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Cell phone pain

My cell phone hates me. Every week or so the battery starts dying and I always like to fully drain the battery before recharging. It always seems that by the time the battery is fully dead, it’s either a Friday night or a Saturday night; the worst time for a cell phone to die. I ...

Cycling home from work

My bicycle was locked up outside of my work for a week or so, so I decided to ride it home today since I was running late for hockey tonight. (It’s faster to get home on my bicycle than taking a streetcar or driving). It was an interesting ride home. The first incident was with ...

Rednecks in Toronto

It’s not too often I come across rednecks in Toronto, but today was a prime example. I took the last 2 days off work to do construction on my house. (We dug out a separate basement entrance, and a new room in the basement, and we built a new washroom upstairs). Well the contractor we’re ...

Canada profits from Bush victory

CNN has featured a story on their main page advertising Canada as a haven for fed-up Democrats in the United States. The amount of press Canada has received from the United States news agencies is extremely valuable for tourism in Canada. Here’s the article: Link The CNN article states that the UN has named Toronto ...

Toilet humour

Just some random toilet thoughts that came to mind: 1) Why is it that you are more of a man if your urination takes longer than another man? Is the man with the shorter urination any less of a man? I see guys competing with each other all the time. 2) At work last week ...

Mini-Me is coming to Puerto Rico

Due to very short deadlines to obtain the Airline tickets in time, I had to make a quick decision on whom to bring with me on my trip to Puerto Rico in January. After a week of contemplation, my 19 year-old brother Tom (AKA Mini-Me) is the lucky (or unlucky depending on how you view ...

How well can you bluff?

Last night I was at a buddy’s apartment playing a board game called “Balderdash”. The way the game works is that one person reads out a name, or an acronym, or a word, etc, and you are to write either the real meaning or you make something up. It’s quite fun. Here are a couple ...

Wipe out!

I was having lunch with a friend from work today, and she was telling me about how she tripped and fell today in the printer room at the office, so that was quite a shocker for her colleagues on her floor. She informed me that this tripping and falling happens frequently, at least once a ...

Remembrance Day Message from me

On this day, we remember those who fought to save the world. These were ordinary young men who stood up to fight for their country. These were boys who became men in a very short period of time. They knew the danger they were exposing themselves to. They watched their brothers die right before their ...

Going to Puerto Rico!

Well, in January I will be experiencing my first trip to the Caribbean. I won a performance award at work that awards me a free trip for 2 to Puerto Rico. I’m very excited about this, the resort looks beautiful! I’m looking forward to the golfing, scuba diving, the blue water, and the smooth sand. ...