I finally saw The Return of the King yesterday, and at Colossus in Toronto no less! I went with my best friend Ian who hadn't seen it yet either. We were both immensely impressed and very satisfied by it. I was literally trying to catch my breath during some of the battle scenes! I am already anxiously awaiting the extended edition of the DVD thought as it supposedly add an hour or more to the theatre release and that would make me a very happy boy indeed.
I still don't think I can read the books though, which is somewhat of a personal embarrassment for me. I just can't stand Tolkien's writing style, so please forgive me.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!
I can't believe it has come and gone so fast. I guess this year its especially hectic for us with Maya and all. Its weird to think that last year we didn't ever imagine it being our last one alone. To Maya it was like every other day; sleep, wake, eat, poop, sleep, poop again, repeat. Next year will be quite different everyone tells us.
So we slept in till Noon or so (obviously with occasional wake ups to feed Maya) and had pancakes for breakfast. Anne and I only exchanged stockings this year and so present giving was on the cheap. We were both pleased with what we got each others. Then it was off to Meaford to visits Anne's parents and her mom's side of the family. We had a good time got supper at Uncle Mike's and Aunt Chris's house.
Tomorrow we go to my mom and dads place for my side of the families celebrations.
I am sick though, just a cough and my head. UGH

Skiing was sooooooooo good tonight. I got to try my new skis I bought at the end of last year on special and so didn't have a chance before now. They were much better than my (very) old pair. They felt faster and turned much smoother, especially at high speeds and on rougher sections.
The hills were in very good shape and I am pretty sure all the regular night-skiing hills were open. My friend Darryl and I went on all of them and had a great time. The snow was quite good as well, pretty powdery and mostly didn't seem to manufactured.
I think my legs are going to feel it tomorrow though.
It was supposed to rain this coming week which would have been VERY bad for the hills but it not supposed to anymore.

Tonight Anne and I will be picking up our seasons passes for Blue Mountain and skiing. Well I will skiing, but we a currently debating whether or not Anne should. I think she will likely do at least one run. According to the Blue Mountain web site 22 runs are open so things are probably not too bad, but its supposed to rain this week so we are making a mad dash to get at least a couple runs in before Christmas.

This is definitely my new favorite Strong Bad e-mail. It just too funny. Ahh poor Strong Sad. Acually I could use a hit of caffeine like that. I think we are also overdue for a new Teen Girl Squad as well.

So. Very. Tired. Maya hasn't sleeping well the last few nights and thusly, neither have I. Last night she was so fussy that Anne actually got up at 1:30am (I still hadn't got to sleep) and went downstairs. This morning I woke up and she was sleeping on the couch curled up with Maya. I know Anne is getting less sleep than me, I think she is going to have to start to sleep more when Maya is.
How many years until she is sleeping regularly? I have had several people at work today asking if I am okay! hmmm I wonder if I can leave because I am "sick"? :)

So my parents, who before Maya was born seemed rather blase about the whole baby thing, have now gone into full fledged grandparents mode. My Mom, who rarely dropped by for more than a few minutes in the past, is now visiting regularly and does not let go of Maya nearly the whole time. My Dad does not have much reason to be near to Hanover but when he has dropped by or we go their house, gets quite the big goofy grin, andinsistss on being "grandad". Anne and I weren't quite expecting this and its rather fun. I think Maya is going to be spoiled rotten by them.
Anne's Mom is excited as well and is going to be "Nana", unfortunately she still hasn't got Maya's name straight so we are pretty sure that whole side of the family thinks our daughter is "Myna". Anne's Dad still hasn't seen her.

Finally I have the gallery of pictures of Maya up. It fairly rudmentery right now but I will fix it when I add more pics. In the mean time, enjoy!

This afternoon, starting now actually, Anne is having a baby shower. So what does this mean to me? Well I basically get to do what I want while its on, and get all the benifits of very good finger food. MMmmmmmmmm mini pizza bagels...
Plus I have hockey tonight which should be a blast as well.

Can anyone who still has the problem where the page does not let you scroll down let me know please. It seems to be fixed to me.

So after eating excessively for the last week and sitting around a lot, I went and played indoor soccer for 2 hours straight. My legs are very sore, and I think I am walking funny.
Since for the last month our pre-natal classes have taken place during my soccer time I haven't been able to play. And soccer is definantly more of a workout then hockey.
It was great to play again though and I should be in better shape for next week.

