When the cat's away....

So Anne isn't back until Wednesday and I have been home alone all week. I think I have been pretty productive and I am pretty much accomplishing what I wanted to. It is a lot easier to do stuff when Maya isn't crawling around trying to put everything in her mouth...
The Xbox playing has been quite productive as well. Ninja Gaiden is being quite stubborn and isn't letting me past chapter five (the damn brown ninjas!!) but Rallisport 2 and Burnout 3 just can't contain my driving talent. I think I like Rallisport more as Burnout just seems to get boring too quickly.
Anne in the meantime is looking forward to the remains of Hurricane Jeanne to go through where she is at in North Carolina. IT probably won't be much more than a big storm by that point, but Anne is all about the natural destruction and mayhem. I don't think that girl will be truly happy in life until we have a home destroyed by a tornado. :)

He shoots, he scores!

I played my first hockey game of the season last night, which was a blast. I wasn't sure how I would do as it was the first real test of my knee that I twisted earlier this summer but my knee felt good and strong and is just a little more sore than usual today so I think its pretty much recovered.
The game was just Sunday night pick-up in paisley but the turnout was good and the pace was fast. I scored a couple of goals and felt like I was playing pretty well.
Hurray for hockey season!
Church league starts in a couple of weeks as well and I am really looking forward to that as its a little more competitive and a little rougher. I think the team we have will do well too, we didn't fare so well last year.

Gypsy Dad!

Today my Dad is heading with a group from our church on a missions trip to Romania. They are helping build a commnunity center in some remote town. This should be quite the experience for him as he hasn't done anything like this before. My mom went last year I think, but she was doing more mission type stuff and not construction. It should be interesting to see what my Dad think of the whole thing as its quite outside of stuff he has done before!
So pray for safty and that everything goes well!

So very clean..

Today we had some local carpet cleaners in to do are main living carpet and stairs. They both look so white now! You really have no idea how much mashed food, poop, pee, drinks, and dirt is ground into carpets on a daily basis until you see how clean they could be if you didn't use them!

Airport

I drove Anne to the airport last night to catch a flight to Raleigh, North Carolina to visit her sister for a week.The drive was pretty uneventful.
We met her friend Rebekah there who had arrived on a flight from Winnipeg and whom I was giving a ride home.
Maya really like the airport and apparently really liked the airplane ride as well. She crawled all over the place and was a very happy little girl.

the drive home was just as uneventful, Rebekah and I just chatted about life and got home in a couple of hours. I did stop at my friend Ian's to say hi and grab a recording of last weekends rally in Great Britain. He hadn't acually record (no tape) but he wasn't out of the way anyway.

I did manage to snag Burnout 3, Ninja Gaiden, and Rallisport 2 at the local Jumbo video in town on the way through so that was good. Those are pretty much all I plan on playing while Anne is gone.

So pretty much a very boring post.

Happy belated Birthday!

So yesterday was my 27th birthday. It was fairly uneventful and also my first as a father.
The day started off me calling in sick to work, this was becasue I was actually sick and stayed in bed until about noon. I read a good book for a good majority of the afternoon and played Richard Burns Rally for a while as well. it was fairly quiet aroun the house as Maya was over at Kim's while Anne spend most of the day working on making Salsa.
My parents came over for dinner and we went to Frankies for supper.We plesantly supprised at how good the meal was and how filling. Kim also brought me a homemade cheese cake which is very delicious.
My Dad got me a new helmet for hockey which will be great as mine was getting to be very irritating. And its good as hockey may start as soon as this weekend for me. I just hope my knee can start to handle sports. We will see I guess.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who dropped by and for the cards and everything!

