It Takes Shape... Man vs Garage v1.1

It takes shape. The poker table nears it's end, which is the beginning of poker parties etc... It will sit 6 people comfortable, and has plenty of space for my big chip stack... SHABLASM!

I feel like I'm taking CRAZY PILLS!

So, I got a random comment from someone, who speaks the worst cyber language ever, asking me to go check out her/his site... plz...

I checked it out, and was surprised that it (1) wasn't porn and (2) found it shockingly similar to Homer Simpson's first website, full of about every imaginable moving picture and smiley around... see for yourself..

HERE

A blog's a blog, so I won't judge... here's a big hooray to random spam... HOORAY!

It's Official... I'm a goon.

Today is a groundbreaking day in History...

It IS April 30, 2005.

It IS Saturday...

And It is the day where I get my first Penalty in Organized Hockey EVER...

I was pushing a guy around in front of our net, just as I do every game, but he was really leaning back on me, so I gave some extra "love" with my shoving... Lo, and Behold, I get a Roughing Penalty... I was so happy that my penalty wasn't a wimpy one like tripping, or interference, but Roughing, a fairly manly and well earned sounding penalty.

We won 6-1 against the only team currently ahead of us in our division. Woop! That brings is to 2-2-1 this season. A good start considering the tough teams we faced early on.

After the game, we enjoyed some Blue in the dressing room. Normally, I wouldn't drink Blue if it were the last drink in the fridge, but there's something about a nice cool beer after hard work that makes it taste alright.

1...2...3... Bah ha ha... I love to Count

Notice, if you will, the extra counter at the bottom right of this blog. Precision counter was having trouble counting hits left by Firefox, so I added a stat counter counter at the bottom too. I started it at the same point I was at with precision counter and they're both counting unique visitors. Eat my dust Matt... that's all I have to say about that.

5 Games anyone?

4 games into the ball hockey season, and I have already witnessed 2 fights involving our team. Aside from the fact that this is "D" division ball hockey in Waterloo, the penalty for fighting is a FIVE GAME SUSPENSION and $50 fine... What a waste on all accounts. I have to give it to Bearsy, who tried his best not to fight, "He just kept punching me in the face..." He managed to Suplex the guy and only lose 1 glove, but still get the fighting major... The other fight had our skinniest guy land a bout with the Juicer with no neck... Otto didn't stand a chance, and ended up with a huge black eye...

Now, I love fighting in professional hockey as much as Don Cherry does, but in Ball Hockey league... give me a break. It's too much to expect that all the bravado be removed from the game, cause what do we have if we can't tell a guy any number of swears and shove a little bit? But actually dropping the friggin gloves for a ball hockey game? Stupid...

Our team is pretty good. We had a great weekend, winning 5-1 over the Generals and coming back to Tie the game against the Stingers on Sunday. I scored the tying goal with 40 seconds left... booyah! It's been pretty fun so far, I just hope there's no more fights, cause we're running out of players to lose for 5 games...

I smell progress!

Tonight, along with my trusty sidekick Matt, I made some progress on my poker table project. We jigsawed, circular sawed and mitre sawed lots of chipboard, and did some glueing and screwing... The table will likely sit 6 people comfortably, and will feature CUP HOLDERS!

I'll get to use my new router soon to round the edges, once I clean up the edges a bit. It looks like my goal to make a poker table top cheaper than the crap one at Giant Tiger will be a success. Aside from expanding my tool collection, I've spent about $25 so far, with no more real expenses anticipated. Huzzah!

Most Important Post EVER!

I bought a chocolate bar for breakfast the other day, Snickers to be exact, and it had an interetsing claim on the wrapper. Biggest Ever! I think it was 102 grams, about twice the size of a normal snickers... that's big. I couldn't help but feel important eating that chocolate bar and can now tell people that I ate the biggest ever chocolate bar, and they didn't.

So there!

I've been seeing a lot of this type of marketing lately, so much so that it's beginning to become ineffective. Last week, I watched the most exciting episode of The Amazing Race, ate the biggest ever Snickers bar and witnessed the Most Shocking Twist ever on Survivor.... and boy are my arms tired...

I probably wouldn't have noticed the farce as much if it weren't for the Joe Schmo Show, a completely fake reality show, using those terms each and every show. Most Shocking Twist ever! most Thrilling elimiation ever! You Can't Miss the Best Episode Ever!!!11!!!

I should feel tired out, watching the best of the best all week long every week, but alas, it's not much different than any other week. I've been suckered by the Hottest New Marketing Sensation! Hooah!

Man vs Garage 1 spoiler...

I'm working on a new project, using my garage as the weather is quite nice now. I'm making a poker table, which I think will get a lot of use in the summer. It will have room for 6-8 people, have a felt top and cup holders... So far I have spent about $10 on the wood, $10 on the felt for the top, and I need to buy paint.

I'm debating the options for the edge of the table. It will be a raised edge, but I'm not sure whether I'm gonna use a router to round the edges and paint them, or if I'll get some pleather and padding and upholster them. I'm leaning towards routing and painting due to less work involved and being able to acquire another power tool.

If I do go with that option, I have had thoughts of drilling poker chip sized holes and inlaying some of my old chips into the edge. I'm not sure what I could use to cover the chips. It would need to be clear and harden well. I haven't seen anything recently that would do that, but I haven't looked that hard. If anyone has any ideas, let me know... I'm all ears.

The Joys of Cannibalism

I bought some feeder guppies tonight for Geoff. He seems to be having fun with them although he's not a very patient or skilled hunter. He's gotten a few, but overall, just chases them around a lot. He's somehow developed this French Politician look today, with a crooked mouth like Jean Chretien. I hope there isn't a sponsorship scandal in the tank, could really hurt Geoff's chances at re-election.

