Quad Trip 2009

Nancy, her brother, and I went on a trip up north ATVing through the back country near Bancroft, Ontario. I had an excellent time and I figured I would share a few pictures.

We spent four nights in two hunt camps that were left unlocked, (thanks to those that are out there that own them!) and the last night we spent camped out in a tent beside a beautiful lake.

I can’t wait to do it again!

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Welcome to home ownership…

This is what my cold storage room looks like at the moment. Great eh?

I had a backup in the clearout, so after calling a plumber and the city I decided to tackle the repair on my own once it was determined that the problem was inside the house. My brother (in law, soon to be, whatever) and me replaced the piping where the collapse occurred. That was an exercise in frustration. It’s quite a long story and I can’t be bothered to type it all out.

Four trips to Home Depot later and thinking we fixed it, we flushed the toilet and found that there was a trickle of water beside the newly replaced pipe.

Fuck. Me.

More piping to replace.

This is two months into owning my first home. The last time I felt like this is when I got my ass smacked and someone in some weird outfit yelled, “It’s a boy!!”.

Yep, welcome to the world!

(Yes, it could always be worse. I’m not complaining.)

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Has it really been five years?

Well, it’s been five years since I have had this site up! Surprisingly enough, not much has changed. I’ve switched jobs a couple times, changed hobbies, but beyond that, I’m still plugging along. One thing that has changed is that I am a lot happier.

Random thoughts on my past posts over the last five years…

• I can’t even remember last week let alone five years ago.
• I’m still a Maple Leafs fan but no where close to what I used to be. (The change in the rules ruined hockey.)
• I’m still deciding what to do with this site too.
• I continue to owe a lot to one application. I’ve come a far way as far as my programming knowledge goes and if it wasn’t for a simple (albeit amazing) IRC client, I would have never delved into it. Programming is still my side job and my hobby. I love it and I really wish I could do it full time, but I’m not there yet. Who knows; maybe in five years from now I will be.
• It’s will forever remain Dalton McJackass, I still love beer and I don’t miss her.
• Nearly five years later the resignation post is still the one that drives the most traffic to my site.  I’ll admit, I still read it from time to time for a chuckle.
• Tables for layout continue to be a crime against humanity but I’m no longer as vocal about it as I used to be. Do what you want with your own website, I don’t care. :) I do, however, still think that Firefox is leaps and bounds above IE. Use it.
• I will forever hate the bus. Really.
• Does Tim Horton’s continue to employ people like this or am I missing something?
• Remembrance Day will forever be one of the most important days of the year to me.
• I’ve hacked myself a few times in the past five years.
• Same-sex marriage still doesn’t matter.
• Heh.
• Camping without a trailer worked out.
• I stand corrected on my political position and I take it all back.
• I’ll never sell this domain.
• I continue to think positive.
• I will never ever drink and drive again.
• Life without a Rottweiler isn’t the same in my opinion.
• Life is better without glasses.
• I’m happy this worked out.
• I still count three.
• Maxim still sucks.
• M1 died but is back!
• I only watch TV for one reason. I’m not kidding.
• Fuck political correctness.
• Buying a quad changed my life.
• Best car ever. If you’ve never driven one, you wouldn’t know.
• Ronald Jenkees.
• I support the troops.
• Finallly, Trance.

Although not has much changed with me in the past five years besides having a new awesome girlfriend, two new dogs, a quad, a new job, and two hunts under my belt, a lot has changed with the world. There wasn’t a facebook or youtube or twitter. Handguns weren’t on the block to be banned. (Idiots.) Web 2.0 wasn’t around. Blackberries were huge. Cellphones didn’t have cameras. America voted in “change”.  bitTorrent was new.  Mistress Trance wasn’t around. Gas was 60 cents a litre. I was learning now I’m teaching.

Five years ago you wouldn’t have found me.

I do this for me. Five years is something to be proud of. I can’t promise that I’ll have something worthwhile to say in the next five but I can promise that I’ll always be, ehcanadian.

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