later.) And I came across the ?? operator added in C# 2.0. Whoa!

Here's how (I think) it works...

    private string _s;
 
    public void MyMethod() {
        string s = (null == _s) ? "Some Clever Text Here" : _s;
    }


The above code can be re-written using ?? like this...

    private string _s;
 
    public void MyMethod() {
        string s = _s ?? "Some Clever Text Here";
    }

The ?? operator implicitly does the same operation as the ternary operator but looks much cleaner. I'm not sure if I'm a fan yet, but I'd love to hear what you think!

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The ternary operator, personally I don't mind it, though I don't use it just because I never remember to. I haven't added it to my regimen. Arguably, it's adds complexity to the code because it causes the next developer (who may or may-not use or even know of the operator) to have to pause on the statement to decipher it and understand it, rather than just read on. Simply put, I think it's a handy shorthand for the original developer of some code, but reduces the readability of it for the next person that has to maintain it.

My 2 cents, since you seemed to ask for it.]]> !~Mista mO~!]]>
Code should be self describing, and easy to understand. Ultimately, the most simple solution is, in my opinion, usually the best choice.

This also brings up another interesting point about trusting the abilities of your co-workers... but maybe I'll save that for a separate post!

Thanks for the feedback Mr. Darryl!]]> Oilers on New Years Eve. All in all, life is good....

Have a great day!]]> Jenn]]>
who did you register your domain through?

I'd also love to hear how Adia is doing?

Jenn]]>
Last night we tried to get Adia to sleep in her crib. We let her cry for sometime and eventually I think she slept in their for a little while. It was worth it. Hopefully, we can get her on a routine, but she is still very young. 6 weeks this Sunday!

Hopefully, everyone has a happy New Years. See ya next year! Take Care...]]> OK, just when it's not in your shoe. Because when it gets in your shoe your socks get wet. And if your socks are wet for to long, you could catch a cold. I did not catch a cold, yet!

Well, I'm really getting used to the short drive to and from work. How sweet it is, not to mention I don't even have to touch deerfoot, which is awesome. I wouldn't want to be on deerfoot this morning.

Adia sure is growing up fast, but she refused to sleep last night. So she'll probably sleep in today! I'm looking forward to getting back on the ice, hopefully sometime this weekend. Lucky for me I get to go to the Flames vs. Oilers game on New Years eve. Sweet!

That's all for today, have a good one!]]> Adia got lots of great gifts, she's so spoiled already! She's getting bigger and bigger so quickly...

Yesterday, I got to try one my new skates. I'm a little rusty but it was fun getting back on the ice. I got some hockey gloves and a rubber puck for Christmas so I'll have to test those out while the weather is still nice.

I had entirely to much chocolate, I'm still hyper. Have a great day everyone!]]> Hoo.... I haven't been fired yet!

Not much to say today so I'll keep it short. Have a merry Christmas! Take care...]]> Anonymous]]>
Your blog is so funny. It is good to see you are doing very well in your new job.

Merry Christmas!

MarkC]]> Adia didn't have a very good night... around midnight she vomited all over the bed. (Yes, she is still sleeping in our bed with us... ) Poor thing, she was covered in white milky chunks... but after she got that out of her system she finally got to sleep.

Only a couple of days away until Christmas begins, and only a few days away until my first full week is finished. It's definitely been different, although it's closer to home I feel like I'm seeing Allison and Adia less. Perhaps it's just from wanting to impress the boss and putting in a full day plus a little extra... We'll see... I think by next week I'm going to switch back to my regular 8 am start time... hopefully that's OK!

That's about all from the world of mO, it's nice to be able to start blogging regularly again. And it's also nice to know that people are still reading what nonsense seems to come out of my head. Have a good everyone! GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
Good Morning! Today is day 3... it's getting tough waking up at 7am to leave for work at 8:30 am. I'm not sure if I meant that sarcastically... hehe...

Well yesterday was Adia's 1 month birthday. How could I have forgotten to talk about that. She weighed in at about 9lbs and 21 inches. She's growing...

As I mentioned the other day I did a little karaoke at the internal Christmas party at my last day of work at DS. I guess some of the finer moments of that production were captured in the above picture. *sigh* Never again...

It's almost Christmas, and lucky for me I get a 4 day weekend. I'm actually pretty darn excited this year. Only a few more days and I can start eating lots and lots of Christmas goodies. Mmm...

That's all for today, have a great day!]]> Darryl]]> Jenn]]>
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The hours are super flexible at this new place. I have mixed feelings about it, I like to get up early and get home early so I can have dinner with my wife! But it's also nice to know that right now with a wee one in the house if I don't get much sleep I don't have to be in at 8am sharp. So it's got it's perks.

Yesterday it took me 15 minutes to get home from work. Yes sir! I left at 6pm and arrived at home at 6:16 pm. ok so it was 16 minutes... Our manager bought us all lunch yesterday which was cool, I got to talk with some of the other members of the team which made me feel good. It's a pretty friendly and open team. Now hopefully I can do the job well!

That's it for today, have a good one!]]> Anonymous]]>
I'm sure you will do excellent at your new job!

K]]>
Hopefully, in the years to come I will be able to see how these changes have helped me grow and move forward. Time will tell!

So it's almost Christmas, sweet! That means I'm about 1 week away from stuffing my face with spinach dip, chocolates, cheese, crackers while having a snooze during "It's a wonderful life!" I'm pretty excited!

So Thursday was my final day at my old job. We had an internal Christmas potluck in the afternoon that stretched into the evening. It was a nice way to go out, after the gift exchange and the kind gifts I received for our baby Adia, they had me sing "Elvira", good ol' karaoke. It was weird walking out the door knowing that I wasn't going to return on Monday... life goes on!

And in other news... Adia turned 4 weeks old yesterday. Hey she's young enough that counting down every single week is still fun, and manageable. It's kind of like when you first start dating someone, and you count down every week together. You celebrate every month together. After a few years, it's not as easy to do and your wife thanks you if you can just manage to remember and anniversaries.... *whew* so far I have!

Well that's about all from today... hopefully later this evening I will be able to post some more pictures of Adia in the web album. Have a great day!]]>
Adia slept pretty darn good last night. I was pretty tired and had an evening nap with her in my arms. Then I ended up heading to bed at around 8:30pm. It's really hard when I'm tired and Adia is crying, but it's all good. I feel pretty relaxed today. Although the new neighbors that moved in next door are quite noisy. I think they have a tv upstairs on the other side of the wall from where our bed sits. So that was a little annoying, but I was so tired that I fell asleep anyways. Allison, thinks that they might be in a band because it sounded like someone was playing guitar and drums all day. This brought up a conversation between Allison and I that we didn't think we would have for a few years.

Originally, when moving into the condo we had set goals about when we want to have the mortgage paid off and when we would start looking to move. It seems that the condo has warn us down and we're thinking we might start looking earlier then expected. Not today or tomorrow, but just sooner then what we had originally thought. We'll see what happens next...

So, next Tuesday is the Microsoft Vista launch event at the movie theatre at Chinook center. I'm looking forward to going to that. That's about all from me for today. Have a great day, don't forget Christmas is around the corner so get out early and finish that shopping. Uh oh... that reminds I should probably put some thought into gift ideas. *sigh*]]>
So things have been pretty good lately. I've had a few more longer then i wanted days, but it's all good. Builds character, right! It's been ages since I've watched any hockey, I think I'm going through a little withdrawal.

We gave Adia her first bath in her little baby tub last night. Up until then we had been sponge bathing her. She didn't cry or fuss, I even think she may have enjoyed the bath. It's getting out of the tub that was tough, as soon as that cold air hits her skin she starts to wail! Poor thing...

Seems like the gas is also causing baby Adia some grief! One of my co-workers yesterday suggested that Allison try taking things like chocolate or milk out of her diet to see if it helps with Adia's gas, since she's being breast fed right now. Hopefully, that helps because dad's funny faces sure aren't!

Our poor bunny rabbit, I've officially changed his name from "hiphop" to "chop liver". Since Adia came in to our lives, I think he feels neglected. I can't blame him, he used to be our baby and got all our attention. Now we have to find a same time to let him out of his cage, which is hard to do when you're alone nursing a baby. Is this a glimpse into the future when we plan our second child? Uh oh...

That's about all from me... Thanks to Jenn and Darryl for stopping by on the weekend and bringing more gifts for lil' Adia. She's our spoiled little stinky, gassy, princess! (hehe)

Oh, one last thing... I heard a rumor that Mikka Kiprusoff and Jamie McClennan were partying it up at Molly Malones last Saturday. Mikka was pretty drunk and wearing a candy necklace. Can anyone else verify this... ? Oh Mr. Mikka! Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]>
We use to bath Lucas in the bathroom and run the shower really hot and steam up the bathroom while we bathed him in his little tub on the counter in the bathroom.

That may help to keep her warm.

Jenn]]>
The feedback I received from my co-workers was very kind, and I really appreciate that. Any sort of big changes always has a transition period and hopefully I can be as helpful as possible during this time.

In other news... Alli and I got some sleep last night! Woo Hoo... the previous night was pretty rough, Adia get waking up and cried for most of the night. Alli fed her as much as she could until she was running on empty and Adia wanted more breast milk. When I got home last night I started cracking the whip.... whipishhhh.....

I sent Alli to bed, "Right now young lady!". I took baby Adia and kept her attention for as long as I could. She cried a little but for the most part she was wide eyed until about 9pm. I don't know if she wore me out first or if I wore her out first. But at around 9:30 Alli gave her one good long feeding, and we all slept until 2am. Another good long feeding and we all slept till 6am when Adia was ready for another good long feeding. *sigh* Man it felt good to get 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Thanks Adia!

Yesterday, my co-worker Kristine, who went on Mat leave in March, stopped by with her son Micah to deliver me a present to pass along to baby Adia. It was a stuffed Elmo from Sesame street. That was truly kind, Adia will definitely appreciate it when she's interested in more then just pooping and eating. Thank you Kristine, Mark and Micah!

So... our daughter is quite gassy. Let me paint a picture for you... I wear contacts, I'm pretty much blind without them. So when I change Adia at night I basically have to shove my face right down to her bare little bottom so that I can see everything and make sure that I've wiped up every little morsel of poop from every little crevice around her butt. In the last little while I have started applying penaten cream to deal with a little diaper rash, and each time I do, she burst a little whole in the cream to spray some stinky gas right in my face. Ewww... Thanks Adia!

Well... I think that's it for today. Hopefully, the weather is treating everyone nicely, I know driving kind of sucks these days especially on deerfoot. Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]>
Jenn3w]]> Anonymous]]> Yeah penaten is very good to have....a little goes a long way!]]> Anonymous]]>
Just checkin out your new uploaded pics....hey, did you get a tatoo? pretty cool!

And i love the one hand eater...You - holding baby Adia on one hand and You- trying to eat :) you guys are going to get really good at doing this!

take care,
Kristine]]>
Baby AdiaGood Morning! Well I feel much more rested today. Allison and Adia are still sleeping which is good news as well. Wow, now it's time to reflect. The last week has gone by so fast, and with the lack of sleep it all seems like a haze.

I am so proud of my wife Allison, I cannot believe how strong she is. Dealing with contractions for nearly 3 days and fighting through every single one of them was unbelievable. Even after the labour when I was concerned about when she could finally get some sleep, she was concerned about me. Huh?!

Labour was beautiful, I was as involved as I could be. I watched our child come out head first and worked with Allison through her breathing. I was able to cut the umbilical cord and help my wife through one of the most grueling marathons any person can go through. I have so much more respect for all moms out there!

No matter how many times I've heard about labour, it was nothing like what I had expected. Just imagine someone pricking you with a pin every 5 minutes for days. Each time you're pricked with the pin it gets more and more painful. You no longer sleep, you become a zombie knowing that in a few minutes it will happen again. Now I have no idea how painful it really is but I know it's a heck of a lot more painful then a pin prick.

As a partner I wanted to "fix" it. I wanted to take Allison's pain away, I couldn't. I sat staring at her as she passed out in a deep REM sleep in between contractions, and as another one was just starting I could see her brow begin to cringe up. Suddenly she is awakened in excruciating pain. I teared up several times...

I think getting through labour brought Alli and I closer together. I wanted to make sure that I was there for every step of the way, so she knew she was not going through this alone. (Although admittedly I dozed off a few times... I'm sorry Alli!) I could not imagine what it would be like to go through that whole experience alone.

After delivery of Adia, we spent about an hour in the private room. Alli showered, I went and grabbed the mom and baby bag from the car and made a couple of phone calls. We were then moved to Unit 52 at the foothills hospital. There I changed my first diaper, learned how to put Adia to sleep and how to help stop her crying. I didn't want to put her down. Around 2 am I was sent home to sleep. Dad's aren't allowed to stay over night. I woke up at 7am and returned as soon as I could in the morning. We were discharged Monday morning around noon.

When we got home I ordered bed rest for mom, called the inlaws and notified them that visiting hours would not start until 8pm. My wife needed some well deserved sleep. I cradled little Adia for as long as I could.

After a couple of long, grueling days at home I feel rested. I sure hope Alli does too when she wakes up. Adia didn't cry as much last night, so I think we all slept a little better.

Thank you, to everyone that has helped support us along our long journey. All the helpful advice, words and encouragement and funny stories have all made this so much more fulfilling. Your words have not fallen on deaf ears, and although I am terrible at responding to comments, emails and phone calls. We heard every single one, so thank you all!

Baby Adia Imani Khan was born on November. 19, 2006 at 4:13pm at the Foothills hospital in Calgary, Ab, Canada. She weighed in at 6lbs 8oz. Her due date was November 25th, but she decided to come out on Grey Cup Sunday.]]> Anonymous]]> You are going to be an awesome Dad Mo! and I know Alli is already an awesome Mom :)]]> Anonymous]]>
Glad that Allison and the baby are happy and healthy. Kudos to Alison for a natural birth. She is amazing.

How is the breastfeeding coming along? Are you waking her every 2 hours, or do they not say that anymore?

Thanks

Jenn]]>
We were so confused, and tired. We didn't know if she was having braxton hicks or the real thing. By around 2pm her contractions are 5 minutes apart lasting for about 30-40 seconds and had been going on for about an hour. I call the foothills medical clinic maternity ward triage to see what we should do. They tell us to come in but take our time, if she needs to shower she can.

We head down to the triage and arrive there around 3pm. She gets checked out and is 1 cm dilated, it's the real thing. 4 hours later while working through contractions she has made it to 2cm. We decide it's best for us to go home and labour, the doctor agrees. We arrive home around 8pm, Allison's contractions are getting stronger and stronger. She finds sitting in the tub helps, I find that laying makes me fall asleep. I suck!

Sunday at 9am we head to the hospital, we're quite sure that we've laboured enough at home. Allison get's checked out, she is 3-4 cm dilated. It's game time! While we wait for a private room, Allison sits in the shower. It helps her through the contractions!

Around 2 or 3 pm we get to a private room. The doctor checks to see how far along we are. Allison is 4-5 cm dilated, doctor suggests we break her water. We agree!

Around 330pm Allison gets the urge to start pushing, she pushes and pushes! The nurse calls the doctor in, "I think Allison has moved along much quicker, she is pushing!"

4:13pm, Sunday, November 19, 2006 Allison pushes out our first born child. She picks her up and places her on her chest. The Dr. O'Kelly asks me "What is it?" while passing me a surgical device to cut the umbilical cord, I'm confused by the question. I cut the cord, the nurse Pat says it's a girl!

We just got home from the hospital just a little while ago and we're all very tired! I will post again with more details, but for now we all need some sleep! Take care....]]> fade]]>
Mark]]> Anonymous]]> We are very happy for you guys.

Some helpful tips to get breastmilk to come sooner.
Get Ali to drink lots and lots of hot water...if she gets bored with it, maybe add decaf tea. Usually the organic raspberry leaf tea helps the uterus to contract and heal.
Also, lots of soup....and hot showers. The 'hot' will help production of breastmilk to come sooner.

Also, she is probably sore down there so freezing the maxi pads will help soothe the pain. I recommend 'calandula ointment' to be rubbed on the maxi pads. It will help her heal quicker. I know this may all sound weird but it helped me a lot and they do not really tell you this stuff when you leave the hospital :)

Good luck and enjoy!

Kristine, Mark and baby Micah]]> Anonymous]]>
I have tears in my eyes while reading. Congradulations, your new life has just begun. Can't wait to see what you'll name you girl and how much she weighed.

Jenn]]>
I can see that it causes her discomfort and that the "cramping" is only going to get stronger and longer. I have a lot of commitments at work I need to get wrapped up so that I can be there for my wife, I really don't like seeing her in discomfort. Especially when it feels like there is nothing I can do. I just want to be there for her and be supportive.

I'm waiting on a phone call now... Can anyone explain how you can tell the difference between a cramp and a contraction? Is she experiencing braxton hicks contractions? Does this mean the baby's head is about to drop soon?

I will try to have some pictures of Allison posted soon, I know I've been slacking! Have a great weekend, and if you don't hear from me on Monday ...]]> Darryl]]>
This could be it, but maybe not. Jenn went through this almost every night for a week or two.]]> Anonymous]]>
Good Luck!

Jenn]]> Anonymous]]>
As usual things will eventually start to calm down, but while you're in the thick of the storm... it's hard to picture the sunlight!

Have a great day!]]>
The Flames won again! 3 - 0 against St. Louis. I can hear the shouts right now "I LOVE YOU JIM PLAYFAIR"! (Fickle fans...)

Just so you all know, I changed my mind I like popcorn! And I got to have some last night, with a little ranch shake and a little dill pickle shake. We call it the "Pickled Cowboy"! Mmmm...

Now go ... give 'er a try! Have a great day!]]>
So we're less than 2 weeks away from the due date, I have to keep reminding myself that it probably means very little because most women are late for their first pregnancy and about 2% of people actually give birth on their due date.

It's almost Christmas which is another exciting time of the year, and then comes new years! Have a great day!]]>
I had a good weekend, Saturday marked week 38 of Allison's pregnancy. We're less than 2 weeks away! We're all ready to go at the house, we just need a baby now.

Today, we've got a guy from Elktone Drywall coming to fix the nail pops in our house. I had a scary dream last night where the gentleman that came to fix the nail pops attacked my wife. I was a little nervous leaving the house this morning. I just had to whisper in my wifes ear, if anything funny happens just walk out at the first sign for trouble and call me from the Mac's down the street. Oh boy!

And in other news, Allison tells me that on Saturday night while I was sleeping I got up on my elbows and said with a very stressed look on my face, "The code is only half finished!" She patted me on the back and told me it would be ok. I have been talking more and more lately in my sleep. Am I going crazy?

Well, time to start another week on the grind. Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]> Darryl]]> "THE CODE IS ONLY HALF FINISHED!"
That's hilarious!
I can only guess what the dream was about and who was in it! hahaha!]]>
Allison's been doing really well, we're nearing a couple weeks away from the due date. I had a dream last night that after I went to sleep Allison went to the hospital and delivered our baby then took the bus home before I woke up. (huh?) Yeah, so I woke up to go to work and there was our little baby. He was up and walking around... Did I say "He"? Oh boy, that makes me the third person I know of that dreamed of our child as a "he"! Coincidence?

In other news my book from Amazon arrived earlier this week. It's an MCTS self paced training kit for exam 70-536 (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation). I've finished 3 lessons so far. Yup!

Do you ever have those days where you say something that you knew you shouldn't have said? Where you lose control for just a moment and blurt out something that was just not nice to say? Or you blurt out something that was just ridiculous and you have no idea why you said it? Anyone know any good books on how to find your inner peace... or even a pill would be great too!

That's all from mO today, have a great weekend and drive safe!]]> Anonymous]]>
Do you and Allison have one of those colorful mats with the toys that hand above it yet?

Thanks

Jenn]]> Anonymous]]>
They are great. I was at a Used Kids Store yesterday where we get alot of Lucas's toys and I saw a bunch there. I was going to buy one for you, but I thought I'd better ask first, good thing I did. Are you guys registered somewhere for people like me who'd like to get you a gift?

Thanks

Jenn]]>
It's always cool thing to bump into people from high school, especially if it's people you actually liked in high school. It's even better to see that they're just as friendly now as they were then.

A lot of things are going to happen in the next few weeks. As soon as I'm done work I want to race home and be near my wife. I want to make sure I'm close when she needs me and is starting to go through labor. This whole dad thing hasn't completely hit me yet, but it will!

Until then... We're just taking it one day at a time! Have a great day...]]>
Last night was a relaxing evening at home I jumped in bed a little earlier then usual to get some extra bed rest my body deserves. Allison has been feeling great so far, it's amazing how well her pregnancy has gone so far. Absolutely no complaining, no cravings and no tears. I love you hunny!
(Not that that's a bad thing, I was just kind of expecting it!)

In other news... I received to 19" flat panel monitors at work yesterday. I'm not sure what triggered that... ? Hmmm... Some strange things have been happening at work lately, very strange!

It's Friday and I'm excited, because as of tomorrow Allison will be 37 weeks pregnant. Which means she's considered full term. She could pop at any time... Have a great weekend!]]>
I slept for about 14-15 hours straight, I ran a fever of about 100.3 degrees Fahrenheit and no matter how many blankets I was covered in I couldn't stop shivering. Oh don't forget the cold sweats, non stop nose dripping, coughing and swollen shut throat. Yuck! Don't come near mO!

Today I'm feeling a little better but I would love to get more bed rest, only a couple of days away from the weekend and I will be hibernating underneath our huge douvet covers. Oh yeah!

I don't think I have ever been this sick since working here at Data Shapers. I've been here since June. 15, 2004, so I believe I'm entitled to get the flu every few years or so. Needless to say Alli and I had a discussion about flu shots. She gets hers next week at her next pre-natal checkup. At yesterdays pre-natal check up all was good. I stayed out in the lobby this time because I was sick and the doc did some "internal" examination. Ouch!

Well that's all for today. Make sure you bundle up so you're not sick and miserable like myself. Have a good day!]]> Darryl]]> Anonymous]]> That reminds me.....must get the whole family to do the flu shots :)
thanks,
K]]>
Yesterday, it moved up to my head. My nose turned into a faucet, which made sitting through our last pre-natal class a little difficult. Last night it was all about breast feeding. Man that looks tough to do. I can't imagine what it must feel like to have your child feeding off of you.

Today, I feel like Christmas crap! I'm thinking since I have to drive Alli to the doctor this afternoon that I may take half a personal day to rest and get better. It's just to bad that we have a major promotion scheduled this week. Sucks to be sick!

Have a great day people! *sneeze* Sorry, I hope I didn't soak you!]]>
So I spent some time trying to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu last night. I finally figured out how to switch to the command window. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then I found out I had to use a utility called "Sudo" in order to install VMWare tools. So I got that far then you have to configure VMWare tools but it need a C compiler or Make utility to do so. So I downloaded GMake from GNU and attempted to unpack and run that... and that's about as far as I got so far. We'll see what happens this weekend. Oh and it's Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch back to the OS GUI.

It's finally Friday woo hoo! Have a great weekend peoples!]]>
But really, Buckleys cough medicine is pretty gross but it seems to work pretty well.

Last night when I got home I installed Ubunto on to a virtual machine in VMWare Server. It's pretty sweet! I have never really played much with Linux before, but I was an instant fan. I got the disc from Rob at ISI, one of the guys at our office network team. Thanks Rob! I still have a lot of learning and playing to do with it, but man I felt like newbie. I didn't know my way around the filesystem, I didn't know any of the keyboard shortcuts to get around. It should be fun!

Well the daily grind begins, so that's all for today. Have a great day!]]>
After the class our instructor Karen took us up to the 5th floor of the foothills hospital to give us a quick tour of where we need to go during labour. It was quite helpful and made me feel much better to know exactly what we're supposed to do. Sweet!

I think on the radio they mentioned that the Flames won last night, sweet! Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]>
It's good that your not freaked out. What will happen will happen, no point in worrying about it before hand.

Don't worry too much about change in about 5ish weeks, you will have something that will changed you life in more ways imaginable. Enjoy it.

Jenn]]> Anonymous]]>
It's kind of funny how quickly life hits you, how stuck in the moment we become. I remember being in Jr. High worrying about high school, would I fit in, would I get beat up. That sort of thing, I was stuck in the moment. I remember worrying like crazy about finals at SAIT and whether or not I would find a good job. I was stuck in that moment, and it all worked out. I'm constantly worrying about whether I am at a dead end job, and whether my time would be spent more useful else where. I'm stuck in this moment!

Change is a scary thing, I've always tried not to be afraid of it, probably because I didn't want people to be afraid of me, because I'm "different". But if you know me, you probably know by now that there have been a lot of changes at my current job. And there continues to be more. As more and more people leave, I tend to get more of a feeling that I was left behind. That's crazy, I wasn't left behind all these people are doing what's best for them. I need to do that same, what exactly is best for me? and my family? 2 more people put in their notice of resignation yesterday!

I'm a bit of a stressball these days, so I completely understand it if you would rather not ask me how I'm doing. I think we both know that's a loaded question! Have a great day!]]>
This weekend I started listening to a new podcast, or netcast whatever you prefer to call it. It's another TWIT show but this one is on Windows and it's called Windows weekly. So far the first 3 shows have been pretty good. I must say that I compare every new netcast to Security Now and Steve Gibson. So far Windows weekly hasn't been as informative and in depth as Security Now but I'm sure over time that will change.

I also played with VMWare server this weekend, that's a neat application and the best part is that it's free to download.

Tomorrow night is week 5 of pre-natal class. We get to play with dolls, I'm so excited! This is week 35 for Alli in the pregnancy so we're almost there!

Have a great day!]]> Darryl]]> Anonymous]]>
The weekend should be short, it looks like I will most likely be in on the weekend working. But the pre-natal classes are fun but are slowly coming to an end. This Saturday marks 5 weeks until the due date. We still have no idea if we're having a baby girl or boy!

Anyways, this is probably a tired excuse for a blog entry, but I thought I should post just to let the few dedicated readers know, that I'm still alive, I will still continue to blog. Things are just a little hectic in my world right now. But Thank you for caring!]]>
Our pre-natal class was kind of fun last night. We practiced different coping positions at 6 different stations. Allison like 4 of the 6 coping positions. Man this sounds kind of kinky... We just practiced different ways to help mommy cope with a contraction. Use your imagination...

Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]>
Like the new look of the site!

Jenn]]> Kristine]]> Any baby yet?
Kristine]]>
This morning sucked driving to work. The off ramp from Beddington trail to deerfoot was completely closed off, and there were a couple of bottlenecks from country hills to deerfoot. I spent about 1 1/2 on the road for a 30 km drive to work. I guess that works out to about 1km every 3 minutes. That sucks!

The weekend was good! I got my turkey on, twice. I went to a hockey game on Saturday with Mr. Dirk and again on Monday with the papa in law. The Saturday game was good, but last nights wasn't so great.

We're down to less than 7 weeks away from the arrival of our baby. We stocked up on a few more items this weekend including diapers, pjs, baby wash etc. Tonight we've got our 3rd baby class. We're going to be working at different stations tonight. It should be interesting!

I've learned a lot of great things in the class like...
1. Don't go to Emergency, go the fifth floor on the foothills.
2. Signs of labor.
3. Spend most of early labor at home then head down the hospital when contractions are 5 minutes apart, lasting for 30 seconds for a total duration of one hour.
4. Don't bring a picture of the cat for a focal point. I don't really remember the reasoning for that one.
5. I get to eat, but she doesn't!
6. Feed her ice chips, whether she wants them or not. Don't ask just do it...!

Yeah... That's about the extent of my knowledge so far. We'll see what ends up happening in the next few weeks ahead.

That's all for today! Have a great day!]]> Kristine]]> I remember Ed eating in front of Carmen when she was in the hospital and she just about killed him :)]]>
I guess I'll keep this short and sweet. Have a good long Thanksgiving weekend!]]> Security Now with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson.

1. If you don't have a NAT router, you're screwed!
2. Use TrueCrypt to encrypt and store files on your machine.
3. Cryptography is to cool for me to understand!
4. Disable 3rd party cookies in your web browser.
5. Use Firefox! If you must use IE then lock it down!
6. If you use Firefox, get the No Script extension.
7. Hamachi is cool!
8. Skype uses 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption.
9. What's wrong with me putting a pad-lock on a lock box and sending it to you, you putting your pad-lock on the same box and returning it to me. I take my lock off and send it to you!?
10. You must bookmark GRC.com!
11. ARP Poison Routing was a term made up by the guys who wrote CAIN & ABEL. ()

That's all I can think of for now... Enjoy!]]>
So there was a 4 car pileup on Beddington Trail this morning. Lucky for me I always leave early enough that in the event something like this happens, I can still stroll in to the office at 8am. Oh yeah... but this meant that I didn't have time to post this morning!

I received a comment on my blog from yet another fellow neighbor. Wholy cow! I've met more people in my neighborhood online then in real life. So what are you saying mO?! I'm saying, you meet more people in your neighborhood by locking yourself indoors and blogging day and night! Yup... that's right!

I also realized that I should probably take down the pictures of my neighbors car and the park job. It's just not nice, and well since then our neighbors on both sides have parked great... It's so easy to focus on the negatives! Our neighbors are pretty darn good, it could have been a lot worse and it just takes time for everyone to settle in. After all we were all brand new to the neighborhood when we first moved in. It had just been my first move in a looooooooong time so I wasn't used to the habits of different neighbors. But so far everyone's pretty cool!

Our condo meeting?!! What happened to the September condo meeting, were we left out? Were we not invited? Awww... why? I really wanted to go!!!

That's enough out of this guys head for today! And nope... I didn't drink any pop today! Just feeling a little better. Have a great day!]]> Darryl]]>
So my posts lately have been short and sweet, hopefully I haven't sounded to cranky or anything. It's definitely not my intention! I feel like I'm falling behind on so many things right now and I'm scrambling every day to keep up. So if it seems like I'm brushing you off, please don't take it personal. It's just a busy time right now, things will settle down!

Last night we had baby class #2. I enjoy it, there are lots of dads there with corny jokes but its all good. The classes are very informative but at times it seems like the instructors are trying to scare the heck out of you. Everyone's pregnancy experience is unique. Some good stuff, some bad stuff but hopefully the end of the story is a happy one. We watched another prego video where we actually got to see the child be delivered this time. A little bit of blood was shown, but if you can get past that it's amazing to see. I remember having a big grin on my face that I just could not wipe off my face as we watched little Douglas, in the movie, being delivered!

We're half way through the week! Only a few more days to go until the Thanksgiving long weekend! Have a great day!]]> Anonymous]]> Anonymous]]>
Glad baby class was fun. It's interesting because I remember going through that as well. What did they scare you with last night? I think you hit the nail on the head when you sad, there's good stuff and bad, but when it's all over you are so glad you did it.

Good luck with the rest of your week

Jenn]]>
Sometimes when you get in to work in the morning you just want some room to breathe instead of having someone come to you with questions before even settling in....

*grumble, grumble*

Need sunshine! Have a great day!]]>
Now I feel better! Have a great day!]]>
It's almost hockey time... woo hooo! Have a great weekend people!]]>
Last night we attended our 1st of 6 weeks in the baby class. It was kind of fun, I got to present the list of questions the husbands and boyfriends had about pregnancy. The questions were pretty good, they ranged from "How do you hold a baby?" to "What do we do?" It was a lot of fun!

So the countdown is now at 8 1/2 weeks. Have a great day!]]>
Yesterday morning on the Calgary Eye opener on CBC Radio one they had a discussion on racism here in Calgary. I thought it was a quite interesting topic but sometimes hard to discuss.

After listening to it, I realized that racism is more common here in Calgary then even I thought. The saddest story was when a 4 year old girl addressed a man with a racial slur when he offered her candy on Halloween. "No daddy, he's a * I can't take candy from him!"

Alli and I have had numerous discussion on the topic of racism and we're fully aware of the challenges to come with an inter-racial child. All that we can ask is that our family and friends be supportive, and to do that sometimes it takes dialogue to actually discuss issues that are important to us. It's not easy sometimes to just start the conversation...

Last night we went to the Welcome Wagon baby show at the Red & White club at McMahon stadium. It was pretty neat, I think I got a little dizzy from all the pregnant women. There were lots of tiny new born babies and lots of freebies. Alli signed up for lots of things and I'm sure we'll receive a lot of phone calls from this promotion or that promotion, but it was neat to participate in anyways.

Tonight we start day 1 of baby classes. We're pretty excited... What more can I say! Have a great day!]]>
On Friday we ran a lot of errands, went down to the Harry Hays building to drop off Allison's record of employment then went home and applied for maternity leave. We didn't know you could apply online. We went down to another Service Canada office to see if she could get the name on her social insurance card changed. We visited her doctor for a checkup.

Saturday marked week 31 Alli's pregnancy. That means we are into single digit # of weeks remaining before the due date. Sweet!

This week should be another busy one, tonight we're going down to the red & white club for a baby expo thingy put on by the welcome wagon. Tomorrow night we start our baby classes. Yup yup...

Another week of work begins, have a great day!]]>
Calgary won by a score of 3-1, there were lots of fights and lots of great scoring chances. I'm glad it's hockey season again.

In other news... It seems to be darker and darker each morning that I get up. *sigh* Have a great day!]]>
It's a very foggy, dark, cold morning here in Calgary. It is rather depressing if you ask me, and to top it all I had nightmares last night. Not just any nightmares but work related nightmares.... Ahhhhh.. the scariest kind! I'll live...

So our one year anniversary is coming up this week as husband and wife. Pretty exciting stuff.... We have now been together for 5 years. In celebration of our one year I have booked off this Friday from work with some banked overtime hours. Sweet!

That's all for today, I'm anxiously awaiting the start of daylight savings, or is it the end?]]>
The Flames won their pre-season opener against the Florida Panthers last night! Woo Hooo... And Sunday night dinner was super duper as usual!

I also put the final touches on a new web site. Check it out http://parkplacecanada.com.

That's all for this Monday morning, have a great day!]]>
Allison, signed us up for a Baby show at the Red & White club. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but I'm sure it will be fun. It's presented by the welcome wagon. I have no idea what a welcome wagon is either, but apparently we have one in our new neighborhood. Kind of strange if you ask me, they showed up with a bunch of flyers and advertisements, and we gladly accepted. When most of the time I have to stop by the dumpster after getting the mail to toss out all the flyers and real estate ads. blah, blah, blah... To much advertising!

And in other news... Did I mention that it's Friday? Enjoy!]]>
In other news, as I approached the car this morning I noticed a big mound of what appeared to be spit on the windshield of our car. Who would do that? I've been telling myself that it's just bird poo, but I'm quite sure someone horked up a big one on our car. That dampened my spirit a little!

We didn't have dinner at papa in-laws house this Sunday so we didn't get to watch Big Brother. But I just quickly checked the Big Brother site and found that Janelle got knocked off. The final two is Mike Boogie and Erica! I vote for Boogie!

Poor Janelle, final 4 last year, final 3 this year! Maybe next year... Have a great day!]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]>
Before writing, or i should say clicking, the exam you have to read this contracty thingy that says you cannot advertise your score without approval from CompTIA. Why that is, I don't know! The scale used for grades is 100 - 900. The passing grade is 515. I did pretty good if I can so!

There were 100 questions with 90 minutes to complete them all, I finished in 25 minutes then spent the next 15 reviewing all the questions. Easy breezy... ! (Now I sound like I'm showing off!)

The next exam is the OS exam. After completing that, you're looking at an A+ certified technician. Woo Hooo!

Yesterday, a couple of Allison's friends came to visit from Edmonton. It's been great because while Alli has been entertaining them, I have had a chance to spend some time with my girlfriend, my computer that is. Allison, enjoys calling my computer my girlfriend!

Anyways, that's all for today! Have a good one!]]> Anonymous]]>
Glad to see you back in blog land! I have been wondering what's up. I thought Alli had given birth already but she's still 12 weeks away. Hey at least she's on Mat leave now and away from the smoke :)

Congrats on passing your exams and being an A+ certified technician. Pretty soon I might need your services :)

Kristine]]>
Will won it before, maybe Boogie will win it this time.

I got some sleep last night, and I managed to complete my first full week of going for my 20 minute morning run. I feel good!

Have a great day!]]>
I made several trips to the washroom in the middle of the night. I feel better now but very tired. The moral of the this story.... I of"fish"ially quit FISH!

Have a good day!]]>
Danger, Will Robinson!!! This Saturday I am writing the first of the 2 A+ exams. I am studying nightly but now I need to crank it up a notch...

It's cool being able to go straight home after work and see my wife cooking up a feast for dinner. Ahhh... it stretches out the rest of our evening nicely. Thank goodness for Maternity leave...!

That's about all thats happening right now in the life of mO! Have a good day!]]>
The long weekend was excelled! Friday night Alli and I went grocery shopping. Saturday we went to Canadian Tire to check out the tire sale then headed to Mr. Darryls, my manager, birthday party. There were lots of kiddly-winkers there and we got a lot of great pregnancy/parenting advice. Cornmeal for diaper rashes, hey?! Blue poo after eating blue berries... I wont go into details!

I even got to hang out with Mr. Lucas a little bit. He's a little over a year old now and definitely has a personality of his own. We both have something in common too.... "Bugs Ewwww... get 'em away from me!"

Sunday, we had the usual feast at Alli's pops house followed up by "Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare" and "Big Brother". Graham Ramsey, you crack me up!

Monday, was Allison's last day of work. As of today she is unemployed, and as soon as her former employer gets the necessary paper work put together, she will be on her way to the Harry Hayes building to file for Maternity leave. Thank goodness, she is finally out of that smokey bar! In Alberta, you can go on Maternity no earlier then 12 weeks from your due date, at least it's not 17 like in New Foundland.

Alli is well into week 28 with baby. Less than 12 weeks until baby is due, and we are still having trouble picturing baby. What will baby look like?

That's all for today, have a great 4 day work week!]]> Jenn]]>
So who do you think will win Big Brother? I tried not to get sucked in, but here I am putting my wager on Boogie (although hasn't he won already) I wish those ladies would put there head's together rather then swooning over the men.

Jenn]]>
Before? After?
View Clean Shave Album!]]> Jenn]]> darryl]]>
We wait in anticipation as the saga of the missing blog entries continues ...]]> Pinnacle DVC 80
Good Morning! Today is my last day of work before going on holidays for a week. I'm very excited! Tomorrow we will be boarding our plane to head to Toronto. We spent some time cleaning up the house last night, and doing some laundry.

I tried porting my 80mm tape of our wedding to my hard drive using Dazzle DVC80. I can't find my install cd so i tried downloading the driver directly from the manufacturer's site. Pinnacle, the makers of dazzle, sucks big time. I eventually managed to find a driver from a 3rd party site. When trying to capture the video using Windows Movie Maker there was no audio. Stupid, stupid, stupid Dazzle! Where's my installation cd?

The install cd had some video editing software that worked nicely with the Dazzle DVC 80 device driver. So I tried to find a download for Pinnacle Studio 8 on the manufacturers web site. Unfortunately, you can only download updates for the software, so if you lost your disk you SOL!

What does this all mean? Pinnacle SUCKS and I'm going on holidays! Have a great long weekend, see yah in a week!]]> !~Mista mO~!]]>
http://www.janicek.com/archives/2003/12/21/pinnacle-studio-8-serial-number/]]>
Our neighbor Dan is the vice president on the condo board. Wow... did I feel like a dummy as soon as he said that. Now I'm really glad I talked to Dennis, his roommate, first rather then calling the condo board. Because he's 1/5 of the condo board. Geeez...! I'm glad things are getting better and maybe I should start being nicer to the neighbors. Sorry guys!

Yesterday, I read a story on DIGG about MSN Spaces getting converted to Windows Live Spaces. So I logged in to my space account, which was collecting dust. You can now incorporate your Amazon ID and a new pay per click service. Interesting... I like the new "feeds" component. Have a look for yourself!

In other news, I am almost on vacation. Are you happy for me? This concludes my rant for the day!]]> RSS 2.0 Generator Beta! I'm still having some issues installing from FireFox so you may have to use Internet Explorer. (While on the subject of IE, do you know the difference between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer? You should!)

Last night was a lazy night for us, we went for a walk down to pond in our neighborhood and I had a chat with our neighbor Dennis about the music. It's not so much the level of music that bugs as much as the bass. But he was pretty cool about it, I'm glad I talked him rather then going to the condo board first. He gave me his # and told me to give him a call if it ever gets to loud. Thanks Mr. Dennis!

The walk around the neighborhood was nice. It was actually more like walking through construction/farm land. We walked a path that was basically dividing the two scenes. I can't imagine what it will look like in a few years. Maybe by then it will feel more like home. It still just feels like I'm living somewhere for a while before returning back home. I do miss my old neighborhood, I grew up there, everyone I know is there and it's really only 20 minutes away.
I'm sure I will grow up.

The baby is kicking more often now, it's pretty cool. It's almost the same feeling as putting your hand over your heart after a work out and feeling your heart beat. Only it's not consistent, you lay your hand down on the tummy and wait... and all of a sudden *kick*.

That's all for today, I'm getting excited about our trip to Georgian Bay, Ontario. Maybe I'll see a rattle snake ... oooooh, ahhhh..! Have a great day!]]>
So after work yesterday, Alli and I stopped by her dads house to configure his new wireless router. Oh yeah... I really "want" a laptop, now. But I really don't "need" one. We had Chinese food for dinner, Mmmm... Ginger chicken, chicken fried rice, mixed veggies in black bean sauce, noodles. I'm forming drool at my mouth!

We spent quite a bit of time in the baby's room last night. Imagining, talking, laughing... We've got the crib, change table, stroller, car seat set up in the room. And a bassinet in our room. We've got some clothes, and sheets. Pretty excited...

Have a great day!]]>
I had a pretty good weekend, although I think I'm addicted to MTV2. There's nothing but garbage on that channel but I can't stop watching it. "Sweet 16", "Cheyanne", "Kept", "The Hills", "Pimp my Ride", the list goes on. I'm surprised that it's a free channel.

Saturday night we watched "Natural Born Killers." Allison had never seen it before, I think she had the same reaction I did when I first saw it. "Huh? That was weird!?" Sunday I put together the change table, damn drawers. I find that no matter what I put together I always find one extra piece at the end that requires me to disassemble the project and start over. Ay yay yay....

I also felt our baby kicking for the first time on Saturday night. What a cool thing! Alli's now in to week 23, the books say baby is about 1 lbs and 20 cm crown to rump. Baby's growing...! It's such a crazy thing to describe, placing my hand on Alli's belly and feeling something from inside give my hand a little kick. "Would you guys be quiet out there I'm trying to sleep!? Geez" - baby!

I wrote a little utility in C to generate an RSS 2.0 file for me. It's pretty cool... I also started playing with Windows FTP DOS program and started building an interface for it in c#. Pretty cool... This Saturday we leave for Ontario for a week. We'll be out at Allison's grandfathers cottage surrounded by mother nature. So no computers for this guy, I'm going through withdrawal already, unfortunately.

That's it for today.. Have a good one!]]>
well I learned about an interesting bug in notepad not to long ago. Try this:
1. click on start -> run
2. type notepad
3. type in this exact phrase without the quotes --> "this app can break"
4. click on "File" -> "Save As"
5. In the file name textbox save as whatever you want.
6. In the "Save as type:" drop down list, select "Text Documents (*.txt)
7. close the document.
8. Re-open the document in notepad and see what happens....

I found a new search engine not to long ago, I think it's pretty cool. You can find it at http://www.snap.com The interface i think looks really good, but the search results aren't that great. Give it a try!

Another cool web application is Ta-da list. You can find this guy at "tadalist.com"

Enjoy! Have a great day!]]>
Anyways, it seems that I've been really tired lately. I had a nap after dinner then went to bed early. I think I'm almost caught up with my lack of sleep. It's been nice being able to come home after work and plop on the couch. Ahhh... yes freedom!

