i-Tunes = i-Gay

So I upgrade to the new itunes this week and not only do I have to get used to a newer look, but I bought some songs and they played back choppy... itunes screwed up my audio drivers and I had to re-install them. Gay.

It was my first venture into online music purchasing. I've been burned buying whole cds that were mostly crap besides the 2 songs tha t I liked. We'll see if I sick with it.

H is for Hockey.

My Newfie boss has me messed up. Whenever I read the letter "H" on it's own, I hear her say it like this... "Haich"... incredibly silly newfies. Anyways, church hockey started up again tonight. Fortunately and unfortunately we moved down a division due to our last place finish. Although we did win the "B-Cup" last season. On the upside, I consider it an upgrade to shoot for loftier goals and the "C-cup" this season. And, if we do really lousy, we can try for the "D-cup", although I find that unmanageable.

We started off with a bang and a shutout. This division seems a bit more near my pace, so I can keep up. I'm excited about maybe scoring more this time around.

I ordered leafs tv, and in true fashion, I can catch all the leafs pre-season games looped over and over due to lack of any other worthwhile content. I don't mind. I didn't manage to get tickets to any of the pre-season games and it's pretty impossible to get regular season tickets, so this is as close as I get. I believe they will make the playoffs this season. Mark my words.

Busy weeks. Lazy Me.

Well, it's been a few weeks, busy times. We finished the baby's room a couple weekends ago. It features laminate flooring, bought for about $25 total at RONA. That was a steal. The walls feature a light blue paint with weird looking tree-type thingy's all around. The closet doors are the same pattern but with inverted colours. We got the crib, aka the "Baby Cage" at Ikea on the 24th, aka "Our 4th Anniversary".

We spent most of our anniversary at the Christian Horizons Breakaway day, getting paid for 4 hours to enjoy the waterslides and free BBQ lunch at Wild Water Kingdom in TO. Even better, we helped provide the music for the event and landed a Babies R Us gift card for our efforts. Score!

The next pic is of the 3 guys from Czech Republic that came over for hockey training. Left to right, Daniel, Zdenek (our translator from our trip in Feb) and Jan (pronounced Honsa). Zdenek is staying with us right now. He's a lot of fun. Daniel is here to train for the upcoming hockey season. Honsa is here to try to make a team, and it looks like he's gonna stick with the Kitchener Dutchmen Junior B team. I got to watch some of his tryout scrimmages. Good fun. I've spent the past week and a half learning as many goofy Czech phrases as I can, adding to my repetoire such phrases as "Help, Help, call an ambulance!", "My bum is on fire", and "give me your money or I'll punch you in the mouth". I'll be fluent in no time. This picture was taken at The Meeting House in Oakville, a church for people who don't like church. They had a good band there, and I ran into some old EBC folks. (Jamie Sanfilipo and fam, and April) Despite this picture, none of those guys are gay ("teple" in Czech (teh-play)). I learned that one from my Lonely Planet Czech phrasebook. Seem Teple (sem teh-play) means "I'm gay". I can also say "I have a methadone addiction" and ask if there are any gay clubs around. Useful book.

Rounding things out, on Monday Faith and I went to Toronto in search of a djembe stand for my birthday (September 3rd, Sunday). We drove to Yorkdale and took the TTC to Queen st to visit Steve's Music store. We walked past the Condom Shack and City TV/Much Music, where the Olson Twins were drawing a crowd. Faith wanted to wait for a picture, but realized that they probably wouldn't show up on film, the anorexic zombies they are. We found a djembe stand for the right price and hauled it back on the TTC. We spent some time in Yorkdale shopping, I spent time waiting on the benches outside stores and managed to make a friend with an old guy. I was outside old navy, we started talking about watches, when he got distracted by a woman, and tried to draw my attention to a "nice ass". "Just look at it and take it in" he says as I laugh at his remarks and Faith walks out of the store. "Your not dead, you can look" he says as Faith arrives and we move on. Next stop, H&M where my old friend catches up with me and alerts me to a "foxy black chick" just as Faith walks out of the store. That was good for a few laughs. Good day.

Well, that's about enough, only 2 weeks til NHL preseason, booyah! I start teaching music on Tuesday. meh. 33 days til the puck drops.