June 2006

June 24, 2006

    Today was an awesome Saturday. I did things that I would do if I were rich. I started the day with the idealistic plans of getting my hair cut and getting groceries. I talked to my old chum Will and learned that he had already been invited to the Caumping 2006 adventure before I could make a move. Dave, my co-conspirator beat me to it. The caumping will take place on the weekend of my birthday and should be a real hoot. What Dave doesn't know is that I secretly invited the Big Dong, that's right. I haven't received word back from him yet. Anyways, back to my day. After talking to Will and getting ready to go I figured I should eat first so I had some soup and hammers at 10:20am. This caused a lull due to the fullness so I sat down to watch TV. They were showing the entire third season of the Ultimate Fighter. So when I got out of my chair twelve hours later I was pretty tired. I'm exaggerating of course. I got up many times to go to the bathroom and I actually ended up in my bed for the live finale. It was huge, a battle. I fell asleep after the middleweight championship but I was pretty sure how the light heavyweight fight would turn out. It was really good times. Rich was gone to Oshawa before I woke up and I haven't seen nor heard from Brown since Wednesday. I was actually invited to the Oshawa thing but didn't find out about it until Friday evening. Apparently my email account has been deleting all but a few incoming emails so I adjusted the filters. Long day though. It was a pretty sad day and pretty pathetic, I enjoyed the rest though. Today though my plate is full because I have to do everything that I was supposed to do yesterday. My boss is on holidays this week so I expect to be working very hard in the first few days so we can be done the majority of the tasks by the end of the week and possibly have some time off. The next three weekends have a high potential to be very busy and fun. Either way, I'm off to get it done. Phillips out.

June 22, 2006

    Some big things happened in the past few days. Big T came and went after a solid two night visit. I say night because he was at meetings during the days and I was at work. We had some good restaurant food and watched the Blue Jays win a couple of games on the tube. It was a good time but I was still tired like a banshee, assuming they tire easily and excessively. I sprayed on Tuesday for two hours. This involved me carrying a fifty pound pack on my back and carrying a three metre boom at chest height. Thusly, my back and shoulder are in agony. I am also mentally tired and have not gotten over the weekend and early mornings. I have two more spray mornings this week so things will likely only get worse. Hopefully the weekend will come quickly and provide me with some much needed recharge time. I hope I don't contract anything more than my pseudo-SARS.

    Another big thing that happened this week was that I got word that my friend Wade is to be wed to his long time girlfriend Erryn. The word came through email. It was sent to a large swath of people so I'm sure most people have heard by now but I'm putting it out there for anybody that didn't hear. No date has been set but the happy couple is having a good time out there in British Columbia.  I'm happy for them and wish them the best for the rest of the summer.

    As for me, I'm sorry the Oilers lost but I'm too tired to worry about it. I have to be up before the summer tomorrow so I'm going to hit the hay. I had more to say and it was good stuff too but the NHL awards have stolen my words and attention. I hope everyone is well and having a good summer thus far. Phillips out.

June 19, 2005

    Monday night Football is something I wish was happening right now. Instead of that I'm sitting home alone watching pointless drivel on the television unit. I'm tired and probably a bit cranky today. I was up late last night. I went out for the first time all summer, not counting Tony's of course, to see off my friend Joanne. She's back-packing around Europe for a month or so. You can read about her adventures here. The send-off was a good time. I had to miss the opening round of a BBQ because I had to do some work-related vehicle switching and what-not. I finally met up with them downtown at the Albion for a brief chat and they had a pitcher on the go by the time I got there. We upped the ante with a move to Doogie's, We were 5 of 8 people in the place. It was interesting on a Sunday at the bar and I enjoyed it more than when the place is full and noisy. I broke off just after Franco and Liz leaving the two remaining girls to misadventure. I'm sure they had a good time. My Monday spray date got pushed back a day due to possible precipitation concerns. This happened at 5:45am. This caused much anger and frustration. Today was pretty frustrating all around. I was not happy with myself and the crankiness persisted. The hockey game tonight thus far has also been frustrating. I'm not impressed by the Oilers and I fear they will fail in their quest. I did however destroy everyone at pool that I faced today over lunch. Anyways, I should probably make some bed based moves involving sleeping and hopefully some solid snoring. Phillips out.