That's all for today! Who only has 8 days of work before leaving on vacation and has two thumbs? This guy!]]>
Yesterday at the end of my day at work our office had a power outage. It knocked off power to our entire building, later I found out this was a city wide problem. Apparently Alberta's power consumption was just to high, so someone had to pull the plug. This caused a lot of traffic problems with blinking lights but I made it home pretty quickly.

So day one of study boot camp didn't go so well. I spent most of the evening trying to stay awake. At least dinner was really good, and for dessert we had apple crisp. Mmm.... oh so crispy!

Have a great day!]]> Bryce]]>
Saturday, I got up nice and early to do some more review before writing the final for my Comptia A+ course. I ended up getting 111/133 = 83% on the test and a 90% in the course. When I got home from class I started making ethernet cables using the cable my manager, Mr. Darryl gave me. I managed to get that all wrapped up this weekend including the wire in my master panel in the basement. Suhweet! Making cables is fun...

Saturday night Alli and I picked up some pizza from Papa Johns and watched Office Space and 16 Blocks. Both were good movies. I've seen Office Space before and it makes me laugh every time I see it. 16 Blocks was a new release we found at Blockbuster starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def. We were surprised we never heard about it before, but it was really good. Mos Def is a pretty good actor.

Sunday we got up bright and early and did a lot of work around the house. I finished the cabling in the basement, Allison cleared out the former guest room which we are turning into the baby room. We ciphened the water out of the water bed which took a lot of work. We took apart the rest of the water bed and tossed it in the dumpster, and we spent an hour and a half at the grocery store. We didn't get to the change table done, hopefully sometime this week.

Allison says she can feel the baby moving around a lot more now. I haven't been able to feel the little guy/gal yet. Hopefully soon! We are now in week 22 of 40. Almost there...

Have a great day!]]>
And in other news... It's Friday! Have a great weekend!]]>
This weekend I'm planning on finishing the wiring in our home, putting together the change table and maybe going to a move. The new "Pirates of the Caribbean" I think... yup yup.

I think that's all folks. Have a great day!]]>
It seems as though my server has been knocked offline today, all the clocks in the house were flashing which tells me we had a power outage last night. With all the moving and juggling of my network at home I didn't plug my server into any sort of surge protector, I sure hope it's not dead. *sigh* Right now I have it re-directing to a backup site. Dang....

Well, it's Wednesday. I've got a couple of weeks before going away for a week, which also means I've got a couple of weeks to book an appointment to write the Comptia A+ exams. I better get crackin'...

Have a good day!]]>
Back to reality, I got to thinking last night and I realized that I almost have enough spare parts to build a new PC. I just need a motherboard. I've got a p4 chip, stick of 256MB ram, case, 300 W power supply, monitor, cd rom drive. Hmmm... perhaps!

The Dr's appointment was pretty quick. Alli's regular doc was on holidays so she saw another one. He just checked some vital signs told her about the results of the ultra sound and we were on our way. Funny how a 20 minute appointment took up 2 hours out of my afternoon at work. But I like being there for all the appointments.

Anyways... that's all i got for today. Tonight's a school night so I dont think I'll have very much exciting news tomorrow.]]>
Our weekend was pretty good, we watched a couple of movies including "Last Holiday" with Queen Latifah and LL Cool J, and Dave Chappelle's Block party. I managed to install face plates with rj45 connectors just where I wanted them. I moved my server to the basement, and 2 routers and a switch. I had to contact shaw to receive a second IP address. It seems as though there's quite the lengthy manual process to get a 2nd IP, even if it says you should be receiving 2 IP's when you log into http://members.shaw.ca you still have to call and have them manually assign you a second one. Hmm...

Now I have to networks at home each with it's own public WAN IP address. One network dedicated to VOIP traffic and the other to xbox, and my other machines. I installed a 2nd nic in my server so I can load balance it between the two networks. I also managed to Low Level Format a failed Maxtor Drive I had. It's back to a usable state so i popped that sucker in my server. I swapped our modem for one of the newer Motorola ones at Shaw. What else.... oh yes I put together the crib! I think I still need to pamper wifey though....

Last night we went for ice cream at "My favorite Ice Cream Shop". Yeah, that's the name it's in Marda Loop. I had a tiny cone with a lot of ice cream. In fact so much ice cream that the cone broke in my hands leaving 2 handfuls of ice cream for me to munch down quickly. Damn cones...!

If you're at all a fan of Picasa by Google I found a cool plugin that allows you to create an album using AJAX or Flash. You can find it at Agile Gallery! It's also free!

Today I'm taking Allison to the doctor, I expect that she'll be scheduled in for an ultra sound in the next week or so. Which means we may be able to find out the gender of our baby soon. Lately kiddo's been moving around a lot lately, I can't feel it yet but Alli sure can. Baby's about the size of a banana right now according to the baby books. So baby's name is "Chikita" this week. hehe...

That's all from mo-town! Oh Big Brother's baby with season 7 All Stars. Damn you chill town! Have a great day!]]>
So last night in class my buddy Jason asked me... "so what do you think about what's going on?" I replied "what do you mean? What's going on?" Oh boy... Since cutting off cable I have no idea about what's going on in the world. Apparently, there's an unofficial war going on the world and I had no idea. That is a scary thought... I read some news articles online, and all I can say is .... *shake my head*! The UN is useless...

In other news CHUM has taken over a bunch of TV stations and have been cleaning house apparently. One of the girls at Alli's work lost her full time job at City TV. I'll have to do some more reading on that one... Until Monday. Have a good weekend!
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Last night we decided to re-arrange our living room. Why?! Well we needed a little change and Alli found a coffee table that she likes so we're trying to find different ways we can lay our the room so that it's not as congested.

The day before yesterday Alli made some banana bread. Mmmm.... It's so good. If I could just have some right now. Speaking of food today is our Data Shapers stampede BBQ at lunch. BBQ is good!

Alli got a bit of helpful advice the other day. It makes sense, if people ask you what you're going to name the baby, don't tell them. Everyone has some sort of comment and you're really not going to want to hear it. So true...

As for me, that's all I got today! Have a good one...

P.S. Thanks for the reading material Jen. Allison really enjoyed The girlfriends guide and she's liking what to expect when you're expecting. A little tidbit for you the author of the girlfriends guide is the wife of Jimmy Iovine, the producer of the "Get Rich or Die Trying" movie. And a hot shot in the rap industry. Ask Dr. Dre! hehe...]]> Jenn]]>
Good Luck!

Jenn]]> Jenn]]>
K enough babbling....

Jenn]]>
We spent some time working on names earlier in her pregnancy but i think we've decided to put it on hold until we know if its a boy or girl. We have a general list of names and we're prepared for whomever shows up in late November.

According to the Chinese calendar our baby will be born in the year of the dog. Uh huh... Loyal and quick to learn, that's right!

Ok so last night was a study night for myself, another test today in class after work. I'm really glad this class is ending soon and even better we're going on vacation in less than 4 weeks. This time we're off to Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. To visit Alli's grampa at his cottage. Should be fun.

Some things I need to do this weekend are:
- study
- install rj45 outlets and face plates throughout house.
- put together crib
- put together change table
- finish website
- pamper wife
- sleep...

Have a good day!]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]> Darryl]]>
I rebuilt my machine Saturday night, then while playing with the TV we found that we had about 10 or so free channels. Weird... we picked up a station from Red Deer, MTV2, Much More Music, CTV News Net and a couple of other ones. Wow we were pretty excited when we found out.

Also on Saturday I contacted Shaw to find out why our internet connection had been so slow lately. The guy that helped me out from Shaw was named Jay. He was really, really helpful and with his help we were able to bump my download speed from 2.1 Mbps to 4-5 Mbps. I even asked him a few questions about 3Web and he said it was a good service. The main difference is that Shaw offers 24/7 technical service whereas they only offer monday to friday 9 - 5 type service. Another thing I liked is how Shaw is offering a QOS service for VOIP customers. I don't know how much it could really boost your VOIP performance but I like that Shaw is trying to work with VOIP rather then block it.

Sunday, I walked to the store and picked up a few things. It was nice to get out and get some air. But I spent most of my day reading and studying for class. Next Saturday is my last class, woo hooo. Which means I better finish up the book and begin review if I want to take the Comptia A+ certification test right away.

Anyways, life is good! And in other good news, Allison can feel baby in her tummy, we go to the doctor next Monday and I found dead end Cat5 cables wired to each of the coaxial cable outlets. That's where they wired it to... dang why didn't I look there earlier! Have a good day!]]> Lion King Stampede
Good Morning! Today is sneak a peek night at the Calgary Stampede. For the next 10 days you will find lots of horses, hay and cowboy hats in the city of Calgary. Oh did I mention pancake breakfasts? Joy!

Well I'm feeling a little sniffly this morning. I had the toughest time getting to sleep again last night. After dinner Alli and I hopped on the couch and read. I finished about 2 pages then I fell asleep with the book standing up on my chest. Allison laughed! I woke up about 40 minutes later and decided it was time for me to go to bed. When I got to bed, I could not go back to sleep. I think I fell asleep around 11:30pm. Yes I like to talk about my sleeping habits...

Tonight is another school night for this guy. Only 3 weeks left in this class, which means I've got lots of review to do if I'm going to take the Comptia A+ exam. Lots and lots of review!

My tummy hurts... have a good day!]]>
Our neighbors were tormenting us again last night. They had their music up nice and load up until shortly after 11pm. Needless to say we didn't get to sleep before 11. Damn those neighbors! That's ok because in less than 5 months we'll torment them with the loud cries of a child. *buah hahah i'm so evil!*

When I came home from class last night I walked in to our living room which has now become a storage closet for all our baby stuff. Auntie Lisa bought a bassinet for kiddo. Thanks auntie Lisa! Our inventory for baby now includes...
- Crib with mattress
- Matching change table
- 4 in 1 stroller/carrier/car seat
- bassinet with stand
- linens
- cap
- diaper dispenser
- bath tub

I think we're in pretty good shape so far. Now we just need baby! Allison's next doctors appointment is booked for July. 17 at 2:00pm. These mid morning, mid afternoon appointments are a little tough to work around. Lucky for me my job has been pretty accommodating so far.

So I have not mentioned world cup, at all so far. Hmm... odd don't you think how it's a huge thing to the rest of the world but not here. Italy is moving on to the final this Sunday and even though I have not seen a single game I predict France defeating Portugal today to advance to the final to face Italy. Have a great day!]]>
There was no school this Saturday for myself so I got a lot of studying done this weekend. Tonight we write another test. Yesterday we picked up some goodies from Kac'z Kids at deerfoot mall. A brand spanking new crib and mattress courtesy of Alli's dad. Then we picked up the matching change table and a quattro 4 in 1 stroller/car seat. Alli put the stroller together yesterday and it looks rugged man. It's weird how we're starting to notice things we never noticed before like different kids stores and what types of strollers and equipment other people are using. I can't wait to test out our rugged manly SUV tough stroller. *Insert manly Tim the toolman Taylor grown here*

On Sunday we had dinner at Alli's dads then we watched "Silent Hill." This was a movie made based on the video game. I remember playing the game in high school and thought it was to scary to continue playing. It was so darn scary I tell ya. The movie wasn't as scary, and the ending kind of left more questions then answers. I don't get it.

On Saturday Alli, her mom and I went and saw "The Devil Wears Prada." I was totally dragged to this movie really, it wasn't my idea to go. Really!! Fine it was! It was pretty good. Merryl Streep did an awesome job and I did a good job of guessing Anne Hathaway's name. Yup, we couldn't figure out what that actresses name was so I decided to give her a made up name. "Anne Hathaway." Turns out that is her name, so I must have heard it somewhere and stored the info subconsciously. I am strange...

Alli's really liking this book we borrowed from my managers wife Jen. It's called the girlfriends guide to pregnancy, or something like that. Anyways, I heard Allison giggling a lot this weekend. Then I heard a lot of "That's totally us... Isn't is mO?!!". Oh boy... oh boy!

Well we're only 5 weeks away from going to Alli's grampa's cottage in Ontario. She's wanted me to see his cottage for quite some time now. I must say I am getting a little excited. We'll be able to sit back and reflect and look forward to what's to come. Ahh yes... I can picture it now... there I am sitting in a beach chair out on the dock, staring out at the water in the hot, hot, hot sun.

That's enough ranting for today. Thanks for all the great advice by the way.]]>
Yesterday was another busy day with school and work. I plan to take advantage of the long weekend by catching up on school work and getting some rest.

According the Vibe morning show survey says question of the day... 56% of women go out and pick up men on long weekends. Hide your children boys... they're on the prowl!

So Alli and I are having a bit of trouble trying to figure out what baby furniture goes in the "Must have" column and what goes in the "Nice to have" column. Where do things like a change table, and dresser fit in to. What items did you find important that most new parents don't think about?

So far we need a...



  • crib

  • car seat

  • stroller

  • change table

  • dresser


All suggestions are greatly appreciated! Have a great weekend!]]> Jenn]]>
also you can double the dresser and the change table by buying a mat for the top of a dresser. Or just change the baby on the floor. Ask Kristine, sometimes there are too many stairs.

have fun shopping]]> Jenn]]> Darryl]]> Anonymous]]>
Also, to save money for a dresser, we just use the closet. We bought the 15$ storage saver thingys at ikea and I use that to place Micah's clothes/toys/etc.

You might want to check out Jysk as well as they have handy little compartments for clothes/diapers and you can move them around too because of the wheels. Ask Angele, she went and bought another one with me. It is such a life saver because we have four levels and I just placed one in the kitchen so I don't have to keep on going up and down the stairs. (damn those stairs!)

As for a change table, I just change Micah on the floor...it is by far the safest place to do it (or in the middle of the bed as well) as long as you have a change mat, you're good to go.

Also, tell Alli if she ever starts going to Thyme Maternity to get some clothes, tell her to fill in the info that they always ask her to fill and Mark 'yes' to the nestle sending you stuff coz they do send you stuff that you need. I got a baby backpack filled with stuff from them.

As for important things, the stroller/car seat is very important...I have one and you just click it and go. Very very handy.

Anyway, blah blah blah...sorry, I am such a new mom :)

Kristine

P.S.

Good for you for going to school now - - you won't have time once the baby is out.]]> Mark Eshpeter]]>
We had all sorts of appetizers to try. For dinner I had a lamb souvlakia, it was pretty darn good. Alli's dad was telling us about how a major in the army who helped him discover the restaurant. Just a few minutes after telling the story in walks Major Mike. I think Alli's dad was quite happy to see him. We heard a lot of bratty army stories after that.

Alli's grandmother came down for dinner as well so she got to hear the big news. Alli handed her the images from the ultrasound and they both started to cry. Ahhhh... geez!

After dinner went back to Alli's dads place for a little homemade birthday carrot cake. It was really, really good. It's to bad I was to full to enjoy more. But I could really go for more right about now...

Tonight I have class so I expect to be pretty tired when I get home tonight. Only about 4 or 5 weeks left to go. That's all for now... have a great day!]]>
My basement bedrooms were always nice and cool in the summer making it easy to get to sleep. As soon as I walk up the stairs I break a sweat, but it's all good!

So yesterday we went for an ultra sound. We got to see "baby" moving around and hiccuping. We saw 4 fingers, the thumb wasnt visible. We saw it's little skull and feet. We saw the heart, and brain. Man it was cool. The heart rate was at 154 BPM. The nurse said for them any where in between 120 and 180 is a good heart rate, but Alli's doctor said 120 and 160. Either way we seem to be ok. Right now "baby" is 200 grams so we couldn't tell the gender as of yet. But we did find out that Allison is actually further along then we expected.

She is not 11 weeks but rather 18 weeks 3 days. *Well today its 4 days I guess!* Which means that "baby" has been to Barbados!

We get to go back for another ultra sound in 2 to 3 weeks where we might then get to find out the gender. Until then we have got some shopping to do!]]> Anonymous]]> I am so happy for you guys.

Hey, you're past the first trimester which is great...hey, if Allison needs anything at all or has questions about pregnancy and stuff, I'm happy to help out :)

Kristine]]>
I guess that's one of the perks of having a pet, he woke up when he saw that I woke up. In fact I wonder if he sleeps at night or during the day. Anyways it was nice to have a little company at 4 am.

At 5am I went back to bed and laid there for about 40 minutes. I finally fell asleep just in time to have my alarm wake me up 20 minutes later. *sigh* I think I could be borderline grumpy today. Beware!

I am really looking forward to the long weekend. I could use the break to just get back in to my regular routine. Catch up on some reading for school and have some down time to reflect.

At 10:30am Alli and I are going for the ultra sound. I know she's really excited, I'm not sure how I feel. I think I should be more excited but I'm not sure if it's all completely sunk in for me yet. I think it has. Hearing the heart beat definitely put things into perspective.

Anyways, I can't wait for the ultra sound. Should I have packed a video camera? What am I forgetting? Ahhh ... geez have a good day!]]>
Yesterday, I went to Theatre Calgary with Mr. Cal to watch his daughters dance recital thingy-ma-bob! It was pretty cool... there were all sorts of little kids there ranging from 3 - 20. All together there were about 10 - 12, 5 minute dance performances. There were different types of dances like tap, ballet, musical theatre, jazz and hip hop.

It was fun to watch the kids all dolled up in makeup with huge grins on their faces as they bumped into each other on stage. I just hoping no one stepped on another kids feet but they were all very good... Miss Brittany especially!

Saturday, another regular day of classes. Except that I stayed up the night before until 1:30am studying. *sigh*

Friday, was pretty fun we went to RCGA for our company golf tournament. It was my first time golfing and I enjoyed it. I accidentally hit a goose with my first swing, I felt kind of bad. Until they started hissing at me... They're scary creatures. I even managed to do my best Happy Gilmore impersonation by stepping into the ball as I swung. Yup.. yup.. .Good times!

Allison picked up a few things for the baby on the way. She got a Winnie the Poo crib set, which could work for either a boy or girl, and a baby cap with some ducks on it. Pretty cute stuff...

I think we both can't wait until tomorrow for the ultrasound. We were up late talking last night as usual... Lots and lots of thoughts running through our heads. My main concern right now is getting Allison to stop working at the bar as soon as possible. She spent a little bit of time looking at labor laws and trying to understand the regulations of maternity leave. But I don't want her to continue to work there just long enough to get mat leave. I would much rather have a healthy child and have to struggle for money then risk the chance of having an unhealthy kid. Not to mention its a lot of work carrying a kid in your tummy while serving drinks.

The drive in to work was super quick this morning so maybe I'll get an early start. Have a great day peoples!]]> Darryl]]>
The waiting room was full of mom's and expecting moms. There were lots of kids playing with toys crying, crawling. I was a little nervous being around so many kids. Usually, when I'm in the waiting room at my Dr's office it's very quiet. Most of his patients seem to be the elderly...

One of the little girls in the waiting room kept crawling towards me and smiling. I couldn't NOT smile she was pretty cute. I think her name was Shyan. After waiting for about 20 - 30 mins a nurse came to the waiting room and said "MO!?". I replied "yeah!?". She asked "Do you want to hear your baby's heartbeat?"

I jumped up and followed her to the room Allison was in. She was laying on her back with a white sheet over her lower body and a green gown. On her tummy was shiny goo spread evenly. The nurse was talking, but I don't remember a word she said. All I remember was when she took this little device and started rubbing it across Alli's abdomen I heart... "thump thump... thump thump..." My jaw dropped. 154... 155... 154 BPM was what the device read. I could hear our baby's heart beat. *I'm still grinning!*

Next Dr. Spence came in and examined Allison. She and the nurse hmmm and hawed back and forth ... saying something about 18" inches. Next she asked how sure are we about the date of your last period? Huh?

She said that 1 of 3 things is happening...
1. Allison has a growth on her uterus which she said is not harmful and is common.
2. Allison is carrying twins.... *ahhhh...*
3. Allison is not 11 weeks pregnant and maybe closer to 18-22 weeks.

Either way she says we need to do an ultra sound right away to find out. She had her staff contact different clinics in Calgary to see which could get us in for an ultra sound as soon as possible. Our 11 week old lime may actually be an 18 week grapefruit.

10:30 am Tuesday, June 27. 2006. I may get to find out if it's a boy or girl... We're having a baby! *You can all stop wondering now... hehe!*]]> Jenn]]>
YEAH!!!

Jenn]]> Jenn]]>
Good luck, I'm sure you will both be such good parents!

Jenn]]>
Last night I had some studying to do. We've got another test this Saturday, and on Friday I get to go for my first golf experience with my company. So I wont have much time left to study. So I got about 3/4 of the way through the first chapter I wanted to study when... I fell asleep! Yup!

You see, I like to study on the floor. I always have, I lay down in front of the TV with my book in front of me, a pen in my hand and my notebook. I guess I was super tired because I laid my head down for a minute and slept for a good 3 hours. When I did wake up I didn't want to get up, I had to peel myself off the floor. Oh boy, did I need the nap.

Of course, when I did end up going to bed I couldn't fall asleep. Sheesh, but that's ok I think the nap made up for the time I lost and now I'm feeling pretty good.

Tonight is the NHL awards. I would like to see it, but to bad I have school tonight. *sigh* But I'm sure Kipper and Phaneuf will win in their respective categories. If you can, you should watch it. That Ron Maclean cracks me up! Have a great day!]]> Kristine]]>
Last night was a school night for me. It was a pretty cool class too, I now have a better understanding of domain controllers. Now if I can find some time to play at home that would be great.

On the radio this morning they said that today is the longest day of the year. Which is good because I don't have work or school tonight. Yay! Although, that also means that after today all the days will start to get shorter. As long as we get sunshine I'll be happy!

It's the middle of the week, and only a few weeks away from the long weekend. Which reminds me I need to book off a week from work in August. We're going to Allison's grandfathers cottage in Ontario, on Georgian bay.

Until tomorrow, have a great day!]]>
Well, Carolina won the Stanley cup last night. It was a good game but Carolina definitely wanted to win. Man it's hot in the office today... I wonder if the air conditioning is broken. Back to what I was saying, Edmonton played great and did an awesome job to force the finals to game 7. Great job guys... but I guess Calgary and Edmonton now have something in common. I guess winning of losing the cup had nothing to do with touching the western conference trophy. Jarome Iginla touched it but Jason Smith did not. In the end the eastern conference won it again. *sigh*

As for me, now I can focus on school and other projects I'm working on. So I guess it's a good thing. Oh... and hopefully the Heat win tonight. To bad I'll be in class... *Zzzz...*

Have a great day!]]>
Tonight is game 7 of the Stanley cup finals. Edmonton vs. Carolina. I can't believe that Edmonton was down 2 - 0 then 3 -1, then 3-2 and are still in this. I hope I'm wrong. I would like to see the Oilers win.

On Saturday we had another test at school. I managed to pull out an 86% after studying late the night before. I later found out that 3 of the people in the class had all the questions with answer with them. They were memorizing all the answers. Damn them... but now they hooked me up!

I'm hoping this Monday goes smooth...]]>




Just as I promised, pictures of the lake in front of our house....]]>
As for the hockey game... I watched it and boy am I glad that I did. What a game... Edmonton won in overtime while on a penalty kill. I sure hope this is the momentum shift that Edmonton needs. Oh boy oh boy...

As for me... I'm a little tired. I think tomorrow I will get up at 7am instead of 6am. Last time I did that I left the house at 8am and made it in to work at 8:15am. I wonder Deerfoot will be dead at that time again. Either way I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning...

Have a great day!]]>
Anyways, it's a super wet Wednesday here in Calgary. I woke up and looked out the window to find a lake in the parking lot. It was interesting driving through a lake, I've never done that before. So now right behind our parking stall we have a lake, a dumpster, 2 forklifts and 5 trees. Someone really doesn't like us, every day it seems like people seem to be dumping more stuff right behind our stall. The good news is, no one else around us can fit their cars in their stalls so we've got 2 empty stalls on both sides of us. It sure helps to have a tiny car!

This morning I managed to get a rock chip in the windshield. I shouldn't be surprised, it happens all the time on Deerfoot, but either way I'm still a little upset by it. Now all I want to do is go get it repaired.

School was ok last night, but it feels like this whole week has just mashed together into one long day. I think I want to stay home tonight... Forget about the hockey game, I need some down time. That sounds strange doesn't it. Well in order for us to watch hockey we have to go to Allison's dads house, which isn't to far away from us. But tonight I just want to stay home. I've got studying to do anyways. Good luck Oilers!

That concludes this post. Have a great day!]]>
Anyways, it's a super wet Wednesday here in Calgary. I woke up and looked out the window to find a lake in the parking lot. It was interesting driving through a lake, I've never done that before. So now right behind our parking stall we have a lake, a dumpster, 2 forklifts and 5 trees. Someone really doesn't like us, every day it seems like people seem to be dumping more stuff right behind our stall. The good news is, no one else around us can fit their cars in their stalls so we've got 2 empty stalls on both sides of us. It sure helps to have a tiny car!

This morning I managed to get a rock chip in the windshield. I shouldn't be surprised, it happens all the time on Deerfoot, but either way I'm still a little upset by it. Now all I want to do is go get it repaired.

School was ok last night, but it feels like this whole week has just mashed together into one long day. I think I want to stay home tonight... Forget about the hockey game, I need some down time. That sounds strange doesn't it. Well in order for us to watch hockey we have to go to Allison's dads house, which isn't to far away from us. But tonight I just want to stay home. I've got studying to do anyways. Good luck Oilers!

That concludes this post. Have a great day!]]>
Anyways, it's a super wet Wednesday here in Calgary. I woke up and looked out the window to find a lake in the parking lot. It was interesting driving through a lake, I've never done that before. So now right behind our parking stall we have a lake, a dumpster, 2 forklifts and 5 trees. Someone really doesn't like us, every day it seems like people seem to be dumping more stuff right behind our stall. The good news is, no one else around us can fit their cars in their stalls so we've got 2 empty stalls on both sides of us. It sure helps to have a tiny car!

This morning I managed to get a rock chip in the windshield. I shouldn't be surprised, it happens all the time on Deerfoot, but either way I'm still a little upset by it. Now all I want to do is go get it repaired.

School was ok last night, but it feels like this whole week has just mashed together into one long day. I think I want to stay home tonight... Forget about the hockey game, I need some down time. That sounds strange doesn't it. Well in order for us to watch hockey we have to go to Allison's dads house, which isn't to far away from us. But tonight I just want to stay home. I've got studying to do anyways. Good luck Oilers!

That concludes this post. Have a great day!]]>
Anyways, it's a super wet Wednesday here in Calgary. I woke up and looked out the window to find a lake in the parking lot. It was interesting driving through a lake, I've never done that before. So now right behind our parking stall we have a lake, a dumpster, 2 forklifts and 5 trees. Someone really doesn't like us, every day it seems like people seem to be dumping more stuff right behind our stall. The good news is, no one else around us can fit their cars in their stalls so we've got 2 empty stalls on both sides of us. It sure helps to have a tiny car!

This morning I managed to get a rock chip in the windshield. I shouldn't be surprised, it happens all the time on Deerfoot, but either way I'm still a little upset by it. Now all I want to do is go get it repaired.

School was ok last night, but it feels like this whole week has just mashed together into one long day. I think I want to stay home tonight... Forget about the hockey game, I need some down time. That sounds strange doesn't it. Well in order for us to watch hockey we have to go to Allison's dads house, which isn't to far away from us. But tonight I just want to stay home. I've got studying to do anyways. Good luck Oilers!

That concludes this post. Have a great day!]]>
On Saturday night we watched the hockey game. Edmonton beat Carolina by a score of 2 -1 and the series is now at 2 games to 1. Tonight is game 4 in Edmonton.

Sunday, we had brunch at Ricky's. I tried the new BBQ breakkie bowl, it was ok but sure doesn't compare to the Sunshine breakkie bowl. Please bring back the Sunshine breakkie bowl!

Then we watched the original 1976 version of "The Omen." What a freaky movie... After that we watched "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle." Mmmm...

I've only got 6 more weeks of school left then things can go back to normal. Yay! Have a good day!]]>
On Saturday night we watched the hockey game. Edmonton beat Carolina by a score of 2 -1 and the series is now at 2 games to 1. Tonight is game 4 in Edmonton.

Sunday, we had brunch at Ricky's. I tried the new BBQ breakkie bowl, it was ok but sure doesn't compare to the Sunshine breakkie bowl. Please bring back the Sunshine breakkie bowl!

Then we watched the original 1976 version of "The Omen." What a freaky movie... After that we watched "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle." Mmmm...

I've only got 6 more weeks of school left then things can go back to normal. Yay! Have a good day!]]>
As for tonight, I hope to have a relaxing evening at home. There's still lots to do this weekend, but for tonight I would like to have a nap on the couch and maybe go for a walk. I think I'm finally starting to get used to our new neighborhood. Although, I'm not really excited about the placement of the dumpster behind our parking stall. But with our little car it's not a big deal maneuvering around it.

It's a rainy Friday, so pick up a movie and just relax! Have a good weekend!]]> Anonymous]]>
Great Job on the website!!!!
I'm proud of you :) hope Jeremy didn't boss you around too much like he did to me.

Kristine]]>
Well the Oilers got smoked last night, by a score of 5 to 0. I don't think goaltending was the problem for Edmonton last night. Markkanen played decent. Edmonton was just not able to capitalize on several golden opportunities. We'll see what happens on Saturday in Edmonton.

So lately I'm finding that I'm having a lot of trouble getting to sleep before 11pm. Although, I feel like I could just fall asleep at different points throughout the day. So when I hit the hay at 9:30 or 10pm why can't I fall asleep?

There are a few movies that I would like to go see right now. First is the remake of "The Omen", second is "The Davinci Code." third.... oh shoot what was third?

Well that's all for today, have a good one!]]> Yesterday I got a raise at work. Sweeeet! That is effective April 1st. So I got a few extra bucks tossed into the bank account. When I came home school last night I found another letter from Condominium First, our condo management company. They say we owe money. I'm getting tired of this nonsense, ML Fitzgerald doesn't return my calls and we signed up for pre-authorized payments which have been coming out of our account. I don't know what's going on over there but I'm truly not impressed!
And in other news... I had a good day on 666 day. Does that mean that I'm evil?Have a good day!]]>
So I heard an interesting statistic on the radio yesterday. Apparently, Calgary is about the same size of New York City but with 1/10 the population. Wow... Could you imagine 10 million people jammed into Calgary? Imagine driving on deerfoot with 10 million people. Yuck!

Last night was a sad night for Edmonton Oilers fans. It was an exciting game to watch but the ending was painful to see. Goalie Dwayne Roloson is apparently out for the rest of the playoffs. I guess that leaves things to Ty Conklin and Markkanen. Oh boy... Carolina came back to beat the oilers by a score of 5 - 4 after being down 3 - 0.

And in other news... I'm tired! Have a good day!]]>
Yesterday was a long day for myself. After yesterday's post I couldn't get back to sleep. So at 5am I went and ran on the elliptical machine for a while. At around 6am I cooked up some hashbrowns for breakfast and had a shower. At 7 I played with our bunny for quite a while. I think he was pretty excited to see me up so early. From about 8am to 10ish I played "The Godfather" video game on xbox and beat the game. By around 10am I was so wiped out I passed out on the couch. Then... the phone started ringing... over and over and over.

Allison didn't get home from work until about 3am the night before so she didn't get much sleep either with the 10:30 am phone calls. I have never met such a clingy boyfriend before but this Mr. Paul guy started to annoy me and I had never met him before.

At around 12:30am Allison, Lisa, Shawna, Jenna and I went to Ricky's for breakfast. Had I known I was going to be the only guy I probably wouldn't have gone. I thought Allison's dad was going. Well the meal was good, and the service was good as usual. I had my regular "Chorizo Breakky Bowl".

Jenna and Lisa went to Banff, Allison and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. At 4:30am we left to drop Allison off at work then I went to visit my friend Kevin.

Kevin and I went and saw the movie "X-men III" which was pretty good. I had not seen any of the other x-men movies but this one was pretty good. Wolverine's my hero!

Afterwards, I dropped Kevin off at his place and I went home. I got home around 9:15 and called Allison at work. She told me that Jenna and Lisa were coming to get changed so they could go out. *Not again?!*

I waited for Jenna, and she arrived shortly after 10pm. She came in and said she had 6 minutes to go get changed and ran upstairs. *Well it's nice to see you too!* I waited downstairs so I lock the door after her. She came down and I said "If you're going to be out past midnight, do not come back here." She got upset, and said she did not want to make us upset. "I replied I'm not upset, have a good night!" I think she might have begun to cry as she walked out the door. Oh boy... now I feel like a jerk although I don't know what I did.

I didn't expect her to start crying. I just needed some sleep, so I laid down the law. She's more then welcome to stay at our home, but I can't allow it to be used as a motel. We are both working people and don't have the time and energy to deal with 4am commotion.

Needless to say I got little sleep. I was up for a few hours thinking back about everything. Am I doing the wrong thing? Did I over react? Was I mean? The answer to all my questions were no (except writing the last 2 blog entries is probably not a good thing!). I was fair and more than reasonable. Finally I slept... Parenting must be exhausting! Respect!]]>
Allison's cousin Jenna, seems to be a super smart girl. She was accepted into several universities and had enough options to be able to choose what she wanted to do with her life. She seems to be making those decisions very well at home. That same decision making power may not be exercised here however.

I remember being a "bad" teenager. I never followed a curfew, I had little respect for parents and authority. My mother always told me that I would get it 10 times worse then I give it. Which makes me fear ever having a child.

About 45 minutes ago, my home woke up to a bunch of commotion. Allison's sister Lisa, pulled up to our house at 4am with her boyfriend and a very drunk cousin. It probably wouldn't be very nice of me to into details but it was kind of funny. She seemed to have lost a shoe, and needed some help getting to the door. I imagine I'm going to be a little afraid to use the bathroom in the morning.

In the history of Mo, I can think of only one time where I came home that drunk. It was more then enough to teach me about my limits with alcohol. It's a bit of a funny story now, I woke up on my front lawn... I'm just glad it didn't rain.

Respect is fundamental if you're going to get a long with me. If you don't show you, you don't get it.

It's only been a couple nights with a house guest, and so far I've been awakened in the middle of the night twice because of it. I realize that I sound like a bit of a prude, but this is not my lifestyle any more. I have no problems with people drinking, partying and staying out late. But don't bring me into the party, I'm not interested.

I would like to thank Lisa for driving Jenna's boyfriend to his hotel late night, two nights in a row. I would not like to think about what kind of fury I might unleash if I found a strange man in my house using it as a hotel.

Respect is earned, granted! But if you're a guest in our home, I have 3 simple rules. Respect me, Respect my home and respect my family!

With that said I'm going to try to get some more sleep. Hopefully, I will be a little more pleasant in the morning. And for some positive news, I got 84% on my A+ quizk earlier today. I can do better, but it was a good start. I'm out...

Jenna if you happen to read this... you're a cool cat. You're friendly, you seem to have a good head on your shoulders, but uhhh... maybe next time you should stay in a motel. Not "mO-tel"!

Note to self, get sterilized!]]>
Afterwards, we had a quick dinner then I spent some more time on the DS site to make some more changes. It's to bad I can't connect to home right now, so I can't get the latest until I can do so. *awww shucks!*

At around 8:30pm we went over to help Allison's mom, move into their new place. They only had a few items left to move but that took a couple of hours. A mattress, a desk, an entertainment center, some clothes and boxes. Managed to jump in bed at 11pm.

My resolution for this weekend is go get more sleep. Hopefully, I wont be as cranky next week. Until then... have a good day!]]> Jenn]]>
Which know leads me back to my previous comment of wanting to go back to school. This soon to be non-existent 2 year technical diploma probably wont take me where I want to go in the future. And it definitely is not going to get easier to go back to school. So what should I do?

Yesterday, Allison informed me that our flights were booked for Toronto in August. Allison sister, her mom and her mom's boyfriend, Allison and I are going to her grampa's cottage for a week in August. I just don't remember exactly what week it is, but its supposed to be around the long weekend. I guess I should book the time off from work... hmm.. I'll have to get on that!

That's about it for today. Have a great day!]]> Jenn]]>
Good Luck

Jenn]]>
It was nice to have a relaxing evening at home. I spent some time finishing up the DS site but I still get a little down time. Which felt really good!

Tonight is another school night. This Saturday we've got our first quiz, and Allison's cousin is supposed to be coming to stay with us for the weekend. Hopefully, we will hear from her so that she can let us know her flight #. Otherwise she said she would be in Calgary at 11:30am on Friday.

I've been thinking about going back to school lately. Not sure just how feasible that is right now, but I think I would enjoy it.

Anyways, have a good day!]]>
Saturday, I had class from 9am to 4 pm. Then we went to Allison's dad's place to watch the Edmonton Oilers beat the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to advance to the Stanley Cup finals.

Sunday, I drove Alli to work, and worked on a friends flyer for an event he's throwing at the distillary downtown. Sunday night, more hockey at Allison's dad's place.

I had trouble getting to sleep last night, so I'm feeling kind of sluggish today. But I'm sure I'll perk up. Have a good day!]]>
I'm really looking forward to 4:30pm today. First thing I'm going to do when i get home is have a nap. Then I've got work to do. (Don't you worry Mr. Jeremy I will have your DS site completed by Monday, and Mr. Masih I will have your flyer done by tomorrow!)

Although this was a short work week it's felt like a long one. Tuesday as usual came in to work then went to class after work which makes it an 8am to 9pm work day. Wednesday went to the doctor's office in the morning then worked late to make up the time for showing up late. Then headed home and worked on the DS site for 2 hours. Yesterday went to school went to work 8am-pm day. All in all I hope it's all worth it but I'm sorry if I'm a little grumpy these days. I just feel behind. Tonight I've got some extra work to do then a 7 hour class tomorrow. Woo hoo...

Have a good weekend!]]>
I got to help out with some of the reno's on Allison's mom's new place which is hard work. I talked to Allison's cousin Jenna, who will be staying with us for a couple days while she attends a wedding next weekend. And I spent some quality time with our bunny "hiphop". We talked about all sorts of things like life, politics, religion, work... you know the regular things people talk about with their pets.

It's a 4 day work week which is nice especially when you've got some long days because of school. Today is one of them.

The Oilers are up 2 games to 0 against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and life is pretty good. Have a good day!]]>
Tonight I have class once again which makes for another long day. Just 2 more days of work and I can relax. Besides that not much else is going on in the world of mO.

Have a good day!]]> KrisiMay]]>
It's been hard getting to sleep the last couple of nights because of the heat. It seems that the top level of our home is soooo very hot. The main level mild and the basement is cool. Perhaps I will have to grab a sleeping bag and park my keester in the basement at night. Ahhh coool!

Our neighbors are at it again with the music. One one side we heard loud bass thumping through the walls and the other side is a baby crying. I think we're hearing it much more now because we must all have our windows open... Might be a looooong summer!

Class was pretty good last night. Our instructor is a little strange but I think there's a method to his madness. He's starting to grow on me. Looks like it might be a darn good course after all.

Only 3 more days until the long weekend. Have a good day!]]>
Last night was a quiet evening at home. Made some dinner and did some reading from my A+ book. I started to feel a little ill and had to go to bed right away. I got all hot and clammy, and had the weirdest dreams. I'm not sure what it was but I feel better now. I've been suffering from headaches lately which is strange for me. But it's happened a few days in a row now, maybe it's a tumor. "it's not a tuma!"

There have been a lot of Oilers flags going up lately here in Calgary. It seems as though playoff fever has caught on for many Edmonton Oilers fans living here in Calgary. It's good to see... I wonder if you can purchase Oilers flags here in Calgary.

Tonight I have school right after work, so it should be a long day. I'm sure it will be worth it. Until tomorrow, have a great day!]]>
So I've been out of the loop in the hockey world for the past week. Looks like Ottawa, Colorado have been knocked out. And last night Carolina knocked out New Jersey. Edmonton is up 3 games to 2.

I managed to get to class Saturday morning after arriving late Friday night. So far class has been interesting. Kind of a nutty instructor but I'll get used to him I think.

I've got some catching up to do here. So I'll keep this post short. Have a good day!]]>
So I didn't really get to go over Game 7 with you that much. It started off great. The atmosphere and fans in the dome at the start was just an awesome experience. It was just got worse as the night progressed. I would not recommend taking your kid to a hockey game unless you want to expose them to angry, profaine rude fans. The seats we had were awesome, and now I can say I've enjoyed my first playoff game. It's just unfortunate that some fans are poor sports and could not take the Calgary Flames loss all that well. I guess I'm not the only "Fickle Flames Fan"

The weather is getting warmer which is always good. I think that wraps things up for today. Just a quick reminder but this will probably be my last post for at least a week or so until I'm back in town.

I will see you all when I get back. Have a great weekend!]]>
Staring out the window for 5 minutes I contemplated what to do. I feel like I could be a cranky, tired mess at work today. Do I risk bringing my runny nose, exhaustion and bad attitude to work. Should I just suck it up and go. I chose to stay home.

I have a lot of items to catch up on before leaving for Dallas this weekend.
1. Contact instructor for a+ course starting next week to inform him/her that I will not be attending the first 2 classes because my company is sending me to Dallas for training.
2. Pick up course text to read in Dallas.
3. Complete company website that I have been working on in my personal time.
4. Get Sleep to remove the bags under my eyes and hopefully get rid of my runny nose, which I believe stems from lack of quality rest.
5. Do laundry and set a side suit to wear to "Tony & Tina's Wedding" this Saturday.
6. Pack for trip to Dallas.
7. Do research on Dallas and surrounding area to make sure I have the information I require to get around.
8. Be Happy!

I am not a drinking man so I am not experiencing an alcohol related hang over as I'm sure some of my colleague's at work might be wondering today. I just needed a day off!

Last night in the Pengrowth Saddledome the better team won. Calgary was defeated in game 7 of the first round by a score of 3 to 0. There were approximately 19,000 sad fans and 1 happy Anaheim fan. It was hard to watch, but in many ways I'm glad it's over.

I will be a much happier camper tomorrow. Until then I hope that you have a good day!]]>
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy... i could go on! I'm going to my first ever playoff game, and it just so happens to be game 7. *dummm... dummm... dummm...* So to all of you who will be watching the game from home, i have two things to say to you. First look for me in the brown flash t-shirt sitting about 18 rows back from center ice. And second... neener, neener, neener...!

So life is getting expectedly busy! Class starts next Tuesday, I'm leaving for Dallas this Sunday, I have a project that I've been working at home for work to complete, and a project on the side for a friend. Busy, busy, busy... right in the middle of playoff season. I'm glad to see 2 Canadian teams in the final 8 and after tonight possibly 3.

For dinner last night we had "Totally Tubular Pasta". Mmmm... it's tube-u-lar! Well, i surely do hope that the Flames win tonight. There could be few things worse then being in a stadium of 20,000 sad fans. *whimper* Go Flames Go!]]> Jenn]]>
At least we got to see Edmonton the 8th place team knock out the # 1 team in the NHL. The presidents trophy winning, Detroit Red Wings. That makes 2 Canadian teams in the final 8. Suhweet... Besides hockey, not much else is going on. I seem to have more things to do then time to do it in. But things will start to slow down again, hopefully.

I'm going to keep this post short and sweet. Have a great day!]]>
Ok, ok... I know what you're thinking. "Gosh mO, can you talk about anything else but hockey... Boring!" No, no I cannot!

So on Friday, after work Mr. Jeremy, a co-worker of mine at the office, took me out for dinner to Limericks. I had my usual, "Bangers and Mash." Mmmm... Afterwards we went to Frank Sissons Silver Dollar Casino for our company bowling night. Wooo hooo... It was my first time to a Casino and well it was a run down little joint. I have images of Vegas and the casinos there and this place was dark, smokey and was located in an industrial park. It was sad to see the senior who sat at the slot machine's just pouring money into them. They were so focused on these machines yet it required no concentration at all. You sit there and hit a button, how much focus do you need. They looked like Zombies!

