What I've been up to

Its been a while since I blogged. Been real busy.

Last Sunday, Shan and I celebrated our first wedding Anniversary by exchanging presents and then having a wonderful dinner out at our favourite Greek restaurant. She gave me a fantastic painting print of Michael Sowa and I gave her Katamari Damacy. She is playing it as I blog this.

Went to our first house party on 21/4. It was themed "Pink and Drink" so I wore a pink tie. Was a great time, Beer and Karaoke = pure bliss. I got up in front of people I didn't know and bashed out "I want to break free" by Queen and "Mr Vain" by Culture Beat. And they were some of the top picks ;) Not a single option was after 1990, it was awesomeness incarnate. I have pictures which I will load onto Flickr later.

Shan went in for her operation last friday, yet again disappointed by the medical professionals of the world and got bumped from her appointment to have it rescheduled to another week. Just because someone was "urgent". I realise that emergency patients have precedence but it just seems Shan gets shafted no matter how she tries to improve her health through hospitals.

Been following the Canucks almost religiously (which is odd for me in that I like sports but tend to be more of a player than a watcher apart from the world cup). They were doing real well and then had a lull and then came back to win against Dallas. And currently they are playing the Anaheim Ducks. Their first game was not great, but then again, they had no break where as the Ducks have been resting on their laurels. However they came back and won the 2nd game to bring it 1-1 for the games. And why? Because I cooked that night and said I was cooking for the Canucks. So from now on, whenever the Canucks are playing, I shall be at home cooking, or at least cooking that day in some capacity if I want to go to the Pub. Shan has also got her old Jersey back from her mum to also bring them luck.

This morning, I finished off Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. It was a really really good read, I highly recommend reading it. I find it amusing since I remember when I worked for Borders that the book was on the shelves and I thought "I should read that" but it was in the "3 for 2" section and although a Booker prize award winner, I was turned off by that. Although not as Indian immersed as Holy Cow was by Sarah Mcdonald (of Tripple J fame) it made me start thinking of India again and how we'd all talked about "going". Maybe it could be a trip to look forward to in the next few years, maybe as a "hive" trip. Who knows, but India is definitely a place I would love to visit.

Got home tonight after seeing Hot Fuzz (watch for spoilers in wiki entry) and again I am trying not to over hype it, but I had a really really good time, thankfully the trailer didn't contain all the jokes, Simon Pegg was great and so many cast members you'll recognise and it makes it that much better!

Coming soon: Shan's Birthday is on Wednesday next week, so big week ahead. Catchas on the flipside.

Sick

Haven't posted for a while, went to a kick ass party last weekend which I'll post my pictures later (especially the one with the Beluga Whale breaching).

As the title reads, Shan and I both came down sick last Sunday and I'm only just now back at work after taking 2 days off. That really sucks being sick, I don't agree with it, nor do I want any of it. Whoever keeps signing me up to the sick list would you kindly desist and allow me to get on with my work. I mean, because of you I missed out on seeing the lecture "Diseases of the Colon, Rectum and Anus" and also a lecturer being weighed down with 2 wireless microphones, a pager and a cell phone has his pants fall down in front of his class. I mean honestly, I missed pure "comedy" thanks to the flu.

Just thought I'd share.

Woo!

Canucks are now 3 -1 against Dallas. Fingers crossed.

Grindhouse

Grindhouse rocked! Anything I could say would mar what a brilliant (if gory) film. I went in under the impression that Terror Planet would rock and that Death Proof was going to be kinda meh, but they were both equal rock! Go see it. Just be prepared.

Go Canucks Go!

Tonight is the first game of the playoff's for the Canucks. Its local and it'll be on 7pm sharp. I could start the trash talk but having seen trash talk fall back on the talker, I think I'll let the Canucks do their thing.

Boo to Dallas.

Go Canucks Go!

588 pieces later

Last night, Shan finally got around to clearing the table and we started working on the new Creator Lego Dragon I bought a few weeks back. It was fun to be building lego again, but this is not the batch of lego which for the last couple of years has been "100 pieces and one huge base piece" which has little challenge to it, this contains 588 little pieces which go to form the whole firebreathing dragon with light up breath. Took us together about 1.5 hours while watching the hockey and arguing over "I want to build this piece" "no i want to build this piece" "OMG! It has toes!".

There was a special glow brick which lights up the Dragons breath. It can be seen here, demonstrated by my lovely assistant, Shannon.

Shan demonstrates the lego light
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The finished product is below. For the full build process go to my flickr and look at the "Lego Dragon" Set. His wing span is 75 cm's long, I was seriously impressed.



Apart from the wonderful world of lego, nothing much else is going on. We're widening our boardgame group. And I'm undergoing a project to run a D&D campaign with 2 other DM's in the Eberron setting. When I've got further with the wiki, I'll post the link.

The other day I got to see a crow with a twig in its mouth. It studied the twig for a full 5 minutes. Then flew around to several different trees on either side of the street and each time measured the branches and the twig several times. It finally settled on one tree and laid the twig on two branches and then flew off. I hope it comes back. It was fascinating, and I got to watch this all to the music of Assemblage 23. It felt kinda right.