Category: Miscellaneous

Jackie and Glen stayed over at my house last night and I made them breakfast this morning. Jackie helped a little too. We had pancakes, bacon, and eggs and it was sure good. I think I need more practice pouring the pancake mix in, but after my first try I had some better luck. Nobody likes to eat a pancake THAT big. Although I think someone did, because there was only one left.

Glen headed back home and now Jackie and I are looking for some excitement. Unfortunately for her I think I’m going to use my neighbours lawn mower to mow my lawn and I can’t think of much for her to do in the meantime.

Anna-Maria, Zee, and I saw Bruce Almighty last week. I was worried that all the funny parts were in the preview and that it had the potential to be a big fat bomb. However I was pleasantly surprised at it’s originality and I have to admit that after the last few years of very little Jim Carrey movies I was ready to see him back at it. The movie is a little flat and at times it’s disappointing to see Jim Carrey’s character not really reaching his potential with his new powers.

If I had Godlike powers, I’m sure I could come up with some pretty great benefits to mankind and although I would probably benefit from the work I did, I wouldn’t be so annoyingly self centered. I guess Jim Carrey’s character figuring that out is the point of the movie.

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.

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.

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).

“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.

Here is just a quick link about a scientific discovery of the secret to keeping cells from aging.

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.

Anna went to Medicine Hat yesterday for her sister’s birthday party. I’m not exactly sure, but her brother Joshua’s birthday is also coming right up so they might have had his party this weekend too. I know Anna was buying presents for both of them. Anyway she’s almost back at home now so I’m going to run. I’ll try and scrounge up something interesting to do tonight so that I’ll have something more interesting to blog about tomorrow.

The other day at his work, my roommate cut his hand and had to go to the hospital. He had three stitches and a week off work – paid. He said he was pretty happy about getting a paid vacation, but unfortunately for him he just got diagnosed with Strep throat so it looks like he’s going to be sick during the time that he is off. Life’s like that sometimes; maybe it’s karma?