Welcome to the cult Dan

No, I'm not talking about the football committee... I've joined facebook, the online popularity contest, I mean online connection thingy. It's been a minor obsession for me the past 2o hours. It's kinda fun looking through people's friend lists and playing the 6 degrees of separation game. It's also pretty neat stumbling upon people you haven't heard of for 10 plus years.

Get in the game and be my friend.

On another note... is that really Locke's dad, or is it the Holodeck salvaged from the USS enterprise after it crashed on the island and made it spooky with space dust. It's this time of year that I appreciate the Steady final schedule for LOST. All my other shows have had intermittent breaks recently.

someone's got a new job...

In two weeks I'll be a big whig at CH corporate office. Technical Support Analyst is what they'll call me. I'm smarter than at least 2 other people. and lucky.

booyah!

Farewell old friend...

We'll remember you fondly for your reliability in your old brittle state, not for the leaky gas tank and black smoke coming from your tail pipe. You lasted longer than expected, and ultimately turned into more money that you were worth. For that, we thank you. We will miss you and may remember you in years to come. God speed to that scrap-yard in the sky.In the end, it was the Volkswagen who caused the damage, but the insurance adjuster declared you dead. Too soon, we all thought, until I saw the numbers on the cheque from the insurance company... I guess it was your time. Way to go, old girl. You win.

stop gorging yourselves, lent is HERE.

Farewell, I say... I'll see you in the spring. I'll miss you, but all is not lost, I won't starve in your absence.

I've given up Pop and greasy Fast Food for lent. I probably drink about 4-5 cans of pop/day on average, so here comes the caffeine withdrawal... actually, learning from previous years pop bans, I drink a lot less caffeinated pop now. I need to make the distinction between greasy and non greasy fast food so I don't starve. Sometimes I need to eat something convenient, so things like Subway, pitas, and salads are acceptable. Sadly I will be adding wings and pizza into the fast food categories as they are marginal, considering it takes 40 min to get pizza delivered and wings are in a sit down restaurant.

that's about it. come play poker friday night.

Gorge yourselves, Lent is coming.

No, not sissy lent like Brock's gamer lent, the real deal... is anyone giving anything up? I've been doing this for about 4 years now, mostly giving up pop and fast food. This year I'm thinking about giving up sugary pop and fast food, maybe chips... not sure. It needs to be significant, but doable. Chips might not work, as they make up most of our weekend diet.

Anyways, starts wednesday. you in?

She's not dead!

She can't be... Merideth Grey is Grey's anatomy, so suck your thumbs until next Thursday and you find out what sort of miracle cure they figure out.

so I'm pretty much a superhero...

Faith, Silas and I went to Toronto on Thursday to visit Faith's Grandparents while they were in town. We parked at Yorkdale as usual, then took the subway downtown. On the way through the mall, a pregnant woman dropped some money in front of us, so we picked it up and Paid it forward. She was pretty surprised. Then we were just about to get to the subway when I saw an old woman fall as she got on the escalator. She couldn't get up and was riding up the stairs with her head 2 steps below her feet. It was obvious that she could not get up on her own. Now, we're in Toronto, so nobody even batted an eyelash. The TTC workers stopped talking to one another to watch the woman ride up upside-down.

Here's where I come in, we had just paid our fares, so I ran up and got to her before she got to the top and certain peril. Well, maybe not certain, but it wasn't gonna be good. I asked her if she was ok and she replied the standard "I've fallen and I can't get up". I helped her to her feet just before we reached the top and made sure she was alright. She said she was dizzy, but she'd be ok.

It was clear that we were the nicest people in Toronto on Thursday. It's too cold to wear tights so I think I'll pass on the career change to being the superhero that rides the subway.

that's about it.

LOST is back...

Hey folks, just a shout out that LOST is back for the rest of the season starting tonight with the LOST survival guide with the show's producers at 7pm followed by the new episode at 8pm on CTV.

16 straight weeks of new episodes, with no breaks. So, tune in... 7/8pm on CTV or 9/10pm on ABC.

Know what's uncool?

getting rear-ended while stopped, waiting to turn into the work parking lot and having your bumper smash into tiny bits and your back door be unable to be closed completely anymore... yep... I don't much care for cambridge right now. at least it was the shadow and the beetle that hit it is uglier than before. stupid new beetle...

