Wayne D's Blog

My two youngest sons and I went to the baseball game today. I can't remember when I last attended A Blue Jays game. We had a lunch and a game package courtesy of my employer, the lunch didn't include drinks other than tea or coffee. The two beers and four pops we had cost almost $28 so I'm glad that my boss was picking up the lunch tab. It was a cool fall day so the dome was closed which was a bit disappointing as we had brought jackets, sweaters and sunscreen. Other than that it was pretty much what I remembered. Baseball has it's own flow and speed that takes a bit of getting used to after five years of watching football. I missed the old mascot, Ace is OK but he's no B.J. Birdy.

After the game I stopped by Canada Computers to get a new USB to digital camera cable, my old one seems to have mysteriously disappeared. I also considered buying a new 500 Gb hard drive as my computer is chronically short of disk space. The prices on the hard drive was the same as Tiger Direct but I ended up leaving the store with neither hard drive or cable because I wasn't prepared to join the extremely slow moving line up of at least eight customers waiting to pay for their purchases. Saturday afternoon and only one cash register operating? I'm not that patient.

I spent the last two weeks driving out to Oakville and the daily trip across the 401 reminded me of when I lived in North York and worked in Etobicoke. At least once a week I'd come home shaking because of the scary driving and drivers I would see. On Friday a car almost passed me on the shoulder as I took the ramp from the 401 East to 400 North. The guy thought better of it but I watched as he rocketed through traffic and into the distance.