Bowling was a lot of fun, it was my first time 10 pin bowling and I had the lowest score. But at least that won me the "DS BEST SPORT 2006" award. I got a little trophy and cool little t-shirt. It's to bad I don't fit into regular sized t-shirts though, but it felt good to be the center of attention for a little while.

Afterwards, I went home and tried to log into "Second Life". It's like the matrix, it's an online world that you walk around and meet people from all over the world. You create your own character, you can go to the casino, buy property, sell stuff. It's sooo addictive. If you're interested check it out at www.secondlife.com, you can look me up... "BrothamO Takakura".

Saturday, I spent some time working on the project for work while Alli was off get her birthday pedicure from her evil step mother. (inside joke!) Then we watched the hockey game at her pop's.

Sunday, was more of the same. Alli went to work, I stayed home and worked on the project for work. Played with the bunny for a little bit, then started playing this game I got from Alli's evil step mother. It's the "Godfather" game on XBOX. Oh man... I only got to play for about 20 minutes but I was instantly addicted. Ahhh... So many addictions, so little time. Then we had dinner at Alli's pops and watched more hockey. Can't get enough hockey, it's hard when you don't have any TV to watch hockey.

So my A+, course starts next Tuesday but I will be missing the first to classes unfortunately. I'm off to Dallas next Sunday for a week of training on the VeriFone point of sale terminal. I'm not sure if I'm excited or not about it, I'm just worried about falling behind in the class before it even starts. Dang... Well I'm sure I'll figure it out.

It's the first Monday in May, which means I'm a couple of Mondays away from a long weekend, I think. Anyways, that's it for today. Have a great day!]]>
So I'm a fickle flames fan, 'F' cubed if you prefer. (F-cube for short). Google helped me define "Fickle: as marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;" Yes, last nights loss was tough to watch. Anaheim was the better team for pretty much the entire game. A side from the 4 minutes when Jarome Iginla scored two goals. Besides that we sucked...

Game 5 is at home in Calgary, so hopefully that will give our players the motivation they need to play hard.

Tonight is bowling night at my work and we're going to "Frank Sisson Silver Dollar Casino" for a little 10 pin bowling action. My first time...

Im looking forward to a little down time this weekend. The weather is expected to be pretty good so I'll have to make sure I take advantage of it.

That's all for today. Have a great weekend!]]>
Anyways, wifey was up coughing all night. It's a good thing too because I forgot to set my alarm before going to bed. I noticed at around 5 am when I rolled over to look at the time. But she's so sick, and she wont call in sick and she wont take any cough medicine. I left the bottle of "Buckley's" on the counter in the kitchen in case she changes her mind.

So now that its getting warmer in Calgary, more and more people are starting to hit the streets. Women are wearing less clothing, more basketball nets are getting moved out to the driveway, and I'm finding that I have to dodge more and more dog poop. Hmmm... Yay for summer! (Boo for mosquitos!)

Yesterday, both Alli and I found a bunch of birthday cards in the mail. And the usual bill's, bill's, and more bill's. Allison's birthday was last week and mine is tomorrow. I will be 22! (Man I'm getting old!)

That wraps things up for today, have a good one! Go Flames GO!]]>
So yesterday I picked up an "RCA Amplified Indoor Antenna" for our tv. It sucks! For $70.00 at Future Shop it's just not worth it. When I plugged the baby in when I got home I was able to get 3 of the free 5 channels offered in Calgary. And only 1 of them was actually viewable. I followed the instructions on the side of the box and fiddled with the thing for a little bit but I was not happy. So back to Future Shop I'm taking it! I guess no TV for us, woo hooo!

Allison is still super sick! Which kind of sucks because I want to help her get better but I dont want to get sick at the same time. She's been trying to get a lot of rest and trying not to take any cold medicine. She just doesn't want to consume and chemicals if she just doesn't need to.

As for today, it is Wednesday which means we're half way to the weekend. So enjoy and have a good day!]]>
My poor wife is so sick right now! She was snuffing and sneazing all night long! I however feel much better.

I spent most of my evening working on a project for work. I'm looking forward to finishing it off. It seems like I've got a couple of busy months ahead of me here. I've got to put in an estimated 25 hours to complete this project I'm working on right now at home. Then I'm off to Dallas for training for a week. Then I start my A+ course... and the list goes on. At least I won't have to complain about being bored. Ohhh.. and I can't forget, I have to watch as much playoff hockey as I possibly can. Speaking of which I have no idea what happened last night in hockey so I'm going to go check on the scores.

Have a great day! (do IT!)]]>
Good Morning! Well it was a good weekend. Friday night after work I met a couple of friends at Melrose on 17th to watch the hockey game. We didnt end up staying there for the whole game but it was good to see the Flames win one at home.

Saturday, Alli and I got up bright and early... well actually we rolled out of bed around 11 am. We quickly packed, stopped by her mom's then by here dad's and headed to Banff for her birthday weekend getaway.

We arrived in Banff at 3:45pm and made our way over to the trail riders shop to catch our Carriage ride that Allison got from her mom for her birthday. The ride was pretty fun... the drivers name was Dave and the horses' was "Sundance." *clip, clop, clip, clop*

We had dinner at the Sukiyaki house where we ordered some assorted tempura, sushi and sashimi. I had another allergic reaction to the sushi, and quickly stopped eating. I think I've developed an allergy to fish.

After dinner we did some site seeing, and ate ice cream walking down the main strip. We stayed in the Buffalo Mountain lodge. It was a pretty nice room with it's own fireplace. We spent an hour trying to get a fire going, but the only thing that seem to light was the newspaper we used in the fireplace.

Sunday morning we had brunch at the lodge, and checked out. We then spent and hour in the Hot Springs, and we ventured up on top of one of the mountains with a great big cleaing on the top. We managed to get some pictures of Mountain sheep and step in a little poop.

Afterwards, we walked around town. Picked up some treats from Welch's candy shop and headed back to Calgary.

We made it back at 4pm and went straight to Allison's dads house to watch the hockey game.
We both woke up with sore throat's Sunday morning and for me it's carried over to today. It was a really fun weekend, but now I could use a weekend to recover from our weekend. hehe...

Too bad the Flames lost, sigh! But we'll get them back on Tuesday. Have a great day!]]>
Saturday, Alli and I got up bright and early... well actually we rolled out of bed around 11 am. We quickly packed, stopped by her mom's then by here dad's and headed to Banff for her birthday weekend getaway.

We arrived in Banff at 3:45pm and made our way over to the trail riders shop to catch our Carriage ride that Allison got from her mom for her birthday. The ride was pretty fun... the drivers name was Dave and the horses' was "Sundance." *clip, clop, clip, clop*

We had dinner at the Sukiyaki house where we ordered some assorted tempura, sushi and sashimi. I had another allergic reaction to the sushi, and quickly stopped eating. I think I've developed an allergy to fish.

After dinner we did some site seeing, and ate ice cream walking down the main strip. We stayed in the Buffalo Mountain lodge. It was a pretty nice room with it's own fireplace. We spent an hour trying to get a fire going, but the only thing that seem to light was the newspaper we used in the fireplace.

Sunday morning we had brunch at the lodge, and checked out. We then spent and hour in the Hot Springs, and we ventured up on top of one of the mountains with a great big cleaing on the top. We managed to get some pictures of Mountain sheep and step in a little poop.

Afterwards, we walked around town. Picked up some treats from Welch's candy shop and headed back to Calgary.

We made it back at 4pm and went straight to Allison's dads house to watch the hockey game.
We both woke up with sore throat's Sunday morning and for me it's carried over to today. It was a really fun weekend, but now I could use a weekend to recover from our weekend. hehe...

Too bad the Flames lost, sigh! But we'll get them back on Tuesday. Have a great day!]]>
Saturday, Alli and I got up bright and early... well actually we rolled out of bed around 11 am. We quickly packed, stopped by her mom's then by here dad's and headed to Banff for her birthday weekend getaway.

We arrived in Banff at 3:45pm and made our way over to the trail riders shop to catch our Carriage ride that Allison got from her mom for her birthday. The ride was pretty fun... the drivers name was Dave and the horses' was "Sundance." *clip, clop, clip, clop*

We had dinner at the Sukiyaki house where we ordered some assorted tempura, sushi and sashimi. I had another allergic reaction to the sushi, and quickly stopped eating. I think I've developed an allergy to fish.

After dinner we did some site seeing, and ate ice cream walking down the main strip. We stayed in the Buffalo Mountain lodge. It was a pretty nice room with it's own fireplace. We spent an hour trying to get a fire going, but the only thing that seem to light was the newspaper we used in the fireplace.

Sunday morning we had brunch at the lodge, and checked out. We then spent and hour in the Hot Springs, and we ventured up on top of one of the mountains with a great big cleaing on the top. We managed to get some pictures of Mountain sheep and step in a little poop.

Afterwards, we walked around town. Picked up some treats from Welch's candy shop and headed back to Calgary.

We made it back at 4pm and went straight to Allison's dads house to watch the hockey game.
We both woke up with sore throat's Sunday morning and for me it's carried over to today. It was a really fun weekend, but now I could use a weekend to recover from our weekend. hehe...

Too bad the Flames lost, sigh! But we'll get them back on Tuesday. Have a great day!]]>
On the Vibe morning show they're waking up the Anaheim Mighty ducks by dancing out in front of their hotel. Haha.... it's great!

Last night we watched the movie "Jarhead". Which does not look very appealing to me.

Well, tomorrow is Allison's birthday and we're heading to the Buffalo Mountain Lodge for the night. I think that's about it for me... Have a great weekend!]]>
So the Red Mile is back! It's a great place to party, but not such a great place to watch the hockey game. So what's more important, get down there early to see the playoff atmosphere or actually see the entire game? What am i getting at? Nothing! Please continue to next paragraph...

It's almost the weekend and I'm looking forward to it. My birthday is also coming up and it just happens to be on the same night as our office bowling night. Yay! 10 pin bowling on my 22nd birthday!

Now that the regular season of hockey is over, our office hockey pool is also done. I finished off at a measly 6th place. Meh! At least there's next year, and the playoff pool!

I'm done ranting for today... Have a good day!]]> www.stumbleupon.com

I found a site yesterday that focused on web design and I've been hooked since. It's called Web Design from Scratch. I'm super glued to all the articles posted on the site. It's definitely worth checking out.

Googles offering some cool new services as well. Like the Google Page Creator which helps you create and publish a site in minutes, and Google Calendar to help you with all your scheduling.

This morning on Vibe98.5 they played the 'new' Calgary Flames playoff anthem. It sucks... It's a cheesy spin off of last seasons anthem. The reason it worked so well during the last playoff run was because it was original, fresh, and sampled the sound of a popular song at that time ("In da club" by 50 cent) This year they took last seasons recording, added a female voice and changed the verses. There were only 3 names dropped this year, Jarome Iginla, Kristian Huselius and Daymond Lankow. WTF? That's it... there's more guys then that on the team that do a heck of a good job and deserve as much recognition as those guys. Especially... Kiprusoff! (By the way Kipper for Hart and Vezina!) They really should have re-done the anthem with a different sound, and with a little more passion. Rather then publishing something that seems slapped together over the weekend. They used the hooks "going, going back back to Calgary" from the Biggiy song "Going, going, back back... to Cali, Cali". That would have been a sweet song to re-do for the anthem. Meh... that's just my opinion!

Next, survey says question of the day was in regards to men purchasing cosmetics. It was Kelsey's opinion that men should not wear makeup. It's just wrong according to her... I don't know about you, but really I dont think she has any right to say what is right or wrong? You definitely wont catch me wearing makeup, but I don't think it's "wrong". It's a personal choice and as long as it doesn't harm me or those that I care about... go nuts!

I guess what I'm getting at is I'm tired of advertising, radio, tv and mainstream media in general. They seem to toss these messages into our minds that we don't really think about but just accept as the 'norm'! Damn you tv, why must you cause me so much pain.

I don't really get the hype about "Brokeback Mountain". When a movie comes out that you don't like, you don't go see it. Period! You vote with your dollars! If there's people out there who do want to see... so be it! I don't get the mentality that it shouldn't be shown or they should stop making movies like this or that... why? If there's people who want to see why should you or I care?

I got a phone call last night from a mutual friend named Mr. Hurley! It's cool how you can meet someone a couple times and leave a good enough impression on them to help you out. Thanks for your help Mr. Nathan Hurley, and it was nice meeting you Mr. & Mrs. Mason!

That's my state of the union as I see it. Now GET TO WORK!]]> Blueberry pie!
Good Morning! It's nice and sunny today and the drive in to work was pretty good as well. Last night was pretty fun. We went over to mama-in-laws house to celebrate Mr. Cal's birthday. Mmmm... he cooked up some of the juiciest steaks this young man has ever had. And there was shrimp and blueberry pie with ice cream. I feel so naughty...

After Mr. Cal's daughter went home they all started bugging me about how she has a crush on me. She's 6 years old and pretty darn smart and super hyper. We did "tweety" voices and read through a neighborhood paper and ate chocolate. And then I got her in trouble for being too giggly. (Sorry Miss. Britney!) Well you know what... screw you guys because I have a crush on her... so there! That's right i said it...

And in other news... The Calgary Flames lost to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.... Wooo Hooo.. That's right I'm actually glad the Flames lost for once because now they play the ducks in the first round of the playoffs. Good bye my fine feathered friends....

I've decided to start working on my evil grin. It's just not what it once was, and is really quite shame. Any suggestions on how I can better improve my evil grin? I was thinking that I'm just not using enough eye brow.

Stop being silly, put away the easter chocolate and get back to work!]]>
I've been starting to get sick since last week but so far I've gotten as far as a sore throat, so I wonder if it's actually something to do with allergy season.

The weekend was good as usual. Thursday night we watched a pay per view flames game at Alli's dad's place. Friday we relaxed around the house. Allison had to work in the evening so I went and had a steak sandwich with a friend at "F.A.T.S" (Fifth Ave, Tenth Street) down in Kensington. It was really good. I hadn't been in Kensington in a while so it was nice to walk around for a bit too...

Saturday we picked up groceries, a snack pack and bonus from chicken on the way, and some movies from blockbuster. "King Kong", "Jarhead", "Harry Potter"! We only watched one.

Sunday I dropped Alli off to work then got invited over to her mom's for some easter surprise. Mmmm... bernie calebaut chocolates. Picked up Al at 5pm and had dinner at her pops.

And back to work I am! It's Allison's birthday this weekend so that should be fun. Not to mention the playoffs start on Friday. Wooo Hoooo....!]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]>
So I have been slacking this week with my posts... I didnt even bother to post yesterday because of the length of time I spent stuck in traffic in the morning. The day before I lost my post because of a bad connection... and tomorrow is a holiday so I most likely will not post...

Last night I signed up for an A+ course at SAIT. I'm looking forward to it, I like school. School is actually fun, why can't I just become a full time student. Oh yeah... i remember the pay is kind of lousy!

I would like to tell you about the fellow in the red jeep who parks in front of me every morning. He usually get's there around the same time as me, and has to have the exact same spot on the street each morning. Kind of like me i guess... He sometimes sits in his jeep for who knows how long doing who knows what. Occasionally he gets out to walk around his vehicle and make sure he is exactly the same distance from the curb as every other morning. Talk about consistency. This might be kind of strange behaviour to some, but I think it's 'perfect'!

My definition of 'perfection' is 'absolute consistency'. In my opinion to be perfect one must be absolutely consistent in what they do. For example, it is possible to be perfectly stupid as long as you are the same level of stupidity at all times. No variation, but absolute consistency. Now nothing is actually absolutely consistent, is it? Is it possible?

Can you consistently get to your desk at the very same time every morning? Can you wake up at the very same time every morning... can you take in the same amount of calories every day? Whoa... what a boring life... nothing changes... Who would want to be perfect anyways?

Today, I have got to fax off our 2 month warranty request for our home. There's already a lengthy list of items that need to be addressed, and hopefully they all get taken care of.

This is the end of the week for me. Have a good weekend and see you back on Monday!]]>
I managed to go to another hockey game on Friday night. Thanks Mr. Dirk! It's been a good year for me and hockey. I've seen quite a few games this season. On Saturday night the Flames clinched a playoff position. So hopefully Mikka Kiprusoff will get some rest before the playoffs begin.

On Saturday, Allison and I grabbed some Peter's drive in and sat up on the Crescent Hill. I always like eating Peters up there. We also picked up our dvd player from future shop. They fixed it... aww shucks and i was hoping they would just replace it. We also stopped at Sharky's pawn shop on 16th ave and picked up a vcr for $35.00. Now we can watch some of our old VHS tapes.

It seems like the air conditioning is not working today in the office. It's feeling a little hot in here.

There's a 3 day weekend coming up. So cheer up, have a good day! (do iT!)]]> This is the only picuture I could find of Nikki Mah!
Good Morning! So I may have been a tad bit grumpy at work yesterday. Hmmm... perhaps a tad is an understatement. I was grumpy yesterday! Don't worry folks I had a full 8 hours of sleep last night. No excuses today!

I had a strange dream last night, it kind of left me feeling awkward this morning. In my dream I had quit or lost my job. I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but I was looking for a new one in the neighborhood I grew up in. I have no idea where that's coming from, but it felt strange because I think I was fired. I've never been fired or laid off before, so I'm not sure how it feels. But I think it felt something like that...

Dinner was awesome last night. Allison cooked up some quesadilla's with the canned "Rotel" tomatoes we brought back from Barbados. Mmmm... it's so good! We've looked in Superstore, Sobeys, and Safeway and can't find these "Rotel" canned tomatoes. Does anyone out there no where I can get some? Please... please tell me you do!?

I forgot to mention yesterday that at the hockey game, Nikki Mah, the Much Music VJ search contestant was there. They showed her on the Jumbo Screen and she asked everyone to text Much to vote for her. Everyone started boooing her. I couldn't believe it, I actually felt kind of bad for her. I actually hope she wins the VJ search. Go Nikki Mah!

That pretty much wraps up my rant for this Friday, April 7th 2006. Have a great weekend!]]> Kristine]]>
Have you tried the italian grocery stores? you might be surprised...you can find some good tomatoes there...exported straight from Holland....the only thing is they are over 1 buck a piece! yikes!

It was good though :)

Kristine]]>
(Insert big yawn here --->)

Oh I'm looking forward to going home after work today... I'm going to hop on our couch and have a nap. It feels like it's been a long week. It would be nice if it felt like it was a long weekend. Next weekend I suppose it will...

My birthday is coming up at the end of the month... I'm almost 22! It's strange how much faster life has become since high school... The years just keep flying by! I'm half way there to our 10 year high school reunion.

That's all for me this morning... Send some good thoughts my way to keep me awake today, I'm running really low on gas! Have a good day!]]>
Actually, when I returned to my room I found that the clocks were flashing, I went downstairs to get a drink and the clock on the stove, and microwave were also flashing. We had another power outage, the 2nd one since Friday. Luck for me, the Tv woke us up otherwise I would have slept in not knowing that my clock's time was reset. (which wouldn't have been such a bad thing, now that I think about it) Damn you ghost, why did you have to wake me up!

The volume on the tv was up pretty loud, and the clock's read 12:55am so it must have been on for at least 55 minutes. I wonder if it kept the neighbors up, I'm sure they could here it, because we can clearly hear their music from our side of the office wall. Sorry guys, it wasn't intentional!

When we got home from work yesterday we found our neighborino was already home. And he was parked right on the line again. So we squeezed into our stall and took pictures. I'll have to post them tonight or tomorrow just so you can get a taste of the madness. The neighbors seem really cool, they just have a couple of habits that kind of annoy me. Mr. Dennis actually returned my cell phone to me when he found it in the parking lot one day, which was really nice. So him and Mr. Dan are definitely on my good list.

The day before yesterday I received a phone call from a 416 area code. I listened to the message when I got home to find out who it was. It was Mr. Jermaine from Barbados, he was up in Toronto and wanted to give me a call. Cool... we chatted on the phone for a bit and sent me a couple of killer photo's of one Mr. Andre "Murph Man" Murphy from Barbados. I just had to share this photo with you all...
Andre Murphy from Barbados

Tonight I'm off to the hockey game... thanks to Mr. Jeremy! The Calgary Flames vs. Phoenix Coyotes... that's all for today... Have a good one!]]>
At least i made it to work just in time...

Have a good day!]]>
Good Morning! As I look to my right, the time on the clock here in my cubicle is 6:21am. *yaaawn* Looks like the time needs to be bumped up an hour. Yes, this weekend we all got to roll our clocks ahead by an hour. So everyone will be a little tired this morning. I managed to get to sleep at around 11:30pm last night, and up at 6am. It's technically 7:22am right now, but to me and our bunny it's still to damn early to be awake.

When I came down for breakfast this morning, my bunny got up and stared at me as if saying "mO, what the heck are you doing up so damn early man?! Bunny's are trying to sleep!"

*Big Yaawn* I think I remember hearing somewhere that this is one of the most dangerous mornings to commute to work. The Monday morning after clocks change. So be careful!

This weekend was a good weekend for hockey. Flames are now on a 3 game winning streak. We got our Voip router from vonage this weekend and set that up. So far I haven't noticed any deterioration in sound quality. So far so good...

Well... this is going to be another long week. At least there's a long weekend coming up next week. *I hope!*

Have a great Monday!]]> Jenn]]>
How are you enjoying your Elliptical? Would you recommend it to someone who is looking to get in shape at home? Any features I should look for?

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Jenn]]> Good Morning! Did I mention that it's Friday? Oh yeah... tonight I'm cookin' up a steak! Oooh yeah... I seasoned it last night, and let it marinade over night. Mmmm.... a little Club House Montreal Steak rub, and minced garlic should do the trick.

It was another relaxing evening at our place last night. Alli and I played NHL 2005 on xbox. (She beat me twice!) I got to test out our new blue s-controller. Then we watched "Supernaturals", I don't know why but we got right into it. The ending was pretty cheesey, but it was a pretty good show.

Tonight there's a Flames game on TV, and then another one tomorrow. We're only a few weeks away from the playoffs. Oh yeah...!

I think that wraps things up for this Friday. Have a good weekend!]]>
Last night was another lazy night at our house. We watched the hockey game, Flames beat the Kings by a score of 2 to 1. Wooo hooo... then we had a couple of bowls of cereal for dinner. Mmmm... Vector!

I'm looking forward to the summer... hopefully by then construction should be wrapping up at our condo's, we can start walking around the neighborhood to get to know it more intimately. We can also find all the little small mom and pop shop joints in the area, if any. It seems as the weather starts to get better the drive to and from work is also quicker. I like maximizing the amount of time spent at home with wifey and the bunny.

Oh yes... how could i forget, it's also BBQ season.

Have a good day!]]>
Good Morning! In case you didn't know it's Wednesday!

Last night we decided it was time to put an end to one of our bloated bills. Our Shaw Cable bill had grown to a whopping $143.33, since moving into our new place back in November. It started off small with all these bonus's and freebies we got at first but now it's simply to much. For $143.33 we got Hi-speed Internet, Full Cable Package, and Shaw's Digital Phone service.

Last night we switched to Vonage. There smallest package was $19.99/month for 500 anytime minutes to the US or Canada. Which is just perfect for us since we probably dont even use up to 100 minutes. Not only that, there's so many other cool things you can do with Vonage.

Like... you can download all your voicemail message by logging in to the Vonage site. You can receive and email notification when you recieve a phone call or new voice mail message. You can even have that new voice mail message emailed directly to you as an attachment. You can create Virtual phone #'s, that allows you to have more then one phone number all linking to the same phone line. You can create a phone number with whatever area code you wanted. So if you live in Alberta and have relatives in Toronto, you could create a virtual phone number with a Toronto area code so that when your relatives call you they wont get charged for long distance. (not that it's a big deal anymore because a lot of phone providers these days are allowing for calls across Canada and the US for no additional cost.) Isn't that cool... I could have my own 1-800 number. ("1-800-dial-a-mO you got mO, what's yo beef!")

Geez... i'm excited! We've had excellent service from Shaw, there's no doubt about it. But the phone plan is just much more than what we need right now. I'm sorry Shaw!

And in other news... our bunny wont stop pooping on the floor! So if you're having a bad day, just think at least you don't have to clean up poop and vacuum every single day of your life! Have a good day!]]>
For dinner last night we BBQ'd some spolumbo sausages. Mmmm... Spolumbo's! I'm starting to get the hang of this BBQ thing. I guess there's something manly about cooking meat on a fire. *where's Tim the tool man Taylor and his grunting when I need him?*

After dinner, we hung out and played with our bunny for a little bit. Then lounged on the couch watching a little tv for a bit. I've been following the Much Music VJ search for quite a while now. Last night we got to find out that one of the 6 contestants that were booted out will have a chance at trying out for the vj search again. But it's up to the voters to vote. I'm guessing Tim, Casey Joe or Rebecca will be one of the people coming back. Yup and I think the winner of the Vj search will be... Nikki, from Calgary!

Ok... that wraps things up for this Tuesday morning! Have a great day!]]> Good Morning! Another weekend ends, and a new week begins. So far it's been pretty sunny start to the morning. The drive in to work was quick, which tells me everyone is sleeping in today. Next week, should be even better since it's the end of day light savings and we have to roll our clocks forward. Which means it would be 8:19am right now next week instead of 7:19am. Hmmm... maybe I should start training myself to get up earlier? Nah....

After work on Friday, I drove up to the Future Shop at Northland Village mall. I walked into the car install bay where I was greeted by Mr. Shawn. He took my keys and with the help of Frank and Justin they tried to figure out what was wrong with the starter in my car. After about an hour and 2 different starters, they were able to get it going. They're not sure why the first 2 didn't work, but they said if anything happens to give them a call right away. And you know I will! Thanks guys!

Afterwards, I went home and worked on a little dinner. After that I went down to Coyote's nite club to check out a friend of mine's band open on stage for another band. It was pretty cool to see him on stage even if it was a small venue. I helped hand out some cd's then I went home. The name of their group is "Victim's of Poverty" starring, Ty, Courtney, Dre and a couple of other guys I'm not so familiar with.

Saturday, I got up and took our car down to the Hyundai dealership to get it serviced. I managed to finish our taxes, then file them. I'm glad that's out of the way! In the evening Allison, her mom and her sister went to go see the "Alice in Wonderland" ballet at the Jubiliee auditorium. So Mr. Cal and I hung out for the evening watching movies. When they got home they were buzzing about the show and how much fun they had. Maybe I'll tag along to a ballet one day! *keyword: maybe!*

Sunday, was grocery & relaxation day! I watched parts of 3 different hockey games and did a whole lot of nothing.

Monday, I woke up at 6am, rolled out of bed. Jumped in the shower, had a bowl of Mini-wheat's, kissed my wife goodbye then drove in to work. Have a great day peoples!]]>
After work I'm planning on making my "drop by" at Future Shop to take a look at the car. I'm really hoping they can figure out what the problem is with the car starter. It's starting to become a bit of a headache. Tomorrow morning I've got to drop the car off at the dealership to get it serviced. ... ...

Yesterday I was trying to figure out who to implement SMS via c#. If any one can recommend any articles, please let mO know!

Ok it doesn't sound like I have a whole of ranting to do this morning. Maybe I need a little more sugar in my breakfast. Have a good weekend!]]> Good Morning! When I woke up this morning I could see the sun.... ohh what a glorious day. I saw the sun! Just as soon as I start getting used to seeing the sun in the morning, day light savings ends and I have change the time to an hour forward, right? "Spring forward, fall back"!

Anyways, I should have mentioned yesterday that I took our car in to Future Shop to get the car starter repaired on Tuesday. Well when leaving the shop it all worked hunky dory (that means good), in fact the car actually started driving better. Yes, I could feel the power, it began to actually respond when I hit the gas. Isn't that amazing? But by the time we got it home, we couldn't put the darn thing back in to ready mode. So now we have to go back to Northland Future Shop to get it looked at again. At least it's all still under warranty. I like Future Shop's warranty! Hopefully the combo of Sean and Frank can figure out what's going on!

On to more important things, for breakfast this morning I had a bowl of Mini-Wheats and a cinnamon bun from Sobeys. Mmmm... it felt so good that it had to be bad. *drool* I refrained from eating one for desert last night, but when I came down the stairs this morning and saw them just sitting on the counter, staring at me. Oozing... with icy, and doing everything within it's powers to seduce me, well it worked. I gulped down one of the softest, sweetest, cinnamon buns in my life. It was a moment worth treasuring. Mmmm...

Today is Thursday, this tells me that it is one day before Friday! I can't believe I let the day of the week dictate what kind of mood I'm in, but it does. (Damn you Monday's!)

That is all for today... I will continue my rant tomorrow... stay tuned! Do iT!]]> rav]]> are you the same mo khan that wrote' non-resident identity'?????]]>
Well I figure it's probably time to share a photo of our bunny rabbit. Or I should say Puppy Rabbit, half dog, half lop eared bunny. Let me introduct to you "HipHop", or "Hippy" for short.
Meet our rabbit, hiphop!

As you can see he's a bit of a brat! He know's how to drive you crazy and just when you're about to scold him for being bad he goes and does something cute...
cute bunny


Ok that's all for today... have a good one!]]> crazy old guy!
Good Morning! I feel invigorated.... is that a word? Yeah yeah, what I'm trying to say is I feel well rested. So rested that I just want curl back up under our big douvet covers and go back to sleep... Mmmm... Zzzzzz...

Tonight after work I'll be headed directly up to Future Shop at Northland Village mall to get our car starter looked at. Hopefully, Mr. Frankie will be able to determine what the problem is and fix it today. It doesnt look like we will need it for much longer since it's already spring and the weather is forecasted to get better by the weekend. Yipeee.... sunshine!

This weekend I spent some time working on our taxes. I'm filing using an online service offered by Ufile.ca. I filed with them last year and found the process to be quite easy so I decided to go with them again. I managed to complete all of our taxes except for one bloody line. This line requires a field entered in my 2004 tax return. Unfortunatly, the only copy i had of that was a pdf stored on my hard drive that crashed several months back. So I'm unable to retrieve that line. Next I tried to log into the Canadian Revunue agency site with my epass i created last year. Unfortunatly I don't remember my password, and my password hints suck! So I'm stuck... Is there any way that I can get a copy of my 2004 return? Does anyone out there know? How about you... you over there with the glasses you look smart do you know? Ma'am... how about you?

The repair guy came to fix our washer yesterday. Turns out it was the first time he had seen this problem in 5 years. Here's what happened... a sock, you know like the ones you put on your feet every morning *i hope* got sucked up inside and got stuck. This blocked the pump from pumping out the water. Uh huh... he said, as I'm told 3rd hand, that it was not our fault. We did not overload the washer it was just one of those freak things. Well I'm just glad that's taken care of.

Yesterday we checked the mail to find yet another bill. This time it's for a community association fee in the amount of $200 something. Eeep... So we have monthly condo fees, annual community association fees, gas, water, electricity, phone, cable. Ugh.... growing up sucks!

Did I mention I got new jeans this weekend...? Oh yeah! Feelin' good, lookin' good!

Make sure you have a good day, JUST DO IT!]]>
Friday I spent my evening at home, watching a little tv, and working on a little ado.net. It's not to bad, the toughest part I found about the whole ordeal is just setting up SQL server. Once you've got a database created and running it's kind of easy from there. Well maybe not easy... but ... uhh... hmmm not as hard as I once thought!

Saturday, I slept in with wifey. We got up made some breakfast, and went to Future Shop at Northland mall to get our car starter looked at. Lucky for us the guy who originally did the install was working, Mr. Frank! We left the car with him for about an hour, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. So we booked it in for Tuesday at 5:30pm to get it looked at. While waiting for the car we cruised around Northland mall.

After leaving Future Shop we went to Market Mall. That's one busy mall! After our day at the mall we went home and had something for supper. Yup... we had something... i just don't remember what it was.

Sunday was more of the same. A lot of lounging at home, some cleaning, and a lot of playing with our bunny.

Today we should have a repair guy come to the house to take a look at our washer. Hopefully he/she will be able to fix that today so we can get some laundry done. Besides that the week is looking good!

Have a good one...]]> Luck of the Irish!
Did I mention that it's Friday? It's also Saint Patricks Day! And guess who forgot to wear his green John Deere hat? Yes yes.. this is just a reminder to all to make sure you pinch mr. mO today!

Last night Alli and I had dinner at her mom's place. We shared photo's from our trip to Barbados, and photos or their trip to Playa del Carmen and Isla Mujeres. Ahhh... I like pictures. I have yet to download our pictures to our computer to share with the world but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get around to that sometime this weekend.

We also got to meet a little wiener dog by the name of Shadow. She's staying at Alli's moms place for a little bit while her owners are away. She's quite the friendly little guy or I should say gal.

As for today, I'm not sure how I'm going to celebrate St. Patty's. I just know Alli's working tonight so I'll be doing it without her. *sigh*

Have a great Saint Patrick's Day weekend!]]> Honey Nut!
Good Morning! Well I think I'm finally getting back into the swing of things back here. You know what I mean, wake up like a robot in the morning, munch on a bowl of Cheerios then go to work. You can call me mO-bot!

Last night was an evening to myself, Alli had to work an evening shift. So for dinner I whipped up some left overs, spent some time on the computer then ran on the elliptical for a bit. Allison managed to get a hold of the vendor that our washer was purchased from so they will be arriving sometime on Monday to take a look at our washer.

As for the car starter I'm going to have to take a trip to Future Shop to get that fixed. I went through the owners manual to see if I could uncover and secrets but found nothing. This weekend is going to be all about the taxes. *sigh* I can't wait...

Enjoy your Thursday, because as of tomorrow it's Saint Patty's day. Have a good day!]]> Frigidaire washer
Good Morning! So yesterday we ran into a couple of mechanical failures. First our car starter no longer seems to go into ready mode. Second our washing machine broke down while washing a load of whites. At the end of the spin cycle when the water is supposed to get pumped out a little water flooded the floor then the washer omitted a burning smell which shut the washer down. Hmmm... it's a brand new washer, so it's still under warranty lucky for us. The car starter installation was under warranty as well, so now we need to get a hold of an authorized Frigidaire washing machine servicer to service our washer and we need to book our car back into future shop to get the car starter looked at.

Besides those two blips in the radar yesterday was pretty good. We got to bed nice and early so I've got lots of sleep, but i feel groggy for some odd reason.

That's it for today... have a good one!]]>
I woke up this morning and realized that I would not be sleeping in today, I would not be having a toasted bagel with salmon cream cheese for breakfast, I would not be going to the beach! *sigh* I realized I was going back to work, a little bit of depression and withdrawal kicked in. *must refrain from running away to the Caribbean... Ugh!*

Our trip to Barbados was excellent. Made a couple of friends, ate some food, listened to some live reggae bands, and was reminded to not take life so seriously all the time. We did so much on the last few days on the island from checking out the wild life reserve and having a green monkey grab my finger, to chillin' out at Basheba beach on the east coast, too joining the weekly Friday night party in Oistens. You really have to see it in person to appreciate it, everyone comes down to oistens to eat BBQ listen to music and dance dance dance.

The toughest part of vacationing in Barbados is getting to and from the island. We left Barbados Sunday afternoon and made it home after about 12 hours of flying. YUCK! Lucky for us we got picked up at the Calgary airport, but by the time we got home it was around 3am. Needless to say I didn't make it to work in the morning.

Monday afternoon we did some badly needed grocery shopping and we picked up our bunny from Alli's dad's place. It seems that he likes pooping and peeing on their floors as much as he does ours. But I was excited to have him back home, and it feels good to be home.

When I got up at 6 this morning I noticed how bright it was outside. It's a great feeling when you can get a little sun before having to hide out in the office for the day. It actually made coming to work a little bit easier... now lets see if i can ease my way back into the working mode.

Thanks for letting us stay with you in Barbados Alli's gramma, and thanks for teaching me to boogie board and making me a couple of mix CD's Mr. Jermaine, thanks for making me laugh and chillin' out with me on the beach Mr. Murph man (Andre Murphy from Barbados... there now you're on the internet). Have a great day people, it's good to be home...]]>
Today was yet another beach day on Miami Beach in Christ Church, Barbados. Today I met a fellow by the name of "Murph Man". He was sharing some of his creative business ventures him and his friend have been thinking about. I suggested a few things and I'm looking forward to see what comes of it.

Our trip in to Barbados was a long one. We left last Saturday night from Calgary at 12:20 am. I guess technically it was Sunday. We arrived in Toronto around 7 am. Then we hung around the interim terminal 1 for our connector flight to Barbados.

After speaking with a bathroom attendant at the airport I found out that Toronoto's international airport has 3 main terminals. and we were actually in an 'interim' terminal that was being used while the re-construction of terminal one was taking place. Yup yup...

we arrived in Barbados, Sunday afternoon around 3 or 4 pm. I dont remember. we waited in a long, hot lineup to get a stamp in our passports. Then off to grammy's apartment we went.

The first thing I noticed, after landing was that everyone drove on the opposite side of the road and the drivers seat was on the opposite side of the car. Man... i've got a lot to spit out and not a whole lot of time to do it.

Sunday evening we went to dinner at a place called "Carib". I had 2 fruit punches and a grilled piece of dolphin. I later vomitted it all up that evening. Not sure why but my stomach always seems to get sick at the start of each vacation. at least we got that out of the way early on...

Monday was our first beach day. Allison and I laid in the sun and fried like eggs. Of course we didn't know it until that evening. I got it mostly around my neck and face. Allison, well she got it every where else. poor muffin...

For dinner we stayed at the apartment and had a home cooked meal prepared by grams. It was quesadilla if i remember correctly.

Tuesday on the beach I sat in the shade. I jumped in the water once and that was enough for me. That evening we had dinner at the apartment, Mmm soup!

After dinner, one of grams 100's of friends stepped by. You would not believe how popular Allison's grandmother is around here. You can't get down the street without her bumping into someone she know's.

Anyways... her friend Jermain stopped by. *shame, shame double shame now i know your boyfriends name.. just kidding* We chatted up a storm till the late hours of the evening until eventually, taking off to get a midnight lunch at a place called "Cheffette". It like Mickey's D's back home. We got 3 chicken sandwiches and a pasta salad.

One thing I have to mention about Barbados is just how expensive everything is around here. Whew... nothing like living like a king in Mexico. One American dollar is worth two Barbados dollars, but everything is much more expensive. For a bag of chips we ended up paying 9 something Barbados dollars, or $4.50 USD which is just nuts since it was the cheapest bag. You would think you would be able to find cheap food somewhere, things that aren't common to home but more common here. Well we just haven't found that yet.

So far I've had a good time, the people are super nice. Everyone speaks English, the Barbados version. But it's super cool to be around mellow laid back people. The stress fee nature of the country is starting to finally have some effect on me. I'm hoping I can take of this easy natured, stress free mO back home. Uh huh....

The beach has been pretty quiet, it's nice to have some privacy on the beach. I've been able to read 2/3 of my book so far. "The game penetrating the secrect society of pickup artists." Yes... why am i readin this i don't know... ok well my posse has taken off on me so i'm going to wrap this post up and check to see how i'm doing in the hockey pool...

Burn burn burn... my sun burns are still burning... easy!]]>
1. It's Friday! (the last day of the work week for myself!)
2. It's the last day of work for me before taking a week off for vacation.
3. It's the day before we leave for a warm week in Barbados. (Did I say warm? I meant to say HOTT! With the double 'T'!)
4. Tonight is our staff poker tournament. (So I'm going to learn to play, and the beginners luck thing should kick in which means I'm going home with everyone's money! You better believe it!)
5. Today will be the last evening that I have to clean up rabbit poop for a week. (I'll miss our bunny, but not the poop and constant vacuuming!)

There... now if you hear me complaining at all at anytime today, you have the right to give me a slap up side the head and say "You selfish pig!"
Map of Barbados!
Last night's hockey game was awesome! The Flames kicked some St. Lous Blues butt! Our captain, Jarome Iginla, scored two goals, with 7 penalty minutes and a darn good fight! (You're going down Tkachuk!)

Tonight, I've got to start packing, finish building the elliptical machine and spend lots and lots of time with our computer so that I don't experience withdrawal when away on vacation.

Otherwise, have a great week people. I will try to post a blog entry here and there while in Barbados, but I wouldnt count on a daily entry!]]> Flopping Fish...
Good Morning! Yesterday after work I met Alli at her work and we went to Sears together to pick up our new elliptical machine. We managed to lug the thing home by borrowing one of her dad's trucks.

The guy working in the Sears shipping dock at North Hill was super helpful. I didn't catch his name but thank you very much for your help Mister!

When we got home we lugged the beast of a machine downstairs and started assembling the puppy. Ummm.. after dinner that is. We finished up some left overs and got to step 6 in the user manual. When it came time to grease up some rods we looked at each other and decided neither of us wanted to get greased up before bed. So off to bed we went. We read for a little bit then I passed out... as usual!

I had some strange dreams last night. I don't completely remember then all but the one I do remember is me laying on the ground while someone is hacking me to bits with a machete or axe. I could feel him chopping into my back and I kept fighting back. But I couldnt stand for some reason. I think I may have actually been flopping around like a dead fish in bed after each swing of the axe/machete. Ouch... I dont know what prompted it but I don't think I'm a fan of getting hacked to pieces. Actually I'm pretty sure I'm not... I had some other strange dreams but not quite as memorable.

Tonight, I get to go to the Flames game. Yahooo! Then tomorrow after work is the Poker tournament here at work. Then maybe around late Friday night or early Saturday I'll be able to get some packing done before we leave to visit a distant island in the caribean. *If you don't know you betta aks somebody!*

Only 2 more days of work and then I can switch into vacation mode. Have a great day peoples! And if you can try to... GET SOME WORK DONE FOR ONCE!]]> Kristine]]> Daniel and I were totally talking about you last night after class because we were walking to our cars and it was sooo cold! and we were like, Mista Mo will be basking in the sun soon! anyway Mo, I'm just buggin...please do enjoy the nice warm weather for us :)
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Good Morning! Well i had a rather pleasant evening with my wife. She cooked me up a delicious meal. Mmmmm... then we watched the hockey game. The Flames lost to the Canucks but it was nice to just see a game again.

Yesterday I picked up a couple of tickets to this Thursday nights game against the St. Louis Blues, from one of my co-workers! (Thanks Mr. Jeremy!) I'm hoping wifey is able to get the night off so that she can go with me, otherwise I may have to find someone else to come.

Tonight after work, Alli and I are heading to Sears to pick up our elliptical machine that her mom bought us as a wedding gift. I'm pretty excited, now I just have 3 days to burn off all the fat on my body before we head to Barbados. hehe... Do you think I can do it?

Our bunny is going to stay with Alli's dad for a week. Hopefully, he takes to that ok. Allison keeps asking "I wonder if he's going to miss us?" Me too!

That's all for today, have a good one peoples! NOW GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
The weekend was great. I managed to implement my first AJAX demo, and now I've been readnig up and playing with Microsofts implementation of AJAX, called "Atlas". You can download the Visual Studio 2005 plug in from http://asp.net I haven't played with it a whole lot yet, but the tutorials are pretty good.

So today's the first day the NHL resume's after the Olympic break. Thank goodness, because I'm starving for a little hockey action. Calgary vs. Vancouver! Should be a good one...

This weekend a friend of mine showed me this book he was reading. It's called "The Game: The secret society of pickup artists." or something like that. It's a book about this internet society thats dedicated to the art of picking up girls. Yes... The book looks like a bible. Black cover, gold pages with the red ribbon book mark. Seems to be a good read on just basic human interaction. I could sure use some of that, I'm nervous as heck when meeting new people. I'm just not able to form sentences as smooth as I would like and I ended up stuttering out something that sounds half English.

Anyways... that's about all that's going on in mO's world! Take it easy and have a great day...

NOW GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
Why you ask? Here's why... last week we received this letter in the mail.


Dear Owner:


Welcome to _______________. We are pleased to be your Community Managers
and we appreciate the opportunity to serve your needs as a condominium
owner.

