Mom and Dad came to visit yesterday. We went to Kimball to see the site of the upcoming Milner Family Reunion. 100 years of Milners here in Canada. Anyway Jackie and Glen are here and ready to head to bed so I’m going to have to finish my post later.
Author: Jeff Milner
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Happy Forth of July Yanks
Hope you have good fireworks tonight. I enjoyed the fireworks here in Canada on July 1st as I was driving home from the wedding late Tuesday night. Fireworks are fun.
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Kayaking
My cousin Aaron sent me the kayaking pictures he took last weekend. He also sent a pretty cool video he made of me kayaking in a big hole. It’s actually a pretty disappointing video because I didn’t stay in the hole very long and didn’t do anything really that neat. Just moments before though, I got sucked into the hole and then spit right out of the water. It was pretty cool. In the meantime you can also see this picture of me kayaking from the same weekend (May 30th, 2003).
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Environics West Update
“Hello, I’m Jeff Milner, representing Environics West a market research company. We are currently running a survey on dining experiences. I am not selling anything. May I please speak to the person in the home 18 years of age or older and has the next birthday?”
Click.
“Hello? Hello?”
So I had my first day of surveying yesterday. They spent the first few hours training us and then from 7:15 to 10:30 I was on the phones. It’s actually not that bad of a job. I think I may even like it, plus I will still have plenty of time to go swimming during the day before my shift. The only negative thing about the job is that each day I only get 5 hour shifts, so it is going to be extra hard to get in a 40 hour work week. Hopefully that lifeguarding job comes through.
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Mice? Not in my Kingdom!
I think I found some pest “evidence” this morning in my laundry room. It looks to be a pretty big one too – judging by the “evidence”. I guess it’s either a mouse or maybe Jason let his rabbit play around downstairs while he did his laundry, somehow I don’t think that’s it. Although maybe it’s just leftover from before I had the house and it got revealed from moving the laundry machine and dryer around. They did have a pet porcupine here and if I had to guess, I would say it definitely looked like porcupine droppings.
Instead of going to Waterton on Sunday, Anna-Maria, Zee, Sophie (Anna’s dog), and I went down to Indian Battle Park. We had a fire and swam in the river. Afterwards we roasted smokies and marshmallows over the fire. It was a really good day – even though it did start to rain. Even when it rained, it wasn’t that cold – for me at least, and then when the rain stopped it got nice and hot out. I also decided that I want to take Anna-Maria kayaking down the river and get out in Coaldale. I just need to find someone to pick us up. Maybe Dad will bring his truck sometime and we can meet-up at the Nolan Bridge outside of Coaldale.
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Zee and the Lawyer
Anna’s roommate had to go see a lawyer yesterday. She was really surprised that he had a lunch hour from 11:00 to 2:30. How does that fit in with normal society? That’s beside the point. She was there to get a will notarized and when it came time to pay she discovered that the lawyer’s office didn’t take visa or interact as a form of payment. So she explained that she didn’t have any cash and would have to run over to the 7-11 to get some. She said it never even crossed her mind to run out on the bill, but when she came back the lawyer exclaimed, “Oh you’ve just restored my faith in humanity.” Zee then quipped back, “Are you projecting?”
Here is just a quick link about a scientific discovery of the secret to keeping cells from aging.
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Hi Ho Hi Ho – It’s off to work I go
Here I go to my first day of doing telephone surveys. I hope it’s not as bad as it has been growing to be in my mind.
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Red Rock Canyon
I found out the other day that Anna-Maria and her roommate Zee have never been to Red Rock Canyon before. Well it’s high time they went, so we are going there today. Although the day is going to be pretty much over by the time we get out of here, plus we need to be back so Anna can finish her studying. She has some big test tomorrow and needs to study like a mad woman. Mad like crazy, not mad like I’m so ticked off I have all this studying to do.