A Great Hockey Commercial.

A masterpiece:



This was the polar opposite of Scotia Bank's "Breakfast Nook" 30 second disaster.

Nice work!

Live Blog: From the Gas Pump.

I heard on 660 News last week that gas thefts are on the rise here in Calgary. I see that some gas stations are taking pre-emptive action. The Co-op gas station in Crowfoot has "self serve" pasted all over the place. But they now have gas attendants filling up your tank anyway. The only reason for this extra labour expense must be because they have been victims of these gas thefts. Interesting.

The Case of the Mysterious Footprints.

This morning when I was leaving for work, I noticed some curious muddy footprints coming from the street to the front door. A messy paperboy?


What could it be?


No paper on the front step.


No flyers or phone books - the mystery deepens.






Mystery solved! It was Maddie!

King Kong's Demise

I just found out that one of my favorite rides in Universal Studios has been destroyed by a huge fire this morning! The ride was an awesome stage show. You start off on a nice leisurely tram ride thru the "set" and then an important news cast comes on saying that there is something wreaking havoc on the city! A helicopter falls thru the roof, our tram gets shaken up and King Kong's face appears at the side at the car! The fire also swept thru the Brownstone street facade and the courthouse from Back to the Future. :-( I wonder what they will do now with those areas? Rebuild or use this to do a new feature? The King Kong stage has been there since I was there in 1977, but it is ( was ) a great one. This video was taken when Maddie and I were in L.A. last Easter. Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Fire killed the Beast.

Official sign of summer

After a full week of rain, the ground was soaked for days,
but one good thing came of all this water.......

.....Flowers finally started to bloom...

....and the grass grew... so you know what that means? Cut the grass time.
The sound of mowers and the smell of fresh cut grass has hit the air... summer is officially here!

Laundry strikes again!

Oh for heaven's sakes? What does my laundry room have against me? First I twisted my back/neck by putting clothes in the dryer, this time my hair got stuck on something?

I was trying to get the items that had fallen behind the dryer. 4 paper towel rolls, and a piece of tupperware. So I hopped up on the dryer and with one of those grabby things?, you know the pinchers at the end and you squeeze a handle? anyway, it was all working fine. I Had retrieved 3 of the rolls but I couldn't grab the last one so I was coming back to find something else to use, when, my hair was stuck on something sticking thru the shelf. I couldn't see it, and I couldn't tell how badly it was caught in my hair? I imagined Dean or Maddie coming home and finding me still caught there, but after struggling with it, and getting it loose from the clip in my hair, and untangling my hair at the same time, I was finally free.

I tell ya, I think I'm giving up on laundry. 3 strikes and I'm done!!! Who knows what that room has in store for me next!

Bite taken out of Shark

Well the first casualty of the Writer's strike to hit our house is Shark. We loved that show. James Woods is awesome, it was like a mini movie every week. I am very sad that our Thursday night line up ( who am I kidding, we PVR everything ) will be one less show. As it is our CSI's are getting us worried too. Grissom lost 2 great people this year, one a horrible death, and one a sad heart wrenching loss. Miami is really sucking this year, and then there is the ever reliable New York. But I am preparing for the cancellation of one of these, hopefully if one has to go it will be Horatio.

Hopefully another network will pick up Shark and run with it. James Woods is just too good not to be on TV.

How puzzling?

Have you ever done a puzzle with a missing piece? It's so frustrating. You throw the puzzle away cause you don't want to be frustrated again. Then.... 6 months later you move a book, and the missing piece falls out! Grrrr, I hate when that happens. I'm puzzled as to which dilemma is more annoying!

What to do when you can't go outside?

It has been raining almost continuously for 6 days nows. What is a person to do when The Drudge Report gets boring?




The Rubik's Cube, of course. Maddie bought it for me for Christmas and it has sat on the bookshelf taunting me unsolved for 5 months now.


With the help of Dan Brown on You Tube, I started my quest.


The cube's solution is simple enough but complicated in that you have to memorize certain algorithms depending on where on what step you are are on with the cube. Anyway, I started late last night and just a few minutes ago - bam - I solved the cube!



By actually memorizing the algorithms in Dan's video, the Cube is solvable in a few minutes. Very cool.


Rainy days and Rubik's Cubes are good for something!

Seemed smaller in the Showroom

Well, last week our brand new couch was delivered. I don't remember it being so big! It takes up allot of space. It's normal if I have to crawl over it get to the other side of the room right? But now we have a nice big comfy couch with lots of room for visitors. We don't have to crowd onto one couch any more. :-) The fight for the Chaise begins...moi haha. Just in time for Katie's visit!