Goin' ta Edmonton this weekend. I think I need to make an 'Awesome Road Trip Songs' MP3 mix disc. I love having a classic car with an mp3 deck. Oh yeah, I'm awesome.
Too much office work this week. I don't mind I guess, but I get pretty darn bored. On the plus side I got to catch up on a lot of stuff. Alison is coming in today to help me design the St. Bon Youth web page. I wanna get a new logo going on and stuff too, so I might hit her up for that. I'm excited... I wanna have an awesome page that youth AND youth ministers can dig into for good stuff.
So I'm going through various brochures of speakers. I'm gonna draft mine next week. I need to get the girlie to take a good portrait for me!
Fantasizing about white water so much these days. I'm seriously itchin for the season to start. I know I can hit the Kan, but it's really cold and I don't have a long suit anymore, so my knees would get REALLY cold. I'm gonna buy a dry top next month... that'll help a lot. I think I'm gonna do a lot of boogie boarding this summer. I was watching a white water show the other night and these 5 guys did a first descent down this mexican river. The big part of the trip was a 75 foot waterfall that this guy did on a river board. It's kinda like a boogie board, only thicker, and with handles and stuff. My original plan was to get good enough at kayaking to run elbow falls next summer. I still wanna do that, but I'm already quite experienced on a boogie board in the river. I figure with a season of practice this year on the kan and maybe some steep creeks around the sheep and highwood, then next summer I'll be good enough and confident enough to drop elbow falls on my board. I'll have to modify it a bit for impact and stuff, but that'll be no problem. Should probably also do some low cliff jumps with it to get used to dropping into water with it headfirst.
Anyway, thats my oh so exciting life right now!
Friday, April 23, 2004
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Umm... not creative enough to think of a title
Kinda tired today. Went Kayaking last night in the U of C pool. It was good... Me and Pituch were taking rolling lessons. It was good to get the whole thing shown to me properly. I've taught myself how to roll, but since my success in the river was about 1 in 100 it would be good to learn properly. I did learn some stuff, and it was good to have some instructor help. Now I'm ready to bomb some mad white water.
Weekend was good. Involved the trap, kill bill 2, bookers, and the king eddy. Had a great time. Went dancing... yep... that's right... dancing again for the first time in ages. It felt REALLY good. Me and Erin are hanging out tonight, so I'm gonna bring Marcus and Barbl along (video tape) and work on lindy with her for a bit.... mmmm... lindy.
Wow... I sound boring today... ah well... feelin good.
Weekend was good. Involved the trap, kill bill 2, bookers, and the king eddy. Had a great time. Went dancing... yep... that's right... dancing again for the first time in ages. It felt REALLY good. Me and Erin are hanging out tonight, so I'm gonna bring Marcus and Barbl along (video tape) and work on lindy with her for a bit.... mmmm... lindy.
Wow... I sound boring today... ah well... feelin good.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Ow... my leg
SoI hijacked Erin's blog today. Check it out over on the sidebar over there -->.
Was up waaay too late last night... but I was hanging out with Erin which always rocks... soooooo madly in love. She made me so happy last night I got teary. How girly is that eh? So to prove my manhood I went down to see Chrys at Bushido Tattoos and Body Piercing on 12th ave and 4th st downtown. Of course, she went with me and held my hand... but that's beside the point. The point is I spent 3 very macho hours in a lot of pain getting the big ancient Cross of the Scriptures from Clonmacnoise. It's a 4m high sandstone cross beautifully carved in the 900s. Chrys did an amazing job on it so far. It looks like 3D stonework. We're gonna add some opaque shading later on when I have a bit more money to make it look more stoney, but its seriously gorgeous. I'm modifying it a bit to put an alpha and omega on two of the rings, but otherwise its a great depiction. It hurt a lot though... not as much as people said it would, but still a lot. Long long three hours. Seriously, can't say enough about Chrys. If you want some good work done, go talk to that guy... highly reccommended. He took some ideas and photos I had of claddagh rings and this cross... not really detailed or anything, and turned them into beautiful portraits. I didn't know exactly what I wanted them to look like till he was done, and then I knew it was exactly what he drew for me.
Anyway, did my tax return... yay... loads o money coming back in... it'll put me 5 months ahead on my debt payment schedule... or... buy me a motorbike. No... debt payment.
Erin's almost done her work here too, so I'm gonna go take more tests on emode till she's finished.