So today is my first day back to work since Maya was born. BLEH
The day is going pretty fast so far and it looks like all the equipment survived while I was gone.
There has been much "oooo"-ing and "ahhh"-ing of the pictures and stuff which is fun. There were a few presents on my desk for her as well, which was very nice.

And the moment you all have been waiting for...
We would like to announce the name of our daughter:

Maya Elizabeth Bellamy

So what do you all think? We really do appreciate all the suggestions as they honestly did help us reach a decision.

I think she likes it :)

Well I think we may be able to get back to real time soon. With the baby here and stuff sleep has been very erratic and short naps are the order of the day. Anne is trying to get the baby into a routine now so we should be a little better tonight I think.

We also went to our last pre-natal class tonight as well. It was interesting for two reasons, one was it was the first time we had the baby in its car seat and traveled with it in the car. The second was that because we actually had the baby at the breastfeeding class with us breastfeed while learning about it. It was very cool when people were like, "so very cute, when did you have it?" and we responded "yesterday", and their eyes go wide with shock. Anne looks so radiant today and is moving around very well so you wouldn't really know it from looking at all.
There was another woman at the class actually in the early stages of labour.

Here's a family photo from this afternoon.

Who wants pictures? Well here are a couple of the baby. We have 35 or so of the whole process but most a pretty graphic. I will set a web page for those later this week. In the mean time here's a couple of our little cutie.
- Not even one day old
- Anne and the Baby
- Luke and the Baby

As you can see Anne is more than a little exhausted and sleep deprived and I an a little bleary eyed myself.

Edit: One intersting thing to note is that in that picture of Anne and the baby, she is acually laying in the same spot she gave birth. The baby didn't acually leave the bedroom in which it was born until about 11am today.

This morning, at 1:45am Anne gave birth to a perfectly healthy daughter. 7 lbs 4 oz.
We had 18 hours and 22 minutes from the time the water broke to the time the baby was born. As of yet the baby is still nameless so any suggestions for a name for her are perfectly welcome. So its been a long day now and I need some sleep.
I guess now we officially are "post-DINK".

Also, today is just going WAY too fast. I thought it was like 10:30am and it was already 1 pm.

Just had the first midwife visit. All is progressing well and fine. So there probably won't be much to report until the contractions start to be a little more painful and more regular. The midwife stretched Anne's cervix and said she thought the baby probably wouldn't make it until tomorrow morning sometime but maybe later tonight. Still haven't thought of names but we have been busy preparing everything else this morning. We should have time this afternoon to discuss it though.

So anne gets up to go pee this morning and stuff keep coming out. So her water has broke. I guess this thing is coming today! (or early tomorrow anyway)
So I guess we really do need to think of names now....

Rally Pictures
Here are 5 pics I took while at the Rally on Saturday. They are scanned pics so not great quality.
- I really like Evos. I think this one acually won the whole rally in the end.
- My only night shot in which you can acually see a car...sort of.
- The WRX was going by VERY fast and so I guess I tracked ahead to far. :(
- They could have done better...
- This may have been the one that rolled eventually...

We finally got our digital camera, a Canon Powershot S230 Digital ELPH. I have been fiddling with it this evening and so far find it very good. It has a lot more features than our old point can shoot film camera so there is a bit of a learning curve. Here are a couple of sample photos:
- Anne showing her belly. Keep in mind we are due in the next couple of weeks.
- A nice close up of my model Subaru Impreza WRX STI the WRC edition.
I am having trouble figuring out the focus in regular pics but I just need to read the manual for that. The macro ones seem to turn out great though!

I am still sore from Sunday. I played tackle/touch football for about 2.5 hours on Sunday. It was fun, one guy seperated his shoulder though. Then I played hockey for an hour and a half with only one sub on my teams bench. So today I am not walking funny like yesterday, but my legs are still pretty sore.

