Boy oh Boy Edmonton Airport security is really dropping the ball today. I am sitting waiting to step on to the damn airplane and I have yet to show my Driver’s License to a single soul. My camera bag went though security unopened and I managed to bring though a laptop covered in crazy stickers with parts hanging on by wires unquestioned. Oh ya! They didn’t even look at my boarding pass once. I feel sorry for the Edmonton airport staff. <begin-rant>They do nothing but deal with stupid rednecks that can’t fathom the concept of self serve check-in and/or baggage drop, but feel the need to waste my time by not going to the full service check-in where they should be anyway. Self serve means you serve yourself not make twenty five people wait ten minutes in line while you get the

BAGGAGE ATTENDANT TO PRINT YOUR DAMN BOARDING PASS!!!

Drag your ass over to the full serve line. JACKASS!!!
< / end rant>

I am amazed at the different treatment that I received coming to Edmonton this time. You see I have flown to Edmonton like 6 times this year but always for a wedding, so I am dressed nice with a suit jacket and a nice shirt. I am usually clean shaven and I am caring a wallet in the inside breast pocket. (I have a theory about carrying your wallet in the inside breast pocket) and I am always treated well with the airport, car rentals, and the hotel. This time however (with the exception of West Jet) they all treated me like I was a Hastings Hobo. What changed? Well I am not dressed like I am going to a wedding. I am simply dressed like I was going to a gig at Richard’s or an evening at the Cambie (You know normal) Even with my National Emerald Club card (I feel so grown up cause I have a preferred customer card with a car rental company) and a car reservation I felt lucky to actually leave the airport with a rental car. Funny thing is I got the very same grumpy agent when I returned the car and she was pleasant as pineapple punch to me when I traded the faded t-shirt for a dress shirt. :) The weather is not bad here today of course I am leaving cold and snow to go to sort of cold and snow, but I don’t know -7 C seems better to me.

Oh Oh… a flight to Victoria has just been canceled….. Dun dun dooonnnnee Well My flight isn’t showing delays yet but I am 15 minutes to boarding and there isn’t any plane at my gate. Mmmm…. Oh well I am sort of choked that I wasn’t in Vancouver for the first real snowfall in forever but I have been assured by M that there is plenty of snow left for me to see.

The only part I miss about winter is wakening up one morning to see that it had snowed all night and it’s all exciting and a novelty to have snow. I hate winter when it’s 35 to 40 below and four or five months has gone by since the first exciting snow and you are well fed up with anything that resembles winter and you are totally longing for the spring/summer. But I like that first snow excitement, as long as I don’t have to drive anywhere.

Well I am on the plane and it only left about ten minutes late or so which with all the crazy weather we have is completely amazing. I super excited to see my kittens although I am sure that they are either to mad to give a warm welcome or I have been gone so long that they have forgotten about me.

I am just rambling now because these seats don’t allow me to look at my screen square so I am limited to typing for laptop entertainment. I think that I am going to finish my website next week after I get the last weddings out. I have moved the site over to the new host with the intention of uploading the new site and having it launch live when the DNS rolled over. Instead I rolled over the DNS but not the new site. I figured that no one really goes there anyway what the hell it can sit dead for a week, but all week I have been getting Emails and phone calls from people wondering where it was. The lesson to be learned here? Check the traffic logs once and While. I think that I know the entire West jet steward staff because I have had all 4 of these ones on other flights, that or I am living in a fake made up world. (Insert matrix music here)
So I didn’t do a damn thing over the last few days except shovel snow (which I found fun believe it or not), drive, and have a good chat with my mother about everything and nothing. It was hard after a while to do nothing, to not have a plan for the next day, but man I am happy that I did. I was getting a little burned out from not sleeping and having no life, sorry all who have invited me out in the last month. Maybe next month!!! I am destined to have a week of solid work from the moment that I land because of it but I feel refreshed and ready to roll.

