tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66976882012-02-16T19:53:37.655-08:00The Precarious Adventures of GregGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.comBlogger3741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-3111120067996349432010-08-05T17:27:00.000-07:002010-08-05T17:32:34.750-07:00

It's true. Yonny is married! Can't believe both Yonny and Ali had such "good" luck in terms of the weather...raining within an hour of the ceremony, and things working out just fine. Also, good eats, good drinks, good music...what more can you ask for!Simon, Jess, Laura and I went camping in Algonquin for 3 days after the wedding. Lots of fun, and again good weather. We scored a super sweet site

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-33243230220357843652010-06-22T04:26:00.000-07:002010-06-22T04:30:28.884-07:00

I've had two "firsts" this week.1) "Powered" razor (read: vibrating razor). In addition to smooshing about 15 blades onto a razor, Gillette now makes vibrating "powered" razors. I think in theory having the blade vibrate makes the hairs stand up more and gets a closer shave. Other than it feeling kinda funky, no meaningful difference in shave closenss has been observed.2) Homemade tortillas!

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-20673796208387917982010-06-20T20:01:00.000-07:002010-06-20T20:07:29.498-07:00

Got a good chuckle reading this about North Korea hiring Chinese "fans" to cheer for their team, since actual North Koreans either couldn't afford to go to the world cup, or would have had challenges travelling outside the country. Talk about international cooperation. If THAT isn't what the world cup is all about, I don't know.I've also driven past Jewels & Java a few times lately and gotten a

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I was looking for a song that's in a car commercial that goes something like "something somethign something makes my heart go beep", and sounds kinda like noah and the whale, and I came across this video that cracked totally cracked me up. Also, the girl looks like Chloe from Smallville which is an added bonus.

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-60128527342864374292010-05-30T19:38:00.000-07:002010-05-30T19:41:30.147-07:00

Can't believe I just finished watching the last episode of Lost. Laura and I have plowed through all 6 seasons in the past ~8 months or so, basically one episode a night, every night. I admit I was pretty skeptical originally - when the shows were airing, I saw a couple here and there and though the whole thing seemed completely pointless. Oh, how I was wrong. I don't think I've been so

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-45363795475856664632010-05-03T04:52:00.000-07:002010-05-03T05:13:33.655-07:00

Had a weekend where I watched a bunch of tv/movies that made me really wonder how badly messed up we are as a collective society.Blood Diamonds: movie about the illegal diamond trade, focused on Sierra Leone. Child soldiers, rape/pillage/destructions of villages, and complicity by the major diamond companies. Conclusion: Happy I gave Laura a "pre-loved" engagement ring.Nature of Things: Exxon

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-64687332536292447362010-04-17T15:02:00.000-07:002010-04-17T15:09:05.253-07:00

I've been out in Seattle this week (got back from NYC on Monday night with laura, flew out to Seattle on Wednesday). Spent most of my time in Bellevue, which is one of the suburbs, and am hanging out with my friend Kaiser from UW this weekend in Seattle.I've been waking up at ~5am Seattle time in the mornings, and starting my days early which is really nice (back to my swimming days!). Got up

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-27327480665549998172010-04-06T21:23:00.000-07:002010-04-06T21:33:06.131-07:00

I'm in New York this week with work. Was at a bar tonight with a bunch of guys from the office. Had THE strangest bathroom experience ever.There's only a single washroom(guys/girls mixed), with wall of individual stalls. In and of itself nothing all that unusual. But the stalls? Ya. they have a completely see through door. ie from the "waiting area" you can actually completely 100% see into

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Alison posted this link on Facebooks: Reported TTC salaries, which includes salaries of people making > $100k.In fairness, the TTC has 11k employees, and only 500 who make > $100k - so ballpark 5% of their employees. Obviously the big honchos, the shift supervisors, the lawyers, etc are going to make some big coin. The thing that gets me?- 21 Station Collectors at > 100k, some making as much as

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-47549096980012253342010-02-09T20:52:00.000-08:002010-02-09T20:56:35.506-08:00

Just got back from doing a "mystery shop" with Laura chez Cineplex. Watched Avatar, and honestly was totally blown away. This is the first 3D movie I've seen in a decade, and couldn't believe how far the technology has come....completely different movie watching experience. Didn't hurt that the plot and characters were actually quite good, and the computer graphics were literally jaw

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-44926893289152868482010-02-07T07:54:00.001-08:002010-02-07T08:10:25.703-08:00

Laura and I have gotten by since we moved in together with a $14.99 "Shark" mini handheld vacuum. Not exactly high quality, but mostly gets the job done since we only really have 10 square feet of carpet.However, the Shark has sucked it's last breath, and the birds have brought our cleaning needs to a whole new level. We're looking at stepping things up on the vacuum front, and are thinking

