Urges

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Below is a direct translation of my handwriting into editable text. Imperfect, but it gets the job done! I likely won't be translating most of my hand writing to text, but it will be nice to run a search of my handwritten notes quickly. No more lost important pages!!!

chin had urges lately. Expensive
urges which have left me with a sizeable debt. I cant exactly pinpoint when they
began. Perhaps if was some time around
when I learned that my mom was morning to
wanted to purchase
Nova satay and d
plane tickets home for thanksgiving. other Reasons
could be that I just ended E 3 month
relationship and wanted something expensive
to occupy my time. OR perhaps it in
that school is starting in only a few weeks
and die been getting a back to school fever. Its probably a combination of all 3 corn. pounding upon one another.
So to tally up the damage:
-Iron flying home fore the weekend after
thanksgiving to see my family.
-I bought an HP TX 2108 TabletPC
for school. I will be taking all My notes for school on it. Its an experiment of unproven technology. I realize it aile come with its limitations but In looking forward to discovering how to wonk around them. Plus it makes by handwriting searchable! *
-I went shopping with Amanda and hit up a bunch of end of season sales. She freshened up my look and sod feel ready to take on the school year with a
confident style. My wardrobe was looking tired. d wanted something that said a This person is 26, not 15.9
P.S. Ion also growing any beard out for the first time ever.

Canoeing in Northern Ontario

See all my photos from the Bain Lake canoe adventure!

I canoe, can you?

A brief update. I am going canoeing next weekend with some friends to Bane Lake, and there shall be a video blog made of the adventure! It's been a few months since I produced a good video, hasn't it? I'm looking forward to it.

Check out the route we'll be taking!

Also, check out some previous canoeing videos of past adventures!

Hiking with Toni

I can't visit Ontario without going on a gorgeous hike through the rolling countryside.

Update
Here is the Fall Hike Toni was talking about.

Thanksgiving Part Two of Two

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Adam finally picks me up and we wander through the wilderness of Kenora, sharing stories of punch outs and radio towers.

Thanksgiving Part One

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My good friend Adam invited me to spend Thanksgiving with him and his family in Kenora, Ontario. This was the first big trip I've taken by myself in five months. Needless to say, I was stoked.

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City Blood, Country Heart

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I feel very lucky to have made my way to Winnipeg. It's a big city with a small town feel. I don't feel lost or out of place and most people I've met have been phenomenally nice and generous. Winter aside, I think that I'm going to really enjoy myself here in the next 4 years.

I've chosen this song, City Blood, Country Heart by Patrick Brealey & the Knives for two reasons. The first being, it reminds me of the people in Winnipeg.

And secondly, it reminds me of a story my mom tells me every once in a while to deflate my ego. I was born in the city and lived downtown Toronto for the first two years of my life. My parents decided to make the move to rural Shelburne when I was five. We had no sooner arrived and unpacked when my mother rushed outside to the squealing cries of a five year old and found me in a tree, hanging on for dear life, three feet above the ground.

"And that's when I knew that you were a city boy," she says.

P.S.

I vaguely remember this event as well. When my mom came to rescue me, she made fun of me.

Mediatheque

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My friend Michael Sumner and I visited Mediatheque, downtown Toronto to watch some talented Canadian Produced films.


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Summary of "The Take"

Another Actual Conversation: Vlogged

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Thanks to Kim, we can share the memories together forever. Part 1
Also, the island was .5 KM away

Farewell Jeremy

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fare^well (fÃer-wEl')

interj.

Used to express goodbye.

n.

1. An acknowledgment at parting; a goodbye.
2. The act of departing or taking leave.

Of Mice and Men

Jeremy and I visited the wind turbines in Shelburne so he could test out his sweet new lenses and his new Nikon D200, and I could vlog him testing out his sweet new lenses. Much fun was to be had under these industrial wonders.

Don't try this at home, kids!

