So in a change of pace, nothing exciting is realy happening right now. Lately I've either been helping my father install laminate flooring upstairs or working out or playing Grand Theft Auto. San Andreas has some type of addictive property that keeps drawing me back and I'm not sure what it is. Rockstar definately has a winning formula somwhere.
On the subject, I find it absolutely ridiculous that the rating for the game has been changed to AO. That's on par with porn and videos of monkey's smelling their own farts and falling over! This is absolutely ridiculous and the three people who made a fuss need to get a life or a significant other.
Installing laminate is pretty easy and looks fairly nice (as a tip for those who might be interested in flooring down the road). The installation seems to just eat up time though between cutting and fitting. Hence why I havn't posted in a while.
I think I may be ending up in K-town for the long weekend and thus if I'm there, everyone else should go as well. I'm mainly going to pick up things that don't need to go to cornwall but will likely engage in other activities that weekend.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
The brampton schedule
I'm adding my future schedule to my blog partially to let everyone else know what I'm doing but moreso because I need to organize my own thoughts.
July 14 and 15 - Organizing all the crap I have here. Why did I buy so many action figures in high school anyways???
July 16 and 17 - Helping my sister to move the rest of her stuff out of the basement. She's got a lot of baking items
July 18th - 22nd - Helping my dad re-floor upstairs with laminate
July 23 and 24 - Nothing to do this weekend
July 24th - 27th - Finish Re-Flooring. Taking off 27th (Thurs) for Kingston.
July 28 - Taking a trip to Cornwall to take a look at the area and examine potential residences.
July 29th and 30th - Highland games!
July 31st - August 5th - Still undecided
August 5th - Return to Kingston?
Whew! Now it's in writing and I can shift things around as necessary.
July 14 and 15 - Organizing all the crap I have here. Why did I buy so many action figures in high school anyways???
July 16 and 17 - Helping my sister to move the rest of her stuff out of the basement. She's got a lot of baking items
July 18th - 22nd - Helping my dad re-floor upstairs with laminate
July 23 and 24 - Nothing to do this weekend
July 24th - 27th - Finish Re-Flooring. Taking off 27th (Thurs) for Kingston.
July 28 - Taking a trip to Cornwall to take a look at the area and examine potential residences.
July 29th and 30th - Highland games!
July 31st - August 5th - Still undecided
August 5th - Return to Kingston?
Whew! Now it's in writing and I can shift things around as necessary.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Last Weekend in K-town
Well this is the few days I'll be in k-town in a resident status. For the next month or so, I'll be heading home to brampton, then I'll be back at the end of August just to pack things up to move to Cornwall.
Naturally I'm both happy and sad to be leaving after a five year hiatus here. It's good to get away and start something new for a little while and perhaps meet some new faces but there are a lot of happy memories for me in K-town and it will be hard to leave. I'll likely be back pretty often next year though on a bi-weekly basis I'd say. I might even be so bold as to try and coerce my parents into taking over the old 4x4 since they're thinking of passing it on.
This past weekend was pretty chill spending a couple days with BPIC and Browntown for BPIC's b-day. Friday we had dinner at the Chinese buffet for $7 and while that may seem like a good deal, it in fact was a recipe for hell as all the bad stuff that they put in lead to some hyperactivity of my GI tract and bad smells. Mud-Butt!
Because of this huge discomfort, I had no more desire to get my drink on friday. Everyone pretty much felt this way so I wasn't the only one thankfully being a stink. We had given it a good effort to try and walk off the terribleness and made it to three bars that night but nothing would end up working.
Saturday I woke up feeling a lot better but terribly dehydrated. I wasn't in the mood for anything and nursed water for about and hour at which point the hunger hit. Following eating and a shower, BPIC and Browntown came by and we watched Chapelle. Following this they taught me how to throw a football as I've never been good at it. Later we all had dinner together where they attempted to poison me with Patt Thai which had shrimp, nuts and peanut sauce. I was too clever for them though and evaded the danger dish.