Was up waaay too late last night... but I was hanging out with Erin which always rocks... soooooo madly in love. She made me so happy last night I got teary. How girly is that eh? So to prove my manhood I went down to see Chrys at Bushido Tattoos and Body Piercing on 12th ave and 4th st downtown. Of course, she went with me and held my hand... but that's beside the point. The point is I spent 3 very macho hours in a lot of pain getting the big ancient Cross of the Scriptures from Clonmacnoise. It's a 4m high sandstone cross beautifully carved in the 900s. Chrys did an amazing job on it so far. It looks like 3D stonework. We're gonna add some opaque shading later on when I have a bit more money to make it look more stoney, but its seriously gorgeous. I'm modifying it a bit to put an alpha and omega on two of the rings, but otherwise its a great depiction. It hurt a lot though... not as much as people said it would, but still a lot. Long long three hours. Seriously, can't say enough about Chrys. If you want some good work done, go talk to that guy... highly reccommended. He took some ideas and photos I had of claddagh rings and this cross... not really detailed or anything, and turned them into beautiful portraits. I didn't know exactly what I wanted them to look like till he was done, and then I knew it was exactly what he drew for me.
Anyway, did my tax return... yay... loads o money coming back in... it'll put me 5 months ahead on my debt payment schedule... or... buy me a motorbike. No... debt payment.
Erin's almost done her work here too, so I'm gonna go take more tests on emode till she's finished.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Happy Easter
Well, it's been a week, and things are flying.
Easter was great this year... one of the best I've ever had I'd say. Only thing missing was my parents (I know, pretty big thing) but Easter was never the big Holiday for us. AND they're having fun in India... it's super cool my mom gets to see the taj mahal this week. Its something she's wanted her entire life, so that's really cool.
Back to my Easter. Stations on friday went great... the kids did a fantastic job and the congregation really liked it too. Saturday I went to the Virtue's place. That was awesome... their daughter was baptised at Easter and I was working with her, hence the connection. Such a cool family. I'm gonna invite them rafting this summer, they seem adventurous.
The vigil was awesome. Erin came and I finally got to sit with her. She's lucky for being short, everyone pushed her up closer during the baptisms, so she had a front row view of everything... I didn't even get that and I was the RCIT coordinator!! But it was a really awesome vigil. I surprised her after with pink fluffly slippers... she freaked... best $20 I ever spent!
I went to dinner at her place sunday, met her grandparents and aunt... It was cool... got easter dinner. Went to my place for easter dinner with Josh and his parents too... mmmm... two easter dinners.
Today I took my cousin Taylor (he's 4) to the leisure centre. It was a lot of fun... I got to play on waterslides and ropes with him, that is until he conked his head good. You should see the bump... it's HUGE! His mom hasn't called me asking what the heck I did to her son or to tell me he's in a coma yet though, so it's okay. AND after 20 minutes of sulking he was right back on the water slides!
Anyway, gotta run to Erin's for timmys... mmm... tea.
Easter was great this year... one of the best I've ever had I'd say. Only thing missing was my parents (I know, pretty big thing) but Easter was never the big Holiday for us. AND they're having fun in India... it's super cool my mom gets to see the taj mahal this week. Its something she's wanted her entire life, so that's really cool.
Back to my Easter. Stations on friday went great... the kids did a fantastic job and the congregation really liked it too. Saturday I went to the Virtue's place. That was awesome... their daughter was baptised at Easter and I was working with her, hence the connection. Such a cool family. I'm gonna invite them rafting this summer, they seem adventurous.
The vigil was awesome. Erin came and I finally got to sit with her. She's lucky for being short, everyone pushed her up closer during the baptisms, so she had a front row view of everything... I didn't even get that and I was the RCIT coordinator!! But it was a really awesome vigil. I surprised her after with pink fluffly slippers... she freaked... best $20 I ever spent!
I went to dinner at her place sunday, met her grandparents and aunt... It was cool... got easter dinner. Went to my place for easter dinner with Josh and his parents too... mmmm... two easter dinners.
Today I took my cousin Taylor (he's 4) to the leisure centre. It was a lot of fun... I got to play on waterslides and ropes with him, that is until he conked his head good. You should see the bump... it's HUGE! His mom hasn't called me asking what the heck I did to her son or to tell me he's in a coma yet though, so it's okay. AND after 20 minutes of sulking he was right back on the water slides!
Anyway, gotta run to Erin's for timmys... mmm... tea.
Monday, April 05, 2004
Time to update
Haven't really written much for a while... life is pretty crazy.
Work is flying along. I was getting up against the wall here for easter for a while, but I've got the stations of the cross practice going on nicely, and a good crew for that. The thinkfast was very successful (and tiring) so that's out of the way. My only big thing now is finishing off preps for easter and good friday. I'm excited for the vigil. I missed it at St. Bon last year and didn't get to see any baptisms. This year I have 3 kids being baptised (by kids I mean teenagers), so your prayers for Jen, Devon and Michelle are most welcomed.
