Went for a nice hike at the Hilton Falls, right near Milton.  Really like the walk.  They have an area where there is a fire going and you can roast marshmellows or cook hotdogs.  We went to Rattlesnake point a couple of weeks ago as well which is a little more of a challenge.  Especially when you walk in high heels.  What you thinking girl?

Saw Grizzly Bear this past week as Massey Hall.  Can't believe I haven't seen a concert there before.  What a terrific venue, with not a bad seat in the house. 

Going to Myrtle Beach this coming weekend for Thanksgiving.  Looking forward to the beautiful and ridiculous mini golf courses that are in abundance.  There are a couple of courses that have fire works when you sink a hole in one.

Dredd  - 8.5/10
That's My Boy - 5.7/10

When I think of Winter I think of Guinness, slow cookers, and red wine.  I used to think of hockey.

The following shows need to hang them up. 

- How I met your Mother
- Big Bang Theory
- True Blood

That is all.

Dinosaur Jr. came out with a new album recently, how are these guys still around?  And how are they still really good?

Dodgeball league, bowling league and, Spanish lessons are on the docket for things to do in winter this year.

The worst Halloween costume I have ever seen is somebody dressed as the shocker.  I am not referring to the movie.

I Mother Earth is rocking Oktoberfest this year.  The last time I was at Oktoberfest we went to see Sloan, a bigger girl kept on falling down on the dance floor, while wearing a skirt of course, in front of our table   We also had some dude spilling multiple drinks on our table.  We decided to move tables, he came over to that table after because his table was too sticky and promptly spilled his rye and coke on that table as well.  The same dude kept yelling for Sloan to play Motor City Mayhem.  If you know anything about Sloan you will know that their main song is Money City Maniacs.

Movember is just around the corner.  Ladies this will be your one and only warning.

Watching stand up goalies now on the highlights entertains me.  How did they think this was a better way to goaltend then the current butterfly way?

You always know what a guy is going to be like if his name is Blaine or Chip.

Drinking off of a plate is harder then it looks.


Stop giving me a stupid phone book.  You should have to call a phone number on your rotary phone if you still require a phone book to be delivered to your house.  Why don't you call the milk man and paperboy at the same time?

Hipsters are getting uncomfortably close to my style of clothing and music.  Stick to your deck shoes and your Mumford and Sons cd's and we can stay friends.

Do you remember that scene in the original Naked Gun movie when Frank Drebin is umping the baseball game?  He gets involved in the pickle and starts throwing multiple baseballs around trying to prolong the game so the Queen doesn't get shot.  Welcome to Monday Night Football.

Finally some new music that suits my fancy.

Tame Imapala - Lonerism - 9.1/10
Grizzly Bear -  Shields - 9.8/10

There is an El Salvordorian restaurant that has opened up in Kitchener called The Guanaqita.  We enjoyed some pupusas and Mexican Nachos.  There was some salsa dancing going on behind us.  Really enjoyed the vibe, it reminded me of being in El Salvador. 

The Oakland A's are staying alive in the Wild Card hunt.  They have had a crazy stretch of tough games on the road.  If they can last it out and make the wild card game there will be a great together in KW to watch the wild card game for those that are interested in beer and playoff baseball.

After 100 years with Future Shop I have finally decided to make my incline to the top of the company. 

If you want to put someone through pain.  Make them call Microsoft to get another activation code for a Windows product.  I almost had an aneurysm giving them the same information thirty times while getting redirected multiple times.

I have only been mad a few times in my life.  One time is when a pie was baked too hot and burnt my mouth.

I find it funny when people tell me that they can't make soup.  Here's the directions.  You put a bunch of stuff in a slow cooker with broth. 

The Loved Ones - 8.8/10  (You might have to look for this one.  "B" horror movie)

Interesting fact - Ireland has a trail that you walk for 8 or 9 days that has stops in multiple villages and towns along the way.  There is a stop that has 50 pubs for 1200 people.  Strong livers in Ireland.

Nintendo wii-u - Will be coming out soon.  It's a tablet essentially, instead of you having to get up and be active you use the tablet and it shows up on the screen.  I believe it will do well.  We have been waiting for a new video game system for a while.

