Category: Miscellaneous

Aron Ralston is described as “an avid outdoorsman in exceptional physical condition” who has climbed 49 of Colorado’s highest mountains. And yesterday, he amputated his own arm just below the elbow (CNN.com Story / DenverPost story) when it was pinned under a boulder. Then he rappelled down a canyon and hiked until rescuers found him.

It is reported in a Canada.com story, that comments were made in an annual report on International Terrorism criticizing the Canadian Government for not “spend[ing] enough on policing” and “plac[ing] too much emphasis on civil liberties.” I guess they would prefer us to get rid of the very few laws we have protecting our citizens just as they have destroyed some of the laws that I thought were so dear to the heart of every American with the creation of the Patriot Act. (The Critical Voice Article) I guess my Social 30 teacher was at least partially right stating that Canada’s government could be turned into a dictatorship under the right circumstances, but it turns out that it’s the United States Government that has turned authoritarian.

Update: The links have been taken down. It’s funny how I can keep posts on my blog for a few years, but news agencies feel they need to get rid of old content. Funny strange, not funny – haha.

Dad, Mom, and I went to a barbeque tonight held in honour of all the volunteers in town. Dad and Mom of course were invited for playing the violin and piano over at the old folks home. The BBQ was being held in the parking lot of Redi Enterprises and as we approached there was an older man walking toward his car – he appeared to be in his 70’s and looked normal in every way. Dad said hello to the man, but he didn’t respond in a way that I thought he was just ignoring us. Dad then asked the man if he worked here. The elderly man looked a little confused, said no, and then walked away. Mom and I were laughing to ourselves when Dad says, give him a few minutes; he’ll get it.

I went to Medicine Hat and then Calgary on Wednesday with Anna-Maria. We went to Medicine Hat so that Anna could pick up Jakob and take him to Calgary. I needed to go to Calgary to pick up Jackie’s car while she is in California and I must say that her car is a lot nicer than mine. I also started this post about 3 hours ago but forgot about it while chatting with Mom and Dad and explaining to them how to install some stuff on their computer.

I finished my last exam yesterday. It’s nice to be done school, I now have to go out and get a job. I hate getting a job. I was hoping a job would just fall into my lap, but until that happens I suppose I’ll just lounge around here… oops I mean go out and find one.

I guess we will never know the truth about Andrew Carlssin. He has apparently disappeared!

I can’t believe I was suckered.

It’s almost time to get the kayaks out. I’ve been thinking a lot about going kayaking now that it’s been warm for so many days straight. The water is still probably too cold, but I wonder if it will be warm enough in May? I’m glad to be living here in Lethbridge where I’ll only have to make a short drive to the Belly River, which is of course my favourite kayaking river.

I have another New Media Final presentation tomorrow. I was going to make a flash movie using the story line that Gary came up with – the one about the bottomless pit, but instead I just finished up the one that I had started last summer – the Jeff Millionaire one. I’ll post it soon; it’s still not done! I have to present it at 2:00 tomorrow.

Link updated above.

Well I’ve known for a while that I should be looking for new roommates but now I really will have to find somebody new because my current roommate just told me that he’s moving out in July or August. At least I won’t ever have to worry about the rabbit anymore. Steve Meldrum phoned me tonight to catch up on what I’ve been up to. Apparently he doesn’t read the blog. Anyway he is going away to Europe with his wife, Monique, for the summer. I knew they were going but the thing that surprised me was that they sold the house. From what I could tell he seems pretty happy about his situation.

I finished the book for my still images class. It’s all ready for the presentation today at 2:00. Here is a mediated version. It is highly compressed and on a good server so it shouldn’t take long to download, but the version that I copied to VHS is much nicer.

Update: I took down the file.