Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Random news

Opened up the newspaper today to see that a friend from high school is a main character on a new TV show. Crazy...

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=18cb9b60-e430-402b-a9ed-48c9d81e8a23

Until later :)

Friday, August 25, 2006

Adventures in Puppy Sitting



So awesome :) Patches in the greatest pose ever.

More Ontario pictures

Well, apparently you shouldn't try to add 5 pictures two times... makes the whole thing come crashing down around you :(. Here are the rest of the pictures (added 1 at a time, this blog thing needs to work on ease of adding pictures... yeesh).








A tree in Kingston.



















Monarch butterfly. Not usually too interesting I suppose, but we don't see many of them at home.












One of the nice sunsets we got.



















Another sunset picture.














Mirror in the lake.










A cool picture of the water.













Another cool sunset, another night.












Loons on the lake. Saw them quite a few days.













Lilypads.












Yet another sunset (seeing a theme?).













Well, that's it for now. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Ontario pictures! (round 1)






Looking out at the lake.












Raccoon at the cottage.
















Light on the cottage. Playing with the camera is fun :)
















Mike and Colin playing on the canoe.















Just a cool picture of reeds on the edge of the lake.

















Mike diving into the lake.
















Danielle, Colin and Mike by the lake in Kingston.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Longest week ever!

The first week back from holidays is usually either absolutely insane, or incredibly dull. Sadly, the later applies here. Most of my floor is gone on vacation or out of the office for various reasons, leaving me with not a lot to do. When I went away, I'd pretty much managed to tie up any loose ends I needed to, so now, well, I guess it's blog time. I'd consider going home, but people have been setting up 1 important meeting a day, and with everyone else already gone, I really shouldn't be too... seems like a bad plan to have no representation from anyone in our group.

On to other things, the week in Ontario was nice, lots of time spent sitting by a lake and reading books. I finally read one of the Margaret Atwood books we bought at the Calgary Herald book sale a while back, I think it was The Blind Assasin. It was pretty good, must have been considering I made it through 600 pages in about 3 days. I'll have to take a stab at some of her other books now. Maybe that'll be a good winter time project... We did a bit of canoeing, went swimming, even got a chance to go into Kingston for a few hours. There are a lot of new buildings on campus! The new ILC building is pretty cool, with all the cutouts in the floor and walls to show how it all works and the new buildings where the old chemistry buildings were have gone up. They must have kept some limestone from somewhere to match the rest of the buildings, the new ones fit in really well. Mike got a new Queen's t-shirt to replace his old on that had way too many holes in it to keep. The next step will be convincing him to throw out the old one, and I don't like my chances there...

Otherwise, all is well, and things are starting to wind down. We get to go the fireworks show this weekend. I've heard it's pretty cool, so I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself for the first time.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Scary news in the world :S

Looks like our time at the airport tomorrow should be interesting...

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20060810%2fairport_delays_060810&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True

Pretty scary happenings, definitely doesn't make you want to go out and get on an airplane tomorrow. Hopefully they've actually caught most of the people who were willing to blow themselves up in this round.


Anyways, we're off to Toronto tomorrow, so I hope everyone has a great week!

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Wahoo it worked! Some funny pictures

On our backpacking trip in Kananaskis, I think Mike and Ricky were a wee bit tired.

And I think I know why... Our packs might have been a little bit uneven...





















That's all for today. We're going to go cut down a tree in a little while. Should be exciting!

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Grrr...

For some reason, the site doesn't want to let me post another picture. Kind of annoying, though it's possible that it's my computer's fault. Not sure what's going on, but I'm going to bed, so the funny pics from our backpacking trip a few weeks back will have to wait. Boo to that!

More pictures

Some pictures from camping and the Burgess Shale hike in Yoho last weekend:

Takakkaw falls: pretty impressive!



A mountain view on our hike.


Lunch time on the hike.


At the Burgess Shale site, lots of cool fossils:




Mike and I at the end of the hike.


Group photo.


Some wildflower pictures I thought turned out well.


That's all for now!

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Latest updates

Well, it's a bit of a quiet day at work, most of my floor seems to be gone on vacation. I'll be doing the same in a couple of week (hopefully the heat wave that is currently hitting southern Ontario will have passed somewhat, 49oC in Peterborough earlier this week just doesn't sound like a pleasant time...). We're going to head out and spend some time on a lake with Mike's family, and hopefully get in to Kingston for a day since Mike really wants a new Queen's shirt (the old one has so many holes that you can barely call it a shirt, yet he keeps wearing it!). I must say I'm excited to try Ontario cottage country in the summer, it should be beautiful, though I'm pretty sure we'll be wishing for AC after a couple days.

So otherwise things are pretty much the same. Lots of ulti, we had quite the issues last week with the other team, but fortunately the same thing didn't repeat this week and we had a fun game last night. Pilates is going well, but definitely getting tougher every week. I've got to start going a second time a week to use up the 10 passes I bought in July since I managed to miss a couple Mondays and will be missing more while we're gone. We're puppy sitting this week, which will be exciting. First time I've really lived with a dog, but it'll be a good time. We're going to spend the weekend hopefully getting things done around the house (i.e. taming my insanely weedy garden).

I'll post some pictures from our Burgess Shale hike in Yoho last weekend. It was a beautiful weekend, couldn't have asked for better weather, and the hike was cool. Lots of good views, and the Burgess Shale itself was really neat. Hard to believe someone just accidentally stumbled onto that...

Until next time...