I really enjoy that wine tasting class we’re taking. I think I’ll continue with the homework – namely, trying new wines every week – even after the class is over… Like I need more excuses to get drunk. I gotta say this thing was kinda weird. Also, I love Champagne. That is all. Oh wait, no. I heard there was some Whiskey tasting classes offered in Ottawa. Ohhh!
Didn’t clean my BBQ yet. I think I should. What do you think? Steaks anyone?
I’m running out of excuses to bike my ass to work. Might do this before the week is over… Meteomedia seems to say that I should do this before Thursday and Friday, when rain is expected.
My bathroom fan is not working. It never was. This needs fixin’. Also, new moldings, new paint, clean windows, cut branches… Damn, this never ends. Condo anyone? Maybe I should just get those dudes with the giant feather fans for my bathroom instead. That might require a bigger bathroom. Can’t win.
Setting up a new computer is such a drag. But hey, it’s a new computer!
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the madness finally comes.
The Wolfman: I went to see The Wolfman on Monday. Here’s my 5-word review of the movie: predictable, entertaining, foggy, gimmick, meh. I have a feeling that a lot of my reviews would contain the word “meh”. What’s the last great movie I saw? I think it was District 9. What’s the last great movie you saw?
News: You’d think that with things like facebook, twitter and Blogs out there, news outlets like cyberpresse.ca would be able to get better pictures to go with their stories? Maybe it’s just a case of using “148408-commissaire-lnh-gary-bettman-rene.jpg” instead of “148409-commissaire-lnh-gary-bettman-rene.jpg”.
Just in case they decide to change it…
The missing Tuesday Post: the astute reader might have noticed that the Tuesday post is strangely absent from my post archives. That’s because I’m growing up people! I chose the high road, I’m the bigger man, etc. Heck, If I can let Dave2 call me a pussy, I sure as hell can let some dude I work with try to rip me a new one because I used a big word he didn’t get. Oops. I guess I still have some growing up to do.
Lovely Wife: Did you see Breakfast Club?
LeSombre: Many times.
I know it doesn’t sound that funny, but it really is. I was flipping the channels one morning and went past one where they were showing Breakfast Club. Instantly LW said: “Did you see Breakfast Club?”, but she really meant to say: “Did you see? Breakfast Club!”. Well, I guess you had to be there.
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the madness finally comes.
Bullets about the week-end, since that no blogging thing on the week-end is working so well.
Pizza! Is there seriously anything better in the world than having an impromptu dinner with friends on Friday night? We ordered some pizza, opened a great bottle of wine and the week-end was off to an awesome start!
Cupcakes! If that wasn’t enough, LovelyWife made amazing cupcakes – after I wanted some last week. She made “Blue Velvet cupcakes”, a variation on red velvet ones. Yum-O. No pictures, because they were gone faster then Keyser Söze.
Slide! We went tobogganing on Saturday afternoon with the kids and friends. We had an awesome time and nobody got killed! Unfortunately the rain is messing up all kinds of outdoor plans. Do I sound disappointed enough? Yo can see all the pictures on Flickr.
Dust and crap! Sunday morning was spent cleaning up the playroom. It’s amazing the amount of dust and crap that can collect under and behind furniture! Silver lining: We can all breathe much easier now. Plus, the kids have a truckload of space to play in!
More Cupcakes! What is better than having blue velvet cupcakes on Saturday? If you answered having red velvet cupcakes on Sunday you are absolutely right!
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the madness returns on Wednesday night.
Yay it’s the first One bullet short of a full gun of 2010. Rejoice people!
Apparently, today is DELURKER DAY! So go ahead, delurk and let me know you exist in the comments! It’s really easy: make fun of my spelling, my accent, my face… The choice is yours!
Come out come out, where ever you are!!!
Looking back on some of last years’ projects, I notice that my the Year of the Purge (tYotP) project didn’t really pan out the way I thought it would. It’s not that I didn’t purge stuff, I just stopped being interested in telling the World about the stuff I was purging slash ran out of ways to follow the alphabet while being funny. So what to do? Kill the page, fill the page in one fell swoop of just leave it as is as areminder that not all projects turn out the way they’re intended to?
When I drive into work, I park in the underground garage for 12$ a day. Now in a corner of the garage, there’s this cylinder pipe sticking out about a foot out of the ground. Is it wrong that whenever I drive by that pipe I think: “Why would someone leave a Bowmore 12 years in that corner?”. Maybe that bullet would work better with pictures. Can you see it in your head?
A great way to start the day!
In other news, I had a senior moment yesterday. I have this routine when I get home: I go up to the bedroom, take my shirt and pants jeans off and change into a t-shirt and sometimes (if you’re lucky) some older rattier jeans. It’s like my own version of a house coat. Anyways. As I’m stripping down yesterday I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I thought: “That’s not my underwear?!?”.
I’m thinking of doing something like Karl’s Birthday dares this year, except I would decide on dares and then maybe talk about them online if it turns out that it’s funny or blog worthy. It’s nothing like Karl’s dares. The first thing I want to challenge myself to do is to not bring home my laptop for a full month. Do you think I could do it? Who’s willing to bet I’ll go crazy, and after how many days?