So yesterday myself and my friend Ian went to the Rally of the Pines near Bancroft. During the waits between runs we decided that "its coolness was only outweighed by its awesomeness". I believe the term "bowel-loosening" was also used. Sooooooo much fun even with the waiting and such. Seeing the cars turn corners at the speeds they do and the spray of gravel and the close calls (and booing the not so close ones) was worth the wait every time.
The first spectator stage was pretty good. We had good seats atop the small grand stand and could make out the whole part where the cars went by. They took 3 runs past this part so it was totally crazy to see the open class cars take the turn the second and third times as I don't think they actually slow down for the corner much at all. They come very close to the crowd too, within arms reach of some spectators. Its interesting to see how many cars are left by the third time they go past as there were about 60 at the start and only about 20 or so by the third run.
Castledine was even better as it was a pitch black night and you got a longer view of the cars coming into in curve there and the hairpin at the end. The diagram does not do it justice at all. It's crazy to see how fast these cars are going at night, it hard to describe the excitement. There were 2 runs on this one and only about 10 cars left. On the second run through one (a Subaru Impreza WRX) went over the embankment and rolled (much to the delight of the roaring crowd).
All in all an awesome event and much fun was had by and I expect it to become an annual occurrence. Next year I am taking a video camera for sure.

Edit: Yes my spelling and grammar are atrocious at night. So I have fixed up the post.

Optical Illusion
This one is painfull but interesting. Click here and it looks like the circles are rotating even though they are obviously a static image.

Rally Racing!!!
Tomorrow morning myself and my fried Ian are heading up to near Bancroft to attend the Rally of the Tall Pines rally race, which is the championship race for the Candian series. I am so pumped. We are getting there early to check out the cars and stuff before they head off or while they are getting serviced. It should be good fun and I am going to get lots of pictures if I can.

The Two Towers
Picked up the LOTR:TTT SE last night. With the extra footage its almost 4 hours long.
Anne and I watched some of the features on the 3rd DVD last night and thoroughly enjoyed them. Its just incredible the amount of work that goes into these things.
We decided though that before we watch the 2nd one again that we are going to watch the LOTR: FOTR SE again first.

Just a quick note to say that you don't have to enter all your info in the comments page. You can just enter your name and post just fine. Just letting you know that because I noticed everyone entering everything and its a pet peeve of mine if I have to do that to post.

New Comments!
Due to the trouble with Enetation I have now switched over to Haloscan they definitely seem to be a lot faster and are the highest rated comments system on google. So Everyone let me know if you have problems with this set.
Sorry for the loss of the previous comments, we shall miss them greatly (but not to much due to the aforementioned problems)
Also those of you who don't post comments and read the site, get commenting!!! You know who you are :)

Matrix Revolutions
I saw Matrix Revolutions Friday night and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would considering all the bad things I had hear about it. But it seemed to flow a lot better than the second one and the actions parts seemed better to me. It is a ton of fun seeing the squidies trying to take out Zion. The Neo-Smith match was good but not as fun as the fights from the first movie.
Overall I would recommend it.

The Storm
So the area was hit pretty hard by that storm on Thursday. Goderich (a town that's pretty close) record winds up to 120 km and hour!
And it was quite snowy here at the time so it made looking outside very interesting. There are still big drifts all over the place even though we have had 3 consecutive days above zero degrees.
At work we were supposed to have software demos from 2 different companies. Needless to say they couldn't make it. Hanover only lost power twice for not more than 10 minutes. Our wide area network was out for half the day though which sucked.
I was talking to a co-working whose husband does hydro and he was still working all through the night Saturday to get stuff up in running. I guess along highway 21 at Kincardine and south of there it was very very bad. Point Clarke was "like a war zone" With huge trees and hydro lines all over the place. They couldn't even get down most streets to fix stuff due to the trees.

Driving here in town on unplowed streets was a total blast though :)

So Wednesday night we had our second prenatal class. This one was more interesting than the last one for a couple of reasons. One reason was that there was a video to watch and the second was other peoples reactions to various things.
The video was funny because for the first three quarters of it while going through the different stages of labour it was obviously trying to avoid having any "private parts" of the women shown, but then in the last quarter (where the actual births take place) of it had all sorts of boobs and vaginas showing in all sorts of stages of birth. I was alright with this as it all was in the appropriate context but hearing a bunch of married people and other expecting mothers giggle like nervous school kids was really funny. Seriously, what did they expect to see?
Anyway, nothing like seeing a head pop out of some woman's vagina and stuff squirting all over the place to sober you up to the reality that its going to happen to you soon. And where the heck to they find the couples for these things? Why do they have to be soo ugly! I am sure good looking women can give birth too!
I think I am going to be just fine during the actual event as I am not squeamish about that type of stuff and the video didn't make me feel woozy or anything. I think one of my friends that was there with his wife though may have a bit of trouble judging from his reaction. :)
Anne was not impressed with the way the class was taught either, as she knew there was a lot of information being left out. Plus we got to leave a half-hour early.