We once again went out on the town for drinks, first to Brew Pub and then to Elixer. We ate a lot of apps at the Brew Pub so once again drinking was slowed down and later, as things would pick up, the waitress (who was hot) asked us to settle the tab since she was on the way out. Needing more to drink, we decided to head to the Elixer since it was cheap drinks night and they have a nice outdoor patio. We drank until they closed at which point we parted ways.
Today, I just ran, downloaded and read a lot. Nice and relaxing. Tommorrow I'll likely be doing laundry and packing to go home. It will likely feel weird as it always does whenever I move from a place I've gotten use to.
Closing thoughts:
- Kingston sucks for meeting new people. Ladies always think you want third base when you start talking to them so conversations go nowhere.
- Having too much time off gets pretty boring
- There was a cool shirt at Willy's that I wanted. I might have to purchase it on the VISA
- In packing I came accross some old photo albums with some sweet memories in them. Wish I could do it all again. Most of it ...
- If you see BPIC doing a slight shake its because he's Buck Nasty. I will likely be Silky Johnson.
- Dave Chapelle is awesome
Current Mood: Reflectivly Content
Current Song: The All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
Naturally I'm both happy and sad to be leaving after a five year hiatus here. It's good to get away and start something new for a little while and perhaps meet some new faces but there are a lot of happy memories for me in K-town and it will be hard to leave. I'll likely be back pretty often next year though on a bi-weekly basis I'd say. I might even be so bold as to try and coerce my parents into taking over the old 4x4 since they're thinking of passing it on.
This past weekend was pretty chill spending a couple days with BPIC and Browntown for BPIC's b-day. Friday we had dinner at the Chinese buffet for $7 and while that may seem like a good deal, it in fact was a recipe for hell as all the bad stuff that they put in lead to some hyperactivity of my GI tract and bad smells. Mud-Butt!
Because of this huge discomfort, I had no more desire to get my drink on friday. Everyone pretty much felt this way so I wasn't the only one thankfully being a stink. We had given it a good effort to try and walk off the terribleness and made it to three bars that night but nothing would end up working.
Saturday I woke up feeling a lot better but terribly dehydrated. I wasn't in the mood for anything and nursed water for about and hour at which point the hunger hit. Following eating and a shower, BPIC and Browntown came by and we watched Chapelle. Following this they taught me how to throw a football as I've never been good at it. Later we all had dinner together where they attempted to poison me with Patt Thai which had shrimp, nuts and peanut sauce. I was too clever for them though and evaded the danger dish.
We once again went out on the town for drinks, first to Brew Pub and then to Elixer. We ate a lot of apps at the Brew Pub so once again drinking was slowed down and later, as things would pick up, the waitress (who was hot) asked us to settle the tab since she was on the way out. Needing more to drink, we decided to head to the Elixer since it was cheap drinks night and they have a nice outdoor patio. We drank until they closed at which point we parted ways.
Today, I just ran, downloaded and read a lot. Nice and relaxing. Tommorrow I'll likely be doing laundry and packing to go home. It will likely feel weird as it always does whenever I move from a place I've gotten use to.
Closing thoughts:
- Kingston sucks for meeting new people. Ladies always think you want third base when you start talking to them so conversations go nowhere.
- Having too much time off gets pretty boring
- There was a cool shirt at Willy's that I wanted. I might have to purchase it on the VISA
- In packing I came accross some old photo albums with some sweet memories in them. Wish I could do it all again. Most of it ...
- If you see BPIC doing a slight shake its because he's Buck Nasty. I will likely be Silky Johnson.
- Dave Chapelle is awesome
Current Mood: Reflectivly Content
Current Song: The All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Our deepest fear
The following is a passage taken from Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Speech and used in the movie 'Coach Carter'. Just something to reflect on.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Monday, July 04, 2005
A Day for McM size celebrations!
Well, a week has passed since my last post and as is the norm, there are more stories from the epic tale of my life to be posted.