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-19089545268969054742010-02-03T08:54:00.000-08:002010-02-03T08:58:21.135-08:00

The birds are working out better than I feared. They're mostly quiet, and fairly playful! Hawk is definitely more comfortable with us than Pip (Hawk will stand on our hands to eat food, whereas Pip is always scared of us). Pip "escaped" from the cage last weekend, and flew around a bit before ending up in the kitchen -- was "fun" trying to get him back in the cage....I ended up distracting

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-32284901570487075042010-01-23T12:52:00.001-08:002010-01-23T12:55:10.283-08:00

Well, it's done. The birds are in the cage - and that's not spy code word for anything....literally, the birds are in the cage.We just got back from the breeder's, and we chose two really nice birds. One mostly sky-blue (named Pip), and one that's white and blue (named Hawk). So far they've VERY quiet and just starting to explore a little.As some of you know, Vik's latest business venture is

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-66106375467416988502010-01-18T17:53:00.001-08:002010-01-18T18:01:52.868-08:00

There's been a couple "food challenges" at work in the past week: the "6 Cracker Challenge" and the "Cheeseburger Challenge". The cracker challenge seems like it should be easy - 6 soda crackers in 1 minute, while the cheeseburger challenge (10 McD cheezburgs in 1 hr) is just plain gross. Surprisingly, our marketing writer successfully took on the burger challenge, while the cracker challenge

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-68591340167789769212010-01-09T12:07:00.001-08:002010-01-09T13:02:08.864-08:00

You know we live a slow and sheltered life when both Laura and I had dreams about spider solitaire last night (I was even apparently talking about it in my sleep). That being said, my current win streak has been extended to 4...on the advanced level!The apartment is currently in turmoil. The upside is that I've most likely convinced Laura that we don't actually need to move in order to

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-70583501696503545462009-11-23T04:42:00.000-08:002009-11-23T05:00:34.674-08:00

It's been a full month since my last blog post...I've been busy!I started November with a 2 day trip down to NYC. Just so happened that was the week the Yanks won the World Series, and the parade went right in front of our office. I was meeting up with people in midtown for lunch, and had quite an adventure trying to get there, as the crowds for the parade were insane. We also went to this cool

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Oi! It's been a few weeks since I last posted...just chugging away with work mostly.In the past two weeks I've:- bought a new computer! Whisper quiet, super fast, Windows 7 upgrade coming in the mail, and all for the rock bottom price of $299. Hard to believe computers used to cost 10x that!- Volunteered with Second Harvest at a cool "chef's day" thing at Yonge-Dundas square. About 14 booths

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Last few days of the trip! We spent the night in Cordoba, and visited the Mezquita this morning, an massive building which has alternated between a church, a mosque, and now a huge cathedral. Really interesting blend of catholic and muslim influences in the building.Hope to get postcards sent before we leave madrid...hopefully!

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-46580688695146146682009-09-24T03:26:00.000-07:002009-09-24T03:34:12.596-07:00

Haven´t had internet for almost a week! Writing from a little (read cramped and busy) internet cafe in Granada. We really enjoyed Lisbon, and also visited Sintra and Cascais which were fantastic. Next two nights were in smaller towns, staying at gorgeous Pousadas. We stayed one night in a CASTLE, and another night on an estate at the top of a mountain with a stellar view on all sides,

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-1073314268060808102009-09-18T02:14:00.000-07:002009-09-18T02:30:35.684-07:00

The past few days have been super busy, but lots of fun. We drove from Braganca across to Porto through the Douro valley, one of the biggest grape growing regions in Portugal (home to all the grapes grown for Port wine). This has to rank among the top 5 drives of my life, easily comparing to the Rockies in terms of beauty. Crazy mountains and valleys, all with terraces carved into the sides of

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-22881076782147766252009-09-15T01:10:00.000-07:002009-09-15T01:22:44.220-07:00

We picked up the rental car yesterday, and did a 5+ hour drive from Madrid over to norther Portugal, to a town called Braganca. Our car´s actually quite nice, a Citroen C4...and most importantly, it´s an automatic!The drive was really gorgeous, very dry, rugged terrain. We saw lots of solar panels and lots of wind turbines. We made a pit stop in this very small town...probably about 200 stairs

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-38946966589516547092009-09-13T12:13:00.000-07:002009-09-13T12:23:14.891-07:00