So on the weekend I finally got my Subaru Impreza! And not only that its the WRC version! I didn't even have to pay for it as it was a present from a friend. I can't exactly drive it but it rocks none the less. I soooo very wish this were me.Thanks Ian, you're the best!

We had our first pre-natal class Wednesday evening, it was okay. Saw a couple of people we knew from high school that were expecting as well so that was interesting.
One thing that bothers me is statistics that use sometimes just don't make sense. One they used that bothers me is that in relation to SIDS. Keep in mind (as far as I understand) that there is no hard information on what causes SIDS or what you can do to prevent it from occurring. So in the class they recommend some (fairly paranoid) percautions but like to throw in some stats with them. For instance, putting in a baby in a crib with no bumper pads decrease the risk of SIDS by 40%. So how did they come up with that figure if they have no idea what causes it in the first place.
Also things like alternating which way you baby lies in the crib so they move their head in a different direction and that sort of thing all see really paranoid to me. Anne and I really snickered as some of the points the nurse made.
One sad bit at the end was when we left and we say at least one pregnant woman like up a cigarette in their car as soon as they got in it, right after all the harping in the class on how bad it is. That REALLY makes me mad and sad as the same time.
All in all it wasn't that great but they next couple having to do with labour might be a bit more fun.

Well I still don't know what my costume is going to be tomorrow night. I really have a horrible time with creative things like that.
Here's an idea though, every year at Halloween we have a few teenagers who stop for candy but don't really bother dressing up. Anne loves to torture these individuals by humiliating them in front of their friends, last year I think she put makeup and stuff on the guys (eye shadow, lipstick, etc). And they do it for the candy which is the funny thing. Maybe this year we can scam some costume stuff off of them for me :)

So Monday night I beat Max Payne 2, very fun game but like everyone says it was too short. I think all they need to do is make some of the levels longer and put more guys in them. It seems like there is an awful lot of empty space and running around in some parts where you could be fighting more guys. I guess we will see whenever max payne 3 is out.

So now I have moved on to Tron 2.0, which I am enjoying immensely. I had heard the single player portion of it was pretty good and it has more than lived up to my expectations. It some very innovative ways of building up your various abilities and the level designs are great.

I has been planning on playing Chrome and Halo but Chrome, although it look nice, sucks and Halo is just way to choppy for a high end PC and seems kinda lame especially after MP2 and Tron.

I stayed home from work because I was sick today, something that hasn't happened in a while. I think its the first sick day this year for me, and I maybe had one last year. It actually was pretty good as I do feel better. Unfortunately I also can't play hockey tonight because of I do want to feel better tomorrow and I think hockey would take too much energy away. (Also Anne wouldn't let me go not matter how much I begged :) )

On Friday I got a package in the mail. It contained a new heatsink and a fan to attach to it. The fan is a 92mm clean fan with 4 bright blue LED's embedded in it. So along with my case it looks really good, even Anne approves. With the new heatsink I am able to once again overclock my processor from 1.8 GHz to 2.24 GHz which isn't too bad of an oc really. I should mention its really quiet as well, which is one of my main goals.

My humble apologies for not posting until today! I have very good reasons, seriously I do. Here's the recap:

Stuart McLean: I really enjoyed the show. It was kind of weird hearing him talk in person, because its almost as if his voice is separated from his body. We did get a new Dave and Morley story, but it wasn't about them, it was about their old man neighbour and his false teeth. Very funny but not as much I think as if it had been about Dave and Morley.
There obviously were a lot of other parts to the show. There was some blues playing by some famous blues guy and also a singer who is a regular for the show. Both were quite good I thought, but Anne is not really fond of that type of music.
There was a story bit with the sounds played out by other guy that was quite funny and a guy doing some amazing tricks on a yo-yo. Stuart read two or three other anecdotal type stories that were very fun as well. There were also some give always of his newest book (!) and older book as well as a CD and some other stuff.
All in all very much worth the ticket price.

