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posted by Matt @ 2:30 PM 8 smartassed remarks

Amazing Race Season TEN!

Amazing race starts Sunday.

I think Bilal & Sa'eed are going to be the unfortunate first team out...

Reason for choice "Love of Food" to me = slow (not slow in the head, just slow in general)

Followed by Lynn & Karlyn with their "limited traveling experience".

Anyone willing to be $5 that they can pick 2 people that will be gone before my 2?

posted by Matt @ 1:09 PM 7 smartassed remarks

Richmond Fair, Demolition Derby!

Unfortunately, the Navan fair is over before I even got a chance to think about car crashes.

But, thanks to Trish for keeping everyone informed about the Richmond Fair this weekend!! YAY.

Tomorrow 6:30 PM, Richmond fair grounds, I will be staking out a good seat, and getting ready to watch all the metal crunching fun.

I love watching little Volkswagen hatchbacks, get their entire rear end smashed up to a pulp to the point where the rear wheels don't work. Then still drive around the track without any effort. Or watching a radiator blow on a 6 or 8 cylinder car, and watching 1/2 of his opponents get enveloped in a huge cloud of water vapor....

yah, Wii launch date, and demolition derby tomorrow... today is a good day....

posted by Matt @ 3:07 PM 2 smartassed remarks

Wiieeeeeeeee

Nov. 19, is D day for the Wii.

Original Link.

Not surprisingly they are going for a close to Christmas launch date, that is so very popular for console releases.

~ 15 Wii games will be available on release day. Including Zelda.
Or you can play one of 530 Gamecube disks...??? (is this all the GC games, or just a selection of them... hmm)
And the Wii will come with Wii Sports, and a controller (/w numchuck) for $250 US.

You can download old popular NES, SNES, and GC games online for, $5, $8, and $10 respectively (US)

I can't wait... awesome.

posted by Matt @ 1:23 PM 6 smartassed remarks

New video iPod

Upgrades include,
- Brighter screen
- Longer battery life
- More storage space

Not worth upgrading from my iPod photo.

No wide screen, no corner to corner display, :-( *sigh*.

Hopefully the Wii will get released next month...

On a lighter Apple note, here is something that can hopefully squelch your desires to play with your little cousins barbie. (weirdo)

posted by Matt @ 9:28 AM 0 smartassed remarks

Floor Hockey, Changing to Tuesdays

Due to a ... clerical error, I have lost my Wednesday floor hockey timeslot.

So, starting next week floor hockey has moved to Tuesdays. The Wednesday slot was great, the people scheduled after us that never showed up. I hope we have the same thing for Tuesdays.

If anyone who previously could not make Wednesdays, would like to start coming out on Tuesdays, either occasionally, or every week, just let me know, I will toss you on the email list.

Or if floor hockey isn't your thing this week (today) we are going to take advantage of the weather and play a little Ultimate (frisbee). If anyone is interested. Just send me an email, and I'll toss you the details.

posted by Matt @ 7:47 AM 0 smartassed remarks

DD....R

Gaming and beer got me a few love handles, lets see if gaming and flavored water can get rid of them.

I have had the DDR pads now for about 2 or 3 days (opened) and they are cooool.

The pads support all 3 consoles (xbox, gamecube AND playstation.), and have a stiff foam pad under the buttons, (no bunching and very little moving).

Video games + exercise = cool.
This is the first time I have had to stop playing video games cause I am physically exhausted.

There seems to be a BIG difference between skill levels though. Playing on beginner is really easy, playing one level up is challenging but do-able, playing on "standard" is uh crazy, I have not even attempted to see what happens when I select "hard" I think my head would explode at the sight of the first arrow.

I wonder if I can play zelda with my feet? (oh yea, James I finished windwaker, very cool)

posted by Matt @ 6:52 PM 9 smartassed remarks

I should be a photographer.... I thought this pic was going to be horrible, smoke and bubbles clouded the entire picture before I started editing. Now it looks amazing

posted by Matt @ 12:09 AM 1 smartassed remarks

the cloud seems to be following them... I love this pic. 

posted by Matt @ 12:07 AM 0 smartassed remarks

I call this the "Adam came home late because of racing look" 

posted by Matt @ 12:03 AM 0 smartassed remarks

There's the top of little blakes head... he got to jump around with all the bubbles it was great 

posted by Matt @ 12:02 AM 0 smartassed remarks

Shannon (best man) and Maureen 

posted by Matt @ 12:01 AM 0 smartassed remarks

No smile?

posted by Matt @ 12:00 AM 2 smartassed remarks

Jen and Me 

posted by Matt @ 11:58 PM 0 smartassed remarks

ah yes, Trevor

posted by Matt @ 11:58 PM 0 smartassed remarks

My beautiful date... pumping invisible iron? pretending to carry water jugs?? Now you can guess too. :-D
Disclaimer - No points will be awarded for the correct answer, the guess that makes me laugh the most will get the most points and therefore will win a faboulous amazing load of absolutly nothing.