It´s been a really hectic 2 days in Madrid, but lots of fun! We´ve managed to get all sorts of things done, and minus a small hiccup last night meeting up with my aunt and uncle, things have gone quite smoothly!Yesterday our flight got in around noon local time, and we took the subway to the hotel, which turned out to be gorgeous and super conveniently located. Went for a walk and saw an

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-69311821739851462922009-09-10T04:40:00.000-07:002009-09-10T05:29:53.382-07:00

We leave for the ol' honeymoon tomorrow! Really excited to get it started - we've been planning for ages now, and I'm tired at looking at MAPS of cities, and want to just get there and get started! First stop, Madrid. We're actually going to a Leonard Cohen concert on Saturday night with my aunt/uncle. Should be interesting!Aside - I've rekindled my love for the library. I'd been hitting

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-28841555609694088002009-08-30T08:49:00.000-07:002009-08-30T09:12:08.386-07:00

The upside of doing our honeymoon well after the wedding itself is that we didn't need to plan them both at once. The downside is that all the past month has been nothing but honeymoon planning...well...We also went to the Roderick Reunion out in Saint John. Did lots of canoeing, swimming and work around the property, but also did the traditional bowling, BBQ, bonfire and golf for the reunion

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-14292551758415204522009-07-20T04:17:00.001-07:002009-07-20T04:30:22.971-07:00

So this weekend was truffle weekend. Literally.My flight back from New York was cancelled / bumped on Friday, so rather than getting out of Newark at 7, it was more like 9:30. By the time I got home, it was after 11, the perfect time to start making chocolate! Got to bed around 12:30 with the first batch of ganache cooling in the fridge.Saturday I got 2 batches done, and worked more or less

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-10382974875208266722009-07-16T03:40:00.000-07:002009-07-16T03:46:09.752-07:00

I'm in the Porter lounge waiting for my flight to New York! I love Porter, even when it meant waking up at 5am...the lounge is so comfy, and the almonds are so good! If I drank coffee, I'd probably appreciate it even more! It seems like they are doing a lot of construction, maybe even building a whole new terminal.I'm just down in New York today and tomorrow, not even long enough to

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-54511411750768565482009-07-07T05:02:00.000-07:002009-07-07T05:17:59.279-07:00

I've gotten much enjoyment out of these two websites over the past few days and thought I'd pass them on!Awkward Family Photos: Basically, the site is a swack of pictures of embarassing/funny "family photos".The other one is called Fancy Fast Food. This one's not so much funny as impressive. It's a list of "recipes" and pictures of gourmet looking meals prepared entirely with "ingredients" from

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-13180748164368002602009-06-27T13:49:00.000-07:002009-06-27T13:51:25.522-07:00

Check out this link to get Free Herbal Essences! (atleast that's the theory!)There's also a coupon on there for $2 off Danactive that I used today to get a free 4 pack from Loblaws, since it was on for $1.99!

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-25051939016394668842009-06-14T19:28:00.000-07:002009-06-14T19:30:50.154-07:00

I've been rocking out to the best of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s for the past month or so, in an effort to compile a rocking and fun playlist for the wedding.The problem? There's not a lot of good *dancing* music - I could make a kick ass driving mixed tape, but that's not quite the "get out on the dance floor" vibe we're going for.What are a few songs that you like DANCING to? Help!

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-1915983894780006482009-06-12T16:10:00.000-07:002009-06-12T16:16:30.315-07:00

Sara and Dave were over last Friday for dinner / bridge / beer tasting. During dinner, which happened to include asparagus, Dave made a comment about stinky asparagus pee. I kid you not. At first, I really thought Dave was some freak of nature. I've consumed asparagus in significant quantity my whole life, and have never noticed any particular side effects from asparagus (unlike say beets).

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-48415964374188936992009-06-11T04:44:00.000-07:002009-06-11T05:22:24.229-07:00

Was down in Waterloo on Tuesday to do coop interviews...decent batch of kids this time around. Had 10 interviews, 8 of which were 4th years -- interestingly we liked the younger kids better, which is unexpected.We finished up the interviews fairly early, so I played squash with my friend Dave, who lives in Waterloo, then went out for dinner and took the greyhound home. Definitely weirdest

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-80786293214546349712009-05-30T09:28:00.000-07:002009-05-30T09:35:36.135-07:00

Can't believe how close we're getting to the wedding... (Ali, YOUR time is REALLY ticking!) Still lots of details to sort out, but I'm sure it'll all come together.My folks are coming into town this weekend to meet Laura's extended family. On the upside, it'll be a BBQ.As a result, we rented a car for the weekend. I was driving Laura into the gym this morning (and heading to St Lawrence Market)

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-37213024807333090042009-05-26T13:26:00.000-07:002009-05-26T13:27:24.269-07:00

Clearly I've been doing it all wrong -- saw an ad in the Metro here for this event: Free Weight Loss Seminar & Free BuffettYup. It's all about the free buffet.

