Must have been something I drank.

We go on wacation long time

Well, it's been almost a month since our vacation, and I tried to post, but it froze whilst uploading pics and I gave up. We drove up to Rawdon, QC to the cottage for a week. We went into Montreal for an overnight at a hotel the day after we got there. The Just for Laughs comedy festival was going on, so we took in some of their attractions. Since we are cheap, we just went to the Street Arts Festival in the heart of Old Montreal. There were a few streets blocked off and they had a bunch of different street performers from around the world. One performer we particularly enjoyed was Alakazam from Australia. The start of his show included him squeezing his body through a tennis racquet.This guy was pretty funny too. He made a lot of fun of anyone who walked in late or walked through the show... This old couple, a man and a woman, walked in behind him during the show. He explained that they were his bikini girls and pointed them towards their dressing room. They were oblivious. Anyways, he was good. We also saw a guy playing buckets like a drumset and a bunch of artsy entertainment.

We took a couple walks through old Montreal, hitting all the shops and being amazed at the bi-lingual skills of the beggars, and the incredibly weak stories they all seemed to have. We ate dinner at the original Montreal Keg Steakhouse, mmmmmm... and we shopped in the biggest underground mall I've ever heard of.

On Tuesday, we went to the flea market in LaChute(or Marche au Puces en francais). We found some crap, but it was mostly a waste of energy. LaChute's market is pretty big, but we didn't find much of any use.

Dave and Kyla Cassidy came to visit us at the cottage later in the week. The were fresh off the tail end of their honeymoon. We went to Dorwin Falls in Rawdon and basked in nature... anyways, that was our vacation. Maybe next time I'll post earlier so I don't forget wha happen'd...

We returned home to find our pool full of algae and the ball hockey team forfeited for playoffs... gay... pure gay. Now I'm gonna get fat(ter) again. That's about it.

You, too could touch Paul Bellini

I've been reminiscing a bit over some old Kids in the Hall sketches... never put salt in your eyes... a Bellini lookalike works at Caseys in Kitchener... I always giggle as I imagine him in a towel...

30 degrees, sunny with a good chance of...

acute unexpected downpours!

This week at work we had a group from the Trillium Serve teams at our workplace to assist us. We made them do some cleaning that we didn't want to do, and they realized how cushy our jobs are... Anyways, I had been planning an ambush of this group of teens all week, which culminated today with me, the pastoral relations guy and the property manager of Christian Horizons pouring 5 jugs of water on the group as they posed for a nice group photo... booyah! I wondered for a while if they were going to be odd teenagers and not seek revenge, then I got hit with a few pails of water... gotta love youth.

Why don't cannibals eat clowns?

wow, another month come and gone...

in case you haven't been paying attention, we've bought a house and moved, learned a lot about home renovations, found out that Faith's pregnant, gone to a family reunion with a bunch of people from New Zealand, and that's about it.

This is a picture of one of the fish I caught on Monday in Cochrane on Menard's Lake. Faith's granddad and I went out a few times to canoe around the mostly private lake and catch some fishies. This particular fish was bout 5 lbs and was probably the biggest one we caught all day.

I will inform you that there was no alcohol involved in this picture, I was merely entertaining the old people in Cochrane. My set list consisted of three songs:

1. The ancient Chinese song "too-ning"

2. The shortest song in the world "Laura" (C-Chord)

3. The great nostalgic tune by Spooky Tuesday "Good Ol' School Days"

Anyways, good long weekend, hope to have the basement cleaned up with the entertainment gear setup up by the end of the month.

Booyah - Because they taste funny!

Some people are like slinkies...

they're not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

Yeehaw!

Well, there you have it... The canes made it....Twas a decent series, good game, enjoyable final. I'm glad Detroit and Ottawa didn't make it... that makes me really happy.

Brind'amour did great, Cam Ward was unbelievable, Frank Kaberle was solid... I hope the Leafs can take a page from the canes and maybe construct their team a little better... Awards on Thursday and Free Agency in 2 weeks... countdown to new season in 3 1/2 months!

Big game tonight

Here we are, game 7 of the stanley cup playoffs... doesn't get much bigger than this. Time for Kevyn Adams to get his first Stanley Cup of the playoffs... I predict Carolina to win 3-1, crushing the surgeing Oil... nice try though...

It's pretty much my favourite animal...

New House, New Haircut... Half the time I think she's the perfect Liger, but the other half I think she looks like a fat furry iguana...You make the call.

There is a place in this world for diet pop...

The youth at our church tried this with success last week... adding mentos to diet pop to make it shoot way up in the air... I was looking for videos and found this variation... sweet

Fresh off a stay on exile island...

He's back folks... the former nhl coach of the year, Ted Nolan is back in the NHL this year with the Islanders. It was puzzling why Nolan hadn't been thrown a bone after a great couple seasons in Buffalo about 8 years ago. The Islanders desperately need someone good to turn their crappy team around, so Nolan could be good. Nolan coached the Moncton Wildcats in the QMJHL (The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League or LHJMQ in francais) to the Memorial Cup Final, unfortunately defeated by the Quebec Ramparts (Coached by Patrick Roy himself). Best of luck Mr Nolan, you'll probably need it.

