When I went downtown to pick up the x-box from my brother (he knows more about this kind of stuff so he bought it for me), I hung around at his place for awhile. Then we decided to go out and get some ice cream and maybe hit some baseballs around. We walked to Baskin Robbins. I found out some interesting things:

1) When you walk down the street with a baseball bat in your hand, busy sidewalks seem to get more open and seem less busy.

2) If you walk into a store like Baskin Robbins then you can walk right up to the counter and get served immediately.

3) At the bank, nobody waits inside with you while you are using the automatic bank machine.

4) People asking for directions, do not take the time to ask you.

After noticing this I have decided to walk around Toronto with a baseball bat more often.

I was watching tennis on the weekend. It was a great match, but I will get into that at a later date. I saw a commercial for celebrity family feud. I saw Earl from “My Name is Earl” was on it. This got me mildly interested. Because my plans got rained out last night, I just happen to be home last night when FF started. I watched the American Gladiators face the cast from “The Office” (I wish they were in character, it would have been funny). And in the second round, they had Earl’s family against a “family” formed from people that live in his fictional town (except for one guy I didn’t recognize). These people stayed in character the whole time, this made for entertaining jokes but not for a competitive game of family feud. It felt scripted, which I would prefer my game shows NOT to be. I would rather see these people improvise, play the game in character. In the end, the cast from “The Office” won $50,000 for their charity. It was entertaining but it could have been better.

I finally bought an X-box 360. My whole x-box fund thing didn’t work out as i hoped as I didn’t get over $100 in the thing but I found this one on craigslist for a good price. Also I have been saving up money for awhile overall. My brother has given me a bunch of games and right now I have two controllers. I was playing this one Simpsons game, it was so much fun. You can turn Homer into a big ball and roll and bounce around. I was also playing this NBA street game. I did fine with the scoring but it seems the game puts a lot of value into making all sorts of weird moves (some looking like break-dancing). I need to learn that. Can’t wait to play it some more!

Starting with the first part of the title, my brother has bought a house! I have no idea how he is going to afford it but he is buying a house with a friend and it is located in the Eglinton and Keele area. Not sure if that is a good area or not, we will see. Nice to see my bro growing up.

I was just informed about a new blog (new to me) that a friend started up. I challenge WIGSF not to look at the names on the right side of the page and see if he recognizes whose blog it is (it isn’t tough). Here is the link:

Chrissy got married yesterday.   Let’s just get the main part out of the way, they went through with it.   Nobody backed out or anything.   Although at the same time they didn’t risk anything by asking, “Does anyone here have a reason why these two should not be wed?”    But in the end, the bride and groom seemed to enjoy themselves and had a wonderful day.   Now for some hilights:

- Chrissy’s crazy sister never showed.   I heard that there was somebody in attendance who looked like her and it confused/scared some relatives.  

- They had a belly dancer perform, I thought her performance was pretty good although with the way the Bride described it, I thought it would be more racy.

- I drove Janet’s date to the wedding, I had never met the guy so I assumed he was new.   I wasn’t sure why Janet would bring a new boyfriend as a date to a wedding when she is in the bridal party and wouldn’t be able to spend much time with him.    He seemed cool and we hung out together quite a bit and ended up sitting at the same table.

- I finally got to meet some people I have heard so much about but never met like Laurie and Saba.   Saba was the only girl at our table.    But she didn’t seem to mind as Peter and I kept her entertained.

- Peter is one of the bridesmaid’s boyfriends.   I worked with him years ago and hadn’t seen him in awhile.   I was impressed with his memory as he mentioned events from almost 10 years ago with such amazing details.   Impressed and a little bit weirded out.    But at the same time, Peter was a little bit weirded out because when I first saw him, Janet’s date didn’t identify himself and Peter seemed to think that her date was my roommate or something.   I told Peter, “Hell no”, not that anything was wrong with that.  

- Speaking about that subject, there were a couple of gay couples in attendance (one at our table) and one of them actually sang a song or two….. in drag.    He was great although I have to say, it wasn’t a sight I ever thought I would see at a wedding.   It was funny there were kids sitting in the first row debating if the “Queen” was a “he” or a “she”.    I tried complimented the performer afterwards but I think he took it the wrong way.   I decided that I wasn’t going to apoligize if he was going to get dramatic. 