Monday I spent sleeping, recovering from my escapades in Peterborough and Mississauga and that pretty much continued on til mid afternoon when I was informed that McM's father needed a second individual for a dealer trader to BelleVegas. We quickly mounted into the McM mobile to instantly complete this task and were done within the afternoon.
That night saw Ty's last week in K-town celebrated with a traditional night of beirut antics. I didn't play much that night in favour of RAW and the final draft that night, but would later attend the outdoor event clad in my bandana and socialize a little. The night ended with us heading out to McDonalds for Big Macs. I wanted two but only had one as two makes me feel gross.
Tuesday was jitsu and it was nice to train for once while not being under the gun to be back at the desk for studying. BPIC sensei decided to get me sweating and had me training which was a nice change of pace.
Wednesday I went running in the sweltering heat which was a mistake as it's unbelievably tough to breath. The thickness of the air only allowed me to get to 80% or so of my maximum running capacity.
And thus what did I do to follow? Run again on thursday morning. Again, in the thick hazy heat. This was pretty much a repeat preformance of the previous night but with more pain in my knees for not giving them proper recuperation time. And then to top it all off, I did jitsu that night. I had no other choice though as we had guest jitsuka down from peterborough
We had a bbq following that with delicious Locke burgers, pasta salad and booze.
We stayed up pretty late watching Dave Chapelle show and just hanging out on the porch. People started to fade at about 4am while me, FlippyDan and one of his students, DaFin, came back in the house. Flippy decided that he wanted to watch Alladin and loaded it into the DVD player. After about five minutes Flippy and I watched as DaFin passed out and a minute later Flippy was out cold himself. Thus, I stopped the movie and went to bed as the sun started to come up.
Woke up the next morning with the intention of getting breakfast with the Jitsu gang but my processor was working very slowly. Thus, with all the idle movement, I had to skip breakfast in favour of getting ready to head off to Ottawa! Eventually, about two hours after McM and I said we'd leave, we set out on the road for the capital celebration for Canada Day.
We arrived in Napean to see all the Boyz from the good ol K-town days. I hadn't seen a lot of them in a couple months and it was nice to say hi. We socialized for about an hour but decided to leave after that as they have a habit of just doing nothing but just idling for a while. We almost got sucked into it but needed to be off to visit Frenchy.
Eventually, we finally made it to see Frenchy and his palace of an apartment. We sat and chilled for a while trying to outlast the thunder storm which was forcasted before heading downtown and to the football game. We sucessfully did this and then headed downtown to catch the shuttle for the game. Little did we know that there was a second storm waiting and being the smarty pantses that we are we sat on top of the double decker bus and got soaked. Thankfully, women look fantastic soaking wet and there was a good side to this.
We sat down for the game, had a few munchies and took it all in. This was my first live football game and wasn't that bad. In the end I learned a little about CFL and thus have grown from it.
From there, we walked downtown to watch the fireworks and attempt to find all other parties in Ottawa. The latter failed miserably but the fireworks were excellent.
Monday I spent sleeping, recovering from my escapades in Peterborough and Mississauga and that pretty much continued on til mid afternoon when I was informed that McM's father needed a second individual for a dealer trader to BelleVegas. We quickly mounted into the McM mobile to instantly complete this task and were done within the afternoon.
That night saw Ty's last week in K-town celebrated with a traditional night of beirut antics. I didn't play much that night in favour of RAW and the final draft that night, but would later attend the outdoor event clad in my bandana and socialize a little. The night ended with us heading out to McDonalds for Big Macs. I wanted two but only had one as two makes me feel gross.
Tuesday was jitsu and it was nice to train for once while not being under the gun to be back at the desk for studying. BPIC sensei decided to get me sweating and had me training which was a nice change of pace.
Wednesday I went running in the sweltering heat which was a mistake as it's unbelievably tough to breath. The thickness of the air only allowed me to get to 80% or so of my maximum running capacity.