Story - An gentlemen calls me at the store for some help with there printer.  I tell him that it would be better to call Canon directly.  I try to tell him that the number is 1-800-ok-canon.  He doesn't understand that there are letters attached to numbers on the phone.  Get rid of your rotary phone from '64.

Value Village is over priced.  This is something I thought I would never say.

 Wine and Food festival was this past weekend in Niagara on the Lake.  There is nothing better then hitting multiple wineries that are five minutes away from each other.  There was one that had an outdoor kitchen that was a cooking school/winery.  Yes, I do realize that this is the best thing ever.

If you are going to let a fart go that really smells bad, walk away to an area that doesn't have people around.

Ostrich farm was terrific again.  I didn't realize how mean those birds are.  They kick with both feet and can rip people's throats out.  Chuck Norris jokes are done.  Sorry kids!!

Monopoly is back at McDonald's.  I can't help it, I love it.  My body not so much.

There are a couple of NFL refs that were fired from the lingerie league because they weren't good enough. 

Finally went to the Jane Bond restaurant recently.  Vegetarian restaurant with a wide assortment of beers on tap.  Friendly hipster vibe, didn't get a chance to try the food, but everything sounded delicious.

Bauer Kitchen this past Friday.  Watermelon Mojito - 10/10

Snow White and the Huntsmen - 5.1/10

Kristen Stewart, what does everybody see in you?  Chronic B**** face syndrome.  Pattinson was lucky of what happened.  How can you not be single if you can have any woman in America?

Danier Leather and Golf Town have end of season sales going on right now.  Got a $400.00 leather jacket for $75.00.  I look tough as nails in leather, but you take off that jacket and I have 0% muscle tone.

How have I not seen Wrath of Khan before?  Watched it at the Princess Cinema this past Saturday.  It runs very close to being as good as the newest Star Trek.

So you think Star Trek is only for nerds?  Watch Wrath of Khan and the newest Star Trek in succession, and if you still think that, we can no longer be friends.

Here comes Honey Boo - The mother looks like a bean bag chair with eyes and a nose.  I can't even watch the show, you know when you look at something and you feel like you are going to throw up.  Well the mother makes me feel like that every time I see her.  I didn't think a person could do this to me.

There are way too many fat kids.  Remember going to school and there would be one poor kid who would get picked on for being big?  Well the skinny kid gets picked on for not eating pizza pockets and playing World of Warcraft now.

Stop going to school and trying to be nurses or secretary's.  There are not enough jobs to go around and these schools that are just trying to get money out of you are over promising and under delivering.

I do enjoy the commercial with the dude in the fancy car that pulls up to the bus stop and asks the girl what she is doing and she says waiting for the bus and he drives off.  Then she gets a job as a secretary and gets her own car and picks up the dude instead.

Stop sending body parts all over Canada.

Divine Fits - the new album with the lead singer of Wolf Parade and Spoon - 8.6/10

Slow cooker will be fired up soon.  Is there anything better then Sunday Football while enjoying some ribs, potatoes, and a pint.

Watched 7 hours of football on Sunday.  It was glorious.

I think I am finally seeing Jennifer Aniston age.  She must be running out of souls of young girls. 

Nothing better then having a customer reek like booze at 10am in the morning.  You need to start partying pretty early to reek like booze at 10am.

Charlize Theron is coming close to stealing Kate Winslet's thunder as Daryl's favorite female actress.  

Have you ever had a piece of electronics that you just couldn't part with even though it was broken.  You try turning it on every once in a while to see if miraculously fixed itself.  It works for the same couple of seconds that it always does.  You feel happiness and then sadness when you see the red light come on like it always does.

RIP XBOX

Don't border agents seem like they are like the soup nazi from Seinfeld.  One pause or one studder and no America for you.

Everything is so cheap in the States right now.  We got a deal to the Sheraton in Niagara Falls with a $20.00 TGIF, $30.00 Seneca Casino, and $10.00 Starbucks vouchers for $99.99. 


Took Sara to the Buffalo airport today for her big trip to Dragoncon.  This convention might be one of the few that I am not able to handle.  My liver has a hard enough time with three days at the cottage let alone drinking hard alcohol from a flask for five days.

Avengers - 8.4/10

Yes, I finally watched it.  It was solid, my favorite character is still Tony Stark, but Hulk was a close second in this one with all of the senseless chaos that he caused.