Fly a kite

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Toni, Jeremy and I took off after church for some fun in the May sun. We got eaten alive by mysterious insects, but still managed to take in a healthy dose of vitamine D and get my new kite in the air. Then...I passed the kite to Toni. This vlog ensued.

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Day 3: Dial UP Failed Me

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So I left my computer on all night to upload the third video for this week's challenge and it didn't work. And my dad went in to heart surgery today. And I'm having a rhumatism attack on my hands and had to take the third sick day off work this week.

On a lighter note, this is the first vlog I made once I returned back to Canada from Los Angeles. I'll try to upload day 3 tonight!

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Spring Fog

Spring Fog

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While driving home from work on Tuesday I came across a unique phenomenon. Fog was billowing off the snow and sweeping across the road with the wind. It was so beautiful that I had to stop and capture it for you!

I also tried to win a Toyota Rav4 on my Tim Hortons "Roll Up The Rim To Win" cup.

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Round and Round

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There's something interesting happening in my municipality. Wind Turbines. All over the horizon. Pure, clean energy producing behemoths. They make me feel great to be alive, like I'm witnessing something historically important.

In addition to their environmental benefits, wind energy developments are providing lease income to farmers and other landowners, tax revenues to municipal governments, and creating investment in jobs in rural communities...source.

This $120 million dollar wind facility consists of 45 GE wind turbines, each rated at 1.5 megawatts (MW) for a total capacity of 67.5 MW..."Once completed in early 2006, the Melancthon Grey Wind Project will generate enough green power to supply more than 20,000 households each year."...source.

Time will tell, no doubt. Maybe they'll be the biggest, most beautiful money sucking embarrasments ever. Maybe they'll kill someone. Maybe they'll get taken out by a tornado, moments after breaking an energy record. It's 2006, and we're figuring out wind energy in Canada!

You can subscribe entirely to green energy through Bullfrog Power.

Winter Steak

Winter Steak

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Just because it's snowing record amounts doesn't mean you can't enjoy steak. Some assembly required.

Subliminal Slideshow with extra tags

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I'm really excited about you watching this video.

I was inspired by Josh Leo's recent creative discovery. Josh calls it a 'Subliminal Slideshow.' Clever Josh! I've never seen this done before using every day, unorganized photos of seemingly unrelated, disjointed locations. In theory it should't work, yet it does!

Have you ever heard the term "a picture is worth a thousand words?" If that's the case, this video is worth over 4,000,000 words. There are over 4000 photos in 3 minutes.

You'll never think of a retake the same way again.

Some photos are by Jeremy.

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Stuck in Singhampton

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I feel like I'm entitled to an occasional splurge vlog. I present to you a 19 minute episode of my life yesterday. I don't expect you to lay down 19 minutes of your life if you don't have the time, either. And I won't feel bad if you decide to skip through the video to the highlights. However, if you do have the time, I'm quite confident that you wouldn't mind missing Sienfeld or spending Lunch in front of your PC.

Please leave a comment, they make my day!

It started out like any other Sunday and I had no plans at all. The wind was howling at a gusty 90 km per hour, fuel'd by a storm that had killed 22 people in indiana earlier in the morning. I made my way in to church and met up with Toni, Renee, Francois, and Steph. We sat together.

Afterwards Renee, Toni and I went for lunch at Swiss Chalet and we discussed out future married lives. Renee wants to be a Christian hermit, wanna come? My hat blew off in the wind, and I was lucky that it didn't get run over.

On a whim, I packed up Renee, Toni, Adam and Chewy and we went north of Shelburne to Singhampton to go caving and explore the caverns. Adam got stuck, and we had to yank Toni up the mountain to keep her from dying. Chewy thoght he was in heaven, and I had quite the experience lifting a dog in subterra cavities. We were all wearing Remembrance Day Poppies, but I lost mine. We had an immediate answer to prayer. You can clearly see Renee's butt crack in one shot.

It was such a great day.