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1985 : Shorts to Pants?

Ahh, lovely Ontario from 40C to 15C in a week. I'm not sure if we'll get another heat wave or not. So it looks like time to put the shorts away and get back to pants and fleece, which is fine because I stocked up on fleece during the summer. The 'long' weekend has looked pretty gray, lots of on and off rain. Bah. It has been a lazy weekend. Saturday JP and my sister came down. We grabbed a bite at Caruso's (mmm Meatza) then ventured over to Ikea near Vaughn Mills. It is always fun to walk around Ikea if you haven't been there for awhile. Ultimately though, I think we have outgrown Ikea. We looked at some living room chairs and shelving but the quality is ho-hum even if the price is right. I think spending a little more for 'better woods' and craftsmanship is money well spent. We spent most of yesterday with Kev and Suz. it's been awhile since we last saw them. They are ieasy guests to have. We both needed groceries so we started the day going to Zehrs. A 1985...

1984 : The new car

Ain't she a beauty? 1984...

1983 : Bye old reliable.

For over 11 years the Tercel took me everywhere. It was an awesome car. It rarely gave me any issues during the entire ownership. I can only hope to be as fortunate with the new Subaru we own. It is a world of difference! I'm looking forward to getting acquainted it. :) Final KM on the Tercel was close to 265,000. 1983...

1982 : We bought a Subaru! :D

We test drove a Kia Soul, a Toyota Matrix, a Mazda 3 and the Subaru Impreza. When we started looking at cars iI loved the Soul. I still do... but when you compare the quality of the other makes... it was kinda hard to keep the Soul in the running. The Matrix seemed a little bland. In spite of my love of Toyota and being a happy owner since 1999 ... I decided to branch out and was impressed with the competition. We both really liked the Mazda 3. It was a VERY close second... But the Subaru impressed me the most. The engineering and subtle details I found hard to overlook. The all wheel drive grips the road like glue... it will be a welcome change to have that after the Tercel! The exact car is a 2011 Subaru Impreza 2.5i. Anyway, zonked. Get the car Tuesday. 1982...

1981 : Season ends with a thud

Ball Hockey ended last night on a sour note. We got owned badly. They were simply better, faster, stronger and well organized. We are just a bunch of guy in comparison. There are two divisions in our league and we were great in ours but moving up to play the best in the iother division and a great disparity was uncovered. I guess it wasn't ironic then that there was really nothing said amongst my teammates before we left. No formal goodbye, great season... people just... ileft. Ultimately though it was fun. It is a little frustrating to have a mind that wants to challenge and be aggressive and a body that says iuh, no. Playing a physically demanding sport in my late thirties against mostly twenty year olds really makes me feel my age at times. We did win our division however and had a winning season. Most of the guys on my team had a good attitude. I would consider playing again if we were in the same division. I'd rather win in a crappy division than lose in better 1981...

1980 : Tonight at 11... DOOOOOOOOMM!!!

We were originally suppose to spend this weekend at the inlaws' cottage near Honey Harbour, but we were uninvited since the cottage owner's plans got changed. That was fine, it rained most of the weekend and I had work to do anyway. Friday night I played some pool with KK. While it was close for most of the evening, the night certainly goes to KK. I'm hoping to get a new phone from Telus soon. I've decided on the 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire' target='_blank'HTC desire, much like most of the GTA it seems, as it has been out of stock for a week. *meh* I like the Android platform. KK showed me his Android phone, and it is an impressive device for sure. It is remarkable how much tech they cram into these small phones... I'm looking forward to the leap in tech. I'm currently using a 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6000_series#Nokia_6265_and_Nokia_6265i' target='_blank'Nokia 6265i, which has been a great phone, but it is time for an upgrade. 1980...

1979 : Apply direct pressure

Last weekend was pretty quiet. We stayed home most of the time and did the usual housecleaning. Saturday night we watched "http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1193230-state_of_play/" target="_blank"State of Play with Russell Crowe. Overall it was good. The ending was a little weak. (UScore : 3.5/5 img src="pics/35stars.png" alt="3.5/5" title="3.5/5"/. Sunday was more of the same. Groceries. Laundry. An impressive storm whipped through the area in the early evening. High winds, driving rain, thunder, lightning... it was an impressive show, the power even flickered a few times. Today I attended a St.John's Ambulance course on First Aid. (I'm also there tomorrow) I'm going from work. I volunteered to go. I've always thought it would be good to learn some life saving skills, especially if someone else is paying for them. We seemed to cover a ton of material in a day. My brain is swimming with symptoms, recovery positions and the correct way to save people. We cover 1979...

1978 : Particular Perseid

Played my final ball hockey game of the season. More bruises. Blocked two shots. Ouch. Ouch. It is looking good for us to play in at least one final game in a week. It was a perfectly clear night in Bolton to watch the Perseid meteor shower. I laid down in my backyard and waited, and waited... the shower was more like a trickle. I think over 35m of watching I saw about 6 or 7 meteors. Kinda underwhelming. I couldn't find an iideal time to watch... *shrug* 1978...

1977 : Bruised and battered

Back to another full work week. I'm loving the morning traffic these days... Very light right now... it is going to make September particular disturbing and awful. The dog has the runs. I won't go into any detail as to how disgusting it is. *vom* Played my first ball hockey game in over two weeks. Ugh... I have a ton of evidence of the rough play from the game: cracked toe nail, bruised elbow, bruised knee... apparently I played well, one teammate remarked that he thought I told a line of cocaine. I said two lines. I was pretty bagged by the third period. We spent a lot of time in the box which means a lot of running to block point shots. The game ended in a two two tie. I'm achy breaky today and I play again tomorrow. Arggghhh...Trying to figure a way to protect my toe somehow. Hmm. We started trying to gain back our property from weeds last Sunday. It is a massive uphill climb. It seems even if we dig them out the frackers return. I'm thinking of nuking the 1977...

1976 : Short week

It was a pleasantly shortened work week. Traffic going into work last week was very light, which is rare and wonderful. Unfortunately it won't last. The week was also very quiet at work with more than half the staff away on holidays and nearly all of the managers. I lost another co-worker as she quit and took another job. She was one of the women that started under the same work project as me so it was particular disappointing to see her leave. I talked to her a bit about it and internal personality conflicts was the main reason she started looking for another position. Shame. We seem to lose a lot of good people from the same department... yet the manager stays. *Hmm.* Hockey was Tuesday. Upon showing up at the arena it became clear it the game was canceled. *frown* So I drove out there for nothing. Usually the team captain calls everyone to let them know. I didn't get a call. Apparently he got the news about the cancellation late and he only had my e-mail address as con 1976...

1975 : The week at Round Lake

The week at Round Lake was fun. It was no where near long enough. I'm sure we could have spent three weeks there let alone one. There was so much left undone and really it would have been great to have more time to do inothing. The first few days at the Lake were really windy. So windy we didn't really want to swim. I was certainly concerned the waves would sink the ever-circling-over-protective dog. So we took advantage of the poor swimming day to get groceries on Sunday in Barry's Bay. It is curious how accustomed one becomes to expecting certain produce, and when it isn't available you think WTF. The wind continued on Monday. We pretty much chilled at the cottage and drank Pacific Ma itai cocktails. Mmmm. I continued to read Blink. Monday afternoon we finally found some motivation to get off our asses. We drove over to Foy beach, which is across the lake. It was pretty nice once we finally figured out how to get to it from the road. (It is no longer fully operational... and th 1975...