Oh my sweet precious darling.

I am a man of many loves. I love many things dearly. My wife, my dog, my stepdaughter... the works. One of my great loves is my little Fender Jazz bass.

It's really one of the most beautiful instruments I've ever played, and I rabidly love playing it. When I'm not playing it, I'm thinking about playing it. I think about is as much as sex. I don't need to send you to the Kinsey institute to tell you what that means. It means not being able to pick up my bass for sometimes weeks at a time can be like a massive case of musician blue balls.

Well tonight, my music mojo is getting her fix.

Yessiree, the only reason I'm typing this is that I need a little break to sit down.

Oh Web 2.0, are you killing us all?

I'm an avid reader of a trio of webcomics by married couple Natalie Dee and Drew. In fact Rhonda and I recently bought a pair of T-Shirts each from them to help support the kickass work they do.

I think one of the most attractive parts of their webcomics is that they are almost the exact age as us and have simmilar interests and social identities, loving music, counter culture, humour, the internet and being stuck in urban centers in rural areas.

I've found that they also have both been showing alot of frustration with the internet of late, and I can't help but identify with them a little. It's this double edged sword. It stems from a real love and appreciation for the internet and what it's become, and a real hate and loathing of the internet and what it's become.

Since the internet's growth has taken a steeper and steeper upward curve every year, my usage and interest has waned in an opposite fashion. My days of being able to spend 8 hours online are long over. There's just too much crap to sift through to find the good stuff, so I end up just sticking to a small handful of tried and true sites and fuck the rest. This is why newer internet fads like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and lately my blogging have fallen to the wayside. I've been finding that quite frankly, real life is a hell of alot more interesting, and I'm getting alot more done because of it.

The ability of any Tom, Dick or Harry to post shit online is not necessarily a good thing in my eyes.

More Pictures of my Baby! - Tool in Saskatoon

My lovely wifey has posted some new "4d" pictures of our baby on her blog. I'm told the 4th dimension scanned is the "Awesome" dimension, and our child is off the charts.

If you would like to view the pictures, please feel free to visit Rhonda's blog at
http://knottyrhonda.blogspot.com/2007/11/baby-pics.html

Got back from seeing Tool in Saskatoon last night. The show actually got a mention on the Tool webpage, which is really awesome. I now wish I'd gotten a poster instead of the T-Shirt, but I like the T-shirt all the same. The show was good, but they were better in Calgary, I blame the sound man.

And I'm still reeling from the Grey Cup win, Saskatchewan sure as shit deserved it.

WE DID IT!!!!

Well we just got back from the mob celebrating at Vic and Albert here in Regina. I've got a pile of videos from the celebration, but this one is likely one of the best.

RIDERS ARE GREY CUP CHAMPIONS!!! WOOOO!!!!

GO ROUGHRIDERS!

Well to most of the people that would read my blog, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that my beloved Sask Roughriders are in the Grey Cup. I'm totally stoked for the game.

Also, contrary to a popular rumor currently circulating tabloids such as the Star and People, I am still totally fucking rad. That shit just gets better with age, I can fucking assure you.


GO RIDERS!

My Thoughts on Child-Birth

Well we've entered what I guess is the 9th week of the pregnancy, just above 7 months left until we welcome the newest member of our little household. Sometimes it sinks in really hard, it did at the ultrasound. In fact the ultrasound was a really great day, and I've gotten very frustrated at my lack of ability to make it to the followup to come, because I'm obessed with seeing the kid. I can't wait to meet him/her.

I'll admit that I thought pregnancy would be alot less traumatic on the whole family. I'm a wreck of nerves and anxiety. I link lot of it to apprehension about Rhonda's pregnancy-related illness, we've made one late night trip to the emergency room already, and tonight she's mentioned visiting again, which leads me to beleive that I'll likely be visiting her again tommorrow night or later. The nursing types take no chances on these things, and I can't argue with it because I'm glad she's taking care of her health. But I'm a little phobic around hospitals, and so even the smallest issue is blown up in my head.

So I worry about Rhonda and the baby. I also worry alot about Tai. She's got this world of potential. Smart, rabidly artistic and pretty to boot, she's poised to take over the world if she wants to, and the way she dreams to live, she's gonna need to be a conqueror. But we find difficulty with her and school, our work schedules have made it hard to get her in extra-curricular and I think she's suffering a bit socially and personally.

I know that a large part of it is to stop worrying and take some control of the situation, and in some respects I try to, but in others I wonder at my place and ability.


In other words, don't marry fast and get pregnant fast. You can understand someone if you talk long enough, we just needed to talk more first. Marriage is good, pregnancy is hard damn work... especially if you're the one carrying the little munchkin.

Happy Halloween!

