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*Four Jobs You Have Had In Your Life*

– Dickie Dee Ice Cream Vendor
– Programmer
– Freelance Sports/News Photographer
– CTO

*Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over*

– 5th Element
– Shogun (if I ever get it back from Nurse Debbie)
– Contact Juggling Vol 2
– Snatch

*Four TV Shows You Love to Watch*

– CSI
– Six Feet Under
– Weeds
– most anything on Sci-Fi channel (with a few noteable exceptions)

*Four places you have lived*

– Dunnville, ON
– Kingston, NY
– Toronto, ON
– Zephyr, ON

*Four Places You Have Been On Vacation*

– Turks and Caicos
– Cuba
– Roatan, Honduras
– Margarita Island, Venezuela

*Four Websites You Visit Daily*

– Om Message Board
– Tribe
– ContactJuggling.org
– eham.net

*Four Of Your Favorite Foods*

– Roti from Bacchus Roti
– Pizza
– Wings
– Stuff Kim cooks me

*Four Places You Would Rather be Right Now*

– Somewhere warm and sunny near the ocean
– Somewhere warm and sunny in the ocean
– Somewhere warm and sunny under the ocean
– Turkey for the Eclipse

*Four favourite books*

– I almost never read fiction. Current non-fiction reading materials include:
– ITIL best practices
– AARL Handbook 2005, and
– the RAC Study Guide for the Basic Ham Radio Qualification Exam. _Yes, I’m a geek and proud of it._

4 People to tag:

– everyone I know that blogs has already been tagged

Hey folks! [Kelly](www.marmalade.ca) found this last year sometime and givin the upcoming election you may want to reference it to see how your local candidate and/or party have voted in the past.

[How’d They Vote](http://howdtheyvote.ca/)

I love [this](http://techdirt.com/articles/20051121/0310228_F.shtml). When I 1st got my digital camera and later my cell phone with a camera, and I was commuting 3 hrs/day, I saw and photographed some pretty incredible stuff. People fillingout paperwork while driving, people eating breakfast cereal with both hands while somehow holding the steeringwheel. It was pretty outrageous.

Of course, the fact that I was myself being a bad driver by focusing on taking pictures of bad drivers wasn’t lost on me.

With thanks to techdirt.com.

I’ve been chatting online to a friend of mine in BC who happens to be a very accomplished Contact Juggler. She’s originally from Toronto and is homesick and thinking of coming back for a visit. I’ve been chatting with her about putting together a weekend CJ workshop while she’s back. She seems interested, which is absolutely F*ing amazing because I’ve been trying to teach myself for almost a year and I’m not making a whole lotta progress.

For those of you who have never seen contact juggling, checkout some of the videos on www.contactjuggling.org or if you really want to be inspired, checkout this video.

The workshop will probably be Saturday and Sunday, 4 hrs each day, and somewhere between $50 and $80. Anyone interested?

The house is progressing, slowly… the drywall is pretty much done, as is the painting. The wiring on the main floor is complete and 50% of the wiring on the 2nd floor is done too. The unfortunate reality is that the remaining 50%, that which controls ceiling lights and the back 1/3 of the 2nd floor, requires me to cut an access hole into the attic and crawl around on the ceiling joists to run the wires.

Crawling around in a dirty, unexposed attic just doesn’t sound like a whole lotta fun to me. I know it has to get done, but yet I seem to be able to find a zillion other things to do around the house that help me delay the inevitable. When I’m not doing one of those zillion other things it’s easy to hide from the work entirely by going out shopping, eating, dog walking or veggin to music or television.

The return to full-time employment is looming and yet I still am having a hard time motivating myself to finish around the house. I know, I know… it has to get done, but it’d be so nice if it’d just do itself 🙂

Ok… motivation! Here we go… after a cup o’ coffee.. and maybe some lunch… and…

I seem to be odd… Smart-assed comments aside… I just returned from drinking a double-long-espresso and I’m falling asleep.

Caffeine just doesn’t seem to affect me the way it should. I think for me it’s psychological: coffee in the morning wakes me up, at night it puts me to sleep.

Probably a dose/tolerance thing, but strange none-the-less… I mean, how many people do you know that’ll fall asleep while in a cafe drinking their 3rd or 4th large coffee. 🙂

There is some strange connection for me between getting a new house and spending *way* to much time in a hospital.

When Kim and I moved into the place in Uxbridge we weren’t there a month before I was in hospital for a week getting my gallbladder removed in emergency surgery.

Similarily, but much less dramatic, I am now cooling my heels in St. Michael’s emergency after driving an old nail into the ball of my foot. _sheesh_ The tetanus shot is done and I’ve seen the doc, but now I’m waiting to get to xray to make sure there’s no foreign matter still in my foot. I then get to wait to see the doc again to get a scrip for some antibiotics.

One nice plus is that I can also get a scrip for a new epipen.

Someone needs to figure out how to speed this process up! One major factor that influenced my hesitance to come to emerge was that I knew I’d be here *way* to long. I was right… 4 hours and still going…

Ever surf to a site that wants you to register (for free and your email address) before you can use the site? thestar.com is one such site. FREE! … just give us your email address.

Well there are a few tools on the net that really come in handy for just this type of “free service”.

* bugmenot.com has accounts setup an a large number of so called “free” services. If they don’t have what you need and you actually need to register yourself, then try

* mailinator.com. Just use any userid@mailinator.com, you can later surf to their site and check for confirmation codes, etc. but then never need to see spam again. Sweet.

An interesting thought I had over the weekend:

Canadians celebrate Canada Day on July 1st. Americans celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of July.

Canadians celebrate Canada, and being Canadian. Americans celebrate their Independence from British rule.

Canadians celebrate what they are. Americans celebrate what they aren’t.

Interesting, eh?