I've taken up some light reading. The river safety anthology. What it should be called is "detailed descriptions of people dying in whitewater kayaks". Its a bunch of accident reports and commentary by my whitewater hero, Charlie Walbridge. Its such a depressing book, and I'm pretty sure it's screwing up my dreams cuz I read it before bed. BUT, it's good for me. It has details of mistakes people made that caused the accidents, and rescue strategies that would have worked better and stuff like that. Still, it's hard to read about some poor guy up to his waist in freezing water holding his buddy's head up while someone else tries to free his crushed leg from his pinned kayak for about 2 hours before the victim finally loses conciousness. The saddest story I read was about a guy who pinned on a rock. He was wedged between his boat (upstream) and the rock (downstream) so they couldn't get him out of the kayak, and it took 10 guys to pull the boat off. The sad part was his friends kept his head up the whole time, but they couldn't get a rope onto his boat, and the water level slowly rose until they couldn't reach the loop anymore and the poor guy was submerged.
So the logical question is why the heck would I want to read that stuff. Well, I don't wanna die in whitewater. Reading about other people's death will keep my judgement on the side of cautious, and my preparations and reading will be better and more careful. I'm used to a raft where I can plow through big holes, drop steep ledges, and surf anything without too much fear. Kayaks you gotta be careful not to pin or get recirculated, so I'm gonna practice hard and keep my head in the game.
Watched Radio and Swing Kids with Erin this week. Mmmm... Erin. I ended up falling asleep on saturday night on her couch and staying pretty late as a result... but it was nice. Poor girl though, had to get up for work after like an hour and a half of sleep. She helped me take pictures of strangers downtown yesterday. It was so much fun. I was REALLY nervous about asking strangers, but got 4 of the pics. Then she kicked into overdrive and got the other 5 I needed. I think her method of running up to someone all excited and asking if she could take their portrait worked better than my "Excuse me, we're doing a project on diversity, could we take your portrait". She came to church with me after which was cool... it was palm sunday, so it was a bit long. I wish I didn't have to play when she comes along so that I could sit with her, but David is there, so its all good.
Anyway, that's life in a nutshell... hope the rest of your lent goes well.
Work is flying along. I was getting up against the wall here for easter for a while, but I've got the stations of the cross practice going on nicely, and a good crew for that. The thinkfast was very successful (and tiring) so that's out of the way. My only big thing now is finishing off preps for easter and good friday. I'm excited for the vigil. I missed it at St. Bon last year and didn't get to see any baptisms. This year I have 3 kids being baptised (by kids I mean teenagers), so your prayers for Jen, Devon and Michelle are most welcomed.
I've taken up some light reading. The river safety anthology. What it should be called is "detailed descriptions of people dying in whitewater kayaks". Its a bunch of accident reports and commentary by my whitewater hero, Charlie Walbridge. Its such a depressing book, and I'm pretty sure it's screwing up my dreams cuz I read it before bed. BUT, it's good for me. It has details of mistakes people made that caused the accidents, and rescue strategies that would have worked better and stuff like that. Still, it's hard to read about some poor guy up to his waist in freezing water holding his buddy's head up while someone else tries to free his crushed leg from his pinned kayak for about 2 hours before the victim finally loses conciousness. The saddest story I read was about a guy who pinned on a rock. He was wedged between his boat (upstream) and the rock (downstream) so they couldn't get him out of the kayak, and it took 10 guys to pull the boat off. The sad part was his friends kept his head up the whole time, but they couldn't get a rope onto his boat, and the water level slowly rose until they couldn't reach the loop anymore and the poor guy was submerged.
So the logical question is why the heck would I want to read that stuff. Well, I don't wanna die in whitewater. Reading about other people's death will keep my judgement on the side of cautious, and my preparations and reading will be better and more careful. I'm used to a raft where I can plow through big holes, drop steep ledges, and surf anything without too much fear. Kayaks you gotta be careful not to pin or get recirculated, so I'm gonna practice hard and keep my head in the game.
Watched Radio and Swing Kids with Erin this week. Mmmm... Erin. I ended up falling asleep on saturday night on her couch and staying pretty late as a result... but it was nice. Poor girl though, had to get up for work after like an hour and a half of sleep. She helped me take pictures of strangers downtown yesterday. It was so much fun. I was REALLY nervous about asking strangers, but got 4 of the pics. Then she kicked into overdrive and got the other 5 I needed. I think her method of running up to someone all excited and asking if she could take their portrait worked better than my "Excuse me, we're doing a project on diversity, could we take your portrait". She came to church with me after which was cool... it was palm sunday, so it was a bit long. I wish I didn't have to play when she comes along so that I could sit with her, but David is there, so its all good.
Anyway, that's life in a nutshell... hope the rest of your lent goes well.
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