Friday, April 20, 2007

CBC has officially joined the technology age: they're streaming the Canucks game on the internet. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that my tax dollars are going toward giving me on-demand hockey. That's a tax I can get behind. Of course, now I have to watch, which means it'll be a late night. I just hope there's no OT.

So. How was your day? Mine was fine. We had a pile of things to do today, as we had guests coming over tonight. More on that in a minute. Finished off my last niggling little assignment that had to be completed, so that's good. Found someone to play bass and a singer for the songs I'm leading at the first grad ceremony. Went shopping for groceries. Came home.

All of this, of course, was happening in the snow.

Anyway. As I mentioned, we had some friends over tonight--it was a really great time. They're a younger couple who are just getting married this summer. He's a whole lot like me, and she's a whole lot like my wife, so it went well. And I made a lasagne. A spinach lasagne, actually. It was really quite excellent if I do say so myself. And as always, there are plenty of leftovers. Nice.

The boy was a little angel throughout the whole thing, too. We're really lucky to have the little boy we have, that's for certain. He was so interested in what was going on that he wouldn't go to sleep until they left, which was just about 9:00. That could be either really good or really bad. He'll either sleep in tomorrow, or he'll wake up at his usual time and be a total grump. Cross your fingers.

In other news. As a college student, I have a solemn responsibility to grow facial hair--it's almost a requirement of student life. Since I'd never really tried before, I decided to grow my goatee. I don't mind it, but I'm at that point where I've had it for a couple weeks and it's time to decide whether or not I'm going to keep it. On the one hand, I like the look of it (and yes, so does the wife); on the other hand, I feel like I'm playing dress-up sometimes. I can't decide.

What's worse is that, with grad coming up, there are going to be a lot of pictures taken. My decision to keep the beard or not has an impact for the rest of my life. Will I keep it and look back in 20 years and say, "Oh yeah, that was my stupid goatee period," or will I shave it and look back thinking that I should have kept it? Oh, the decisions.

I'm also growing my sideburns a ways, which I have no such connundrum with--they're staying.

Moving on. Here's a cheery forecast:

Snowfall Warning: Heavy snow overnight. A low pressure system over Montana is moving slowly north. The low is expected to spread significant snow to much of southern Alberta. A total of 10 to 15 centimetres of snow is expected by Friday morning. Some localities may see up to 25 centimetres.

That's directly from Environment Canada. By the way, I hate not having a real-time spell checker on Blogger, because I have to be careful about typing words like "Environment" to make sure I spelled them right. It's a pain. And I'm really spoiled.

Again, they're right about the forecast. It's snowing, as mentioned above, and yes, it's sticking, too. I'm hoping we're not one of the 25 cm areas, but you never know. In the words of Vanilla Ice: "Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know."

Oh boy. Overtime again. I don't think I can handle the intensity of playoff hockey after living in a small town for a year. The pace is just too much for my brain and heart to handle. I'm also aware of the fact that by the time you read this, it'll all be over, which is interesting. Am I just shouting into the darkness? It's an interesting existential question. The internet: Kant's playground.

For those of you I lost with that one, Kant was an Enlightenment philosopher who posited that one can never have true and sure knowledge of the world, because what we know is limited to the phenominal world around us, and even then, our knowledge is incomplete because we know only insofar as we can perceive. I wonder what he would have done with the internet. A whole artificially contstructed world probably only proves his position.

Anything else? No, not really. It's going to be a snowy weekend, which hopefully means winter will be done with us by next weekend, which is, of course, grad. Not sure we have anything exciting in store for the weekend; we were going to take a day trip to Calgary at some point before grad, so I might have something to tell you about on Monday, but then again, maybe not. Our lives are suspenseful, aren't they?

Hope your weekend is fabulous. And I hope that by the time you read this, the Canucks will have moved on to the second round. There's something else I can talk about on Monday. Right on.

See you then.