Wayne D's Blog

Even though I am posting this on the 28th it's really the 27th since I haven't went to bed yet. This will be a short entry since I am writing it on the crackberry.

Why do people insist on driving beside another car in the left lane when they are not overtaking? Doing this when there are only two lanes is very inconsiderate and may even be dangerous as cars begin to pile behind the slowpokes. Enough said, fingers are starting to cramp.

I am prepared to brave the computer vagaries of Yahoo 360 yet again. Back from my sister's full of turkey and white wine. Watching the Sopranos, new episodes of which CTV has decided to burn off over Christmas.

I went over to the office last night to reset the router from hell which hung again and decided to take my camera along. The trip was twice as long as expected due to the detours to take Christmas light pictures. Vaughan has an extensive display on Weston Rd. between Major MacKenzie and Rutherford Rd. A sample picture is included below, the rest can be seen on my Flickr photostream. Click on the picture to go there.

Maybe it will be third time lucky. Man, Yahoo 360 is sure being wonky today. This is my third attempt at posting this entry. Stupidly I didn't copy the text before posting the last entry and it along with my first attempt was swallowed up by the big, bad Yahoo 360 machine. Maybe third time lucky but this time I'll copy the text before I hit the post button. It's a good thing I'm all mellowed out by the Christmas music and snacks we had earlier. This has been a relatively relaxed, quiet Christmas day for us. We are having roast beef and scalloped potatoes for dinner. Tomorrow we get together with my brothers and sisters for a big turkey dinner then on Saturday we do it all again with my wife's family. The boys are downstairs playing with their new Wii game, my wife is sitting at the kitchen table factoring equations for fun and I'm typing this for the third time.

Last night I went over to the church late in the evening to drop off some alter linen's we had forgotten earlier when we went over for the Candlelight service at 7. It was a very nice and well designed service with lots of Christmas carols to sing. My sister brought her grandson with her and he was quite excited by all the lights. We got there early enough that we didn't end up sitting in the very back overflow area which is horrendous. A few years ago we got to the service late and ended up sitting there and it almost made me want to give up on the Christmas Eve service. Nothing like. that happened last night, our organist even brought her harp and played it for a few of the songs.


When I went to drop off the linens I took my camera because I had seen a house with a particularly nice light display earlier in the night. I also saw another tree that was nice so I took a picture of it too. I've used those two pictures to illustrate this entry. I just posted this entry, came back to edit it and fix the spelling and it was blank. What a rollercoaster ride Yahoo 360 has me on today.

I got my hopes up when I heard that iTunes Canada had finally had some TV shows. Unfortunately all we get are some homegrown shows and a few shows from Comedy Network. They still haven't figured out a licensing scheme for the U.S. shows that dominate our programming.

As I was barbecuing the Christmas Eve burgers tonight I realized a few things.

• Lighting the barbecue is harder in the winter time
• I need a new burner assembly for my barbecue, and a new grill to set the lava rocks on, and new lava rocks. Hmm, maybe it's time to buy a new barbecue
• The compact fluorescent floodlight bulb I bought to replace the old floodlight bulb is brighter than I thought, I regret my disappointment over it's performance

e didn't buy the wine yesterday so I ended up going to the liquor store to stock up on Christmas wine.

Last night I went on my second annual Christmas light walk around in my neighbourhood. You can see the results of my efforts in my Flickr set of Christmas Lights 2007. I did last year's walk in the rain, this year it was cold and windy, I had to hold the tripod down to keep it from tipping over in the wind.

Right now I'm watching It's a Wonderful Life in glorious black and white and drinking wine. George Bailey in on the bridge ready to jump. Clarence just saved George.

I posted my previous blog entry before spell checking it to prevent it from disappearing as has happened with Yahoo 360 in the past. The strange thing is that when I clicked the edit button it brought up a blank article. I was worried that Yahoo had yet again lost a blog posting because when I went to my blog the posting wasn't there. But then it reappeared. I just tried again and this time I can edit it. I think that Yahoo 360 may be having trouble propogating posting across their server farm, I refreshed the article disappeared, I refreshed again it reappeared. After posting it this article disappeared too.

I'm waiting to hear from my wife if Longo's in Vaughan sells wine because she is going there to buy cheese anyways. If it does I am freed from my wine buying duties.

I don't feel bad about missing yesterday now, two postings in one day makes up for the missing one yesterday.