Hi,
How have you been lately?
Tomorrow at 11am mountain time (10am pacific, 1pm eastern) you should take a picture.
It should have some orange in it. or maybe be a little spooky.
you should put it here when you’re done: meow!
that is all I’ve got for right now, so I’ll talk at you later.
two days late 
I could edit the date this was posted to show I’m not always late, but that requires more effort than I’m willing to put in right now. yes, I’m feeling so lazy that I’m not going to do about 5 mouse clicks…
Anyway, I’m really just posting to break the rather loong streak of silence here, to remind the (one) reader that I am still alive and kicking, just busy with stuff that doesn’t really seem to be worth writing about.
In short, my summer has been winning the ball hockey championship (for the 2nd season in a row), yet again not enough camping or hiking, trying to sell a house I own with my brother but then buying it outright instead, not enough biking… basically too much stuff I have to do but really don’t want to and not enough of the things I like to do.
My camera has been gathering dust, I’ve been dealing with yet another injury (the foot this time, always great to hurt something new), and generally haven’t had time to sit and gather my thoughts for more than a few minutes before I’m off to do something else.
Fortunately, I’ve been able to tie off a lot of loose ends over this most recent stretch of silence, and this means I’m now able to find the time to sit and bore you to tears.
In celebration of my birthday, I thought I’d take the time to generally outline what I see myself doing in my 36th year on this planet. Plus, with this on record I pretty much have to follow through on it.
- reducing debt (the bank list is down to 3 from 5, and in 6 months it will be down to just 2) Debt free in ’09 (with the exception of my house) is the goal, I just need to stay focused to make it a reality.
- traveling to Denver in February and Montreal in March – both to spend time with friends but also to attend hockey games 
- pushing and participating in p/d/p more than I have been (other projects as well)
- reducing the clutter in my life – literal and figurative
- taking better care of myself – dealing with a knee problem 2 years ago and now a foot / ankle problem for the last 10-12 months I can’t ignore the fact that I need to find balance in what I do, or find better, less painful ways to do what I enjoy.
- find ways to break out of the closed environment I find myself in. new activities, volunteering… that sort of thing.
- become a more valuable employee (that sound so lame… I really mean find ways to not be bored at work) – I was approached the other day with a pretty outstanding offer within my current company that may push my career (I have a career? it sounds so grown up ) in completely different direction. I’d be a fool to turn this down, so I may be doing some book learnin’ soon.. here’s hoping my brain hasn’t completely atrophied over the last 5 years and I can live up to their expectations.
so yeah, a pretty general list, but if I hit all that I have laid out here I should be a pretty busy and somewhat different person sitting here talking to you a year from now.
talk at you later.
September 6th
4am GMT
aka 10pm Friday September 5 in MST
aka 9pm PST
seeing as how we are basically a day away howzabout we just do away with the theme for this month?
alternatively, what about taking photos in.. color accent? is that a universal feature for most digital cameras?
I’d really like to try some HDR for p/d/p, but that may not work depending on the theme we pick… unless HDR is the theme and we just take pictures of anything we want
So how do you follow an amazing day of entertaining music?
well, you start by getting up at 430 in the morning, packing your car and only then noticing you have messages waiting for you as you are about to drive out to Canmore for the 24 hours of Adrenalin bike race.
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Saturday brings the first full day of music, with workshops and individual concerts on 6 different stages that run almost non stop from 1030am until 530pm.
I definitely had some people I wanted to check out from what I had seen on Thursday and Friday, but I really wish I could have been in two (or three) places at once because the overlap from one stage to another made it difficult to get to see absolutely everything I wanted.
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Is there anything better than a gathering outdoors with friends to listen to a constant parade of great music?
I only knew the headliners performing tonight, but sitting through the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Charlie Musslewhite, Wendy McNeil, Be Good Tanyas, Andrew Bird, and Calexico before I got to them (Bedouin Soundclash) was certainly not a chore.. in fact, it was downright pleasant.
Having zero expectations I just sat back and enjoyed everything that was offered to me. In fact, I can’t think of a single performer that had me wishing their set was shorter, or thinking that they were a misfit for tonight… all good energy, good entertainment and great music, which usually means my CD collection is about to start growing again.
I can’t wait for what tomorrow brings
Day 1 brought us Master Musicians of Jajouka, The Weakerthans, Aimee Mann, and Sam Roberts, with 2 of the 4 bands that convinced me to buy tickets for this year on opening night I was certain this is going to be a good show.
The lineup to get in to the grounds was horrendous looking (and kept getting worse), but when we made the decision to line up it surprisingly moved along quite quickly, getting us inside within 15 minutes. Once inside I see Susan selling programs (I talked with her for a bit, long enough to get separated from my group) and in the background I can see and smell food alley…
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Over on the “Games Night” page, Scott has been kind enough to provide the latest information. While it was needed, I’m glad to see he didn’t increase his post count while doing it. I don’t know what I’d do if he got to 5 total posts by the end of 2008, so this leaves him plenty of room to work with.
In other news, I finally got around to updating the cycling map page. I decided to do away with the route line (for now) and just go with markers indicating where I finished up each year and where I am currently. Huzzah for being in Atlantic Canada!
I figure that if I maintain my current pace I should be done my coast to coast virtual journey by the end of the year… and then I may modify the route I have been using to include the northern coast as well.
what can I say, I need to have something to ride for. 
Tonight I went out to Canmore to do a practice run for this years installment of 24 hours of punishment, and I have to say I wasn’t totally disappointed with my efforts.
After an initial gong show to get myself on my bike and actually riding (it took 40 minutes to get out of downtown, I forgot my helmet, my camera, my large tire pump, I scratched my car when my bike fell over, I didn’t bring bug spray), I set off up what I believe the start will be for this year (I didn’t see the map until writing this post), and promptly almost bail on some rocks. Fortunately nobody was around to see that (mental note: don’t do that on race day), and I resume riding on what I have now named the highway to hell.
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yeah, so about this p/d/p thing….
The next one is scheduled to run this weekend. Details as follows:
July 5th
2am GMT converter
I believe this is another of those friday night ones for us in north america, but I’m not sure
there was no vote for a theme soo… go crazy.