Some people call me slim...

tonight I cam eback to work around 6pm to get ready for movie night and had to get out of the car to undo the chain to get in. There's a chain fence at our entrance because the Mandarin's patrons were using our parking lot. Anyways, force of habit and I lock my keys in the car while running... It's a good thing I have experience picking car locks, just ask Mike Washburn. The Beav used to keep a coat hanger in the front bumper of his car for just this reason. Anyways, I was fortunate enough that the Mandarin had a metal coat hanger. And it only took me about 5 minutes to get it open.

on another note, I've lost about 16lbs in the past few months by some minor miracle and people keep telling me I look like I've lost weight. It must have been all that fast food I ate.... cause there's no real nourishment in that stuff.

on yet another note, I feel naked going out without Silas. Faith and Silas went with Karen up to Cochrane for the weekend. Tonight I was in a store and heard a baby scream a bit like him when he's hungry and I missed him. They had only been gone about 12 hours. Everybody told me my life would completely change. no crap. Ah well, a few sleepful nights await me. I'll take good advantage of those. That's about all.

This new blogger sure seems familiar.

Lets see how the new blogger affects my blogging. Maybe it'll make me funny, or more vulgar. Who knows. Anyways, there ya go fournie. Quit whining. And if you can guess what's on Terry's head, I'll tell you where he got it .

Not another baby post...

It's been a while I guess. I'll blame it on being completely frazzled with the new addition, although, he's been really good to us thus far and I'm just lazy. Either way, my parental leave has come and gone... 4 weeks felt like 1, probably due to the whirlwind Christmas season. Anyways, here's some pictures.

Matt thinks Silas is one okay dude. Look at that tan. It can't be natural. Not bad for a freaky-deaky dutchman.
Silas has developed a very good eminem impression. This is eminem in 8-mile. Pretty good.
I coaxed a smile out of him the other day. I told him it snows in wintertime. He thought that was funny. Joke's on you. Winter appears to be here.
Monday night, Silas met his Mother from a different brother. Mother Alward that is. We went to the Duke of Wellington and he got in without his fake id.

It all started with a nap...

The father and son nap, no better way to start the Leafs turnaround and set them up on the winning path once again. I love the chair in the babies room. I wish I had a few. It's real kushy. Thanks mom and dad.
Once done our nap, Silas and I got all gussied up in our leafs junk and pondered where it all went wrong. Silas had the idea to gather up a posse from the "east side", consisting of me, Silas and Matt. Turns out it worked as the Leafs pulled somewhat of a victory our of their collective rearends, complete with an extrememly foul mouthed tongue lashing from coach Paul Maurice in the second period. It was bad enough that the Sports shows showed the lecture and blurred out his mouth for most of it.
Long story short, the leafs won because their newest fan stepped up his game. Booyah.

I'm getting old...

Now I'm a dad and apparently, sleep deprevation gives me flu like symptoms. who knew. We made it through the night though. sleep... how I'll miss your warm embrace.

maybe this will fix my blog.

Carrying on the Family Name...

Hey, we had a baby boy. Silas John Francis Grace.
Born: December 6th, 2006 @ 11:00pm
Weight: 9 lbs, 4 oz
Length: 21 inches.
He's already got his sights on the pope's job and wardrobe and has really good taste in sports teams.

Maybe Baby

Not yet, but contractions are here and we have an appointment at 1:00.
Booyah

No baby yet...

but thanks for calling. You're all nosey, but we love you.

What would you say if I told you I heard the ocean?

A colleague of ours recently came over to shoot some photos of Faith's prego belly for her portfolio. I must say I'm for sure cut out to be a model. look at that face.

Weird how a lot of women like telling their "war stories" of when they had babies and what went horribly awry. Nobody wants to hear those stories, especially people who are about to go through the 'experience'.

Tim beat me at poker on Sunday. I had him on the ropes and he came back real good. Ah well, I moved into 1st in the career money list of the TPTP. Dave passed Matt in the career standings aswell. Booyah

Good Fortune

Here's a picture of the fortune that Julie got today at the Mandarin. It was our work breakaway day today. We went to the Waterloo Hospice and helped them get ready to move their office. After we finished there, we had a date with the Mandarin. Good eats. We spent almost 2 hours there. I really like their waffles. Anyways, the fortune was pretty goofy. I threw mine out, it said something about good fortune awaits you or some crap like that.

It's like dejavu

So I find myself being drawn to a song that I swore was a cool remake of some older song. I was in the mall I think and I heard "Easy" by the barenaked ladies. I picked it up on iTunes and can't get enough of it, which is weird for me. I don't usually enjoy the BNL. Anyways, I look into it tonight to see if it was infact a remake and found that it was a highly touted original.

Strange. The only logical explanation is that I dreamed this song long before BNL released it and they found some cyber-method of tapping my brain for my dream lyrics and tasty guitar licks. I tried playing it tonight on the guitar from memory and it cam very easy. Eerily easy, as if I had in fact been the first one to write the song. Maybe I'm the one who deserves a hidden character in the EA NHL games. That'd be cool.

By the way, NHL 07 for Ps2 is fairly enjoyable, the controls are strange to get used to, but I find it pretty fun. A big shift from the old direction pad and 2 button system. Anyways, that's my story.