Wayne D's Blog

It was a busy week this week, Argos home opener and the long weekend. Sunday night we went to Richmond Green to see the fireworks, I tried taking some pictures with my digital camera and was convinced yet again that if I want to shoot in low light I really need to get a tripod. It just seems like so much work to drag the thing around. I took some pictures after the Argonauts game Thursday night including the illuminated CN Tower and the balls floating on the pool outside Roy Thompson Hall. They remind me of the old TV show The Prisoner.

Canada.com has finally decided that I live in Canada, the only problem is that Global TV has taken all of the shows I might want to watch off of their website. I originally ended up there when I wanted to check out The Jane Show after I caught a bit of one episode but it's no longer there. All they have on the site other than news shows is Deal or No Deal, The Best Years and 1 vs 100. Sigh.

I'm heading off for a six day canoe trip near Temagami in a few days. I have to buy a knapsack in preparation for the trip. The big question I have now is which sleeping bag to take. Last summer in Killarney I used a lightweight backpacker sleeping bag and it was fine. I used the same sleeping bag two weeks ago near Parry Sound and suffered from cold feet the first night when the temperature dropped below 10. The second night was fine when it was a little warmer but after sitting out at Richmond Green last night in a sweater and jacket wishing that I had brought my gloves I'm questioning whether it might not be prudent to invest in something a little heavier. The other problem with the lightweight bag is that it's not very wide and is quite tight around my shoulder when it's zipped up all the way. That's good for keeping the heat in but not so good when you want to roll over.

A few weeks ago we got a number of Blackberry's at work. I've been carrying one of them around and have become addicted to the Crackberry. While hanging around at the park last night waiting for the fireworks I browsed the web and updated my Facebook status. The kids were off playing on the bouncy castles and I would have been in the beer garden if it hadn't been so darned cold. Though I understand intellectually that global warming is bad my resolve becomes weaker when shivering on a July 1st night or shovelling a couple of feet of snow in January.

It's hard to blog on a holiday weekend, the time off makes me so mellow that I find it hard to get righteously indignant about any topic enough to make an entertaining blog posting.