Friday, October 31, 2008
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Tercel Of Love is back in Ottawa: It was wonderful having the Tercel for the summer. She's still in terrific shape, and is all the car anyone could ask for. Twas especially handy having her around while wedding venue hunting. Parents are back in Ottawa for the winter, and retrieve Betsy last weekend. Laura's 'rents and my folks have now met twice. So far, so good.
CN tower climb...again Two weeks ago I did my second ever CN tower stair climb. Beat last year's time by roughly a minute, pulling in at 18:25. Interestingly, the time to beat (set by my coworkers gf) was 18:25-- so tied right on the nose. One of the new guys at the office did 11 minutes, which is INSANE (the record for guys is around 8 minutes). Overall I was highly unimpressed with how it was organized, but still enjoyed doing it. Lowlight: having to wait outside in shorts and tshirt for 15 minutes in 8C weather. (You can't bring anything in the staircase with you, so you have to leave everything over in this other building first). Highlight: Bumping in to Jon Gardam at the bottom of the tower! (he was a tourist, not a climber)
Bowling: As part of "Entertainment Book Coupons Expiring Soon Coupon Blowout 2008", LT and I went bowling with 2 of our friends. i) Bowling really is fun. ii) Girl next to us had the absolutely worst 'technique' I've ever seen - literally sorta just dropping the ball from waist height - yet consistently got spares or strikes. iii) bowling is f'ing expensive, $40+ for the lane for one hour, INCLUDING
coupon. Other noteworthy coupons: Pizza Rustica, Montana, Quesada.
Bridge / Creme Brulee: Sara and Dave came over last night for dinner and bridge. Sara brought home made creme brulee for dessert, sugar torch included! Seriously fun times, and yummy! Both LT and I and Sara and Dave have "beginner" bridge skills - enough for us to play, but we're also not good enough for it to be too serious, which is a nice balance.
Giving blood: As part of last year's christmas donation celebration, Alison asked for me to get myself added to one of the registries for Blood Services. I instead agreed to donate blood as a middle ground compromise. However, it's consistently been on my Todo list, and hasn't yet gotten done. I DID however organize a group blood donation trip Nov 26th for my work peeps....there's 16 of us going, so that's gotta count for something! Note: this was remarkably difficult to organize and took more than a full hour of phone calls with blood services to sort out.
Squash w/ Kaiser: One of my buds from UW was in town today from Seattle (he's at Amazon with Deaner). Sadly, he beat me at squash. One of these days I'm going to beat SOMEBODY at squash.
Tercel Of Love is back in Ottawa: It was wonderful having the Tercel for the summer. She's still in terrific shape, and is all the car anyone could ask for. Twas especially handy having her around while wedding venue hunting. Parents are back in Ottawa for the winter, and retrieve Betsy last weekend. Laura's 'rents and my folks have now met twice. So far, so good.
CN tower climb...again Two weeks ago I did my second ever CN tower stair climb. Beat last year's time by roughly a minute, pulling in at 18:25. Interestingly, the time to beat (set by my coworkers gf) was 18:25-- so tied right on the nose. One of the new guys at the office did 11 minutes, which is INSANE (the record for guys is around 8 minutes). Overall I was highly unimpressed with how it was organized, but still enjoyed doing it. Lowlight: having to wait outside in shorts and tshirt for 15 minutes in 8C weather. (You can't bring anything in the staircase with you, so you have to leave everything over in this other building first). Highlight: Bumping in to Jon Gardam at the bottom of the tower! (he was a tourist, not a climber)
Bowling: As part of "Entertainment Book Coupons Expiring Soon Coupon Blowout 2008", LT and I went bowling with 2 of our friends. i) Bowling really is fun. ii) Girl next to us had the absolutely worst 'technique' I've ever seen - literally sorta just dropping the ball from waist height - yet consistently got spares or strikes. iii) bowling is f'ing expensive, $40+ for the lane for one hour, INCLUDING
coupon. Other noteworthy coupons: Pizza Rustica, Montana, Quesada.
Bridge / Creme Brulee: Sara and Dave came over last night for dinner and bridge. Sara brought home made creme brulee for dessert, sugar torch included! Seriously fun times, and yummy! Both LT and I and Sara and Dave have "beginner" bridge skills - enough for us to play, but we're also not good enough for it to be too serious, which is a nice balance.
Giving blood: As part of last year's christmas donation celebration, Alison asked for me to get myself added to one of the registries for Blood Services. I instead agreed to donate blood as a middle ground compromise. However, it's consistently been on my Todo list, and hasn't yet gotten done. I DID however organize a group blood donation trip Nov 26th for my work peeps....there's 16 of us going, so that's gotta count for something! Note: this was remarkably difficult to organize and took more than a full hour of phone calls with blood services to sort out.
Squash w/ Kaiser: One of my buds from UW was in town today from Seattle (he's at Amazon with Deaner). Sadly, he beat me at squash. One of these days I'm going to beat SOMEBODY at squash.
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bowling in Guelph is pretty cheap. I think Adam and I paid about 15$ for an hour, including shoe rental. however we did say that we were both students.
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