He said this in his last lecture that I'm watching and I wanted to put this here... more as a reminder to me but perhaps it'll have some impact with others out there too.
The brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
and it had a picture of a puglsey (and it's rider) in a precarious position that I couldn't stop laughing at... it was originally on another blog called Mrs. North of 60 which I've never read but thought I should credit her directly for the pic.
Now for the pic... wait, before I show it to you, you have to look how the guy is still holding on to the handle bars! I mean, it's like he doesn't even realize that no good can come from the position he is in... I can't stop laughin' even now so here's the pic...
and our trip is off for this year. He's training for his tri up in Orillia and he's gunning for 1st in his group. He was able to get 3rd for his first tri so now he's stepping it up and the trip would interfere with his training schedule. It also makes things easier for me since I've burned up extra vacation days with some stuff I'm doing and I only have (I think) 2 days left for the rest of the year. I'm disappointed but at the same time I'm very supportive of Jim and his goal for the Orillia Tri.
I also talked to Jim about the post I did the other day and I feel better about things. I guess I'm struggling to get organized to a point where I am able to fit everything in that I want to, which includes hanging out with Jim more. I've resolved today to get my sh!t together and stop wasting time. I think I got into a bit a funk with my ankle injury and I let that get the better of me. I'm feeling better and will be going to the gym to try and run on the treadmill. I figured that was a good place to test the ankle out since there would be less impact running on the treadmill deck versus the road.
Along the "getting together with Jim" lines, we're going to get together this Saturday to watch a few fights. I haven't watched a fight in a while and this Saturday is supposed to a great lineup.
In light of the fact that Jim and I are not doing our trip I am thinking I should plan a trip with my boys for the August long weekend if I can get in anywhere. I would like to do a similar trip to the one Jim did with his daughter but I don't know that I can put that together at this last minute 
(getting a reservation, planning, etc). I'll have to talk to Jim and pick his brain for information. It's great having a friend like Jim with the knowledge he's accumulated about Algonquin... it's almost like have a personal Algonquin Park Ranger! LOL! It's kinda funny when you think that I sort of introduced Jim to north Algonquin and now he knows more about it than I do!
Well, I talked to Jim for a while today and I've been doing some reading online so I had better get a few things accomplished from my to do list here at work so that I don't go home feeling guilty.
Have a great day everyone!
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which is not really an experiment per se. I've been trying to drive slower in to work so that I save fuel. I have to say that after 20 years of driving on the fast side it's really hard to slow down. It's like the muscle memory in my right leg makes it difficult to keep the pedal at a position that keeps my speed at 105-110km/h. I think I'm saving fuel but I haven't really approached it in a manner that allows me to quantify the savings so I think I may start tracking this a little closer so I know what the impact is.
I know I haven't posted much in a long time, mostly just giving links to things I come across that I find interesting so it doesn't surprise me that I don't have the same number of visitors that I once had. In fact, I believe I may be talking to myself at this point. :)
So by way of letting some of my thoughts out for a change... I'm sure Jim is not too happy with me... we haven't talked in a long time. Some weird things happened there and things feel different. It's weird, I never thought there would be anything that would change our relationship in a negative way but it may have turned out that way. I'm sad about that. I mean, I always felt that we were like long lost brothers but it seems to have lost some of it's luster. I have a tendency to withdraw at times when my life becomes hectic and that doesn't go over well with some people. I like to cut it down to the basics... work and family while I get things sorted out and figure out how I'm going to fit everything in. There are two people in my life that it works with and the rest seem to struggle with that habit. I guess that means I should change, eh? (especially if I
I also have a bad habit of thinking I can fit more into a day than is humanly possible. :} Marie has often said that to me and I think that's what sometimes gets me into the situations I find myself in. I commit to too much and then feel the need to pare it down to basics to recover. This is never a personal knock against anyone, it's just me "recycling" my system. It's something I have to work on I guess.
I'm not sure where I was going with this... it was a bit of a GeWilli mind dump kinda thing (although he has focus more often than not lately compared to his early posting days) but I feel better for having done it. Not completely satisfied but a little better.
Perhaps I need to do this a few more times to get things out but for now, I should get some work done before I have a job hunt to worry about. (kidding)
Have a good day.
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Not me.
There's a Canadian Canoe Museum and it's just up the road from my town in Peterborough. That's less than an hour drive north from us. Apparently it's North America's only canoe museum... cool. It has more than 600 canoes and kayaks and 1,000 related artifacts.
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