Ships and Shoes and Ceiling Wax

Saturday

Saturday my lovely wife and I made our way downtown for the Remembrance Day ceremonies at the War Memorial. It was a good ceremony, although the weather sucked, as usual.

There had been talk of meeting up with Mr. and Mrs. the Dutch Nasty to visit the Signatures xmas craft show at the Congress Center, but that didn't pan out; but then my lovely wife decided to go later on in the day with the CBC. Then they decided to go to dinner afterwards, which I wanted in on, but that would require me to go through the whole xmas craft show experience. In the end I opted in favour of dinner, even with the craft show.

The craft show was not my cup of tea, although one booth selling home-made jewellery got me thinking about making some of my own for my lovely wife. I look forward to securing the required supplies and giving it a shot.

Dinner was at Don Cherry's, so we could watch the hockey game. Ottawa lost, tragically. I drank a reasonable amount of beer and ate a very unfortunate plate of fajitas (and a bunch of the CBC's ribs).

Mortal Terror

Dougly informed us that the CBC is afraid of sunflowers.


Yeah, I don't get it either.

She also tried to talk me into scaring away a table full of older women because they wanted to have the Toronto game on one of the TVs. Guess there weren't any giant inflatable beer cans handy.

The condom machine in the men's room at Don Cherry's will dispense flavoured condoms, as you may well not be aware. The flavours on offer included strawberry, vanilla, and banana. A quick survey suggests that banana is probably not the flavour of choice.

Sunday

Today we slept in and then did as little as possible.

Battlestar Galactica

I picked up the BSG card game Core Set and a few boosters while I was downtown. I was under the impression that you only get Base ships in the Core Set, so I figured I'd use each of the 30-card decks in that set as the foundation for a deck built up from the contents of my boosters. Turns out my assumption was incorrect; I got a base ship in one of my booster packs, a variant of the Colonial One with a different ability.

So now I have two decent BSG decks, one more military-oriented and one more political/personnel. Look out, Null! I'm coming for you, and no amount of Billys thrown out airlocks are going to stop me!

Toast.

Clavicle Talk

The lovely and talented Rocket has fallen behind on his blogging. In an effort to be helpful, I'm now going to share some behind the scenes tips, insider information on the fine art of blogging. Remember, these tips are for trained professionals only -- don't try this at home.

Approach 1 - What I Did Today

This approach is basically a (hopefully amusing) recounting of what you did over the course of the day. Amusing anecdotes about fellow bloggers are particularily recommended.

Approach 2 - Dinner Time

Talk about something interesting you made for dinner recently. If you can include a recipe, that's blogging gold. Pictures are also indicated.

Approach 3 - Zombie Story

If you're not sure what to blog about, tell a story about zombies. You can't go wrong with zombies.

Approach 4 - Let Us Recall a Time

Discuss an amusing story which happened in the not-so-recent past. Again, bonus points for including blogging companions, but try not to include anything which may result in divorce or unemployment. I know, that rules out the really good stories, but do your best.

Approach 5 - Hobby Corner

Do you have a hobby, pasttime, unusual interest or strange sexual prediliction? With the possible exception of the last of those, any of them would make for the foundation of a decent blog post. Tell us about how you got into it, how it works, wierd things about it that you wouldn't know until you're on the inside, who's sleeping with who -- this stuff writes itself.

Approach 6 - You Know What Really Pisses Me Off?

That's right, the rant. Bonus points if you're ranting about something that nobody, anywhere, ever has gotten upset about before. Photo radar or people who mumble just aren't anywhere near as interesting to read about as a really good rant about how much you hate, hate, hate what they're doing with store-window mannequins these days, and how much better they were when you were a lad/girl/pupae. Given that we're all getting older, you can also score a big hit with a variant of this one, young people today piss me off because ...

There you go. Blogging in a box. Now, I have to run. My lovely wife is making home made mac and cheese, with about a dozen different kinds of cheese. Mmmm!