Some pictures from Niagara Falls are up. Enjoy!

Hmm. We need to catch up on blogging!

So I came home on Wednesday and Anne lovingly had picked up Unreal Tournament 2004 SE for me! The SE edition is 2 DVD's (instead of 6 cds), one of which has sixty hours of tutorial videos on building maps/mods/anything with the included content.
Then Anne was cool enough to let me play for 2 hours straight. Its an awesome game and I do believe it will be getting a majority of my gaming time for quite an while.

We might be going skiing tonight and on the way I can pick up my Unreal Tournament 2004 SE which includes the game on 2 dvd's and a free headset. Should be great! Now I just need to find time to play it....

Edit: Scratch that, its shipping today, I can get it wednesday at the earliest.

Saturdays hockey tournament was a lot of fun, but a total bust as far as winning goes. We played 3 games 2 of them were against the #1 team. We played well but they were just a better team than the rest of us. We we lost the game pretty bad but thought we would do better. The second game was very close but we just couldn't get one in their net so we lost 1-0.
The last game against the #1 team again was pretty close but we lost 6-3.

So a little disappointing but we had a pretty good season and a lot of fun which was the point.

Read Gabe's first post on Penny Arcade. I can only dream of doing that with my family one day. Even watching a movie together is a major hassel for most people.

Sunday afternoon Anne left to stay at her friend Andrea's house until Tuesday night to visit her with their friend Rebekah. This left me at home alone without a wife or baby for 2 days for the first time since Maya was born. It was weird at first but I managed to fill my time :)
I had downloaded the anime series Wolfs Rain earlier and so watch the first 14 of 30 episodes of that. It acually quite enjoyable, as the premise is a lot of fun.
Of course I also played a lot of games. Colin McRae Rally 4 is a blast, especially the in-car view. The Painkiller demo is a blast as well, nothing like nailing a zombie to a wall with a stake gun. I have the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo , it's great fun as well, especially the Onslaught mode. I have the DVD Special edition with the headset preordered at EB, it should come next week. There are over 100 (!!!) maps to play on and over half are new ones. Mafia was the main game I played as the story is quite good and the gameplay a lot of fun, its pretty tough and long so I think I will be working on it for a while yet.
That pretty much sums up what I did for fun.

I am already pumped for the hockey tournament on Saturday. I can't wait.

The hockey tournament on Saturday was lots of fun, our team didn't do that great (won 1 of 3 games) but they were pretty close games.
We did win the important church league playoff game Saturday night though, 3 to 1.
And apparently next weekend is the final tournament for that league and so that will end that season. Also, Sunday night hockey only has 2 weeks left. I really don't know what I am going to do for exersise until the snow is totally gone and we can get some bikes. I hate jogging so I don't think I will do that. hmmmmmmm

Check out the rally videos on this page. This is pretty much what Ian and I expericed last November and plan to in June as well.

Sunday night I played hockey as usual, in Paisley with the "old timers". There were a lot of people (the number varies) and so our bench had 2 full forward lines and 4 defencemen. I played centre as usual. The final score was 11-11. Why was it special? Well I scored 5 of my teams goals! Yay me! Due to the number players it was a nice fast game the whole time and I drove to the net as I like to do (rougher=more fun for me) and I was getting good passes and I seemed to be on my game.
I love playing hockey and I will be very sad when its all done at the end of the month. I do have 2 tournaments in march which is nice, one of which is next weekend with a minimum if 3 games in addition to the regular Saturday night church league game. I am quite looking forward to it. The other is at the end of the month and will end the season. We were totally destroyed at last years but I think we have a better team this year. And our good is probably the best in the league which is always good.

Maya is 3 months old today! Holy crap!
It seems longer than that in some ways and not nearly that long in others.
I think Anne has the exact count on diapers so far....

Thursday Anne and I had to drive to Toronto to take Maya to a Specialist (dermatologist) so they could decide if the skin problem she has on the side of her head was a bad thing or not.
So we (Anne did the driving due to the aforementioned license issue) drove to the office (3 hours), waited in the waiting room (1 hour), saw the doctor (10 minutes) and drove home again (3 hours). You can see the disparity in the time allotment.

It wasn't all bad though. On the way back we went to Old Navy, Jack Astor's, then CostCo. I got some cargo pants at Old Navy, and we enjoyed Jack Astors, but there was something wrong with the pan bread though, I think it was stale.
I enjoyed CostCo much more than I thought I would, their computer stuff its that cheap (I get it cheaper at ncix.com) but the rest of it was pretty good. We got diapers and other baby stuff of course, but also some batteries and food stuffs that were very good deals. Next time I need to take notes as I think there were some VERY good deals on TV's and stuff and we are planning on getting one of those in the next couple years.

Oops, sorry for not posting much. Its been busy.

As a follow-up on the whole license thing, I called around until I found out where I had to get to get the problem dealt with. Apparently it was in the County Administration building in Owen Sound and the person said (I swear they did as I wrote it down and remember it) that is was open till 5pm. So I went to work early Wednesday, and left at 4pm to get to the office in time.

Of course it closed at 4:30! Great! The annoying about this was that it could have been all fixed up on Thursday if I had got it in on Wednesday and so now we had to wait till Friday to go back again. So Friday I left work an hour early and got to the office on time and got everything straightened up and should know what's going on my Tuesday afternoon.

*sigh*

The whole situation is very annoying.