My travel from London to Toronto went as smooth as I could’ve hoped for. My bus from London actually left a little early and didn’t run into any significant traffic. I got dropped off at The Royal York at 6:00 which left me the perfect amount of time to catch the 6:13 train into Whitby.

Once I got home, I dropped off my bags and went out to dinner and a movie with Jenn. We went to East Side Mario’s for dinner, but both just got a small sandwich because we weren’t really that hungry. We actually tried going to the movie first but none were playing for another hour plus, so we went to dinner first.

We ended up seeing The Bourne Ultimatum. It was pretty good, as were all the other Bourne movies.

Saturday morning I went golfing with my Dad, Ben and Gabe. I played one of my better games in a while. I shot +10 over 9 holes. I usually aim for bogey golf, so thats close. I should have shot about +5 but I three-putted every green. I was hitting well, but I couldn’t putt for my life.

After the golf game I joined Maari and Jenn at Jenn’s place to hang around by the pool and have a few drinks. The plan was to go out that night for Maari’s birthday (which was actually on Monday). Kiron joined us a little later (he is recently back from a couple months in Greece) and then the rest of the crew showed up just before we headed out to the bars. Oh, and by we headed out the bars I really mean everyone else headed out to the bars while I slept like a baby in the car. Yeah.

The next morning we went out for breakfast at T&Ds and then proceeded to hang around Jenn’s pool for another few hours. After Kiron and Maari went home for the evening Jenn and I hung out and just vegged; we watched some TV and movies.

The plan for later that night was that Kiron, Steve and myself were going to head up to the local Indian casino and play some poker. Kiron got back from his family thing around 10 and we headed up.

We all got seated around 11:00 and managed to get at the same table shortly after that. Steve started off taking some tough losses early on. Kiron and I both started taking down a few good sized pots. We were both up about $200/250 (we all sat with $200). The play at the table was terrible and unfortunately people were sucking out a lot. One guy called a raise in middle position with 2c-7c and then chased his club flush calling raises all the way to the river where it hit, and he took down the pot. He made a similar call and then chase about 10 hands later 3c-5c and hit it again.

Anyway, by the end of the night Steve had busted out due to horrendous luck and people like the guy above sucking out on him. Kiron left being up a grand total $15, but refused to leave the casino with just that. He sat at a blackjack table and doubled through the first hand and then lost the second hand; he finished dead even on the night.

I was the “big” winner. I left up $22 at the end of the night, which is really disappointing considering I was up $200 3 hours earlier. Ah well, it was nice to play in person and with Steve and Kiron at the table its always fun.

The next day I went to the Jays/Yankees game with Tom. We had amazing seats (6 rows behind the Yankee’s dugout and the game was a pretty good one. The Jays ended up losing by one run. It was really hot being in the sun the whole time, but it made sleeping on the train on the way back all that much easier.

All in all I managed to get in dinner and a movie, lots of pool time, golf, a casino trip and a Jays game in the long weekend. I could’ve gone for fitting in another round of golf – something to shoot for next time I suppose.

This post is from Ryan Price’s blog.

A Busy Long Weekend

One item worth mentioning was the quiet birth of our version of the Highland Games. Kiron the Greek and myself (Highland name to come) have so far competed in two events of what will eventually become a decathlon.

The first event was the log toss, which consisted of (you guessed it) heaving a log as far as we could. This event went to Kiron the Greek by about a half foot. As we sat down around the early evening fire we noticed that a bag of corn lay ripe for husking. Event number two was born.

We both took the same number of corn cobs and competed to see who could husk the corn the fastest. After covering the site in pieces of corn husk and covering Jenn in bits of corn (she unwittingly was the human wicker basket for husked corn) the event was over. Once again, Kiron the Greek was victorious by a hair. Events 3 through 10 have not yet been determined, but I’ll keep you up to date on the progress.

Baseball
Sunday night after coming home from camping I was able to grab a quick meal and then headed off to our baseball championship. It was a much more exciting game then usual as we had some nice classic rock music going in between innings and our names were announced each time we were up to bat.

The game was quite a good one with our lead never more then two runs. At the same time, we never relinquished the lead throughout the entire game. I’m looking forward to the banquet Wednesday when we will receive our hardware (regular season trophy, playoff trophy, and engraved mugs for all of us born in ’85 since this is out last year playing). More importantly, there should be free pizza.

All in all, a good weekend. I’ll try to post pictures once I get my hands on some.

This post is from Ryan Price’s blog.

Baseball Champions During a Camping Weekend

Originally intended as a book that would’ve sold for about $100, it’s now available online for free. It’s got everything from daily tid-bits of info on the previous day’s happening to an entire history of baseball from the 1900s to present day. It’s also got a ton of information on each team. I could go on and on about what’s there, but just check it out and see for yourself.

Cool stuff.

This post is from Ryan Price’s blog.

Everything Baseball

For the first time in a few years the Jays are actually still in contention for a playoff spot at the All Star break. However, if they can’t hold on to a 5 run lead without their Ace (Halladay) on the hill then we’re in trouble.

The Jays were up 6-1 after the second inning, as they rallied to hit around the order (+3). However, in the third inning Halladay was hit by a line drive right in the shin (yeah, it hurts like a bitch). From there the Jays cycled through about 5 other pitchers who slowly dwindled the lead resulting in an eventual loss to the Red Sox in the bottom on the ninth. The icing on the cake was in the bottom of the ninth when the first Red Sox batter hit a routine grounder to shortstop (I think it was Aaron Hill) who felt it would be more exciting to throw the ball 5 feet over Hinske’s head into the dugout behind first base. That started off the rally in the bottom of the ninth that allowed the Sox to score 2 runs and win the game.

Bah.

This post is from Ryan Price’s blog.

Was That The Jays Or My Houseleague Team?