Thursday and Friday: Well I don't have much excuse for not posting thrusday except that I was super busy at work (and Friday too) because there was a 12-24 hour (it ended up being more than 24 hours :( ) planned downtime of our major patient care system and I had to get all the departments ready with downtime procedures and processes and such. I was exhausted. All in all I think everyone was pretty prepared but there is a LOT more work for everyone when you have hand write all the patient information and registration stuff. It was supposed to be up last night but it wasn't the last time I talked to them so I think I am going to ignore work until tomorrow :) Keep in mind our patient care stuff is done remotely through a WAN connection to the Owen Sound hospital and I was not really involved in it except to get our hospital prepared.

Wedding: The other reason I have been so busy is the wedding we had on Saturday for Anne's best friend Andrea Curry. She married a John Vanderkooy from Barrie who is a very cool guy and we all think they are a perfect match.
Even though Anne wasn't the Maid-of-honor she ended doing all of the work of one. So she has been in Owen Sound all week helping and helping a lot. With her seven and a half month pregnant now its a miracle she can still walk after all the running around she. I fully expect her to crash today :). I went there right after work on Friday to help out as well. And Saturday morning I got there at 9am and didn't stop moving until about 10pm last night. I got a good nights sleep last night so today I think I am fine although I think I have a headache from caffeine withdrawal.
I was the MC at the reception and received a lot of compliments on my "performance" or whatever you want to call it. I was under strict instructions to just move things along, prevent confusion, and not make stupid jokes. Apparently this went over very well with all the guest who were very happy they didn't have to listen to me ramble on. And everyone help they knew at all time what was going on and where they were to be (for dessert, supper, etc) I sounded like an idiot for the first couple sentences and then I think I was fine. Apparently coherent anyway :)
I am glad its all done and today we will just relax I think and I have hockey tonight. So all in all a good weekend.

Tonight we are going to see Stuart McLean in Mount Forest. It should be a good show.

My sister-in-law came back from from a bike convention with her family to find their fridge had broke down while they were good and all the food had gone back. Very gross. But they were only gone a couple of days so it wasn't too bad.
It reminded me of an even worse thing that happened when I was college to a couple of classmates. They came back from 2 week Christmas holidays to find that their landlords had unplugged their fridge to save electricity while they were gone. The trouble is that the fridge was full of food and a number of meat items. My classmates returned to the apartment and they smell was soooo bad (rotting meat etc) that they couldn't even stay there and had to move out. I think they got screwed out of a months rent on top of it all.. *shudder*

On Saturday our church team had its first hockey game. We lost...badly. I think the final score was 10-2 or something. It was still fun, but man I hope we improve.
And I think I finally got rid of the cat urine smell. What is left should be covered up by the general hockey bag smell no problem.

I bought Matrix Reloaded today. Its good. I especially like the mansion fight.
But after playing all that Soul Calibur yesterday, the fights seem soooo slow...

I am the reigning family champion of Soul Calibur II. Yesterday during the thanksgiving festivities at my parents house, myself, my siblings, my cousins and my parents foster kid played SCII for a while.
Keep in mind that I have only played the game on an Xbox I rented for a weekend. Andrew (the foster kid) owns the GameCube version we were playing on and has unlocked almost everything. My cousins also own the cube version and have unlocked everything.

The final tally was at least 20 wins for me and 3 losses.

I don't really have a favorite character but there are a few I refuse to use. So I switched characters with every win until I lost (we were playing until you lost a fight). The losses were really close too.

Oh ya and the meal was good too :). Lots of turkey and pumpkin pie!

A Leaf win would have made the evening complete but I will settle for the tie.

So Sunday I decide to play hockey in Paisley which was at 8:30. I go down to the basement to get my hockey bag, the contents of which I washed last spring. As I stand over the bag to pick it I can smell it, cat urine. That's right, one or both of our cats decided to pee in my hockey bag at various points during the summer. Not all the time mind you, but enough that my bag and it contents absolutely reeks.
So I take it upstairs to my porch and dump everything out. Fortunately didn't get everything, but what they did get stinks. So i make a trip to Walmart and buy Febreeze and some other anti-odour stuff. I spayed everything down and scrubed some stuff with Mr. Clean. It helped enough that I could play but I still stunk quite a bit. So I am going to have to wash everything thoroughly and scrub out the bag before my next game this coming Saturday.
And to top it all off I forgot my sticks for the game as well...

