Update

Not much to say. I have settled in nicely to condo life and am now taking Willys for granted. They know my name it seems and I don't know theirs. hmmm. The escort is still working. I will have to decide whether to cash in my 6 month graduate discount and buy a new car (in the fall sometime). I probably won't.

I did go to a wedding (Aron and Stephanie) last weekend in Southern Ontario! Me, me, pa drove to Hamilton where we stayed with grandma. Then on Friday, I rented a car from Enterprise and drove to Listowell where I met Aron. From there, we did some errands and made it eventually to Stephanie's house. Then the rehearsal, then onto Aron's house for mingling and table snacks. In the morning all the groomsmen took showers and changed into their tuxedos. We all looked super! A limo came and fetched us and we cruised around in style. The driver had to stop a number of times on request of some of the guys - including once to fetch a pepsi from the trunk so one boy could enjoy his rum drink. We took pictures in the long hot sun and did other things up until the big ceremony at 4 pm. As best man, I took it all very seriously. I had the rings in my inside breast pocket and fetched them with ease when asked by the minister. Although, I am not in too many pictures, I did take a lot myself --the exact number being 164.

That night I had some champage and wine with dinner and one beer. Later I didn't have any drinks and wanted to keep in tip-top shape as I had to take Aron and Steph to their hotel. My contacts began killing me as I had them in for quite a while that day (14 hrs) A small headache ensued, but nothing to spoil my evening. My speech was a veritable hit it seemed. This marks two times where I've engaged the audience well when speaking at a wedding. This comforts me coming off the heels of a disappointing school year in terms of public speaking. I continue to long to play baseball, and to a lesser degree squash. I hope to get tennis in tomorrow with andy clapson. Tonight I am going with some ppl from work to a club. This time, I am going at 10:30 rather than 9. Earlier today, I spent a great afternoon in Costco with jones. I bought a fall shirt, a winter jacket, and ordered up a pair of beauty glasses. I also almost bought some calvin klein cords, and a smart looking leather jacket. Costco has really expanded their clothing section and i like it.

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Meet the lynx! Come on and meet the lynx

Well I would never want to actually meet the Lynx, but Friday marked the 3rd time in four weeks -and 4th time overall this year- that I've taken in a ball game. It was the best one yet as the Syracuse Skychiefs, Toronto's farm team, were in town. The crowd was unbelievably lively and raucous. A lot of players who had spent time with the Jays were there that night, including: Russ Adams, Adam Lind, Sal Fasano (and his big moustache), John Hattig, Chad Motolla, and Ryan Roberts. The personal attacks on Sal Fasano and his facial hair were relentless. I called out Ryan Roberts on his hideous tattoos that covered his arms. I think we called him escaped prison inmate as he batted. Another line was, "When did you get out of the joint?" The beauty of all this is that it was televised by rogers cable 22 and I realize that I want to acquire a tape as you can clearly hear all the heckling on those telecasts. Lastly, I bugged Adam Lind who had struggled with a .230 average at the major league level before being sent down. As he sat watching the game from the dugout, I asked him if John Gibbons was a jerk, and if he had fought him. This was an obvious reference to the incident last season that Gibbons had with Shea Hillenbrand (now ex-jay).

The night was amazing as I enjoyed a Beavertail at St-Laurent Shopping Centre before-hand. My first in years and it was a Killahoe Sunrise. I then enjoyed the small size beer ($5 vs 10$ = easy choice for this fella) in the warm weather, all while heckling my guts out. The company was good too as people from work came. I am debating going to Monday's game as well as A.J. Burnett is throwing his rehab game. I have waited a long time to bust AJ's balls on his career .500 performance. This will be a great opportunity! Ideally, we would be fighting eachother on top of the dugout by the 5th inning and our infamous security friend, Robocop, would have to intervene.

Today, I cruised around with H doing errands in the awesome blossom CR-V. I found a likely source for new glasses (Costco), bought a baseball from Canadian Tire, almost pulled the trigger on buying a digital camera, and developped an unhealthy obsession with finding a Dockers polo shirt from Sears in a certain light denim colour. The ones in the store were all large and my search online yielded nothing as the colour I wanted couldn't be found. Further confounding the problem is that I couldn't find it on Dockers' website. My prospects now involve visiting the Sears store at Rideau Centre, visiting a Sears store in Hamilton this upcoming weekend, or looking in the Sears printed catalogue and ordering it. It's safe to say that I'll be channelling a lot of energy into this. Oh well, I'm sure my best man speech won't take long to write...

This long weekend is packed with stuff to do and I am trying to make the best of it. Talk to you later, bloggers.