They must have been Good

When they're not around their mum and dad our kids must be pretty good, just to get their average up in the fat guys eyes. Here are the kids with the bounty from this silly season.They were up at 7am and storming into the living room. The biggest hits were the piano keyboard, MP3 players for the girls and an RC jeep for Cam. My personal favourite is Cam's model rocket kit (did I say Cam's?). You can't buy these things in Aus so when I saw it at ToysRUs in the US I just had to buy it for him/me :-).It comes with 2 motors, good for one shot each, and we got a pack of 3 more, so come some calm weather and blue skies and we'll shoot this puppy into orbit! It has a sensor pod in the nose that tracks the maximum speed and shows it on an LCD display after you recover it, how fricken awesome is that? Yeah okay, you got me, I'm more excited that the little guy... who says christmas is just for kids? Hope yours was a good one and your kids, if you have em, were good.

Andy, out.

Winter-een-mas?

Our chances of a white Christmas are officially zero. Check out the view from the back step, a beautiful December 24th day, about 10 degrees. I hope the fat guy doesn't suffer from heat stroke in all his winter gear, should trade em in for thongs and boardies.We've been lucky enough to be invited to several Christmas parties so far and have had a great time. Last Friday saw us staggering home at nearly 2am after a decent effort at Alex and Kents. Safe to say that yesterday was pretty quiet, just the thumping in my head for background noise. Below are Clive and Sarah, ex-pats from the UK, and some party crasher.
Tomorrow we're off to Garry and Laura's for Christmas dinner which should be awesome, those guys know how to make us feel at home. Then on Wednesday we're invited to Ross and Joan's in Orangeville for a few wobbly-pops, nice! My plan for the rest of Christmas Eve pretty much involves the couch, remote and NFL football. Merry Christmas everyone and Go Patriots!

Andy, out.

Seasons Greets Peeps

Thanks to Anth for this one, nice -

From me ("the wishor") to you ("the wishee") regarding the wish(es) ("the wish(es)")

Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, the wishors best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most
enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions of any or either.

Further, the wishor wishes the wishee(s) a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religiousfaith, choice of computer platform or sexual preference of the wishee(s).

By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that:-

1. This greeting is subject to further clarification or withdrawal
2. This greeting is freely transferable provided that no alteration will be made to the original greeting and that the proprietary rights of the wishor are acknowledged.
3. This greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually implement any of the wishes.
4. This greeting may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor.
5. This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be expected within the usual application of good tidings, for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first.
   

The wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishor.

Any references in this greeting to "the Lord", "Father Christmas", "Our Saviour", "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" or any other festive figures, whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting, and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party names and images are hereby acknowledged.

This greeting is made under Australian Law.

In short, I hope your Christmas is all you wish it to be.

You Don't Know Jack

This is hilarious, enjoy! And check out the site at - You Don't Know Jack

Cruising into Christmas

Christmas in Canada is not like the summer season back home where you expect people to take long holidays. It's winter and most of us are working through, pretty typical for up here. Saving the leave days for warmer weather. No snow since the last 2mm and the days have been pretty warm, around 5-6 degrees. But bugger the weather, we all went skating last weekend down at the HarbourFront Centre. It's right on the lake in front of the Toronto downtown skyline. It's $12 to park but free to skate on the huge refridgerated rink. We were all a little shakey first up but got into it again quickly after a 6 month break, just like riding a bike I guess. Cam complained at first and then found his hockey legs and was the last to get off the ice, 'I love skating Dad, I wanna do it every day'.Work is progressing nicely, despite a frustrating week, and it looks as though our client will have enough work to keep us busy for the next six months. In any case we're definitely not home in Feb, looking more like June, just in time for winter :-). We'll stay as long as they'll have us, but if we get extended more than June I'd expect us to come home for a visit at least. I'm really missing the cricket, as you've likely seen from my emails. I didn't need my mate Mike telling me that he was about to dive into his outdoor spa, turn on the TV for the 3rd Test and start on the first of many of Carltons finest the other day... bloody hell mate you know how to turn a bloke green.

Xmas lights are up outside (a bit pissy really but I'm not buying heaps of 110v stuff that wont work back home) and our tree is looking a treat, just waiting for the fat bloke to lob. Best to all of you, our great family and friends, missing you and our great country terribly, put a lamb chop on the barbie and a think of us.

Andy, out.

The Black Parade

Hey everyone, this one took a while to get finished. We all think it's a pretty good glimpse at our recent brutal/awesome roadtrip through New England and Atlantic Canada, hope you like it. Watch out for the moose!There's a higher quality version if you're ultra keen, check the video links below on the right (scroll down a little). Love that track, 'Welcome to the Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

Andy, out.