June 17, 2006

    Well, here I am again. I had some good nights this week but the sleeps were less satisfying. That old hoot Fate does indeed have a humorous way of operating. One night he made it unbearable hot in the middle of the night so I woke in a sweat and had to wait for my air conditioner to cool the room down sufficiently. Another night the riot had someone call the house at 5:59am. It was a wrong number, I let the guy know how I felt about that and then I spent about half an hour tossing and turning in a rage. The night before last I had to be up at 5:30am to be at work early to spray. I woke up coughing this morning. You're sitting there asking yourself two questions. One, why do I care? Two, why didn't you just go to bed early? I'll tackle the second first. I went to bed between 9:30pm and 10:30pm every night, any earlier and I can't sleep because the sun is out. And as for the first question, if you're here reading about my so-called life then you must care or why would you bother. Anyone that clicks the red "X" now is a fool. Well, now that I've amused my self and did my typical whine I'll get into it here.

    This weekend is shaping up to be a slow one. So far I've watched a couple of movies that I've been wanting to see and that trend has a high probability of continuing. Brown and I went to get a cool drink last night at the little convenience store up the road. There were two thuggish looking teens outside in full "street garb. As I approached the door of the establishment the larger of the two began to approach me. I got my "I'll destroy you punk" look one and apparently Brown started flexing in the background. The kid asked me, "Can you buy me some smokes man?" I replied, "Yeahhh, Rrright." and began to laugh at the kid. It was golden, the full extent of my comment is better received in person but obviously that is not entirely possible at this juncture unless you're here with me...or if I recorded it as a .wav file and then uploaded it as an embedded file but I don't have that kind of time. I mean, I've got spare time but not for that kind of nerdish activity. If you think I'm a nerd for knowing how to do that then you have to ask yourself if you think I knew it or if I just looked it up. Hmmm? Exactly.

    The outlook for the weekend is as forecasted with a slight probability of going to a BBQ tonight at the famous Francis Prescott's and a high probability of going out for dinner and drinks tomorrow with some friends from school. The prognosis of the weekend would have been different as there were incipient plans for a certain set of sisters to come and get away from it all at my ranch. These plans fell threw and will be re-scheduled for later in the summer. This leaves with my original plan of doing nothing. Probably my favourite thing to do. Anyways, I feel I've given enough to excuse my small four day absence. Hopefully this inspires the others to start posting on their respective web pages, you know who you are. Phillips out.

June 13, 2006

    For some reason my last post didn't go up. I was having trouble accessing what I need to access to make the magic happen. Ah well, here it is belatedly. Well what did I do lately, let me see. I cleaned the house top to bottom on Sunday morning for the guests. I made up the guest room for Dave. I received them and we watched TV for a few moments and then Aunt Beth, Grandma and I headed to the Aberfoyle antique fair. We went looking for a handle for an old time flat iron but we came back with four expensive collector plates. I bought nothing but I enjoyed the experience. We came back and after some drama about going to Toronto to meet other family we decided to eat in Guelph and headed for the King's buffet. Good feed was followed by some relaxing and conversation. Everyone but Dave went to their hotel. The next day I dropped Dave off at the hotel before work. I worked the morning hoeing soybeans. Not a really fun job but a good work out. I got home around noon and changed and went to lunch. We sat down at the thing at 1:30pm and it ended at 4:55pm. I hurt in ways I never knew possibly. Afterwards we waited around until after six for the graduates to wrap everything up. Supper followed at Casey's with Nicole and her mother. It was good, I got my usual, the clubhouse which was sub-par but the company made up for that. A quick shoe buying stop lead us to home again.  Dave and I watched the game until I had to go to bed. I left before he woke so I assume that he left for home sometime before I got home. I've spent the evening on the internet catching up with emails and stuff. It has been mildly productive. Laundry to follow and then a trimming of the beard before bed. Maybe, I'll put that off until tomorrow night, it's looking that way. Well, I'm thirsty and tired so I'll finish here. Phillips out.  (There are you're long awaited updates Steve.)