Present #1

Looks like, as far as presents go, this is shaping up to be the best birthday ever! Earlier this week Anne gave me the choice between a new pair of skates, a new audio deck for the Rav, or tickets to a Leaf game. I choose the the audio deck. Here is what I bought myself :

I got the Alpine CDA-9826, which is the model right below this one and differs by not having a remote and only one pre-out, but feature and quality-wise is exactly the same. It soooo much better than the one that came with our RAV; even Anne noticed an immediate difference in the quality of the sound. An added bonus is that we get in way more radio stations too, I had no idea so many were available in this area. It's XM ready as well which is something that I would like to get at some point in the future as well. It also has a feature called MediaXpander which cleans up Radio and MP3s and fills in missing sound to bring it up to CD-like quality. So I am VERY pleased with this purchase. Did I mention how much I love my wife :)
Also, this afternoon I managed to install it all by myself which I didn't know I could do. It really is amazing how my computer skills, in this case all the wiring stuff I do, run into so many other areas of life.

Toronto and back again

So last night, for my birthday, my friend Nathan and I went to Toronto for an evening out. It was his treat for me as a present.We had 3 main things planned, and none of them ended up working out.
We first headed to Markham to visit Canada Computers and buy me a new Athlon 64 3000+ and an Asus A8N-E Deluxe motherboard combo, as it was payment for some computer work I had done for his business. They were sold out. No biggie, as we will order them online instead.
So after getting some noodles and other asian food in the area we headed over to play some laser tag. Unfortunately there was no one else playing, at all, and one-on-one is zero fun. So we played some arcade games and foosball and air hockey while waiting for some more people to show up. No one did so we left and decided to go the movies.
It's only 11:30 by this point so we figure Colossus at Hwy 400 and 7 will have lots of late shows. Nope, the don't have any movies playing on a Friday night after 10:30, which totally blows me away. So we drove home.
Granted I did enjoy talking with one of my best friends during the drive a great deal and we did have some fun but man 0 for 3 is pretty bad for a night out. Oh well, next time I guess.

Slow Down!! *bling-bling*

So yesterday I am driving home from work; one of the streets I often take one the way home goes between the Community Centre and the Casino. The speed limit on the street is 50km which is generally what I go at as there are usually a lot of people around. This is what I as doing as I was going past the casino and up ahead I see an old man (75ish maybe) screaming (spittle and everything), "SLOW DOWN SLOW DOWN" and waving his arms up an down at me. Because I was doing nothing wrong and was kind of amused I stopped sudden in front up him and rolled down the passenger window to talk to him. I think this really surprised him.
Before I can even get a word out he's saying "you are going WAY to fast, this is a casino, blah blah blah." I said calmly with a smirk, "Sir, the posting speed limit on this street is 50km/h which is how fast I was going". While we are talking there cars going around me that are clearly going fast than I was and I can see the old man irritably watching them.
Basically he thought I should be going 5-10km/h and I was rude. I told him perhaps he was overreacting and maybe should concentrate his efforts in getting a crosswalk put in if he was that concerned. He didn't really listen though and lost his patience with me and walked away.
I felt bad for feeling so amused by the situation but I clearly didn't do anything wrong and other casino goers walking by were clearly amused by the goings on as well.

My mouth is bigger then yours, SEE

Rebekah-29 weeks into motherhood

These are the fruit of my four potato plants.

I LOVE PICKLES

WOW I'm impressed with myself, posting a picture indepedendly of Luke. At one time I was quite tech savvy but once Luke and I got married I just let him figure out stuff and I made dinner.
This is Abbi Martin on the left and Maya on the right. My boobs aren't usually lopsided it is just the way my leg is. They are that white.
Using Both At The SAME TIME

Well THAT was embarrassing...

On our phone systems here you dial "9" to get out and then the number. To get a long distance number you dial 9,123-345-2342. Well when you couple this with the arcaic phones that we are stuck with it makes double number presses very common. So this morning I dialed "9" then 1, Oops, it double pressed so I hung up and called the number properly.
Well way to go Luke you just dialled 911. The cops were here in 30 seconds and I had no idea that I had done that.
And the funny thing is that I had just had a conversation with the switchboard on monday about what problem this was as patients do it by accident all the time too.
Do you thing they will ever change the phone systems or the phones here to fix the problem? Hahahah that was a trick question, of course they won't.