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Happy Canada Day!

I almost missed it. Its been a crazy couple of days here. The longer I live in the US, the harder it gets for me to remember Canadian holidays.

What is Canada Day?

“Frequently referred to as “Canada’s birthday,” particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867. However, though Canada is regarded as having become a dominion in its own right on that date,[4] the British Parliament at first kept limited rights of political control over the new country, which were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were ended in 1982, when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.”

Taken from the Canada day Wikipedia

Course right now its 5:33am and I am trying to stop being groggy. So that’s all you’re going to get from me this morning. If I was in Canada right now, I’d be sleeping, and preparing for lots of beer, and fire works this evening in Stanley Park.

So to all you Canadians, and Canadians by injection, HAPPY Canada DAY!

Today, the 26th of June 2009, is my ninth anniversary. Nine years of blogging. Damn, I was blogging before it was called blogging. I’m a trail blazer! No, not really. But nine years is something pretty good. It is for me because I have a short attention span. Here’s some stats:

Date started: June 26th 2000
Blog entries: 5,488
Comments: 20.927

Its been a crazy ride. A ride I don’t want to end soon. So many good things have happened to me because of my blog. Crystal is the first and foremost important thing. Without her, I’d be nothing.

Anyways, today is a day of celebration. I can’t afford to give anything away like Avitable, but I can say “thank you for being a part of this wonderful experience. Thank you from the cockles of my heart. heh cockles”

Yup. Day off here. And all by myself. The house is quiet. Almost too quiet.

I’m starting to get tired of the weather. I can tell its play havok on my well being. I just want it to be sunny so I can go out on my long board again. I’d like it to be some what warm, and not rainy so we can go to the Drive in this Saturday, as they are having a double feature of Transformers 2 and Star Trek on screen 1. $20 and two kick ass movies? I’d love to go, but I don’t really want to go if its raining or cold.

Speaking of cold, my feet are freezing. I really need to get some socks on. But I will suffer through so I don’t interrupt the flow. Cause flows is most important to a f list blogger such as myself. If I go off on a tangent, its not good, but if I stay to long on a subject, I risk alienating my 2 readers. And that’s a bad thing as well.

So the plan is to break each paragraph into two or three sentences. Two or three, that’s a good idea. Just the right amount of time for people with ADD to sit through. Maybe four, that’s a nice round number too.

So my plan is working. People that will enjoy Transformers, would enjoy my blog. Except for the explosions, my blog has the production value of a Michael Bay film. Also without some high paid actors. You only get me. Damn this paragraph has six sentences in it.

Too much! Too much!

I also think this will be the first post in a while with no pictures. I like pictures. They paint 1000 words. That’s good, because I don’t think I could write 1000 words. I have trouble with 500 words.

I have to pee. And my feet are still cold. But I must soldier on, its all about the flow baby.

Floooooooooow.

Damnit I have to get socks right now.

Ok, I got socks, and peed. Now what was I saying. Shit.

So yeah, I have no idea what I’m gonna do today. Probably nothing good. Then I’ll be pissed at myself for not doing anything all day. I hate when I do that. I can always think of something to do about 8 pm, after I spent all day trying to figure out what to do.

W00t! over 400 words! And I’m spent. Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week. Try the Veal, and don’t forget to tip your waitress.

Yes, I worked a Saturday. In an effort to help out Heather at work, I’m going to be working every second Saturday for the summer. Its not problem for me, but I worry about Crystal, who is sitting on the couch watching Bring it On. That’s her movie weakness. Teen movies. Its scary. But I will whipe all that teen movie angst out of her tonight when we watch Friday the 13th.

Crystal wrote a big long post about her running adventures. Complete with before and after pictures. You see, she’s been doing the Couch to 5k. Let me just say she’s been doing awesome at it. I’m not going to go into detail here, you should go over to her site and read all the awesome details there. I just want to get in writing here, that I am so proud of her. She’s run outside in the rain, and in 40 degrees. Could you do that? She does ALL of this before work. BEFORE work. I don’t think I could do that. She’s like me, I find something, and jump in with both feet, and slowly over a couple of weeks, I stop doing it. Perfect example, my long board. But its not my fault! its been raining every Saturday (except for this one, but I had to work) Maybe tomorrow, we’ll go out. I really want to ride it more. She downloaded “30 minute shred” I don’t know what it is, but maybe I’ll try that on Tuesday. Maybe I’ll also try the 100 push up project as well. Do they have a 100 sit up project as well?

So yeah I worked today. That’s ok, I have Tuesday off. I’ll have to do some mental math, and maybe tomorrow we can go out and get my mountain bike, and get new tubes for Crystals, and we’ll go for a bike ride tomorrow. I can always do laundry as I’m doing my 30 minute shred.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this but my store is going through a complete remod. I’ve been trying to take some pictures, but with one person out sick, I’ve been stuck in the bowels of the store receiving vendors and such all week. so I haven’t been able to explore as much as I would like. But I did manage to get some of the temporary pharmacy and the old and new electronics. Its an absolute cluster fuck. They are starting projects, before they finish others. The photo lab had to be delayed a week because store planning didn’t know the technicians timeline. It doesn’t bother me, but its pissing a lot of people off. Looking back on the last week, I can giggle about it. But there’s a lot of customers that couldn’t find shit before they started moving things around, and they are totally lost now.

Ok, I think this is enough. I’ve run out of things to say. I really just hope that the weather breaks soon. I’m getting tired of this gray warm humid weather. If its gonna rain, rain. But I’d like it to be sunny, and no humidity. thank you very much.

Yesterday we headed off to South County to check out the Rhode Island’s Scottish Highland games. We got there a few hours before it was set to close so we got a great deal on admission. I really enjoyed myself wandering around and checking out various booths of cool Scottish kit to be had. I bought myself an “Instant Kilt” Its a towel with a kilt print on it. I think its great, but everyone here makes fun of me for wearing it.

I was seeking out the food booths because I wanted to have some Haggis again. Its been over ten years since I had it, and I was hoping the fresh Haggis would taste better than the canned stuff I tried while I was at camp with some Scottish cadets. But sadly there was no more Haggis left, but I did try a meat pie, and something call Irn Bru. I thought it tasted like bubble gum, but it was really good.

Today, in a few hours, will be heading out to see The Hangover, and maybe grab something to eat.

I’m just happy the rain has stopped. Now if it could get sunny again.

Just a quick post. I was unpacking a tea set my parents brought down for us, and I kind of wanted to finish off the set. Then it got me thinking; what do I collect, and how has that changed since I was a kid. Researching this China set, its old, but not too old. All the information I can get is it was made between 1951-1990. That’s about all I can get. Oh, and its collectable. The tea pot in the collection is worth about £213.00 or $350.00. That’s crazy!

We went to a local antique shop here, and I did find a really cool old book, signed by the author, and sadly the store didn’t take credit cards, plus the book was probably really old, and thus really expensive. So I’m probably lucky that he didn’t take credit.

What I used to collect:

- Comics. (I really can’t fathom paying $2.00 a pop for a comic now.)
- Silk flags of “cool” bands from back in the day. I had Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, and a few others.
- Lego’s
- books, and cd’s from the Doors.

What I collect now:

- Rubber ducks (they have to be just right though.)
- Lego’s (I really only have one big Lego, and its the Millenium Falcon.)
- Old Books.
- China. When we moved in, Nanny had 1 or 2 different sets, and I just unpacked one from my parents.