Working together we can ensure a well administered, properly maintained
community, a community in which it is a pleasure to live and which enjoys stable
property values.

Based on the unit factor assigned to your unit your monthly condominium
contribution is $122.04 due and payable on the first day of each month beginning
December 1, 2005.

As you are just starting on our Pre-Authorized Payment Plan, please fill
out the attached P.A.P. form and return to us with your personalized cheque
marked "void", together with a cheque in payment of December, January &
February's contribution made payable to and identified
with your unit number. Please ensure we receive your completed form and cheques
by February 10, 2006. The bank will then have sufficient time to process your
Pre-Authorized Payment form and begin automatic withdrawals March 1,
2006.

We are please to have this opportunity to serve you and look forward to a
long and happy relationship.

Yours Truly,

FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS


CONDOMINIUM FIRST MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD.
M.L. Fitzsimonds
Community Manager

ML/tm

cc: Board of Directors



Ok... now my beef can be re-iterated by the email that I sent to Condominium First.


To: ml@condominiumfirst.com

Date: Feb 20, 2006 2:39 PM

To whom it may concern,

My wife and I recently moved into the community and have just received a form to complete the preauthorized payment program. According to the letter we received, our monthly condominium contribution is $122.04, due payable on the first day of each month beginning on December 1, 2005.

To my understanding the condominium fees are collected in order to maintain our community by providing services such as snow removal, parkade sweeping/scrubbing, management of parking stalls properly posted signage indicating that our stalls are private property etc. Since moving here, we have not been provided with such services. On a daily basis we come home to find someone else's vehicle occupying our parking stall.

We understand the community is still under development, and that services cannot be provided without a communal pool of funds. However, we are not pleased that we are being billed for services we have not received.

I would appreciate some feedback as to how you can assure me that by paying the fees dating back to December that we will indeed one day see these services. Do we currently have the right to protect our parking stalls, and if so what is the proper course of action when doing so? What services should we have already seen performed? Who or what is the proper channel to contact for our concerns?

Thank you for your
time,

Mo & Allison Khan




I Have yet to hear back from Condominium First, and I'm losing my patience with the rude people occupying our parking stall each day. I don't appreciate the constructions workers hooting and hollering early Saturday mornings, playing their loud music, leaving garbage in front of our house. I'm looking forward to the day that we actually have regularly scheduled garbage pickup and snow removal. I refuse to pay for services that we have no received.

What should I do? Do I have to pay the condo fees? Is there anyone I can voice my concerns too?

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Hopefully by Monday I will have completed my first AJAX project. Besides that... HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!]]> Good Morning! So the big talk in Canada right now is about how our Canadian Men's Hockey team lost to team Russia in the quarter finals yesterday, by a score of 2 to nothing. That's their 3rd loss of the tournament, all by a score of ... (you guessed it!) 2 to nothing! *sigh*

Everyone's got their own reason as to why the team did so poorly. "They were'nt ready, they should have added this guy instead of that guy to the lineup. " This and that... but the fact is we lost, we're out, and now we've got 4 years before we can redeem ourselves. I think it's actually good that Men's hockey isn't completely dominated by Canada and USA. It was good to see Sweden instead of USA play Canada in the womens final. It just means the level of competition is rising and we should expect to see better hockey. My reason for our loss is that we just didn't prepare like we should have. I didn't take it on as serious as I should have. I really thought Canada was just going to walk right through the tournament and crush all teams in the way. Boy was i wrong, and surprised after the first loss, then second, and finally third. *sigh*

Because I arrived at work late yesterday, I ended up staying a little long to make up the time. I also had to pick up wifey from work at 5pm. On my way to picking up wifey I managed to lose control of the car and do a complete 180 degree turn while turning off from 32 ave to 4th st nw. Boy that was scary, good thing no body slammed right into me. Everything worked out ok, but my nerves were a little shot afterwards. It's probably time for a good set of tires on the car. Ask Allison, she know's just how upset I was by the time I picked her up. Eeep!

At least I had a splendid evening. We stopped at the grocery store and picked up some dinner. Dinner was great, conversation wicked, and dishes a breeze. Afterwards we spent some time on the computer paying off bills and setting up an RRSP. Oh yeah... that was a good feeling! We then spent the rest of the evening talking about the future... yada yada yada...

And now here I am back to work, it feels like I haven't left my cubicle all week. At least more then half the work week is over, and the weekend is almost here. That's all for today...

GET BACK TO WORK!]]> Heavy Snowfall
So this morning I set a new record. Longest commute to work in my life! 1 1/2 hours of driving. start, stop, start, stop. Eeek.... it snowed rather heavily last night which set the city of Calgary into a state of "can't drive straight". At least I made it to work... *dang!*

I'm glad that half the week is already gone. It's nice to know there's only 2 1/2 days until the weekend. *sigh* and then an additional week until Barbados. Ahhh... jelous?! you're jelous!! hehe

I got a good night of rest so I'm feeling a little more alert today. It was nice to have a working radio in the car this morning. So all in all... I'm a happy camper, or farmer. Cubicle farmer that is!

Enjoy the rest of your day... and if you can... GET SOME WORK DONE!]]>
Good Morning! Another long weekend has come and gone *sigh*! As usual it feels like it just started, and before you know it, it's over. At least we got a long weekend, lucky Albertan's!

I managed to miss out on my Friday post simply because of traffic and accidents on good old Deerfoot Trail. Yuck!

Saturday I got up nice and early and took our car in to future shop to get our car starter installed and stereo fixed. Thank you Mr. Sean and Mr. Frank at the Northland Futureshop for taking care of our car. It's working suuuuperb! The car starter is a lot of fun to play with... hehe...

The Canadian Womens hockey team beat team Sweden to win gold at the Olympics. Yipeee... and the guys lost 2 in a row. 2 to nothing and 2 to nothing to the hands of Switzerland and Finland.

Our bunny chewed through the wire of my xbox controller so i ended up getting a new one. I finally picked up a new battery for our cordless phone. I sent our condo management company an email describing my displeasure for receiving a bill for condo fees when we have not received any services yet. No snow removal, no garbage pickup, no posted signage protecting our parking stalls. Nothing! I don't understand why we would pay them condo fees for nothing.

Let's see what else did i get done... a little laundry. A little prep for our trip to Barbados coming up in less than 2 weeks. Got some groceries. Went and caught a movie. "Date Movie" that is... it was kind of a weird laugh. I would suggest you wait to see it when it comes out on dvd, if you must.

I think that wraps up my weekend. Have a great 4 day work week... NOW GET TO WORK!]]>
Brrrr... boy is it ever cold! It was a slower drive to work this morning, but at least i made it in one piece. Deerfoot can sure be crazy on mornings like this. When the roads aren't bad, but they aren't great. You've got to be aware of the drivers that like to drive a little above regular speeds and you've also got to be aware of the drivers that drive a little below regular speeds. But I guess that's a day to day battle on the QE2.

My evening was pleasant. I managed to soak in an episode of the Diggnation podcast, while I revamped my existing site. Hopefully I will be able to publish the changes this weekend, if all goes well. I also got to hook up my new 19" monitor care of one Mr. Daniel! Thank you Mr. Dan! (Dual Monitor baby, can ya dig it?!)

This morning I got to polish off the rest of the Mini wheats... so you know what that means. Lot's and lots of frosting mixed with the milk this morning! Mmmm.... frosting!
I'm really looking forward to having our car starter installed this Saturday. It's way overdue but hopefully the good people at Future Shop will be able to take of it. Besides that... all is normal in mO's world! Thanks for tuning in... NOW GET BACK TO WORK!]]> Good Morning! Well it finally snowed, and I was hoping that winter would just skip us this year. *sigh* the morning drive to work wasn't as bad as i had expected, and Valentines dinner at the Chili Club Thai House was awesome. We had coconut rice, yellow curry chicken, pad thai, and one other dish that i just cant seem to remember at the moment. It'll come back to me...

We made it down there just in time for our 6pm reservation. I ended up wasting 2 bucks on a parking meter that was free. *good job mO!* Uh huh but besides that Valentines day was great... I also found out that I actually have 12 full working days before we leave for vacation, not the 7 that I thought yesterday. I guess I forgot about a week. *Dang!* So 2 weeks from this Saturday we're on a plane to Toronto, then to Barbados (you've got to pronounce it my way, Bar-Baaaa-dose, c'mon try it its fun!)

Hmm... not much else to report here! I'm very much looking forward to the 3 day weekend coming up. I plan to use it to catch up on a lot of things around the house, including... revamping my website, doing some laundry, making a stop to future shop to pick up a new ink cartridge for our printer, and maybe whip myself up a juicy steak, or chicken caesar salad. Which ever I happen to fancy first...

Hey you, with tuque on your head... GET BACK TO WORK!
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I don't know why i wasn't expecting it, Allison always gives me something on Valentines day. I guess in my head I had the idea that on this day, Men are to treat their wives and girlfriends. Not vice versa! Thanks hunny!

After work yesterday I made my way to Superstore where I checked out the huge displays of Valentines stuff! Eeep... so I put in my share of money into the big marketing strategy pot. I don't really know much about Valentines day, or how it started. But man these merchants have a good thing. For some unknown reason people are expected to show their love and devotion to their loved ones on this particular day of the year. Meh... I'll play along, and I kind of enjoy it actually! *shhhh....*

Tonight we have reservations at the Chili Club Thai House (long name, small cozy restaurant.) I went to this restaurant for the first time back in December and I really enjoyed it. The food was fabulous, but what I liked even more was the atmosphere, and the artwork. The entire place looked so nice. I'm looking forward to going back there...

I guess it's time to get to work... at least I've got the 3 day weekend to look forward too. Oh, and Barbados!]]>
Weekend was pretty relaxing as usual. But it seems to blow by before i can finish everything i had planned on doing on the weekend. Looks like i'm just going to have to stop putting things off until the weekend. *isn't that a strange word... "weekend"!*

I drove by my old Domino's this weekend to find that it was closed. *gasp* I couldn't believe, my heart actually sank. I didn't realize i had such an attachment to the old place. I immediately called their direct #, 289-3030, to see what had happened... It just kept ringing and ringing, i didn't even get a voicemail message. Y'know your standard, hours of operation message. It was even my first thought this morning. "maybe their just renovating, well then why didn't they answer their phones? And if they moved locations, im sure they wouldnt have changed the number, so why didnt anyone answer. oh no what happened." I must know, after all i spent a good 5 years of my life in that place.

As for the rest of my weekend, I didn't really leave the house. I popped into the grocery store to get some things, but besides that it was me and bunny for most of the weekend. Hopefully this week flies by, because i'm looking forward to the 3 day weekend. Oh yeaaah...

GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
Last night mommy inlay and Mr. Cal stopped by with a few left overs from the new dinner they tried. I haven't had a chance to give it a try yet, but I'll make sure to try it out for supper. They also reminded me of what my gift for Allison was going to be. "Tony n Tina's wedding" tickets. Geez... I've spent the last few nights trying to remember what my awesome idea was, and suddenly out of the blue my mother inlaw reminds me. Thanks BTW!

So i checked out the "tony n tinas wedding" site to see how i could get tickets. (www.tonyandtinaswedding.com) The first show in Calgary started last night, so after work tonight I will be stopping by ticket master to pick up some tickets. I totally forgot to mama-inlaw if her and Cal wanted to join. I'm assuming yes, of course but I just want to make sure it's all hunky dory! Hopefully we'll be able to go to the Saturday show, starting at 6pm. I've never been to one before but it's supposed to be pretty fun.

Here's what I know.. basically the show is a wedding. You buy tickets to go to this wedding reception. They serve dinner and there are actors sitting at each table. Each actor plays a part in the wedding, this person is related to the bride or groom or whatever. And you basically play along, and stumble into strange conversations. meh.. i donno sounds interesting! As long as I don't have to get up on stage and dance. AGAIN! ( Batman and Boy Blunder at the dinner theatre next to westbrook mall.)

Next on the list... I got a happy birthday comment! Thanks! ... I think I know who you are, Annonymous. And no my birthday hasn't passed, but you're covered for this year! hehe...

I wonder what I'll be doing this sunday, February the 12th?! hmm... any suggestions!?

Ok i'm done ranting for the week. See ya next week! GET BACK TO WORK, SLEEP, NINTENDO or whatever is it you're supposed to be doing!]]> Anonymous]]> hmmm i thinks i am gonna be at the stavros around 7ish in ranchlands its free pool ya know
M]]> Anonymous]]> (early b-day gathering)
your more than welcome to come
M]]> Anonymous]]> Good Morning! On my way to work today I was just thinking, isn't there a 3 day weekend coming up soon? Alberta Family Day? Good... because I would like one!

My evening was pretty simple, eat left overs, play with bunny, listen to pod cast on BtSharp and channel surf for a good hour. Yup... pretty lame! I think I may be starting to get sick. I feel awfully tired when I really shouldn't be and my throat is feeling a little swollen. Yuck! I'll beat it, you just watch me!

So the hockey world is a little upset right now with the "scandal" behind the bench of the Phoenix Coyotes. Assisstant or associate coach Rick Tochet is facing aligations of a gambling ring. *i think or something like that!* Correct me if i'm wrong, but did they say that they were betting on sports not including hockey? Anyways, what got me thinking is are we as strict on gambling up here in Canada? I'm not sure how strict it is in the states or what constitues legal vs. illegal gambling but I'm just confused as to what the big hub bub is. Looks like I should do a little more research to get the full story... not to mention I need to do some research on Barbados, and RSS, and Torrents, and pod casts and... hmmm... I better get to it!

As for the rest of you... well... GET BACK TO WORK!
]]> Jenn]]> Anonymous]]> just wanted to say happy b-day or belated b-day wich ever one is closer lol
you prob dont know how this is but
heres a hint its allmost my b-day too
take it easy
M]]> Anonymous]]> M]]>
So last night when I got home from work I found that my wonderful wife had dinner prepared for us. I was a little late getting home because I for some reason thought I had to pick up Allison from work. *silly mO* Dinner was great!

After dinner we watched the movie "Mr & Mrs. Smith" starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Well this movie was ok. Not quite what I had expected, but I guess it was ok. The gun play in this movie was kind of hokey. And well all the shooting and banging and crashing was just to unreal for me. I've got to get a sense of reality in those types of movies. I mean if I heard the sound of shot gun blasts next door I would pick up the phone and call the police right away. Where were the police? They weren't in this movie, so how do they remain to covert with these secret lives with all the bang bang shoot em up. Eeep.... This movie gets a heads down from mO!

Anyways... This Saturday will be 3 weeks until the day we leave for Barbados. I'm excited! But for know... GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
Ok so about my evening... Well i came home after work. I had a bowl of chunky for dinner. I played with the bunny. I spent a little time on the computer researching AJAX (asynchronous javascript and XML.) Ohhh ahhhhh... it's one of the latest crazes in the web development world and I want to figure it out. So far it doesn't look to hard to implement, except for my lack of knowledge of the document object model and javascript. But I'm determined to learn...

Afterwards I spent more time with the bunny. I'm trying to be as strict as possible so when he does something bad, like poop on the carpet or hop on the couch, I immediately put him in his cage. I think he's starting to understand, i hope *gulp!*. Sometimes I think he's actually training me. When he wants water he will start gnawing on his cage. He has a little water bottle that he can drink from when ever he wants, but when he starts gnawing he wants me to squeeze the bottle so that the water come out quicker.

After a couple loads of laundry, and some time watching the hockey game I was off to bed. Lucky for me Allison's off tonight! Well that's all for now... GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
Saturday I had my alarm set for 8am so that I could make it to the appointment at Visions electronics on time to get our car starter installed. I got there on time and met with Sean, the fellow I booked the appointment with. He told me I wasn't in his scheduling book. I explained that I called 3 times, 3 weeks ago to make the appointment and that I had specifically spoken to him. After I made the appointment I wrote down everything he had mentioned to me on a pad of paper and stuck the sheet in my wallet. So I whipped the sheet out and starting reading off everything he told me. Like...
"Talk to Sean - he's in sales now. Mark - sound engineer and dj downtown. Alex - he's the newbie in the shop from Future shop sales. Feb. 04, 2006. 10am-6pm all day."

Sean couldn't do anything for me except for ask if his technician would have time to do the install today. His technician looked me in the eye and said "I'll do it when I can do it". Feeling like the technician didn't take me seriously I asked for a full refund. If Visions Electronics does not want to take me on as a serious customer, then I will take my money else where. Lucky for me I did...

Later that afternoon, Allison and I headed down to the new Best Buy at Northland Village. We quickly found out that they did not have remote car starters for standard transmission vehicles, so we walked across the mall to Future Shop. Where we saw a banner stating... "Car Starter's installed for $149.00" or something like that. Patrick, one of the most helpful sales reps', took us to the back where they do the installs. He made sure to get the info we needed for our car and we booked an appointment. On Saturday, February 18th we're finally getting a car starter installed into our car, for less and from a pro. A gift we recieved from Christmas! I spoke with one of the guys working there whom I knew from my high school days and he said "Sean" the guy who does the installs' is awesome. He's supposed to be one of the best in western Canada. Finally, finally... someone who actually believes in their technician. I've been waiting for this day, to finally find a reliable technician. So that I don't have to worry about having to replace my battery and alternator again (Thanks Soundsurround!)

Sunday... blah! GET TO WORK!]]>
Yesterday I worked, as usual. Then I picked up my wife after work, as usual. Then we went home had dinner, played with our bunny and watched a movie, as usual! hehe... Last night we watched a movie called "At the enemy's gate." It was about the battle of Stallingrad in WWII, and a heroic sniper in the Russian army. Yup, pretty good stuff!

Then we went to bed! Before going to bed I realized that I was supposed to get my 2nd Hep A & B shot yesterday. Looks like I will have to do that after work today. Tomorrow I've got to drop the car off at Visions to get our remote car starter installed and our stereo fixed. Which means that at some point today I will have to find out what bus to catch to get me home from Crowfoot. *Awww shucks!* As for tonight, I plan on doing nothing. I'm going to go home, play with our bunny, watch some A&E and go to sleep. That's all I want to do. Maybe I will eat peanut butter on toast for dinner. Mmm... melted peanut butter.

I should also mention that my contact lenses showed up yesterday from Vision Direct. I assume it got held up at customs. So a quick note to Vision Direct customers here in Calgary, expect to recieve your order in no less than 3 weeks. But it's worth it, in my opinion. The prices are pretty darn good from what I can tell. Anyways mO K out...

GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
So I got little sleep last night, I'm not complaining. It's my own fault! I went to the Flames game with a co-worker that invited me. It was a lot of fun. Calgary lost by a score of 2 to 1 to the Columbus Blue Jackets in a shoot out loss. And the game didn't start until 8pm. I managed to pass out in the comfort of our bed at around 11:30pm. Tonight I will head to bed early, or catch a nap right after work!

Well that's all for now in the world of mO... have a good day and GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
So... Monday morning I headed out the door to jump in our car. When I opened the door it seemed a little sticky. I sat down and shut the door... shut the door. Did I stutter? No the door wouldn't shut. Being the pessimist/paranoid freak that i am, my first reaction was that someone hit the car and dented the door, second i thought that someone had tried to pry the door open. The lack of streetlight outside the house didn't help either. So I got out of the car picked up my cell phone and called in to work to say that I would be late (I very much dislike being late!). Next I ran back in and turned on our porch light. I came back to the car and felt all around the driver side door, there was no visible sign of damage. The door shut just fine, but the latch which clamps the door shut wouldn't catch. Damnit... don't get a car wash late in the evening near the end of January, even if it is nice out.

So back i hopped in the house to go wake up my wife. "Pssst... hunny did you have any trouble getting in the car last night? Are you sure? Because the car door won't close. That's what I said, the door wont close." So my hunny wrapped herself up in a house coat and trotted downstairs half awake to perch on our doorstep as I demonstrated our car's new trick.

Next she called a cab for me so that I could get to work. The operator told her it would be about 10 minutes. After that she called AMA. Thank goodness for an AMA membership. 30 minutes later there was no sign of a cab or the AMA guy. Lucky for me lights came on at mother inlaw's house so I quickly gave Mr. Cal a call to see if I could get a ride in to work with him. He just happens to work in the same area so I jumped in the truck with him and scooted to work. Allison cancelled the cab.

As we were pulling out of our complex we drove by the AMA guy. He was parked on the side of the road looking at what I assume to be a map. Allison called me while driving down to work to tell me the AMA guy had trouble finding our place because the latest city maps had our street name incorrect. Which could be why the cab never showed up. Anyways, Mr. AMA said the latch got stuck and that he was surprised that it had happened to such a new model vehicle. He takes care of the same problem quite often but with much older model vehicles. He suggested that we take it to the dealership to make sure its not a defect. I guess we could do that... but I'm just hoping it happened because of the car wash.

Ok... so at the end of my work day I trotted down to the c-train station where I caught the train downtown. I was catching my first bus ride home from downtown in our new place. As I was looking for my bus stop a couple of kids asked me where the "City Tv" building was. I pointed it out to them and they ran off happily. Next a lady approached me and started walking with me, she asked me if I could help her find a building. I said sure, she seemed distraught. She couldn't remember the name of the building except that it was a meeting place for people to meet for a little while and it started with a G or C. In my head I thought, is she a hooker looking for the Cecil Hotel? Meeting place for people to meet for a little while? No not the Cecil as I suggested. She began to cry, oh man... I continued walking looking for my bus stop and she walked with me rambling and crying. I felt bad but I wasn't sure what was really going on. She stopped walking with me and i found my stop.

As I sat on the but I couldn't stop thinking about that lady, did she really need help? Oh man maybe she meant the Devonian Gardens in TD. I guess I could have asked her if she could call someone to ask for an address. I had a cell phone on me. I wonder if she will be ok, she didn't seem like a hooker or crack head. Just a nervous lady lost in a big city. Oh mO you dummy why didn't you help her! You know downtown fairly well, I'm sure if you had just stopped and helped her you could have made her day and then she wouldn't have to cry. Damnit, the guilt is still eating me up.

It strange how things in life just come at you out of the blue. The little things, and then what's strange is the way you deal with them. Before this I would have thought of myself as a helpful person, but after this I'm not sure I really am. I feel like a jerk! I remember being in situations where I would ask a stranger for a little help. I would choose someone who looked like they new the area well. For instance if you're downtown someone in a suit and tie, I would assume would now downtown fairly well. Anyways, I remember just being ignored! Completely and utterly ignored. I'm standing next to this person, right next to this person at the train station and he is just pretending like I don't exist. Grrr... I don't feel like I treated that lady with the same disrespect but I do feel like I could have done more for her.

Sigh... GET TO WORK!]]>
Hmmm... well because I just wanted to inform you that I had a post ready in my mind, i've been stewing on it for most of my evening and during my drive to work this morning.

Perhaps, just perhaps I may be bold enough to post during lunch. I doubt it, but we'll see!

GET TO WORK!]]> Darryl]]> [crowd chanting]
post! post!
pOsT! pOsT!
PoSt! PoSt!
POST! POST!]]> Anonymous]]>
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But to me looking at code and understanding code is like looking at graffiti "art". Most people probably wouldn't give the time of day to decipher a good piece of graffiti, now would they be able to tell what "good" graffiti looks like. When I was younger I liked walking down alleys, and down by the train tracks downtown just to look at the graffiti. I was terrible at it, but I enjoyed looking at it. I was fortunate enough to get to know a couple of well known artists in the city and I sometimes got to see this art come to life before my eyes. I never understood how then new that this line was supposed to be drawn right here and this color was supposed to be used right there but the end product always seemed to come together effortlessly.

Programming is my form of graffiti! It's when I get to put together pieces of art that eventually come together to form a polished product (hopefully!). Not having to conform or doing things a certain way.

I remember one night when I was painting lines in a parking lot downtown when a person whom I presumed to be a crack head put it best "that's what's wrong with this society, they're always painting lines around us." I don't know why, but it stuck to me! I like adventuring outside the box, but I take comfort being in the box.

It's Friday, so take a stretch, sip on some coffee or juice if you prefer and GET BACK TO WORK!

... if you're at all interested in checking out some graff that i consider great look up the writer "Afex" at www.visualorgasm.com]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]>
1. When you pull up to a stall in a public washroom and look down to find that the stall you have chosen just happens to have a pubic hair just barely hanging off the edge. And i wonder not about just how it got there but rather if it will end up on my shoe?

2. Entering a public bathroom that has a foul odor omitted from one or more of the stalls. I pull up to a stall to do my business and this person leaves the washroom. I go wash up and upon exiting someone else enters the washroom. Now I wonder and I going to get credit for the foul smell. What am I supposed to do, look at this person and say "it wasn't me man". Now I'm not going to tell that my sh*t don't stink, but who wants to be credited for someone else's distinct foul odor's. Yuck!

3. Motorists! I never understood why people are so fascinated by the sight of automobile accidents. Yesterday, after work I was stuck in a traffic jam on deerfoot. It turns out there was an accident just south of 17th Ave northbound. The accident was moved off to the side with a few cars. Nothing major, but as you pull by you can see heads turning to look at what's going on. But as soon as you get passed the accident it was free sailing. I went from 1st gear to 5th in a matter of seconds. So the traffic jam was probably originally started by the accident but to me it seemed to continue because people slowed down to take a look at the accident. Mind your own business people, if police is on the scene it's most likely ok. And if you're actually looking over because you're concerned and think that you might be able to help then I applaud you. But if you're just staring because you want to see... Grrrr!

4. Neighbors! If my neighbors could just learn to park in between the lines everything would be ok. So someone please tell me, how do you train your neighbors to park within the confines of one parking stall (preferably their own!)?

That's all folks! Vacations over, GET TO WORK!]]> 9 hrs of sleep!

I lack discretion and maturity. I wrote my last entry out of frustration and anger. I'm not sure whom my anger was directed at, but I decided to take it out on those that care about us.

The crystal glasses are actually pretty cool. They will come in handy to celebrate special occasions and to help us consume all the bottles of champagne currently sitting in our house.

The crystal vase will always be a great reminder to me to bring home flowers for my special wife. Let's see if I can actually put it to use.

Airing out my grievances in a public forum about family members was not fair. I would not like to read negative comments made about me online. Until I learn to deal with people head on, instead of running to my computer so that I can share my differences with the world, I've decided to end this web log.

I apologize to everyone that has been hurt by my thoughts. I'm not asking for forgiveness, especially from those of you whom I barely know. I showed a lack of respect and dignity. Hopefully, I will be able to use this event to grow in a positive manner.

Thank you to the handful of people who read my thoughts almost religiously. Thank you for all the great comments and feedback. And thank you for helping me grow!

GET BACK TO BED, its Sunday!]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]>
Yes, so I've decided that I'm going to start recording how much I sleep. I think in the last 3 months my hours per week have drastically declined. I was getting a good 8 hours consistently every night before marriage. Oh the married life... hectic aint it! I'm not complaining, I wouldn't change anything except I do want to get back onto more consistent hours of sleep. It's difficult, at least for me to get to sleep unless I feel like I've had some personal time for myself each day. If I feel like I've been at "work" all day, from either sitting in a cubicle or entertaining the inlaws I just feel drained when I get home at 10:30 pm. Then for me to just crash without time for me is tough. *waaaa waaaa waaaaa keep crying mo*

So after work I rushed to pick up Allison from work. We were supposed to go straight to Future shop to pick up our tv. then race it home to watch the canadian jr hockey final. When I got to Alli's work I had to sit and wait for half an hour. The girl who was supposed to take over the bar for Alli was late. *grrrr #1*

So we hopped in the car and raced home to pick up the receipt for the tv. On our way home I got pulled over and I received a $150.00 speeding ticket. I was doing 75 km/hr in a 50 km/hr zone. My excuse: I thought it was a 60 zone, really I did. I'm going back tonight to see if there actually is any posted signage indicating that it's a 50 k zone. Anyways... I screwed up and now I have to go downtown, wait in line for an hour, show up late for work by 2 hours just so I can see if I can negate the demerit points. *Grrr... # 2"

We made it to future shop, the one that doesnt answer it's phones. We stood in line at the customer service desk. Before I continue I would like to mention the way that "line's" are supposed to work in my opinion. Well everyone lines up in a single line, then the person at the front of the line get's helped first. After he/she is finished receiving help, the NEXT person in line is to receive help. Apparently, I may be the only one that operates like this. Because while we were second in line the person behind us was grabbing clerk at the counter to help her, and the clerk was helping her. I stood there mumbling swears under my breathe, Allison told me to calm down, and the lady standing at the FRONT of the line was mumbling "Typical, this is just typical." *Grrr... #3* Oh and another note who goes on break from the customer service desk when there's a full line. *just bite your lip mO*

So we got the tv home and the stand, thanks to my father in law who happens to own a few trucks. When we got it home we set up the stand. When we got to the final step in the tv stand installation guide we found out that the rubber nubbies that the glass is supposed to sit on were missing. Yup... not in the box... *Grrr... #.. oh what number am i on 4.*

When we finally turned the tv on it was like a light from the heavens. Finally, it all made sense. The tv is fantastic, canada won gold by a score of 5 to nothing. Oh tv if it weren't for you I don't know what I would do.

8pm we went for dinner at Ricky's, papa inlaw decided to park in a stall clearly marked for Panago pizza customers only. Not sure why, and when the girl at the front desk came out and said "Excuse me, could you please move your car." he decided to say "No!". She retorded "Do you want a $40.00 ticket?", he replied "Go ahead!"

During dinner we found out he's got a friend at the Calgary parking authority which is why he's not worried about getting a ticket. So he can get it tossed out with the snap of a finger. *bravo, applause people! Show the big man some respect! He sure showed that teenie bopper. * I've been on the other side of that counter, I don't understand jerks like that! That is correct I just said that my father inlaw acted like a jerk, in my opinion.

Dinner was good, I had a Chorizo breakie bowl. Then we got dropped off. I walked over to my mother inlaw's house because her boyfriend emailed me that morning. This is what his email said:

"hey you need to phone me something really bad has happened to my home computer.
Ever hear of WIN Hound ?
I'm in deep shit call me at the office ###-#### or cell ###-####
Thanks Mr. Mo
Cal"

Ok... i have no problem helping anyone. I like to think of myself as a helpful person. But when I arrive at work and I receive and email that starts off as "You need to phone me", to me I read it as "YOU NEED TO FIX MY F'n COMPUTER". I don't know about you, but I try to be very polite when I need help. I don't like asking for help, no i dont, but I would have said something like this: "Hey, could you please give me a call!"

So i marched over to mama-inlaws house to take a look at her hubby's laptop. It's pretty bad, but I'm pretty sure I can take care of her. I just didn't want to start working on a laptop at 9:30pm. But I did anyways, I eventually left with Alli at 10:30 and said that I would come back on Saturday to finish up. No biggie!

Oh and we got some crystal glasses and a crystal vase from Alli's aunt, uncle and grandfather as our wedding gifts. That was really nice of them, except I obviously don't know the value of crystal because to me it looked like a couple of glasses. Goes to show how I was brought up. Poor, and I wouldn't change a thing!

Ok so the tone of today's entry has changed drastically, I started off rather calm I thought then I sort of just unloaded and started taking shots at everyone. Unfortuneatly, I've distanced myself from most of my friends so I don't really have anyone else to vent too. So.. what do I do.. I vent to the world so that it can all come back to me. Yes I like to add more stress to my life, it's something I think I'm pretty good at.

Well hopefully I've pissed off everyone an equal amount, I don't want anyone more pissed off at me then anyone else. But I'm off to work now! This should be an interesting weekend! GET TO WORK!]]>
So I picked up Alli from work for the 2nd night in a row. We headed home and cooked up a little stir fry for dinner. Sliced up some chicken, and onions. Tossed it in the wok. added a little thai curry sauce. whipped up a little rice and voila, dinner is served.

Afterwards we headed to Alli's pop's place and watched "Christmas with the Cranks." Ummm... i'm not quite sure what to say. I didn't really like it. The only thing that made the movie funny was the fact it was soooo bad. But I guess I did get a couple of good laughs from it. Personally if my daughter were to come home on christmas eve and i was leaving the next morning on a cruise I would still go. See ya!

Todays the big day for our Canadian Jr. Team. We play Russia for the gold medal. Go Canada go, eh!

I finally got our car booked into Visions to get our remote starter installed. It took a few days and a few calls but it's done. Our tv was supposed to arrive at future shop yesterday so I called as instructed by the salesperson. I called 4 time and let it ring for 10 minutes each call and no one picked up the dang phone. I remember when we were purchasing the tv, the phone was rining and no one was answering it. Why would you bother having a phone if you're not going to answer it, doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a phone? Oh well life goes on right... *breathe mO*

I think that wraps things up for this addition of "In the world of mO!" Have a good day, and make sure you GET TO WORK!]]>
After work yesterday I stopped by Stavros and picked up Allison from work. We went home where I had some left over pasta for dinner and Allison had a bowl of cereal. She played with her bunny for most of the evening while I had a nap as I watched the Canadian Jr team beat time finland 4-0. Apparently the US team lost 4-1 to team Russia. So it looks like it will be Canada vs. Russia for the gold medal.

Around 9pm I jumped in bed and read for a good hour. I'm still reading Allison's baby book. "The mother of all baby books." or something like that. I've learned some pretty good things so far. Mothers should take folic acid 3 months prior to conception and for the first few months of pregnancy to decrease the chances of neural tube disorders. Fertility clinics in Canada suck and aren't as heavily government regulated as they are in the states. # of obstetricians in Canada is declining and rural obstetricians are harder and harder to find. You best chance of conception is to try to conceive the 5 days prior to the start of ovulation. 2 days prior is the jackpot at a 33% chance of conception. Areas of the world that are warmer tend to produce more male babies. A whole lot of tiny facts and thing to think about. Pretty interesting book, give it a read if you can! I'm still working through it.

Ok... so my highlights of 2005. Well... in september I got married in Mexico. Which was one of the best memories of my life. In march we bought our first place, in November we moved in. Lets see... there's lots more. I'll have to spend some more time thinking about all the great things that happened in the year 2005. It's definitely a milestone year in my life and 2006 should be more of the same. But for now...

GET TO WORK!]]>
Yesterday I finally went to go see the doctor about my ring finger. He prescribed a cortizone cream. My finger still hasnt fully healed from my wedding band. After applying the cream a couple of times there is already significant improvement. I suppose I should have gone to see him sooner.

The doctors office was a bit of a nightmare, when I got to the Brentwood walk-in clinic at 11 am there was a 2 hour wait time. So I left my name and went back home.

At home I called "Elections Canada" as they wanted me to in the letter they sent me. The number I called wasn't helpful at all. The lady that answered didn't know why I had to call, except that my address didn't come up in her system. So she gave me another number to call. I called that number and the lady didnt have me as a registered voter in her system. *huh? Then how did I vote in the last federal election?* She asked me to come down to her office with my drivers license so that she could add me to the list. I never made it down... but maybe later this week.

My next phone call was to Visions in crowfoot. The remote car starter we got for christmas was purchased there. The installation was already paid for so all we had to do was book in the car. I called and a lady answered. I asked if I could book my car in for an install. She put me on hold. I waited about 5 minutes or so, a gentleman finally came on and asked whom I was waiting for. I said I was hoping to book my car in for an install, he put me on hold. Time goes by and someone finally picks up.. he says "you have to call back on Wednesday our book is full." oK!~? I said thanks and hung up. WTF? Their book is full, what does that mean? I managed to accomplish nothing after a good 30-40 minutes of phone calls. Goodie!

I went back to the doc's office at 12:30pm and waited about 45 minutes before getting in to see the doc. He gave me the prescription I needed, I decided to get the first of 3 Hep a & b shots and then we were gone. Reminder: I have to come back on February 2nd for my 2nd Hep a&b shot. Then I have to return after 6 months for my booster.

Afterwards Alli and I headed to North Hill mall, I dropped off my prescription at the pharmacy and we went to check out shoppers optical and one other place in the mall. It's time for me to get some glasses I guess. Alli found a pair she really liked on me but we still want to do some more shopping before we commit.

After the mall we headed up to her pop's place to watch the end of the flames vs blackhawks game. Then we ordered up some KFC for dinner. We watched Casino and I was in bed by 10pm.

Sunday we both slept in until 2pm. Allison had a late night at work being that it was new years. As for me, I have no excuse. I didn't drink I just stayed up to late I guess. Sunday was a write off, I don't think we ever left the house. I like days like that.

Alli works the dayshift for the next few days so I guess to see her every night this week. We pick up our new tv on thursday.

I guess it's good to be back to work, but I think I'm already counting down the number of days until the weekend. Next long weekend will probably Alberta Family Day. Good ol' family day! Then we're off to Barbados for the first week of March, I suppose I should book that time off pretty soon.

Take your time, then slowly get yourself BACK TO WORK!]]>
As you all know the year 2005 is now over, and 2006 is just beginning. Wholy exciting batman! So to start off today I woke up around 10am. I rolly my butt out of bed and cleaned up. For breakkie Allison and I cooked up some scrambled eggs, toast, fruit salad and some sausages for myself. Mmmm... I added a little salsa to the eggs and fried it up to give it that extra kick. Wow do I ever enjoy tonnes of flavour. Yummy...

Allison preceeded to play with "hiphop". He's not learned how to hop up stairs, which is scary. Yesterday we caught him at the top of the stairs, we both got excited which must have scared him because he pee'd on the carpet. "Noooooooooooo.... why... oh why?!" yes this is my reaction to a bunny, imagine what I would be like with a small child. Let's not go there right now!

I played a little xbox while Allison showered. Her pop's came by to drop off some mail for Alli, apparently her mail is still going to her old address. No biggie...

Oh.. before I forget I thought it would be important for me to mention that I'm currently listening to my "Cartel de Santa" cd that I picked up in Mexico. It is the shiznit, if I should say so myself! Although, I don't understand most of it!

Ok where was I... I spent my new years eve at papa inlaws house where we watched the canadian jr. team beat the U.S. jr team in IIHF hockey. wooo hooo... then we munched on some chineese food while we watched and exciting game between the flames and oilers. flames won!

Just before midnight I drove up to stavros to give Allison a kiss at midnight. She had to work tonight but it seemed like she was having fun when I got there. I sat down did the countdown thing, gave Alli a hug and kiss and went home.

It was weird... the streets were dead quiet during my drive home. I stopped at a red light at the intersection of beddington blvd. and uhh... what's that street called. Anyways... across the street I saw the checkstop bus and a couple of police cars. Inside the bus the lights were on and I could see the 4 officers inside just sort of "shootin' the sh*t", pardon my french. It was kind of cool to see, new years eve 12:14am and a couple of officers just punching each other in the shoulders just having fun. It's a good thing, I'm not really sure why that stuck out in my mind but I liked the site.

So I drove home, trailed a couple of cars that were sort of wobbling inbetween lanes. Hmm... I'm glad I'm staying home tonight. As of today no liquor for mO in the near future. I lost a lot of weight from just cutting out beer from my diet before going to mexico and hopefully I can do the same before the barbados trip. we'll see... and i guess that wraps up my new years.

Now I'm just waiting for my wife to come home to me... Oh yeah we finally got a tv. Wooo hooo, now we just have to wait until thursday before we can pick it up. Yay... mO's pretty excitied! Ok, enought ranting I think I'll crawl into bed!

Happy New Years!]]> Jenn]]>
Jenn]]>
Yesterday after work I went and scooped up my wife from her work. We then went home, I started some laundry, she cleaned our the bathrooms, I vacuumed the house, she played with the bunny and heated up some leftovers for dinner. Mmmm... steak, rice and salad. Breaded chicken for Allison. Our bunny was scared of the sound of the vacuum at first but then after a while he didn't mind it to much, I think he was pretty happy. He's always running around and sliding into things, one ear up and one ear down.

After dinner Allison's mom stopped by to drop off some leftovers from her fridge and gave Allison her keys. Her and Cal left this morning for Ontario so we'll be watching their place for them while they're gone. Which is great because now Allison gets to drive her moms brand new Toyota Celica around. Man that's a pretty looking car. I haven't had the privelage of riding in it yet, but it looks fast and pretty furious.

Afterwards, I caught the 2nd and 3rd period of the flames game. The flames were up 2 to nothing and lost by a score of 4 to 3. *sigh* you can't win them all I guess.

Tomorrow I'm going to spend some time assembling our new desk. It's going to be great. Just you watch and see, it will be amazing. Maybe I'll post some pictures of our bunny too.

I left the house way to early again, I was planning on leaving just a little bit later so that I got here at about 20 to 8. But now it's 7:34 and I've still got a wack of time to kill. *I complain a lot, don't i?*

Our former co-worker Dirk might stop by for lunch today, I'm looking forward to seeing him all done up in the suit and tie. haha... just kidding!

Ok well I guess I'll go read the news for a bit... have a great and safe new years everyone!]]> Before I forget here's the recipe for Tiger Butter.

Tiger Butter.
1 lb (500 g) white chocolate (bernard calebaut bulk @ superstore)
3/4 peanut butter

Melt in microwave til smooth, don't scorch. Pour onto a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. Drizzle melted chocolate chips over & knife through. (use approx 1/3 pkg.)
Cool in fridge, cut into desired size. Makes alot. 1/2 cookie sheet.

Ok finally that took me long enough. Well, I left the house this morning at the same time i always do to go to work and to my surprise there was no one on the streets. I actually thought for a moment that may I had screwed up and left the house to early or that maybe my clock reset in the middle of the night or something. But nope everyone must be either on holidays or experiencing the christmas hang over. I know I am...

Allison and I were rolling around coughing and sneazing all night. At least I only have to work for 2 days and then I get a 5 day weekend. Poor Alli has to work all week.

Well Sunday we went and did the usual christmas dinner thing. opened up a lot of presents and ate way to much food. Just about everyone at the table was sick. So there was a lot of couging, sneazing, and hacking sounds all around. *lovely*

Yesterday we had dinner at Alli's mom's house. We went over to her place at about 1pm and unwrapped presents. I hung out with Cal's daughter Brittney. She's really smart for a 5 year old. She showed me how to play the Brattz video game, and then we played a game with silly putty. Then she sprinkled a little fairy dust on me to cure me of my cold. I think it worked pretty good, either that or the contact c. But who knows...

For dinner we had, steak, lobster, breaded chicken, broccoli, sweet potatoes and for dessert we had tiger butter and spider cookies. Mmmm... Alli's mom and Cal gave us a remote car starter, which got me really excited. I can't wait to get it installed, it will be great for those cold winter days.

Ugh... back to how sick I'm feeling. Even when I'm a mess and I can't stop coughing and sneezing our bunny still wants to play with me. I think he likes me, but I still can't tell. hehe.. we got him some timothy hay, shavings and a salt lick yesterday. I think he really likes the salt lick. He's such a well behaved bunny.

I wonder just how many people will be in office today, hopefully I don't get everyone else sick. This is one of those chest colds, which sucks because at times I can hardly breathe. ok ok... stop thinking about being sick. I'm not sick... I'm just fine.

Let's see I should have a lot more to tell ya. Allison was pretty happy with the givenchy perfume pack thining, and the make up box. We got some cool coasters from Alli's grandma, with some of our wedding photo's on them. Allison bought me the desk I wanted from staples. I couldn' t believe it. I still haven't put it together yet, but this weekend I will. I also got some new slippers and pyjama pants. A whole bunch of stuff for the desk. *hopefully I can tidy things up a bit in the office this weekend* I also got a bunch of chocolates, beef jerky and other little goodies. I got a cool skully cap, like the ones they used to wear in the '70s. I also got some tools, and some goodies for our BBQ. A scarf and leather gloves to match. The new 50 cent video game for the xbox.