Was in a wedding party last weekend for the last of the really close hometown friends.  Beautiful wedding at his parents place.  It is true I would love to look tough by smoking a cigar while drinking scotch, but I am a baby and always feel like garbage after I smoke the cigar.

I heard John Barrowman had frisky hands this past weekend at Fan Expo.  If anybody knows anything about John Barrowman he will hit on anything, this includes dogs I believe.

It's hard to believe what some people do to public restrooms in Tim Hortons.  Is there really gratification by doing this?  Aren't the Tim Hortons workers punished enough for having to work there?

Is there anything better then playing air guitar to "I believe in a thing called love" by the Darkness?

Poopy is the absolute worst nickname for anybody on the planet.  There is no good back story for you having this nickname.

Best thing that I have heard so far this summer -  Arrested Development coming back for season 4.
Worst thing that I have heard so far this summer - Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne getting married.

First song - Skater Boy:  Cake Cutting Song - Any Nickelback song, they all sound the same.

Hello Settlers of Catan.  I might have a chance to win now without Sara around to mess up my wheat production.

Have you ever wanted to try speed dating even though you are attached just to see how you would do?

Pulled Pork Sandwich should be called something else.  Anytime I hear these words put together I think of me just getting fatter. 

Back to School is at it's height right now.  It's been banana's at work.  It feels good to be busy, and it's nice that not everybody wants the biggest piece of sh** laptop that we have.

Oakland A's are still in the hunt.  They are leading the wildcard race with the Baltimore Orioles.  If you predicted this at the start of the year you are a liar.

I love to swear at items in my house that fall on the ground.

One habit that I am attempting to rid myself of is texting somebody while I am in a social atmosphere.  The other one is being online looking at your Facebook while you are having beers with a group of people.  When did this become socially acceptable?

It is overwhelming knowing all the shows that people have told me that I need to watch.  Breaking Bad, Misfits, Farscape, and Babylon 5.  You will get your turn, just relax!!

My Morning Jacket plays in the T. tonight.  I have seen them a few times, but if you have not.  You should go....

I can't see the NHL having another lockout, but if it does.  I am not sure if it can recover.


Poor Newfies and their accents.  You could be the smartest human in the world, but if you have a newfie accent, you're done!

Hotel Hell is a great new show that has Gordon Ramsay (yes he is in everything) going to hotels to try to fix their problems.  The first episode was fantastic, and when Sara and I tried to go to the website for the hotel it was impossible to get to because of the traffic.

For back to school here's 3 misconceptions about mac.

3.  There are viruses for Mac
2.  They are very expensive to have repaired.
1.  They don't make you a better person for owning one.

When I was growing up my brother owned a bunch of jean jackets that had patches on the back of them.  WASP and Kiss were the two that I remember.  Another reason why I think the '80s were from an alternate universe.

Could I do Improv?

Table Top is a show that Wil Wheaton hosts that has celebrities playing board games while Wheaton explains the rules of the games as he goes.  It's a nice show that teaches about some new games that you didn't know were available.  Keep mind sharp!!

Another successful golf tournament for Bill McLaughlin this past Saturday.  Team finished second with -9.  We bogied the first hole on the back nine.  The team that won played for a playoff at -10.  Let me vomit in my mouth for a second here.

F*** Word Search, I hate that stupid puzzle.

New Years plans are already set.  Love having a plan in place.  Also love that Karaoke is on the docket.  This year I will be using my crooning voice for good not evil.

Gin and Tonic is known as the panty dropper.  What happens when guys drink it?  Boxer brief dropper?

Battleship - 0.9/10 (I would rather watch Rachel Ray laugh for 2 hours straight)
5 Year Engagement - 6.7/10

Jason Segal is underrated, he is funny in everything that I  have seen him in.

Diet A&W Rootbeer is the best of the diets.

Here's a contest that you can't do past the age of thirty.  Eat a pack of gobstoppers, sweet tarts, and nerds back to back to back.

Big League Chew and Popeye smokes.  How are you still around?  
 

When you travel, please make sure that you or whoever you are traveling with is in the picture as well.  Pictures of random scenery with nobody in the frame is about as boring as somebody discussing 50 shades of grey with me.

Facts about fifty shades of grey.

- Was originally fan fiction about twilight. 
- Could have been written by somebody that had English as their third language.
- Reading porn is the same as watching porn.  Don't think you are classier because of it.

