Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Hump Day Eh! Random thoughts from the brain...

  • Well summer is almost over... School is almost back in...
  • The season and the city are about to be filled with a buzz of colour again.
  • I had tea today with a really dear friend that is moving away to Kingston to go back to school for 4 years. Good for her. I am proud of her for taking care of herself... I will miss her. I suspect that there are a few road trips coming up in the future!
  • The peach pie was really good! Even the day after, I actually finished the last piece last night.
  • Work is stressing me out. Just like all jobs at some point, just need to get off this friggn pilot... grrr.
  • Going to a wedding in Oshawa this weekend. Chris's Uncle is getting married. What is an appropriate gift from a group? I a card and a gift certificate is appropriate... Any suggestions?
  • Happy Birthday to my Mother today. I am not sure if she reads this but I doubt she would have an issue with me revealing her age... Happy 54th today Mom!
  • Looks like we are moving again. I am happy about this! I am really excited for windows :) An absolute requirement... no more basement dungeons! I dread the thought of having to go through all the evil real estate crap again like on Stanley St. so, when this house went up for sale it was clear that it meant... time to move!
  • I need to go spend some time with my godson and his parents.
  • I am happy to see that the Canadians finally showed up for the Olympics and started winning some medals! Go Canada Go! Visit the Athens Olympics Blog to keep yourself up to date.
  • Hostage shooting in Toronto!! Today!!! Are we finally succumbing to the American way?
  • I think I want to get a new tattoo. Maybe something the celebrate my 20's? Who knows!
  • Just in case you are hungry how about a 6 pound burger?
  • The Winnipeg Police are showing streaming video of hookers!
  • Finally the non smokers are having an effect on the cancer stick makers.
  • Playboy goes CGI!

Well that is it for this moment... gonna go back to my Olympics addiction... Only a few days left.

L8R Eh!


Sunday, August 22, 2004

Day in the Life with Peach Pie...

Well I have officially created my first peach pie! Truthfully I actually followed a recipe...lol
It was looking pretty sketchy there for a bit. It was looking A wee bit runny at the beginning, but a fast cook on 425 F for 20 minutes helped create a sweet plump, golden peach pie!

I found this recipe after 20 minutes with Ask Jeeves. All in total I think I invested 30 minutes of prep time plus 30 mins of cooking time. Not bad for a pie that I would rate at an 8 out 10. From what I read the Mean Chef seems to have a bunch of other really easy & tasty sounding recipes.

All in all the weekend was pretty uproductive. I think the highlight was getting new squash balls to try out this week. Got my hair cut too, but other than that we did squat all weekend. I was kinda nice to not not have anywhere to go.

So my car is officially good on gas. I filled up this weekend when started to get nervous and filled up at 540.8 kms on my last tank of gas. Close to 300 hundred of it was highway travel back and forth from club Caleba last weekend, but then I drove around the city and back and forth to work for a week on the remainder! Ahh the joys of owning a little red rice rocket.

Any hoo back to the olympics...

Enjoy the pie :-P

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Just in case...

... You feel the need to play god... turn up your volume!
thanks Biz.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Important SP2 Info...

Just read an important article on our current edition at work.

IF you have XP you need to read this!!!

Other than that sorry I haven't written much lately. It is summer and I have been really busy with work.

Have also been glued to the TV now that the Olympics are on. It amazes me some of the physical strengths that these incredible individuals have obtained.

Maybe I grew up a sheltered life... ( this I doubt...LOL) but do you ever remember competing at a world class level when you were say 17 or18? Or how about being able to do a 3 and a half somersault with a couple twists off a diving board, while staying in synch with another diver the whole time? Or possibly you remember swimming 400 meters in just a couple of minutes. Maybe it was the lifting a couple times your body weight over your head in a clean and jerk motion?

It is absolutely outstanding to me, the accomplishments that these young athletes are currently establishing in there sports of expertise. Well done to all of them!

Check in what's going on at this 14 day spectacle of finely tuned biological machines @ 2004 Summer The official 2004 Summer Olympics site.

Well back to reading ITA...
Enjoy

Chat@chya
L