Yup I think it was a pretty good christmas all in all. Looking forward to next year!]]> "c'mon maybe at a soccer game over in Europe but not hockey here in Canada." It wasn't fair for me to say, and now saying it probably made me a bit of a bigot myself. I was just a little steamed after reading a few articles:

If you're interested you can read them here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59919-2004Dec12.html
http://www.popmatters.com/sports/features/050119-europeanfootball.shtml

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1798795,00.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0512/p07s01-woam.html

Here's what I was referring too with the hockey taunting thingy:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051219/nolan_051219/20051219?hub=TopStories]]> "Can I open my present now?"
Her reply... "No su su, we have to go to my dad's first!"
My reply "Ahhh but please... it's Christmas and I waited so patiently!"

I can wait... *i guess* haha... So I just finished having a shower, I ran downstairs and let "hiphop" out of his cage. We're getting along pretty well. When I'm in the kitchen cooking he likes to nest in between my feet. I have to be careful because sometimes I don't even know he's there. He sure likes to lick my hands a lot, and he seems to have found a corner in his cage that he likes to pee in. He hasn't pee'd or poop'd on the floor for a few days now, he's pretty good about hopping back up in his cage.

I can't believe he was the last one to get picked at the pet store, he's such a good bunny!

What day is this, hmmm... Sunday. Oh boy I'm so behind, so where was I when I last posted. Oh yeah Thursday morning. So Thursday was kind of a long day, I think everyone was anxious to get the internal staff party started, I could hear people talking all day. Everyone was in a good mood. At 4 pm I we headed down to the tech center to start our pot-luck feast. It was great, there were 3 different types of meatballs, rolls, lasagna, fried rice, carrot caserole and a whole bunch of other goodies. I can't forget to mention the 2 boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts. That's right you heard me 2 boxes of fat pills. Mmmm....

Our gift exchange was pretty fun. It starts off with someones name getting drawn from a hat. That person when up and picked out a present from the table and unwrapped it in front of everyone. Jeremy drew the first name, he just happened to draw his own. *haha* so he picked up some Bernie Calebaut chocolates. Now the next name in the hat has the option to steal one of the presents opened before or he/she can pick another one off the table. This was a lot of fun, certain items were passed along so many times. I brought a box of bernie calebaut as my gift and left with a baggie of bernie's as my gift. So it worked out great for me... lots of chocolates.

After the internal staff party, I mosied on up to co-op to pick up tickets to zoo lights. *shhh... don't tell Allison she hasn't opened her presents yet* Then I popped into pier 1 imports to see if I could find great big cappacino sized mugs. I couldn't find any so I hurried home. I let "hiphop" out of his cage and we hung out for most of the night till I went to bed at around midnight.

Friday, I didn't leave the house. Allison's dad helped me find out that our humidifier hooked up to our furnace wasn't turned on. *which I assume has a great deal to do with my extremely dry skin as of late* We also found out the the hot air vent connected from the furnace was also connected directly to the cold air return. All the hot air getting blown out of the furnace was just going right back through the cold air return and back into the furnace. *which explains why we've had our thermostat up to 23+ just to stay relatively warm* Grrr... so we patched that hole up and turned it down to 19 degrees celsius. It's much warmer in the house now. Grrr....

Our bunny had a lot of visitors on Saturday. Allison's sister Lisa and her friend Breanne came by to say hello, and Alli's poppa came by, and in the evening Alli's mom came by with her step daughter Brittney to say hello. * it's not really her step daughter but it's easier to say then "Allison's mom' boyfriends, daughter!" *

Then I watched an exciting hockey game. Calgary Flames vs. Vancouver Canucks. Calgary won 6-5 with a shootout. Oh man it was a pretty exciting finish. It was cool to see how many flames jersey's were worn over in Vancouver. haha.. flames fans are every where now. I started to get a sore throught, which is pretty sore today!

I can hear my wife crying downstairs... it sounds like she wants me to play with "hiphop" so that she can go have a shower. So I better wrap this up pretty quick.

Saturday, I dropped Alli off at to work at 2pm then picked her up at 5pm and we went to her dad's. We ate spinach dip, oysters, crackers, shrimp and crab pate, blocks of cheese, little oven pastries and we watched "It's a wonderful life!" I fell asleep.
We got home just before 1 am.

uh oh the phone's ringing! BRB
It rang once and didn't even show up on the caller id, that's weird! Maybe I'm hearing things. Ok where was i... yeah so we got home at 1 and played with "hiphop" for a little bit. I felt bad for leaving him home alone all night. He's going to hate christmas if we keep this up. But he was pretty happy when we got home I think. But who knows maybe he doesnt even like us.

Now I just have to finish getting dressed, do my hair and we can go open presents. Finally, I can't wait to try on my new slippers!

Merry mit, mit *that means merry christmas over here, I'm not sure where that got started from but yeah..*]]>
For the $10.00 gift I picked up a little something something from Bernie Callebaut. I figure it's a gift everyone can enjoy. I've also still got to make a pitstop at Mickey D's for some hockey cards. Yup... there should be lot's of cheer at the party after work. But I don't think I'll be sipping on any cheer, but I'm willing to drive people home if they trust my driving skills! hehe... *Ps. you must sign a waiver to enter my vehicle, enter at your own risk!*

So last night after work, I skidaddled straight home. I dropped off more goodies that I picked up yesterday for Allison *In my secret office closet, of course* then I drove on up to Allison's pop's house where she was patiently waiting for me. I can tell that's she getting really excited about Christmas, it's a really big deal to her no matter what she says. She get's this big ol' grin on her face that just doesn't go away. And she'll start making cute little gestures like a 7 year old girl. Awwww.... *cute shmooot* Just kidding, it's great!

As for me, Christmas isn't as big a deal. But's its important that Allison enjoy's it, so if I have too I'm willing to go to the mall. Again, and again.. and yet again!

For dinner we went to the sushi boat. I haven't been there in sooo long. None of the old cooks were there. A lot of new faces, less rice and not as much variety. Hmm... but I can't complain, it's always good to me. After dinner we went back to Allison's pop's place.

Then we headed to superstore. *yuck* It was packed full of cranky people, just the way I like it. I quickly picked up my party platter, and Allison picked up a few other odd's and sod's and we were on our way.

Before going home we made a stop to the pet store. *deep breathe* Where the bunny that Allison saw a few weeks back was still there waiting for her. She picked him up and he snuggled right up in her arms. It was a good fit! *how can i deny a good fit*

I went over and grabbed Mileah, our friendly neighborhood Petland employee and asked her "can we take that bunny home?" She asked if we had a starter kit, I said "We've got nothing, hook a brotha up!"

$250 later we walked out the door of petland with our new baby bunny. His name is "hiphop". *well according to me it, I think it might be "c-c" to Allison.

It's an interesting process to purchase a bunny, you have to fill out a lot of forms that ask questions like "What's the main reason for taking a pet to the vet?" These are good questions mind you, it's important to give thses living, breathing creatures a good home. They're not just a toy that toss away. It's a living being and deserves respect. Now I just wish our little living being could respect our floors and not poop and pee all over it. *yuck*

One of our high school classmates was working behind the till at Petland. Miss Miranda, my friends half cousin. She's married has a 2 year old and lives in Bowness. (say it with me now... "Boooooownesss...") Her and Brian, another one of our classmates, got married right after high school. It's good to see their doing well.

Ok, ok... so you want to know more about the bunny. Im stalling obviously. We got "hiphop" home and I set up his cage. Allison took him out and let him hop all around our kitchen. He seemed to be really happy. He was doing a little bunny dance. Allison tells me that's a sign that he's happy. I'm just glad that Allison is happy, I can't tell you how many times I heard "awwwww...", "ohhhh..", "look mO, look mO!".

Ok I even got to like the little guy, I laid on the floor and he came right up to my face and started licking me. He's pretty darn soft, and friendly. He likes being held, and he likes running into the legs of our dining room chairs. I hope he slept well, he seemed kind of scared this morning when I was leaving for work. He stayed in his little log house. I'm not sure if he was scared or cranky that I woke him up so darn early. Ahhh well... I think I'll play with him when I get home. But no more pooping! *yuck*

Merry Christmas Allison! And Merry Christmas to everyone else, hopefully you'll get to spend some time with the ones you care about and hopefully you'll get just what you wanted for Christmas. But please remember, there are a lot of people who are not so fortunate and may not get the picture perfect Christmas that I'm expecting to have. Please be generous!

Hey you, are you being generous yet? Because if you are, I might let you take a 4 day weekend... what do you think of that?

See ya on Tuesday!]]> KrisiMay]]>
Hope you and yours have a good one

xx]]>
Allison kept rolling around all night, moaning and groaning! It probably had something to do with the realization that she's been married to a guy like me for 3 months as of today. Poor baby, I'd be moaning and groaning too if I realized that. Don't worry maybe I'll get hansomer in my old age.. *sigh* but probably not hunny! Happy 3 month-iversary!

Last night was great, I drove to Stavros and dropped off the car for Allison. I got a ride home from her sister. I got home at 5:30pm. Oh yeah.... I made myself a sandwich and a bowl of chili for dinner then I watched the hockey game. Nashville Predators vs. Colorado Avalanche. I fell asleep, that's right I had an evening nap. I didn't wrap any presents like I had planned, but I had an enjoyable evening at home. No school, no commitments, no stress, just at home on my own doing whatever I wanted. There's no greater feeling!

I made it to bed by 10pm and quickly passed out, I was surprised at just how hard it was for me to get out of bed this morning. You would think after a good nights rest and with an evening nap the night before that I would bounce right out of bed. Instead I woke up, turned off the radio-alarm, laid on my side and stared at the clock. After staring for 2 minutes I mustered up the strength to peel myself out of bed. After tomorrow I get a 4 day weekend. Wooo hoooo... Forget the 6 am alarm, I'm sleeping in!

So I managed to catch up on the news yesterday, I can't believe the NY city transit works are on strike. Wholy moly, on the news they said that approximately 7 million people ride the transit everyday in a city of 8.1 million. Man that's nuts! How they heck do you get around now? There's no room to breathe. The coach of a Moncton hockey team was battered with racial slurs during a hockey game against chicootamee. (I know I spelled that wrong!) But what's up with that... racial slurs at a hockey game, c'mon maybe at a soccer game over in Europe but not hockey here in Canada. Please people... Carson Tucker made more comments about Canadians, somehow relating us to a retarded cousin that you pat on the head. Smooth... Carson, very smooth. I saw him on "The Hour" hosted by George Strombolopolous last night and he seems to be quite the obnoxious fellow, but he makes me laugh.

Let's see what else happened in the news... There was an emergency landing at the Boston airport. CNN was hyping it up making it to be a big story, I bet they were upset when the plane landed safely. "Sorry boys, no story here lets pack it up!"

Yesterday Allison found out that they're closing up Stavros for boxing day as well, so she get's 2 days off in a row. Wholy smokes, can you believe it! She works to damn hard to be married to a lazy fart like me.

My manager at work, told me yesterday that his wife started up a blog of her own. Sweet, everyone should have a blog, it's great! Really it is... Even if you make it private and never share an entry from it ever I still think it's worth it.

I think that covers most of my random thoughts... so uhhh... pass me some more of those pecan tarts, maybe a little tiger butter, oh yeah more of those cookies... and then uhh... yeah GET BACK TO WORK!]]> Anonymous]]>
So yesterday morning while at my desk I wasn't feeling so hot. I came down with a bit of a headache and I began to dry heave a little bit. I'm not really sure what brang it on, but I wasn't being very productive. Thank goodness my manager sent me home. I really needed it, when I got home I stretched out on my back and sucked down a lot of water. I passed out and slept from about 11am to 4pm. I didn't think I was that tired but obviously my body wanted the rest. My tummy still wasn't feeling great when I got up and my headache was 10 times worse. I usually don't get headaches which was strange because I had one all day, and it just got worse and worse.

I am pretty fortunate to have a good manager, I'm not sure where else you would find someone who cared enough to say "mO, just go home!" as if to say.. "you stubborn bastard, you're sick. Take a personal day! No one wants to clean up your puke." Thanks Mr. Darryl!

At 5pm I went and picked up Allison from work, we stopped at the hallmark store on the way home, then I mosied on up into shoppers, where I picked up some tylenol, gold bond dry skin lotion, and a lindor chocolate. The tylenol worked almost instantly, my headache was gone. But I still hadn't regained my appetite.

At home, I finished up my assignment for class tomorrow and I emailed it to my instructor. Then I sat and watched the Flames game while munching on some grapes. The Flames lost to the Oiliers by a score of 5-4. It was quite sad, Kipper was really the only reason the Flames were still in the game. I think he stopped 27 shots while edmonton's goalie stopped 11? Is that true?

Before bed, I sucked down some pepto and passed out. 5 days till Christmas, I better get this weak tummy issue worked out because I've got a lot of eating to do this weekend. Mmmm... I can see it now, oyster stuffing, spinach dip, gravy, fruit salad (my wife makes the best fruit salad, right hunny?), squash, potatoes, and who could forget.. the stuffing, I mean turkey!

For someone who enjoys food as much as I do, I must have one of the weakest stomach's around. It's a curse really, but not enough to stop me.

Hey you, what day is it? "It's 5 days before Christmas Ebeneezer mO!" Well, GET TO WORK! *bah-hum-bug!*]]>
This weekend was pretty good I spent more time in the mall then I care too but it wasn't to bad. Friday night I delivered pizza's after work. I was really tired by the time I got home that I just crashed and went to sleep. Saturday morning I got out of bed at around 10:30 am. That afternoon I went to chinook mall to buy presents. I got a few things for Allison, but I guess I can't say in case she actually reads this. While I was at Chinook, Allison called me to see if I wanted 2 tickets to the Flames game. *Heck yes I did...* She got a call from Mike the owner of Stavros to see if we wanted them.

So I went and picked them up from Stavros and took my friend Ryan to the game. The Calgary Flames vs. the Boston Bruins. It was an awesome game, Calgary won 3 - 0. Oh yeah. After the game I came and scooped up Allison from her Dad's house. Her and her pop's went to go see "The Chronicles of Narnia". She really enjoyed reading the books when she was younger so she really liked the movie.

Saturday night, went home and crashed. I can't stop rubbing my eyes right now. Why do I get the feeling this is going to be a long day.

Sunday, Allison got up at 8:30 and I got up right after her. After getting ready, I dropped her off at work and went to Bernard Calebuet. *Oh man I can't spell* I picked up a couple of Bernie-bars and some more chocolates and then I was off to Market mall. I made a few rounds around the mall and didn't find anything interesting. I then went and picked up my server from Allison's pop's house and went home. At home I got my server back up and running, then I did a couple loads of laundry, vacuumed, scrubbed the toilets had some lunch. *Not necessarily in that order* Played a good hour of "Need 4 Speed Most Wanted" and then picked up Allison from work. We then stopped off at the Ginger Beef express on 64th ave and center street north for some take out chinese food. MMMmmm.... sweet and sour chicken, ginger chicken, chicken fried rice, and mixed veggies in black bean sauce. *yummy!*

After dinner we watched "Forest Gump" which was playing on TBS. We then got ready and went to Allison's staff christmas party. We arrived at "Stolo's" on center street at 9pm. I wasn't planning on going but I figured it would be nice if I made an appearance and at least thanked Mike for the tickets to the hockey game. 2 beers later I was in bed by 11pm. And I feel sleepy. I'm sure looking forward to the long weekend coming up. I could use the rest.

As for tonight I've got to work on my assignment that's due tomorrow. Dang!

It's less than a week until Christmas and I still haven't gotten the present to topple the baby bunny for Allison. Do I gotta get her a bunny?! *sigh*

Hey you with the tie, you're late... GET TO WORK!]]>
At lunch yesterday I went and picked up my wedding band from Spence Diamonds. They had just got it back from getting "Rodium Plating". This is to protect me from breaking out in blisters. So I put the little feller on and wore it all night. I took it off before I went to bed, and when I woke up this morning *pop* the blisters were back. I'm currently sitting here in my cubicle with my ring finger wrapped up in a band aid. I'm starting to think that my band aid is my new wedding band. $28.00 to get my ring "Rodium Plated" and all for nothing! I'll give my finger a few weeks to fully heal and then maybe we'll try again, but this is getting painful. There's nothing like popping blisters on your ring finger to start your morning. *Hey mA look what I can do... @pop@ look it's ooozing!*

After work yesterday I picked up Allison from work, then we headed home so that she could quickly change for the ballet. We went over to her mom's where we had a little birthday dinner. Her mom unwrapper her presents, we took some pictures and the girls were off to the ballet.

After they left, Mr. Cal taught me how to cook up a steak on the BBQ. We had a couple of the juiciest most suculent pieces of meat that this guy has had in a long time. Mmmm... T-bone steaks! Mr. Cal whipped up a care package for me to take home that included, Lea & Perrins worchestershire sauce, a little Bullseye BBQ sauce, some minced garlic, and some steak garnish. I think it was Club House Montreal Steak, if I remember correctly. Wow... mO's going to be cooking up steaks in no time.

Afterwards I crossed the street, and went to bed. End of story! Tonight's all about delivering pizza's, the roads are really good, and I imagine it should be rather busy since most people will probably be shopping all night and then to busy to cook themselves dinner. Either way it should be a good night, I'm looking forward to next weekend though. After work Thursday we're having an internal potluck christmas party. That should be fun, then we get Friday off, which is good because I can pretend to get some shopping done that day. I'm really not going to stress myself over buying gifts, I'm going to take a more relaxed approach to it. *uh huh, lets see what i have to say next week when I have nothing done... haha... i can't wait!*

And that pretty much wraps up my pre-christmas ramble. This will be my first year of blogging through Christmas, so I'll have to make sure to offer all the sweet details.

I suppose you can also have the rest of the day off... !]]> Linette]]>
Just thought that I would pop in and say Happy Holidays. :)

Glad to see things are going well other than rashes, blisters and a waste of $28.00.

Take Care,]]>
After I finished work yesterday I picked up Allison from her work then we were on our way to superstore. We just happened to stop at Petland to look at the puppies and bunnies. Allison really really reallly... *I can't stress the word "really" enough* wanted a baby bunny. She kept petting it and holding it and say... "awwww... don't you think she's cute mO!" Oh boy, of course I think she's cute I would be a monster if I didn't. But just because it's cute doesn't mean we have to take it home. I don't get it, you don't see me taking home every cute girl at the mall just because they're cute. Why... oh why... so nothing less then a baby bunny will do for Allison's christmas present, let's face it! She can say she doesn't really need one and it's ok if I don't get her one for christmas, but deep down we both know that's what she's looking for. I would have to find something just short of spectacular to give to her for her to forget about the baby bunny. *eeep...!*

Another thing, I'm probably better off if she picks out the bunny hey? I don't know how well I would do with bringing a caged living being home. I have never had a pet before, well besides a goldfish. But like a wise man once said... "mO it'll teach you alot of patience!" Ok ok... I heard ya already! Sheeesh.... Christmas, shishmash!

Ok, and now I have a confession to make. Allison picked up a book called "the mother of all baby books." And I've been reading it every chance I get! There I said it, it's done, it's off my chest now I can move on!

After hitting up the petstore yesterday we spent some time in superstore picking up groceries. When we got home, we whipped up some pan-fried perogies for dinner. *Mmmm... they're panny*

And to conclude today's rant I would like to "wish" you a happy birthday Sandi! *Yes I said wish!" I hope you and girls enjoy the ballet tonight, Allison's been humming the tune to the nutcracker all week. It's great... i can humm it now for you if you like. *Tooo dooo do looot doot do do doooo...* Happy Birthday!

As for the rest of you... that's right... GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
There's really something strange about waking up and seeing a full moon. Right in the middle of the sky, there's no glimmer of sunshine. It's almost as if I'm working the graveyard shift. It's strange you would think those who work graveyard shifts actually see less sunshine. But I beg to differ, I work a 9 to 5 and at this time of the year, I wouldn't believe you if you told me the sun came up today! *sigh* At least if you work evenings, when you wake up it's nice and bright outside. But who want's to deal with all the crazies of the early morning hours. *"Not I" said the cat!*

And in other news... I showed up for my 6pm night class last night at about 5:15pm. When we got to class we were given our final assignment, and told that we would be given the remainder of the last class to complete the assignment. The last class is next week. We were also told that if we wanted to we could take the assignment home and email it to the instructor if we like. So we didn't have to attend the last class. The lesson for last nights class was templates. The instructor finished the lecture after 30 minutes, at which point he began to answer *silly* questions from the students. I raised my hand and asked "if we wanted to take off to work on the assignment at home, would you hold it against us?" Murray, our instructor, replied "this is an adult learning class, there is no discipline!" I see... so I packed up my bag and left at 6:30pm.

Let's see after 6 classes, what have I learned? ... hold on let me think ... just wait it'll come to me.... well there was the thing on.... no no I already knew that. The lesson on ... no wait I also already knew that. Well it seems as though I have not retained any new knowledge. I'm not suggesting that the instructor was bad, I just made a bad choice when selecting this class. *slap mO on the back of the neck!*

At least I made it home in time to flip back and forth between to hockey games. Alright.... I get my Tuesday nights back!

As for the rest of you slackers... GET TO WORK!]]>
December. 23,24,25,26,29,30,31
January. 1,2

Ohhh baby! It's going to be great, I can't wait to be at home laying on the couch in my pJ's playing xbox, with dirty dishes on the floor next to me. Maybe I wont shower and shave for a week straight? Huh... what do you think? I guess I might have to for the two days in between where I actually have to work. *sigh* But I'm not complaining! Life is good.

After work yesterday I scooped Allison up from Stavros then we headed home. Allison ran upstairs and changed out of her work clothes then we headed to her pop's for Spolumbo sausages on a bun. *Mmmm... they're spol-o-yummy!* Then we watched a little football. Actually I had a nap on Allison's lap for a good two hours. Oh boy I needed that... life is tough hey?

Tonight is my Dreamweaver class. *Joy!* Our final test is supposed to be next week, but the test has kind of turned into an assignment now. He's handing them out today so we can work on them at home if we want. Then we can turn it in next class, or we have the entire next class to work on it. Uh huh... sounds like fun! I have a sneaking suspician that this will be my last class, and that I will be completing the assignment at home, and that I will be emailing it to the instructor.

And life goes on... besides that not much else is going on my world. I dropped off my ring at Spence Diamonds to get "Rodium" plating. Apparently it's supposed to help those of us who are allergic to everything including our wedding bands. Now I just have to wait 10 business days before I can go pick it up.

Yesterday, a gentleman was to come fix some items in our home. He called me when he needed to get in the house, and I said it was ok, just grab the master key from the construction office. But when we got home we found that no work had been done. It really would be nice if there was a more formal process for passing along any outstanding issues with our house. So I've decided that I'm going to take pictures of all the issues in our home, and build a site dedicated to getting these items fixed. Yes because I'm that geeky!

That's all folks... Holiday's in less than 2 weeks.. then Barbados in March. Which reminds me I should probably book that time off... Hmmm... my manager is going to hate me! But c'mon its Barbados man!

Hey you with the colored eyes.... GET TO WORK!]]> 6am: alarm goes off! mO suddenly wakes up and realizes its the radio announcers who are speaking. He reaches over to turn off the alarm. Suddenly, he's overwhelmed with the realization that... *dum dum dummm...* It's Monday morning! mO peels himself off the bed and staggers to the washroom.
6:10am: mO wakes up from his nap he just had while sitting on the throne, he washes up, splashes some water on his face, pops in his contacts then turns on the hot water to have a shower.
6:30am: mO slides the shower curtain aside as he steps out of the tub, the sudden gush of cold air freezes mO where he stands. He grabs a bath towel and tries to warm himself up. After applying some deodorant he quietly slips into the walk-in closet without waking up his wife. He picks out some clothes to wear for the day then he heads downstairs.
6:40am: mO sits in front of the tv with a bowl of cereal and the remote, he quietly watches the news to see what the temperature and to find out what's going on in the world today.
6:50am: mO goes back upstairs to brush his teeth and say goodbye to his wife!
7:00am: mO leaves for his journey to work!

And *tada* here I am! This was a pretty good weekend after all. Friday after work i whipped over to Stavros to work for a few hours. I finished up around 11:30 then went home for a quick 20 minute nap. I woke back up in time to come pick up my wife from work at 2:30am. She drove home, I slept.

Saturday, I woke up at 9:30 am to the sounds of someone's car alarm going off. I tried to go back to sleep but the sound of the construction happening outside our window kept me up. I got up had some cereal, and wandered around the house. The car alarm and the construction didn't bother Allison, she didn't even hear it!

After Allison got up and showered we went to the shaw building on barlow to drop off the digital terminal we were given for a month. When we got there we were told that Video On Demand didn't work because we were given an old terminal. We were offered a new terminal but we politely declined.

We then headed to Sears Homes, Linens 'N Things, and Pier 1 Imports all located in Brentwood. We picked up a few things then went home. We made a curry stir fry for dinner and watched Hockey. Yaaay... my kind of Saturday night!

Sunday I slept until 11:30 and boy did that feel good. Allison was already off at work when I woke up, so I spent my afternoon doing laundry and reading. It was quite enjoyable.

And now it's monday and I'm sitting in the cube. It's almost christmas which means long weekend coming up. Wooo Hooo...

But for now... GET TO WORK!]]>
Last night was the first evening this week that I got to drive straight home after work, *alright...!* As soon as I walked through the door the phone rang. I quickly dropped my bag, kicked off my shoes and grabbed the phone. It was Allison's mom inviting me over for dinner! *sweet* After flopping around the house for a bit I walked over. We had "Shepardopolis pie!" for dinner, then Cal's parents came over for a little while and told story after story. They were actually quite funny!

I left at about 8:30pm walked back home, caught a few highlights from TSN. Then plopped into bed and passed out! I don't know how time flew by so quickly, but I'm back at work again, *day-ja-voo* At least it's friday, and the weather is looking good for the weekend!

Christmas is almost here and I'm doing my darndest to get some time off for the holidays, we'll see what happens!

Have a great weekend!]]> Anonymous]]>
After work yesterday I whipped over and picked up Allison from work, we then headed to her pop's house and sang "Lisa it's your birthday, Happy Birthday Lisa!" We all jumped into Papa Glennsy's truck and drove on down to the club, "Chili Club Thai House" that is!

It was my first time there and it was great, the color's the lighting, everything about the cozy little place was great! And the food.... ooooh... the food is sooo good! *I'll have seconds please, and thirds, and fourths...*

After dinner we went back to pop's house where we took pictures, ate cake and Lisa opened her presents! *None were for me, because I didn't go pick it up at lunch as I had planned yesterday!* Allison got her a gift and stuck my name on there with hers, thanks hunny! But I still owe Lisa a birthday gift, it's just going to be a little late!

Then we got to go home and I fell asleep instantaneousl. The last thing I remember was Allison was in the bathroom getting ready for bed, I jumped in bed and everything faded to black...

I don't know why this is happening, but lately I've been waking up in a cold sweat. It seems to be happening regularly now, and I don't know why! I just wake up suddenly and I'm freezing, I jump out of bed and I'm covered in sweat! *Yuck!* What's wrong with me... ahhhhh! I do however enjoy sleeping on our couch, when I get the chance!

I'm looking forward to tonight, I get to go home and plop on the couch and maybe have a little nap action! The weather is supposed to be pretty good this weekend so delivering pizza's shouldn't be to bad! And my class is almost over, so things should get back to normal soon, and then hopefully I can stop being so damn grumpy soon! Ahhh... I'm feeling the stress of Christmas, now I remember why I don't like to participate! *There's mO being grumpy again!*]]>

Lisa, it's your birthday.
God bless you this day.
You gave me the gift of a little sister,
And I'm proud of you today.
Lisa, it's your birthday.
Happy birthday, Lisa.
Lisa, it's your birthday.
Happy birthday, Lisa.
I wish you love and good will.
I wish you peace and joy.
I wish you better than your heart desires.
And your first kiss from a boy.
Lisa, it's your birthday.
Happy birthday, Lisa.
Lisa, it's your birthday.
Happy birthday, Lisa.
Yeah!

I can't believe you're 20 Lisa, Happy Birthday! And now back to our regularly scheduled program... so today is Allison's sisters birthday or I guess my little sister's birthday, and I have not bought her a gift yet! *hang my head* I know what I want to get her... I just haven't got it yet! This is so like me isn't it? Meh... In the words of Martin Lawrence in the movie "Bad Boys"... "wooooo saaaa...."

So I'm pretty sluggish today, after work yesterday I went straight to my night class. I got out of class at 8pm which is an hour early, then I went to go drop off the car at Allison's work. I waited for Lisa to get off work so that she could drive me home. While I waited I had 4 slices of "San Andreas" pizza. Mmmm... man that's good, "Chef's special" you've got some competition now!

I managed to get home at 11pm, and off to bed I went! I'm really looking forward to the end of the day. Allison's shift changed so she's working the day today, so I will be picking her up from work. Then we're heading to "Chili Club Thai House" for Lisa's birthday dinner. *Yay... we're going clubbin'* Then maybe I can find a couch to plop onto and watch the Flames game. It feels like such a long time since I've since the Flames play. *sigh* It's a good thing I have nothing planned for this weekend, and the Flames game is on Hockey Night in Canada. Alriiight...

It's almost Christmas and I'm getting excited.... Mmmm stuffing, spinach dip, and we all get to crowd around the 47 incher and watch "It's a wonderful life!"

That's all folks... since it is christmas time and all take a 5 minute breather then... GET TO WORK!

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It's only 19 days until Christmas and I'm kind of excited. So far I have bought zero gifts. Zero, zilch, nada, not one. And I only have one gift idea so far. It looks like I may have to dedicate my lunch to making a list. Maybe I'll check it twice!

After work yesterday I picked up wifey from work and we headed to Superstore. We managed to pick up about $100.00 worth of groceries when we only planned to pick up a few things for dinner. Anyways, it was worth the trip. It wasn't nearly as busy as I had imagined it to be, it was great! For dinner we picked up a BBQ chicken, some potatoe salad, and some french bread. Mmmm....

It was nice to have dinner at home, we actually got to catch up with each other! Whew! Allison told me she had a great gift idea for me, which kind of made me feel bad because I've got no ideas for her. I guess I could just get her something that she needs? But that's boring... I want to get her something that she wants, like maybe a.... puppy!?

Yesterday at work my manager showed me a site for the Alberta Animal Rescue Foundation. There were pictures and bio on several different pets available for adoption. Which almost made me want to get a puppy! Keyword "ALMOST"! We were told that having a dog would be a great way to learn patience. Which is something I think I need to improve on, especially if we want to have a child in the near future. But it is a big commitment, I wouldn't want to leave a dog locked up in a cage all day. I don't know I just feel bad about doing it, but I'm probably a geek for thinking so. If either of us were home all day and... oh this thought needs to end right now!

So after dinner Allison and I parked our caboose on the couch with a couple of cinnamon buns from Superstore, and we ordered up a pay per view movie. We got one free from Shaw to try out. We ordered the movie "Batman Begins", oh baby! I've seend this one before in theatre but man it's good! It's a long movie though, we started watching it at 8pm and it didn't finish until about 10:30pm. So I got to sleep at around 11-11:30pm and up at 6am.

Todays going to be another long day since I've got the night class in the evening. Hopefully it goes by quickly, I still think I signed up for the wrong class though. The instruction is great, the material is good but its targeted more towards people who can barely get around a computer. I can't believe someone asked "how do I save?" The first place I always look is under the file menu, and I don't even use that.... "Ctrl + S" is all I need!

Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, when I picked up my new keyboard the other day it came with a list of windows shortcuts that I never knew about. I knew two so far and they were:
"windows key" (button next to "Ctrl") + e = windows explorer
"windows key" + d = show desktop
The new ones I learned were:
"windows" + r = open the run window. (its excellent if you want to enter the prog you looking for like "iexplorer.exe" or "Calc")
"windows" + m = minimize all windows (works like show desktop)
"windows + shift + m = maximize all the windows you minimized using the above command.
Thats all I can remember for now... but it's time to get to work! GET TO WORK!]]>
Friday, after work I went straight to Stavros to deliver pizza. It was a slow night but I made it home around 11 pm and went straight to bed. Allison came home when she got off work later that night and she was sick as a duck. Poor duckling!

Saturday, I got up at 9am and headed downstairs to play "Need For Speed Most Wanted" for several hours. Oh yeah... ! Allison's pops and Shawna stopped by with some soup for lil' Alli! Around 4 Allison and I started to get ready for my office Christmas party. 5:30pm we were out the door. The office party was more fun then what I had expected, Allison and I won a box of Belgium chocolates and a tea light. We even did the chicken dance. We left the christmas party at around 10pm and stopped by Papa Glennsy's place to catch the end of Hockey Night in Canada. Apparently I missed an exciting game between the Calgary Flames and the Pittsburgh Penguins. *sigh* Oh well... I fell asleep on the couch before it hit midnight and thats when we knew it was time to go home...

Sunday I woke up at around 11:30 am laying on the couch downstairs. I was having hot flashes in the middle of the night, and I woke up several times in a cold sweat so I went downstairs to sleep on the leather couch. Man I slept great, but as soon as I woke up I could tell I was starting to get sick. I had some soup, then I spent most of my day doing load after load of laundry. I set up the new stereo we got from Cal. Sweet... Then I picked up Allison from work at 5pm. We headed over to her pop's for some chineese food, watched a little football then we were back at home getting ready for bed. Poor Alli was so sick last night, she was coughing and sneezing all night! Awww... so I doped her up on cold medicine!

There's nothing like waking up 5 minutes before you alarm is to go off and suddenly realize that its.... *dum dumm dummmm* Monday morning! *yuck*

Hey you with the dreads... GET TO WORK!]]>
Yesterday evening while driving home from work I got into my first fender bender on deerfoot. I rear ended a sporty little red Toyota Celica. *Hot DOG!* The lady in the celica and I pulled over, she got out of the car took a quick glance at her car and said... awww it was nothing and off we went. There was no visible damage on our Hyundai either, well I'm glad thats out of the way! It could have been worse, traffic was moving incredibly slow... then it speeds up quickly... then SLAM! To a hault again, wow there's a lot to be said about the ripple effect on Deerfoot. *mO no likey!*

When I got home i gladly plopped on the couch and turned on the TV. Yay... hockey! On TSN last night they had the hockey flip going on, where they flip from game to game... Man that get's incredibly annoying!

I forgot to mention... when I pulled up into the drive way of our place, the neighbor I yelled at the night before was waiting for me. He quickly jumped outside with a case of beer and apologized for the noise. I felt even worse for yelling, and much better that we settled things. He seems like a really nice guy, he said that I'm welcome to come by at any time to play video games if i want, which really touched this guys heart! *awwww... * The case of Rickards Red helped too... man he could of got some cheap beer but he got just what I wanted, how did he know I'm a Richards Red kind of guy. Thank's Mr. Dan, and hopefully I can be a nicer neighbor!

So I'm flip flopping... let's go back to this morning... Allison came home laste last night from work and she was coughing all night. She had a hard time breathing and was just sick as a duck this morning. I felt really bad for her, hopefully she'll start to feel a little better. To bad she has to work!

Back to last night, so where was I? Oh yeah, so there I was sitting on the couch with a beer in one hand and the remote on the other when I got a phone call. "Does Mosey want some pizza?" He sure did, he headed on over to neighborino, Cal's place and muched on some greasy pizza from Little Caesars. *just the way mO likes it*

Tonight will be night number 2 of delivering pizzas. *sigh* I really don't want to drive when it's snowing and icy like this. But I guess it'll give me great practice, *sniff* hehe!

And now.... EAT YOUR LUNCH!]]>
Last night I managed to split my knuckles open last night! How you ask? Well it all started when I went to bed at 9:30pm and i could hear music pounding through the walls. No big deal right, I'm so tired that it's not even an issue and I managed to fall asleep. At around midnight Allison came home and I woke up just have a quick chat with her. And the bass from the music their playing next door was even louder.

Let me paint a more vivid picture, it's been a long week. I haven't been getting the sleep I so desire and it's midnight and the neighbors are blasting music like no one cares. *snap* off goes mO... toss on a pair of sweat pants and a black hoodie. Jump out the front door and *BANG, BANG BANG* I started pounding on the neighbors door like I was the police. The door swings open I glare at the person holding the door open while in an aggressive posture and I tell him to turn the music down. He quickly apologizes before I can even finish speaking as if already knowing exactly why I'm there. "I'm really sorry I didn't realize the music was that loud, my name is Dan." He reaches out to shake my hand, I replay "I'm Mo!" I shake his hand and head back inside. My blood is pumping, I jump back into bed and find that my knuckles are bloody. I banged on the door a little to hard!

Oh boy, I instantly felt like the biggest jerk on the face of the planet! I realized that I must have scared the sh*t out of Dan and his roommate! So now I've met both neighbors on both sides. *hang my head* I suppose I could have been a little kinder... perhaps I could have said something like... "Excuse good sir, but would you mind turning the volume down ever so much?! Please!" The two roomates were just playing video games and had their music up! The funny thing is.. I didn't have my contacts in so I was blind as a bat! I don't even know the expressions on their faces when my dark figure stood with an aggressive stance luring in their doorway with a very angry look on my face. I'm feeling pretty dumb this morning!

I'll go offer them some salad tonight! Maybe I can make some friends with salad!

On a more positive note, our conference call to China yesterday at work went well and for dinner I met Allison's dad and sister at Dutchies Caribean grill for dinner. Mmmm.... Brown Stew Chicken! "But it's brown!"

As for the rest of you, since it is December 1st, I suppose you can start putting up your christmas decorations! GET TO WORK!]]>
Ok well class last night was pretty boring as usual... Tonight I've got to drop off some seat covers for John at the Cardel Design center then I can finally get home for an evening to myself!

Is is the weekend yet? No? How about now?]]>
Tonight will be my 4th dreamweaver class and so far I have learned nothing new! Hopefully we'll get into some more advanced stuff, but I highly doubt it. Only a few more classes to go and then I can have my Tuesday's back and my week wont be so long.

This winter I just want to hibernate. Can't I? Really I'll just sleep through the entire winter, wake me up when it's spring.

I was so tired last night, when Alli and I went to her dad's place for dinner I crashed on the couch right after. I slept like a baby last night. It's to bad I forgot to set my alarm! I woke up at 6:21 am, looked at the clock and instantly knew what happened. *Ahhh I forgot to set the alarm* But no sweat, I managed to get ready in about half an hour and out the door. I just had to skip breakfast and my 10 minutues watching the news.

Tonight as soon as I get home from class I'm going to crash... sleep good... make mo happy boy!

GET TO WORK!]]>
Friday was my first shift as the pizza guy! After leaving the desk job at 4:30 pm I managed to get to the bar at 5:30pm. (Which is amazing considering I was in 1st & 2nd gears the entire time I was on deerfoot.) I grabbed 2 orders right off the bat and got moving. The first order was just up the hill and around the corner. Easy... the 2nd order was up by my new neighborhood. Waaay the hell up by Airdrie. Eeep! Lucky for me it was a slow night for pizza delivery so I got to spend some time studying the area, getting to know the bar and trying to find a way to just keep the heck out of the way. After a 5 hours I was off to bed. Allison's friend Megan from Edmonton spent the night sitting at the bar while Allison worked, so I got to hand around with her when I had no orders. Getting used to the cigarrette smoke is going to take some time. *mO no likey smoke!* By 11pm I was fast asleep.

Saturday, I got up bright and early and took care of a little laundry and xbox action. Megan eventually came down and read her book as I played xbox. Allison got up and ready then we headed out for brunch. Mmmm.. Memphis breaky bowl at Ricki's!

When we came back home we found a car packed out on the street just by the entrance to our condo's with a big sign taped wot the windshield that read... "BALTROS PARTY". Oh my goodness, somebody brough bowness to the suburbs! Boooowness! Baltros just happens to be the last name of our neighbor, Ethan Baltros. Oh boy, I'm sure you can picture mO shaking his head. *what am I going to do* The good news is that they finally got blinds installed. Thank goodness!

Megan took off back to Edmonton shortly after that and Allison and I got ready to go out to dinner. We were invited out by a one of my former co-workers. It was at "The Green Olive" located at 2220 68th St NE. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad we went. The food was pretty good, and the guests were pretty funny. *Mmmm... pasta!* We ducked out early to try to catch my brothers play over at Dancer's studio west but didn't quite make it there in time. *sigh* Maybe next time...

The Baltros party didn't turn out to be as bad as I expected, so I have no reason to complain. But the big cardboard sign announcing the party to all patrons who happened to drive by didn't really please me to much. But on the other hand, we're in such a new area that our neighborhood doesn't even show up on most street maps. So it makes sense, I suppose! *quit your complaining mO!*

Sunday, I slept in and man did it ever feel good. Allison took off to work and I headed over to a buddy's place to watch the Grey Cup Final between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouhettes ( <--I totally spelled that wrong!*). Edmonton won 38-35 in a double overtime victory, it was a really good game. After that I came home and found a message on my site from one Mr. Brad Logel! He sold us our new home, apparently he googled his name and came across my site. Hmmm... how did that happen! Well hello Mr. Logel, thanks for stopping by!

As soon as I read his message I was a little worried, I know I was a little upset when we found out our posession date had been moved back, so hopefully I didn't say anything to mean. But overall Allison and I were very happy with the purchase of our new home. Go see Mr. Logel if you're looking to buy a new home! Dooo it, NOW!

And for the rest of you slackers... well... it's time to get GET TO WORK!]]>
Tonight I begin my first shift as a pizza delivery driver. Back to the good ol' days hey... only now I'm doing it in a standard transmission. Suuuuperb... I'll be an efficient driver in no time... *gulp* I hope!

I managed to get home from work just a few minutes after 5pm and found an empty house. The furniture had been re-arranged again, and it's looking pretty good I guess. There' doesn't look like there will be enough room for athe 51 incher... but after a little thought last night I realized that we don't need a monster sized tv. I don't want to grow to be a family that spends all there time in front of the TV. Neither Allison or I watches much tv nowadays anyways... why would we want to promote more TV. Forget the tv, lets get a French Bulldog! *haha*

About 10 minutes after I got home I heard a knock on the door . It was Megan, Allison's friend from Edmonton. She had just dropped off Allison at work. I quickly changed then we headed over to mama-in-law's house for dinner. *whew!* We had roast beef, with baby potatoes, red cabbage *mO thinks* and green beans! Mmmm... food goes here!

I spent a little time playing with their router then before I knew it, it was passed my bed time. Off to bed I went at 10pm. Tonight I have a feeling that Megan will probably chill out at the bar while Allison and I work. I'm not sure how long I'll be working for, but I can't wait to get home, plop on our couch and just relax. I think I've only had one evening at home this week. Dang! I'm not leaving the house this weekend.

Did I mention that it's Friday? Oh, on one final note to wrap up today's entry! Dirk it's been a pleasure to work with you my man, congratulations on the new position and hopefully i'll see you around. Best of luck Mr. Dirk-o-rino!

Since it is Friday, and I'm in a pretty good mood.... I suppose I'll give you 5 minutes to get it together but after that... GET TO WORK! P.s. Nice socks...!]]> Amy]]>
Long time no talk...

I thought about you and your wedding and finally realized you moved over here. Actually, I realized it a long time ago but keep forgetting to click on the link to take me here.

Anyway, I read your posts from Sept and I'm so happy that you and Alli are finally one. LOL. Mr and Mrs Khan. I hope everything is well in your paradise, lil bro!]]> Good Morning... wow still no snow... *informer, y'snow-me-don-play-dat. I licky boom boom down..* there how about a little singing to start of our morning! Well I finally got to spend a little time around the house. I really needed it too!

As soon as I got home from work yesterday, I walked upstairs and put on a pair of pyjamas. Then I spent the next 4 hours in front of our computer. I managed to recover some of the data from my secondary drive, but I picked up a nasty little trojan. So I decided, for my own piece of mind, to rebuild the machine. I re-installed windows, and some of my apps. Which took several hours, since half my attention was on leafs vs bruins hockey game and the other half was on the computer. I still haven't had a chance to play Need 4 Speed Most Wanted. Dang!

