Archive for July, 2005
Shakespeare in the Park
Jul 14th
Tuesday night was a busy night for me. After work, I met up with Curtis and we bought supper which we carried down to Hawrelak Park where we were going to see Love’s Labour’s Lost. Its part of the Rivercity Shakespeare “Shakespeare in the Park” festival that they put on every year in our fair city.
We ate supper and then played frisbee for 45 mintues or so. Then we got in line because it was pay-what-you-will night and lots of people come out for that since it is cheaper than the normal nights.
The show itself was really well done. The script is not word for word from Shakespeare – they tend to put some more modern stuff in there to help people understand it better. The weather was crazy though. About half an hour before the show started, it started rain on us. The organizers took pity on us and let us in under the tent earlier than they normally do, and we grabbed seats. A couple minutes later it started to POUR! I had to go back to the entrance to go meet Diane and give her the ticket I bought for her – luckily Curtis’ fiance brought an umbrella and I was able to steal it to go meet my sweetheart 
The weather brought some interesting sound effects. There was a couple of particularly well timed bits of thunder when one of the characters was talking about power and what he was going to do next. The whole audience laughed a lot during that. The play was really well done, and since most of the audience was under the big Hawrelak tent, we stayed dry to enjoy the show. Good times!
The next couple weeks look nice and busy. On Saturday, PSO is holding a freeroll for reaching 10,000 members in their forum. The first place prize is a trip to Atlantic city and a $10,000 buyin to one of the biggest tournaments of the year next to the WSOP. Isn’t that crazy? Wish me luck! I wouldn’t mind going to Atlantic city for a big poker tournament!
Next week, Diane and I leave for Vancouver to go see Ryan and Jazz get married. We’re making it our summer holiday … a chance to spend a few days together on the road, go visit some of her family in Kamloops and otherwise enjoy the mountains for a few days! I’m so excited!
Heraldk
Stop Foreign Aid?
Jul 8th
I’m wondering what people think of this: Stop Foreign Aid.
It raises some really interesting points. The one that sits best with me is the point that if foreign aid is such a constant influx, it becomes a crutch and it changes the outlook of the people who benefit. If it takes no effort to receive vast piles of money and food, then by repeating the cycle, the people never learn to support themselves.
Its a very interesting idea, and one that I’m not too sure if I agree with entirely. The usual problem I have with arguments like this is that there are times when aid is definitely necessary – where one swift injection of aid will kick people out of the hole they are in. But when the aid becomes normal, I agree that people can easily become lazy and used to the help.
Anyways, I’m curious what people think of this.
Heraldk
Busy Weekend!
Jul 7th
Well the chaos of the last few days has finally subsided a bit as the busiest weekend of the summer has now been finished. At least, I hope it was the busiest weekend of the summer!
Thursday night was Jon and Leanne’s wedding rehearsal, and since I was in the wedding party, I had to be there. It went smoothly and we then all went over to Leanne’s parent’s place for a BBQ. Mmmm … steak! On
Friday, I packed most of the unpacked items into boxes and then was picked up at the university by Paul and we met up with the rest of the groomsmen at Jon’s new house. That evening we had some pizza, went to the Canada Day Barenaked Ladies concert at commonwealth stadium, and then returned back to Jon’s for more pizza and beer. It was a fitting day for Jon’s last day being single.
Saturday was the big day. The groomsmen were all sleeping over at Jon’s so we got up, washed up and got dressed in our fancy tuxes. Jon got us all these fancy pocket watches, which were pretty sweet! The wedding day is all a blur for me now as the day was packed with busy times. First the ceremony, then the pictures, then the reception, and finally the dance. Crazy busy were we! The dance was the most fun for me – Diane and I haven’t been to a dance in a very long time and were excited to get out on the floor. Unfortunately, the DJ didn’t really know what a waltz was, and I think he only played one all evening. And we missed it. So we didn’t get our best/favourite dance in 
I suppose I should say more about the happy couple. The entire day went really well – no problems to speak of, and both of them seemed very happy with the day. The reception food was all finger food – which was kind of cool … and then they had an ice cream sundae bar for dessert (for those who know Leanne, this is totally appropriate!).
Sunday was the gift opening, which Diane and I went to. It was pretty neat to see what people decided to get from the registries. One of the most innovative gifts was an ice cream maker with a bathroom scale! After the gift opening, Katherine, Madeleine, Diane and I all went out for dinner (Madeleine is one of our friends from high school). It was a lovely dinner at Japanese Village (its been tradition every time Madeleine comes to town).
Monday I officially took posession of my new condo. The guy I bought it from was super duper awesome and stayed around after I got the keys to make sure everything was going to be straightened out. They even left me a bottle of wine! I was so amazed by the effort he put in to making me feel at home. Its good to know there’s people like him around! In the afternoon, Madeleine along with a couple of high school buddies I hadn’t seen in awhile, came to see the new place. Hoorah! In the evening, my parent’s neighbours helped me pick up my grandparent’s futon that they were giving me. We brought it into the place that night and we returned home so I could finish packing up the last of the stuff.
Tuesday was a long day. It was *really* *really* warm and that was hard to deal with as we moved my huge amount of stuff to the new condo. Luckily, there was lots of help so it didn’t take too long. After moving everything in, I got everyone some pizza and we relaxed – played a game of poker and then played some pictionary and Jenga. T’was fun!
Yesterday I stayed at the condo to wait for the telus and cable guys to come hook up my internet and phone. I was glad that they made it – I really wanted to have those there so I could have those conveniences.
And now its today, and I’m back at the university finally to do work! Hooray!
Heraldk
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