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I've had a rough week. On Thursday I had a meeting with the client from 10-noon that ran a bit long, so I figured I should grab lunch on my way back to the office. So I hit this joint on King St called "Reggies Sandwiches" that I've been hankering to check out for a while now. I'm walking back to the office when the "Oh Crap" lightbulb goes off. (I believe I actually said "Oh Crap" out loud,

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-19137641529887250892009-05-21T15:29:00.000-07:002009-05-21T15:48:57.893-07:00

Honeymoon tickets - BOOKED! Plus, the whole fiasco with Aeroplan last night actually ended up working in my favour....found a coupon online this morning for Flight Centre for $50 off per person when booking an international flight. We'd stopped in last weekend to the Flight Centre near our house to talk to them about some of our options, and the girl was super nice, so I figured it'd be nice to

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-17328139091807471852009-05-20T20:05:00.000-07:002009-05-20T20:10:38.737-07:00

I frikkin hate the "interactive voice response" systems like Emily from Bell. Just had to "talk" to the phone for like 5 whole minutes to get through on Aeroplan...frankly, the systems WORK relatively well, but I just feel like such a dolt talking to a computer.Laura and I were about to pull the trigger on booking tickets to Madrid for honeymoon (air canada seat sale ends tomorrow), but my name

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-84869318146037253062009-05-18T19:07:00.000-07:002009-05-18T19:41:26.418-07:00

The rest of the training I was running last weekend up at Blue Mountain ended well! It's always a good feeling to wrap things up without there having been any major calamities, particularly with so many moving parts to the puzzle (Two different batches of people flying up from the states, some people coming up on the Friday, others on the Saturday, sorting out all the restaurant menus, the room

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-47709420365183845752009-05-09T04:13:00.000-07:002009-05-09T04:23:11.057-07:00

It's been a busy last few weeks:- planning for this Team Lead Training I'm helping run this weekend up at Blue Mountain. 34 or so people total, 3 days of content. Good food, good people, good fun so far though! (and ridiculously nice hotel rooms)- buying wedding rings...we finally pulled the trigger. The hard part...neither Laura or I have actually seen our rings yet. The store only had 20-30

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This leaves a sour taste in my mouth -- Chris Day (of Sir Winston / Merivale fame) was doing the news on CTV for a bit...but is now John Baird's press secretary. Blech...John Baird is by far leaps and bounds my least favourite person in Canadian politics.Had a very quick lunch with Ali yesterday -- she couldn't actually eat lunch with me though because she had to "go pick up garbage"(yes,

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Funny thing about English...Sewers -- sow-ers or soo-ers....big difference!Laura: "Hello Soo-ers!"

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-85258947804779923452009-04-17T05:02:00.000-07:002009-04-17T05:37:15.459-07:00

First off, a big thanks to the peeps - Ali hand delivered a very nice, framed full size shot of one of my fav pictures from Merivale-era! Ali...was thinking afterwards, how did you get this done? This HAS to be from oldschool film? (Wasn't someone doing like darkroom development)I'm biking to work again! Started this week : ) I like it much much more than taking the TTC(however my keister's

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So as I'd mentioned, this was the big weekend for work...really, the culmination of almost 16 months worth of effort. Going in to things, we certainly expected to have a busy / challenging night, but I had no idea just how busy it would be...There are / were a few "background" challenges:- We had a limited window of time to do the work...stores in Vancouver close 9pm their time, so midnight here

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I'd deposited some Canada Savings Bonds back in February. At the time I was really surprised and disappointed by how little interest they'd accrued in the 10 years I had them.When I got back to my desk, I actually looked things up online, but lo and behold it seemed like what they'd given me was correct...I even went back to the bank to double check though, and yes in fact everything checked

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Hard to believe it's April already! It's been a busy past few weeks trying to get the loose ends tied up for wedding planning, as well as putting the finishing touches on the website I'm working on at work, which goes live this weekend!Laura and I have been down to Niagara on the Lake twice now -- not sure if I posted about the first trip, but it was a bit of a disaster. It was Laura's birthday

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-18403531986968506022009-03-29T20:22:00.000-07:002009-03-29T20:23:28.379-07:00

Good ol' Kashi...click here for a free box of granola bars! Laura will be happy - she loves the cherry chocolate chip ones, but I don't usually let her get em cause they're like $4 a box!