Oh well, it was fun and I scored a few goals as well.

So Happy Thanksgiving everyone! What are you thankful for? We are very fortunate in this country and have so much we take for granted, so try not to today!
This long weekend Anne is working days all three days so I have just been hangin' out at home mostly. The main family "do" is tomorrow at my parents, but its iffy as my aunt who is doing the turkey may not make it. So we will see I guess.
Not much else happening. I downloaded Tron 2.0 as well, the first player part of the game is supposed to be terrific. I think I am going to go through Jedi Academy first though.

I finished Eleite Force 2 last night. It was pretty good, but need a bit more to it to be completely satisfying. I also downloaded Chrome and Halo. So I will be working on those as well as Jedi Acadamy. I still need to beat Tony Hawk 4 and Midnight Club 2. TH4 I have been playing here and there as its the type of game you can do that with, MC2 on the other hand I think I am going to have to put some effort into or cheat. Its a great game, but quite hard.

I spent the first half of the afternoon paintballing again, and although I had a ton of fun I think it may be one of those sports I am not particularly good at. Its not that I mind much either because as I said, its a TON of fun. But I always feel like I am letting my teammates down. It may be because there were only four of us again, and more players are needed to really act as a team. I expect I will play at least once more before winter and today there was talk of a couple of winter matches, you need difference paintballs for it but it would interesting.

Its sooooo hot here in the hospital right now. Because it was so cold last week they heat has been on, and now its hot and of course "they can't change it now just for a week" so we are all just boiling. I feel really sorry for the people up stairs. On top of it all I understand the nursing units are really busy so everyone is really grumpy too. Ugh...

Today I had training for a program we use at the hospital. There were 5 people in the 3.5 hour class including me and I was the only "technical" person. I seriously could have learned what they taught in 20 minutes! Its very frustrating, especially since I a very hard time sitting still at all. Fortunately the lady beside really didn't want to be there either so we chatted quietly a bit.
But its like an afternoon off so it wasn't so bad.

So I deleted the wedding post. Judging from the responses and such, i guess I just need to rethink my reactions to it. Oh well, live and learn.

Congratulations to Teresa and Dean!

I never noticed or knew before Anne was pregnant that you could see the baby move around in a woman's belly around so much. Its cool and really freaky at the same time, especially when you feel it and its so clearly a hand or foot. It really does remind me of those horror film clips where you seem some thing pressing up against some latex film and you can make out what it is... Of course its not quite like that but its still weird, doubly so when you created it.

Sunday I went paintballing with four friends. Which, suprising, was a lot of fun with just that many people. We were out for about 4 hours and I went through 500 rounds. A number of game types were played including capture the flag, assault, team deathmatch and a couple of others. I think I have found out where online first-person-shooter games get their ideas, because everything we played I have played an online version of before.
Its a ton of fun and I think next summer I may have to get my own paintball equipment, it ends up being cheaper for sure in the long run.
Oh and I think I am almost finished Elite Force 2 and Tony Hawk 4. I really want to get into Jedi Academy but I think I may have my computer time cut back soon. :)

As Anne has been working nights this weekend I have had a lot of game playing time. Here my list of current games.
- Jedi Academy: Jedi Knight II
- Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 4
- Midnight Club 2
- Star Trek: Elite Force 2

I just started Jedi Academy last night but I really need to finish Elite Force first. Tony Hawk is very addicting too, I think I like their mssion system a lot more than the last version. It really is quite inovative.
Really I am just killing time until Half-Life 2 comes out that, which right now is just scheduled for the "holiday season". That puts it right about when our baby is born and I am sure it will be quick the adventure to sneak in some gaming time when that happens :)

Dale Lang the father of the boy who died in the Taber, Alberta incident spoke at our church today. It was a very good service and centred on forgiveness and not being a lukewarm Christian. He is a very well spoken pastor.
One thing bothered me though. He spoke of these being "dark times", and "these hard times in the world". The reason that I am bother by those is that I fail to understand what makes this day and age so bad compared to other times in the past. Yes there are wars, but that always has been, and much worse ones in the past at that. Maybe because of the whole gay/lesbian marriage thing? But homosexuality has always been a part of society and has been more open at some times than others, and their marriage is just a piece of paper, much like many heterosexual people treat it these days.
So why is now any worse than any other time, I am not really seeing it. Yes as Christians we need to minister more, but that is an eternal struggle that waxes and wanes with time.
Maybe I am just blind to the evil out there, but I don't' think I am that naive.

