Here's a lesson in procrastination boys and girls.

I got my driving license suspended today.

Last May I got a speeding ticket coming home from the movie theatre in Owen Sound, only going 110km/h in a dry paved back road so its no biggy. The local police let you write a test for $80 and rip up the ticket and the province never hears of it and that's the end of that. That's what's supposed to happen anyway...
In June I get a notice from the local police and they let me know they they accidentally sent the ticket in but not work worry about they will take care of it etc etc. Then at the start of January I received a notice from the province that I had gotten a speeding ticket and I had never paid it and I needed to before March 1st and had a court date etc. I call the local police and ask what's up, they tell me I need to bring the notice into the station and talk with the officer that gave it to me. But the hours are only during hours that I am working and the officer has to be there so its not exactly easy to arrange. That's what I procastinated doing and so never got around to dealing with it today.
So in the mail today is a notice stating that my license is suspended until I pay the fine and pay $100 to have it reinstated.

But I can go to court and sign a form, and explain to the justice (or whoever) the above story and everything should be hunky-dory in a couple days.

In the mean time looks like I will be walking though, good thing I don't have any meetings anywhere this week :)

WANT TO GO TO A RALLY?

On the weekend of June 5th to 6th there is a Rally in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.
Anne and I are planning on going and I am wondering if a group of people are interested. We probably could drive down the Friday night and camp or stay in a motel for the 2 nights and drive back Sunday.
So anyone who is interested please comment here! I would like to get an idea of how many people would be interested in such a thing. Even if you don't care that much about the rallying (but how could you not) it would be an awesome get together for the people who read this site.
It will be a lot of fun!!!

Edit: It could be a guys weekend out as well....

I think Maya has a new favorite toy. We recieved a stuff yellow duck from someone as a present a while back, but haven't really done anything with it. Last night I was playing with her before bed and I give it to her and she totally loved it. She clutched it like it was going to run away and rubbed it on her face because she liked the feel of it.
She looks super cute with it too.

We named the duck Herbert.

Unfortunately Anne and I did not get any Conan tickets for the shows being taped in Toronto :( . I even tried a sob story about a new baby and being stuck at home blah blah blah. We are going to stay up and watch the shows which start airing tomorrow night, it should be quite good I think.
Anyway, here are some links I could find on the visit:
Toronto Sun Interview
Toronto Star Write-up
Globe and Mail Write-up
CNN International
Vancouver Sun

Thanks Google News Search!

It looks like I am going to be the computer tech/network guy for my church. The senior pastor, who is Mac nut, is currently the main guy but feels he needs to concentrate on his primary function more as the church is growing. The trouble is that they are all Macs with on 2 PC's floating around. They are looking at me for setting up a plan for them to move forward as they planning on doing a lot more with video and audio and stuff through the computers.
Anyway its going to be my primary contribution to the church and I am glad to help. The Mac troubleshooting should be interested but I am not too worried about figuring it out. I think the whole experiece will be fun (and look good on my resume :) )
Here is our church's web site, its going to be revamped at some point and offer a number of new things.

I got together with some good friends on Sunday to do the superbowl thing. I am not real big on football but I am big on Xbox and junk food (in moderation of course dear) and Sunday had both in abundance. So before the game we played some 4 player Tiger Woods 2004 which was surprisingly fun! It was a close game all the way to the end. Unfortunately it was game time so we never did finish 18 holes, next time I guess.
So we watched the game and found it pretty boring until the end of the second quarter and the 4th quarter. I, as always, cheered for the underdog which happened to be Carolina this year and they put on a great show considering.
The interesting part was the whole half time controversy. The house we were watching it at had the high-end expresvu model where you can pause and rewind shows so when we realized what had happened with Janets boob we rewound the show and checked it out (for scientific purposes only of course). It was definitely done on purpose, but way to hard to make anything out. The whole uproar is stupid because people will cry the blues when they see Janets boob, but then they will turn on CSI where you see a guys head mashed in with brains hanging out in vivid detail and think that's fine. *sigh* The U.S. is sooo screwed up.

I took the day off on Friday and we went skiing at Blue Mountain. Unfortunately I would rate the day about a "B-". The drive up there wasn't that great, with blowing snow and bad roads. But when we got there we realized that Friday was a fricken PD day! ARG! So its super crowded. The I get in to Central Lodge and head to our usual spot where Anne had gone ahead to feed Maya while I unloaded the car. I get to the spot to fine a very pissed off Anne and no tables. Apparently on a very busy day they decided to get rid off all the tables in the quiet hallway area! So Anne "talks" to some mangers and gets some tables for the area and we have a place to look after Maya and keep our stuff.
So while some of this is going on I head out to the slopes. Because of the cloud cover the light is very flat and its nearly impossible to make out the rough stuff and with all the people its VERY rough and choppy. *sigh*
On the positive side though, despite all the problems we both got some good skiing in and had fun. The lines were too bad and all the hills were open. My Dad showed up later in the day and we got some good night skiing in as the night lights improved visibility greatly.
All in all I am glad I took the day off but wish we had known it was going to be a PD day. Next time will be better I hope, we will do this at least couple more times this season and lots more night skiing.