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-56088692468109968212009-03-22T18:00:00.000-07:002009-03-22T18:03:29.389-07:00

Kiva really is one of my favourite things on the internet! I just finished making two very fun loans - one to this guy, who runs a bookstore in Togo, and one to this girl who sells panties in Peru!If that's not "the power of the internet", I don't know what is!

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So, I was waiting to get my hair cut yesterday and was reading this kids toy catalogue. One of the things they had was this series of books called "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"...and something caught my eye! The title of the book was "Rodrick Rules".To make things even funnier, the blurb for it read something like this:"Unfortunately for Greg, Rodrick has the goods on him. Rodrick is capable of

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Very excited! I lost my iron ring over a year ago, and FINALLY managed to get a new one that fits me! I'd mailed away for one about 6 months ago, but when it arrived it wasn't the right size....so I had a tiny iron ring sitting on my desk for 6 months. I've been wanting to go to U of T to get a new one in person, since they have "office hours", but never got around to it.Now I am a happy boy.

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I'm a roll these days with good freebies!For anyone who collects Air Miles - Loeb is doing an in store promotion where you get 50 free air miles when you spend > $100 on a purchase. HOWEVER, you can also mail them a self addressed stamped envelope and they'll send you the 50 air mile bonus card, no purchase required!I sent in my SASE on Tuesday and got the bonus card in the mail today! Talk about

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In these tough economic times, and following a near coup-d'etat in November, it seemed like Harper and his CONs were going to come straight with a reality-facing budget (unlike a mere 4 months ago when Harper pulled his "We were like Noah, building the ark, and now we're ready for the flood" quote, when they expected a budget SURPLUS for 2009....maybe a bit too rosy!)Anyways, everyone will be

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Just found a link for this puppy:Free Activia YogurtYou need to fill out a quick 10 question survey once to get 2 weeks free activia. Sounds like if you fill out a follow up survey you'll get ANOTHER 2 weeks free. That's 4 weeks of yummy activia! And the best kind of yogurt is free yogurt!

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It's been a busy week or two! I was down in Waterloo Jan 21 to help judge the engineering fourth year design projects - I even got to do a big speech! It's always tons of fun going down to see the projects...the students almost all do a fantastic job on the projects, and there are so many neat and different ideas.Had the girls over last weekend for brunch - the one downside of our apartment is

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Hard to believe, but Nortel has filed for bankruptcy protection. Seems like not so long ago that every friggin office building in Ottawa had the Nortel logo plastered to the side of it.I can't help but feel a sense of personal responsability for the situation though. I'm just realizing now that I never left a note to tell them "It was an open bracket instead of a closed bracket!"

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Bubble Spinner just wasted about 4 hours of my life. However, I *did* eventually get 572 points, and ALLLLMOST passed level 2.Warning: Clicking may be detrimental to your weekend plans.

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Many of you will remember (or NOT remember) the high school exploits at The Radisson downtown on New Years; dancing the night away at the hindu new years downstairs, "the hand", trying to break into the rotat-y part up top, Rob puking in the lobby bathrooms, goldschlager and....the fire alarms / firemen.Every year just around midnight someone would pull the fire alarm. Everyone would have to

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As the clocks rolled over to a New Year last night, it was hard to not look forward and get excited about the year ahead! Theoretically possible scenarios for 2009- Reading more books, with an emphasis on Canadian authors. Recommendations? (So far this break I've plowed through 2 trashy John Grisham books, and am halfway through The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews - pronounces Taves).-

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I had the distinct pleasure of catching the Canada vs Kazakhstan World Junior Hockey game on the 28th out at Scotiabank Place (does anyone else still call it the Corel Centre?). It's been a number of years since I caught a real hockey game (good luck getting seats for a Leafs game for less than $100 a pop, even for the nosebleeds). I'd forgotten how big SBP is, but also how close the ice feels,

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One of the questions I've thought a lot about on and off over the past year if "what next?". I think Laura and I are both pretty happy where we are, with what we're doing short term, but atleast for me I definitely don't want to live in Toronto long term, particularly in terms of raising kids. There's nothing *wrong* with Toronto, it's just not my gig - I'm much happier when I can be outside

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That's right folks, as per tradition, I was knee deep in boxing day madness today. Woke up around 6:30, perused some flyers, read my new John Grisham book until about 9:30, popped over to Canadian Tire with my mom....fought off the one other car vying for the parking spot closest to the door, held the door open on the way in for a nice old lady.We picked up 2 super nice lagostina frying pans for

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-33611992108767514172008-12-11T09:17:00.000-08:002008-12-11T09:36:03.887-08:00