- At one point, I said “Hi” to Janet’s Mom who was in attendance.   Once again, Janet’s date didn’t really identify himself although Janet’s Mom knew who he was (he had never met her).    I was really finding it curious that Janet’s date wasn’t immediately offering information to people that he was with her.   At one quiet point later, I asked Janet about it and she told me “That’s weird, we have been going out for awhile, I wanted him to come to my birthday thing last month.”

- During the vows, Chrissy got pretty weepy and could barely make it through them.  

- Last week, Chrissy told me that some girl who would be in attendance is a whore.   I spent the night trying to figure out who it was.   Mind you I didn’t walk up to every one of them but was scanning the room, it was tough there were so many choices.   In the end, Janet told me at the end of the night that the whore in question did not show up.    I was surprised because a few dressed the part.  

- Chrissy’s matron of honour almost didn’t make it through her speech.   Not overly surprising since she is going through a lot right now in the love department.  

- There was this one cute girl who if she stayed longer, I would have asked to dance.   I spent the first half of the evening trying to figure out who she was.   I shocked to hear her name was Tanya since she looked like a “Tanya” I knew before but there was no way this could be the same person.   I also confirmed that she is a co-worker of Chrissy’s.   I told Chrissy to hook a brother up.

- In the groom’s speech I didn’t get mentioned.   I only introducted the two of them and went on their first date with them.   Ingrates, Chrissy better help me with Tanya.   Although I have to say near the end of the night, the groom did come by and mention that if it wasn’t for me, then none of this would be happening and he thanked me then and introduced me to his Father.   Still I wanted the spotlight for a minute, which is surprising because I usually like to hide in the background.

- The food was good.   They had some great pasta, chicken and rice.

- At the end of the night, Chrissy was dancing with her new hubbie (Note: Chrissy was very scared of dancing but by the end of the night she seemed perfectly comfortable out there) when I found Janet standing, watching.   We were getting ready to leave because there was only around a dozen of us left and I was driving Janet and her date home.    Janet started to cry and I told her I could find her date to help consoul her and that was when she finally admitted that he was just a “fake boyfriend”.   She felt she needed to bring one because everyone else in the wedding party had someone.   I told her she didn’t need to do something stupid like that.

- I feel I am forgetting details, if I think of anything else, I will update. 

My Dad came over for a visit yesterday.   He had a box with him.   I asked him “What’s in the box?”   He started telling me about how my parents were at Sears and there was a sale and my Mother decided to buy me new clothes.   I told him, “I have tons of clothes in my closet, some never even worn, what would make her think I need more clothes?”   That is when my Dad reminded me of how WIGSF picked me up from my parents place last month.   He said my Mother was impressed with how WIGSF dressed.    I laughed and then noticed that my Dad wasn’t.   I thought it was a joke because whereever we were going that day, WIGSF was probably over-dressed for it.   My Mother now thinks I should over-dress for stuff.    Damn you WIGSF!!!

It is a 580i. It is a walkman, phone, camera and has tons of other features I don’t know about yet. I haven’t had time to read about it and I have had it for a month.    I have been trying to figure out how to create my own ringtone but this thing doesn’t seem very user friendly.   One smart thing I did was that I got it a protective shell because I can be clumsy we cellphones.    But the main reason I am writing this blog is because of the pedometer feature the phone has.   I didn’t even know about the feature until almost a week into having the phone.    At that point, I made it my goal to walk 5000 steps a day or 5 kms a day.   Whichever is easier.   I am just short of it right now at 4965 steps a day but there are days on weekends where I am running around my condo and the phone doesn’t leave the charger until the evening.   But you know what, still not an excuse.   I need to get that average up.   That is my goal.   I nice mid-year resolution.

“You know you are a redneck when your neck is really red!” That is the joke my boss made today when he saw the bad sunburn I got yesterday at baseball practice.

I learnt a new lesson yesterday:

Don’t run on sidewalks with cleats. If you attempt it you could feel your legs go flying out from under you and you will most likely land on your ass…. hard.

Last night was the How I met your mother season finale. Two characters got in separate car accidents but they are fine overall. One, Ted, said that his loved ones flashed before his eyes as the accident was happening. He decided then to propose to his girlfriend Stella. That engagement will be a short one in my mind. 3 episodes at most, that is if she says YES. The actress playing Stella will be busy with the show Scrubs which is moving to ABC next season. I think the biggest moment in the finale was when somebody asked Barney (played by NPH) who flashed before his eyes as he got hit by a bus. He didn’t say, but his eyes said a lot as he lovingly looked at Robin, our favourite Canadian TV character (can you name any others?). I think this will be a big development and one that could get very interesting and at the same time, destroy the show.