June 10, 2006

    This fun packed weekend was kicked off right by an appearance of Mike Ward. The king of Nature happened to stop by last night so that he could spend the night in preparation for acquiring his friend Fredrik from the airport. He was sporting a huge beard and was far more tired than I remembered. Apparently he was at some huge conference for canoes or something in Barrie for the previous four days. That tuckered him right out. I put on a movie film for our perusal and both of us nearly nodded off. This was followed by a good round of sleeping. I had spent some time in the morning setting up the guest room for him and later for Dave but let's not get ahead of ourselves. I used the last of the milk in the morning so we had to go out to Squirrel's for Mike to get some grub. This was followed by a trip to the mall. Mike was pretty disappointed that I wanted to wait in the car. He obviously forgot how much I hate that mall. We returned to the homestead where Mike spent 90 minutes or so making a huge sign to welcome his friend. We went to the mall for supplies to construct said sign as it turns out and only for that reason. Ah well, all went well. I spent the afternoon napping on the couch and intermittedly watching soccer and baseball.  Brown's girlfriend Laura came over for a while in the afternoon and evening. This caused Adam to make a big stir-fry which I helped eat and clean-up after. I spent the rest of the night until now playing my NHL game. It's been good times so far. Well I have to get up early and clean the house for the coming of the Mayor and company tomorrow. They're coming for Dave's convocation on Monday. It should be a big deal. Annie's parents are coming to get her stuff and accept her degree. They declined a visit and are still pretty emotionally distraught about everything as would be expected. I think they're doing a bit better now and I hope things get better for them. For now though I'm going to hit the hay and get ready for everything. Phillips out.

June 4, 2006

    It has been an interesting weekend thus far. My parents came down just for a visit. I'm not sure why but they did, probably missed me even though they wouldn't admit it. We did some shopping, very light shopping, and ran some errands. We made a huge meal and ate it and then went to see the movie Break Up. It didn't turn out like my mom had hoped and we all agreed that it was not good. I left them in a hotel for the night and then came back the next day for breakfast and a final hooray. I'm a smidge tired though due to relatively late nights (11:30pm is late for me) and the early mornings (pre 7am is early for me). I might hit the hay early tonight. It was a good little visit and I feel that they had a good time. I didn't plan anything though as prophesized and apparently neither did they. Most of the down time was spent just lounging in my house. I guess that is what you should do when on vacation but my Dad was having a hard time with that. Meh. After they left I made up some lunch, ok, some pizza pockets. To counter their unhealthiness I worked out and had some fruit. The working out hurt more than the eating fruit. I may have done too much too soon. I'll learn though, maybe it will become a regular thing, maybe not, only time will tell. As for the fruit, I bought a whole damn bag of it. I also bought salad in a bag with high hopes of eating it all. We now have apples, oranges, and bananas in the house also. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it Hawken, former nutritional advisor. You know it buddy. Ok, future plans......none right now. Phillips out.

June 1, 2006

    Today was a good day. A damn fine day if you don't mind me saying, and even if you do I don't really care. We didn't have to go into work until nine and we were done around four in the afternoon. You don't get much better than that. And the work we did was light even for our standards. We did ratings and population measurements for some of our northern corn plots. The whole thing went very smoothly. I came home and did some laundry and played some NHL '06. I've got to clean the house soon in anticipation of my parents coming down this weekend. I should get some groceries soon also. We're pretty much out of everything at the moment. I don't know what we're going to do over the weekend. My parents are coming for their alleged summer vacation. I gathered from my Mom that my Dad misses me and wants to get away for awhile. I'm working on some ideas for their visit. I assume on Friday that they will get here later in the evening and be fed already. Saturday we'll have to eat somewhere nice and do something enjoyable. My plans will be kept secret. So we're into June. We're so far ahead at work it hurts my head slightly to think about it. Ok, so the heat hurts my head not thinking. I have a wicked sunburn on my neck. You might call me a "redneck". The term pretty much applies all the way around the block. I'm losing it here or something. Maybe I'll take the advice of Uncle Kracker and just Drift Away for awhile and then get my cleaning and whatnot done. Ya, that sounds like fun. Hope everyone is doing well and Steve, glad you're back on board, don't stray too far this time from my ship. Phillips out.