Stuff happening today

- Today my parents arrive home and I have to pick them up from the airport.   Also get to have dinner at Grandma’s house. 

- Baller has invited me back to the weekly basketball thing.   I am really excited to play ball with those guys again.   I have been out of the rotation ever since my injury.  The only problem I have with it is that I will now be playing basketball three times a week.   I need to drop one by the end of the fall, not sure which one I am going to drop but it definitely won’t be the one with Baller.    Seriously when I got this news on monday, it made my day.

Dealbreaker?

Probably not, I am just being dramatic.   But one of the girls from e-harmony who I am emailing back and forth, she asked me if I have ever been to Wild Wing.   She said it is a good place except I shouldn’t have this one flavour, it is called “Sweet Escape”.    Can any one guess what my favourite flavour of chicken wing at Wild Wing is?    I played dumb about the flavour, pretended I never tried it before.    The way she explained the flavour, she got one of the ingredients wrong.   It is caesar not ranch!    What should I do?

Co-ed softball tournament in Stoufville

That is what I did saturday.   Had to get up at 6:30 am for it.   Picked up two people and got up there for 8:30 am.   No insult to the women we usually play with but we played with different women in this tournament and they were pretty hot.  I can honestly say, I would be interested in any of them.   Thing is, I don’t think any ended up interested in me.   Powerplant is interested in one of them, we think one is interested in the kid, another might have a boyfriend and the last one seemed to like Stretch.   I feel left out. 

Oh and we played some close games but ended up 1-3 on the day and going home by 6pm.   Had the team over to my place afterwards but the party didn’t last long, I was dead tired by 11pm.

Toronto Maple Leaf Jokes

I can not take credit for any of these, I heard them on the radio this morning:

Q: What do the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Blue Jays and the Toronto Raptors all have in common?

A: None of them know how to play hockey.

 

Q: If Hamilton gets the Phoenix Coyotes, what will Toronto want?

A: Their own NHL team.

 

Q: When the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup, what will be the first thing their fans will do?

A: Turn off the X-Box.

Buying Raptors tickets

Every year, I try to get into one of the pre-sales and every year I find myself disappointed.   I made a list of games I was interested in last week.   I tried getting tickets from the list at Spritezone prices and I was un-successful.   They have turned the Spritezone into a 1/3 of a section (it use to be 4 sections).   I wanted to buy some tickets as presents, I even went up on the pay scale for some games and I was un-successful.   

I did get one pair of tickets for a game in February against the King, AP and Super Jamario.    The price the website showed was $30 tickets.   I wanted two.    Once I got to the checkout the price went up to $33 for some reason, then there was the stupid convenience charge of $7.50 per ticket, and just for the fun of they decided to have another $4.25 charge.   So what looked like $30 tickets became $42.50 tickets, the price jumped over 33%.    How is this possible?   How do they get away with this kind of bullshit?  

Last year, I tried the “Guys Night Out” once, I am going to try and get those tickets sometime next week when my Dad gets home from his vacation.   He is better at finding the deals.    It is days like this that makes me NOT want to go to games.

Girls are like Gremlins

I didn’t say it, Barney Stinson did.   On monday, HIMYM returned and Barney talked about how if you observe the “Gremlin rules” then you can keep a “girl” from becoming your “girlfriend”.    Here are the rules:

1. Never get them wet — in other words, don’t let them take a shower at your place.
2. Keep them away from sunlight — i.e., don’t ever see them during the day
3. Never feed them after midnight — meaning, she doesn’t sleep over, and you don’t have breakfast with her. Ever — And brunch is not cool.

The episode was a scary one with Robin and Barney’s relationship going in a new direction but I think they dealt with it quite well.   Next week, they probably won’t be as successful.   Also, loved Ted teaching class although he should have brought his whip and hat.

Manners when it comes to Online Dating

So this one woman from e-harmony, we have gotten to the point where we are emailing each other.   I noticed in her email, I suddenly knew her last name, I was curious and I punched her name into facebook and her account came up.   This is where I found out that she is “friends” with one of my cousins who lives out in Nova Scotia.   So from a manners standpoint, should I mention that I looked her up?   Or maybe I should stay quiet about it because she might consider it weird that I looked her up on facebook?

I chickened out!

On friday, the office was going out to a bar after work.   I had baseball but I had a window where I could have gone to the bar for an hour or two before going to baseball.   The new girl was there.   But I decided that I didn’t want to go.   I let the worst case scenario (sitting on the wrong end of the table, talking about boring stuff, being forced to rush later to get to baseball) get to me and I chickened out and didn’t go.    The girl is probably almost 40 any ways…. but I want to know.    I won’t be able to give up until I find out how old she is.

Burkie’s Dog House

I like hot dogs.   I like to have them when I got to sporting events downtown.   I know where the cheaper venders are and everything.   I never order a hot dog inside the dome or the ACC.   That might change this year.    The ACC has openned up a new restaurant named after the current Leafs GM, Brian Burke.   A lot of effort was put into deciding what kind of hot dogs they would serve, in the end they have 11 different creations.    Here are my favourites that I want to try:

Pizza Pizza Dog ($5.95): Beef dog with Pizza Pizza tomato sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni

Poutine Dog ($5.95): Beef dog layered with Hickory Sticks, gravy and cheese curds

 

A couple of others sound interesting but I need to get them to hold beans and onions and such.   Here is the star article about all the flavours: http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/696211

Googling yourself

Yes, I did it.   I am not sure if I have ever done it before, if that makes it any better.   Either way, if I google images… I don’t come up… at least not in the first three pages.    If I google the web, the first one that comes up is of course is www.myname.com.   Surprisingly the website is a massage website run by a guy with the same name as me.    I kind of wish the website was cooler and if the guy didn’t seem so gay.    It is funny google my name and nothing comes up, if I google Bob at york, you will probably get a million hits.