Blue Mountain, here I come!

I bought my new Night Pass for this winter at Blue Mountain, at a reasonable $94 + GST. I'm a bit disappointed about the GST. I'm pretty sure that wasn't included last year. I used their rather handy e-commerce site to buy my pass. I was able to re-use my photo from last year (so I don't need to get a new photo taken) and for an extra $10, they're mailing my new pass out to me (so I don't even have to line up to collect it.) When I get there on the first day of the season, I can go straight to the lift!

I'm so excited about this season. I was just starting to have some fun with ollies last season and I want to try some more. It's so much fun. I love snowboarding, but not as much as Hanna or Jesus. (ok, that was cheesy)

Seasons? What are they?

You know, I think it's true what they say about Canada. It's like there are two seasons: Summer and Winter. The thing that I just realized recently, though, is that the changing of seasons is like the switching on of a floursecent tube light. It flickers a bit and then makes up its mind to change. The weather seems to say,
"summer..winter.summer.summer.winter..summer-winter...winter.oh, wait summer summer...oh, all right winter winter winter."

Home for Christmas

Yesterday I booked my flights and I'll be heading home to Bonny Scotland for just over a week in December. I arrive on the 22nd of December and head back to Canada on the 30th. Hopefully in between times I'll be able to catch up with some friends & family in the Glasgow area. It's funny, my accent always gets stronger again when I go home...

Blogs vs. Work

Man, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. There's so much work to do for the premium service with tacf.org that I've barely had time to think about blogging. Things are going well, though, and hopefully all will be working in time for Catch the Fire.

New Look

New Look
Originally uploaded by theken.

I felt like a bit of a change on Monday so I spent Labour Day shaving my head. I've had it shorter before but I think my skull's changed shape since then. It seems a bit wider now. Strange how that happens. 

Brisket and Biscuits

So, I'm in Texas by the way. Thought I should have mentioned that. I'm on a training course in "ASP.NET Programming using Visual Basic". Very exciting it is, too. The trip, that is. The training is ok but I know a lot of the stuff already. The coolest thing is how I got here...

My super-duper boss, Russ, encouraged me to find some training to help improve my VB knowledge since I've only been really good with C# up till now. I found a course in Mississauga (near Toronto for those not in the know) and signed up for it. The company then had to cancel because there weren't enough people signed up.

Now, here I am in Dallas, courtesy of the training company! I got free flights and a rather nice hotel suite for the week as well. Sweet deal - God is good!

The only catch is that I'm away from Hanna and it's killing me a bit. Still, it's Wednesday evening now and so we're past half way. We'll be together again in no time!