posted by Matt @ 11:58 PM 2 smartassed remarks

ah yes, the pre-drinking Matt-tertainment 

posted by Matt @ 11:57 PM 0 smartassed remarks

Matt and Erin also with random person cheering in background ;-)

posted by Matt @ 11:56 PM 0 smartassed remarks

what have we here? 

posted by Matt @ 11:55 PM 0 smartassed remarks

Nich and Erin  

posted by Matt @ 11:55 PM 0 smartassed remarks

Adam and Nichelle's Wedding Weekend Spectacular

It all started out on Wednesday, being in Adam's wedding party I needed to head up for the Thursday wedding rehearsal.

So Jenn, Sasha and myself got ready and hit the road around 2ish.

I was a little leary taking Sasha as I have only had her for a little while, but she was great, most of the way we listened to "The ongoing history of new music, by Alan Cross" (rockin' and informative)

We rolled into Sault Ste Marie around 11 ish, had a few drinks helped Adam with a few things, then headed to bed.

The next few days were really busy with wedding stuff, hair cuts, helium tank/balloon filling, tux fitting/alterations, chauffeuring, getting money for different wedding things, printing dinner menu's / church hymns / folding... etc etc. I never really thought about all the things that need to be done for a wedding before, it's crazy.

Along with all that there was the rehearsal, which went very well, despite the priests awful sense of humor. He had to inform us at least once that "That was a joke". After the rehearsal we had the rehearsal dinner (awesome).

Then of course, who can have a wedding without a pre wedding stock car race with the boys, with the groom racing around the track... (wait I guess everyone usually skips that part, anyways) so ya Adam went out and raced in a stock car race the day before the wedding ...... AND WON!! also frickin' amazing. (there were about 20 cars in the final race, with Adam starting almost dead last)

So the day of the wedding comes around and we are still doing random things for the wedding right up to the last second. I get back from getting a hair cut at 2:40 ish still have 50 min before we have to be at the church, plenty of time to get ready, with time to spare. I find out that I mis-interpreted a conversation with Adam over the phone, and I am supposed to go pick up Shannon from the Hotel, no worries, the hotel is close by. So on the way back from getting Shannon, we get a call from Adam, basically saying we have to be at the church 30 min earlier than expected! So ya, the time was up before I started, no worries, I am a speed dresser in a pinch.

Unfortunately, remembering random things extremely last minute is apparently not my forte. I leave the house with my glasses on, without my wallet, and forgetting to shave, greaaat.

I realize I forget my wallet and contacts immediately after leaving the house to go pick up another groomsman, Adam is leading in the other car, and we swing back to pick them up after getting him.

I run in grab my contact case and wallet, and run out. When Adam tells me, John is still not ready, and we need to wait for him... Ok

John shows up very shortly after and we all take off to the church. When I realize I have a nice 5 o'clock shadow, luckily only Jenn notices (or only Jenn comments).

When we got there the wedding went really well, Blake was queued up for comic relief running around the church the whole time, but didn't really affect the ceremony, it was cute.

After the wedding we all went for wedding pictures, 2 of the bridesmaids got lost on the way. (Cheryl and random blond girl you know who you are) So we got all the groomsmen pictures, then the pictures of the groomsmen with their associated bridesmaids.

Then a few funny pictures on the swings and see saw, on the see saw I found out I weigh more than Shannon, but not more than Shannon and Trevor.

Moving on, Adam and Nichelle showed up, then we took a whole bunch of random pictures, then the bridesmaids showed up, and the photographer was able to complete her missing pics.

After that we rushed off to the dinner.

Dinner was great. Drinks were drunk :-), some country music was played :-(, some of my cousin's entertained me by calling each other wussies, and trying to drink my brother under the table, it was hilarious, I can't do it justice with words.

Even though we were staying at Adam's less than a 5 min drive away Me and Jenn ended up staying at the hotel. It was soooo awesome to stay right up to the end, then just walk upstairs to crash.

I will remember this wedding for a long time...

Sappy as it may sound, Adam and Nichelle, you make a great couple, and had an amazing wedding, I am honored to be apart of it.

posted by Matt @ 10:50 PM 4 smartassed remarks

Sasha (and post #100 wow)

[Insert Pic of Sasha in the light all shiny]
Blog readers, meet Sasha.
Sasha... blog readers.

So I knew I had to name her car, it's not any ordinary car. But picking the right name is always difficult.

Sasha is named after a scooter, but not just any old scooter, but JD's scooter off Scrubs (I am currently watching season 5 and... it rocks). The only other names I could think of were Gimpy or Cal, from undergrads, but those would be strange names for a girl.

So that aside Sasha congratulations on your awesome new name, I hope that marmy used car dealer fixes your fan soon.

posted by Matt @ 10:40 PM 0 smartassed remarks