Seems that our home games are a huge success in terms of medal results. While we didn't achieve the goal of winning the most medals, we managed two things ( Read more... )

Hockey gold!

That is all

Well, it's been a bit over a week since Google launched their latest service: Google Buzz ( Read more... )

So, the XXI Olympic Winter Games open tonight in about 15 hours (less by the time you read this) in Vancouver. Anyone else looking forward to watching it? For fun, it's being shown on 7 different channels up here, but unless you get satellite/digital cable, you'll only see three of them (four are alternate feeds or regional streams for other ( Read more... )

Went with a Natasha to the Science Centre today (yes, again). Since we didn't make it in time to see the cadavers in November, we left earlier this time, arriving about 45 min before open, grabbing a locker, a quick snack, and early tickets that let us see the dead bodies first thing after the doors opened ( Read more... )

So, after a rocky first half to the year 2009, things finally began to stabilize once I got my job back with higher pay.

( 2009, August to December )

Well, 2009 is almost over, and thus will end a roller-coaster ride of a year. It began with a search for employment and ended up with a job, a failed job change, some good movies and a hockey game.

I know I've been bad about updating my journals all along, but I'll try to play catch up with this multi-part, so without further, this was 2009:

( 2009, January to July )

Went out for Nuit Blanche yesterday evening with a friend. We stopped for food before it began (at three restaurants before we found a seat, thanks to an evening concert). I mentioned some details about a few events, and she wanted to check one of them out first, so we left for Battle Royal at 7:30 (stopping along the way for an extra map and ( Read more... )

Has it really been over a month since I last updated? Well, quite a bit has happened, and is going to happen, so it's time to play catch up ( Read more... )

Apparently, we had some tornadoes yesterday evening. The city declared a state of emergency due to the damage caused out in Woodbridge and Maple.

Fortunately, we were unaffected by the damage, but geeze; usually they stay on the other side of Barrie (i.e. up north).