You really think the Quebecois could think of some better name for the league than inverting and translating the english version... League du Hockey Junior Major du Quebec...

Carolina in 7...

I'd love to go for the underdogs again and pick the oil for the cup, but I have to go with the ol' heart and root for the wonderdog, Kevyn Adams, to hoist the cup! Kevyn leads the Hurricanes in faceoff win % at a little over 60% success... Although, he hasn't had a point yet in this playoff, I think he'll come up with some clutch shot blocks this series to help the Canes defeat the Oilers in 7 games...

I can't purely make my decision on the Canadian team vs the American team... it's a flawed argument as most of the players, who make up the team, are Canadian on either side, with a bunch of Euros and the odd American (ie Adams) mixed in. With the same reasoning, if it were Ottawa vs Carolina in the finals, I could never pick the Sens to win, regardless of whether they're Canadian or not...

I expect a lot of good battles with more grit from Brind'amour and Adams, and expect to see Stillman keep rolling along on another stellar playoff... It'll be fun to watch Pronger wallpaper more people and Ryan Smith grind his share of goals in, but I think the victory will ultimately go to the Canes. Keep on trucking...

mIND sUCCESSFULLY bLOWN...

for the second year in a row... Man, the creators of LOST know what they're doing... I'm more hooked... Did you see it? What do you think? If you haven't seen it, watch the finale... Crazy.

Wow... this is funny

I couldn't help but watch this video multiple times... not sure what they were arguing about... but funny.

click HERE

oh, then watch this... not the other way around...

right HERE

Then, confronted with new evidence... try a bit of this...

HERE

Three for Four aint bad...

Apart from my oversight in the Colorado/Anaheim series, I picked 'em all right. It was fun watching Edmonton turn it on to overcome the 2-0 and win the series in 6. It was more fun to watch the demise of the Ottawa Senators and hear the yearly "We're not going to make any major changes to our team this offseason..." Glad to hear it. Carolina rolled over probably the hottest team in the NHL... cudos.

Here they are folks, ROUND 3 Predictions...

Carolina (2) vs Buffalo (4)

Well, carolina's my team this year, so here they go to the Cup finals by beating the Sabres in 6 games... it'll be a tough one, but the Wonderdog will light the lamp this series...


Anaheim (6) vs Edmonton (8)

Aside from being the only Canadian team left, they have some good work ethic, an insane Home crowd and some pretty hot players (meow...) They're facing the hottest current team in the playoffs, but they're still the Mighty Ducks. Even if they pull out the flying V and the knucklepuck, I dont think they'll manage to change their fate of losing to Edmonton in 7 games. Sure, the ducks are flying, but the Oilers are greasing... go oil!

3 minutes... later

I've been listening to the official LOST podcast on my iPod lately, which is giving me some bits of information to keep me rabid for the show... for instance, tonight's episode is entitled "3 minutes" and is supposedly about wha' happen'd to Michael in the woods the last while. I'm getting pretty ramped for next weeks 2 hour finale with Desmond returning into the mix... gotta love those back-stories filling in those bits of info we all love and crave.

>:4 8 15 16 23 42 EXECUTE

Closest I've ever gotten...

Finally, I have picked someone who's done well in Survivor... Danielle got 2nd place... I picked her and Dan to do well, and neither got voted off first. Booyah.. Congratuations Aras, your ok in my books. Too bad for terry, he's cool. One more thing... faking always is the hardest instument slowly portrayed really exactly greatly not always nicely there.

LOST tonight...

can YOU dig it?

Playoff Predictions

Well, the leafs are gone with the wind, so I figured I'd try my hand at predicting the outcome of other teams... I've decided to root for Carolina because they have Kevyn "the wonderdog" Adams on their team... Anyways, here's my predictions for the 2nd round.

Sanjose(5) vs Edmonton (8)

Edmonton in 6 games... I like edmonton this year, and Chris Pronger has been huge this playoff... they'll have trouble with Cheechoo and Marleau, but squeak it out in 6 games.

Anaheim (6) vs Colorado (7)

Colorado in 5... for no other reason than the fact that my Church league hockey team is the Avalanche...

Ottawa (1) vs Buffalo (4)

Ottawa sucks... so does buffalo... Nobody wins this series, they'll all have season ending injuries when their planes crash head on... Buffalo in 6

Carolina (2) vs New Jersey (3)

Carolina of course... the leadership of Adams is too much for the Devils... they lament not signing Satan in the off season and they pay for it now...
Carolina in 5

Winding Down.... and up...

So, LOST is finally back to a new episode... I don't know about you, but I look forward to my Wednesday night LOST experience and am thrown off a bit whence it is cancelled or re-runned. There's probably 4 episodes left, in which they'll probably fill in some of the storyline to tie off some loose ends, while at the same time, showing us enough of the big picture to keep us hopelessly hooked until september, When they'll give us a bunch of information, then slow-play us until next May...

I wish I were patient enough to wait a couple years and get the dvd sets to get all the answers. Or I could just re-invent the time machine...