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Thanks to Pierre for this.

Scotiabank Place – Tuesday May 16. I have no idea how much tix are.

Hmm…I wonder what day my new classes will be in the spring?

This summer I don’t anticipate any major trips. There may be one out to Calgary to see Kevin during the Stampede. That would be wild.

But…other than that, nothing much. No real big trips planned. I think I may keep all my holidays locked away in a nice place called ‘Save ’em for Eurotrip 2007!’

But what’s a boy to do when stuck in the province for the summer? Well well well…the Sam Roberts Band is on tour. What better way to ring in the summer with a road trip (maximum 400 km drive) to anywhere they play? Hell yeah!

That’s going to be my goal this summer. Lucas and I had this thought of trying to hit up a town festival every Friday and Saturday during the summer. We think it’s possible to find some kind of festival going on each and every weekend in Ontario. You know the ones I’m talking about…BeefFest, Carp Fair, Lumberjack…every town has one, you just have to find it!

Most of you are laughing at me right now because there’s still freakin’ snow on the ground everywhere and I’m thinking about summer.

Guess what – summer is in the air my friends. I can SMELL it. Patios will be open soon enough and times will be good once again.

Embrace it.

I was gung ho to start swimming again today (after a hiatus of…oh…8 months?). I even bought myself a new gym bag so it can carry my school books and my big towel.

Speaking about gym bags – $60 at Sports Experts, $9 at The Bay.

Come on…what does the Sports Experts bag do differently? Sure it may be configured differently and the pockets may have some super duper sealant so your dirty socks don’t stink outside of the bag…but please. I am insulted by the mere notion that anyone would spend that much on a gym bag. It’s a BAG.

Anyhow, I get home last night after class, start packing up the new gym bag, but I hit the stumbling block.

Does anyone know where my swimming trunks went? That would be swell if you could let me know. Thanks!

I had this wild dream right before I woke this morning where Philipp, Carrie and other friends were on some sort of bus/train in Europe and Philipp was sitting a few seats up in front of me with Carrie. In front of Philipp were some Mexicans who randomly pull out a high powered rifle and then shoot some guy eating at a bistro. Then we’re all quiet because we don’t want them to see us and shoot us (let’s get real here…we’re on a bus!) but Philipp comes back to me when everyone is about to get off the bus and says “This is why I don’t like the world anymore.” and then we walk quietly away but then they see us and start slowly walking towards us. That’s when I woke up all crazy.

Holy moly, dreams are crazy.

http://likearubberball.blogspot.com/

Well…you know you’ve hit the big leagues when you make it onto my side menu as one of the blogs I read!

What can I say about Kevin? I haven’t actually met the guy before (as far as I know!) but he works with James and I started noticing his great comments concerning all things Apple, technology and music. Heck, for awhile I thought someone was playiing a prank on me and set up my clone’s blog!

Anyhow, it’s at the point where I say “Hmm…I wonder what Kevin has to say today” so that’s an automatic side menu entry right there.

Congrats on making the cut Kevin! Too bad Matt is about to get cut any day now for putting up non-interesting sporadic entries. 😉 He’s not cut out for this sort of thing.

Saturday afternoon for 8 hours brought me into Alex’s basement to frame up some walls.

I have never done such a thing so I was anxious to learn as I will be attempting to do so with my own basement eventually.

I must say it was cool to see something come together! Duncan, Alex and I ended up having a pretty good system going after awhile and it went smoothly until the end of it all in the last hour where something went horribly awry and we had to rip out a few boards.

I must also say that Duncan has a natural talent for this sort of thing. Whereas my brain was going to mush at some points trying to figure out measurements and whatnot, he had a clear head for this sort of thing. He did work in a lumber yard for quite a few years so I’m assuming he got some of this knowlege from there. If you ever need help on construction, call Duncan over!

What’s the greatest thing in the world right now? The H0me Depot Rental Centre. Soooo convenient. Especially if you don’t own a ramset.

I’ll be managing my time wisely for the next month to help out Alex with his renovations. Between that and school, I don’t think there’ll be much time for anything else. Sorry Vero!

Hey, what’s the weekend without a few games or four?

Friday night, we played some charades which was fun. It was made up charades so the pieces of paper had some interesting things to act out. My personal fave was Duncan acting out an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Saturday night, we played Scattergories over at James and Ferda’s castle. They were having a games night which consisted of Mexican Dominoes, Mario Party, Scattergories…and I think they were ending Cranium when we walked in. We got there super late due to the work being done on Alex’s place. Not a big deal though. I got to see the people I wanted to see (aka everybody!) and Vero and I won at Scattergories. We are the champs. I can actually say that no one can beat us.
However, when talking about champs, Joelle claimed that she was the reigning Monolopy Queen which I scoffed so we set up a challenge.

Sunday afternoon brought on Monopoly where Joelle was the first one out. Granted, I didn’t do well either. I think a Joelle Vs. Palmer competition is what is needed to determine the true champ.

http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to_senate20060303.html – Read this.

“I think it’s time for us to abolish the Senate in Canada.” – Dalton McGuinty

Is it just me or have we not heard similar words from a high up figure in the past year? Who could that be? Oh yes…this guy.

Emperor Palpatine of Naboo. Yikes. We all know what happened when he came into power. Hopefully Premier McGuinty doesn’t have a mean streak!