I'm getting more used to the timezone difference and have been waking up at more normal hours the past two days - managed to get up at "8am" today, and out of the hotel by 9. Hit up:Tower Of London: Basically an oldschool fortress / castle that was used both for housing royalty / royal ceremonies / crown jewels and housing "traitors" / executions etc. What a pleasant rosy history! Pretty

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My morning didn't exactly go off according to plan -- I didn't wake up until around 11am local time (really, not BAD considering that's 6am Toronto time). Put a bit of a damper on my plans to get out an explore the town this morning.I tried to hit the hotel gym, but my room key didn't seem to work, so I ended up running the staircase instead. I'll do better tomorrow.I then tried to iron my new

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Oh. Heck. Yah!So I made it over all in one piece -- the new air canada planes with the in-seat on demand movies are the best thing EVER! (although, I noticed that they now make you watch 4 or 5 ads before your movie starts, which is new). I had a seat to myself which was nice - there's even power outlets for your laptop, so I got a bit of work done between watching XFiles (baaaaad movie) and

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-9683409355112319352008-12-02T05:29:00.000-08:002008-12-02T05:36:51.436-08:00

One of the challenges for us in terms of wedding planning has been thinking about the ceremony itself and what we'd like in terms of an officiant. Neither one of us is super religious, but we're both generally christianish, and would there to be a bit of religion, but not a bunch of bible thumpin'.Since we don't go to church here in TO, we don't really have any "ins" with any priests. So...as

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-76626700813714152372008-12-02T04:38:00.000-08:002008-12-02T04:49:53.990-08:00

I really do enjoy the internet. Fazed and Fark keep me busy with cool and fun links. Yesterday was a particularly bountiful day.Carrotmob: Harness the power of group buying to convince stores to make socially beneficial decisions. Check out the video at the top of the page. Basically, ask a number of companies in a specific "industry" to compete against each other for the business of the mob by

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In an interesting twist of affairs, it looks like there's atleast a 60% chance that Stephane Dion will be prime minister in the next few weeks. Yup, you read that right...but didn't Canada just elect Stevie Boy?Last week the Conservatives presented their annual fiscal update to open the new session of parliament. There were a few highly controversial pieces:- prevent public servants' right to

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-48957584475781676492008-11-30T09:47:00.000-08:002008-11-30T09:52:24.600-08:00

The Sushi Wars: Can the Bluefin Tuna Be Saved?Just read this article about the impact that the recent proliforation of sushi restaurants worldwide has had on global fisheries, particularly of the bluefin tuna. I was actually thinking about this the other day...how can nature keep up with such a huge consumption demand? Looks like the answer is: it can't.This just seems to be another in a long

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-63904519302646348802008-11-30T05:08:00.000-08:002008-11-30T05:13:24.108-08:00

Ali and Adam were in town yesterday for Ali's Bday. Went down to the ever enjoyable "C'est What" down near the market...I do enjoy that place! I feel like I'm more in touch with the Ontario beer scene after the food and wine show last weekend, and actually recognized most of the beers on the menu and was even able to confidently explain the difference between two beers to someone at the bar.The

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Yesterday was blood donation day with work. I'd finally worked up the courage to do this, although I was pretty tense and nervous on the way there with the other 12 peeps from the office.I managed the finger prick thing ok ( although even this was a major accomplishment for me), filled out their little survey...and got rejected by the nurse who asks you all the awkward questions about sex with

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-73080986749326643212008-11-23T16:33:00.000-08:002008-11-23T16:34:27.760-08:00

Here are my truffles!

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A few updates:- Chocolate: I've made truffles twice this week, and am now pretty confident with it. Thanks to everyone for my bday present last year...it's been tons of fun, and I'm all stocked up (except an immersion blender and a candy thermometer, both of which are on my christmas list). Today I made 3 kinds - hazelnut coated, crushed almond coated, and white chocolate dipped. Pictures to

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Sometimes one can find joy in the simplest things.Take for example, my recent grocery trip to Loblaws. Last week I was surprised to notice the price of chicken breasts had gone up quite significantly...for the past year or three they've usually been "regular price" between $15-$18/kg. Last week they were $21/kg.No surprise, when I hit the store today they were once again $21/kg. At first, I

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Laura is in Vancouver this week for a work conference, meaning I'm a bachelor for the week. I've been livin the life -- haven't washed dishes all week, and have been going to bed whenever I want (read: FINALLY getting to go to bed at 10pm rather than midnight).Other highlights - it was Simon's birthday this week. Happy bday Chimon!Went "night riding" on Thursday with a bud from work - mountain

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Aiight, here's the latestTercel 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