 There are not many board games that I get excited to play, but Settlers of Catan is one of them. 

Football is back in about a month.  Buffalo Bills will compete for a playoff spot, and the New York Jets will have no more then six wins.

There is nothing better then Strange Brew on a Sunday morning at the cottage.  "Psssttt, Act! Act!"

The Nashville Predators may have to mortgage their hotels, sell their properties to the bank to afford the rent on Shea Weber's contract.  Yes, we played Monopoly as well.

Golf tournament on the weekend.  There is a slight chance of rain.  35-45mm, might be more then a slight chance, but I am optimistic.

Come on Olympics, stretch run, you can finish.  Please stop owning the highlights.  My Oakland A's are in the stretch run and are getting no love because; of the speed walking highlights?

My worst nightmare would be if Hedley and Simple Plan joined forces to start a band and I was Clockwork Oranged in a chair with a set of headphones forced over my ears.

BBQ Nachos and Jerk Steak were the latest inventions of food.  Both equally tasty.

Hunger Games will make my Bluray exclusive club.  It joins, X-Men first class, Star Trek (2009), District 9, Equilibrium, and Coraline.

Stop showing me McDonald's commercials that they are bee-bopping, singing, and dancing in the kitchen.  Have you been in a McDonald's in the past year?  People don't look like they are happy to be there or even happy to be alive.

Yes , I know we need rain, but could I have the remote control for it and have it just rain when I have nothing else going on?

Have you ever seen someone swing a golf club, and just know that there is no hope?

Kraft Dinner is a weakness of mine, at least I get the whole wheat now.

I heard a funny question recently.  Choose one of the two options.  Would you rather have a person that you love's collarbone broke every three years?  Or have every song that you ever heard sung by Alice in Chains?  Now I thought it was easy as well, but think about it.  Happy Birthday?  National Anthem?

So the New York Rangers got Rick Nash for basically nothing.  Who is running the Columbus Blue Jackets?  John Ferguson Jr?

Watching the best fails on youtube, I have to wonder what would make people even attempt to do any of these things?  I am going to attempt to jump from the roof of my house and land into a garbage container.   The best that happens from this is that you land in the garbage container.  That's awfully low on the gratification scale.

Story:   When I was growing up we did quite a few questionable things.  We had all jumped into a buddies car.  He was the only person with a driver license of course.  We decided that we should smash some mail boxes off of a local side road.  There were six people in the car and one of the people noticed a very easy to smash wooden mailbox coming up.  We stopped and checked it out.  The driver piped up and said that he would like to give this one a shot.  Little did we know that some of the mailboxes had now been made to look like wood, but were actually steel.  He wound up with a aluminum bat and attempted to smash it.  The bat ricocheted off of the mailbox and smashed him in the back of the head.  It had knocked him unconscious for a short time.  None of us had our driver licenses and we had all been drinking.  One of the buddies was brave enough to attempt the tour back to town with the concussed driver passed out laying over three girls in the back seat.

The openings of the Olympics weren't half bad this year.  It was nice to see the Brits focus on the music side of things.  Seeing the Arctic Monkey's play live in front of the Queen was priceless.

VIP sale on August 23rd if I haven't already mentioned it.  Let me know if you need anything within the FS town limits.

Still haven't seen Batman.  I love Batman, don't love sitting in any theater for 2:45 minutes plus eight hours of commercials and previews.

I am not very good at the jumbled face coming together quiz in the theater.

If you had to fight one of these two men in a fight to the death who would it be?   Jean Claude Van Damme from Bloodsport or Liam Neeson from Taken?

I hate the feeling of knowing you made a mistake instantly, but there is no way to scramble out from under it.

Started watching Farscape recently.  It is the most out there, odd, what the f*** am I watching, mesmerizing shows that I have ever seen.  8.5/10

Playing Mystic this coming Wednesday.  Mystic is a gorgeous golf course just outside of KW that was attempted to be made into a PGA tour type course, but the builder ran out of money and it's so out in the boonies that they can't get power out there.

Attempted to go running yesterday.  Am I doing it wrong?   It's so bloody boring.

Jimmy Kimmel has a segment that has celebrities reading angry tweets from people that are writing about the celebrity.  It's pretty good if you haven't seen it before.