Tonight Allison's friend from Edmonton comes to stay with us and Allison has to work. Lucky for me Alli's mom invited us over for dinner. *whew!* saved by the mom! I suppose tomorrow night Megan will hang around the bar while allison works and I deliver pizza's. We need to do alot of grocery shopping and a lot of cleaning. Hopefully we'll have time this weekend. I was far to happy to spend my evening in front of the tv and computer to do a thing last night. *shame on mO*

Saturday night Allison and I were invited out to dinner by a former co-worker of mine. It's a post-wedding, friends only dinner. This should be good! Now if I could only remember where it was supposed to be. hmmmm...

Flames beat the San Jose Sharks last night, to bad it wasn't televised. The game on Friday will be televised though, wooo hooo! Is it the weekend yet?

Hey you, with the fingers on the keyboard... GET TO WORK!]]>
Well class was ok yesterday, I set low expectations and got what I expected. I learned nothing new, I already know how to create rollover images and flash buttons. Ooooh... big deal! Adult learning sucks... I'd rather take a high school version of this course, I'm sure they actually accomplish something, rather then baby us through this "interactive" learning. Booo... Just watch I'll probably sign up for the next class and start complaining about that one too... Am I that much of a pessimist, do I involve myself in situations just so that i can complain? Ay yay yay...

So I managed to get a hold of "Need For Speed Underground: Most Wanted" yesterday, from I wont say where, and I didn't even get to play it. After class I drove straight home, watched highlights and scores from the hockey games, had a bowl of chili, plugged in my brand spanking new keyboard, began to restore the lost files from my hard drive then I crashed and went to sleep.

I find that Allison and I are having conversations that only one of us remembers. She get's home in the middle of the night and starts talking to me, and I don't remember having that conversation. I will get up in the morning and say goodbye and she doesnt remember saying goodbye to me. I wonder just how much information is lost in those one sided conversations. This Friday I get to come to work with her and deliver pizza's. I will actually get to put a face to all the names at the bar. There's a list of regulars that she's always talking about, and now I can watch them in their natural habitat, the pub!

I can finally watch adults act like children, the same adults who are respected members of the community who come to the neighborhood pub just to loose sight of reality and make complete asses of themselves. I can also meet the kind folks who look after my wife and make sure that harm doesnt come her way. I can study humans in their most primitive form, when they are the most vulnerable, when they are drunk!

Allison's friend from Edmonton is coming in tomorrow night, so I guess I should whip out a recipe from the cook book to see if I can put together an edible meal. It might be nice to have a little company around the house, but I guess this means I can't drop my pants and grab the remote control as soon as I walk in the door. *sigh* It's a hard knock life...

One other thing, I'm a newbie when it comes to driving standard. I still believe that you should not drive on the #2 highway unless you know a few basic things:
1. How to safely merge
2. How to safely change lines
3. How to drive at a safe speed on the highway. (This does not mean 60 k on a 100 click highway!)
4. The most important rule, DO NOT CUT ME OFF! If you happen to see a tiny little silver hyundai barrelling down the highway, DO NOT cut right in front of him.

If we can all follow these very easy to follow rules I'm sure my drive to and from work will be more enjoyable. As for the rest of yous... well!

Hey it's Wednesday and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Hey you, with the shirt on... GET TO WORK!]]> Anonymous]]>
Catch ya later...sk8ter

Lor]]>
Last night I whipped home to find an empty house with a new chaise lounge. Our furniture was moved around the room was a mess. But no wifey... where could she be? She was at her dad's place, her and her dad picked up the lounge earlier that day and dropped it off. So I headed over there.

Cardel seems to be fast forwarding construction, yesterday when I left for work the construction site was a mess. We had a dumpster directly behind our parkig stall which made backing out a tough job. Good thing there was no one packed next to me. But when I got home, the dumpster was gone, it looked like they had swept some of the parking lot and they dug up a new whole to pour concrete in. I imagine when I get home tonight at 9:30pm that I will find that cement has filled that whole. Construction had even begun before I left for work this morning, good job boys!

We had chicken fajitas for dinner. Mmmm... They were really good. I can taste them right now. Allison also informed me that she had talked to her friend Megan from Edmonton and that she was coming to stay with us for a few days. *That's cool.... right!?* Then she told me she was coming to stay with us for a few days later this week. *Oh boy!* She's coming Thursday, Friday and leaving on Saturday. Allison works on Thursday and Friday in the evening. And I work Thursday and Friday during the day and Friday evening. Hmmm... looks like Megan will be taking care of herself. Dang... we also need to get a bed set up in the guest room. Oh well, at least she'll be our first house guest. It will all work out... *breathe mO... breathe*

I still have not been able to recover the data from my secondary drive. Don't you worry, I'll get it though... I'm looking forward to Friday, when I get to start my first shift as a delivery driver. Alriiight... mO the pizza guy! Look out, because I could be delivering your pizza... Bua hahaha...

Hey you... with the hair... GET TO WORK!]]>
Friday night after work I headed down to Allison's work to pick her up, we then headed to her pop's place to pick him up. We stopped by our place to pick up my PC and dropped it off at memory express. We then had dinner at "Dutichies" again. I had the jerk chicken, again! Mmmm... !

Afterwards, we caught the rest of the flames game, watched "Madagascar" and called it a wrap. Flames winning streak ended at 8 games, losing to the Chicago Blackhawks.

Saturday, we headed down to Northland shopping center, where we picked up some stuff from WalMart, I got my eyes checked and we looked at Tv's in future shop. I found a 51" tv that I grew quite fond of. *haha.. keep dreaming mO!* I picked up my PC at memory express, free of charge. They swapped out a stick of ram which was under warranty and wham-o, problem solved.

Allison had to work that evening and I was invited to mommy-in-law's house for dinner. For dinner we had steaks on the BBQ, squash, steamed veggies and salad. They had some guests from out of town visiting, it turned out to be a pretty fun night. I got sleepy and a weeee bit cranky around 10:30 or 11 pm and I was off to bed. Man I'm a sucky baby I can't stay up passed 11.

Sunday, Allison worked again. So I napped, and watched football. Both #1 teams in the CFL lost, so now Edmonton and Montreal will meet at the Grey Cup Final. I spent most of the afternoon trying to recover data from my secondary hard drive. Apparently, the partition was deleted. I swear I didn't do it. I didn't manage to recover any data yet. But with one app I found at download.com called "Stellar Phoenix" i was able to run a scan that did in fact find all my data. The catch is, if I want to restore that data I have to pay for the full version of the application which costs about 150 USD. Eeep, for something I will probably only use once. From now on, I'm running backups! Geeez!

For dinner we had a little pasta and salad then we watched "Friday Night Lights." and caught some shut eye. That's my weekend and I'm sticking to it... GET TO WORK!]]> deadites]]>
Yeah, backups are important.. I use DVDs to back up, and my DVD burner died last week.. Well, it would burn CD's but DVD's, forget it.. so I went and bought a new one yesterday.. But now the motherboard on my other PC is on it's way out.. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh........]]>
I picked up my new serial ata drive yesterday from memory express at lunch. I also grabbed another stick of 512 to fill my 4th and final slot on my mother board. When I went home and installed the 2 I found my pc to be unresponsive. *sigh* It will boot up but it wont boot off the drive, it wont boot off either of my dvd drives, it wont boot off a floppy. It wont display anything to screen. Hmmm... the LED's on the back of my tower signalled that it was running a memory test (I checked the mother boards owners manual.). After about an hour of this memory test, I shut her down, removed the stick of ram and booted her back up. Still no response. There's doesnt seem to be any sign of damage, or that anything was fried. My gut feeling is that it's a ram issue. Not sure what to do, so I'm taking it to the experts. Hopefully, today I'll be able to drop it off at memory express. I'll stick to writing code and I'll let the hardware guys stick to assembling hardware. *sigh*

So this digital cable box we got from shaw is pretty nifty, it's got a menu guide and a few more channels. Except with more channels comes more garbage on tv. I seem to stcik to a small group of channels and that's all I need. To bad I couldn't just pick my channels, hand the cable box back and be done with that. Shaw's Digital phone service cost's $55.00/month. That's quite a hefty bill, expecially since Allison and I both already have cell phones. I have a feeling we'll be switching to Telus when the free month is up.

It's almost Saturday morning, suhweet! It sounds like starting next Friday I will be deliverying pizza's once again. Oh yeah baby! That should fine tune my driving skills, I hope! It's now only 5 weekends away from Christmas. I can't wait... I sure could use some beach time right about now.

Have a great weekend folks!]]>
Yesterday, the cable guy from shaw came to the house during the day. I was at work and Alli was at home. He got our cable, digital and internet hooked up. I played with all the new toys last night except for the internet. *sigh* My hard drive died. I knew this was coming and I knew I had to swap it out pretty soon but did it have to happen on the day we got internet? "Primary Hard Disk Failure." At least that means today I get to pick up a new hard drive then spend a little time installing it. SATA here I come. Lets hope I don't break anything else.

After work yesterday I stopped by the house quickly and had a chat with the neighbor that left a note on sis-in-law's car. I caught him as I was just pulling out of the parking lot, and I'm glad I did. I apologized to him for the inconvenience, introduced myself to himself to him and told him I didn't want to get off on the wrong foot. He became very apologetic and almost frightened in a way. It was kind of weird, almost like he thought I was going to pull a gun on him or something. I have no idea what aura I was presenting but I just wanted to stomp out and fire that might have started between us. I felt much better for doing so, I actually found them to not be very hill billyish at all. In fact they were just a young couple, who just seem to be trying to do the best that they can. His wife or girlfriend looked really pregnant so I can imagine that he just wanted to make sure she had more then enough room to get in and out of her car in case of an emergency. No biggie, beef squashed and I can sleep!

After chatting it up with the neighbor, *Mr. Ethan was his name by the way!* I headed to Alli's work to drop off the car for her. Papa-in-law and sis-in-law met me there to scoop me up. We headed to Stavros in ranchlands, munched on some pizza, watched the first period of the flames game and caught up on the local gossip. I am so not into gossip, but when you're sitting with a man like Alli's dad it's hard to keep everyone away. People seem to be drawn to his presence and just like to pull up a chair and then start blabbing. *blah blah blah* Last night was a lady by the name of "Freddy". I don't know if that's her nick name or what, but she pulled right up as we were eating and sat her pint of beer down then started talking about her search for a job. Then she started talking about her husband out drinking for the evening and that she didn't expect him to be home until later. And that she was meeting another gentleman in there who had a "Job" for her. uh huh... i bet he does!

During the 1st intermission, I got dropped off at home and I continued to watch the hockey game. The Calgary Flames beat the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 3-1. Calgary is now on an 8 game winning streak. Oh man... I'm actually giddy! Really I am! Chicago you're next!

Did I mention that I'm looking forward to Saturday morning? Cartoons, Pj's, Mini Wheats, blankie and the remote to our new shaw digital cable box. (Free 1 month trial)

Oh and in other news, my company just released a website for one of their latest products. I just thought I would offer a shameless plug! www.incentus.ca]]>
After work yesterday I drove straight to SAIT. I got there just after 5pm, so I was one hour early for my 6pm Dreamweaver class. This class was a little better then the first, but it went at such a slow.... slow... ohhh agonizingly slow pace. At no fault of the instructor but people just dont seem to listen to directions very well. Not to mention, some of the questions that were asked almost gave me a heart attack. "How do you save?", "How do I add pictures to a folder without having to add it to a page?".

Oh my goodness, I realized this class was for more of an introductory audience but I expected people to have at least touched a computer before. Some of the most insane questions came from a buddy who claimed to have his MCAD. I don't know what year it's in, but man some of his questions were annoying. I really just wanted to cover as much material as possible, but we seemed to go over the same stuff over and over and over again, because people just couldnt keep up.

After about 45 minutes of this nonsense I tuned out and found a couple of tutorials on the macromedia site. I spent the rest of the evening going through those and I covered quite a bit. I gotta admit that if I hadn't taken this class I probably wouldn't have gone and found a tutorial on Dreamweaver. Not that you really need one, it's pretty self explanatory if you understand HTML.

The class ended at 9pm and I raced over to Allison's work to drop off the car for her. I got a ride home from her sister and made it home just after 10 pm. Her sister told me that she had stopped by the house yesterday to give Alli a ride to work. She parked in the stall next to ours, that had not been used since we moved in. (I assume it's visitor parking if it's not used.) When they left she found a note on her car from our neighbors. He asked her not to park in that spot. He said he owned 2 spaces, which is fine, except both of his cars are in their 2 spaces. The spot Lisa was parked in was the empty, unused space. I highly doubt our neighbor owns 3 spaces, I really think he was just upset because he didnt have the room he wanted for his mammoth of a truck.

These same neighbors also don't have blinds yet. I sure hope they get some, because the one gentleman has been walking around his house with no shirt on. It seems that in the last couple of days he's put up a bed sheet as his blinds. Last last week I came home to find all his clothes were laid out on the front porch. Over the weekend I went downstairs to do some laundry and standing right next to the washing machine I could hear the neighbors screaming and swearing at each other. I couldn't make out what they were arguing about, but I heard the F-bomb quite a few times. Not to mention I watched deliverance over the weekend and I have a new found fear of hillbilly's. (I'm not suggesting our neighbors are hill billy's but I think you would agree the resemblance is shocking!)

I really don't want to feud with my neighbors, but I need to settle this before it escalates. So what are my options:
1. Grab the plans for the lot and see if I can make out which stall belongs to whom, if it doesn't say I could go visit our buddy Brad Logel at Cardel Homes to find out.
2. I could stop by their place tonight and introduce myself, apologize for the inconvenience and try to find out which stalls are his and what his real beef is. (Because he's obviously got a problem with something else, Lisa was only there for a short time to pick up Allison.)
3. I think I'm out of options... I sure hope he doesn't drape a great big confederate flag in his window, otherwise I think the "For Sale!" sign might be going up!

So far the car juggling is working out, and I'm gaining more and more confidence each day that I drive. I still need some work shifting gears cleanly, but at least I can get from point A to B without a scratch. Now if I could just get the guys at Hyundai to take ownership of the faulty stereo they installed.

The headache's keep piling on... In the last couple of months we've noticed the stereo cutting out in the car. It seems to be mostly triggered by turning on a turn signal. Allison got it booked into the dealership a couple weeks ago to get it looked at. Their response was that it was an after market stereo, that was hooked up very badly. hahaha... No kidding! Guess who installed it? Allison bought that car brand new with the stereo! So the buddy at the dealership just admitted that they had an after market deck badly installed and now they wont fix it. Grrrr... Now we have to go deal with that. I'm telling you though, by the time we get to Barbados, none of this will matter!

Life's to short, SO GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
The Calgary Flames won again, oh baby! Last night they beat the Minnesota Wild by a score of 3-2. Man the first 2 periods were terrible to watch. Calgary was down 2 to nothing at the start of the third. In the 3rd they scored 3 goals and won the game, oh baaaby! 7 game winning streak, Detroit you're next!

And in other news, tonight I have my 2nd dreamweaver class. Hopefully, this one will be a little more exciting then the first. I almost lost it last week when someone couldn't find the "Save" button. What am I doing in this class, I say to myself! Im bound to learn something good, if anything it's another step towards the *drumroll* "MASTER WEB DESIGN CERTIFICATE" Oh yeah!

The next couple of days are going to be a little difficult for Allison and I, our work schedules are starting to conflict and sharing one car is becoming more and more difficult. This week will be a true test of our co-operation!

Is it cheaper to buy lunch meats from the deli or the pre-packaged stuff? What's healthier? What do you prefer?

So next month will mark 1 1/2 years at this job. Wooo Hooo, I wasn't sure I would be able to get through the first 3 months, look at me now! hehe...

I've decided to go back to my pizza delivery days once again, hopefully by next weekend you might see me knocking on your door with piping hot pizza in my arms! Wouldn't that be a pretty sight?

Well I think I'm out of random thoughts for the day, so GET BACK TO WORK! Or for some of you, GET BACK TO NURSING YOUR CHILDREN! (hehe just kidding!)]]>
Yesterday the Calgary Stampeders blew a 23-9 lead to lose to the Edmonton Eskimos. How it happened, I'm not sure! Well thanks for the great season Stamps! Thanks for having me on the team *even if it was only for 3 hourse*, thanks for the exciting games and thanks for taking us to the playoffs.

In other news, the Calgary Flames are on a win streak. They've won they're last 6 games, alright!

Allison and I still have no internet, and I just realized last night that the day we have the cable guy scheduled to show up neither of us will be home. Dang! That's tomorrow by the way, I guess I'm going to have to re-schedule.

The long weekend was excellent, it was just what we needed to break in the new house! Thursday night Alli and I stopped by her mom's to have a drink. Then we were off to the grocery store. $250 later, we had enough to stock our shelves. We finished off our evening by catching the end of the Flames game. Calgary beat Phoenix, wooo hooo. Friday morning Allison had to work, so I dropped her off then went down to the Cardel Design centre to pick up our seat cushions. John greeted me there then took me around to the back. He handed me the seat cushions and told me to get rid of the old ones however I wanted. Woo hooo... 12 seat cushions for the price of 6. Thanks John!

I went home and did a little vacuuming and a lot of laundry. Then I played a little XBOX, Fable The Lost Chapters. Suhweeet! I picked up Allison when she was done work and we headed home to assemble our dining room chairs. Alli's dad came over with a drill to help us put everything together. After screwing in all the legs with tiny little allen wrenches we were ready for dinner. Mmmm... Dutchy's caribean restaurant. I had the Jerk chicken which caused me to break an ity bity sweat. hehe.. Allison had the chicken curry, and her pop's had the chicken roti. Mmmm... jerk chicken! *drool* It's so hot but it's addictive! We picked up a dozen Jamaican patties before leaving to take home. *Guess what I snacked on for most of the weekend?*

After dinner we watched "The Devil's Rejects", I can't believe Siskel and Roeper gave this movie two thumbs up. Are they crazy, it was terrible! *In my opinion of course* There was potential for a good movie based on the plot, but everything was done in excess. I guess that's just how Rob Zombie likes to get things done. Yuck!

Saturday, we lounged around the house for most of the afternoon until Allison had to go to work. I dropped her off then had a buddy over to watch the Flames game. Sunday was a little more of the same, got up played some XBOX. Said bye to Allison as she left for work then I watched the football game. And now it's back to work. *sigh* At least we have Christmas and Barbados to look forward to. And what am I complaining about I lounged around the house all weekend while Allison had to work. Dang!

Hey you, GET BACK TO WORK!]]>
So when I got home yesterday it looked like the plumber didn't show up to fix the dishwasher, but earlier that afternoon I got a call back from John at Cardell Design Center who game me some good news. Apparently, the reason we got a puke green cover on our dining room chairs was because the supplier changed colors over night. They stopped making the white and black covered seats and went only with the puke green. Why, i don't know why they would do that. But the supplier is sending out the correct chairs right away. We should have them within the next couple days he said. We'll just have to drop off the old ones! Gooodie!

More good news, it looks like our flights to Barbados have been booked. Thanks for the email Grammy-O!

Ok now where was i... oh yeah.. so gi got home from work and found that Allison spent a lot of time organizing and cleaning the house. I continued by sorting out my clothes then running a couple of loads of laundry. For dinner I whipped up a can of Stag chili... Mmmm staggy! Then I spent some time in the basement assembling our new gull wing dryer, our new ironing board, and our new drying rack/pole thingy! Yup, yup all in a days work. To finish off my evening I played hockey in the basement with my old hockey stick! Lucky for me the basement is unfinished!

So far I realy like our new place, our mattresses are super comfy, the shower is great, the walk in closet comes in handy when I want to get dressed in the morning without waking up Alli. I haven't heard any noise through the wall, and I sure hope my neighbors can't hear any of my loud music through the walls either. *C'mon everyone needs a little cleaning music to get some energy from*. Do my little dance, shake a lil' bum... get down tonight!

Thank goodness it's a long weekend here in Alberta! I'll be back on Monday, then Tuesday we get internet, phone, cable hooked up! Suhweet...!]]> Anonymous]]>
Lor
Glad to hear you got a little hockey in I think every Canadian needs that now and again...]]>
Today I'm dealing with a bad stomach bug, I was up all night in the bathroom just terribly ill. Hopefully I'll start to feel better today or I might have to head home early from work. Let's hope it doesnt come to that.

On Monday night I came back to the apartment after work to pack. After packing and cleaning I watched the Calgary Flames beat the Vancouver Canucks for the second game in a row. Oh yeah, Calgary's on a 4 game win streak.

Tuesday morning I got up bright and early and started hauling all our stuff to the car. I woke up Allison at 7:30 and told her to get a move on. It was moving day and I was excited. At 8:30 am we left the apartment for the last time and dropped off the keys at the main office. So long Execsuite!

We then headed up to Allison's dad's place where all of our stuff was stored. Alli's dad had already picked up a u-haul truck for us and we started loading her up. At 9:40am Alli and I left to go do our possession walk through. Everything went well, except for a few minor things that needed to be touched up. Then we started moving in! Both Alli's mom and dad, her sister and Shawna all chipped in and we were finished in no time. We recieved 2 bottles of champagne, a cool clock from a place called Twisted and wine glasses. After snacking on some Tim Horton's donuts and champagne we started assembling all our stuff. Unfortuneatly we found out that the color of the seat covers on the dining room chairs were wrong. They were a olive green, puke color. We wanted white and we purchased our dining room set back in June or July. We didn't bother to open up the boxes when we picked them up, just tossed them into storage thinking it was all good. I called John from Cardel Homes Design center to let him know. He told me he would call the supplier then call me back when he hears from them. I'm hoping he hears from them today.

While running all of our dishes through the dishwasher we found a slow leak and called Mark, the site super who did the walk through with us. He said he would get a plumber in right away. Hopefully they'll show up today.

After getting the bed and dining table set up we went to Ricky's for a little late afternoon breakfast. Mmm... memphis breakkie bowl. I got dropped off at the house so that I could drive myself to my first night class. I'm taking a course on Dreamweaver. Man, that was a snore last night. I don't think I picked up any new knowledge at all. Hopefully the class picks up. I stalled a few times driving to and from SAIT but I made it without a scratch. I'm hope that I enjoy driving stick soon.

*uh oh my stomach is starting to act up again... I may have to take off for a little while! Pain... owww.. pain!*

I got home from class at around 9:30pm and we headed over to Alli's mom place for a little late night dinner. After all she know lives right across the street from us. She cooked up two different kinds of breaded fish, a little salad and some steamed carrots. Mmmm... topped off with a coffee cake and scoop of ice cream. I began to have an allergic reaction to something I ate. My lips started to bubble up and my throat started to slowly close up. So I gobbled down some allergy medicine. I was ready for bed!

Around 1 or 2am I started to feel really bad cramps in my stomach. I had to run to the bathroom 4 or 5 times altogether during the night. And I'm not feeling so hot right now... Need more pepto! I sure hope this bug passes through quickly...

And now here I am back to work, I hope the drive home is as good as the drive here! Have a great day y'all!]]> Anonymous]]> CHampagne or wine with donuts, sometimes that does it, add some fast food breakfest, bunch of junk all day and vowla you have a stomach ache from to much junkie food, didn't mom teach you about proper eating habits hehehehe Just jokin, I am glad you are all moved into the new place and it sounds pretty awesome, We are goin throu the same thing right now...

Lor]]> krisimay]]> So another exciting weekend has passed, and our last one in the apartment.Tomorrow is moving day and everything is falling into place. I spent myFriday night packing and cleaning. Saturday afternoon, Allison and Iheaded over to her dad's place where we had Stavro's pizza for lunch.
Allison went off to work and I stuck around to watch hockey, the UltimateFighting Championship marathon and a little Law & Order. Calgary beatVancouver in an exciting 1 to nothing victory. Rashad Evans and JoeStevenson won their fights to win a 3 year 6 figure contract to the UFC.Yay... 6 figure's... so that could be $100,000 for 3 years or $33,000 a year? I guess we'll never know the magical 6 figure...
Sunday morning Allison went off to work *again!* and I stayed home and cleanthe apartment some more. Then Allison's dad came and picked me uparound 2pm and we were off to the football game. The Calgary Stampeders vs.the Edmonton Eskimo's in the final game of the regular season. Calgarywhooped Edmonton in a 43 to 23 victory. Oh man, it was an awesome gameto watch, especially from where we were sitting. Row 16! Calgary's victory puts them in 2nd place and means they'll face the EdmontonEskimo's again next Sunday for the first playoff game. BC get's the byfor being in first place and Calgary get's home field advantage forbeing in second. Alriiight...
After the game we ordered up some chinese food and watched the movie"Snatch" while Allison and I did laundry. And that folks wraps upmy final weekend in the apartment...
Oh yeah I attempted to drive home last night and stalled so many timesthat I gave up and got Allison to drive. I couldn't even make it downthe hill, which makes me rather nervous about driving to work on Wednesday. I'm seriously, SERIOUSLY, considering transit! (UnlessI happen to come across an automobile with and automatic transmissionwithin the next couple of days, but not bloody likely! So I guess I'llstick to reading my online tutorials on how to drive standard.)
GET TO WORK, SLACKER!]]> Krisi May]]>
Yesterday one of my co-workers stopped by our section of the cube farm to ask if anyone would be interested to go to the hockey game with him. So after work we stopped by "Kinjo" for some sushi and headed to the game. The Calgary Flames vs. the Columbus Blue Jackets. Man, hockey is so much better when it's live. Calgary won 2-1 which made it even sweeter. There were 2 fights but Calgary's power play sucks!

It's friday which means we've got lots of packing to do this weekend. We won't have any internet for a good week or so, until then I'll be relying on my connection here at the office!

Have a good weekend folks! Thanks for the invite Mr. Sheldon!]]>
We've just got a handful of days left in the apartment now, and more milk then we can handle. *4 litres is just to much!* It will be so very nice to finally get into our new home and know that we're not moving anywhere for a while. It will be nice to finally sleep in OUR bed, and not have to worry about what took place on the mattresses before us. It will be nice to have our own parking stall and not have to worry about finding somewhere to park on the street. It will be nice to be able to get up Saturday mornings and watch cartoons in my pj's without having to worry about spilling the milk from my mini wheats on the carpet. *hehe just kidding!* I am obviously excited.

We move in Tuesday, and that same night I start my new course at SAIT. It's on using Dreamweaver. I'm hoping to come out with some good skills to help me design better websites.

Most of all I'm just hoping I learn to drive standard in the snow and ice. Dang! It's definitely going to be a long drive to work every morning. I've never really wanted to rely on deerfoot to get to work, but it looks like I'm just like everyone else nnow. *sigh* I've thought about bussing it to work, but I'm sure how long that will take. *ay yi yiiii*

Allison's grandma has invited us down to Barbados March. 5th for a week. I'm looking forward to that. We get to leave Calgary at 00:20am on Sunday March. 5th and arrive in Toronto at 6:07 am then connect to a flight to Barbados at 8:45 am and arrive in Barbados at 2:50 pm that day. *Ewww.. that's a lot of plane* I don't mind the plane, I'm just not a fan of sitting in the same uncomfortable position for hours at a time. But it will be worth it, we get to see Barbados.

It's kind of strange for me, I've grown up never really going away an... *Crrrr...*

12:01Pm
So we lost our internet connection at work, hence my blog entry was cut off! Damnit... I think what I meant to say was it's weird for me since I grew up never going on vacation and now i seem to be going on trip after trip... it's kind of nice. I enjoy travelling!]]>
So yesterday we showed up at our new house at 9:45 am for our 10am pre-possession walk through. After waiting for a few minutes we were greeted by Mark, a site supervisor to begin the walkthrough. Both Allison and I were very impressed, there were quite a few places that need paint touch ups but nothing major. On the main floor the towel rack was installed right behind the door, so when you open the bathroom door it smacks the towel rack before it can hit the door stopper. No worries, we're told it will be taken care of. Our washer and dryer are sitting on the wrong side *you know... dryer on the right and washer on the left!* haha.. but no biggie! They forgot to install a hand rail at the top of the stairs. *tsk, tsk* but no biggie!

I found out that the house is wired with category 5 cable so if I wanted to change the face plates for anyone of the phone jacks to an rj45 connector, I can. That way I can hook up my router to the smart panel downstairs and have an internet connection run through the house. Suhweet! Our upstairs bathroom is nice and big, the office looks good, the spare room looks good. I'm excited!

The walkthrough took about and hour and 15 minutes. Mark recorded everything then told us he would meet us again the following Tuesday at 10 am for our possession walkthrough to make sure that everything is taken care of.

Afterwards we met up with Alli's fam and went to ricky's for a bowl. A brekkie bowl that is! They couldn't serve me my favorite bowl, the sunshine breakky bowl. So I went with a Memphis... Mmmm... bowly!

Off to work I went... after work I went for coffee with a friend I havent seen for a few years, he just happened to call out of the blue. He's been working for waste management for the past 3 years and seems to be doing very well. He just bought a new 2006 Chevy Cobalt SS. It's a pretty car, but kind of scary when he drives.

I finished off my evening by watching the Calgary Flames beat the Minnesota Wild by a score of 3 to nothing!

The weekend's almost here, now GET TO WORK!]]>
Well at 10 am today Allison and I get to attend our very first pre-possession walk through. Last night we had the run through of all the things to look for, I even got a little advice at work. Man, if you don't know much about building a home, a good way to learn is to build a home. I'm sure today we'll miss a few things, we're not experts in the field of building homes. But I hope to get all the major items that could potentially become costly and unsightful in the future. We're both so excited that things are finally coming together. In one week we will be moving into our new home. Hoooray!

Yesterday, our meeting with the lawyer went awesome. we got to the lawyers office about 10-15 minutes early, just the way i like it. I taught Allison how to ride the train downtown. Haha... she's so cute! We sat with the lawyer right at 9am and 20 minutes later after signing document after document we were finished. Thank you Mr. Scott Pritchard for being the most reliable part of our entire home buying ordeal.

When we got back to the apartment, we phoned Enmax yesterday to make sure we had water and electricity when we moved in. We'll have to do a little more research to see where we can get the best deal with utilities and to just see what else is out there. But for now, I'm happy if we have hot water when we move in.

As I look to my right... they are about to reveal details from the Gommery report. *I'm watching tv if you haven't realized.* I just realized that I was no longer watching Global Calgary's morning show and instead it's Global National with what's her name. Tara something? Isn't is strange how Kevin Newman is never around when these big stories break? Where was he during Hurricane Katrina? On vacation... I assume!

Can someone fill me in, is Remembrance Day a statuatory holiday? Wow, the House of Commons looks like a boring place to work!

Have a great day peoples! Oh did I mention how much candy I got from Halloween? Twick o' Tweet!]]>

Meeting w/ Lawyer checklist:
o $9838.66 bankdraft
o 2 pieces of ID
o Marriage certificate
o Proof of insurance

McCaffery, Goss, Mudry. #2200 - 736 6 ave SW, Calgary, AB Ph#: 260-1400
Ok I think we're good to go! Now I can just sit and relax.

Well it was another crazy weekend. Friday after work, both Allison and I raced home after work. We quickly packed a bag for the night, ate a plate of pasta then hit the road to Edmonton. *Or as I like to call it, the big SUCK!* We arrived in Edmonton at around 9:30pm, and headed directly to Megan's aunts house as instructed. Megan is Allison's friend from her jr. high days, we came up to celebrate her birthday. I thought we were taking her out for dinner, but when we arrived at her aunts house she was no where to be found. So after calling around for Miss. Megan's cell phone number Allison got a hole of her. She was at a restaurant called Koutouki with a couple of her girlfriends. We drove up to meet them.

Oh boy... mO and a bunch of partially b*tchy girls. Hey that's what they told me, "You better be careful, you're surrounded by a bunch of bitches." <-- end quote. I remained silent as a lamb, because lambs are pretty silent y'know! Not all the girls were mean, mainly just one. But I should shut my mouth before this comes back to haunt me.

So Megan forgot that we were coming up to stay at her aunts house. *uh huh, i bet you can imagine what was going through my head... lower your backhand mO!* She had already made other plans, but said she would adjust.

After listening to these girls go on giggling about how the owner of the restaurant is so cute and blah blah... *yuck* we finally left. Our next stop was to Megans house to drop off one of the girls cars. When we arrived, Megan's sister was throwing a party and cars lined the street. *Man I'm getting to old for this.*

Finally the ladies were ready and we headed down to "White Ave.", I know what you're thinking, this sounds like somewhere a person of my skin tone wants to hang out on a friday night. It turned out to be ok. We went to a pub/club called "The Thirsty Turtle." Nor Alli and I have a valid picture ID, just our temporary licenses we were given when we went to get our addresses changed. But the ladies managed to schmooze the bouncer to let us in. The bouncer was surprisingly friendly, I wonder if that's because I was with the ladies, because I don't ever recall meeting a bouncer that friendly or close to friendly in my life.

So the thirsty turtle was full of drunken 20 year olds. I dressed way to nice for Edmonton, I should have tossed on a pair of jeans with holes in them, and a hoodie. Seriously, all I could think of is if someone steps on my shoe I'm going to lose it. I stood in my corner while Allison served me up a Gin 'n Juice. *laid back with my mind on my... * I started to simmer down a wee bit!

Megan bumped into her X-boyfriend as soon as we walked in and pretty much jumped his bone as soon as we were there. I don't get it, doesn't the 'X' mean anything? Like... oh I don't know, you're no longer supposed to shove your tongue down his throught? Maybe it's just me, call me crazy mO!

Megans friends left the bar to go to the liquor store, they snuck liquor into the bar then proceeded to the bathroom to get pissed. Holy f*ckin' high school Batman... *someone get me my ol' ye english and a brown bag.* My patience was starting to wear and Allison was having about as much fun as I was. She had no idea what had happened to her friend Megan. Allison, being the understanding wife that she is kept me calm. *breath mO, woooo SAAAAA!*

A strange guy approached me and pointed his finger in my face, he then asked me in his drunken slurr... "Hey were you at the football game? The Eskie's game man!" I blindly stared at him then smiled and calmly said "No!" I think he got the message that I wasn't interested in having a convo with a drunken fool and said "Oh man I should quit drinking!" *go ON! I dare ya!* Megans' x-boyfriends, friend came up to me and muttered "Oh man, I'm sooo drunk!"... uh huh *I'm losin' it!*

The ladies were getting bored, they wanted to move onto another bar! *As if they forgot that we didn't have ID.* Why should they have to give up a good night of partying for us ol' folks anyways. How about they stay and club it up and we drive back to Calgary, is what I suggested to Allison. Nope, Alli wouldn't budge, she was content to stick this out. She's a good friend, unlike me, I would be gone like the flash! *see ya homeboys!*

Strolling through white ave was interesting, I thought the red mile was crazy well this street was lined up with bars and drunken people. Wholy moly! After strolling down the drunken ave we ended up at the doors of "The Iron Horse." Again the bouncer was friendly and let us in without proper ID. Megan paid the cover for us, and I was told to give up my jacket to the coat check. "what?! but dude just walked in with his jacket on, why do i have to give up mine?" So i conceeded, I paid the 2 bucks for coat check, I DID NOT TIP! Then I entered the bar, I stood and watched how the coat check works and decided to go reclaim my jacket. There was one window to drop off the jacket, and another to pick them up. So i picked mine up and walked back into the bar. *what a crock of BS!* Big beefy bouncers tryin to be somebody! *break me off a piece of that kit kat bar*

The rest of the night was actually fun, Allison and I picked up a table and sat and chatted all night. Her friends did their thing, and we were happy where we were. As the Gin 'n Juice started to catch up with my head I started to get more and more relaxed. My guard was slowly coming back down... until I got hosed!

That's right my brand spankin new tommy jacket go hosed! Ahhhhh.... I walked out the door! After watching Megan flash the boys in the bar, then make us sit there till 3 am watchin all these drunken kids act... well like kids, the hosing just made me overflow! Allison got the key from megan and we were off to her aunts place.

When we arrived at her aunts house, we found out the hard way that the key didn't fit. She gave us the wrong key. We called her back and she didn't answer. *Later we found out that she tried to call us back but ended up calling Allison's dad's house at 3:30 am* We eventually got a hold of her and she was barely making sense... she was piss drunk. She said she would get there as soon as possible.

After laying in the car for about 30-45 minutes, our host arrived. A red civic pulled up next to us, the door swung open and about 7 people were piled into this 2 seater. Megan popped out with another guy she met at the bar. *Not her X-boyfriend* We walked in, Megan told us where were sleeping and Megan and her new boy-toy from the bar went their separate ways. I locked the door, brushed my teeth, got changed and jumped in bed. I think it was about 4:30 am!

The next morning Allison had to get up at 9:30 am and Megan and her went to her mom's house when they were ready. She was having her "special" birthday party. I got up around 11:30am, had a bowl of cereal then watched "the 70's show, and the simpsons all after noon." It's surprising how little is on, even when you have a satellite.

Megan and Allison got back at around 3:30 pm then we sat and chatted for a while... finally I convinced Allison it was time to go back to Calgary. We made it back to Calgary around 6:30 pm, *not soon enough if you ask me*

Well it was nice to spend a weekend with Allison, but call me a "square" but I'd rather not step into another club for a while. mO out...

At least I got a new 19" LCD monitor for $330.00 bucks on Sunday. We just happened to stop by Compu Smart, and bumped into my old class mate Jason Kwok from sait. He was a manager now and they were having their re-location sale. So I got a pretty darn good deal. Thank Mr. Jason!

Oh oh oh.. also I tried a new breakie bowl at the Ricky's across from Chinook. The Memphis breakky bowl. This one had shredde pork... Mmmm.... ok well I'm finished ranting. Allison's out of the shower and we've got to get going pretty soon.

Have a great day, and you over there... GET TO WORK!]]>
It just so happens to be friday, and today right after work Allison and I are off to Edmonton to visit her friend for her birthday. Should be fun!

This morning on the news there was a story of an accident that occured at 11pm last night. Just down the hill from my old neighborhood. There were 5 people in an SUV that lost control and slammed into a cement barrier. It happened at the intersection of 19thst, and memorial drive. They should some of the people getting carted into the ambulance and I think I recognized two of them. It was hard to tell but I immediately thought, that better not be Filmon, Derek and Ryan. I know last night was 1 cent highballs at NYLA and they never miss it. From the direction of the car it looked like they might have been on their way to the club, and 11:30 pm sound about right. Uh oh... the ages of the 5 victims were 21-23. Damn...

Well this weekend should be fun, and hopefully everything will go well next week with our meeting with the lawyer and our pre-possession walk through in our new home. Wooo Hooo...

I came last night to a note informing me of the purchase of a $700.00 chais' lounge. Oh Allison, then at 3 am I was informed of how our living room was going to look. Uh huh, "would you pipe down over there, some of us are trying to sleep." haha... have a good weekend!]]>
Yesterday I faxed off the last item to Michelle Jakeman at home loans Canada. On the fax cover I went through and listed all the numbers, to have her confirm them. Guess what? She' screwed up the numbers. That's right! I guess she didn't realize that $8353.18 + $38.00 + $9600.00 = $17,991.18, our down payment. Somehow she got the magical number of $15,000.00. Isn't it her job to work with numbers all day? Ay yay yay... this woman is giving me an emotional epindectomy. She's driving me coo cooo... Less than 2 weeks away till possession date, nothing signed!

Last night or I should say early this morning at 4am, Allison and I and probably the rest of the apartment block woke up to the screams of a woman. I jumped out of bed and looked out the window to see what was going on. A woman walking up the alley as a car was driving away was screaming "RAPIST, Mother F*****G RAPIST!" Whoa... She got to the street and continued walking down the sidewalk toward Macleod trail. She stopped yelling by the time she got to the straight and the car had sped away. The car looked like a big boat from the 70's or 80's. It was beight or light brown. I didn't have my contacts in so I couldn't see clearly, but the lady was short and a little chubby. Should I have called the police? I don't know... I went back to bed. I watched the news this morning to see if it had made the news at all. Didn't hear anything about it. And I guess life moves on... but I will never know what happened. So many different scenario's take place in my head, but I have no idea.

I forgot to mention, but after work monday I picked up the tix to the Calgary Stampeders vs. Edmonton Eskimos game on Sunday, November the 6th. Oh yeaah... go Stamps GO!

Tonight I'm off to the .net Calgary user group meeting at the University of Calgary. Tonights topic, test driven development. Oh yeah... should be a good one.]]> Anonymous]]>
Lor]]> As most of you already know hurricane Wilma has already ravaged most of the east coast of Mexico, near Cancun. Last friday I decided to email our wedding planner, Maria, who lives in Playa del Carmen to see if she was ok... Here's the email I sent:

"
Hi Maria,

I've been watching the news and following the coverage on hurricane Wilma. I certainly hope you and your family are ok! Best wishes from Calgary, please let us know if you are ok!

- Mo Khan
"

Today she replied with this message:
"
dear m
we are ok but part of my house is destroyed
It was scary... but we were lucky
HUgs
M
"

That's terrible! Since we were just in Isla Mujeres and Playa del Caremen just over a month ago it's easy for us to picture all the great restaurants and shops destroyed from the hurricane. There's so much of Mexico we didn't see, mainly where the locals actually live. Although it's terrible that there are so many tourist stranded in Mexico right now, at least they have a home to look forward too. Mexico is resiliant and will re-build quickly! It's just to bad how things like this happen even in Paradise! Dang!

In other news... I heard from Michelle Jakeman at Home loans Canada yesterday. She still hasn't faxed the necessary documents to the lawyer. *sigh* Michelle, you're killing me over here! Yesterday she called and gave me the details on our mortgage. 4.75% fixed rate for 5 years. Our payments are $440.00 bi-weekly. She also requested me to fax something else to her. She needs more documents now apparently. If she needed more doc's why didn't she call me 2 weeks ago to tell me. Nooo.. she called me 2 weeks ago to tell me that the documents will be sent to the lawyer by the following monday. And here we are, we haven't moved. *sigh* Banks are fun!

Besides that life is pretty good! Hey you! What are you looking at?! Get to work!]]> Anonymous]]>
Lor]]>
We spent most of Saturday just lounging around the apartment. Then we went to "Puspa" for dinner with Papa Glennsy. Sunday was more of the same, just more maxin' and relaxin'.

Tomorrow we'll be 2 weeks away from our possession date. It's getting closer and closer and it looks like everything is on schedule. Woo Hooo... As for me and learning to drive standard, well... it looks like I'm just going to have to learn the hard way. Just toss me out in the ocean and force me to swim. Damnit... Why do i have to do everything the hard way?

Anyways.... ummm... mO out!]]> map of cozumelTGIF! Finally! I'm sure glad I'm not in Playa del Carmen or Cozumel, Mexico right now! Hurrican Wilma just slammed into Cozumel! Oh man! Cozumel is an island just southeast of Playa del Carmen. I guess we had our wedding just in time! Let's hope it doesn't get to bad out there!

Hmmm... well at least the Calgary Flames won last night! You know what kind of bugs me about watching the news! One minute an anchor will talk about a devastating story where thousands of people are killed, and then with the snap of a finger the next story up is sports! It bugs me! It's like this... say someone was telling you the story of how their daughter was brutally raped and murdered, and then after telling you this brutal story they pipe up "Well, at least the flames won last night!" and then moves on. It just doesn't make sense. So what do I do... I pull the same shananagan!

What does mO have planned for the weekend: For his friday he was thinking he might put that Dirt Devil to use... oh yeah baby! Perhaps afterwards he'll venture off to the nearest grocery store to purchase some milk. *I'm telling you these are the things I look forward to all week!* If he can squeeze it in before his 9:30pm bedtime he'll play NHL 2005 on his XBOX. *Oh baby!*

Tomorrow morning is where the story gets exciting! Alli and I are going to try to make a brekkie bowl, just like the ones I like so much at Ricky's! *mmmm grilly!* If all hell should break loose and we can't seem to get it together, plan b is to walk to Ricky's just down the street and get the real thing. *Sunshine breakkie bowl* I still can't find a picture of the net of my beloved bowl so if I remember I'll have to make sure to take a picture of it one of these days!