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Phew! I really do feel so relieved - the past 6 weeks atleast have been very go go go for me, and FINALLY things have calmed down a bit.i) Several weekends ago we were at Krobert's cottage. This was truly good fun and the weather was terrific - we've got to make a point of getting together more often! Highlights - that holywood styles acting game. Learning Boggle. Finding out that tomatoes can

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Not sure how many of you tuned in to the CBC this week to watch the 5 leaders go head to head. Was a very exciting matchup, and the anticipation had really been building for me. Yes, that's right, the top 5 finalists in the Hockey Night in Canada theme song contest were announced on CBC last night - this really is a critical turning point in the history of this country. Arguably the effects of

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For all the laaaadies out there, hit this link to get a coupon for thing of dove body wash mailed to you ($6ish value).Free Dove Body Washyou put your email in on this site, they email you a link to save.ca, and save.ca mails you the coupon.

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Just realized that last week I overpaid my american express bill by 10x. Ya, smooth move. Especially when I hardly use my Amex at all - just happened that we had 2 plane tickets on there for a wedding in Mineapolis next weekend, so it was actually a fairly large bill to start with.Called Amex to see what they could do -- the first thing the girl said "Well, the good news, Sir, is that it looks

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Laura and I were out in Oshawa two weekends ago checking out wedding places and were heading back to Toronto around dusk. As we were pulling onto the highway, we noticed dozens of cars parked near and along the overpass we were using, but didn't pay much attention to it. Weird.The next overpass we went under, again had upwards of 100 people standing on it, some waving Canadian flags, and a

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I've officially fallen off the bloggin wagon.- our internet at home was flakey for most of the past month..the connection would die every couple minutes and would require a voodoo dance with the router and modem to get back online. A new modem has fixed the problem, and we're fully back online.- Planning a non-banquet hall style wedding can be a whole ton of work. Each criteria you're picky

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Fame and fortune must not be all they're cracked up to be. If you read CNN, or watch Entertainment Tonight, you've already heard that Morgan Freeman was in a serious car accident today, with the car flipping several times.According to CNN.com "Freeman was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima". Man, talk about the life of luxury!

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The past two or three months have been total calamity and adventure for me...I haven't had a single "sit around at home" weekend since May! I've also been busier during the week - work has been doing basketball on Tuesdays, and between the occassional squash match, dinner with peeps, hanging out with Laura's sister who is variously back in town for a few days at a time, the other days have

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Quick note to any of my Ottawa peeps - I'm hittin Otown this weekend with LT Friday night -> Sunday aft. Don't have any big plans, so would love to hang out!

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We spent an hour or two at one of the sand dune beaches in the park - quite different from what I'm used to, and kinda neat, although fairly busy with screaming kids -- not quite the vibe I'd had in mind for popping the big question. At this point, I was starting to feel a bit nervous...I'd been carrying the ring in a nice ring box in my backpack for most of the day just in case the moment arose,

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Well, this is old news by now, but I've been so swamped with work and playing catch up that I haven't had a chance to formally post the news...Friday June 27th, we took the day off work (another whole story - I didn't realize that Canada Day was the TUESDAY and that Monday wasn't going to be a holiday until after I'd made all the reservations) and headed down to Prince Edward County, near

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For any of you Torontonians, there are free outdoors movies on both Tuesday AND Friday for the months of July and August! We should try to hit one up!Tuesdays are at Harbourfront down on the waterfrontTuesday, July 8 at 9 PM: Juno Tuesday, July 15 at 9 PM: Rushmore Tuesday, July 22 at 9 PM: Dick Tuesday, July 29 at 9 PM: The Virgin Suicides Tuesday, August 5 at 9 PM: Run Lola Run Tuesday, August

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Work is having an auction for some of our older laptops and desktops...they're "older" for us but are still pretty beefy solid machines.If anyone's looking for a new computer on the relatively cheap, let me know and I'll see what I can hook up.

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Dearest Chimon,Just a friendly reminder in regards to your much anticipated blog. I know the pressure may quelch your creative process, but in all fairness a month and a half is a long time for your inspiration to come to fruition.Please keep me appraised of your progress on this front.Best Regards,GRod

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Well! Friday was the juggling class, and I think it worked out really well! There were actually 10 people there (8 new grads + 2 full timers), and by the end of the class 3 of them were doing basic 3 ball juggling really well, and 2 others were doing a couple variations of 2 balls in one hand. Woot woot! And the best part is, I think I actually managed to do a pretty convincing job of

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Tomorrow is my big day! As some of you know, I've been learning to juggle for the past two or three months, all with the intention of ultimately teaching a juggling class at work!Currently we're in the middle of the 4 week "Bootcamp" for our 8 new grad hires...and man, is that some SERIOUS stuff. This is the first year I've been significantly involved in planning and teaching the bootcamp -

