3-2-1 Warriors

My junior boys team made it to the finals and rocked the other team to the point a parent and the coach of the other team were screaming at the ref (a high school student). If only I was there. So our boys got silver, much better than the shame the gold medalist team now … [Read more…]

I’m the Green

It was a tense two hours. Sarah had South America and Africa early on. She nearly decimated me in Europe after I kept on preventing her from collecting for Africa. Amber step-by-step took Asia and Tim took North America at the last minute. Tim and I shared Australia. I cashed in my cards for 35 … [Read more…]

10 000 Tunes

My iTunes library reached the 10 000 mark when I added Edie Brickell’s “Picture Perfect Morning” (total now stands at 10 079). I now have 29 days 9 hours 6 minutes 20 seconds of original listening available. Sweet. Visited mom last night and today. She let me borrow 16 video cassettes of home movies that … [Read more…]

Sibelius Symphony #1

Sibelius Monument (I’ve never been there) Divine music. The first time I heard this symphony, it was cassette of Leonard Bernstein conducting playing on my old stereo that was covered in Batman stickers. I was in my second story room, laying on my bed laying face up looking out my window as a mighty thunderstorm … [Read more…]

Seething

Alan sent me this: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Friends and adversaries of the United States voted overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba. The vote, conducted for the 13th consecutive year, was a lopsided 179 to 4 with one abstention on the resolution … [Read more…]

I’m so content

God blesses. Wife satisfies. Health remains. Music uplifts. Brothers challenge. Sisters encourage. Job rewards. Students enthuse. Dreams stir. I could only ask for more time to enjoy life.

Ester Buck Violated

A/Some vandal(s) pryed open my car door and stole some iPod attachments and a tripod a week and a half ago. My immediate feelings were that of being violated. How aweful that someone would feel free to break my property and go into my space. Now I’m just inconvenienced because my car is no longer … [Read more…]

Terry Fox Run

I ran with my iPod in my hand and the memory of Stephanie in my head. The course began at the Pioneer Centre in Spruce Grove. A woman shared at the departure ribbon about how her friend just passed away on Friday of Cancer and how her husband currently has it. It was touching to … [Read more…]

Cards, Kydds, Cinema, Cardiovascular

Alan, Randy and Nic came out Saturday and we enjoyed homemade mint ice cream, sparkling French grape juice and my new game courtesy of 5040 Garnier. It took us a while to get into the groove of the game because it’s so new to us. I’ve downloaded a computerized version of Tarot (not the tea … [Read more…]