Hospital Cut-backs...

Me.. :(

So this afternoon I got laid off. It's been kind of a surreal experience so far.
Anyway, I am going to be looking for a job, anything computer technical anything will do. So if anyone knows of anything, please let me know.
I am waiting for a call back from Bruce Nuclear about a Senior Computer Tech job that I was apparently on the short list for, so hopefully that works out. If it doesn't I will be scrounging around the area to see what I can find.
I will keep you guys up to date.

P.S. Don't tell my Mom, I don't want to deal with that.

The Hockey Season is over :(

Today was the final tournament for church hockey and we lost. We figured we would lose the first one and did. We were pretty confident about the second one, but couldn't see to click as a team today and could do it. It was a tie at the end and so there was a best of 5 shootout which was cool. The best of 5 was tied and so it was sudden death shootout and we lost.
I think I have one last game next weekend, but since its Easter, who knows.

Now the snow can go away and it's on to Mountain Biking and Soccer!!

New Developments

This week has been an interesting week as far as Maya goes. Here is what she has learned this week.

• Go down the stairs. SHe just decided that she can . She backs up to the steps, crawling feet first , and goes down fairly quickly. We have tried to teach her this in the past, but it wasn't very successful. Its quite nice and reasuring to not be worried about her tumbling down the stairs trying to walk down them.
• Climb up into her high chair. Now we can say, "Maya, it's time to eat!", and she will run over to her chair and pull herself up into it. Its pretty neat to see. She doesn't have a 100% success rate yet so we do have to watch her, but she does a good job of knowing when she isn't going to make it and lets herself down.
• Climb into the bed. This is probably just an extention of the high chair climbing but its nice not having to pull her into it all the time.

Long weekend...

No we didn't get an extra day but it felt like it to me.
Anne was working nights all weekend and Maya was sick. This meant that Maya did not sleep well at night and we had to make ourselves scarce during the day so Anne could sleep. Maya coughed a lot at night and kept waking herself up, and then wouldn't let me put her down so I could sleep. So I was very tired at work yesterday. At least this allowed me to watch the first 2 days of the Mexico WRC and the first 3 episodes of Last Exile, but I think I would have rather been sleeping.
Saturday was a good day though, I bought this bike, a Brodie Brat. I can't wait for the snow to clear up so I can ride it! Of course I am not allowed to spend any more money for a couple of months now :)
Also, my church team won our second playoff game which mean we are garanteed a least 2 games in the tournament this coming Saturday. We play the #1 team first and we haven't won against them this year so it will be challenging for sure.

A sad trip...

On Monday Anne's grandmother, Christina McCutcheon died, it wasn't unexpected and she had lived a long life so it wasn't a terribly sad occasion. The funeral was in Huntsville on Wednesday which was a long drive but it was nice to spend time together and get away from work.
An Anglican reverend gave a nice eulogy, and the family gathered afterward for snacks and fellowship. It was nice to see people, most of whom I have only met once or twice before.
On the way back we had a very nice visit with my Grandad and Nana in Stayner and drove through very bad weather from there to Hanover.
Maya was sick at the funeral, but still well behaved and somewhat cheery. She slept pretty much the whole time she was in the car.
That was about as exciting as this week got.

Full Metal Alchemist

Last night I finished watching the last couple of episodes of Full Metal Alchemist. It was one of the most enjoyable anime series I have watched. The important characters were fully fleshed out and there was a great blend of action, comedy and drama. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get into Anime.
Next up is the Naruto series, I have the first season downloading now and I have heard a lot of good things about it. Plus it has ninjas! You can't go wrong with that, becuase they are the Real Ultimate Power.

Hockey Day in Hanover

Had one of my end of year tournaments today. This weekend it was an invitational church tournament in Flesherton. There were 3 or churches from the immediate area, one from Owen Sound and one from Barrie and I don't know about the other. We did not do very well :( .
We lost the first game, tied the second one, and lost the last one. It was still a lot of fun and there were no major mishaps or incidents which is suprising as there usually is.

However the big one was tonight as it was the first game of our church league playoffs. We have lost the last 2 or so games and so needed to get back on track. The game was extremely close and if we hadn't been so tried from playing 3 games earlier in the day I think we would have destroyed them. The game was very tight and tied 1-1 with 1 minute remaining. We got the puck in their end, I fed it to a winger (I was centre as usual), he fed it back to the point who got just in the bottom corner of the net with a slapshot. We hung on for the win!
So we have one more playoff game next Saturday, then the tournament the weekend after. I think we can take it this year for sure.
The only incident was when a guy who had really been harrasing me all night, (pushing, holding my stick, hooking, etc.) really shoved me after the whistle in front of their goalie. He got in my face about my stick in the goalies crotch and I relpied that I was just trying to get the puck through because thats what you're supposed to do before the whistle goes. ANyway, I was hoping the guy was going to shove me or take a swing so they would get a penalty. But then one of our guys come roaring in and totally rocks the guy into the boards. Fortuntely they didn't score on the power play and the guy stayed off me for the rest of the night :) Lot's if fun.

Toronto

Tomorrow we are going to Toronto. The primary mission consists of 2 parts. One is to go the the International Bike Show and the second is to visit the Whole Foods Market. I think you can guess who is excited about what. We plan on getting bikes for ourselves if we can find good prices. It should be fun.