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Every day I bike to work along the exact same route -- through a nice neighbourhood, down past Casa Loma to Spadina Road, then straight down Spadina Road into Spadina Avenue and to work. Every day at the corner of Spadina and Bloor there's an older "santa claus", white bear, red clothes and red plastic "crocs". He has a funny little "The sleigh broke down" sign, and even though he doesn't say

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I've been watching a lot of hockey on TV lately, and have seen lots of irratating ads - particularly those friggin subway monkey ads. Arg. However, sometimes I see ads on TV that genuinely make me belly laugh. This one really cracked me up - particularly the dude doing the hair thing, and the guy at the very end with the bucket on his head. Solid gold.

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-80268595568229482522008-05-23T04:53:00.000-07:002008-05-23T05:03:56.812-07:00

I've been getting letters in the mail for the past few months telling me I need to switch from the good ol' red and white OHIP card to their fancy new high tech cards. The letters have gotten increasingly insistent, even going as far as to tell me that I may no longer qualify for coverage if I don't upgrade.According to the letters, you need to call and book and appointment, you can't just show

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-50384399932371746812008-05-21T21:06:00.000-07:002008-05-21T21:08:10.136-07:00

From all the emails flying around, it sounds like we're about to experience a collective rebirth of the blog, a blogging renaissance even.To celebrate, I wanted to post a link to a site that truly made me gut-laugh, in all it's porta-potty-diving glory.Flying Porta Potty Guy.

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-2310043193352341562008-05-18T19:27:00.001-07:002008-05-18T19:32:17.642-07:00

Just finished watching a movie with Laura called Into the Wild, the real life story of Alexander Supertramp.In 30 seconds or less, it's about a regular middle class kid from a dysfunctional family who graduates college and decides he's not meant for "the grind" and sets out on a series of adventures that eventually lead him to the Alaskan wilderness.It was a longer movie, almost 2 1/2 hours, but

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-45084428354879710742008-05-18T06:55:00.000-07:002008-05-18T06:57:49.391-07:00

Just as an FYI for anyone who loves coupons as much as Yonny, you can now get 2008 Entertainment Books for only $9.99 + $2.50 shipping and handling on entertainment.com if you think about it - basically so long as you use one or two coupons it's time and money well spent.Too bad there isn't a magic oven coupon again this year, or I'd be ALL over that.

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-4540604216878645292008-05-11T19:35:00.000-07:002008-05-11T19:54:29.649-07:00

Wow -- I'd heard that the flooding along the Saint John River was quite bad this year, but I didn't really appreciate just how crazy it was until today. My dad sent along a few pictures that a neighbour took of our beach.For anyone who hasn't been to my cottage, the house itself, named Top 'O Rock, is at the top of quite a tall and steep bank of the river, probably a good 100-130 feet above

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-71026291803729566302008-05-10T06:23:00.000-07:002008-05-10T06:29:35.558-07:00

Ah the glorious Tercel of Love, how she's treated me well over the years. With the parents doing the cottage thing, it's looking fairly certain like the Tercel Of Love will be in Toronto this summer, helping out with another leg of the cross country bike tour. So far the plan is to do a number of weekend stints...sorta Ottawa -> Kingston, Kingston -> Toronto, Toronto -> Niagara, Niagara ->

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-48107262527306211222008-05-06T05:11:00.000-07:002008-05-06T05:14:16.422-07:00

After much waiting and anticipation, Laura's worked her way through our pictures and has photoshopped and organized her favourites! I'm not so savvy with all the latest and greatest web 2.0 technologies, so hopefully I've done this in an easy way for everyone to check things out! Please let me know if you can't access the pictures, or if you have suggestions for better ways to do this in the

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-48195376218313899792008-04-26T06:32:00.000-07:002008-04-26T06:37:50.678-07:00

Well, today is our last day here...back to work on Monday. Time certainly does fly when you´re having fun -- i think I could get used to swimming in the ocean every day.With a majority of our trip successfully behind us, we ran into some problems at our last destination, Manuel Antonio National Park, a gorgeous pacific ocean beach town and forest. Our hotel room was broken into...initially we

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122570452761963867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6697688.post-47196982652427385402008-04-22T15:19:00.000-07:002008-04-22T15:20:07.099-07:00

Just a quick update today from Monte Verde, a small mountain town near a gorgeous wilderness reserve. We had an early morning and took a van for a half hour or so to a lake, where we were boated across to jeeps that carried us up through these insanely steep and rugged mountain "road" to Monte Verde. We did a hike through the park today and Laura and I spotted 4 monkeys, and some very

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