Day: June 30, 2010

Speaking about Mike, it is his 29th birthday today.

Mike is a pretty decent guy. I can’t say that he’s let me down all that much in my life and if you ask him, I’m sure I’ve let him down a lot more times than him! Don’t get him started on his ‘battle wounds’ that he acquires when he’s out for a good night of drinking with me. At one point, Mike’s parents were thinking of taking out extra insurance out when he goes out with me!

Mike shares the same qualities that I do…he is constantly striving to be a gentleman, he cares about people and he likes to have a good time.

What friend would feed you beer while you’re relaxing AND wear a shirt with ‘Palmer’ on it? Only Mike!

I am honoured to call this man my friend and I hope he has one of the better birthdays he can ever have.

Mike obtains a lifetime pass to our hot tub on his birthday today. Cheers!

I expect everyone to give Mike some birthday wishes today!

**Picture taken from the Ottawa Citizen news article.

It’s definitely official…the man who is Mayor in Ottawa is running for another term.

I’m actually excited that he is running again for the fact that I was saying the other day that I don’t really know of what he or the city council have accomplished in the past four years. With him running again, I’m sure his promotional campaign will make it clear what they accomplished!

Too bad that they can’t really put anything that matters to us most…the future of public transit (Hello Light Rail!), street expansion (is it just me or is Trim Road faster to walk down than to drive down these days?), and general awesomeness.

My favourite moment of the Mayor being in Office is when the day after he was elected, Mike says “I’m sure glad I didn’t vote for that guy!” but meanwhile, the month before that he was commenting about how he was excited to see him in office and when it came down to the vote, I think an episode of Golden Girls was on and he decided to watch that instead.

Mike, history will never forget that you thought Gollum would have made a decent mayor. At least the history of Palmer won’t allow it to be hidden from the public!

Anyhow, here’s to an interesting election. I’m excited to see how the spin doctors will make it sound like the Mayor accomplished much of all. $10 says they’ll mention something about a successful bus strike in the cold cold winter months of ’09!