Hump Day

The vehicle pictured is one piece of the approach which was going to justify the Canadian Forces' abandonment of armour. Thankfully it appears that this approach is being dropped. I'm sure this particular vehicle can be very useful in its role, my problem was more that it was going to be shoehorned into roles that it couldn't manage. Tanks are tanks, and other things aren't.

Kung fu yesterday involved lots of work on the shoulders; contact drills mostly. By the time we did weapons I was very sore. Weapons was more of the six-count contact drills, which is always fun.

My brother is now fully moved up. He's scamming wireless internet from someone in his building who doesn't have a solid grasp of security concepts. His roommate isn't moving in for two weeks so he's presently unpacking and setting stuff up. We're going to have him over on Friday for our Tandoori chicken barbeque and possibly we might go check out the Greek fest on the weekend. It's nice having him up here again.

I spent some time playing with the chart-producing abilities of Excel, in regard to my magic card spreadsheets. I anticipate more time spent in this field. I have lots of interesting numbers to turn into pretty graphs and charts.

Last night we had a few pork chops that we were going to barbeque. We stopped in at a Teriyaki fast food place in the mall and got a plate of noodles and beans in teriyaki sauce, which we then ate with our barbequed pork chops. It was awesome. Watched two episodes of the West Wing, which continue to impress, despite the fact that they seem to be deliberately going out of their way to get military stuff wrong. Like, continually. It's actually pretty amazing.

My lovely wife got me a skipping rope; I wanted one to add to the home workout equipment. It's pretty cool; it counts your skip-rope jumps with a little LCD display in one of the handles. It even makes a clicking noise, which is almost as good as a beep. It's exercise equipment and a toy. My wife rocks.

The Dutch Nasty is getting donuts. Mmm, donuts.