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the madness finally comes.
The 22nd edition of the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival was held from September 4 to 7, 2009. Of course, living in Gatineau, we decided not to go to the tourist/local trap and were rewarded with an awesome surprize! One balloon landed in the park right across the street from hour house!
This morning I almost got squished by a taxi turning right on a red light while I had the right of way (via the pedestrian light). Who knew frakkin’ taxis were so dangerous? /sarcasm. Yet one more bike story under my belt. Sigh.
Speaking of funny bike stories, I completely forgot to bring underwear today. I’m committing a serious breach of etiquette and making this a Commando Wednesday.
Rockband: The Beatles is coming out today! Now I’m a little pissed that this is not also coming out for Guitar Hero. What am I supposed to do, spend another 200$ to get the Rockband drum set? On the Rockband Beatles website, it says “Works with all Rockband and most Guitar Hero controllers and microphones” (emphasis mine). Anyone tried this with the Guitar Hero setup? Anyone? Bueller?
For the next 179 hours, I’m listening to my iTunes library in alphabetical order. No reason.
Even if today is 9-9-9, we’re not moving to Blackboard Release 9 anytime soon.
9 opens today. Are you excited to see this? I kinda am, but I’m not 100% sure…
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness comes.
Crocs & Socks: Even if they rhyme, they don’t go together. I swear. You look like a jackass.
Rain: I think that’s enough rain for a little bit. It’s depressing. I didn’t golf this year yet!
Wooden Spoon: Are you using a wooden spoon to serve anything like rice, fajitas meat, soup, ice cream, anything? Is it just LovelyWife that is insane? (kinda rethorical)
Face it Tiger… you just hit the jackpot: I apologize to all the Michael Jackson fans out there (but not to the ones who just came out of the woodwork now that he died), but to me MJ will always be Mary Jane Watson.
Gone Habs Gone: I did not follow all the trades and signing up of free agents, but now that the dust has settled, where the hell are my dear Habs? This will be an interesting season – or not.
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness comes.
My brother the Professor (mBtP), aka Hermano, changed his blog name from “Inutile est on deuxième nom” to “Beer in the butt chicken”. I guess he’s going International, so you should go wish him all kinds of luck. I’m not surprized he picked this name, because “Beer in the butt chicken” are three of his favorite things.
Lovely wife asked me if Sigmund & Freud were an actual couple in life. Who can guess what she really meant?
I’m the epitome of cool, and I’m quoting the Buddha: “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”
Help! I’m getting sucked in the Mafia Wars black Hole of time-sucking.
And I’m kidding about my brother. He doesn’t really like chicken that much.
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness leaves for her conference.
Adorable my little Cthulhu and friends. That’s right… friends.
Too smart for my own good: I knew it, that thing I suspected turned out exactly the way I thougt it was going to turn out. That means more work for me. Oh joy.
Model: Before remodeling, shouldn’t I model first? Like that’s gonna happen.
Fun fun fun: I’ve been remodling so much that I now WANT to do a backsplash in the kitchen just for kicks and giggles. How sick is that?
Gearing up: I’m not a single dad, but I’ll be playing one next week. LovelyWife is ong to this conference with those really good looking people.
Vlog: I should really start doing vlogs. Any suggestions on what I should do?
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness leaves for her conference.
Damn. Don’t you hate it when you just finish doing something and figure out a way that would’ve been easier, quicker, better looking and cheaper? Me too. Now I think I have to redo the office window frame. Sh*t.
List: I’m not quite done with the list, but I’m working through it. Unfortunately, now that the house will look better than before the list, talk of selling the house have reared its ugly ugly ugly head. I can’t catch a break.
Zazzle: All this time, I had a Zazzle! link in the top right corner of my blog. All this time, the link was broken. I’m a great entrepreneur, yes?
Ubernyms: I finally fixed my ubernyms plugin for the 7th time. I’m staying away from accented characters this time, so sorry if things are weird when in French. I created this awesome page to test my ubernyms.
Fuck: I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with my “the Year of the Purge” series. I’ll play catch-up tomorrow.
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness comes.
Royal Visit: You guys remember my mom, right? I mention her from time to time and recently Avitable made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. There’s a picture below if you don’t remember. Well my mom (and my dad) is coming to visit this long week-end. I’ll try to take this opportunity to update her picture, as this one is from last Christmas. Anyways, my parents are supposed to get here Friday around lunchtime. Expect lack of LeSombre presence online.
I single-handedly saved the stove: Of course, LovelyWife helped. And by “helped” I mean “stood close by telling me to be careful with the X-acto knife and then went to bed”. You think I’m afraid she will try to burn down the house again? Try? Do, or do not. There is notry. I think after this bullet I have more chance to get stabbed with the X-acto knife in my sleep. Only one question remains: How the heck do you clean between the glass panes???
Snow-go: we had some white stuff Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s amazing how quickly we forget. It looks like drivers already forgot how to drive in the snow after only a week of no snow, and one centimeter was enough to cause havoc on the roads. Hey, you bad drivers: Your Canadian cards are revoked effective immediately.
Discworld: I’m about 100 pages into Mort and I can tell I will like these books.
In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the madness gets here Friday around lunchtime.
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