Besides that it's all good in the hood... see ya on Monday!]]>
Last night was business as usual, hockey, computer, can of chili and a sandwich. Mmm.. nothing like the bachelor lifestyle while wifey's off at work. Oh yeaaah!

When Alli came home last night I got up and we talked for a while, she showed me her wedding scrap book, which looks awesome by the way. Her friend Megan's birthday is next weekend so we're planning on driving up to Edmonton to visit her. Yaaaay, I get to hang with the ladies of Edmonton! *boom chicka wow wow* For Megans wedding party she's throwing a "Special" party at 11am till 1pm Saturday afternoon. I think it's one of those adult toy parties. Hmmm... women are kind of strange don't you think? These girls who seem so nice and innocent and then going off and throwing a tupperware party for the kinky cougar type. It's all in good fun! I've said to much... next thought!

So I was talking to Alli about the football game her dad and I went to last Friday. And there's still something lingering in my mind about that game. It really bugs me and I need to know the answer, here's my question when you're charged $6.25 for a 355ml "CAN" of beer are you expected to tip the vendor? You heard me a CAN of beer at the football game was $6.25. That's unbelievable people, we're not talking bottles here. Which wouldn't be much better, we're talking about a CAN. Sure you can say... "Awww c'mon mO, but for how often you go to football games it's ok, isn't it?" I say to you... "NO WAY JOSE!" You gotta be kidding, I'm sneaking in a six pack next time forget that I'll harness a 40 oz of your finest malt liquor to the inside of one of my oversized pant leg. You got that right buster!

*breathe mO, breathe... *

Yesterday morning I received a phone call from Judy at Scott Pritchards office. Scott Pritchard is our lawyer we're using to purchase our home. She was wondering why Michelle Jakeman at Home Loans Canada had not faxed her our details for our mortgage yet. I told her I had no idea and she's driving me crazy. Judy calmed me down and told me as soon as she got it she would try to get me in right away and not to worry. What?! me worry?

At least it's getting awfully close to the weekend. Thank goodness I have at least that to look forward too, oh and Saturday morning breakfast with my lovely wife!

Get to work SLACKER!]]> Good Morning Calgary! It's mid way through the week and the prospect of almost reaching the weekend has got me excited. As of yesterday we were 3 weeks away from taking posession of our new home. Woo Hoo... I called Michelle Jakeman (our mortgage broker) last night to get an update as to where things are. Her voicemail said that she was on holidays until this Friday so I didn't leave a message. 5 minutes later I decided that I did want to leave a message so I called back. As I was rehearsing what I was going to say on the message she answered. Man I felt like an idiot I'm mid way through my speil and she answers "Hello?" As if to say, "who are you talking too?" Anyways she picked up the phone because she thought it might have been her mother, who happens to be taking care of her kid in Calgary while she's off on vacation. Lucky for me I finally got to talk to her. I got all my concerns across to her and she was quite helpful. I'm looking forward to hearing from her when she's back in town. *whew* sweat off my brow.

This morning I receieved an email from Google. It read as follows...

"Hello Mo Khan,

Your AdSense account was found to be related to an account previouslydisabled for invalid click activity and we have therefore disabled youraccount. Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowedfurther participation in AdSense and do not receive any furtherpayment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to theaffected advertisers.As outlined in our program Terms and Conditions, Google reserves theright to terminate any publisher's participation at any time.Sincerely,The Google AdSense Team"

Damnit... Let me explain! Back in December when I first heard about Google Adsense I decided to "test" it. Little did I know, now that I actually want to take advantage of it I'm blacklisted for life. Ooooh Google please take me back! I've always just been a curious child, I've always just test my boundaries to see how far it will stretch. Please oh please don't stay angry at me. Please Google I miss you buddy ol' pal. VMP.com sucks Yahoo's pay per click advertising sucks you're the only one I want on my site. Please don't end what could end up being a beautiful relationship...

Don't worry people I will eventually move on. *Somewhere over the rainbow... *

- Hey what are you looking at?

- Nothing much! haha

- Very funny, GET BACK TO WORK!

]]> Anonymous]]>

Lor]]> Good Morning! On my usual cold, dark, quiet walk to work in the morning I noticed a homeless person sleeping under a tree the past couple of days. Our shop is located about 60 blocks south of the downtown core. I don't know why, but it seems so odd to me that this one person sleeps alone so far away from the downtown core. It makes me wonder, what happened to him. What's his story? How did he get to where he is today? Is is possible that he had a life like me at one point and lost it all? I always keep my eyes open as I walk by his territory in the morning. I don't know why but sometimes I get the feeling that someone is going to jump out from a tree and grab me. *I'm such a girl!*

On my walk this morning I was almost the cuase of an accident. As I walked south on Macleod Trail I crossed the intersection of Glenmore and Macleod. I cross the street when the walk signal was lit and a lady almost didn't see me. She stopped quickly to avoid hitting me and the van behind her almost rear ended her. Ahhh... This happened on the right turning lane from northbound macleod onto glenmore trail east. It's ok people I made it to work safely!

So good ol' Wayne Gretzky and his Phoenix Coyotes won their first game of the season last night. Guess who they beat? Just take a wild guess. Yup, the Calgary Flames. 2 to nothin'!

Alli picked up the mail key for our new home a couple of days ago so yessterday we went to go check to see if we had any mail. We recieved a letter in regards to our mortgage insurance. We were accepted back on APril. 05, 2005. And our first payment was to come out October. 1st, 2005. Well we still haven't even moved in yet! (August 1st, to September 15th, to November 8th. Damn you Cardel Homes!)

I'm not impressed with Execsuite as of late. Yesterday we received a bill from shaw cable for $60.00. When we first moved into the suite we were told that internet was $45.00. I was expecting to get billed by execsuite not shaw. So far they've charged us $500.00 for a deposit. $1295.00 for a month in the apartment. $35.00 for a parking stall that we specifically said we didn't want. And now we've got a bill for $60.00 for internet. $30 for the internet and $30 for the hookup. 10 days without a stove. No vacuum cleaner as we were told we would get. Not impressed! Not impressed!

TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK!]]> Anonymous]]>
Oh and I do the same things, I walk to work every day too, and One time I almost got attacked sooo ever since I always watch my back...Oh and Yeah Gretsky, cuz you know those will always be the Winnipeg Jets to us Peggers....


Lor]]> Jamie]]> Jamie]]> Good Morning! It's the beginning of a new work week, and as usual I'm already looking forward to Friday! *sigh* This weekend was pretty good. Friday night I went to the football game with Papa Glennsy! The Calgary Stampeders beat the Hamilton Tiger Cats in an exciting game. Oh yeah! After the game Alli here pops and I went to Tony Roma's where I munched on a rib sampler. Mmmm... meaty!

Saturday Alli and I went to Chinook centre to do a little shopping then I drove her to work. I got a little more practice driving stick. I managed to stall a few times which is kind of nerve racking but overall I think I'm getting better. I think I'm my own worst enemy when driving, I just get myself so worked up that i panic then stall. As soon as I can master the take off from stop to start I think I'll be good.

Saturday evening I watched the Calgary Flames beat the Edmonton Oilers 3 to nothing. Wooo Hoo, Mikka Kiprusof played an excellent game. It seems as soon as I jumped ship and became a an Oilers fan, Calgary started winning. So I'm thinking that I'll remain an Oilers fan and secretly root for Calgary and Calgary will keep winning. It makes sense doesn't it, Calgary's winning has a direct correlation to whom I cheer for. Right!? Doesn't it?

I spent the rest of my Saturday night watching TV and working on our wedding site. Then I drove up north to pick up Alli from work. Yay, I got more practice driving a standard transmission automobile.

I slept in Sunday, and didn't get to see Alli for long before she went to work. I spent most of the day lounging in front of the TV and working on our wedding site. I managed to get a little cleaning done.

And that's my weekend... Time to get to work!]]> Mike Kahsai is dead! The cousin of a my friend Filmon and the cousin of Samson, Michael Kahsai was found dead in his underwear laying next to a duffle bag in Casey Sluys basement.

My condolences go out to you Filmon and to your entire family. I just tried to call you and I heard your sad tone on your voicemail. I know that you and Mike are very close and you must be in a lot of pain right now. Samson, I can't imagine what it would feel like to find your cousin naked and dead. Stay strong!

The story as I know it so far... Casey's mother phoned his friend Brock. She tells him that if he is truly one of Casey's friends that she should immediately get to their house. Brock had no idea whats going on but is worried. On his drive to Casey's house he spots, friend, Samson (Mike's cousin) and picks him up. They drive to Casey's house... This is the gap in the story that I didn't fully get, but Mike goes downstairs and finds his cousin dead in the basement.

Casey claimed that Mike broke into his house while he was out and waited until he arrived home. When he got home Mike allegedly attacked him with a knife, when Casey overpowered him and fought back and eventually murdered him.

I don't believe it... why would Mike jump on the bus to go all the way to the NE to hopefully break into Casey's house when he's not home. It's just not like him. I never saw an ounce of violence from Mike. Whenever I saw him his first questions was "Yo mO, where's the ladies?"

Over a month ago Henry Adai was murdered here in Calgary. I didn't know him that well. Mike I felt I knew better. I remember driving him and his friends home when they were younger. And Filmon I have known you for so many years. I am so sorry to hear the bad news man! I truly feel... shocked!

Filmon, this to shall pass!

- mO (Your big brother!)]]>
Last night the flames lost 3-2 in overtime to the Dallas Stars. *sigh* It's so sad to watch them come so close to winning then lose. I guess that's the emotional highs and lows of watching professional sports. I am dissapointed that the flames are losing * and that Kiprusof seems to damn SOFT * but I'm sure they'll get into better form. There are quite a few new faces on the squad and it'll probably take some time to get comfortable with each other. So until then... I'm converting... I'm jumping off the bandwagon... that's right I'M AN OILERS FAN!
cooking pot
Last night Alli and I managed to gump our way through our first meal together as a married couple. We've been married for over 3 weeks and have not had the oppurtunity to cook dinner together. Oh man what a fiasco that turned out to be. *yes, i am a little over dramatic sometimes..* So for dinner we decided to prepare spaghetti with chicken smothered in a veggie pasta sauce. Mmmm... we quickly found that we didnt have a frying pan in the furnished apartment so we had to use a pot to cook the chiken. Oh man... I have to admit, I'm definitely not a seasoned veteran in the kitchen so I was greatly relying on Alli's skills, in hopes that I might learn a thing to do. The first lesson I learned is to make sure you have the proper equipment. Using a cooking pot to fry chicken is not a good substitue for a frying pan. The good news we did in fact manage to get it together and dinner was an overall success. Next we're going to learn how to season a chicken!

Preparing dinner really wasnt as bad as I made it sound and Alli really is good in the kitchen, I think it was me who seemed to just get in the way! Lesson learned: get a bigger kitchen! I think I did ok on cleanup!

Well it's close enough to the weekend that I suppose you can take the rest of the day off. Have a good weekend ducklings!]]> Good Morning! It's a bit of a chilly morning here in Calgary. Good thing I'm bald, don't need all that hair to keep my hair warm as i walk to work. *uh huh, sure mO!* Well I got the phone call from Spence Diamonds late yesterday afternoon. My ring was finally in! I dropped it off last monday to get it re-sized from a size 10 to a size 8 1/2. *Does that sound like a whimpy size for a ring finger or what?* So i strolled in to Spence after work, and who do i see. My man Jessie, the guy who sold me Allison's engagement ring. *Remember the guy who ended up charging me an extra $800.00 bucks because he screwed up on the diamond selection?* Well to my surprise he remembered my name. "Hey Mo!". My reply a low, monotone, sarchastic sounding "Hey, Jessie." At least I have my wedding ring back. *now i can get back to growing my hives underneath my ring* So after almost less than a day my allergic reaction to the ring has begun. It's worth it in my opinion, but it's white gold. How can i be allergic to white gold! *sigh* I'm just not a jewellry man!

More good news, yesterday a technician came to fix our stove. We now have a working stove. According to Allison the technician said the stove was hooked up wrong. To celebrate the fixing of the stove, I decided to nuke some left over turkey, gravy and stuffing for dinner. *dejavu* Mmmm... oyster stuffing! Maybe tonight we'll put the stove to use.

Oh and I have even more good news! *It's your lucky day people* Yesterday during my lunch hour I picked up a wireless router from Memory Express Calgary South location. Oh yeah, the D-link 524 baby! So it turned out that i did get a worm. all it seemed to do was pop up error messages. After hooking up the router, un-installing then re-installing my virus scanner and running a complete virus scan, I was back in business baby! Take it from a hack job professional, never leave your home PC defenceless without a router or some sort of firewall. Win XP firewall just didn't cut it for me.

To finish off my wonderful day I watched the Minesota Wild beat the Vancouver Canucks 6 to nothing. That's right people. In your face Bertuzzi, Nasland, Linden, Crawford, Cloutier! Hopefully, the Calgary Flames can pull out a win for there home opener tonight.]]> Anonymous]]> The deal, 'expands AOL's presence in the blogging community and the company's potential to attract advertising dollars', says the Associated Press .
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Now that my PC is at the apartment and I don't have my router I think I picked up my first worm or virus. Damnit! My virus scanner crashes everytime I boot up the PC. When I attempted to uninstall and re-install is. Kaboom... I can't! *sigh* It's to bad all my OS and software discs are packed in boxes somewhere. So I can't event wipe my PC clean and start over. Oh me oh my. Maybe it's time to find something else to play with. *who am i kidding?*

Wayne Gretzky is the new coach of the Phoenix Coyote's and man he's getting a lot of heat from the media. Leave him alone! His team isn't doing thaaaat bad! I think there record is the same as the Calgary Flames. Why isn't Sutter getting the same kind of flack? huh? (1-3) Every game the Coyotes have lost so far has been by a score of 3-2. That's not as bad as losing 6-3 to the Wild. *I think the score was 6-3* Yup so leave Mr. Gretzky alone, give him some time to grow as a coach!
Dirt Devil Vacuum
Last night I got to put together our new Dirt Devil vacuum. *Oh boy!* Man this vacuum can suck! I can't believe how much dust and crud it picked up from the the apartment floor. And we've only been in the furnisheed suite for a week. It's cool when you can see exactly what the vacuum is picking up. *mO likes to see!* We still have no working stove in the apartment. I've called twice now and nothing's been done. Execsuite is really starting to get on my nerves. 10 days with no stove. I want to cook some pasta damnit! Maybe a lil' chicken or a stir fry perhaps! But left over turkey, stuffing and gravy isn't something to complain about. *Mmmm... oyster stuffing* Oh and did I mention, THE PIE! That's right an entire Pumpkin Pie! *Jelous?*

Today marks 2 weeks as a married man! No wait... I mean 3 weeks! Oh oh... my marriage memory is starting to kick in. And I used to be so good with dates and anniversary's. To bad that's over... *hehe.. I'm just kiddin' Alli* So to celebrate on this joyous 3 weeks I plan on celebrating by purchasing a new wireless router. *woo hoooo...* For Alli and I of course!

Hey you over there, yeah YOU! GET TO WORK, slacker!]]> Anonymous]]>

Lor

Hey why does it seem that I always have to get back to work after readin your blog...suspicious mister.]]> *Yawn* Back to work! Good morning everyone... there goes another great long weekend. I managed to get more stuffing and turkey in me then I ever thought I could. I amaze myself every holiday dinner. The weather was great this weekend, and I had a lot of down time to relax.

Yesterday we had a little afternoon turkey at the inlaws to accomodate those who had to work this weekend. hehe.. suckers! Hockey night in Canada returned with Don Cherry and Ron Maclean. WOoo Hooo... there really is no hockey broadcast like hockey night in Canada. Thank you CBC. Poor Calgary Flames only won one of their first 4 games. *sigh* Now there's the Calgary Flames that I remember. I knew the trip to the Stanley Cup Finals was just a dream.

Well, you would think that after a relaxing long weekend that I would be refreshed and ready to tackle another work week. Wouldn't you? Nope... this morning I felt like crying "Mommy.. do I have to go to school?" To bad mommy not around to call in sick for me. Oh the good ol' days!

Sunday night when Alli got home from work I jumped in the little Hyundai Accent and practice driving standard all by myself. (I'm a big boy now!) It was good, I don't know why but I prefer to drive at night. The blanket of the dark gets rid of all the eyes I guess. So when I stall, nobody can point and laugh and shout and scream. *Stop screaming at mE!* Driving stick is actually kind of fun after you get the hang of it. Monday I drove up to Papa Glennsy's in the Accent. *Oh boy, gold star for mO! Put it next to my star for keeping dry through the night*

Alli's gramma is renting an apartment in Barbados for 3 months starting in January. So we've been thinking about visiting her for a week in March. Oh *drool* the prospect of returning to the heat makes my mouth water. No work and lots of sunshine. Perfect!

Well I suppose I should get ready to start working now... only 4 more days until the weekend! 3 weeks until our pre-possession walk through. 4 weeks until we take possession of our new home, that's way overdue. (Original Possession date: August. 1, 2005. 2nd possession date: September. 15, 2005 3rd Possession date: November. 8th, 2005. Hopefully, there wont be a 4th!)

Hey you, GET TO WORK!]]> Anonymous]]> child's toy store that you may enjoy visiting.]]> Anonymous]]>

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After spending some time getting the internet functional on our PC, I began to add whatever wedding photo's I had to my site. So hopefully within a week or so the rest of the photos and perhaps even the videos will be available. Also, sorry if I posted any unflattering pictures of anyone attending the wedding. If you'd like me to remove any please let me know via the feedback link on my site.
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Things have been great at the apartment here except that Alli has had the most difficult time working with the appliances. The dishwasher just wouldnt cooperate with her a few days ago, and yesterday she couldn't get the stove to heat up. I managed to get the dishwasher running last night, so no problems there. But our stove doesn't work. I turned on all the burners and none of them heated up. I checked to make sure the stove was plugged in the back. I checked the breaker switches and they're all ON. The funny thing is the oven light works. I assume the power for the bulb comes from the wall socket and not an internal battery. Anyways, I made a phone call to the Resident Manager and he said that he'll send out a technician today to take a look at it. *Sigh* No soup for mO!

I feel like I've come pretty close to conquering my cold. But at the office yesterday I heard a lot more sneazing and coughing. Ooops... I think I may have contaminated our recycled air. Sorry co-workers! Maybe echinacea will work for you guys! I really should have just taken a sick day, but I felt guilty since I just returned from a 2 week holiday.
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Halloween is coming up, and I'm wondering whether or not we'll get any trick-or-treaters at the apartment. You're supposed to buzz to get in the building, so I don't think there will be to many kids coming in off the street. But do kids within the building tend to walk from door to door screaming "Twick o' tweet"? I guess it doesn't hurt to get a whole bunch of candy. I'm sure they'll eventually get put to good use. *evil grin*

This weekend I've got to practice driving standard. If Alli and I are going to share one car, then I've got to learn. So I've got to pull out "Tough a** mO", so I can whip myself into shape. "Shift up, Shift down... shift up, shift down... breathe in... "

It's Friday, and the beginning of a long weekend. Make sure to spend some time with the loved ones and relax, because life aint that bad!

but for now... GET BACK TO WORK!]]> Anonymous]]> Analysis of free versus fee content invariably focuses on content that must be paid for by ... Technorati indexes and monitors blogs to find out what people are saying about people, companies, products, brand names, politics, and other areas of interest.
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Last night was the first day of regular season play for the 2005/2006 NHL season. All 30 teams played and 11 of the 15 games were sold out. That's pretty darn good. Our Calgary Flames played in Minesota last night and lost to the "Wild" 5-3. Man the Flames sucked last night. They started playing better in the 3rd, but they're looking pretty rusty. But it's still pretty darn early in the season. I sure hope Mr. Brent Sutter whips them boys into shape.
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So Alli had the night off yesterday, YAAAAY. We went to papa Glennsy's house to watch the game and munch on some Chineese food. Mmmm... chicken fried rice! I don't know if the fact that Allison and I are now married has quite settled in yet. It doesn't feel like a whole lot has changed. Except I get to hear Allison breathing while she sleeps and I get ready for work. *It really makes going to work a whole lot easier, when the number one reason you go is right in front of you to motivate you* I dropped my wedding ring off at Spence Diamonds on Monday to get it sized so I haven't been wearing it for the past couple of days. It actually feels weird not having it on now. I still dream about our wedding, it was so great! And I'm excited about our future. "Hey look everybody, mO has a positive outlook on the future for once!"

3-day weekend is coming up, and I'm excited! It's Thanksgiving weekend which means we get to get our "Turk" (Turkey Dinner) on. Mmmm... stuffing! Allison's got Monday off so we can finally have a whole day to spend together, Yaaay!

Hey you, GET BACK TO WORK!]]> *Choke, cough, puke* Uhhh... my head is spinning this morning. I really thought I would be ok by today, but the 25 minute walk in the cold sure didnt help. Now I have a sinus headache. This big welt on the side of my face hasn't gone away yet either. One of my co-workers suggested that it might have been from a bed bug bite. Yup, bed bugs really do exist, and they're nasty looking things. Check this site out for more information. http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef636.htm
Another suggestion made was that I might be having an allergic reaction to the fabric softner used in the sheets. After all we are staying in a furnished apartment. Ughhh... I sure do like to complain, don't I?
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Well after work I boogey'd straight home to check the mattresses for signs of beg bugs. The mattresses looked brand spankin' new. So *whew* I'm really glad it wasnt that! The cable guy must have shown up yesterday because there was a cable modem sitting on the desk. Now all i need to do is fish out my power cords for my pc and monitor and I'll be back on the net, at home anyone. Or I should say at "temp"-home.
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After settling in for a little bit I received a phone call from a friend and we agreed to meet at the chinook centre food court to grab something to eat. After a few hours of good conversation he left and I got ready for bed. Mmmm jambalya rice, bourbon chicken and corn for dinner.

I'm really glad Alli's got tonight off from work, so I can finally spend some time with her, *whisper* while we watch the hockey game. *ahem*

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Anyhow good to see you home and hope you get the beg bugs dissed.]]> Good Morning... well I still feel sick. When I woke up this morning and looked in the mirror I realized something didn't look right. A portion of my right cheek went numb and was drooping. Yup, I've been trying to move it all around and I've been poking it all morning to get some life back, but so far nothing. The right portion of my lip just droops, it looks really silly. I have no idea what it's from or if I should see a doc. Oh man, my body is just a mess right now. Yuck!
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So work went ok yesterday, no major catastrophe's. Well not any until I showed up. Good timing mO! After work I mosied on home to an empty apartment. It was the first night I had not spent with Allison in over 2 weeks. It was kind of sad *sniff*! Lucky for me Alli did a lot of grocery shopping, so the cupboards were full, the fridge was stocked and I was well fed. For dinner I had a bowl of Ichi Bahn soup and a salad. Mmmm... salada menjei... Who says you don't make friends with salad.
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Afterwards I made some phone calls, just to let people that I'm back in Calgary and to let everyone know how the wedding and the trip to Mexico was. Uh huh, then I watched football, read a little and went to sleep.

Allison got home from work at around 2 am! I woke up but fell back asleep quite quickly, then up at 6 am. I fixed the alarm clock by the way, the time was off by 12 hours. So am was pm and visa versa. Now I'm ready to take on another day of work... *yuck*

Hey, at least hockey starts tomorrow night!

P.S. here's proof that I played for the Calgary Stampeders... http://68.144.26.178/cftc/cftc.html]]> Traficmonger]]>
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So Alli and I arrived back in Calgary at about 8:45pm. Her dad picked us up from the airport then we spent a night at her dad's place since it was to late to pick up the keys for our furnished apartment. That evening we did a lot of laundry, sifted through a bunch of pictures, went through mail that was waiting for us and watched some of the amateur video yours truly shot while in Mexico. I guzzled 1.6 Litres of Sunny Delight then passed out.

Sunday morning we got ready quickly then packed what boxes we needed to and headed down to our furnished apartment. Colleen, the resident manager, got us to fill out some paper work then she handed us the keys to our apartment. It's awesome, leather couches, big stereo, dishwasher, microwave, fridge, stove. Sweet! I think we would still have preferred it if we could have moved in to our new condo when we got back but we'll have to wait until Nov. 8th for that!

After dropping off items at the apartment we headed to Ricky's All Day Grill so that I could munch on my beloved Sunshine Brekkie bowl. Mmm... bowly! Next we headed back to Alli's pops place to do more laundry and watch football. I had a nap on the couch since I'm sick as a duck, ducks are pretty sick y'know!

We managed to get back to our apartment at around 9:30 pm and we unpacked and got settled in. It was a cold night but the bed was really comfy and warm. I dragged my behind out of bed at 6:10 am after realizing the alarm didn't go off then I got showered, dressed and went off to work. The walk to work was about 25 mins, I walk slow!

I'm not sure how well my body's taking to the dramatic climate changes, but after about a week I think things will be back to normal. Hold on, did somebody say 3 day weekend? Yay for Thanksgiving day!]]>
Another think Lynne mentioned that we had in common was our asthma, and allergies. She said since living here she´s not allergic to cats like she is back home, she can wear silver and jewlerry that she cant wear at home and she can breathe so much better. I´ve noticed that here as well, I can wear my watch without developing hives, I dont feel so irritated by cats (not that Ive come in close contact with any) and breathing on the island is so much easier. I can go for long walks withouth shortness of breathe.

For our last dinner here on the island Alli and I enjoyed a meal at Rolandi´s. The 4 cheese pizza at Angelos a couple of nights ago was great. Last night we ate at a place called "Miramar" (Mermaid) right on the beach. it was awesome, I cant believe how empty the restaurant was though, the food was so good and in great big healthy portions for an awesome price. There was just so much shrimp in our shrimp ceviche. Alli and I over ate and enjoyed it thoroughly. For our last night i´ll probably finish off my 2 bottles of Sol in our fridge and Alli will probably guzzle her remaining cooler.

Alli grows impatient so off to the cabana room we go... have a great weekend everyone!]]>
Ziggy apparently is a Mexican and his wife Donna is and American. Donna has a couple of other kids with some American shmuck. Donno moved out here to Isla Mujeres and married Ziggy, and since has had a few babies with him. They are now partial owners of a cool lil´ restaurant on the island and happily lived ever after. THE END!

Another one of the locals that I got to meet is Joel (HOE - EL.) That´s right I called him an H O E while attempting to spell his name phenometically (Fen-o-meti-cali.) Hes definitely not what I expected, from hearing the stories of a young guy in Mexico who had been pursuing Alli´s younger sister when she was sixteen I pictured a younger guy. Dude had a 5 oclock shadow and looked like he was in his 30s. Ewww... come on. Creepy! Well he hasnt taken much of an interest in Alli and I and I can think of a couple of good reasons. I guess Mr. H-O-E-L emmidiately made it to my naughty list when I found out just how old he is. But I guess I shouldnt hold it against him for preying on young tourist girls, should i? Hell yeah I can. With the risk of saying something about a guy that I barely know I will leave it there. Now as for that Sergio fellow, he seemed like a more suitable candidate.. I mean if i was a young 16 year old girl that is... (princess laugh) hee heee...

Before venturing into this internet place we walked by the scuba and internet shop that Joel works at. I was hoping to rub him out a little more to get a better taste for the guy. When we had passed him earlier he was entertaining a nice young lady. When we walked back to pop in, the lights had shut off, the store had closed and there was no Joel to find. Hmm... I invite you to come up with your own conclusion. Yes I probably am stereo typing an I´m probably jumping to conclusions, so what shoot me! I dont like predators, never liked them in high school and I dont like them today.

Now onto more important news... Food. For dinner last night Alli, or I guess I can say my wife, and I ate at a place called "Bamboo." Mmm... i ordered a shrimp dish with peanut sauce and Alli had a chicken dish also with peanut sauce. Mmmm... cheap thai food in Mexico. (mO drowns in his own drool)

Tonight we´re off to a restaurant called "Angelos" for some thin crust pizza. I´ll make sure to give you the heads up on that and tell you more about our friend "Victor".

Before I go tonight I had a thought I wanted to jot down in yesterdays entry that I forgot about so I better do it now. Today, I spent a little time in the water by myself, and during that time I was doing a little eavesdropping. I overheard some rather rude comments. A group of young guys were using racial slurs towards asians. They were saying that there were to many yada yada. I didnt know what to do or if i should do anything. All it did was make me mad. Last week in Playa del Carmen there was a young girl who kept dropping the N-bomb which greatly bothered Allison grandmother. I was in the water at the time and didnt hear it. As soon as Alli´s dad heard what type of language the princess was using he marched right over and had a conversation about her language. I dont think he got his message but he didnt let that nonsense slide. So what kind of approach should I take? Should I confront it? Or walk away? My gut reaction is to start tossing elbows, but in most cases that will probably end up in my getting my ass kicked. Hmmm.... with so many different languages spoken on the beach with so many different types of people from so many different countries it can be either beautiful or disgusting. I guess all cultures are probably biased against one culture or another. And hey I´m probably no saint myself. I know I´ve said things that I emmediately regretted saying right away. Ok now I´m ranting and I can see that Alli´s patience is running dry... so we´re off to dinner. Adios suckers! Jelous!? Youre so jelous!]]> . ·*´¯`*·-»¤°KrisiMay°¤¸.·*´¯`*·-»]]> jAeMy]]> anyway bye]]> Theresa]]>
Personally, I never know how to deal with people who say things like racial slurs. They usually get the evil eye at least... and sometimes I'll say something (I've got to admit I've never thrown an elbow- about that or anything else). But I never ever really feel satisfied at the end of it. Just uncomfortable.

Hope your trip is enjoyable other than that- it sounds AMAZING! Take care. And congrats on gettin hitched!

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Day one in Isla, Saturday September. 24th, I find a huge dead beatle sitting on a pillow on our bed after ripping off the bed cover. YUCK... Day 2, a giant spider about an inch and half long hides out in our room. After about an hour of jumping on beds and searching high and low, we can no longer find our 8 legged friend. I sure hope we don´t find him in our sleep. Day 3, while walking out in the ocean water I come across something black scurrying along the bottom of the ocean after taking a painful bit out of my pinky toe on my right foot. Ouch... I think it was a crab and the bite was it´s.. umm what are they called... lets call them pliers, cause they hurt like a BEEP! Evening of day 3, Monday night, I spot a huge crab crawling down the street. It has a black back much like the black thing I spotted in the water after pinching my pinky toe. Tricky lil´guy scurrys down the street, in the opposite direction of the ocean. I don´t blame him, there´s only so much beach one person can take, NOT! As for today, so far I havent had any run in´s with the wildlife, oh wait there was a big iguana that scurried passed us this morning after breakfast and the lil´crab i saw scurrying passed me on the beach while reading my book. It took off into a big whole in the sand, I know where you sleep at night crab, it´s not over between us! dum dum duuuuummmmmm....

Well vacationing sure isn´t easy, it´s a lot of work trying to figure out what not to wear to work and what not to pack in my lunch. (sigh)

The passed few days Ive started a new afternoon activity. at around 3 pm I leave the beach, head back to our room, crack open a bottle of Sol and sit on a lawn chair on the huge balcony outside of our room while muching on a bag of Doritos Enchilada Diablo... Mmmm... Doritos!

For breakfast this morning Alli and I headed to a small restaurant called "Poc Chuc" (Pork Chop), where we both ordered a plate of Chile Quiles Rojo... Mmmm... very good! Now if I can only figure out how to make them at home and how to create a Paloma and I´ll be happy.

For dinner last night we went to a place called "La Momita", which looked like it was some familys home that they turn into a restaurant during the day. They have tables set up with a tv and a family sits there watching tv while you come in order and eat. Pretty neat! We both had Enchiladas... Droool.... I eat to live. There I said it.

On Sunday we had Church Lady Tacos for dinner and on Saturday we ate at "Rolandi´s." We ate pasta at Rolandi, pretty typical stuff except with exotic seafood and well its in Mexico.

The passed few nights we´ve been shopping at the local grocery store, where we load up on snacks, water, and pastries. Mmm... food! Ok im trying really hard to think of something non food related to tell you about this place, but its just so darn hard. Besides the beach there isn´t much else.

Today a couple of guys rolled up in a golf cart and asked me if i wanted a free golf cart for day, I said no then they asked me if i was over 30. Again, I said no, and the young fellow replied "cause if you´re over 30, i can help you make a quick 200 bucks." I shook my head and continued walking. Its really strange how I´m treated here when I walk on my own and when I walk with Allison. When I´m on my own no body asks me if i want to go on a tour or rent a golf cart or try to sell me anything. But when I´m strolling with Allison its non stop, gimme gimme gimme...

The last couple nights theres been a young kid walking around with a pole full of cotton candy, he cant be more then 9 years old and every night he works hard trying to sell this candy. Everyone just stops and stares at him, almost as if saying "how can they make someone that young work like that?" I completely agree with them but as a kid you dont want people staring at you, its weird watching him target families with children his own age to see if they want to buy. Hes as old as those kids vacationing but probably has many more years of life experience then they will ever have. It must suck to have to miss out on your childhood like that. But I dont think anyone here wants my pity. If anything they should pity me, a lot of the people here have very little but are so amazingly happy. I have everything and I still complain. I have a lot to learn about life and taking pleasure in the simple things.

The stray dogs and cats here are scary, but after a few nights here I realize the animals here are more scared of me then I am of them. When I see a dog down the street I begin to cross the street and they do the same. Allison tells me that a lot of these animals are abused and have became fearful of humans. Thats sucks! I dont understand how there can even be stray cats and dogs on and island? I dont think they breed here naturally in the wild. Obviously they were brought to the island have become homeless. Cruelty to animals sucks, so cut it out! NOW!

Well Allisons probably finished showering and applying her makeup, man, one of the first things Ive learned about marriage is that I have to spend a lot of time waiting, and waiting. Ugh, how long does it really take to get ready... sheesh! Its a good thing we´ve got a fridge full of beer and a lawn chair outside the room. We have no tv so I have no idea whats going on in the rest of the world. I remember hearing a little bit about hurricane Rita before leaving Playa del Carmen, but now I´m completely disconnected. Ok, enough ranting... back to life, back to reality... in about 4 days!]]> Anonymous]]> Independence Air , a low-fare airline, is making some adjustments to its flight plan and is reportedly considering adding service to an unnamed Caribbean destination.
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The night we arrived there was a production at the main square in the center of town. September. 16th was the independence day of Mexico, I believe. I´ve been told it was 15 and 16 so i´m not 100% sure. Well we watched a play on the history of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Quintana Roo is a province here in Mexico. Alli and I got lots of video and pictures so we´ll make sure to share those when we get home.

Today we munched on Enchiladas Diablo Doritos corn chips. Mmmm... flavours of Doritos here that you just can´t get at home. They´re so good. Then we bought a mexi blanket for 180 pesos from a tiny little shop. Afterwards we headed to the beach and napped, and swam a little bit. The water here is sooooo shallow. You really have to walk out far just to get water up to your waist. It can be sooo exhausting just trying to get wet. Ohhh.. the hardships of honeymooning.

It´s very strange to hear all the different languages spoken here by tourists and locals. Italian, German, English, Spanish and lots of other languages that I don´t recognize.

For dinner Alli and I wondered down the main square downtown where we had ¨Church Lady¨tacos. Mmmm... just outside the church there are a few tables set up and a few ladys cook and make tacos right on the street. I ate 5 tacos and 3 sopa´s, Allison had 2 tacos and 2 sopas all for a grand total of 120 pesos or 12 USD. Mmmm... it just doesnt get better then that.

Right now I´m sitting at a little internet place just across from where the church ladys are set up. If i look to my left I can see all the church goers lining up for street tacos. They really are very good. Its interesting to see how they really care about not handling money if ´when preparing food. Of course its probably not the most sanitary of places to eat, its still really good. I recommend hopping on a ferry from Porto Juarez, just outside of Cancun, to Isla Mujeres just to eat some church lady tacos.

Ok... so I should talk a little bit about the wedding day. After my last early morning entry on wedding day I walked back to our hotel, ¨The Moongate¨in Playa del Carmen. When I got back no one was there, I guess everyone was a little impatient and left for breakfast. So I hopped on my bed and popped on CNN. Lil´Lisa my new sister inlaw came back to see if I had returned to the room. Then she walked me to the little restaurant where Allison and Grammy were sitting eating Chile Quiles Rojo. I hopped on the band wagon and ordered a plate as well. Mmmm... that afternoon we spent a little time at the pool just talking about getting ready and I waited with Lisa while Allison and her grandma went and picked up flowers for her bouquet.

Then the countdown began, I went back to my room while the ladys went back to dress up Allison in her dress that I wasnt allowed to see until the wedding. I shaved, and showered then got dressed in my linen suit. Then I had about and hour and a half to kill so I had a nap. Yup! The wedding was scheduled for 5 pm at the beach. Cal, Allison´s moms boyfriend came and stopped by my room. He woke me up with a surprise. He and Allis mom had brought candles and pink rose petals from home. So he helped my place all the candles and spread rose petals all through the room. It was so thoughtful, it really was a very nice surprise. Thanks guys, after all we know how much of a Lance romance I am, hehe!

When it was time to leave Lisa, Shawna, Sandi, Cal, Gram and I all met outside and marched down the street to hail a taxi. Thank goodness Lisa took charge and steered us all, I think we were all just to excited to focus. So Cal, Sandi and I hopped into one taxi and Lisa, Shawa, and Gram hopped into another. We all made it on time to Casa de Luna Maya. The Justice of Peace showed up, our wedding planner Maria made it and our photographer made it. Everyone pulled out there digital cameras and began clicking... click click click... vogue mO!

Then Allison and her Dad came in a taxi, and I stood and looked out at the ocean. As Allison walked up from behind me I caught a glimpse of her dress from the corner of my eye. It was beautiful. We faced each other and began the ceremony. The JOP performed the ceremony in Spanish and Maria translated for us. By surprise the JOP asked us to say something to one another and I managed to Forrest Gump my way through that. I honestly don´t really remember what I said and I sure hope no one else does. Allison said... ¨My dream came true...¨

Bridal Sandals: $18.00
Bridal Bouquet: $9.00
Wedding Dress: $800.00
Walking down Avenida Cinco while people cheered and and through rice out of the blue... Priceless!]]> Anonymous]]>
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Yesterday at 5pm we met with Maria our wedding planner again at the ¨Coffee Press¨. We found out that she actually owns the ¨Coffee press.¨The coffee was so good even I liked it and if you know me, you know that I don´t drink coffee. but it was almost good enough to get me started.

After a quick drink Maria escorted us to 2 different sections of beach that we could perform the wedding ceremony on. We picked a very remote location, close to some mayan ruins. It´s a great spot in a very ritzy neighborhood. While traveling through the area we could see the damage caused by the hurricane from months back. Huge trees that were pulled right out of the ground from it´s roots. It was quite a site. Also the thick dark green brush with some very pretty colorful flowers. Did I really say ¨Pretty?

Allison´s grandma kind of took me aside and talked to me a bit, which i thought was very nice. She also said that she was gaining a grandson from the wedding which made me feel... well, it made me feel like Family! She explained to me how a traditional wedding is supposed to be and then told me about some of the newer age weddings, which really helped calm me down. Because she could obviously tell that I was worried about the smallest details from where I´m supposed to stand, to what time I should be there and well making sure everything goes according to plan. I´m really more anal then i should be for a laid back beach wedding. Go with the flow for F-bomb sakes mO!

I thought about putting together a speach or something for the wedding, but I´m really not sure what to say in it. ¨Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your families. At no point did I ever feel like an outsider right from the very beginning. From the first day when you opened your doors to me and allowed me to sit at your dinner table. To showing me what pieces of cutlery are used for what. And helping me purchase contacts when money was a little low. Also for giving me the confidence to actually believe that I´m an intelligent person.¨I could probably sit here for quite a while reciting off a list comparable to santa clauses gift list for the number of reasons why i would like to thank the families who were kind to me and made this day possible. But I´m not so good with the mushy, emotional stuff, come on... but ... thank you very much for letting me know what it feels like to fit in, to be normal, to be a part of a family. thank you for providing me with a template of how a happy family could work.

Although my family isn´t here, I don´t feel as alone as I thought I would.

Ok and now to some more important topics.. hehe... Dr. Taco´s taco eating record! Should I or should I not attempt to break it? Can you imagine how happy Allison would be to say that I´m her husband after guzzling down 25 tacos, 2 corona familiars, 2 shots of tequila, and 2 bottles of water. Sorry but I just can´t handle the pop. Hmm... do I dare?

The next few hours of my life are the very last of a former life. Tonight a brand new and exciting life begins. I hope to use all the lessons from my previous life, to guide me through the new life to come. I realize I have many weaknesses to still overcome, but at the same time I´ve learned more about many of my strengths. (Weakness, I don´t think I can live withouth a keyboard my trusty pc. I´m sorry but I´m that addicted. )

Well I´ve probably babbled enough for one day, to all the friends in Calgary who wished me a happy and succesful marriage, Thank you!

Hey every body, I´M GETTING MARRIED IN PARADIZZLE (paradise)!]]> Linette]]>
Have a great time while you're there. :) Congratulations to you and Allison!

All the best. (Pictures??!!)

Linette]]> KrisiMay]]>
Enjoy it.]]> As i was ranting, afterwards we headed to the beach and had a fantastic beach day. I´ve done quite well with not burning myself but unfortunatly allison is a lil´ lobster. You probably wouldnt be surprised to see just how many topless women there are on the beach. Wholy moly... but i was surprised. couples with children and the mom just pops off her tops and lays down. Yikes...

Afterwards, I got a little hungry for some tacos so off to Dr. Taco we went. this was a cool little place off the main tourist strip, it really was a little shack with a cool gimic. a cartoon rastafarian taco doctor lined the walls. I munched on 2 chicken tacos and was hungry for more. but dinner is still to come. On a chalk board at doctor taco was a record for 21 tacos, 1 water, 1 shot of tequila, 3 pops and 2 beers in 44 minutes. I´m planning on beating that record this Friday. Oh you got that right, I´m going to make Allison so proud to be married to me.

So I´ve noticed that when traveling to mexico for the first time there are a lot of things I wasn´t told. Although this is my 2nd time I´m still learning more and more. Yesterday I learned about ¨dancing¨on the toilent. Apparently its common to come to Mexico, eat and not be able to *ahem* perform! On the toilet I mean, get your mind out of the gutter. hehe... end of that thought.

Tonight, I´m not sure what we´ll do but dinner has been great so far. Last night we ate at Babe´s (Bay-bay-s) Oh boy that was fantastic. I had a yellow curry, chicken teriyaki dish. Yeah thats right a lil thai food in mexico never hurt anyone, right?

The night before we ate a cool Mexican restaurant called ¨La Parilla¨. It was awesome, but also expensive. I fell in love with a drink called ¨Paloma¨. I´m still not sure what all the ingredients in it is, but I think it´s tequila and lime juice. Mmm... give ér a try. It wasnt on the menu but when i asked for it they knew what i was talking about, which is always a good thing.

All in all, the trip has been great so far. I haven´t brough out my camera as much as i wanted to, but i will try to get more footage while I´m here. It´s tough lugging around a camera all day when it´s so darn hot. (I´m not complaining... the heat is great) Best of all it´s nice not having a sense of time or urgency. I´m so far away from work and I really don´t want to think about anything that involves hmmm the word ¨Work¨!

I think that wraps things up for today, I´m out yáll and if you´re interested theres an HSBC and scotia bank here. Canada WHAAAT!

