Fight For Kisses

This is a gooder. Having two sons, it makes me laugh.

On Course

Yesterday I finished my 10 years at G&S Airport Conveyor. Thank you to Jim, my boss and everyone at G&S, what a great place to work, and learn.

Right now, I'm in my Hotel in Temecula CA. Several months ago I signed up for a course on how to build concrete counter tops, which is what we're opting for in our new kitchen. So, tomorrow I start the first day of a three day course. I'm looking forward to it, should be good.

After that we're (I brought the whole family down!) doing the Disney Land thing and also Sea world. I've spent about 2 years of the last 5 working here in So Cal, split up between San Diego and Burbank, and I'm pretty stoked to do the food tour. I've got a list of restaraunts that I'll be hitting. Great Mexican, my favorite food, which is incredibly lacking in Canada, is what I'm most exited about.

There's a bike shop we found 1 mile from here, so tomorrow after class, I'll be seeing if they have Electra Touch up paint for my wife's June.

Cheers.

This is the beginning of the end

My last day at work, here at G&S, has just started.

Riding across Canada

Yesterday I read an article in the Drumheller Mail about Bertrand Lemeurier who is cycling across Canada, taking photos for a book and raising money for the Children's Make a Wish Foundation. You can check out his blog here. Great to see this guy doing such a great thing. Also, it's pretty stinking cold here now and I'm impressed that he's continuing through to Vancouver, even in this weather. I think he's in Calgary now, so who knows, maybe you Calgarians can hook up and ride a little piece of his Journey with him. Bertrand, way to go, you're an inspiration to us! Also, check out his incredible flickr pool here.

Fredo Viola

I've posted about this before, and back then, it wasn't up on YouTube yet. Now it is. Here it is. I think this guy is an incredible artist. I love this song! This version doesn't really do justice, as it's meant to be viewed in flash with a much wider panorama. You can check out the original version here. I just signed up for his news letters!

Ah the stupid things we did when we were young

I'm wrapping up my time here with my current employer. 10 years I've been with this company!!! One of my fellow PMs was going through his stuff and found a picture of what he and I used to do on our lunch breaks. This was of course before I was married, and this was my car. What's really dumb is I thought there was a chance I could actually drive this home! Not really. Upon the landing of this particular jump (there were about 8 previous ones, each getting a little faster and higher) the radiator separated itself from the car. My what fun! Makes me want to buy a $200 bomber and do it all over again!

Getting ready for tomorrow

Several things. First the photo project. It just turns out that I'll be on the road for the better part of the day. No work, just driving to America. This morning I was driving to work, and couldn't resist the morning sunrise again. When you take it in all summer, than don't get to enjoy it, and all of a sudden have it again, it reminds you of why you like it so much. One of my favorite things is watching a good sunrise.
Second, our annual trip to Great Falls, MT. Every year my wife’s family have a mini reunion in Great Falls Montana. I think it's just an excuse to go shopping. I've grown to enjoy these trips we do. Last year we bought my wife a decent Trek road bike. This year, well, we won't be buying any bikes, but I do hope to look at the new Schwinn Madison Fixie. With the CDN dollar being $1.10 this morning to the US, and with American prices already being lower than Canadian, I think we will certainly be dumping some dollars into the local GF economy. Massive savings can be had all around. Of course one of my favorite reasons to go there is to get my yearly stock of Fat Tire Amber Ale. Fine tasty beer!

Back to the photo side of blogging, last week I found a vintage Konica SLR camera at the local recycling yard while I was taking back a truck load of cardboard from our new appliances. It seems to work fine. All the clicky things click, the spinney things spin, and the focus things focus. I was surprised to learn that we didn't even have any rolls of 35mm film kicking around. Just another sign of the digital age I suppose. The camera was in a draw string mesh bag with a 70-200 telephoto lens and a wide angle lens, as well as the standard 28-70 lens on the camera. They all work great and I was amazed at how large of view the wide angle gives. This is one that I’m looking forward to playing with. It seems to be so much of the time I want to capture in a picture what’s just outside of the frame. Maybe I’ll be buying a wide angle for my Canon 20D in Great Falls, who knows. It would be really handy for documenting my house project, when you want to take pictures of how a room turned out, but can only get 5 feet of one wall. Yep, I think the next lens I’d like for the Canon will be a wide angle.
Anyway, tomorrow, start checking into 12hrs for the posts that will be coming in. So far I think we’ve got 17 people signed up. Woot!!!!!

Life is Good

7am looks much nicer today than it did a week ago. I like getting out of daylight savings time. Until we get back into it. It changes things up a bit and keeps it fresh. Heck, it even makes winter time commuting better in the mornings, so it must be a good thing.

Work is Busy right now