And thus what did I do to follow? Run again on thursday morning. Again, in the thick hazy heat. This was pretty much a repeat preformance of the previous night but with more pain in my knees for not giving them proper recuperation time. And then to top it all off, I did jitsu that night. I had no other choice though as we had guest jitsuka down from peterborough
We had a bbq following that with delicious Locke burgers, pasta salad and booze.
We stayed up pretty late watching Dave Chapelle show and just hanging out on the porch. People started to fade at about 4am while me, FlippyDan and one of his students, DaFin, came back in the house. Flippy decided that he wanted to watch Alladin and loaded it into the DVD player. After about five minutes Flippy and I watched as DaFin passed out and a minute later Flippy was out cold himself. Thus, I stopped the movie and went to bed as the sun started to come up.
Woke up the next morning with the intention of getting breakfast with the Jitsu gang but my processor was working very slowly. Thus, with all the idle movement, I had to skip breakfast in favour of getting ready to head off to Ottawa! Eventually, about two hours after McM and I said we'd leave, we set out on the road for the capital celebration for Canada Day.
We arrived in Napean to see all the Boyz from the good ol K-town days. I hadn't seen a lot of them in a couple months and it was nice to say hi. We socialized for about an hour but decided to leave after that as they have a habit of just doing nothing but just idling for a while. We almost got sucked into it but needed to be off to visit Frenchy.
Eventually, we finally made it to see Frenchy and his palace of an apartment. We sat and chilled for a while trying to outlast the thunder storm which was forcasted before heading downtown and to the football game. We sucessfully did this and then headed downtown to catch the shuttle for the game. Little did we know that there was a second storm waiting and being the smarty pantses that we are we sat on top of the double decker bus and got soaked. Thankfully, women look fantastic soaking wet and there was a good side to this.
We sat down for the game, had a few munchies and took it all in. This was my first live football game and wasn't that bad. In the end I learned a little about CFL and thus have grown from it.
From there, we walked downtown to watch the fireworks and attempt to find all other parties in Ottawa. The latter failed miserably but the fireworks were excellent.
We finished the day back at Frenchy's place with a game called 'seen it' and some texas hold'em. I passed out for the Texas Hold'em.
Saturday, we went to see 'War of the Worlds' which is a well filmed movie and has some excellent visuals. The story itself is fairly straight forward and you'll understand that better once you've seen it. After that we said buy to Frenchy, we made a few house calls to say hello to friends, bought some cheap Blue in Hull and drove back home. I was out of it when I got back, likely from the McDonalds we ate on the ride home. I did manage to get some delicious food into me at which point I passed out for 12H solid.
Sunday, McM and I finally got around to returning the tower of bottles from our family room. We need the RidgeLine's trunk space to hold everything. When we got to the Beer Store, it took us four trolley rides to get everything inside for the return. We even managed to back up the return line because we had so many bottles. When it was all said and done, we'd netted ourselves over $65 in bottles. (Almost 1200 bottles).
Following this we proceeded to celebrate McM's b-day at his parents place in typical Griswold fashion. It was suppose to be a surprise party but the jig was up after a few slip ups. In the end though, it was good times with a LOT of food and appetizers, some swimming (throwing people into the pool), some cake eating and a bit of Texas Hold'em. I might add that I had some all star hands with a good hand for every other deal which allowed me to win the game. The final hand saw me with pocket queens and McM challenging me to go all in with a pair on the table and one in my hand. Two pairs turned into a full house and I took it all home on the last hand.
Today will likely see the drinking portion of McM's b-day and hooting at girls. I will likely be acting like a grizzled prospector and 'bantering' incessantly.
Closing thoughts:
- I saw many friends in the past few days and I'm once again reminded of how fortunate I am
- I'll be home for three weeks from the 11th of July onwards and making road trips into the k-town during then hopefully.
- My five year stint in K-town is almost at an end and I'm starting to feel nostalgic
- Raw is Brownzmania tonight featuring the Hulkster!
- One night king of Texas Holdem!
- Happy B-day Matty McMattosaur!
Current Song: Coldplay - Swallowed in the Sea
Current Mood: Somber
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