See ya in Calgary, now get back to work!]]> KrisiMay]]> Anonymous]]> While big media covered the mass destruction brought by Hurricane Katrina with helicopter images and satellite weather maps, blogs have been telling stories with similar force, but on a much more personal ...
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Now you might be thinking to yourself "Hmmm... what does Vacation mO consist of?" or you might be thinking "Boring... change the channel." But if you're wondering what vacation mO consists of, let me, mO, tell you! Well first it starts off with a little loosening of the belt. Just one notch, don't want to get carried away of course. Second it means turning off my cell phone and emptying my pockets. Don't want to my baggage on my person, you know what i mean? Next, I find a comfy portion of a couch to nest in for at least 2 hours. Followed by a little NHL 2005 on XBOX. Then the important part, the food! Mmmm.. mmm... mmmm... Food! Ok ok... i should rewind a bit I'm getting a little carried away. There's no way I'm going to make it through work today if all I'm thinking about is to loosen my belt by one notch. Whoa there nelly!

So Michelle Jakeman never called me back to let me know what she meant by promisary note. So I faxed her a copy of the final summary of sale. I was later informed that what she was probably looking for was a financial statement that proved the money was in the account that we would be using for our payments. (thank you Mr. Cal!) Oh mO, sometimes you can be a bright guy, but sometimes you can be quite a fool. Well duh, what else could a promisary note imply! Geez... "promisary note" come on, as if, who doesn't know what "Promisary note" means. Geez, didn't you learn that in college or something? Do you really expect that the lady from the bank who's helping you to pay for your new home would explain that to you? Of course not, what were you thinking mO? You can be so dissappointing at times.

So being that today is the last day in Calgary that I will be a single man, what am I supposed to do? Should I celebrate somehow? Am I supposed to have some sort of bachelor's party? You know what I will have a bachelor party, me and all the players in NHL 2005. All of us will get together and play a little hockey, maybe a little more hockey, then watch a little big brother later tonight if we can. Oh i'm such a geek... there's gotta be a pill or something to cure my geekness syndrome. I hope it's not contagious.

So I was kind of hoping to get a phone call from maybe 1 or 2 friends to wish me good luck with the wedding or what not. But this morning I received a very thoughtful from a friend in high school. Thanks Alexis, that was very nice of you to remember me in Toronto when my own friends here in Calgary have a hard time remembering my birthday. Grrr... hehe I'm not mad, I'm just pretending!

I will do my best to keep all you up to date on our trip to Mexico. By all I mean the 3 people who actually read my entries. You know who you are! See you in a couple of weeks people!

You know what?! Take the day off! I'm feeling generous today!]]> haha... burn!
Now that I have no cable I am stuck with 1 local channel otherwise known as "Peasant Vision." My one local channel happened to be CTV. And when I was expecting to see the local news at 6pm, instead I got to watch Canadian Idol. "Yay", sarchasm intended! Anyways, this was the first episode of the season that I watched and it just happened to be the finale. Mellissa from Calgary vs. dang what's his name from the the east coast. Well Melissa won, yay for Calgary. That's pretty much all I have to say for that, good luck Canadian Idol.
home loans canada
Now yesterday I called Miss. Michelle Jakeman of Home Loans Canada a division of CIBC Mortgages Inc. and she needed me to fax to her a copy of a "promisary note that the funds have been received." Can anyone clue me in to what she's talking about? I'm assuming she's talking about the "Final Summary of Sale" that we recieved from Brad Logel at Cardel Homes. Also now we contact the city to find out how we can pay our taxes. That seems strange to me, I have to chase the city to find out how I can pay the city taxes. Hmmm... Next on the to do list is fax off whatever Miss. Michelle is talking about, I sure I figure it out before the end of the day, then I need to make an appointment with the lawyer, then find out how we are supposed to hook up utilities. Yada, yada, yada... I'm looking forward to vacation mode. At the least of my worries have been addressed and everythings lining up nicely for saturdays early morning flight to Mexico.

Also to the person who left this comment:
"be careful in mexico, i jsut came back from the mayan riviera on saturday and i got some strange bacterial stomach thing and it was horrible had to go to er and stuff but u get it from people who are infected if they dont wash their hands properly so ALWAYS wash ur hands really really good before u eat anything...and dont swallow ocean water cuz i was told you can get it from there too. and im sure you konw about drinking bottled water etc. lol anyways have fun dont get sick it SUCKS."

Thank you for telling me to wash my hands before I eat, I have no idea what I would have done if you had not come into my life at my yong rype age of 21 to tell me to wash my hands before I eat. Thank you for saving me from a life of pain and anguish!

Now to the rest of you slackers, GET BACK TO WORK~!]]>
I must say there is potential for me to be grumpy this morning, it will probably take very little to tick me off. I'm tired and whiny. But I have no reason to be really.

Yesterday both Alli and I recieved a call to let us know that we now have a suite at Execsuite for the month of October. Thank you so much Miss. Colleen you were so very, very, very helpful. If you're looking for a temporary home in Calgary make sure you stop by Execsuite on 57 ave SW and speak with Colleen or any other resident manager.
am I making a mistake?
Alrighty, so exactly one week from today when I wake up I'll be saying to myself. "Oh crap, I actually agreed to get married today, didn't I?" After receiving a coconut punch from... well I guess myself, the mental preparation will begin. I think there's got to be a lot of mental preparation when committing to something like marriage. Marriage has almost become a "fad" in today's society. Alli was telling me that she watched or read something that said that nowadays people are re-writing traditional wedding vows from "Till death do us part" to "For as long as we love each other." My reaction... "Booooooo". If you honestly believe that a vow like "For as long as we love each other" does marriage justice, and that homo-sexual marriages make a mockery of the traditional union of a man and woman, then I call you a hypocrite. I'm not saying I'm yay or nay to homo-sexual marriages but I think if marriages are the latest "fad" among hetero-sexual couples then why can't homo-sexuals take part in that "fad" as well.

Well in my mind a the union of two people is not a "fad", and I have no intentions of re-marrying. *I bet you've heard that one before, but you have no idea just how stubborn I am.* It's almost more of a business deal with me. It's a contractual agreement that no matter what happens between you and I, that we will sort through it, stay as patient as we can together and get through it together. By agreeing to this contract I've already agreed ahead of time that I think you're a trustworthy, kind, carying, compassionate partner and that we can both enrich ourselves by staying committed to each other. So where do I sign?

So at the young rype age of 21 I've already agreed to a life long contract with one partner. Next wednesday is when the ink dries!]]>
Good Morning... well it's another early morning start for mr. mO! I stuck around at work until just before 6pm yesterday and then I took off to Execsuite located at 530 57 ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I was greeted by a nice lady by the name of Colleen. She walked me up to suite 202 and 201 and let me take a look around. 202 is already booked for October 1st but 201 is available as soon as the renovations are completed. and from what I saw it looked like there wasn't much left to do. Yay... so Miss Colleen took my contact information and forwarded it downtown so I should expect to hear from Miss. Pam today to book the room. Yipee... I sure hope it all works out!
coaxial cable
Last week I called to cut off my cable and internet, I just wanted to make sure I tied up all loose ends before leaving and I chose yesterday as the cut off date. Yes the middle of the month, I didn't realize how much I would miss TV. It finally clicked in my head yesterday that we were moving when i came home and found that I had no cable or internet. It just clicked in people... we're out of here this Saturday. Geez mO! So I finally had a reason to pack up my remaining PC and clean off my desk.
people pretending to be lawyers
So now on the to do list we've just got to call the lawyer, mortage lady and get ourselves some contents insurance. And we're good to go, I've already over paid my credit card so I wont have to worry about any pre-authorized payments coming out. My passport and other ID's are set aside and ready to grab when I need. All I need now is to get through the rest of the work week with success... Damn work always getting in the way... haha...
Ma, maa, maaa my corona
Alrighty folks this Saturday will be my first alcoholic beverage since April. 29th the day after my birthday. I've been told that I've lost a little weight... hopefully that will work out for me on the beach. Eeep... now to come up with an excuse to not have to take my shirt off in front of Alli's family. Hmmm... just kidding!]]> moo.moo ;)]]>
Yesterday Alli and I picked up our possession letter from Brad Logel of Cardel Homes. He went through a brief checklist of items we now need to cover prior to our possession date.
1. see lawyer
2. see mortgage lady
3. get contents insurance.
4. contact shaw "again" to get free month of services.
econolodge
Not to bad, but we've still got to find a place to rent for the month of October. Friday after work Alli picked me up from the Banff trail c-train station. From there we went to 3 different motels in motel village. First the Hampton Inn and Suites. There rates worked out to about $2600/month. Yikes.... forget that. Next we went to the Econolodge which charged $45.00/day. Which worked out to something like $1400.00, which is better. Last we checked out Comfort Inn and Suites. For a month there rate was in the neighborhood of $1600.00, if I remember correctly. Then we've still got to hear back from execsuite which went for about $1300.00/month. Hopefully we'll get the suite at Execsuite, which just happens to be located fairly close to my work.

Afterwards, we had Lasagna with poppa Newell and we watched the Calgary Stampeders beat the Edmonton Eskimos. Saturday I had to work all day, then I went and caught a movie with a buddy downtown. We saw "The exorcism of Emily Rose." It's nothing like what I had expected. In my opinion it sucked! But it did spark my interest in Emily Rose. Most of the movie took place in the court room where the preist who performed the exorcism was on trial for negligence causing deat. Or something like that! There were a couple of jumpy moments but I wouldnt classify the movie as a Horror. This one should be tossed in the "bad"-Drama section.
what? me? football?
Sunday was a day of football and packing. NFL, NFL, NFL. I've never been so into NFL before. I don't know why I spent most of the day watching football. It's exciting and I actually got into the games. Can you believe that there were over 70,000 fans at the Baltimore game? I wouldn't call myself a football buff, but I don't think baltimore is a very good team, but they still managed to draw over 70,000 fans!

Now to begin the dredded work week. Oh well 5 more working days to go until we're flying to Mexico. Hahah suckers!]]> Good Morning... well it's a rainy start to the second friday of September. My poor head is all soggy. I'm looking forward to 4:30pm today, there's still so much I need to pack.

So last night on Big Brother, Howie got the boot and Jedi Janelle won HOH. Yaaaay... I hope she wins this! April, Evette, and Maggie better beware~!

I've enjoyed taking the train to work this week, but it's not something I want to do permanently. Sooner rather then later, I would like to be back behind the wheel of a car. Enter music "Soooomewhere over the rainbow..."
Execsuite furnished home
Anyways our situation with finding a temporary home for the month of October isn't going very well. Most of the 1 bedroom furnished suites I've called about start at $2100.00/month. Yikes, which is a little out of our price range. The cheapest one we found started at $1200.00/month. I'm really hoping we can get a suite there.

Anyways, it's Friday so if you're not working this weekend like me, make sure you have a great weekend. Because September is always a long and expensive month! 6 more working days + 1 overtime day until we're off to Mexico!

Get back to work!
janelle and howie
As I was searching for a picture of Janelle to include in this post I came across this page that appears to be a weBlog. There's something about Janelle cussing out Beau, haven't had a chance to look at it, but here's the URL is you're interested. I must warn you however the page does look a little explicit. Towleroads weBlog]]> Anonymous]]> The two weeks period just after I published the blog entry " What RSS Reader People Use To Consume Geekzone Feeds " were very interesting.
Learn about satellite dishes, programming, installation, and multi-room systems at Directv CT. Select the best Directv CT Satellite TV System for your needs.]]> Linette]]>
I just stopped by to wish you a happy weekend.

Fingers are crossed for you to get the suite that you need for the month.]]> marble slab ice cream
Did I ever mention just how much I like ice cream? Last night we all headed out to market mall to try out the "Marble Slab Creamery". Mmmm... Peanut butter crunch. It was soo good. A plastic bowl with chocolate ice cream, reese pieces and nestle crunch all mixed together. *drool* It's probably not the type of thing I should be eating a week before heading to the beaches of Mexico.

It's less than 2 weeks away from our wedding and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel. Am I supposed to be nervous, anxious, excited or what!? I'm just looking forward to it all, I think it's going to be a fun trip! Allison and I really need to be tested as partners to see how well we can work together. So far I think we've done quite well, but we seem to try to take things on by ourselves sometimes. I think it's important that we start to tackle issues together. We'll see what happens.
grumpy old man
On the train this morning, there seemed to be a lot of newbies. What I mean is, it looked like there were a lot of people riding the train who just looked lost. They had no idea how the morning routine on the train works and how to be aggressive if you want a seat. You've really got to be stern and leave the polite shy person at home if you want to commute to work on the c-train in the morning. Who's perky and friendly first thing in the morning? Save the smiles for the work day, right? If you've ever wanted to photo graph a group strangers who are collectively grumpy at the same time, I invite you to check out the c-train first thing in the morning.
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Today this 12 year old kid, i'm assuming he was 12, came and sat next to me on the train. I don't know why but I thought that was cool, I actually cry a little inside when people pass up a perfectly good seat next to me to go sit somewhere else. I'm not a monster people. So this kid had one of those school uniform pants on and a hoody, probably to conceal the collered shirt and tie. He had long wet hair that came down to his eyes and he sat next to me reading the paper. Well "Dose", which is a newspaper for the teenage crowd. Pretty cool stuff kid! And while sitting next to me, in my mind I'm thinking, if anyone attempts to bug this kid I'm going to stick up for the little guy. I don't know why I was thinking that, it's not like there was anything threatening enough on the train to want to pick on a 12 year old kid.

My site is going to be up and down for the next 2 months, so don't be surprised if you can't hit my site (www.mokhan.ca). Anyways it's time to get to work people... actually I've still got about 15 minutes left. Hmm... what to do, what to do?]]> Linette]]>
Take lots of pictures. :D]]> funny cell phone comicOh glorious morning... last night at 9:45pm my phone rang and woke me up. Yes I was asleep at 9:30pm. On the other end of the phone line was the voice of Brad Logel, the person who sold us our new home. He was calling to inform me that he finally had a possession date for us. Yaaaaay... ! So from August 1st, to September 15th and now to... *drumroll* Tuesday, November. 8th at 10:00 am! Our pre-possession walk through will be one week earlier at 10 am. Hooray, so my estimate of November 15th was off by a week. Sweet, I'm so happy. Unfortunately Allison was at work last night so I couldnt share the good news with her yet. So I will have to inform her later today.

There are so many little things to remember when moving, last night I called to cut off the cable/internet. And I logged on to a government of Canada site to change my address. I received a GST check in the mail quite some time back and on the back it stated that you needed to update your address 3 weeks prior to moving. So I attempted to do that online. Wholy moly the registration process is tough. But I guess that's a good thing. I have to wait 5 working days for a confirmation code to arrive in the mail so that I can change my address online. Eeep...
unique spine mailbox
Which reminds me, one thing I need to ask Mr. Logel about is when the mailbox will be going up. I would love to start forwarding mail to the new address, rather then to our temporary address and then again to the permanent address. Speaking of temporary address, we still don't have one. *sigh*

Later this week I've got to get a whole of the kidney foundation so that I can donate my car. Poor honda, I'll miss you, thank you for your dedicated service.

For the next 8 weeks my primary phone line will be my cell phone. Maybe it's time I got voicemail back. Dang...

8 more working days, including today, until we're off to Mexico.]]> Linette]]>
Is this the wedding?? IS IT??

Take Care!

Linette]]> Jeremaine Copeland
On sunday I went to McMahon stadium to be a Calgary Stampeder for a day. We got a tour of the office and then we sat down in Tom Higgins office and signed an official contract. My starting wage with the Calgary Stampeders was $37,000/year CAD. Coach Higgins said that annual salaries ranged between $37,000 - $90,000. They worked for 4 hours a day and then many players went to other jobs after. So 8:30 am- 1:30 pm they practice and work for the Stampeders then afterwards many would go work else where. Whoa, I didn't know that! The salary cap for each CFL team is $2 or $3 million. Yikes, that's less than what most NFL players make in a year. There are players in the NFL that make more then the total salary payouts for all the teams in the CFL.

After signing our contracts with Coach Higgins, we went to our locker room where we changed into our official Stampeders track suits. Oooh la la! Then we headed out to the field where we worked out with the team strength and conditioning trainer. I'm still sore today, oh boy I'm so sore! I'm still having trouble walking up and down stairs. It's a good kind of sore though. Then we did some passing plays with Jeremaine Copeland and Tom Higgins.

After practice we attended a real press conference. I saw Doug Vaesson from Global Sports, Deb Matijca.. I know I spelled her name wrong. Sorry! There was a guy from TSN, I forget his name. And lots and lots of other people. The press conference went on for at least and hour and on the evening news I think they only showed about 10 seconds of it. After the press conference we had our team photo's taken then we got fired and signed our notice of termination. *sigh* So that was my day as a Calgary Stampeder. Well more like 3 hours!

Monday Allison, her dad and I had a mini Labour Day Classic party. Oh yeah, we didn't get tickets to the labour day game like Cardel had promised. That was rather upsetting! The reason I signed up after all was for the Labour Day Classic tickets. Damn... So instead we watched the game on CBC with no announcers on Poppa Newell's big screen TV. Edmonton dominated pretty much the entire game so that sucked.

Overall I had a lot of fun this weekend. Hanging out with the Stampeders was a lot of fun. Jeremaine Copeland is a really down to earth, friendly and funny guy! Thanks for allowing me, mO, to hang out with you guys on the Calgary Stampeders! And thanks to Cardel Homes for making this all possible. Now if you don't mind can you finish building our home already. You're about 3 months behind! DAMN!]]>
In case you're wondering what I'm talking about I won a contest sponsored by Cardel Homes.]]> Good Morning! Today marks day two of riding the c-train, and so far so good! I've been hopping on the 6:45 am c-train from Banff trail to Chinook and I've found a seat both days so far. Not to mention I'm getting about a 20 minute walk in every morning and evening. Go team mO!

So last night I went out to Ranchlands Stavros with Alli and her pops. Mmm... chef's special! I bumped into a couple of guys from my high school days. Payam, I always liked, he was kind of geeky but always a friendly guy. I don't know why people didn't pay him more attention in high school. He could always make me laugh. Anyways, Payam just got back from serving in the army, he's one big dude now. Talk about geek to... ummm something cool that rhyme with geek! He's become one big puppy! One of the first things he said to me was, "You look the exact same as you did in high school!" Hmmm... is that a good thing? But it's true, I grew pretty fast in high school and since then I haven't grown much or changed. I'm still a well rounded bald kid with a big head!

The second guy I bumped into was... well I don't remember his real name. I just remember calling him "Tiny". He had himself a nice shiner on his eye so things probably havent changed much since high school.

Last night James got voted off Big Brother and Howie won HOH. YAAAAY! Evette and Beau were both thrown up on the chopping block. Let's hope Janelle wins the next HOH. Nerd Herd's going doown!

10 working days and counting until Mexico, I can't wait!
Get TO WORK~!]]> Anonymous]]> exxon mobil related site. It isnt anything special but you may still find something of interest.]]> Krisi May]]> Good Morning... well today was the first day I took the train to work and well I made it in earlier then I usually do when I drive. It is exactly 7:30 am on my clock here at work right now. I've already had the oppurtunity to stretch settle in, remote home and log in to blogger. Whoa... the train wasn't as packed as I thought it would be and the walk was refreshing. I'm actually sweating a little right now, but that's probably because I'm wearing to many layers. meh!

So my car is definitely finito, I know I've said that a few times already. Well at least once every 6 months since I've owned the guy! But it's time to say good bye I think. RIP 1990 honda civic dx. Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, after all mexico is only 11 working days away and the walk to and from work couldnt hurt. The worst that could happen is I might shed a pound or two. I just hope the weather stays nice and that it doesn't rain anymore.

To me this week has gone by sooo slowly... that last few weeks have sort of flown by and here we are, it's September 1st. Alberta's centenial, I wonder if there will be celebrations going on downtown when I go home from work tonight. Maybe I should ask uncle Alberta for a new car!? Well not a new one, all i want is a 1995 honda civic si coupe! A black one, with no more then 190,000 Km's on it. Am I picky? you're damn right I am! Until then hi ho, hi ho it's off to work on foot i go!
moving to the suburbs
Moving to the suburbs, geez... i'm really going to feel disconnected without an automobile. The trainsit sucks out in the far reaches of the city and to get to work would take forever. I really liked living inner city, everything I needed was withing walking distance. For instance, today I had the choice of 2 different train stations I could walk to. both within reasonable walking distance. It's a good thing I live so close otherwise I'm not sure how I would have got to work today. Speaking of work, maybe it's time I start doing some!

Have a great day peoples~!]]>
So at work there's a pretty big deadline coming up pretty quick and I'm having trouble staying on top. *sigh*... that I can manage! Alli and I found out that we probably wont be in our new house until mid Novemeber, so for the month of October and November we're homeless! What a way to start off a marriage, but it could be worse... Now as I was just heading off to the dot Net Calgary User Group meeting at the U of C. My car starts blowing out massive amounts of blue smoke... I made it down the street and I managed to pollute the entire neighborhood. You would not believe how much blue smoke came out of my tail pipe. I emmediately turned around and parked it. Oh I just topped up my motor oil before leaving by the way. I found a big gaping whole in my muffler and saw the remnant of blue smoke exiting my tail pipe after already shutting off the car.

So who do I call? My car guy... Allison's dad! After leaving a message on his phone I find this online...
"Question: 1989 Dodge Grand Caravan 3.0, 225,586 miles. My 1989 Dodge Grand Caravan is blowing blue smoke out of the tail pipe. I put new sparkplugs in it then I ran it for a minute and checked one sparkplug for oil on it. There was oil on it. Please tell me what is going on with it.

Answer: Blue smoke is from oil burning. Your engine has internal problems such as piston blow by, valve stem seal problems, broken/worn piston rings, etc. It may be time for an engine overhaul."

It may be time for an engine overhaul people! I guess I'll be riding transit to work tomorrow! Oh man, only 11 days until I escape this madness to go to Mexico! Since January I've been prepping myself... "September is going to be an expensive month!" I hate being right!

Just a couple of weekends ago Poppa Alli helped me fix the front end of my car. It's looking so much better, now Kaput! I guess I should cancel my appointment with T&T Honda. And I was worried about getting my brake pads replaced! My head hurts... to much smoke...

On a positive note my insurance expires on September. 28th and if all goes well the Calgary Stampeders are going to have the oppurtunity to toss me around before the labour day game on Monday!]]>
I managed to catch the first 20 minutes of Big Brother last night before going to sleep. Looks like Howie and Janelle were nominated. Dang... well I guess I'm looking forward to the friendship alliance to rip themselves apart. I smell burning...

Hurricane Katrina sure has caused a lot of damage. New Orleans is 80% under water, that's just nuts! All the images and videos on the news last night were shocking. On the radio this morning they mentioned that the New Orleans Saints NFL football team are now looking for a new temporary home to play in. Eeek... I wonder who's going to cheer for them? Seeing as the people of New Orleans have a few other things to deal with.

I received an email from Heather at Cardel Homes last night informing me of what's happening with us Fantasy Training Camp winners on Labour Day. So if you're in Calgary and interested in checking out a group of 20 guys get tossed around by the Calgary Stampeders, including myself, come on down!

"Please meet at McMahon Stadium on Sunday September 4, 2005 at 9:15am sharp. You will be there until approx 1:30pm... All spectators are welcome to come and sit in the stands."

Now... GET TO WORK~! Or School...]]> Good Morning... before I get started today I would like to clear up something. Here in Alberta playground zones begin at 8:30am and run until 1 hour after sunset. Whew... that felt good. I really needed to get that off my chest.

So the countdown is on, on 13 more working days until you'll find mO in Mexico. So tell me, who wants to hear more about mO's Mexican adventure? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
cardel homes
The labour day classic game between the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos is coming up, and I'm just waiting to hear from Cardel homes about what's going on that day. If you didn't know, I took part in a fantasy training camp with the Calgary Stampeders sponsored by Cardel Homes and our team won. As the winning team we recieve 2 tickets each to the game as well as a track suit and a one day contract to the CFL. Apparently contracts to the CFL are just handed out, but you wont hear any complaints from me. I'm just excited that I can put that on my resume. hehe...
cbc
When is the CBC going to work things out with it's employee's or whomever their beef is with? Actually, to be honest I think the programs on the CBC have been much better without it's news anchors and sports casters. Lots and lots of documentary's... less filler, more guts! Keep up the good work CBC, put those hard earned tax dollars to work.]]> Good Morning... I woke up this morning and for the first 15 seconds I was awake I was hoping it was Sunday! Welcome to Monday morning mO. The traffic is starting to get thicker which means it's back to school time, and close to the end of summer. *sigh* At least it was a hot and sunny weekend.

On Saturday night I attended a BBQ at shouldice park. It was the birthday of my friends grandma. That was a lot of fun. A great big family sitting around telling stories, laughing, eating giant sized steaks. Mmmm... it was great! Afterwards, we checked "The 40 year old virgin." It was hilarious, it really was. No wonder it was the #1 movie in Canada for the second weekend in a row.
hurricane katrina
So all weekend long the big news was about Hurricane Katrina. Poor folks in New Orleans were given a mandatory evacuation order from the mayor. The city is supposedly below sea level, which is causing a lot of concern. Hmm... that's got to be slightly scary to be a coastal city that's below sea level. "mO no like water, mO like land."

I'm now less than 3 weeks away from Mexico. Aloha Mehico!]]> Linette]]>
Just checking in! Sounds like you had a great weekend, aside from the traffic!!

:D]]> Mr Jeremy and the Stanley Cup
Good Morning... well unfortunatly yesterday I lost my post yesterday! So let's try it again shall we?

Yay, the sunshine is back! It's friday, and... yeah! Well on Big Brother last night, poor Rachel got voted off. Then April won HOH, damnit! Every year the opposite team of whom I'm rooting for always wins! Maybe that's something to keep in mind next year, I'll just root for the team I would rather see lose! Yup!

And in other news... check out my office Pal, Mr. Jeremy and the Stanley Cup! Jelous!? You're Jelous!

Is anyone else still re-living the 2003-04 Stanley Cup Finals in their head? I know I am.

Ahhh yes, it was a spectacular time to live in Calgary, the good ol' days! To bad I was in Mexico for the last 2 games of the Stanley Cup finals. hehe... yes yes... poor mO, stuck in Mexico, laying in the sand under a palm tree. Yeah, well we left for Mexico that Saturday of Game 6. If the Calgary Flames had won that night, it would have been over! Dang... well while in Puerto Vallarta, I was walking down the Malecon, when I saw on a big screen Dave Andrechuck hoisting up the Stanley Cup. I thought to myself there was no way that was from this year. But wait, Tampa Bay has never won the cup before! Noooo.... anyways, this year should be good. I'm sorry to see Mr. Lydman go though. Take it easy! GET TO WORK AND ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!]]> Cat]]> Sorry, but I just cant get hot & bothered about the Stanley Cup. Now if you had the Vince Lombardi Trophy that would be a different story. I wanted to run an NFL pool again this year but unfortunately I am in a new workplace and I dont have enough interest to make it worth my while.
Ah well....
You enjoy your hockey & I'll enjoy my football.
:)
Peace,
Cat]]> Linette]]>
it's ok. :) my birthday was on the 18th.

Not to worry.

Have a great night!!]]> It's raining, it's pouring, i feel like snoring...
Well it's another rainy day here in Calgary! At least after today it's only a couple of days until the weekend. Well, this city sure is growing quickly, and the years are adding up since high school! Man, I'm getting old! Damn you rain, come on out sunshine!

Get To Work!

*grumble, grumble, grumble*]]> My goodness... I've been poisoned! Ugh... my poor tummy! *it's all in your head mO!* Last night Alli, her sis, her daddy and I went to "Sushi Yamato." Mmm... sushi! We've been there before and really liked it. Last night the sushi and sashimi was great, as usual! Except my lip began to swell up mid way through the meal. It started to bubble, it really did! Ahhh... no big deal! After the meal I really wasn't feeling well. I don't know what it was but I just had to lay down. So I went home and then I laid down for a little bit and my lip was back to normal. I was just hunky dorry.
Until about 3 am when I woke up in pain, my poor tummy! I jumped up and ran to the kitchen for some water. Oh man, I must have sucked down about a litre of water. Back to bed I went. Zzzz... then I woke up at 6am as usual. And my tummy still wasn't feeling well. So I went and kissed the porcelain throne. My poor tummy still hurts. Waaaa... I wanted to stay home and lay in bed this morning. But I decided to make the trek to work. I'm sure I'll start to feel better.
I don't know what it was, please don't hurt me sushi, I only care for you so much!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
GET TO WORK~!]]> Linette]]>
That sucks...

Raw Fish=BAD!!!

Feel better mO!]]> Hot Dog! What a great weekend, I had! Friday night Alli and I went for dinner and a movie. Mmm... breakkie bowl at Ricky's and "4 Brothers". I don't think Allison was very impressed that I took her to Ricky's for dinner. Hmmm... and to top it off we watched an action movie afterwards. Ok I think I'm probably going to have to get Allison flowers or something pink at least. Anyways, "4 Brothers" was pretty good. It's just like you would expect it to be, a little vigilante justice and a lot of action. Afterwards, we went back to Alli's to find that her dad got himself a tattoo. Yup, out of the blue. I guess he woke up that day and decided, "Hey, I think I'm going to get a tattoo today." Haha... That same night I got a phone call from a buddy from the past. Mr. Alex Godinez! Apparently he's now renting a basement sweet not one block away from my house. So I stopped by on my way home to talk about old times.

Saturday, I came over to Alli's and found out the whole family is going to get a tattoo now. A symbolic celtic symbol drawn by Alli's lil' sister. So off we went to Joker's tattoo parlour on center street and 16th ave NW. We were greeted by lil' Leroy, a lil' guy who can be quite grumpy. But I don't blame him, I'd be just as grumpy if I had to deal with all those teeny boppers who show up and ask him how much is that, how much is this and that. Blah blah blah... c'mon seriously, how many of you actually walk into a tattoo parlour and pick a tattoo of the wall? That just seems nuts to me, you're not shopping for a t-shirt people, a tattoo is for life! Man, kids these days! Well after a few hours Lisa and Glenn bob got their tatty's but lil' Alli couldn't get hers done. It's was to small and you're not allowed to tattoo below your ankle apparently.

After spending the afternoon at the tattoo parlour we were off to Ricky's for my 2nd brekkie bowl of the weekend. Hehe... Sunshine brekkie bowl with tabasco and ketchup people! Then Alli was off to work and I was on my way home to babysit my computer.
1988 honda hoopty
Sunday was great! I met Alli at her house then we went to her dad's shop. Her dad picked up a used 1988 Honda Civic for $50.00. So we took what parts we could from it and installed it on my roughed up 1990 Honda Civic. Man, what an improvement. I swear this morning I felt like I was driving a benz. Oh yeah!

And that's my weekend peoples,
GET TO WORK!]]> big brother 6
Well in other news, Kaysar screwed up last week by letting Jen win the HOH. He got sent home last night. I'm really liking Howing and Janelle's new attitude in the house. I like their aggressive, rude, vulgar, personal attacks. Why play fair when you're stuck in a tank filled with snakes. Go for the eyes... go for the eyes!
cabbage roll
For dinner last night I had my first "cabbage roll". Man that's a misleading name for that dish, it's full of meat and rice. Oh, and i think there's a little cabbage tossed in there somewhere. Mmmm... Cabbage roll.

One of my favorite commercials right now has to be the new Wendy's one. "Ranch, Raaaanch, Raaanch". "Tell your stupid ranch tooth to... " haha.. I want my own ranch tooth. Wouldn't that be great!?
black sheep
Well it's Friday, and I'm thinking that I want to check out the movie "4 Brothers" tonight. That or the "Skeleton Key". The only reason the "Skeleton Key" caught my eye was because of the radio ad's I've been hearing. It's not your traditional movie ad with the scary voice telling you about the scariness of the movie. But this ad has move of a monotone voice simply stating that this movie is considered to be another great psychological thriller with and ending that will leave you speachless. Getting straight to the point, just the way I like it!

Go frolic young lambs... haha... lambs...
GET TO WORK~!]]> Good Morning... well so far it's a lot sunnier today then it was yesterday. Let's see if it warms up today. What's with the gang violence in Toronto? What's with the city councilor suggesting that the police stop and question young black males without cause? It almost seems like our big Canadian cities are following the path of other big cities in the US. It's kind of sad, that what's happened before seems to re-occur. What's that saying..? "History repeats itself"?

In Calgary there's even been an increase in shootings. The media is continuously suggesting that the shootings are gang related. But they seem to occur all over the city, unlike in Toronto. From what I understand most of Toronto's shootings lately have been largely concentrated in one area of Toronto. Whereas in Calgary, drug bust's and shootings seem to happen all over Calgary.
Scared kid
Yesterday the Calgary police released news of a major drug bust back in July. They seized, I think, over 200,000 extacy tablets. Whoa... not only that but they found traces of methanphatmines in the tabs. Your average raver or X popper, might have been injesting small doses of meth. Does that scare anyone else? I can honestly say that the only drug mO's ever tried was... let's call it herbal medicine! But I remember a lot of kids in high school he took E. Especially at my hippie, tree hugging high school. (I had fun at Aberhart, really I did...)

Well the moral of this story is... "drugs are bad.. Mmmm Kay.."]]> Brrrr... it's cold and rainy today~! I guess I shouldn't have worn a golf shirt today... What's with the gas prices? I know there's been a lot of coverage of this in the news lately, but I still don't get it. Here in Calgary we're shelling out a $1.03/litre today. And up in Edmonton prices range from $0.93-$0.97/litre according to Tish from the Global Morning Show. What's up with that? Edmonton and Calgary are in the same oil rich province, why is it that gas prices are lower in Edmonton? Are they behind the times and just don't feel the effects of oil shortages like we do? Geeebus, don't ya think it's time that the automotive industry take a turn towards other fuel sources. mOs CarDidn't anyone learn a thing from the fuel shortages in the 70's. Remember when the so called jap-crap cars were invading, now they rule. I don't know about you but I'm Jap-crap for life. (Please excuse my use of slang.) The more efficient cars out did the big American muscle cars. But is anyone thinking ahead? How feasable are the new hybrid cars? I know that honda is just releasing a new hybrid Accord. Is that going to be the next generation of cars?
Man oh man oh man, is anyone else as afraid of their insurance company as me? Man, what a gig they got~! Extortion at it's best, in mO's opinion!

Ok so I managed to squeeze out a good ramble today, but what am I going to do about my car?]]> jAeMy]]>
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He's got all the secrets on how to do all that stuff... and he could probably explain it much better than me, so go ahead and check it out...
take care,
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Pretty Butterflies]]> Linette]]>
I was wondering where the hell you went! I'm still going to come and see you though.

:)

Hope everything is okay with you.

Linette]]> shoot em up cartoon -mO KGood Morning... so last night the movie of choice was... "Bang, bang you're dead". It was a pretty good movie, that focused on bullying and anger in high school. Pushed the boundaries on what's acceptable as art and what is considered threatening. Showed the effects of panicing, and stereo typing. It was a pretty damn good movie, but probably directed more towards a high school audience. I mean... I can tell I'm out of it, because I have no idea what a "Trog" is.

Apparently the film is based of a play that was created after several school shootings. I'm interested in checking it out. Supposedly, you can download the videos off the internet. I'll have to look them up a little later.

I was fortunate enough to attend a high school that didn't have distinct clicks like jocks, hippies, skaters, hip hop heads etc. Everyone seemed to be friends at my school. Which I think made for some well rounded people. The cafeteria was more like different stations, and at each station was a different group of people. There was nothing stopping you from making your rounds to each station and sayin' "what's up?" to everyone. Anyways, thanks Aberhart!

Beach in Mexico - mO KAnd in other news... 4 weeks 4 days and still counting...]]> car]]> Anonymous]]> home based business opportunity site!]]> Cat]]>
OH NO! The advertising bastards got you too! How nice that they are copying and pasting "I agree with your post" before adding their friggin advertisement! Shite!]]> Good Monday Morning to you... Well I had myself a fantastic weekend. Our team won at the Calgary Stampeders Fantasy Training Camp, I had a great meal at a greek restaurant on Saturday and I finished off the weekend with a great Pizza from Stavro's in Ranchlands. Mmmm... Chef's special. Last night Alli, her dad and I watched "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels." One word can be used to describe this movie, "SweeeeeeT."! If you're a fan of the movie "Snatch" or "Boondock Saints" you'll probably enjoy this one. It's another Guy Ritchie movie.
On Saturday night we watched "The Big Lebowski". *Note to mO: check spelling on Lebowski. I Checking the Milk -mO Klaughed my lil' butt off all through that movie. I'm not sure why, there was no real conclusion to the film, but it was great~!
On Big Brother 6, Saturday night, Jen nominated Janelle and Rachelle. Damn you Jen~! I have a feeling that James won't be going home, and either Kaysar or Howie will. I was kind of hoping to see James and Kaysar work something out, but Kaysar had to give up on the HOH challenge. Why!?
I just realized now, that my life revolves around TV. *sigh*]]> Greeneyedcat]]> Like your new crib! Woot!

Don't forget us still languishing over at msn spaces. :)

Cat]]> Anonymous]]>
Lor]]> Well Hullo Thurr... Man, yesterday was a lot of fun~! I'm talking about the Calgary Stampeders Fantasy Training camp sponsored by Cardel Homes. There were 100 participants divided into 5 different teams. Then the entire Calgary Stampeders team showed up and was also divided into each team. 5 training circuits were set up. The team with the best times and most points win~! Each team had a local charity that they were trying to win money for. The first place team is given $15,000 to award to their charity. The last place team gets $1000.00. All donated by Cardel Homes.....

Canadian Dollars - mO KOk now let's get to the good stuff, the media showed up and I was placed into the white team. "Whiiiiiiiite siiiiiiida baby~!" This is probably one of the few moments in my life where you would have caught me chanting "WHITE, WHITE, WHITE"... haha... oh man. Our team captain was Jermaine Copeland from the stamps. And he was so much fun, what a funny guy~! The charity we were playing for puts together school supplies for under-privelaged kids. I should just get to the point...

Couple throwing up the W - mO K"WE WON, WE WON... WE WON"... not only did we help win $15,000.00 for our charity but we get to attend the stampeders practice before the Labour Day Classic, against the Edmonton Eskimo's. We get a stampeders track suit and a one - day contract with the stampeders. haha... do you know what the means? It means, I can add that to my resume... haha~!

Wow... thank you very much for putting this all together Cardel Homes, see you on Labour Day team WHITE~!

"When you see mO K, throw up the 'W'... Whitesiiiiiide"]]> Anonymous]]>
Later my brutha

Monger]]> mOs Nervous SystemWooo Hoooo.... Saturday Morning~! And I'm a little nervous... why!? Well I'm attending the Stampeders Fantasy Training Camp. Dang... I have no idea what's in store. But I guess I'll find out... Unfortunately the stamps lost last night to the BC Lions... DAMN YOU BUONO... AND DICKENSON~! TRAITORS... Why did you guys ever leave... *sigh*... Anyways... If I were a stampeder I wouldnt want to get my ass out of bed the night after a game to go entertain punks like me.... Dang... I wonder if they'll even show~!

Ahhh well... I just hope I don't embarass myself. And if I do... let's hope someone get's a good laugh from it... haha... Send some good vibes my way... I'm out..~!]]>
Cardel homes gift to mO k

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You have been selected to attend the Stampeders Fantasy Football Training Camp, with the hopes you will win a spot at the Fantasy Football Experience.

Please meet at Cardel Place on Saturday Aug 13, 2005 at 12:15pm. Cardel Place is located at 11950 Country Village Link NE, (behind Silver City Theatre) Phone: 532-1013.
All participants have been divided into 5 teams. The entire Stampeder team will be in attendance and each team will be lead by Stampeder players and Stampeder Outriders. Teams will be run through a series of drills, be sure to wear comfortable clothing and running shoes.
Henry Burris
The Team Captains are Jeremaine Copeland, Jamie Crysdale, Sheldon Napastuk, Henry Burris, and George White.

Twenty of the 100 participants in the Fantasy Training Camp will win a day at the Fantasy Football Experience at McMahon Stadium on September 4, 2005. There you will spend a training day with the Stampeders. Participants will receive a Stampeder Track Suit, a one day CFL contract and press release, and two tickets to the Stampeders Labor Day Classic game.

Good Luck! If you have any questions please call Daylan or Heather at Cardel Homes at 258-1511.


All spectators are welcome.


Please meet at Cardel Place on Saturday Aug 13, 2005 at 12:15pm. Cardel Place is located at 11950 Country Village Link NE, (behind Silver City Theatre) Phone: 532-1013.
Good Luck! If you have any questions please call Daylan or Heather at Cardel Homes at 258-1511.]]> Tra... la.. lala... laaaaa.... so it's lunch now here in the cube farm, and I decided to post 'again' for today. After all it is Friday and I'm feeling half awake.
So last night on "Big Brother 6"... Sarah got voted out and Kaysar got voted back in... Ohhh glorious day. I couldn't believe he was voted back in, I seriously though that America would vote for the Firefighter over the "Iraqi". I'm certainly glad that out of 5 million voters, 82% of them voted for Kaysar. Hot daaamn homie, now let's see if he can certainly stir the pot.
It was kind of sad to see Sarah go, I don't think Howie should have nominated Sarah and James. (not yet anyways). Dang... well the HOH challenge looked pretty damn cool too... Oh man... what would I do without you big brother. One thing that really p's me off about the show is... *drumroll* the website! In order to watch the video's you have to install "Real Player". F* that idea...

While I sit here... I'm eavesdropping on a conversation in the cube farm... dude's talking about Google Earth... Check it out.. it's so cool~! But if you happen to be part of the "insurgance" look away. On the 'local' news last night, they said that the "insurgence" in Iraq is using Google Earth to check out where the US is stationing their troops and then planning their attacks. *Dang*... Can't we all just get along...

I can't emphasize just how cool Google Earth is... you must get it~! Get it... nooow~!]]> Holla at yo' homeboy... well it's finally friday, and I got no friggin' sleep last night. Ugh... I've been thinking and thinking... Last night at around 2:45am I received a phone call. My call display said it was the younger sister of my girlfriend. So I answered the phone right away thinking she needed help. When I answered the voice on the other end was a guy. I was barely awake so my memory of the conversation is a little vague, at best. He asked me if I remembered him, "Guess who this is? C'mon mO, Guess~!?". "Hurtchuck?!" I muttered... yup it was him. I haven't talked to him in a couple of years. He was one of the guys I knew from high school, kind of a bad a*. Well actually... he 'was' a real bad a**. One bad apple - mO KHe asked me if I was marrying his friends sister. By his friend I assumed he meant "Lisa". "Yeah" I replied. He asked me how life was and I said it was ok. He said "Just Ok, Sounds pretty damn good to me." There's a bit of an underlying tone there that most probably wouldnt pick up. The details of which I don't really want to go into, but it left negative feelings when we ended our 2 minute conversation. Lisa, for f*ck sakes, what the hell are you doing hanging out with hurtchuck? Smarten, the hell up~! And delete my name and number from your phone book and mouth. I just hope you read this before you get your butt in more trouble. I told Allison right away, but I still couldn't sleep. I was up rolling around in bed for the next 3 hours until my alarm clock went off. And I still don't know what to do... or if I should do anything at all!

Damnit Lisa, this only drives me crazy because I actually care~!]]> Well... it's been a good day~! For dinner I had a medium pepperoni pizza from lil' caesars for 5 bucks... Mmmm... i'm such a glutton. Well I've decided that I'm officially on the hunt for a new 19+" monitor... I've had it with this 17".... it's to damn small... and well.... I'm blind without my contacts... let's face it... it would suck to be my kid. who would want to inherit these genes.... eeep~!]]> Alriiight... my 2nd entry... Well I just finished off an order of "Toonie Tuesday" from KFC, and I'm feeling mighty sleepy~! Oh why oh why must you turn to fast food Mista mO... why?! Dont you know that you'll be laying on a beach in less than 8 weeks. C'mon... for the sake of others, lose some weight.... *sigh*.... "Somewheeeeeeere over the rainbow...." Ok... now I'm going to go see what I can do with this blog... any suggestions?]]>