The wedding shoot happens this weekend up in Chesley for Amy and Toby. We head up tonight and then the fun happens tomorrow morning bright and early at 8:00 am. I am looking forward to the shoot, and feel good about it, I will read up on a couple notes I have taken but all in all I am feeling good.
I added to my storage arsenal last night and grabbed two 8 GB compact flash cards. I am now rolling with a total of 20 GB! I also stopped in to Black's to see if the new Nikon D90 was out but it was not. I wasn't so much looking to buy one but just wanted to tempt myself.
On a super fun and cool note, Mark and Lara had their baby. Ava ? Borody was born Thursday and everyone is healthy and happy. Kerri and I stopped by last night to say hello to the little one and she is very cute and small. Congrats guys!
We took the plunge after getting hammered last year and bought a snow blower. It was on sale a couple weekends ago so figured what the heck. Over the weekend I broke open the box and extracted the beast from its cave. It looks like one hell of a machine, to say I am intimidated would be a gross under statement.
The model we got is the Ariens 927. It's a 9 hp, 27" width with an electric start and more knobs and levers than I know what to do with. It was pretty straight forward putting it together as all I really needed to do was raise the handle and attach the shoot.
With the wide open field to the West of the house last year we got slammed a lot with huge drifts and big head aches. This year we hope it will be different. I never thought I would hope for a shit load of snow but bring it on!
Looks like I made the right call finally and got gas last night on the way home for 1.139. This morning on the drive in the price was at 119.1, up 6 ish cents over night. Why?
Really why this time?
You would think that if Canada is based so heavily on what is happen in the US that gas prices would have dropped a bit over night or at least stayed idle. But NO, with the looming Government bailup in the horizon, and the highest 2 day Dow gain in 6 years, gas prices go up!
I guess if you have money to spend then you will spend it...even if it is imaginary money.
Me and the guys are doing a hockey pool this year. We did one a couple years ago, which I won (thank you, thank you) but this years looks like it will be a bit smaller. Should be fun to follow the games, not sure how much Leaf watching will go on. The team is not looking too promising this year, but I have been wrong before.
I always hope that one year they will just jell and win a shit load of games. There is always a team that is not expected to do much and end up making the playoffs and looking decent. Why can't that be the Leafs??!
We had ANOTHER crazy busy weekend! Went for dinner with Mark and Erin on Friday night after going shopping at Costco. We found out that we are going to be an Uncle and Aunt! We are both very happy for them.
Saturday I worked then we had to do some running around in town for the wedding that is in a couple weeks, just picking up odd things and getting the dress altered.
Sunday we went down to Burlington where Kerri was at Steph's house prepping the place for another body, they got lots of work done and got rid of a lot of space wasting things. Looks like they will be well on their way.
While the girls were doing that Tim and I went golfing! It seems end of season is the time when I golf as this is back to back weekends that I have played.
We played at Lowville Golf Course in Milton it was a blast, and I actually played well shooting a 43/48 for a 91. I had 5 pars on the day but no birdies. I did however manage to muster up a 7 on a par 3!!
Hurricane Ike was supposed to be coming to rain on us but it didn't start raining till we were leaving town around 5, lucky for us.
I'd love to keep playing every weekend but funds are shrinking and so is time, it seems we don't have any of that!
We have finally nailed down our Oktoberfest plans for this year. We were hoping to try out a new place this year but it didn't work out. Just one of those things I suppose. Either way I'm happy that we are going again, because every year is a blast.
We are going back to The Aud for this year's festing and it's a smaller group this year. This will be my 8th year going to Oktoberfest which is pretty cool when you think about it. That is a lot of beer and dancing all added up. I'm excited too because I am in desperate need of a new hat, the old one is starting to smell funny.
So Qik lets you stream live from your cell phone. It's pretty damn cool when you think about it, I am going to try to use it here and there. I (hopefully) have it setup to automatically send a tweet on twitter whenever I go live. So if you are looking to find out when I am streaming sign up for Twitter and follow me.
Rumor has it NHL is en route to stores (EB Games). The demo is really good, this year's version looks like it will be solid. Maybe I'll try a Qik video once I get my copy going :)
This weekend was full of surprises. Sunday was the surprise party for Uncle Larry down in Burlington. He is turning 70 this month so Brenda setup a party for him. It was good times, as I got to see a lot of the Forbes' that I generally only see once or twice a year.
The party was held at Brenda and Rod's house, which is a very impressive home located in North Burlington. Nice big pool, a hot tub, exposed aggregate and all the trimmings, very nice.
I was also able to see my family as well, which is always nice. Riley is running around now and Stephanie looks like she's about to pop!
Rob managed to spill wine all down his shirt which went over very well :)
While this was all going on Kerri was in Baden at a surprise baby shower for Chris across the road. She as well looks moments away from popping. Kerri said it was a fun time and there a lot of fun games. Very good time.
It was a silly stupid busy weekend but a good one none the less.
I was driving in to Toronto last night to see Jeff, Colleen and their new baby boy Ethan. While listening to Z103.5 I was shocked to hear a never before heard (on my part) version of M.I.A's Paper Planes. During the chorus instead of hearing the gun shots and gun cocking, they replaced it will the words "zoom zoom zoom and boom boom boom" a la Rump Shaker.
Really!?
Really?!
We are at a point in our society where we can't hear gun shots on the radio? Death and violence all over the TV and all over movies but the radio is going to be censored.
Well it's official the first guy from my group of guys growing up is a father. Yikes! Jeff and Colleen welcomed Ethan Phillip Baynton into the world August 26th. Everyone is happy and healthy.
Wow! That is the first thing that comes to mind with out question when I really sit back and digest this. First of all it's incredible, and I feel so happy for them that everything is going well. It's just so wild to think that Baynton is a father, I know he is going to be a great dad and Colleen a great mom. It's just that thought of getting Christmas cards with the three of them is what makes me need to shake my head.
Kerri and I are heading up there tonight to give them some love and drop off a gift. I have seen pictures and he looks tiny! I will try my best not to break him.
On a completely different note, I have been playing a ton of darts lately in the garage, it's all set up now and we even have a little TV in the garage for those hockey night/garage drinking/dart throwing fun times we all love.
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