Whats going on?

Hmm we havn't updated in a few days so here you go:

• We went to the drive-in on Sunday night and saw Bourne Supremacy and Manchurian Candidate. Bourne sucked, Manchurian was pretty good. Watching a moving in a car with the sub on rocks!
• My knee is still not in good shape. It can use it almost normally for a while and then its quite painful for a bit. I may not be pushing myself hard enough though and I am trying start jogging up the stairs and walking as normal as possible again. I really hope i don't have to get surgery or anything on it.
• Every had one of those weeks at work where everything that can go wrong does? I can't think of any device here at at work this week that I haven't had to look at.

Hmm thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I had some time while doing a server install to fix up the template a but more again. I plan on doing a bit more and creating a new title graphic and stuff later.

In Progress

Well Anne went and unexpectedly changed the template on me so I will be changing the look at bit of the next couple of days. Comments are back for now and I will add everything to the sidebar again. Oh well, I guess we were due for a change anyway.

Oh, the suspense!!

As we are trying to to get Maya used to being away from us we now are going on weekly dates to the movie theatre here in town. We are leaving Maya at our good friend Kims for the duration of the movie which works awesome because she is just one the way (we walk there). Thanks again Kim!
So last week we saw Farienhiet 9/11 which we enjoyed but not as much as Bowling for Columbine. It just didn't present the data in a very coherent manner. It was very interesting the connections between so many people but we found that while entertaining, it just didn't make it interesting enough. Oh well we still look forward to his next movie.
Last night we watched the The Village which was very good. The characters and story drew me in and I quite enthralled the whole movie. Our only complaint was that we had the "twist" figured out about 20 minutes into the movie. I though, "oh M. Night Shamanaylamandabananna (sp?) won't do the obvious thing, we just think we got it figured out." But it was the obvious twist which was a little disapointing. But that was our only complaint about the movie.

Egg!

Monday night someone egged our car! Seriously, what is wrong people! Fortuntely it cleaned up just fine so no damage done, but it really mad me mad.

Grey County Rally 2004...Sort of

So my friend Ian came up from Toronto this weekend ot hang out. We ended up doing 2 things basically, driving on back roads and playing Rallisport 2 on Xbox.
Anne found her map of Grey County (that's the county we live in FYI) which has all the known roads and some unassumed roads as well, so Ian and I took it and went driving. It was a blast, there are so many single lane, twisty and unused roads out here that I had no Idea about. There were some great puddles/small lakes that we went through at high speeds too. We did this both Saturday and Sunday afternoon and apparently the car on sustained a small dent in the oil pan which is amazing considering some of the roads we were on and the rocks we hit. I marked them all on the map for later reference. Ian's car is only a '99 (I think) Volkswagen Golf so something a little higher up would have allowed to get though some places we weren't able to this time through. Of course the Golf is a good rally car once you make a few modifications to it which could quite possibly be the case some day. :)
Saturday night and some of Sunday we spent playing rallisport 2 on the Xbox. I have never playing a racing game as good as that one. The graphics were astounding and the variety of races kept you wanting more, it just felt like you were going so fast. I will have to play it a great deal more when it comes out for PC at some point.
Overall an awesome summer weekend spent. I can't wait for next time.

Its a miracle!

I saw my family doc this afternoon to get my knee checked. He said it looked good and I appeared to just have bruised the cartlidge in my knee. So I am officially off of my crutches now. I was pretty much expecting this as for the last couple of days my knee has felt pretty good and the swelling has pretty much gone away. I didn't wear a tensor bandage this week either. So know I am limping a bit but I think I will be able to play soccer again in a couple of weeks.
I just wish my doctor had been a little nicer though. He saw me with the crutches going in and after looking at my knee was looking at me like I was nuts for still using them. Uh ya buddy, like I want to wreck my knee by walking around with it becaue I think it might be okay before I get any knowledgeable person look at it. Better safe than sorry when it comes to knees.
I am very glad to get rid of the crutches though, what a huge pain in the butt they are.

The Back Roads of Grey County

I had a meeting in Owen Sound all afternoon and Anne did some errands while we were up there. She got a new car seat for Maya as she had totally outgrown the old one. Its pretty cool but not nearly as reclined as the old one. We will have to see how Maya likes it I think before making a judgment at all.

On the drive home we took at backroads, it was awesome. I think we went on 4 "no winter maintenance" which were a ton of fun. There are so many single lane twisty and hilly roads out here. Anne and I really want a detailed map of the area that includes these roads. They are a great deal of fun to drive on.

I also thought I had missed the WRC Rally of Finland as my friend Ian had been unable to record it. But fortunalty it was on Suprnova last night and I was able to download it! Hopefully all the subsequent races will be on as I have no other way of seeing them right now. Japan is next and its new so I very much looking forward to it.

Its a Sign!

I have been thinking quite hard about looking for a new job. But i have been conflicted because I also want to try and do a better job here. However, all the signs are pointing to new job. Its just one thing after another this week and I am getting sick of it. None of it has to do with catch up work from when I was gone either, its all people attitiudes and actions.
Its going to be tough though as we really do want to stay in the area and finding another job that pays close to this one will be tough.

The Knights of Knee!

So tonight into about 20 minutes of soccer I twisted my knee pretty badly :( When it happened I looked just like one of those guys in a soccer game you see falling down and grabbing their knee, except I wasn't faking it. I tried walking it off to no avail and so left and drove the hospital. Apparently I have to put no weight on it for a week and use crutches. Its going to be a huge pain the butt. They weren't sure how badly or if at all I had damaged the cartlidge in my knee.
Oh well, at least I will be good for hockey. I personally don't think its that bad and should be playing sports again in a couple of weeks at least. But we will see I guess.

Trip pictures

The West coast trip gallery is now up. I have had to take down the rest of the gallerys in the mean time, I will put them up again later.
So enjoy the pictures, some require an explanation and others are sideways for some reason. Ask any questions in the comments.
Enjoy!

Weeeerrreee Ba-aaack....

Just to let everyone know that we made it back safe and sound Saturday about about 3:30pm. We drove about 13 hours on friday and made it to the ferry dock on Manitoulin Island at about 2am to make the morning ferry to Tobermory.
We haven't really unpacked or anything yet as we have mostly been doing things with friends and stuff, but I am sure we will get to it soon enough.
We will have pics up as soon as we can, but we have just uploaded them all the the computer and looked a them. There are a lot of incredible pics of the mountains and the animals, we just have to decide what ones to get developed.