Archive for the 'Sports' Category

Battle of the Blades

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

We’ve been following the Battle of the Blades competition at my house since it started. Tonight, we had the pleasure of actually going down to the historic Maple Leaf Gardens for a live taping of the week five performance show! Hard to believe, but tickets for the show are just $8/person; however, there are only [...]

Idioms and Curling

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The phrase “burning the candle at both ends” seems quite appropriate for me this week. You see, I’ve worked every day this week during a very busy time of the year, been out curling three nights, attended my night class the other night, fought some awful traffic to and from work each day… and sleep [...]

Welcome Twitter!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I know that it was only a few posts ago where I said that I wouldn’t be setting up a Twitter account to enable quick notes, links, etc., to be added to my blog… but this is a work-in-progress and things change.
As you’ll now notice on my slightly re-arranged sidebar, there is a new section [...]

Curling

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I have just finished the first five-week draw of my curling career and I’ve quite enjoyed it.
During the past five summers I’ve played softball with the same team. We’ve won the league twice, the B-Division championship once and been blown out in the A-Division play-offs twice. Needless to say, there have been some good times [...]