Happy H-Day y'all! No big plans here, pass out some candy, and sit around paying some bills. Almost 5 now, no sign of kids yet.

Listening to Kleinbottle.

The World's Top Methane Emitters

1 - China
2 - United States of America
3 - Brazil
4 - My Stepdaughters ass
5 - Canada
6 - Russia
7 - Japan
8 - India
9 - United Kingdom
10 - Vatican City

My Baby's first pix

What a handsome baby, don't you think?

I'm gonna be a daddy!

And he's gonna be the most kickass scuba diving, locksmith, extreme sporting, rock-star with doctorates in medicine, philosophy, curing cancer and kicking ass.

If it's a girl, I'm sure she'll make a good subservient wife and mother.

Yup,

I'm still awesome.

Last Day at Science Center

Had the last day at the Science Center today. Guess that's about it for now.

It Ain't Gout!

Went to see the doctor again yesterday and my blood/urine tests came out clean. It isn't gout. What it is, no one knows. He thinks it might be a sprain or "pseudo-gout" an ailment very similar to gout, but a buildup of a different chemical. Either way, I'm still on meds and still sore.

Yesterday I tested, interviewed, was offered and accepted a job with SGI. I am now an "SGIer". The company sounds fantastic, and everyone I came into contact with was just the bees knees. I'm really looking forward to shedding the Science Center and starting something that finally resembles are real career.

Thanks to my injury, moving has been painfully slow. Some of my family have agreed to come give us a hand this weekend, which is much appreciated. Hopefully I can talk dad into giving me a hand with leveling the house a bit too. Good times are a brewin'!

Other than that, marriage has treated me well, but probably not Rhonda so well (she spent her first days as a wife moving and nursing an injured husband), but I think things are going exceedingly well and I'm looking forward to the rest of the adventure.

Hoppily Married

The wedding was perfect this weekend. A beautiful, sincere and heartfelt ceremony and a fun and enjoyable social/reception/party made it all I could ask for in a wedding. You can tell you're making the right choice marrying someone when the crowd starts banging and you have no trouble giving your special lady a big smooch. Frankly i could have spent the day making out with Rhonda.

I woke up Sunday morning with a very sore ankle and found out Monday morn that I was the proud recipient of gout. Bastard. So crutches, pain killers and excrutiating pain attacks have been my menu. Bastard. Oh well... what can you do?

Well, Tommorrow's the big day...

... and I'm just taking the last breath of air before taking the dive.

Today was certainly long. We started by taking Tai to school, one of the few normal moments we've had today. Went for breakfast with Rhonda and Debbie. Then went out with Bootsy and dr0pped off some recycling (that trip is the subject of a post sometime after the wedding I can assure you).

About noon I was called and informed that we could go get the keys to our house at 1...and we did. Checked it out... acted like a little kid at Christmas for a couple hours and showed off to the family. Then projector and PA rental, setups, rehearsals, suppers, setups and now home at 10, to work on the playlists for the dance and watch the Hour.

Soon I will go to bed and awake single for the last time...

21 Things You Didn't Know You Could Recycle

Well I knew about most of these, but there were a few suprises. Gonna check a few out... and many of these are availiable in Canada (the Lions club does quite a number with glasses).

Link

Nervous Ball of Nerves

I gotta say, I'm becoming an emotional wreck this week.

The wedding 8 days away is naturally a cause for some jitters. Less the commitment part, I've been pretty confident and sure about that bit for a few months now. It's the wedding day itself. It's been one controversy after another with this thing, on both sides of our family, and I can't help but think it might come to a head next week. It's a shame, because Rhonda and I are having this whole thing for the benefit of our friends and family, we'd be married and moved on by now. And plus, my family loves to poke fun and I'm just too strung out to deal with it all right now... I know they'll toilet paper my new house or something and I'll spend half the day cleaning up their prank when I could be moving or painting the house... but I suppose when you're one of the most accomplished pranksters in the county, you gotta expect some payback sometime.

My job search is not going anywhere, much to my chagrin. I've applied to dozens of jobs and haven't seen so much as an interview. I have a few resumes to hand deliver this weekend, hopefully something comes to fruition, because I've only got about 2-1/2 weeks of living saved up.

Then there's the move. While it will be a relief once it's done, there's still a myriad of things to do from address changes to utility moves to the physical act of moving. Note to others, don't get married, buy a house and change jobs at the same time... it's a wonder I haven't had a breakdown yet.

A big shout out..

... to my homeboys who put on the best bachelor party a guy could ask for on Friday. From the police visit to karaoke, it could not have been a more entertaining night.

Love ya guys!

Still Number One

And now we know how to beat Winnipeg next weekend. This should be a good season!

GO ROUGHRIDERS!!!