fear not, i have not forgotten the blog, will return in the next 24 hours with all the goings-on

two wrongs don't make a right, but three do...

just a quick one, but i thought important...

cinderella in dutch is "assepoester"

off to lethbridge - cya

dinner at joey tomatoes, but you have to say 'tomatoes' the north american way, can't say enough good things about alberta steaks, tres bonne...

darris, one of our skating team, is heading back to thunder bay, ontario, for the summer, and we had a little send off. another good cheap canadian meal for under $25 CDN, with all the iced tea you can drink. yeah, iced tea, grown a thing for it, probably a peer group pressure thing as most of my friends in our team drink the stuff. (funny though, i don't normally believe in peer group pressure, my friends told me not to - thanx dale)

conversation was the same as normal, john told jokes that made us all cringe, Lonna talked about her pharmacy assistant exam, darris talked about his new motorbike ( & licence) that his girlfriend back in thunder bay doesn't know about and forbade him from getting (is that bad english?), james and i laughed a lot and planned our short jaunt to lethbridge this week and our roadtrip around australia sometime in may/june/july '02. lethbridge is more a cow town than calgary, if that's possible, and is affectionately known by locals as L.A., lethbridge, alberta. is my audience educated enough to know that alberta is the province calgary is in?

funny i should think about this, as i spoke to mark earlier tonight, which was really good but made me a little homesick, and we talked about not writing our blogs to a specific audience, just writing as if almost to ourselves. although mark gets all the credit for me starting mine, he even created my account, what a bloke. ;-) his inspirational blog can be found here.

that's it for the moment from calgary, where they wear cowboy hats in pubs and clubs and it's not even fancy dress...aaahhhhh

what is it that makes painting so boring, is it the silence, the solitude, the fact that it is sooo tedious, who knows, maybe i don't like it 'cause i'm bad at it. (i am the punctuator)

helping my coach renovate this week, it's cool, he feeds me and i work. makes up for all the rides he gives me, which is good. manual work is tiring, i'd forgotten, and yes i have done some in previous lives....

can't think of anything else to add right now, so i'll leave rather than making this boring. you do get this to think about though -

what is worse, the actual task of painting or watching it dry...

australian long track speed skating

so finally there is an australian long track web site (see link above), although it is still in it's severe infancy, if that is possible (the term, not the stage of development). a lot of the content is taken from other sources, so formatting is an issue, and there is a total lack of pics, well almost, but if you happen accross this site, feel free to contact one of tose skater dudes featured ;-)

i have a friend with an addiction, can you help? she can't stop blogging...

would you have ever thought that i'd cop out of writing e-mails to you all, and just send you to some cruddy web site, well yes that appears to be the case....i digress

saw 'saving silverman' tonight with the boys, it's about two friends who kidnap their best friends girlfriend, as they think she is wrong for him, as they never see him anymore etc, etc. usual antics go on, fairly predictable but amusing. (jason biggs & amanda peet star) was nothing on fridays gem, 'freddy got fingered', tom green's new film, and directorial debut. you got to know his style before you go, otherwise there may be some shocks. typical tom green, rude, crude & tres drole.

new music to look out for, ladytron, out of the UK. 80s sound with 00s edge, if that's possible. cya