Oscars are quite dumb, I remember when Chompy decided to try to eat the glass thermometer in my tank, and well, he broke it. Somehow it wasn't the shards of glass he ate that killed him, it was the lack of water in his tank after it broke. He also liked shredding my fake plants and eating bacon bits from my pizza. I miss chompy.

Well, back to watching fish eat other fish.

Hi, my name is Jooje and I'm a drug addict!

I guess she's not as stupid as she looks. Today, Faith bought some catnip toy thing and Jooje addopted it and covered it in her drool. Catnip makes her quite nutty. Faith hid it up high in the Castle Turret, and Jooje just found it. She promptly knocked it out of the turret and began her bender... She needs help.

This one suits your Season

Hey, it is finally upon us.

BALL HOCKEY SEASON!

I'm pumped about this year, cause I've joined a new team, one that knows how to play ball hockey! The Legends were a noble opponent last year, now they are my team. I'll probably play defence again, although, I may try forward this year, due to my abnormally good hands... If you ever want to check out the standings, look here.

So I will be donning the Baby Blue this year, and due to it being a contract year, I will put up some good numbers on the scoresheet. The Leafs will for sure sign me next season.

Pop and Circumstance

The Deal of the Century!

24-591 ml bottles of Pepsi products like Dr Pepper for $8.00

Where, might you ask, can you get such a deal? Well, I would point you in the direction of Costco if that were the case. However, the deal is at none other than Cambridge Surplus. Apparently they get deals from closing stores, and can offer wicked deals as such. They are $0.50 each, or 24 for $8 which works out to $0.33 per bottle. mmm...

Duck and cover

So, there's something about Jooje that I haven't figured out. Ever since she was a kitten, she has had one major phobia. No, it's not being skinny... She's afraid of the little yellow suction cupped ducks in our bathtub. I have no idea why she's so petrified. Well, maybe it's because when he was sleeping near the tub when she was young, we threw the ducks at her. It's probably not related. But just as you'd expect her not to look behind the TV everytime she sees something interesting on it, you'd expect her to figure out that the ducks aren't scary. Alas, you can keep her stuck in the bathroom by simply lining the doorway with yellow ducks. It quacks me up everytime.

Speaking of Pop Machines

I'm back onto the idea of wanting a pop machine for personal use. I'm gonna start saving my twoonies, so when I find one that's not too much money, I can get it and put it in my garage or basement. I want to ressurect the Mystery Pop choice so that there is an element of risk. I've probably already posted all about this, but I'm excited again.

A pop machine in the cafeteria and kissing babies...

So there's been a little "buzz" regarding the gender inclusion (or exclusion for that matter) on my bLog. I'm not gonna mention any names, but a certain couple, Jenn and Doug, or Doug and Jenn have been quite typal about this matter in my comments section.

Now, since this is an election year, and a contract year, I will try to be diplomatic and score 50 goals so I'm more attractive to other teams next season.

So...

Please send any beefs with my blog or the name I have on your link to this address, and I will try not to be anal, and rectify any problem. I will try to accomodate any name you wish in the link section, keep in mind, i will not include any words including the "BIG 13" swear words, so keep it clean... I look forward to hearing from you. So there.

Spring Back, Fall Forward, right?

I't officially STUPId O'CLOCk... It came extra fast tonight, it's like an hour dissappeared... I can't sleep. Could be due to Playing hockey at 10pm, or the freaked up sleep schedule due to me thating up til 6am yesterday... I dunno, but it sucks. I'm sick and tired of a lot of things, but mostly I'm just sick and tired.

NOTE: We won our game, putting us up 2-1 in the "B" cup finals of the MHL. I got 2 assists with my new Stick... It's quite nice. I also got hit in the mouth with a puck, giving me a few nicks on the inside of my lip, and slight swelling. It's still a bit tender. My Mom's gonna read this and offer to buy me a full face mask, cause last time I got hit in the face, she bought me a half visor. I love my mom.

maybe i'll go back to bed and listen to jooje make racoon noises and run around.

Stupid Jeff Probst

I seem to have caught Jeff Probst's cold in the past couple days... why didn't he just call in sick. Seriously.

I'm also upset due to the lack of consistency with rules in Survivor. He made no mention of the fact that rules were broken at all challenges last week. According to Jeff's rules, no survivor can sit out consecutive challenges... well, since ulong was down to 3 members, 5 had to sit on Koror, so 2 people sat both challenges. Now, I don't have any solution, but I would have liked at least some off colour comment from Jeff, regarding that rule never needing to be amended. What's next? Jeff gets to vote off the survivor he chooses each week.

April Tool's Day

So, I have sucessfully pulled the same gag at work for 2 years running now... I call in to work in the morning, saying that my car has broken down, and I'm not sure when I'll get to work. Then, I show up at regular time, and get smacked in the arm by whichever staff took the message. This year, a not was put in the communication book regarding my impending absence, which makes it more funny to me.

Now, I've always known April fool's to be done at noon on the first of april, probably because teachers didn't want to bother being anxious about whoopy cushions etc for the whole day...

Faith calls me at 4:15, when she was supposed to pick me up at 4:00. This is fairly normal, cause Faith is on-time challenged... she says she's been in an accident, and she's not sure if the car's driveable. This supposedly happened near the group home, so I grabbed my coat and was gonna walk to the scene of the accident to work things out. Then I hear the squeally belt of our car as it pulls into the driveway, and realize that I was duped... completely not expecting anything, getting mad about having to fix the car, and future insurance hikes... ugh. I'm a chump, but she was totally out of line... or was she?