My silly battery is going to die here in a minute and I am pissed about that. My laptop has decided to fall apart all at once. My screen needs to be held up most of the time because a hinge is broke, there are large dots on the screen that don’t work right, and the mouse buttons aren’t doing so well at the clikey clikey ,

Ok my battery is really mad now.

I am at the airport waiting for my plane. I hope its not delayed. Full blog when i get free Wi-Fi again.

“This message has been sent from a web-enabled phone using Wireless Webmail from TELUS Internet Services. Visit http://www.telus.net/mobile for details.”

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 32mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: March.13.2006

Hopefully Someday when I am not Stuck in my chair I can go out and take new photos till then you are all stuck with Old ones! M and I went for a drive once when we had lives and spare time and found this!

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/125
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: May.01.2005

Yuppers here we are in the land of snow and Ice and uninspired public transit. We are here for Roy & Tara’s wedding which is funny cause last I heard they Eloped but alas a weeding we are attending. I am gonna drink a lot!!!

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 58mm
ISO: 125
Date Taken: Feb.05.2006

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 125
Date Taken: Feb.05.2006

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 68mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: March.13.2006

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 32mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: March.13.2006

Yup I can hammer the post right out of word 2007 Complete with photos and COLOURS and all the formatting that you can save in a RTF document! NEAT!! I can even open draft posts and work on them and then publish them all from word. Its funny cause that is where I write the vast majority of posts anyway :)

Well my ass has been firmly planted in my chair for the last week it has been a lot of up at 7am and to bed at 4am kind of days where my computer is unoccupied for only a few moments at a time. But all my hard work is paying off I am nearing completion of all weddings in 2006. I saw nearing because I am not quite there yet, but damn am I close and that is good times in my books. Getting ready to bugger off to Alberta for a week Visit my mom and attend Roy & Tara’s wedding. And man since we didn’t go to the last wedding that I was allowed to drink my face off, this one is going to have to make up for it J

Installed the new Office 2007 Suite and I am yet to be impressed, But how much more can you improve Word really. Outlook has some fun things to it but that about it. It’s pretty though!

It makes me want to write a book because they have finally done away with times new roman as the Default font that combined with the pretty menus it feels useful (the jury is still out on this but I think it is actually less useful) and I want to write a book in it.
Just me I guess.

I am getting thirsty but the water is so nasty :( Because my ass hasn’t really left my chair I haven’t stockpiled the water in the mad dash to get some. I guess I will drink beer :)

Anyway my computer is free to continue working on photos again so i will go.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/3200
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: March.13.2006

So One of the Coolest Bands Ever has gone the way of Sleater-Kinney!!

Rainer Maria called it Quits :(

“We are grateful to our new listeners and especially our longtime fans for their endless support and attention. We feel incredibly fortunate to have come up during a unique time in rock music, in a community that grew with us from the Midwest to Brooklyn and beyond. Making records has always been a revelation, and walking onto stage together we found a vision we could share.

“For us, this transition can be nothing short of heartbreaking. But for reasons both musical and personal, the three of us have chosen this time to move on.”

(I have to say that they are soooo good they actually fall into the realm of purchased CD’s in my house hold. A select few have such an honor. )

“there will be no self-righteous comments advocating submission to the giant invisible monkey in the sky”

taken totally out of context from www.datejesus.com

Show was good but i am sorta wiped!

I am sorta super stoked to see the Man in action,  Funny I am not a real big fan of Frank Black but I all most feel obligated to because of his role in the Pixies.  I have been getting in to his stuff a little bit more over the last year so I am sure that I will not be displeased.  Hopefully if my camera doesn’t get tossed out of the club I will have some great photos to share.

Yup I looked out my window to see very large guns being set up, so I really had no choice but to go out and take photos!

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/1000
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 38mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: March.13.2006

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 34mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.23.2006

So as promised a few photos of our clean home :)

My Logo

My Desk & My Logo

Our Hallway

Oh Ya and our Cat

But I am super tired and must sleep now!