But Wait, There’s More! You Won’t Find In Any Store!

Well we found a unit to rent.� Location: T-5min walk to Ice Rink; T-8min walk to train station; T-7.5 minute walk to pool.� Not too shabby.� We’ll be moving into it this weekend, so we are beginning to collect the bits and pieces of our life from the house sitting gig, and boxing them up.� The majority is already packed up and ready to go.

Just bought a couple couches off ebay tonight, so we’ll see how they turn out.� We’re picking them up this week.��

It’ll be nice to move into our “own” space.� Put up our art and pictures.� Make it our home.� We’ve moved twice now, in the last 8 months.� I am ready to not move for a while.

I apologize for the lack of content, but we’ve just been busy, and this week will be just as.� I still read all your blogs and posts.� I still check out your pictures.� I still miss you guys.� I am still i the process of sending out the last few wedding dvds.� It costs a bit… unfortunately so does moving into a new place… we’ll get them out to you soon.� Until then…

Point Form

* Today, had someone park so close to me that I couldn’t get in my car on the driver side.� Had to climb through.� Annoying.

* I am learning to use a 35mm film camera for the first time.� One of the draw backs of the PnS (Jeff, this means point and shoot) digital cameras is there is no depth of field.� Everything is in focus.� I haven’t sorted everything out, but I have been having fun taking shots around the place.� Found 2 huge spiders.� I’ll try and scan them in sometime in the near future.

* I have found a couple of friends on myspace.� I have poked around myspace and I am not attracted to it.� Just my preference.� It will be interesting to see where you guys go with your posting and such.� Looking forward to it.

* We have started to look for apartments.� I loathe the thought of moving, but I am excited to be able to settle into a place for longer than 6 months.� It’ll be at least 8 months before we come to Canada again.� We have dropped off two applications, and we are seeing a couple more places on Saturday.� I’ll be glad when it’s over.

* I have finished reading three books this month.� The Divine Conspiracy – Dallas Willard, The Murder Of Jesus – John MacArthur, and Out Of Bounds Church – Steve Taylor.� All have been good.� I would recommend them all for different reasons.� The DC is one I will re-read often.� So much good stuff in it.

* This past Easter Sunday we celebrated with a passover meal.� Roasted lamb, sharllots, bitter herbs, salt water, and bread.� We learned about the significance of each element of the meal, as we took time to fellowship and remember.� Very cool experience.

Doing My Part

So I can help educate people in the area of minority sports I have done some digging and have come up with these helpful links.

World Rankings
Canada Floorball
Wikipedia entry for Floorball
Play Floorball Canada
Floorball Clubs in Canada
Canada Cup: Floorball Championships, April 14th-16th 2006
YouTube Floorball Videos

If you are in the Toronto area this weekend, check them out. It’s a lot of fun, and you get a taste of European sports passion.

Seriously, you will be hearing about this for a while. At least until more of you are impressed. I am prepared to go on for as long as it takes… so faked impressed-ness is ok too.

Australian Floorball Champions 2006

I just got the pic now. I will tell the story in the morning. Needless to say, we came fourth in our pool, and beat the best teams in the comp to win it all. Beating teams from Queensland, Western Australia, and Victoria to bring it all to New South Wales baby. That’s right. We are the best in Australia!

UPDATE
Basically, after playing everyone in our pool we ended up with a 1-3 record. However, since the top 4 teams in each pool went on to the quarter finals, we moved in. The host team ended up in our pool, and had only been playing for 6 months. Sadly they ended up being the whipping boys of the tourny.

With a crap record like that, compounded with the fact that we were now facing the best team in the other pool, we really didn’t have great hopes of playing on further than Saturday morning. The whole mood changed however after the first period, and we were a different team.

I was intimidated by the skills of some of these guys when we first rocked up. But we played our basic game and worked on 2-3 specific plays and we just shut everyone down.

There is nothing like being the underdog and winning. I was the only “ringer” that played with the Stingrays. I tried to explain that ringers are supposed to be good. The upside is that you always know what you get when you bring in mediocrity.

It was cool being a “role player” too. Not one of the best on the team, so you have to play positionally. You have to play smart. Mostly because that is all you have. I DID want to score a goal in the grand final, and did that. Looking forward to the video of that one.

To top off the weekend, when we ended up back at the airport, after hanging out in the pub for 3 hours before, I discovered that I had booked my e-ticket for 9AM instead of 9PM. They were boarding the plane at the time. Luckily, my bag was small enough to carry on and they put in my business class seat.

Speaking of business class… kinda overrated. For twice the price of coach it is definitely not worth it for short flights. The added leg room is great. Better food. Food as soon as you sit down. A bit of extra pampering. It would be great for a trip home. However, I have learned that to get a business class seat with airmiles you have to book 365 days in advance (they only have 5-6 seats available to the USA that they give to airmiles, and they book em out a year in advance). We are hoping to have enough points after Christmas to go to New Zealand next year.

Now it’s back to the grind… for the next couple of days… then the Easter break… and we are moving into a unit. Jo is looking for new habitation during her school break the next couple of weeks. I hate moving.

Further Evidence

… that my families are the coolest ever.

Birthday gifts:

1. Freakin Awesome BBQ
2. Family Guy Season 3

I hesitated posting this because of the overwhelming sense of jealousy that you will no doubt feel. Deal with it. They are mine.

In “Settlers” news… I finally won a game.

In Hockey Grand Final News… we lost 6-3. We played from behind all game. Pulled within one in the second. Some shoddy team defense killed us. Next year.

Out.