I was up to 3am last night watch 3 episodes of Six Feet Under, 3 more episodes and I am all caught up. This show is way too addicting, I can totally see how people get sucked into soap operas. Anne and I enjoy Six Feet though because everyone is screwed up enough that you really don't have any idea what is doing to happen next. Its not a happy show either, but somehow it just grips you...

The other side of the story: There was never any look of disgust, and you can barely see the stretch marks. Honestly, I was forced to point them out before she should even make them out. Oh well, 2 more months to go.

Also we were very bad in updating the blog this week and I will endeavor to make sure that I do so more often. Update it that is...

If some doesn't find Teen Girl Squad funny, they are in a sad state of affairs.
And I think its kind of funny that certain other people who can't spell, punctuate, or use links can call others lazy! hmmmm...

When and if we get a second vehicle I want to get one with a standard transmission and take this course. Then I want to go and drive like they do in these videos. We planning on going here and watching people drive like that in November.
Why oh why does the WRC not have a Canadian stop? You could even have a winter and summer course! Maybe someday...

Want to see some totally wacked out optical illusions? These 2 are both based on the same principle. Click here and click here.
Yes it makes my brain hurt too.

Just saw the movie Bowling for Columbine. I really enjoyed it, but I can see how it ticks off so many Americans. I don't think as Canadians we can really understand their point of view, they are just that mess up as a country. Yes that's a rash generalization, but as the movie points out, the statistics are pretty grim.

Well I am chatting with an old friend from college and get this dream come true: He's chatting with a girl at work that he is quite interested in. So I guess they are have a conversation and then she asks him, wait for it, if he wants to go on vacation with her and her family over Christmas.
Now tell me that's not something out a movie. Well, except the family part, as that happens in bad comedies. Very lucky guy, we will have to keep tabs on that story I think.

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Oh ya, so for my birthday, I bought myself this. Its a nice new Thermaltake Xaser III aluminum computer case. I'll add a couple of lights to it and make it all pretty inside. What's that? Why yes, I am a total geek. :)

This weekend I visited my friend Ian just north of Toronto. What was the itinerary? Here it is:
1. Xbox
2: Mountain Biking

We somehow managed to meet our goals.

The mountain biking was great. We were planning on biking at Albion Hills near by but there were races there this weekend so went a public trail near Bolton we have quite good. It was quite hilly with some rough sections.
On Sunday we went to Kelso near Milton. Lots of fun with some technical stuff as well as man made technical jumps and balancing rails and such. A good workout regardless.

The Xbox was a lot of fun. We had 3 games rented.
1. Gotham Racing
2. Dynasty Warriors 4
3. Soul Calibur 2
Gotham racing was okay, good racing with a "kudos" points system making it interesting.
Dynasty Warriors 4 is what we spent the majority of the time on as it was a great 2 player game. Nothing like taking our whole army's of guys with 1 special move.
I played a lot of Soul Calibur 2 and have to say that it is one of the best fighting games I have every played. Combos, special moves, gorgeous characters and levels. Plus with the weapons master story mode, its got all you ever need to fully enjoy a fighting game.

Happy Birthday to me! I still can't quite grasp that I am now 26. Only 4 more years 'till I am 30. Weird.

So the big thing today in the geek world (at least video card geeks) is the published benchmarks for Half-Life 2. Basically all Nvidia GeForce FX cards are slaughtered and the Ati Radeon series dominates. The has greatly upset the many loyal nvidia fans. Lots of arguing, name calling, etc, etc. I dunno, its a lot of very interesting reading to me...

Anyway, I am an Ati customer and Beta tester, I am happily looking forward to Half-life 2 which is definitely looking to be the best game this year for sure.

I have found that in Shacknews comments I can find names of really interesting bands or music in general to listen to. My latest find is Infected Mushroom, an apparently popular psy-trance-goa type group. Yes its just crazy electronic stuff in other words. Here's the song that hooked me.

Well this is our first post. Hopefully people can follow our lives on here so as not to lose touch. No interaction required! Enjoy!